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Discoveries Through Personal Agility

Discoveries Through Personal Agility

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This book explores the nuances of different aspects of agility on a personal level.Agility brings personal value, leadership navigation, managing the tides of knowledge, and putting on the captain’s hat of resilience. As the winds change and the tides swell high, the Personal Agility Lighthouse (PALH™) model in this book will guide you to safe shores. Navigating through the seven colors of agility such as education, change, emotional, political, cerebral, learning, and outcomes agilities, the anchor is dropped effortlessly. It is built on these seven competencies, and by using the Individual Personal Agility self-analysis assessment (see Appendix), swaying personal visions leading them up to organizational goals.Taking personal agility as the future competency with an agile mindset is a crucial starting point to transform yourself. Focusing your personal agility journey on outcomes and end-to-end customer experiences ensures value delivery. Especially within the elements of the VUCA environment where revised goals are the norm. Driving changes in the right direction leads you to the stable grounds of your personal vision. It prepares you to tread the long roads of transitions/transformations, which is a vital requisite for changes in any organization.Measuring performance metrics aptly is the rudder of strategy management and stability. Organizational goals and personal development are the strong pillars that will steer you to your organizational agility, getting you ready for opportunities and changes when your company trademark needs it. Agile practices and perspectives cut through impact and quality of personal and group knowledge. Take a journey on a Personal Agility Boat to visualize options, alternatives, and opportunities. Visualization is the way to your shore’s lighthouse.

Digitaal minimalisme

Digitaal minimalisme

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Aandachtsexpert Cal Newport legt in 'Digitaal minimalisme' uit hoe je doelbewust kan omgaan met digitale overvloed. Steeds meer mensen maken zich zorgen over de invloed van de computer en met name de smartphone op onze concentratie, sociale relaties en tevredenheid. Op z'n minst zien we dat ze ons enorm veel tijd kosten – tijd die niet aan andere zaken kan worden besteed. In dit boek biedt Newport je een eenvoudige en praktische methode om je tijd online radicaal terug te brengen door je alleen nog te richten op een selecte hoeveelheid activiteiten en doelen. Niet minderen, laat staan stoppen, maar de technologie zeer doelbewust gebruiken. Newport doet dit vanuit de overtuiging dat e-mail, sociale media en andere online tools zinvolle hulpmiddelen zijn. Deze hulpmiddelen mogen ons gedrag en onze dagindeling echter niet gaan beheersen.

Agile Project Management, Assurance and Auditing

Agile Project Management, Assurance and Auditing

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This guide provides an overview of Agile for auditors, reviewers and project teams This guide covers: Agile project management audit objectives and risks; What controls to expect and how these can be audited; Case studies illustrating Agile project initiation and high-level requirements; and Hints and tips for performing an audit review.

Economic Liberalization and Integration Policy

Economic Liberalization and Integration Policy

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After the 1998 Russian economic crisis, there are new opportunities for sustained growth in many countries of the former Soviet Union. Against this backdrop, the authors of this book analyze the dynamics of macroeconomic and structural developments in Eastern Europe and Russia, with special attention paid to problems of international and national integration, "Dutch disease" and natural resource dependency, and distortions in institutional reforms. The analysis also sheds light on how these problems have implications for cooperation among OECD-countries. A critical focus is on institutional adjustment and learning, human capital formation, trade and foreign investment. The political economy challenges of stability and growth in the region are highlighted. New empirical findings and comparative policy analysis - including in the field of natural resource policy - are major elements in this publication.

Krótka historia równości

Krótka historia równości

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W Krótkiej historii równości Thomas Piketty prowadzi nas zwięźle i z elegancją przez wielkie procesy, które zmieniły współczesny świat: wzrost kapitalizmu, rewolucje, imperializm, niewolnictwo, wojny i budowę państwa opiekuńczego. Pokazuje, jakie historyczne rozwiązania faktycznie nierówności zmniejszały i co możemy zrobić, żeby nasza przyszłość była mniej nimi naznaczona.To doskonałe wprowadzenie do idei rozwiniętych w jego monumentalnych dziełach takich jak Kapitał w XXI wieku oraz Kapitał i ideologia.

