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Économie : Principes fondamentaux

Cet ouvrage vous aidera àcomprendre les mécanismes fondamentaux du fonctionnement de nos économies, autour de nombreux sujets clés : croissance, emploi, pouvoir d'achat, entreprise, mondialisation, Europe, environnement...L'actualité économique est foisonnante et difficile à appréhender sans avoir les clés de lecture nécessaires. Les problèmes économiques sont toujours complexes, les analyses nombreuses et parfois contradictoires, et les décisions politiques se multiplient, selon des intérêts parfois divergents...Dans ces conditions, comprendre les mécanismes fondamentaux du fonctionnement de l'économie se révèle plus que jamais indispensable. En tant que discipline scientifique, l'économie vise à proposer - au-delà des opinions, préférences idéologiques et préjugés - un ensemble de savoirs construits selon une démarche rigoureuse, afin d'échapper à tous les poncifs récurrents et argumentations trop pressées sur de nombreux sujets : croissance, emploi, pouvoir d'achat, entreprise, mondialisation, Europe, environnement, inégalités...Afin de faciliter la tâche à tous ceux qui veulent mieux comprendre le monde dans lequel ils vivent et où l'économie occupe une si grande place, les auteurs proposent un ouvrage dont la principale qualité doit être l'alchimie entre la clarté pédagogique et la rigueur de l'analyse, tout en suscitant l'intérêt du lecteur et en donnant du sens.Cet ouvrage introductif et généraliste, cours complet sur les fondamentaux de l'économie, s'adresse plus particulièrement aux étudiants en sciences économiques, aux étudiants des classes préparatoires économiques et commerciales et des IEP. Il intéressera également les candidats aux concours administratifs (agrégations, CAPES, CAPET).

Winning Body Language : Control the Conversation, Command Attention, and Convey the Right Message without Saying a Word

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The Unique System of Nonverbal Skills Used by the Most Effective Leaders in Business TodayCONTROL THE CONVERSATION, COMMAND ATTENTION, ANDCONVEY THE RIGHT MESSAGE--WITHOUT SAYING A WORDWhether you're presenting an idea, delivering a speech, managing a team, or negotiating a deal, your body language plays a key role in your overall success.This ingenious step-by-step guide, written by an elite trainer of Fortune 50 CEOs and G8 world leaders, unlocks the secrets of nonverbal communication--using a proven system of universal techniques that can give you the ultimate professional advantage. Learn easily how to:Successfully master the visual TruthPlanearound you to win trust now.Gesture in a way that gains everyone’s attention—even before you speak.Appeal to others' deep psychological needsfor immediate rapport and influence.This enhanced eBook includes 13 exclusive videos demonstrating different body language techniques to enhance communication, increase trust, and attract others.You'll discover how to sit, stand, and subtly alter your body language to move with confidence, control conversations, command attention, persuade andinfluence others, and convey positive energy—without saying a word.It's the one key to success nobody talks about!

Introduction to Metaverse

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This book discusses Metaverse Technology, which is one of the emerging technologies around the world, through its concepts, definitions, architectural layers, economic implications, and presents comparison points with other allied areas like Web 3.0, Digital Twin, Blockchain, Multiverse, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Everything and Hyperautomation.The book also presents several use-cases and adoption areas of Metaverse technology, along with global outlook of top companies implementing this technology through major platforms and tools. The potential use of this technology for Public Sector is also explored in this book, apart from the suggested business framework for its adoption. Potential misuse and ethical concerns have also been summarised.This introductory book on Metaverse, written with a multidisciplinary approach, will provide readers with a clear understanding of what the Metaverse is, what technologies are involved in its creation, and its current as well aspotential future applications, in a very simple manner.Dr. Rajan Gupta is a Research and Analytics Professional with 13+ years of combined experience in AI/ML Product & Services Delivery, Analytical Research, Consulting, Training and Teaching in the field of Data Science and Computer Science. He has authored 100+ publications including 6 books and multiple research papers in the area of Public Information Systems, AI/ML, Information Technology and Management.Dr. Saibal K. Pal is a Senior Scientist with DRDO for many years and has been awarded as "Scientist of the Year" by the Government of India. He has authored more than 250 publications in the form of books, journals, and international conference proceedings in areas like Information & Network Security, Computational Intelligence, Information Systems, and Electronic Governance.

