Business & Economics - Education

Expertise pays; polymathy pays exponentially. Build a world-class skillset that will make you unique and irreplaceable.Polymath: a person of wide knowledge and learning. The art of becoming a polymath is really about maximizing your opportunities in life. Don't be the person with the hammer...

Facilitators exist wherever learning happens. Anyone who works in a community organization, a corporation, a government, or a healthcare environment can end up leading a workshop, running a course, or otherwise facilitating others' learning. Facilitators can also be consultants or post-secondary instructors who have...

From the ads that track us to the maps that guide us, the twenty-first century runs on code. The business world is no different. Programming has become one of the fastest-growing topics at business schools around the world. An increasing number of MBAs are...

The guide all MBAs and exec ed students need.If you're enrolled in an MBA or executive education program, you've probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you're like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and...

Providing feedback to others about their performance is a key developmental experience. But not all feedback is effective in making the best use of that experience. This book demonstrates how to make the feedback you give more effective so that others can benefit from...

Workplace Bullying: The Pandemic Within addresses the need for businesses, organizations, and leaders to better understand the core elements of workplace harassment and bullying. Workplace bullying and harassment affect not only those targeted, but also the organization as a whole. Leadership and organizational culture...

Today's economies fail to recognise that we are in a rapidly worsening crisis, reproducing and often worsening vast and harmful inequalities between people and countries. The current models are unsustainable, and at a time when global temperatures are rising and divides are deepening, humanity...

Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolutionized...

You are either driving change, or you are being driven by change. Which is it to be?A recent world-wide pandemic forced change upon 7 billion people, ending a long period of "perceived" relative stability.Although we know intellectually that change is inevitable, society conditions us...

Have you ever thought to yourself how conversations are the connector between people? When relationships matter so too do conversations. This book will show you how to attract & engage others into meaningful dialogue so that the other person compels themself to take action...

Author: Derry G. KoralekISBN-10: 1879537494ISBN-13: 9781879537491Publisher: Teaching StrategiesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2005Pages: 434Format: Paperback

Case method teaching immerses students in realistic business situations--which include incomplete information, time constraints, and conflicting goals. The class discussion inherent in case teaching is well known for stimulating the development of students' critical thinking skills, yet instructors often need guidance on managing that...

The top secrets to getting into the best MBA programs, from a leading industry expert Top MBA programs reject more than 80 percent of their applicants, but author Chioma Isiadinso's admissions consulting firm has successfully guided 90 percent of her students into the best...

A guide for research economists: how to write papers, give talks, navigate the peer-review process, advise students, and more. Newly minted research economists are equipped with a PhD's worth of technical and scientific expertise but often lack some of the practical tools necessary for...

Mohit Sharma is a certified Master black belt from Genpact and a certified Black belt & Green belt from ASQ and Motorola university. Lean Six Sigma is my intrinsic passion and a keen area of expertise. He has the privilege of being a member...

The success of your daily interactions with others, whether during formal meetings or encounters at the water cooler, can make or break your success in the workplace. Having interpersonal skills will allow you to motivate, inspire, and successfully lead others, as well as further...

This book discusses how can middle powers like South Korea and Germany benefit from closer economic and political linkages across the Eurasian landmass, in particular the Belt and Road Initiative dominated by China. Should they rather jump on the bandwagon or should they follow...

To thrive on the other side of the pandemic, companies will need diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that are strategic and proactive, with unlimited vision, part of overall organizational culture. Unfortunately, previous approaches to diversity equity, inclusion haven't been successful ― women, people of...

Have you ever wanted to start your own business? Then this is the book for you A young entrepreneur describes how to make a successful business and how to keep it that way. This book is a great way to get a head start...

Today's software companies can't afford to be passive with their customers. As software moves to the web and becomes more consumerized, software companies can only grow if their current customers renew and grow over time. Otherwise those customers will leave, creating a "leaky bucket"...

Understand Financial Terms - Make Better Financial Decisions This practical financial dictionary helps you understand and comprehend more than 200 common financial terms. It was written with an emphasis to quickly grasp the context without using jargon. Every financial terms is explained in detail...

Developed by veteran administrators, the "nuts and bolts" described in the monthly chapters will give middle school principals the tools they need to help ensure a trouble-free opening to the school year.Author: Robert Ricken, Michael TercISBN-10: 0761939792ISBN-13: 9780761939795Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2003Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Learning and Development (L&D) programmes are too often based on fads, the latest trends or learning designers' personal preferences without critical evaluation. Evidence-Informed Learning Design allows learning professionals to move away from this type of approach by showing them how to assess and apply...

Now, for the first time ever, the time-tested, proven techniques perfected by the world-famous Dale Carnegie(R) sales training program are available in book form. The two crucial questions most often asked by salespeople are: "How can I close more sales?" and "What can I...