Vezetési stratégiák és taktikák

Vezetési stratégiák és taktikák

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Az Extreme Ownership szerzőjének gyakorlati kézikönyve#1 New York Times bestseller#1 USA Today bestsellerA hadsereg gyakorlati kézikönyvei arra szolgálnak, hogy a katona teljesítse a küldetést, ezért egyszerűen, világos szavakkal írnak le mindent, lépésről lépésre. A civilek világában ugyanezek a kézikönyvek kínálnak megoldást számtalan gyakorlati problémára a vízvezeték-szereléstől a steaksütésig.Mi van, ha előléptetnek, és te leszel korábbi társaid vezetője? Mi van, ha nem téged választanak ki a vezető pozícióra, amire pályáztál? Hogyan légy úrrá az imposztor-szindrómán, ha nem vagy biztos abban, hogy rátermett vezető vagy? Vezetőként hogyan szabjon ki az ember jogos büntetést? És mi a helyzet a jutalmazással? Hogyan lehet egyaránt bizalmi viszonyt kiépíteni a felettesekkel és beosztottakkal? Hogyan lehet szerencsés, építő módon megfogalmazni a kritikát alacsonyabb és magasabb rangú kollégák irányában?E kérdések mind a vezetés témáját érintik, amely a legösszetettebb emberi feladat. Vannak kézikönyvek, amelyek feldolgozzák ezeket a problémákat – például a Teljes felelősségvállalás – Extreme Ownership –, de ezek nem gyakorlati kézikönyvek. A kezünkben tartott kötet közvetlen, helyzetekre lebontott, praktikus módszereket tartalmaz, amit bárki azonnal hasznosítani tud.A Vezetési stratégiák és taktikák elmagyarázza a vezetéssel kapcsolatos elméleti tudnivalókat, és ezeket gyakorlatban alkalmazható stratégiákra fordítja le, amely utóbbiakat a tettek szintjén, taktikai síkon is bemutatja. Ez a könyv maga a megoldás, amelyre minden vezetőnek szüksége van – hogy ne csak értse, mi zajlik a vezetés területén, hanem képes legyen játszani ezt a játékot, és nyerni tudjon benne.

Public Policy in Agriculture

Public Policy in Agriculture

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In recent years, developed countries have formulated public policies in agriculture ranging from supporting rural life and farm income to promoting sustainability of food and fibre production. Public Policy in Agriculture: Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income addresses the lack of empirical research in this area. It explores the impact of differing approaches to public policy through a series of international case studies, from the USA and Canada to South Korea, Norway, Slovenia and Taiwan. At a time when much of the developed world has been experiencing budget deficits and policy-makers and the public in general have re-opened the debate on public expenditures in the agricultural sector, this is a timely volume. Mishra, Viaggi and Gomez y Paloma have written an authoritative guide to agricultural public policy that will serve as a reference for academics, researchers, students, and policy-makers.

