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Rules-Based Fiscal Policy in France, Germany, Italy and Spain

Fiscal rules can help to counteract the deficits and spending biases that too often originate in the political process. Rules that constrain spending--rather than the balance--allow fiscal policy to be countercyclical. Yet the design of effective spending rules is by no means straightforward. Should a rule be real or nominal? How comprehensive should the definition of spending be? What safeguards ensure the credibility of a rule? How do rules work in decentralized systems where regions and states are partially autonomous? France, Germany, Italy, and Spain--countries that could benefit from more emphasis on fiscal rules to constrain spending--are explored here as case studies.

Louder Than Words (Enhanced Edition) (Enhanced Edition)

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“Louder Than Words takes us from an understanding of nonverbal behavior to an understanding of something far more valuable for success—nonverbal intelligence.” — Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence: Science and Practice “Joe Navarro brings together the art and science of nonverbal communications for the business sector with the edge of a former FBI agent and the insight of a world-class observer.” — Jack Canfield, co-author of The Success Principles Joe Navarro, bestselling author of What Every Body Is Saying and Phil Hellmuth Presents Read ‘Em and Reap and former FBI agent specializing in behavioral analysis, helps you successfully navigate the business world by training your brain to see what others are feeling, thinking, or intending. Job hunters and professionals of every ilk—as well as fans of the hit FOX television series Lie to Me—will find many helpful and effective tips to reading body language and microexpressions in Louder than Words.

Transformational Sales

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Inspired by a new, transformative era in human and business relations, this book provides a unique perspective on the business transformation that results from the collaboration between suppliers and their strategic customers. It is all about guiding organizational change and business transformation, starting with sales itself. Companies choosing this approach can make a significant and meaningful difference with strategic customers, moving beyond the competition. By challenging existing business assumptions and creating new perspectives on the marketplace, organizations can increase value across traditional company borders, making the (business) world a better place in the process. Both thought-provoking and practical, this management book integrates academic insights, real life examples and best practices of business transformation. It is a must-read for business leaders aiming to make a difference."Integrating with your strategic customers beyond a transactional sales relationship is key for shaping new markets, developing your brand, and leveraging your strategic relationships. If sales and profitability with strategic accounts are to grow beyond the average, a change in mindset from seeing sales as an “outside” to an “inside” job is required to truly create a win-win relationship. Kotler/Dingena/Pfoertsch’s “Transformational Sales” provides hands-on insights and tools needed for companies who truly want to achieve this transformation." Marc Hantscher, CEO and President Asia-Pacific, BSH Home Appliances Pte. Ltd. Singapore"The more profoundly and systematically B2B companies familiarize themselves with and accommodate their customers’ functional, emotional and strategic needs, the more powerful they are on the market. Top brands are professionally and passionately tuned in to their customers. Sales, Project Management, Marketing, R&D, Production and Purchasing work in concert to drive customersuccess, always with an eye to the future. This book presents illustrative cases, highlighting how champions have scaled up their business." Achim Kuehn, CMO Herrenknecht AG, Schwanau, Germany

Road Maps of the Transition: The Baltics, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia

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Four papers analyze the process of transition to a market economy in the Baltics, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Russia through early 1995.

Capital Account Liberalization: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

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Capital account liberalization - orderly, properly sequence, and befitting the individual circumstances of countries- is an inevitable step for all countries wishing to realize the benefits of the globalized economy. This paper reviews the theories behind capital account liberalization and examines the dangers associated with free capital flows. The authors conclude that the dangers can be limited through a combination of sound macroeconomic and prudential policies.

The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business Is on Fire!

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A radical new leadership strategy to transform business as we know it—from a dream team of INSEAD professors and mega-bestselling author Ram Charan The business landscape is littered with the wreckage of companies that crashed and burned when an apocalypse came—in the shape of new competitive technologies, upstart entrants, demographic shifts, and new world orders. Who can feel safe in firestorm change? The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don’t advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground—throwing yourself into a firestorm change—and turning the upheaval to your organization’s advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever. Written with a sense of urgency and purposefully radical provocation, The Phoenix Encounter Method represents the forward thinking of legendary business guru Ram Charan and professors from the senior global leadership program of INSEAD, one of the world’s top graduate business schools. The resulting methodology, based on analysis of thousands of articles, studies, reports, and academic and business practice, was field tested in real-life Phoenix Encounters conducted with more than fifteen hundred senior executives—from startups and family businesses to legacy companies—representing a broad range of industry and sectors in both developed and developing economies. Whatever your sector or industry, if you’re responsible for your organization’s ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you’ll appreciate the dramatic impact The Phoenix Encounter Method will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.