Insurance and Risk Management for Disruptions in Social, Economic and Environmental Systems

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Challenges destabilize the norm and create distresses and disruptions in, for example, the culture, the technology, regulations, the environmental, etc. that influence the pace of finance and economic activities. This book is a collection of 13 chapters and studies about Insurance and Risk management in response to disruptions caused by social, economic, and environmental challenges to try and stabilize the economy in an effort to ensure sustainability.Insurance and Risk Management for Disruptions in Social, Economic and Environmental Systems brings together studies from scholars, researchers and professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds to highlight discuss and exchange ideas on these challenges, which may seem a danger, but offer prospects for economic and business development.Books in the Emerald Studies In Finance, Insurance, And Risk Management series collect quantitative and qualitative studies in areas relating to finance, insurance, and risk management. Subjects of interest may include banking, accounting, auditing, compliance, sustainability, behaviour, management, and business economics.

The Mormon Way of Doing Business

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An unprecedented look at how the Mormon faith has shaped some of today’s most successful CEOs and businessmen.The Founder of JetBlue.The CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their Sundays exclusively with their families, never work long hours, and always put their spouses and children first. How do they do it? Now, critically acclaimed author and investigative journalist Jeff Benedict (a Mormon himself) examines these highly successful business execs and discovers how their beliefs have influenced them, and enabled them to achieve incredible success. With original interviews and unparalleled access, Benedict shares what truly drives these individuals, and the invaluable life lessons from which anyone can benefit.

Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart

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In 2006 Wal-Mart, the second largest firm in the world by sales, was looking to improve its already efficient supply chain. The company's supply chain was closely integrated with its retail and information systems strategies and has been developed incrementally over the past 40 years. However, rivals are copying every aspect, from the way Wal-Mart cross-docks product in warehouses, to Wal-Mart's use of a sophisticated database to capture, store and disseminate store-level information to suppliers. Wal-Mart's new executive vice-president, logistics was overseeing a handful of initiatives designed to improve the firm's supply chain. However, it was not certain that these initiatives were going to have a significant impact on Wal-Mart costs, and he needed to consider what the company should do to stay ahead of the competition.

The Sales Pro: Cartoon Edition

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The Sales Pro presents the most advanced and up-to-date selling skills and strategies in their simplest form, offering anyone who is serious about becoming a professional salesperson the ability to get to the top without having to learn the hard way. The Sales Pro promotes complete comprehension of the sales techniques by dispensing insight through informative cartoons. The lessons within each cartoon story enables easier, faster and more effective comprehension by offering visual connection to get the message across. The recap questions after each cartoon will ensure the sales message within each cartoon has been understood which can be confirmed within the answers section at the end of the book. The main character who appears in the cartoon stories is Pete, who while attending sales school discusses with his colleagues how to apply each specific selling skill, technique and strategy. These stories will increase the rate at which you learn the particular skill and allow you to quickly apply the lesson to your own sales opportunities. The book’s cartoon characters, like you, are reading about specific sales techniques; and you can follow along as they work through that chapter’s lessons. If you learn and apply the selling skills and strategies within this book, you will succeed in becoming a true sales professional and earn an income you never thought possible.