Marx et Engels

Marx et Engels

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La théorie de Marx n’a jamais cessé d’être l’enjeu de luttes idéologiques violentes. Le nom de Friedrich Engels est si souvent associé à celui de Karl Marx, dont il fut toute la vie l’ami et le collaborateur comme fondateur de la doctrine marxiste, et comme dirigeant des luttes de la classe ouvrière au sein des deux premières Internationales, que l’historien se doit d’évoquer en même temps leurs deux vies parallèles. Marx et Engels étant à la fois des penseurs et des hommes d’action, il ne saurait être question de les isoler de la conception du monde qu’ils ont progressivement élaborée et de la lutte qu’ils ont menée pour la faire triompher. C’est par un va-et-vient constant entre la réalité historique, l’action pratique et la réflexion théorique que ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler le marxisme (Marx n’aimait guère ce terme) s’est constitué. À travers la vie de Marx et d’Engels, leurs tribulations en Europe, d’Allemagne à Paris en passant par Bruxelles et Londres, leurs activités débordantes, non seulement au niveau intellectuel, mais aussi dans l’action politique concrète (n’a-t-on pas trop souvent tendance à oublier que Marx et Engels ont également été des « dirigeants », qu’il s’agisse de la Ligue des communistes en 1848 ou de la Première Internationale en 1864 ?), ce sont les mouvements de lutte sociaux dans toute l’Europe avec leur violence, leurs misères mais aussi avec leurs charges d’espoirs, que Jean Bruhat nous restitue ici. L’itinéraire exemplaire de deux intellectuels dont l’influence à puissamment contribué à façonner le monde du XXe siècle.

Start Now. Get Perfect Later

Start Now. Get Perfect Later

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If you have a burning ambition, brilliant business idea or creative passion: What are you waiting for? Now is the time to get going! Hardly anyone gets it right the first time, but many of us are crippled by indecision and fear of failure. The desire to get it right can inhibit us from getting started. Don't wait around for everything to fall magically into place - get started, get going and get perfect later. It's the fastest route to success. In this book, Rob Moore, the bestselling author of MONEY, shows that the quickest way to perfect is starting right now and improving as you go. This book will show you how to launch your business or idea, begin the next phase of your career, and overcome self-doubt - right away. Get perfect later, get started NOW.

Labour Market Theory

Labour Market Theory

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This book is a commanding assessment of labour market theory across the social sciences. It provides a radically original critique of labour market theory, which draws constructively but critically on existing literature. The work: * contributes to the debates on key issues in labour economics such as unemployment, gender, equal pay and the minimum theory * illustrates the policy implications in empirical studies * supplements existing orthodox labour market theory texts.

Koniec sveta je iba začiatok

Koniec sveta je iba začiatok

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Dodávateľské reťazce fungujúce po celom svete môžu existovať iba vďaka ochrane, ktorú im poskytuje americké námorníctvo. Americký dolár je základom medzinárodných finančných a energetických trhov. Zložité inovatívne priemyselné odvetvia najprv vznikli pre uspokojenie amerických zákazníkov. Miliardy ľudí získali obživu a vzdelanie vďaka rozširovaniu Amerikou vedeného obchodného systému po celom svete. Toto všetko bolo umelé. Toto všetko bolo dočasné. Toto všetko sa končí. Geopolitický stratég Peter Zeihan v knihe mapuje nastupujúci svet: svet, v ktorom krajiny či regióny nebudú mať na výber – budú musieť vyrábať vlastné tovary a potraviny, zabezpečiť si vlastnú energiu, bojovať vo vlastných vojnách... a toto všetko pri klesajúcom počte obyvateľstva, ktoré zároveň starne. Zoznam krajín, ktoré to dokážu zvládnuť, je menší, ako si myslíme. Autor opisuje, ako sa v rukách nevedomého publika postupne hromadili zápalky, benzín a dynamit a navrhuje, že by možno bolo načase zavolať hasičov. Jeden svet sa končí. Druhý sa začína. Táto kniha vás vezme na jazdu, ktorá vám mnohé objasní (a zároveň vás trochu vystraší), na jazdu plnú predpovedí a bystrých komentárov podaných tradične „zeihanovsky“ – teda bez servítky.