Sztuka gościnności. Jak zachwycać ludzi i dawać im więcej, niż się spodziewają

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To był eksperyment, który zmienił wszystko. Will Guidara wprowadził pewne zmiany w przeciętnej nowojorskiej brasserie. Wkrótce Eleven Madison Park stała się legendą. Otrzymała cztery gwiazdki od New York Timesa, trzy gwiazdki Michelin, a jedenaście lat później została uznana za najlepszą restaurację na świecie. Co właściwie zrobił Will Guidara? Na pozór nic wielkiego — zadbał o gościnność, tak niezapomnianą i niesamowitą, że aż nierozsądną.

The Baltics: Competitiveness on the Eve of EU Accession

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Large current account deficits in Estonia and Latvia, and the continued real appreciation of the exchange rate in Lithuania, have prompted concerns about the competitiveness of the Baltic economies, and called into question the sustainability of their current fixed exchange rate arrangements. Recent external performance, however, appears to be explained more by temporary or cyclical developments than by a deterioration in the underlying competitive position of the Baltic economies. This book assesses the competitive position of the Baltic countries and focuses, in particular, on the viability of the countries' strategy of maintaining their fixed exchange rates on joining the European Union, participating in its exchange rate mechanism, and then adopting the euro at the earliest possible date.

Abundant Intelligence

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How the rise of AI agents—and other forms of autonomous intelligence—will transform every aspect of how companies create value and compete.Companies have long operated with a basic assumption: intelligence is scarce. Talent is limited, expertise is expensive, and good judgment is hard to scale. But that world is ending.AI agents are bringing a new form of labor into the enterprise—one that can work autonomously, learn continuously, and scale instantly. Their embodied counterparts, from drones to humanoid robots, are doing the same in the physical world. Together, these systems are introducing a new economic reality: cognition is becoming cheap, elastic, and abundant.In Abundant Intelligence, Deloitte's Nitin Mittal and futurist Mike Walsh show what happens when intelligence becomes cheap and widely available. Drawing on inside access to the people leading AI transformations at the world's most powerful companies, they uncover how this shift is challenging every assumption about strategy, productivity, and leadership, and what organizations must do now to stay ahead.As abundance becomes the new normal, the leader's job shifts from collecting intelligence to directing it. Those who learn to harness this expanding workforce of digital labor will unlock new levels of speed, creativity, and advantage. For everyone else, the gap will widen fast.

Swatch and the Global Watch Industry

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The efforts of Swatch to reposition itself in the increasingly competitive global watch industry are reviewed in this case. Extensive information on the history and structure of the global watch industry is provided and the shrinking time horizons decision makers face in formulating strategy and in responding to changes in the industry are highlighted. In particular, the case discusses how technology and globalization have changed industry dynamics and have caused companies to reassess their sources of competitive advantage. Like other companies, Swatch faces the difficult task of deciding whether to emphasize product breadth, or focus on a few key global brands. It also must decide whether to shift manufacturing away from Switzerland to lower cost countries like India.

Big Data Strategies for Agile Business

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Agile is a set of values, principles, techniques, and frameworks for the adaptable, incremental, and efficient delivery of work. Big Data is a rapidly growing field that encompasses crucial aspects of data such as its volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. This book outlines a strategic approach to Big Data that will render a business Agile. It discusses the important competencies required to streamline and focus on the analytics and presents a roadmap for implementing such analytics in business.

