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  China's Economy - What Everyone...

  Arthur R. Kroeber

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  China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America. 
  China's growth has lifted 700 million people out of poverty. It has also created a monumental environmental mess, with smog-blanketed cities and carbon emissions that are a leading cause of climate change. Multinational companies make billions of dollars in profits in China each year, but traders around the world shudder at every gyration of the country's unruly stock markets. Most surprising of all, its capitalist economy is governed by an authoritarian Communist Party that shows no sign of loosening its grip. 
  How did China grow so fast for so long? Can it keep growing and still solve its problems of environmental damage, fast-rising debt and rampant corruption? How long can its vibrant economy co-exist with the repressive one-party state? What do China's changes mean for the rest of the world? China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® answers these questions in straightforward language that you don't need to be an economist to understand, but with a wealth of detail drawn from academic research, interviews with dozens of company executives and policy makers, and a quarter-century of personal experience. Whether you're doing business in China, negotiating with its government officials, or a student trying to navigate the complexities of this fascinating and diverse country, this is the one book that will tell you everything you need to know about how China works, where it came from and where it's going.

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  Boundless - A New Mindset for...

  Henry King, Vala Afshar

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  In Boundless, two leaders in transformation and customer success deliver an inspiring and exciting new approach to succeeding in an increasingly decentralized and digital-first world. In the book, you'll learn how to demolish organizational silos once and for all, allowing resources to flow across networks, ecosystems, and communities. The authors explain the seven principles underlying their unique and effective "Boundless" paradigm: connection, integration, decentralization, mobility, continuity, autonomy, and shared success.Walking you through the blueprint for transformative, resilient business success, Boundless also offers: strategies for mapping the Boundless principles to key technological advances, including digital platforms, blockchain, AI, robotics, cloud computing, and more; ways to achieve the operational, organizational, and technological shifts necessary to succeed in an entirely transformed world; and tools for combating the natural tendency of employees to accumulate and protect resources within company silos.An invaluable resource for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Boundless will also earn a place in the libraries of founders, entrepreneurs, and consultants who seek to create an enduring competitive advantage for themselves or their clients.

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  Big Data - Using SMART Big Data...

  Bernard Marr

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  The world is getting smarter, and business must follow. We  now have smart phones, smart TVs, smart watches and even smart  nappies. What they all have in common is the ability to collect,  share and use data to improve functionality and performance. Most  companies now collect data with the intention of gaining new  insights, yet most have no idea how to let the data shape strategy  and decision-making. SMART businesses are able to thrive in this  new world and marry the best of traditional metrics and data sets  with insights gained from big data and advanced analytics. This  book provides a practical framework to help businesses become SMART  and leverage big data and analytics. Illustrated to many real world  examples from a cross section of companies and organisations, the  book will take the reader through these following five steps (the  SMART model):  1. Start with Strategy  with the limitless amounts of  data available today, companies need to clearly define what it is  they need to know. Any framework for big data exploitation and  analytics has to start with the key business questions a company  needs to answer.  2.  Measure Metrics and Data This part will outline how  companies can collect relevant data and measure the metrics that  will help them answer their most important business questions. It  will cover the different data sets and explain how companies  collect and leverage them. In particular, it will cover how to  combine Big and Small data to deliver  breakthrough results.  3.  Apply Analytics  this part outlines how companies  turn their data into insights with many practical examples of how  big data analytics generates real business benefits.  4.  Report Results  this part will look at how the  results of big data analytics can be visualised and communicated to  ensure key decisions-makers understand them.  5.  Transform  this final part discusses how SMART  companies use the insights gained from their data to transform  everything their do. For this, companies need to create a culture  of fact-based decision-making where data and insights are used to  improve and challenge everything a business does.

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  Shedding the Corporate Bitch -...

  Bernadette Boas

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  For twenty-five years she was a corporate bitch, and now has shifted from bitch to rich! “Do you have any idea how hurtful you are to people?” Linda asked. She shook her head and did everything she could to avoid eye contact with me. I looked across the room at Sheila, searching for some validation of what Linda had said. All I could see was her slumped in her chair, sitting silently as Brian talked in her ear. As a young woman, Bernadette Boas was anything but a bitch. Raised by loving, Irish Catholic parents in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1960’s, she was the middle child of twelve--a sassy, precocious girl with big dreams of a big life. At the age of eighteen, Bernadette left home with the love and support of her family and headed South to Boca Raton, Florida, where she began to climb the corporate ladder. There, amidst palm trees and sandy beaches, the sun began to set on her once glowing personality. A driven, ambitious young woman, Bernadette began to emulate the negative, competitive attitudes of her coworkers--men and women--in her quest for success. She gained a reputation for being aggressive, demanding, and brash. Through hard work and perseverance, she attained tremendous success and achievement through managerial and executive positions, but it came with a price. Eventually, she lost her six-figure corporate job and her bitch persona. "Shedding the Corporate Bitch" is one woman’s real-life admission of what it’s like to sell one’s soul in exchange for ambition, greed and power at home and in the workplace. Its one woman’s apology to all the people she hurt over the years in pursuit of those goals. But most importantly, it’s her lessons, tips, and advice for aspiring corporate women who erroneously believe that ‘manning up’ and becoming a bitch in order to achieve career success that is valuable.

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  Rich confident business diva:...

  Camilla Kristiansen

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  This book is for you who want to be a rich confident business diva. You are tired of living in the shadow. Time has come for you to claim your place in the business world. Stop doubting yourself that you are not good enough and just start to ask for the fucking money. How hard can it be to follow your dreams? Let me help you on your way to freedom, fame and success.

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  Personality Types

  IntroBooks Team

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  Personality types are included in widely discussed academical disciplines. In our planet Earth, we have almost 7.5 Billions of people and we can notice each one of them coming up with different personality traits. Personality is a key concept in the making of a human characteristic. Each different personality signifies different types of human beings; they all look at this world with different aspects and approaches. Personality types are discussed in the stream of psychology, to sum up, all the differences scientifically along with verified statistics. With that, we can distinguish all the types properly and use them for academic studies. Otherwise, the studies related to personality types help everyone, whoever is looking for their type explanation. Understanding personality types can make outer world interactions easier and it helps us by leading through a way of knowledge from which we can acquire a better understanding of self.

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