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Il famoso autore, business strategist e life coach tra i più famosi al mondo Anthony Robbins - autore del bestseller "Come ottenere il meglio da sé e dagli altri" (Bompiani), "Incrollabile" e "Il Sacro Graal degli Investimenti" (Gribaudi) – insieme all’esperto finanziario # 1 Indipendent Financial Advisor in USA, Presidente di Creative Planning con una clientela da 50 milioni di dollari nei 50 stati - ci offrono le loro personali strategie accelerare il nostro viaggio alla libertà finanziaria. Grazie all’incredibile esperienza combinata dei due esperti, imparerai a: - Scovare gli investimenti giusti nell’attuale panorama finanziario di volatilità - Come evitare di pagare commissioni erosive ed esagerate - Evitare gli errori più comuni che ogni investitore abitualmente commette facilmente - Come trovare il consulente che mette te e il tuo denaro al primo posto - Come ottenere una vita di benessere reale sul tuo cammino verso la sicurezza finanziaria personale

Integral Development

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Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach, and invites us to fully participate in this process. The integral approach has been researched and framed over decades of in-depth experience in transformative development education and practice all over the world. It uniquely combines four mutually reinforcing perspectives: nature and community; culture and spirituality; science, systems and technology; and enterprise and economics. Conventional development theory and practice has prioritized the latter two perspectives, neglecting the former two. This has caused massive imbalances in today’s world. The four interconnected perspectives allow for a transformative and integrated engagement with core development issues in a way that is locally relevant and globally resonant. Throughout, the practical impact of Integral Development is brought to life through highly innovative cases from around the globe, drawing on the authors` first-hand experience. This makes the book a living demonstration of the power of this pioneering approach. Integral Development shows how individual, organizational and societal developments need to be interconnected to release a society’s full potential. It shifts the responsibility for large-scale development from often-distant experts and organizations to each individual, community, enterprise and institution within the society. It is essential reading - and a call to action - for everyone concerned with the current state of local and global development.

Del origen del dinero

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Escrito el mismo año en que testificó ante la Comisión Monetaria de Austria-Hungría, y publicado en inglés en 1892, Carl Menger explica que no son los edictos del gobierno los que crean el dinero, sino el mercado. Los individuos deciden cuál es el bien más comercializable para usarlo como medio de intercambio. «El propio hombre es el principio y fin de cada economía», escribía Menger, y así pasa cuando se decide qué se va a usar como moneda.

Crimson Code

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The stakes are high for one of the world's most powerful corporations. With hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts at risk, an international conglomerate and its team of lawyers pursue an eighteen-year-old college student who creates the code that could bring it all down. Crimson Code is the true story of University of Alabama student Desmond Jackson, an ambitious cybersecurity expert and entrepreneur. This is Desmond's first-person account of his stunning tale that reveals legal and political corruption and one young man's determination to prove his innocence.

Les promoteurs

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Que savez-vous des promoteurs ? Tout le monde affirme qu’ils gagnent trop d’argent, qu’ils organisent la spéculation, qu’ils favorisent l’inflation et qu’ils détruisent le paysage urbain. S’il gagnent trop d’argent, comment et combien ? S’ils organisent la spéculation, peut-on s’en défendre ? Et sont-ils les seuls à profiter de la pénurie des terrains ou des logements ? S’ils favorisent l’inflation, ne peut-on trouver une politique de la construction qui préserve l’équilibre économique ? S’ils détruisent le paysage urbain, n’est-ce pas avec l’accord tacite, si ce n’est avec les encouragements, de la classe politique au pouvoir ? L’action des promoteurs est au cœur des problèmes quotidiens de chaque citoyen. Connaître les rouages du système de la promotion est donc une condition pour agir sur l’environnement, pour modifier le cadre de vie, pour intervenir dans la politique de l’habitat. Comment naît une tour, quelles sont les grandes banques qui dirigent des groupes immobiliers, y a-t-il beaucoup de dérogations, quel est le principe de la publicité immobilière, peut-on être protégé par la loi en acquérant un logement ? Au-delà des scandales qui défraient périodiquement la chronique, il est temps d’aborder sans fard les vrais problèmes de la promotion et des promoteurs.

Internet Economy vs Classic Economy: Struggle of Contradictions

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Recent years have seen the widespread application of Natural Computing algorithms (broadly defined in this context as computer algorithms whose design draws inspiration from phenomena in the natural world) for the purposes of financial modelling and optimisation. A related stream of work has also seen the application of learning mechanisms drawn from Natural Computing algorithms for the purposes of agent-based modelling in finance and economics. In this book we have collected a series of chapters which illustrate these two faces of Natural Computing. The first part of the book illustrates how algorithms inspired by the natural world can be used as problem solvers to uncover and optimise financial models. The second part of the book examines a number agent-based simulations of financial systems.This book follows on from Natural Computing in Computational Finance (Volume 100 in Springer’s Studies in Computational Intelligence series) which in turn arose from the success of EvoFIN 2007, the very first European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Finance & Economics held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007.

Einführung in SAP Business Information Warehouse

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Für die Entscheidungsunterstützung wird in Unternehmen zunehmend Data-Warehouse-Technologie eingesetzt. Sie ermöglicht die Integration von Daten heterogener Quellsysteme für ein leistungsstarkes Reporting auf sehr großen Datenmengen mit weit reichendem Vergangenheitsbezug. Zu den führenden Lösungen in diesem Bereich zählt das SAP Business Information Warehouse® . Neben dem Data Warehouse verfügt das SAP BW über Werkzeuge zur Administration und über die Reporting-Komponente SAP Business Explorer und ist damit eine Kernkomponente der SAP Business Intelligence. Im vorliegenden Lehrbuch wird anhand durchgängiger Fallstudien eine fundierte Einführung in das SAP BW gegeben. Es werden die Phasen der Datenmodellierung, Datenbeschaffung und des Reporting im Zusammenhang mit einem plausiblen Szenario behandelt und dem Anwender wird über präzise Anweisungen und anschauliche Grafiken der Einstieg in die Software und deren Bedienung ermöglicht.