Level 3: Business Administrator has been designed and written to support those studying for the Level 3 Business Administrator Apprenticeship and similar Level 3 Diplomas and Certificates in Customer Service.The book covers the theories and hypotheses covered in the syllabus of the qualifications and...

Make Your Business Purposeful and ProfitableAt its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and...

Business for Communicators provides future and current professional communicators with a hands-on, working knowledge of how businesses profit, grow, and adapt in their competitive environments. Corporate communicators aspire to sit at the decision-making table but too often fall short because of an inability to...

Take a close look at the challenges, realities and rewards of teaching today as Ryan/Cooper/Bolick/Callahan's THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 15E helps you make an informed decision about entering today's teaching profession. This edition's highly acclaimed author team draws from current research and multiple sources...

The potential growth of companies in emerging industries can be massive. Think Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the millionaires they have created through their stocks.While it may be too late to get these tech stocks at bargain prices, one rapidly growing industry is still affordable.Within...

Are You Guilty of One of These 12 Financial Sins That Could Be Killing Your Credit Score?Can you honestly say that you are a financially responsible person?Do you always pay your bills on time?How many credit cards do you possess?How often do you max...

This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability-and what enables it-in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and apply the science of scaling in their programs, research, and decision...

Five Revealing Stories. Real Student Experiences.A roadmap to teaching and learning diversity for the next generation.In this book, five recent undergraduates share their deeply personal struggles as students. From being a Latino at a campus filled with white faculty, to being a female medical...

Are you dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur? Do you believe you have the skills to own and operate a small business? Do you want to be your own boss and help people with your unique products and services?Regina DuBose answered yes to those questions...

Shared Service Organizations (SSOs) are of growing relevance in research and corporate. This study analyzes Performance Measurement System (PMS) design in SSOs and sheds light on its effectiveness. This empirical analysis yields practical PMS design recommendations for practitioners working in a shared service environment.Author:...

Have you ever imagined yourself or your company completely debt-free, and profitable to the extent that you could afford every luxury that you put your mind to? I'm sure you have. Financial liberty is the privilege of a few but it doesn't mean it's...

Through this book, you will have in your arsenal the most effective method of depending yourself from these scammers and frauds. By giving you only the most relevant and most useful information about penny stocks, what they are, the risks and benefits involving them,...

Did you know that you can become a millionaire just by investing the money you make from babysitting the neighbor's child two nights per week?If you are curious and want to find out how to do it, then keep reading...BONUS CHAPTER ABOUT NFTS ADDED...

Each of the 16 unique and immersive cases takes you right into a situation that actually occurs in business and lets you practice the writing skills that will contribute to your career success: the need to change a business model no longer works, to...

Fundamentals of Workplace Learning is a comprehensive guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved. Examining the essential aspects of workplace learning and unravelling the various influences which affect the success of work-based learners, Knud Illeris presents a...

What Did You Say? Is based on what people ask me all of the time: what did you just say? I am usually teaching or sharing something that is profound and we need to hear that again. This time you will see it and...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPRNew York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick"Masterly . . .represents an extraordinary achievement: It is comprehensive and detailed without being tedious, practical without being banal, impeccably well judged...

Community-Based Research and Higher Education is the long-awaited guide to how to incorporate a powerful and promising new form of scholarship into academic settings. The book presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course...

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities--especially the study of literature--offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam...

Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with...

The Growth Code was written for forward-thinking, growth-oriented organizations and teams that are committed to building, growing, and improving the digital leaders of tomorrow. It's a handbook for anyone who wants relevant knowledge and training along with actionable ideas that can be quickly implemented...

Have you often wondered, "What's wrong with this younger generation?" Or, "Why are these younger workers so lazy?" How about this one, "How do I get these Millennials to work harder?" If you still think that you can change the Millennials to make them...

Are you striving to reach life's pinnacle points -- peak performance, personal achievement, professional success and distinction -- yet haven't a clue how you'll get there?Do you imagine you lack the resources, support, or even the guts to begin and follow through?Set aside that...

Learn how to excel in property investing with this easy-to-follow book. "Incredibly helpful. It's an inviting book, even for people who only understand layman's terms." Dawn Mendoza Tuan Tran is a graduate of The University of Manchester after completing a RICS accredited MSc degree...

The fundamentals of Team Quotient (TQ) is based on a 10-year study with 108 teams from Fortune 500 and other global companies, on the essential elements of High Performance Teams. Using numerous case studies from the companies with which he has worked, Douglas describes...

The workbook's self-scored assessment allows you to produce your own profile on the spot ... and shows how your self-profile compares with other leaders you have known. It also includes questions to help you evaluate the implications of your scores and how to use...