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  Reconstructing Regulation for...

  Giovani Loss

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  As the world accelerates toward a low‑carbon future, traditional regulatory models are proving insufficient to guide industries through the complexities of the global energy transition. This book offers a fresh, integrative perspective on how regulation can be reimagined to foster innovation, accountability, and long‑term sustainability across the energy sector.Blending insights from governance, finance, reputation management, and technological development, the book explores four interconnected pillars of the transition. It examines how shared-ownership structures can strategically realign corporate behavior; how reputational pressure can drive genuine ESG practices; how financial instruments can stabilize legacy energy industries while encouraging sustainable evolution; and how venture capital partnerships can unlock breakthrough clean technologies.With clear explanations and real-world examples, the book presents a comprehensive roadmap for redesigning regulatory frameworks that harmonize corporate incentives, market forces, and public policy. More than an academic analysis, it is a practical guide for leaders, policymakers, investors, and anyone seeking to understand and shape the future of global decarbonization.

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  The Decisive Manager - Get...

  Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem

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  The Decisive Manager is an ideal resource for anyone, at any level, who manages people and the problems that arise. It’s an essential read for working out issues between coworkers, addressing problem areas, and getting everyone on track to succeed. People issues. They seemingly arise out of nowhere and just don’t go away. It’s critical that managers handle them right.   As a manager, you need to know so many things about managing people, but you don’t even know what to ask! The Decisive Manager can help. With examples of typical situations that managers encounter and advice on how to handle them, it’s an easy-to-use guide for people managers and has information on hiring to firing, and everything in between.  Finding and Hiring the Best Talent: recruiting, interviewing, job posting, job offers, onboarding, and more.  Creating a Positive Employee Experience: employee engagement, retention, and employee motivation.  Paying and Rewarding Employees: compensation transparency, employee wellness and mental health, and rewards and recognition.  Helping Employees Grow and Develop: creating a learning culture, strategies for doing so, and the manager’s role in employee development.  Understanding Policies and Practices: the role of policies, applying them to specific situations, harassment and office romance.  Ensuring Graceful Endings: layoffs, terminations for cause, exit interviews and more.   The important issues surrounding remote and hybrid work are also addressed, including how to best support your staff, onboarding from afar, and keeping accountability yet flexibility for all. Concerned about navigating the changing workplace and avoiding legal pitfalls? There are questions and essential answers about these issues, too. Managing people correctly is critical to every manager’s success. The Decisive Manager will help with those unexpected challenges that arise too often. This is an essential read for all who lead."Practical. Relevant. Easy to grasp.  I wish I had THIS book when I became a manager." —Mack Munro, Founder & CEO, Boss Builders  

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  The Psychology of Money

  Adrian Furnham

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  Does money make you happy? Are you a saver or spender . . . and why? Is money the most important factor in our work motivation? 
  This lively and informative book addresses these issues and more, delving into questions that get to the heart of how we think about money and how it affects different aspects of our lives. It looks at money in relation to happiness, relationships, and our work lives, as well as the psychology behind gambling and addictions. Written in an approachable style by an expert author who has researched psychology and money for over thirty years, the book helps us understand our relationship with money and also includes practical strategies for how we can manage our money better.

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  Starting Your Own Business As A...

  Ahmad Wallace

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  What does it really take to start and grow a successful business when the odds are stacked against you? 
  In Starting Your Own Business as a Black Person in America or the Diaspora, author Ahmad Wallace delivers a powerful, no-nonsense roadmap for Black entrepreneurs ready to build wealth, create opportunity, and leave a lasting legacy. 
  Spanning 40 chapters, this comprehensive guide covers every stage of the entrepreneurial journey — from cultivating a resilient mindset and overcoming self-doubt, to securing funding, building your brand, mastering sales, and navigating the unique challenges Black business owners face in America and beyond. 
  Whether you're just starting out or looking to scale, this audiobook gives you the strategies, tools, and motivation to compete — and win — in today's marketplace. Your family and community are counting on you. Now let's get to work.

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  Shift - Everyday Actions Leaders...

  Meredith Wilson

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  Meredith Wilson's 'Shift': Everyday actions leaders can take to shift culture' simplifies workplace culture with a focus on actionable steps. This practical guide enables leaders to shape, shift, and strengthen workplace cultures through everyday actions. 
  'Shift' demystifies organisational culture, without being stuffy or fluffy. Using everyday language and removing unnecessary complexity, Shift makes culture doable for leaders at all levels. 
  This valuable handbook provides leaders a formula for culture: Moments that Matter x Leader Behaviours = Culture. Meredith makes the intangible, tangible with her GRASS acronym, highlighting the five moments that matter most in culture: Gatherings, Rituals, Actions, Symbols and Stories. Each GRASS element is unpacked with real-life examples, practical insights, and a range of experiments to action in the workplace. 
  'Shift' guides leaders on how to reshape, refine, and reinforce the culture within their teams and organisations. From subtle gestures to significant initiatives, Meredith shows leaders and organisations how to grow and sustain cultures that work. 
  Drawing from over two decades of executive experience, including advising and mentoring Executives and Boards on culture, Meredith distils her expertise into this practical handbook. 
  'Shift' acts as a catalyst for leaders wanting to impact the culture of their teams and organisations. Whether you're a seasoned executive or a newly appointed team leader, this book helps you grow cultures that work.

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  The Invention of Scarcity -...

  Deborah Valenze

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  With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. 
   
   
   
  Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs. She uses history, anthropology, and food studies to redirect our attention to the margins of Malthus's essay, where activities such as hunting and gathering were rendered extraneous. She demonstrates how Malthus's omissions and his subsequent canonization provided a rationale for colonial imposition of British agricultural models, regardless of environmental diversity. 
   
   
   
  By broadening our conception of human livelihoods, Valenze suggests pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. She invites us to imagine a world where monoculture is in retreat and the margins are recentered as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing.

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