Jak vybudovat úspešný tým

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Proč některé skupiny lidí překonají samy sebe a dokáží toho mnohem víc, než byste od jejich členů čekali?•ODKUD POCHÁZÍ SKVĚLÁ KULTURA?•JAK JI VE SVÉ SKUPINĚ BUDOVAT A UDRŽOVAT?•JAK ZMĚNIT KULTURU V TÝMECH, KTERÉ POTŘEBUJÍ OPRAVIT?Nahlédněte do nitra nejúspěšnějších organizací světa – včetně amerických námořních jednotek Navy SEALs, společnosti Google či basketbalového týmu San Antonio Spurs – a odhalte, co stojí za jejich úspěchem.Daniel Coyle demystifikuje proces budování kultury tím, že identifikuje tři klíčové dovednosti vytvářející soudržnost a spolupráci, a vysvětluje, jak se různorodé skupiny učí fungovat jednotně. Na příkladech internetového prodejce Zappos, komediální skupiny Upright Citizens Brigade či odvážného gangu zlodějů šperků autor nabízí konkrétní strategie, které spouštějí proces učení, podněcují spolupráci, budují důvěru a podporují pozitivní změny.Coyle prezentuje a analyzuje užitečné příběhy o selhání, na nichž demonstruje, co nedělat, řeší běžné nástrahy a sdílí rady, jak reformovat toxickou kulturu.KULTURA NENÍ NĚCO, CO JSTE – JE TO NĚCO, CO DĚLÁTE."Na každé stránce najdeme hluboké myšlenky, příběhy, které změní způsob vaší práce, způsob vašeho vedení a váš dopad na svět. Vřele doporučuji, naléhavé čtení."– Seth Godin, autor knihy Proces"Čekal jsem roky, až někdo napíše tuto knihu – v hlavě jsem si ji vysnil jako něco mimořádného. Ale je lepší, než jsem si představoval. Daniel Coyle vytvořil fascinující čtení, demystifikující kouzlo vynikajících týmů. Předčí všechny jiné knihy o kultuře. Rychle si ji přečtěte."– Adam Grant, autor knih Originály a Ještě to promysli"Skvělá knížka, která na konkrétních příkladech nejen ze světa byznysu jasně ukazuje, co může každý z nás udělat pro svůj tým, aby byl výkonnější a lidé v něm zároveň šťastnější."– Michal Šrajer, podnikatel a první český Chief Happiness Officer, spoluzakladatel mezinárodní konference Happiness@Work Live!"Kniha plná inspirativních příběhů, která změní váš způsob vedení lidí. Ať už jste CEO v korporátu, máte restauraci, nebo učíte studenty – vždy vedete tým. Daniel Coyle vám nabídne ty správné a nadčasové ingredience pro jeho správné fungování."– Dušan Murčo, Chief Growth Officer v Behavera, ex- Martinus a Slido, tvůrce RemoteLeader.Me

Les institutions monétaires en France

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Berries for Greens

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Berries for Greens is a comic fable about the art of negotiation—an essential skill to master for success in life. For children, it’s a playful forest trade. For adults, it’s a mirror of real-life conversations at home, at work, and beyond. I invite you to step into the jungle and follow the path to the berries.

Practical Thought Models for Men: Use Mental Techniques of the World´s Greatest Leaders to Make Better Decisions, Conquer Any Obstacle, Build Self-Confidence and Make Lasting Progress in Life and Work

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Are you overcomplicating, doubting or rethinking decisions on a regular basis?Do you have trouble making the right decision at work or at home?Do you want to become more efficient so you can enjoy the fun things in life?Then keep reading...What is the difference between the successful billionaires and you? There are a lot of people with a higher IQ than billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Most of those people still belong to the middle class. So, what´s the most important difference?It all comes down to your way of thinking and your decision making. Those billionaires use different thought models and routines then the average Joe. This explains the biggest part of their success. By adopting these models you can give, your career, your income and the quality of your personal life, a big boost.In ´Practical Thought Models for Men´ you´ll discover:Use the ´Procrastination-Crusher´ to save a lot of energy and reach your goals faster (page 64)Use these 3, easy to apply, thoughts models combined to catapult your productivity (page 30)6 principles regarding productivity form Thomas Watson Sr., CEO of IBM between 1914 and 1956. These principles are more applicable today more than ever before (page 101)How to use this popular sales-technique if you need someone to make a decision in your favor (page 53)Use 'Logic-over-emotions-model´ to make decisions on sound logic instead of emotions (page 39)Discover the way billionaire and investor Ray Dalio, updated his thinking patterns after a few failures in the beginning of his career, and which helped him to become this successful (page 74)The ´Instant-Self-Motivator´ to improve your motivation and output at your job in only a few seconds (page 56)How to outperform colleagues and friends by unconventional thinking (page 79)The system used by Charlie Munger, the right-hand man of billionaire Warren Buffet, to look at the long-term effects of his decisions (page33)7 activities most men do daily, but which sabotage your productivity (page 94)How Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and one of the richest men in the world, categorizes his decisions. Use this technique to make your decisions easier and faster (page 80)Implement this approach, used by one of the biggest Internet companies in the world, to avoid unnecessary work (page 107)Use this popular system design method, to get better results in all aspects of your life (page (117)An easy and productive thought pattern used by billionaire Charlie Munger, which helped him reach his success (page 88)How to positively influence the behavior of your team for higher productivity (page 114)Learn how to formulate your requests in a way people will listen to you (page 148)The Elon Musk approach of solving problems and how to apply this in your own life so you´ll get Elon Musk like abilities (page 73)Even if you failed math in high school, the models used by the billionaires of the world are genius, because of their simplicity. So, you don´t need to have a background in math or psychology. The day to day examples and models are designed to get you the life-changing results you´re looking for.So, if you´re ready to debug and upgrade your thought models, scroll-up and click ´add to cart´.