Kleines Handbuch für den Umgang mit Unwissen

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Eine Anleitung zum Nach-, Quer- und Gegendenken»Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß«, erkannte bereits Sokrates. Wie wir aber mit dem Unbekannten, mit dem, was wir nicht wissen, faktisch umgehen und idealerweise umgehen sollten, das beschreibt der Risikoforscher und Essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb in seinem Handbuch. Er enthüllt die Begrenztheiten unserer Datenverliebtheit genauso wie die folgenschweren Irrtümer und Voreingenommenheiten unseres Denkens. So zeigt er, wie uns Denkfehler, falsche Kategorien und blinde Flecken immer wieder in die Irre führen – und wie wir mit Unwissen gewinnbringend umgehen können. Denn: »Für den einen ist ein Irrtum bloß ein Irrtum, für den anderen ist er eine Information.«

The Routledge Companion to Knowledge Management

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Knowledge when properly leveraged and harnessed contributes to effective organizational performance. How much an organization benefits from knowledge would depend on how well knowledge has been managed. There have been challenges to implementing knowledge management in today’s dramatically different world from before. This comprehensive reference work is a timely guide to understanding knowledge management.The book covers key themes of knowledge management which includes the basic framework of knowledge management and helps readers to understand the state of art of knowledge management both from the aspects of theory and practice, from the perspectives of strategy, organization, resources, as well as institution and organizational culture. This reference work reflects the increasingly important role of both philosophy and digital technologies in knowledge management research and practice.This handbook will be an essential resource for knowledge management scholars, researchers and graduate students.

Au-delà de la crise

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La crise a effacé l'image à la fois orgueilleuse et banale que les sociétés industrialisées aimaient à donner de leur avenir. Mais elle risque de les enfermer dans un souci myope de la conjoncture économique. Pour sortir de la crise, ne faut-il pas, beaucoup plus que réparer les conséquences d'un accident, reconnaître que nous changeons de société et de culture ? Ce livre, préparé au sein d'un groupe international qui s'est réuni pendant deux ans, à Turin, puis à Paris, ne considère que les changements des sociétés économiquement les plus avancées mais, dans ce cadre à la fois limité et important, s'efforce de lier trois champs de réflexion : les transformations de la culture, celles des rapports sociaux et de l'État, l'apparition de nouveaux objectifs politiques. Ses auteurs n'acceptent plus la distance, devenue insupportable, entre la réalité historique d'aujourd'hui et les idées auxquelles la plupart des observateurs recourent pour l'analyser. Ils se méfient des exégètes et des doctrinaires ; ils veulent aussi aller au-delà de l'utopie. Pour eux, la crise est moins une situation que notre impuissance à comprendre, à accepter et à orienter les mutations en cours. C'est en analysant ce que devient la production, la famille ou l'État que nous préparons ce renouveau de l'action politique qui peut conduire ces sociétés au-delà de la crise.

Canadian Pharmaceutical Distribution Network

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With revenues of over US$1 billion, UPS Logistics Group was a wholly owned subsidiary of United Parcel Service, which offered a full range of supply chain services in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. UPS Logistics was responsible for distribution in Eastern Canada for the Canadian Pharmaceutical Distribution Network, an association of pharmaceutical manufacturers that jointly distribute products to hospital pharmacies. Members of this association are unhappy with the current performance of the supply chain, and have asked UPS Logistics' general manager for operations to establish a set of key performance indicators for the network's distribution operations. The general manager must determine how the logistics would be measured before setting specific improvement targets.

Grass Productivity

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Grass Productivity is a prodigiously documented textbook of scientific information concerning every aspect of management “where the cow and grass meet.” Andre Voisin’s “rational grazing” method maximizes productivity in both grass and cattle operations.

Energy in China's Modernization

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A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky. The translator seeks to preserve the poetic qualities of the originals, and the book includes an introduction to the genres of the folktale and the specifics of Slovak tales.

Contemporary Sustainable Organisational Practices

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This book provides a structured overview of contemporary sustainable organisational practices. It examines the contemporary sustainability landscape within the pillars of environment, economy and society and provides case examples for each topic. The book features discussions on sustainable governance and strategy, systems approach, and social responsibility. It is a multidisciplinary work that cuts across several subject areas ranging from strategy, business and organisational management, environmental management, engineering, to systems thinking. This book is suitable for scholars, researchers, academics, and policy makers interested in sustainability and organisational management and practice.

