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  The Leadership Attitude -...

  Deborah E. McGee

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  Speak Your Truth in BusinessGlobalization in business is about expanding your reach by getting your products out there. But products don't sell themselves, people do that. If you want to do business globally, you have to be able to work with different cultures. Beyond that, you must be able to understand the person and their behaviors, their energies. To really make teams work, you must get down below the skin level to the behaviors that drive people. As a leader, that means more than just listening with your ears, you must also listen with your heart—a crucial element when reimagining the workplace in a virtual world where true human connections are difficult, if not impossible, to make. You must also inspire your team, those informal leaders who have no authority but who know how to influence by understanding and connecting with people.In The Leadership Attitude: Inspiring Success through Authenticity and Passion, author Deborah E. McGee shares her evolution of leadership from one who led solely from her head, letting only logic and facts guide decisions, to one who now knows how to lead with the heart. That means stepping back and learning to trust others to lead because there are a lot of good ideas out there. It also means being a leader of faith, one who is not afraid to speak openly about her Christian faith and leading as Christ would lead.

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  Immersive and Addictive...

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  The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies. 
  In this report the Committee builds on the newly established principle of ‘online harms’ by considering potential psychosocial and financial harms associated with the use of immersive technologies. Following the World Health Organisation’s formal designation of ‘gaming disorder’, the Committee heard calls from gamers, academics, and clinicians for urgent action to better understand and address the condition. While gaming disorder is a relatively new area of understanding, immersive technology providers also have clear responsibilities to protect users from well-established online harms including bullying and harmful content. The Committee also considered the effects of disordered spending within games, and consider the links between game design mechanics such as loot boxes and gambling. The potential harms outlined in this report can be considered the direct result of the way in which the ‘attention economy’ is driven by the objective of maximising user engagement. This report explores how data-rich immersive technologies are driven by business models that combine people’s data with design practices to have powerful psychological effects. 
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  Fiverr - The Ultimate Guide to...

  Marissa Goldstein

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  Do you want to make a significant additional income online? 
  Have you looked at Fiverr and thought that you could use your skills to earn money from it? 
  Do you want to know the inside secrets to success? 
  Fiverr is one of those online sites where freelancers can really make big money. Some of Fiverr’s top sellers can earn thousands of dollars a month by simply doing what they are good at. And if you have a particular skill, especially in the creative arts or with IT, then you could start your own profile and earn extra cash to spend as you wish. 
  With this audiobook, Fiverr: The Ultimate Guide to Make Money Online with Fiverr, you can find out more, delving into this lucrative world with chapters that cover information on:
  
  The biggest hassle with Fiverr
  How to sell premium value-added services
  Bundle others’ services and sell turnkey assets
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  Once you have set yourself up and have prepared the ground for your customers it will just be a matter of time before they start buying from you. Then you can reap the rewards and enjoy the success.
   
  This audiobook will help pave the way to that success with in-depth analysis of the Fiverr platform that will ease you into it and keep you ahead of the competition.
   
  Get a copy now and start earning with Fiverr today!

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  New Money - How Payment Became...

  Lana Swartz

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  A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible—often exclusive-communities 
  One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems-cash, card, app, or Bitcoin—are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. 
  This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrency schemes, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory—and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

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  Failure Management -...

  William B. Rouse

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  Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react?William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses eighteen well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and in turn uses these to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management. Though diverse in their causes and outcomes, his analysis shows that the conceptual design of an integrated approach to failure management can encompass each of the case studies, all of which would have benefitted from the same conceptual decision support architecture. This enables cross-cutting system design principles and practices, assuring that failure management in every new domain and context need not start with a blank slate.

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  CIO Business Skills - How CIOs...

  Dr. Jim Anderson

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  What does it take to be a successful CIO? Studies have shown that the average CIO only holds on to the job for roughly 4 years – what can you do to have a longer career? It turns out that the answer to this question is simple: you need to find ways to work with the rest of the business.
  
  What You'll Find Inside:
  DO WE REALLY NEED CIOS ANY MORE?
  FROM PLUMBER TO PARTNER: HOW IT CAN BECOME PART OF A COMPANY’S SUCCESS
  TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING CAN KILL AN IT DEPARTMENT
  A NEW CIO JOB: PANNING FOR LEGAL GOLD
  
  What this means is that although your technical skills and your ability to work with the rest of the people in the IT department are what got you this far, it's not going to be what you need in order to stay in the job. You are going to need to develop a new set of skills.
  
  The key to a long-term CIO career is to understand the business that your IT department exists within. There are various other departments and people that all need what your IT department has to offer, but they may not know how to ask for it. They don't speak your language.
  
  As the CIO it's going to be your job to find ways to bridge the gap between the rest of the company and your IT department. It can be all too easy for the rest of the company to treat the IT department as a cost center and not realize the important role that you can play in making the entire organization run quicker, run smoother, and be more profitable.
  
  The purpose of this book is to provide you with real-world examples of how a CIO can work with the rest of the business. There is no one answer to this question. Rather it requires a different way of thinking. You actually need to take the time to fully understand what the other people in the company want to accomplish and then you're going to need to find ways for the IT department to provide that.
  
  The magic phrase that is used to describe an IT department that works well with the rest of the company is "alignment". In this book we discuss what alignment really is and we provide you with examples of how you can move your IT department closer to achieving it.
  
  It is my hope that after having read this book you will be aware of the additional job that you've taken on as CIO – working with the rest of the business. Do this correctly and your CIO career will last a long time…!

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