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Maybe you're a young professional just starting to think seriously about what you want out of your career. Maybe you've been job hopping for a few years and haven't found the perfect fit. Or maybe you want to launch your career to a new level and bring fresh energy to your work. In The Genius Habit, performance strategist Laura Garnett shows you how the path to finding long-lasting professional happiness starts with building the habit that makes extraordinary...
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vii, 288 pages ; 25 cm
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Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...
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Le manifeste de l'action — Dynamique de développement uniformisé est un recueil de quelques solutions utiles au développement de l'Afrique. Sur la base de huit secteurs clés, l'auteur propose des voies que pourraient suivre certains pays africains pour rattraper le retard qu'ils ont. Par une approche méthodique, les suggestions prennent toujours en compte le facteur environnemental pour que l'émancipation souhaitée soit uniformisée, pour...
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"Water Always Wins transports us around the world and back through time, exposing us to better ways to live with water. Gies introduces us to water experts the world over as they search for clues to water's past and present, using close observation, historical research, ancient animal and human wisdom, and cutting-edge science to effect change. We become more aware of the ways in which modern civilizations speed water away, erasing its slow phases...
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229 pages ; 23 cm
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In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies. From sharp claws to brute strength, camouflage to venom--all these tools and abilities share one purpose: to keep their bearer alive long enough to reproduce, helping the species avoid extinction. Every living thing on this planet has developed a time-tested arsenal of weapons and defenses. Some of these weapons and...
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215 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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Presents practical advice for increasing productivity on creative projects and improving their chances for success through strategies of networking and sharing works and ideas with like-minded members of the community and on the Internet.
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When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green.
Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and...
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Does the job you have (or the job you want) require customer interactions? Do you want to handle difficult customers with ease? Do you long for recognition of your customer service skills? Do you know what it takes to be a customer service professional? Every business has customers, and employers are seeking to hire, retain and reward employees who have the skills, the knowledge and the motivation to provide a consistently superior level of service...
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370 pages ; 24 cm
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"From the beloved books editor at Glamour magazine comes a heartfelt and painfully funny debut about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny -- only to learn every opportunity comes at a price. In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her...
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Este libro ofrece elementos para contestar a varios interrogantes sobre la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo, trazando un recorrido de su evolución basado en el análisis crítico de los diversos contextos políticos, económicos y sociales de la historia reciente, así como de los principales paradigmas y los actores que los han caracterizado. Además, esta investigación intenta perfilar la coyuntura en la que se encuentra la cooperación...
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En ésta edición del libro sobre Asociatividad Empresarial, queremos destacar, además de la gran aceptación que ha tenido en los sectores académico, público y empresarial nacional, la importancia que tiene como pionero en la generación de una nueva cultura empresarial basada en la cooperación interempresarial no limitándose ésta exclusivamente a las firmas privadas, sino conteniendo en dicho concepto también la colaboración y las alianzas...
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¿Irreversible tendencia al crecimiento o excepcional boom o burbuja económica? ¿En qué situación se encuentra actualmente el Perú? Sin duda en un momento expectante de su historia, en el que se espera que los elementos determinantes para su futuro desarrollo sean no solo los resultados o tendencias económicas de cara al futuro, sino también producto de la madurez de sus instituciones, y del liderazgo y compromiso de sus actores.
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Las economías capitalistas de mercado contemporáneas afrontan dos grandes problemas al iniciarse el presente siglo: la insatisfacción creciente de las familias en sociedades de la abundancia, la que se viene dando en paralelo a la destrucción medioambiental y a la exagerada explotación de nuestro planeta finito. De ahí que el autor intente, de una parte, desentrañar las causas del decreciente bienestar subjetivo de las familias, especialmente...
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Desarrollo regional, medio ambiente y cultura es el primer volumen de la edición conmemorativa del xxx aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Regionales—INESER. En él se explora el concepto multidimensional y dinámico de desarrollo sustentable a través del análisis del panorama actual de Jalisco. La propuesta de los autores es utilizar como herramienta principal la planeación estratégica que conjunte la equidad, la competitividad y la sostenibilidad....
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Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career. Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun - again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist...
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