Agentic AI

Agentic AI

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This book analyzes the rise and transformative impact of generative AI agents or Agentic AI across industries, offering a comprehensive exploration of their development, applications, and implications. It highlights how these systems are revolutionizing business processes, enhancing decision-making, and reshaping entire sectors from finance to healthcare. It traces the evolution of AI agents from early programs to today’s sophisticated autonomous systems, providing a taxonomy of agent types. It then explores cutting-edge tools and frameworks for development, such as AutoGen, Langgraph, and CrewAI, offering practical insights for their deployment. Key focus areas include evaluating multiagent systems and coordination techniques, addressing challenges in communication, and conflict resolution. The book presents case studies from banking, insurance, healthcare, and cybersecurity, showcasing how autonomous agents are automating tasks and driving innovation. In turn, the book provides in-depth analyses of Agentic AI in emerging fields like gene editing, robotics, and business process automation, demonstrating its potential to accelerate scientific research and value creation. The discussion extends to economic ramifications, examining impacts on macroeconomic trends, microeconomic dynamics within businesses, and the emergence of decentralized, token-based economies. Throughout, thought-provoking questions encourage readers to consider the broader implications of these technological advances. The work concludes with a critical examination of related safety and security considerations, emphasizing the need for proactive measures. Maintaining a forward-looking perspective, it prompts readers to consider how these technologies might reshape industries and society, raising important questions about the changing nature of work, ethical aspects, and equitable distribution of benefits.  Bridging theoretical foundations and practical applications, the book offers valuable insights for data scientists, IT managers, CIOs, CAIOs, CTOs, business analysts, and graduate students seeking to understand and apply AI’s transformative potential across various industries.

The Smart Estate

The Smart Estate

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The Smart Estate Bring your estate management methods into the future with this accessible guide Building information modeling, or BIM, is a catch-all term for a wide array of tools and processes for creating digital representations of buildings or building components. These tools have been widely embraced for use in the construction phase of projects, but their potential has only begun to be realized in facility management and maintenance, even though these account for 85% of costs in the life cycle of a building. Organizations controlling diverse estates with multiple buildings of varying ages stand to benefit enormously from a BIM-informed approach to estate management. The Smart Estate outlines such an approach and its potential to improve facility and estate management. Emphasizing practical applications, it moves beyond the project delivery stage to focus on the much longer — and costlier — period of building operation and maintenance. The result is a thorough and accessible guide to generating collaborative, BIM-informed methods. The Smart Estate readers will also find: Case studies and real-world scenarios illustrating best practicesDetailed discussion particularly suited to the needs of large-scale or public-sector organizationsDetailed step-by-step guide to developing a BIM-informed approach to a given asset portfolio The Smart Estate is ideal for professionals in construction management and facilities management, as well as for advanced students and professionals in all construction related disciplines.

Note on Retail Convenience

Note on Retail Convenience

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Convenience is a key competitive benefit retailers can offer: ways to save customers time and effort. Retailers employ various strategies, including location, layout, merchandise arrangement, transaction processing, hours and delivery, to differentiate themselves from competitors. This note explains each of these strategies, and explore the growing importance of shopping convenience.

Northern Napa Valley Winery, Inc

Northern Napa Valley Winery, Inc

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The CEO of Northern Napa Valley Winery must forecast aggregate sales of red table wine for the product year, as well as month-by-month sales for the same period. This case provides the student with the opportunity to try to forecast a time series characterized by distinct trend and seasonality with almost nine years of monthly data available. (A Microsoft Excel data file is available for use with this case, product 7A98E046.)

The Manufacturing of Markets

The Manufacturing of Markets

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Different types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created? In this book, an interdisciplinary team of authors provide an evolutionary vision of how markets are designed and shaped. Drawing on a series of case studies, they show that markets are far from perfect and natural mechanisms, and propose a new view of markets as social construct, explaining how combinations of economic, political and legal constraints influence the formation and performance of markets. Historical trajectories and interdependencies among institutional dimensions make it difficult to build costless, non-biased co-ordination mechanisms, and there are limitations to public and private attempts to improve the design of markets. The authors show that incomplete and imperfect modes of governance must be improved upon and combined in order for markets to work more efficiently. This timely book will interest practitioners and academics with backgrounds in economics, law, political science and public policy.