How to write what you want to say ... in business

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This guide provides those in business and government with the language they need to write for a variety of purposes. It aims to provide those with limited experience in these forms of writing with a starting point to say what they want to say using language that mature writers use. How to write what you want to say … in business is a guide for those who know what they want to say but can’t find the words. It provides a unique tool for improving writing. It seeks to assist inexperienced writers of business and government communications and also students of business courses from the middle years of schooling to the tertiary and vocational level.

Get Paid to Take Digital Photos

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Table of Contents: *Introduction *Do You Have What it Takes? *Choosing a Camera *Get Get Rich Quick Out of Your Head *Microstock Photography *Sites that Pay for Your Photos *Posting Your Photos Online *For the Truly Ambitious Sample from the book: It doesn’t matter what the subject is, someone’s figured out a way for you to get rich quick. They explain it to you in detail and they may even sell you an eBook or a report, or even a video, and you buy it, only to find out that the tactics don’t work. Do you know how many people have actually gotten rich quick from all of the get rich quick programs out there? Less than 2%! And the ones that do make it have a lot of free time and a lot of luck. Now don’t get me wrong. You can make money selling your digital photos online. You just have to remain realistic about your goals. Making money in anything takes time. You may have to start at the bottom, but soon, after enough hard work, you can make it to the middle. Then...

L'intérêt du capital

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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Intelligent Fashion Forecasting Systems: Models and Applications

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Forecasting is a crucial function for companies in the fashion industry, but for many real-life forecasting applications, the data patterns are notorious for being highly volatile and it is very difficult, if not impossible, to analytically learn about the underlying patterns. As a result, many traditional methods (such as pure statistical models) will fail to make a sound prediction. Over the past decade, advances in artificial intelligence and computing technologies have provided an alternative way of generating precise and accurate forecasting results for fashion businesses. Despite being an important and timely topic, there is currently an absence of a comprehensive reference source that provides up-to-date theoretical and applied research findings on the subject of intelligent fashion forecasting systems. This three-part handbook fulfills this need and covers materials ranging from introductory studies and technical reviews, theoretical modeling research, to intelligent fashion forecasting applications and analysis. This book is suitable for academic researchers, graduate students, senior undergraduate students and practitioners who are interested in the latest research on fashion forecasting.

The Employment Relationship

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Challenges Facing the Employment Relationship in Future Organizations addresses the issues of change within employee relationships resulting from the impact of factors such as: * international competitive pressures * technological change * changing individual expectations and behaviours The new employment contract is analysed from inside and outside organizations and the issues are addressed from both a human resource management and work psychology perspective. This book: * Reviews the phenomenon of globalization, outlining the current impacts on the employment relationship and summarizing the assumed impacts on future work * Looks at the employment relationship from a labour market perspective and reviews the evidence on an increasing individualization of the employment relationship * Reviews work by psychologists on the changing psychological contract * Provides an overview of new forms of work organization, drawing attention to research on virtual organization and implications of e-enablement * Outlines the challenges to the employment relation on a global scale

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