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  How the West Was Lost - Fifty...

  Dambisa Moyo

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  In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the emerging world. As Western economies hover on the brink of recession, emerging economies post double-digit growth rates. And whereas in the past, emerging economies lived and died by America's economic performance, now they look to other emerging countries to buy their goods and fuel their success.Formerly a consultant for the World Bank and an investment banker specializing in emerging markets at Goldman Sachs, Moyo daringly claims that the West can no longer afford to simply regard the up-and-comers as menacing gate-crashers. How the West Was Lost reveals not only the economic myopia of the West but also the radical solutions that it needs to adopt in order to assert itself as a global economic power once again.

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  1 The Technological Revolution...

  Leonard Bourne

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  Decentralized Finance—it has truly taken the world by storm. Through the rise of a pandemic, the decrease of cash usage, and the growing popularity of the digital world, cryptocurrencies have started to take on the spotlight unlike ever before. 
  Nevertheless, cryptocurrency information is riddled in jargon and technicalities that can leave people spinning and dizzy. 
  No one knows where to start to learn more about crypto. Should I know how blockchain works? What are NFTs? What is the metaverse? Are trading and investing the same thing?  
  As questions flood your brain, you may end up scouring the internet for hours in a directionless pattern, and this is where we are here to help! The Technological Revolution of Decentralized Finance tackles cryptocurrency head-on, starting from the beginning, and working our way through to the metaverse, and the future. We will be explaining blockchain simply, to the point of you fully understanding hashes and non-fungible tokens. This is the foundational knowledge you will need to kickstart your journey into crypto, as well as show you how to gain an income from it. 
  And even if you have no prior experience in trading, this book is still for you! It will explain complicated terminology, teach you where you can start practicing your trading and investing (without risking your money), and provide you with a variety of tools, tricks, and platforms that are available out in the world. By the time you are done, you will have all the tools ready to become one savvy trader, as well as the steps to consistently improve your skill. After all, you do not need a college degree to learn to invest and trade. 
  All you need is the right knowledge, the right tools, and the right mindset, and all these matters will be covered in this book. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to start your exciting journey to take you to financial freedom today!

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  The Management Productivity...

  Gerald Kraines MD

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  In his work consulting to major corporations for more than thirty years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60–70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results.Filled with useful anecdotes and lively case studies, this book will help you increase your wisdom about colleagues, direct reports, and others, as well as yourself. You'll discover how to develop powerful, yet straightforward strategies for leading people more effectively; establish accountability leadership at every level of the organization that adds value; define and implement managerial practices that will fully use people's potential; and drive organizational change and create a culture of adaptive readiness.Business leaders who follow the principles in this book can multiply their chance of success and win back unrealized potential. Accountability, leadership, organizational alignment, and human resource systems are the building blocks for creating productive organizations. Kraines shares clear examples on how to get each of them right and properly integrated into a cohesive whole.

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  The Art of Captaincy - What...

  Mike Brearley, Ed Smith

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  Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and, in 1981, he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia.
   
  
  In The Art of Captaincy, his study on leadership and motivation, he draws directly on his experience of man-managing a team, which included a pugnacious Ian Botham and Geoffrey Boycott, to explain what it takes to be a leader on and off the field. Giving an insight into both his tactical understanding of the game, as well as how to get a group of individuals playing as a team in order to get the best out of them, The Art of Captaincy is a classic handbook on how to generate, nurture and inspire success.
   
  
  With a foreword by former England player and BBC commentator Ed Smith, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, and an afterword by director Sam Mendes, The Art of Captaincy remains urgently relevant for cricket fans and business leaders alike. Covering the ability to use intuition, resourcefulness, clear-headedness and the importance of empathy as a means of achieving shared goals, Brearley's seminal account of captaincy is both the ultimate blueprint for creating a winning mind set, but also shows how the lessons in the sporting arena can be applied to any walk of personal and professional life.

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  History of Big Investment Mistakes

  IntroBooks Team

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  It is not a secret that to attain success in investment, an investor would have to buy at low and sell high. Perhaps the problem is that most people lack psychic power. There are experts who can tell about some of the most common mistakes investors make and while it is easy to chase the hot possessions, it is the less obvious pitfalls to look out for. Because these less obvious, and sometimes almost negligible snares can lead to bigger consequences.  
  It’s easy to forget that mistakes are a part of life. Fortuitously, for most people, their ultimate mistakes in the workplace are small as compared to some of the biggest mistakes or blunders in the history of investments. For some, it could be comforting to know that even the richest can make costly errors but still accomplish great things in their life. 
  Every generation makes investment mistakes and others could learn from them. Sometimes an investor just goes with what he or she thought was the best, but that’s not always enough.

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  Misunderstanding Financial...

  Gary B. Gorton

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  Before 2007, economists thought that financial crises would never happen again in the US, that such upheavals were a thing of the past. Gary B. Gorton, a prominent expert on financial crises, argues that economists fundamentally misunderstand what they are, why they occur, and why there were none in the US from 1934 to 2007.Misunderstanding Financial Crises offers a back-to-basics overview of financial crises and shows that they are not rare, idiosyncratic events caused by a perfect storm of unconnected factors. Instead, Gorton shows how financial crises are, indeed, inherent to our financial system.Economists, Gorton writes, looked from a certain point of view and missed everything that was important: the evolution of capital markets and the banking system, the existence of new financial instruments, and the size of certain money markets like the sale and repurchase market.Comparing the so-called "Quiet Period" of 1934 to 2007, when there were no systemic crises, to the "Panic of 2007-2008", Gorton ties together key issues like bank debt and liquidity, credit booms and manias, moral hazard, and too-big-to-fail-all to illustrate the true causes of financial collapse. He argues that the successful regulation that prevented crises since 1934 did not adequately keep pace with innovation in the financial sector, due in part to the misunderstandings of economists, who assured regulators that all was well. Gorton also looks forward to offer both a better way for economists to think about markets and a description of the regulation necessary to address the future threat of financial disaster.

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