For God and Profit

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From Christianity's very beginning, it has had a difficult relationship with the world of money. Through developing sophisticated understandings of the nature and wealth-creating capacity of capital, Christian theologians, philosophers, and financiers exerted considerable influence upon the emergence and development of the international financial systems that helped unleash a revolution in the way the world thinks about and uses capital. In For God and Profit, Samuel Gregg underscores the different ways in which Christians have helped to develop the financial and banking systems that have helped millions escape poverty for hundreds of years. But he also provides a critical lens through which to assess the workings—and failures—of modern finance and banking. Far from being doomed to producing economic instability and periodic financial crises, Gregg illustrates that how Christian faith and reason can shape financial practices and banking institutions in ways that restore integrity to our troubled financial systems.

Essential Prosperity

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The ultimate collection of books for life-changing successIt’s time to stop living your life on the margins and claim the financial success you deserve. Essential Prosperity is a treasury of wisdom that will empower you to move from a life of want—defined by debt, fear, and missed possibilities—to one of true success. You have the power and potential to create the life of abundance you’ve always imagined and Essential Prosperity will show you how. Essential Prosperity includes fourteen life changing books from the thought leaders and teachers whose work has changed the world, including: - The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen - Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles - The Game of Life by Florence Scovel Shinn - The Golden Key by Emmet Fox - The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne - How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett - Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell - Creative Mind and Success by Ernest Holmes - The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson - The Life Power and How to Use It by Elizabeth Towne - Prosperity by Annie Rix Militz These experts speak from every background—from self-help and spirituality to finance and business—each of them sharing the secrets to building life changing wealth and prosperity.

Liberdade para Escolher

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Clássico entre os clássicos, Liberdade para Escolher é um dos livros de economia mais influentes do século xx. Publicado nos inícios dos anos 80, e corolário de uma escola de pensamento nascida duas décadas antes em Chicago, a obra de Milton e Rose Friedman postula como princípio básico a eficácia dos mercados livres. Para os autores, a economia e a liberdade estão intrinsecamente ligadas, pelo que o intervencionismo governamental deve ser reduzido ao mínimo. As teorias de ambos - que abarcam desde a redução da despesa estatal a políticas monetárias.

The Management of Non-Governmental Development Organizations

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Exploring the newly emerging field of the management of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in developing countries, this informative book draws upon current research in non-profit management, development administration and business management. Key issues covered include:* the changing global and local contexts of development co-operation* management technologies such as empowerment and stakeholder analysis* structural issues such as accountability, governance and participation* learning and diversity* dealing with complexity and uncertainty.Illustrated throughout with examples drawn from the author's own research and consultancy experience, this important text develops a model of NGO management which reveals the distinctive organizational challenges they face.

Nord-Sud, de l'aide au contrat

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Après la « décennie perdue » des années quatre-vingt, le mot même de développement paraît un mirage. Mais la fin du mirage laisse apparaître, dans des tiers mondes très diversifiés, un potentiel et une volonté d’initiative considérables – que le fonctionnement actuel de l’État, du système d’aide, et de l’ordre économique international tende à dédaigner ou étouffer. Faire émerger et diffuser, par capillarité, les moyens humains et financiers d’un soutien à ces initiatives, multiplier les colporteurs d’un « c’est possible ! » crédible contre l’apparente fatalité de la misère, instituer et généraliser le droit au premier développement, tel est l’objectif ambitieux de cet ouvrage. Fruit de la démarche collective d’une quinzaine des meilleurs experts et praticiens du développement, étayé par une série d’exemples, il retourne aux fondements culturels, juridiques, économiques et éthiques d’une relation d’aide souvent pervertie, pour proposer une nouvelle approche contractuelle, un « contrat de génération » Nord-Sud. Un livre ambitieux, mais réaliste, car nous n’échapperons ni à la nécessité d’un co-développement, ni au besoin irrépressible d’une nouvelle équité.

Réforme agraire au Maghreb

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

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