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"On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man. To make matters worse, Avery's just discovered a billing discrepancy for materials supposedly purchased for construction...
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It's been said that 95 percent of companies that have a code of values don't even use it. Sad, but true. Thousands of companies spend countless hours and money with experts to help define their mission, vision, and values. They write them down, hang them on the wall…and then walk away. Values, Inc. was written out of a desire to see more companies, leaders, and people finally achieve the success that is within their grasp-success attained from actually...
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Vivimos un tiempo de confusión, saturación, agitación, superficialidad, confrontación y polarización, sin rumbo, sin norte y necesitados de un sentido que no sabemos dónde encontrar. En los últimos siglos, hemos construido una sociedad saturada de bienes materiales y extremadamente financiarizada convirtiendo nuestra existencia en una carrera con poca conciencia de que vamos "hacia ninguna parte".
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Desde hace muchos años se ha defendido que en una sociedad en cambio, la cultura es el horizonte colectivo de la moral y, por ende, el único contexto donde la ética tiene cabida. En ese nuevo horizonte, progresivamente plural y globalizado, el intelectual adoctrinado y la política no deben tener en absoluto un protagonismo exclusivo en la toma de decisiones, y menos todavía en la valoración de contenidos de cara a la gestión pública del conocimiento....
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There are two ways in which a Business Ethics Study Guide can help. The first is in preparing for an exam. The second is in answering questions and resolving dilemmas when you are out working. A Business Ethics Study is not an all-inclusive guide to business ethics, but it encapsulates the highlights of ethical practice that are commonly studied. It can serve as a resource for exam preparation, allowing you to focus on the context and framework of...
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The aim of The Benefits of the New Economy is to point out the causes of today's economic turmoil and how it can be solved. The road toward solution lies not in any remedy from the past. Rather, it lies with a society where all support each other in mutual guarantee. This creates a social environment of care and consideration, and the understanding that we will rise or fall together, because we are all interdependent.
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Get the Summary of Kashmir Hill's Your Face Belongs to Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Hoan Ton-That, a Vietnamese-Australian tech enthusiast, found his passion in computers and music after facing bullying in Melbourne. His tech ventures in San Francisco caught investor Naval Ravikant's eye, leading to a move to the Bay Area. Despite a scandal with ViddyHo, Ton-That continued developing apps and became interested...
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Hall of Fame Speaker Bob Danzig has spoken to over a million people and is frequently asked the same questions: "How do the values you speak about hold up in the hard-nosed world of business? Are you taken seriously when you're perceived as being spirit driven? Bob's answers often surprise the audience. Because of his reputation, people expect him to have a hard-edged approach to business. In this concise eBook, Bob shares his core truths on the...
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Trust: A Foundation for Growth. Builders know that every structure needs a strong foundation. The same is true for every business. In Build Trust, authors Ron Blackburn and Mike Moore reveal that trust is the secret to building a sustainable business and customer base. A groundbreaking book that can be applied to business, relationships, and life. Build Trust shares how builders can build and grow their business by trusting and being trustworthy....
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Junto con otros dilemas morales y cuestiones relacionadas con la responsabilidad social corporativa, los conflictos de interés son uno de los desafíos más comunes que se enfrentan en el lugar de trabajo. El libro se dedica a examinar la ética detrás de los conflictos de interés en el contexto de los negocios, centrándose en los fundamentos de la filosofía moral que informan nuestra comprensión de la ética.
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Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decades of visits to China, Michael A. Santoro offers a clear-eyed view of the various internal forces-such as regionalism, corruption, and growing inequality-that...
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Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never lost her ability to see the broader picture. She walked away from the game in 2002 out of disgust with the burgeoning corporate corruption, just as its magnitude was becoming clear to the public. In...
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Book Preview: #1 By the late 1990s, it was clear that PG needed to win in skin care. Skin care constitutes about a quarter of the total beauty industry and has the potential to be highly profitable. Oil of Olay was struggling. It wasn't PG's only skin-care brand, but it was by far the largest and best known.
#2 PG invested in the SK-II brand, Cover Girl, Pantene, Head Shoulders, and...
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Book Preview: #1 If you're the kind of high-achieving, goal-oriented person who reads books like this, you're probably used to running into obstacles. Most people quit, but they don't quit successfully.
#2 There are two things that make Hannah Smith a quitter: being extremely smart and focused, and also a lot of other things. You can't try to do everything, especially if you want...
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In a world torn apart by alien invasion, humanity finds itself between the darkness of survival and the uncertain light of resistance. In this epic tale, the resistance takes refuge underground, facing a constant duality: protecting their sanctuary while preparing for the inevitable conflict.Anna, David, Nathan and a diverse team struggle to find a balance between defending their refuge and unraveling the mysteries of the threat that stalks them....
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Business ethics is a staple in the news today. One of the most difficult ethical questions facing managers is, to whom are they responsible? Organizations can affect and are affected by many different constituencies-these groups are often called stakeholders. But who are these stakeholders? What sort of managerial attention should they receive? Is there a legal duty to attend to stakeholders or is such a duty legally prohibited due to the shareholder...
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Book Preview: #1 Monica Padman, who left college with two degrees in hand, moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actor and comedian. She eventually became a trusted employee of actress Kristen Bell, and when Bell and her husband, actor Dax Shepard, asked her to work for them full-time, she was understandably reluctant.
#2 There are three different categories of contributors...
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Fraud and corruption is a global problem that is bad for businesses, the public sector and the taxpayer. Overcoming them is not a one-man job nor the job of the government, the judicial system, or the country.
It requires everyone, people like you and me to fight fraud and corruption. Awareness of how they happen is just the first step - preventing and acting against them is the rest.
This book is not designed to be a textbook or something for...
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The use of facilitative processes has expanded around the world. We see corporations, governments, communities and NGOs using Facilitators to help their groups make the best use of the contributions from their members, build sustainable outcomes and achieve meaningful results. Similar trends are happening in the fields of public participation, dialogue and deliberation and coaching. As society expects more collaborative and cooperative interaction,...
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