Leadership Alchemy: The Magic of the Leader Coach

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This book is an invitation to explore your leadership from the perspective of a coach – to become a Leader Coach. Coaching has become a way of leading in today’s best businesses, the way leadership is applied in every interaction everyday. But what does Leader Coaching look like? How do you develop your own Leader Coaching skills? How do you apply these skills in leading and coaching others? What are its possibilities for making change happen more effectively? These questions are answered in this thorough, innovative and engaging book that has benefited thousands of leaders, managers and professionals around the world over the past nine years. The authors are Leader Coaches with executive experience in business who both reflect on past practice and stretch into future potential with stories, cases, exercises, models and a whole lot more. Discover your own leadership alchemy – integrate coaching into your leadership today!

Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung

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Eine stichwortartige Einführung in die volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung mit Definitionen, Formeln und Buchungen. Gut für Klausurvorbereitung, um sich in den Begrifflichkeiten auszukennen. Inhalte des 7-seitigen Skriptes: -Was sind ex-ante und ex-post Analysen? -Unterschied Stromgröße und Bestandsgröße -Finanzierungssaldo vs. Ersparnis -Finanztransaktion vs. Leistungstransaktion -Vermögensübertragungen vs. Einkommensübertragungen -Ermittlung der Nettoinvestitionen -Klassische Sich vs. keynesianische Sicht -Staatsausgaben vs. Staatsverbrauch -Formel für Finanzierungsdefizit (für geschlossene und offene Volkswirtschaft) -Leistungsbilanzsaldo -Vorleistungen vs. Faktorleistungen -Berechnung Nettowertschöpfung -Indirekte vs. Direkte Steuern -Ineffizienzen in der Volkswirtschaft -Inlandskonzept vs. Inländerkonzept -Faktoreinkommen -Verfügbares Einkommen der Volkswirtschaft -Berechnungen des Bruttosozialproduktes -Inlandsprodukt nach der Entstehungsseite und Güterverwendungsseite -Einkommensverteilung -Leistungsbilanz + Teilbilanzen -Leistungsbilanzsaldo -Nettoauslandsvermögen

Emerging Digitalization Trends in Business and Management

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The aim of Industry 5.0 is to harness the innovative strength of mankind in synchrony with robots and machines to accomplish sustainable, economical, and need-focused solutions relative to Industry 4.0. This new book, Emerging Digitalization Trends in Business and Management: A Roadmap to Industry 5.0, addresses the contemporary developments in Industry 5.0 and its role in business and management, discussing emerging digitalization and its significance and challenges in business, entrepreneurship, and management. It presents a diverse range of views and concepts on advancements in digitalization trends, Industry 5.0, and their applications along with their advantages and disadvantages.The book highlights the importance and challenges of digitalization and trends in adopting digital technology in various business functions and sectors, including supply chains, human resources, and sectors such as education and agriculture. It discusses contemporary issues and innovations such as human machine interaction in healthcare, gamification in talent management, adoption of digital technology in entrepreneurial opportunity, the role of technology platforms in behavioral issues in young adults, and marketing 5.0 and customer experience. The book also provides compelling case studies utilizing robust research designs and frameworks. A key strength of the book is that it provides a much-needed compilation of concepts, ideas, cases, examples, and research findings from various perspectives related to digital advancements and Industry 5.0 and helps shape the scientific contours of Industry 5.0.This book will be a valuable resource for information system managers, business managers, administrators, academics, researchers, and students who need to comprehend the various applications of Industry 5.0 in both theoretical and practical perspectives to fully utilize this rapidly expanding phenomenon known as Industry 5.0.

Faut-il refuser le développement ?

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L'ouvrage dénonce les mythes de l'industrialisation et du développement pour s'attaquer aux véritables raisons : la destruction des sources de créativité et le surréalisme suicidaire. « Copyright Electre »

Multimedia and Regional Economic Restructuring

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Since the explosion of multimedia, the creation and promotion of multimedia clusters has become a target for regional development strategies across the globe. This work offers the first inter-regional comparison of the multimedia industry. Analysing thirteen American, European and Asian regions, leading academics examine factors which drive the emergence of multimedia clusters and processes by which they are formed,

Coping with the Crisis: Policy Options for Emerging Market Countries

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The current financial turmoil is confronting emerging market economies (EMEs) with two shocks—a “sudden stop” of capital inflows resulting from the global deleveraging process and a collapse in export demand associated with the global recession. This paper discusses the main policy options for EMEs confronted by these shocks, recognizing that specific prescriptions must be tailored to individual country circumstances. The paper also outlines measures to ameliorate debt overhang and macroeconomic policies to bring about recovery.

The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 2

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This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the early nineteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.

Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution (1757-1857)

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This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industrial revolution, no detailed literature is available about their later course of development. A series of questions are involved in it. Did those industries decline during the spells of British industrial revolution? If yes, what were their reasons? If not, the general curiosity is: On which merits could those industries survive against the odds of the technological revolution? A thorough discussion on these issues also clears up another area of dispute relating to the occurrence of deindustrialization in Bengal, and the validity of two competing hypotheses on it, viz. i) the mainstream hypothesis of market failures, and ii) the neo-marxian hypothesis of imperialistic state interventions

Petro Pipe Lines Corporation

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A management scientist was asked by the president of a gas production company to develop a model for allocating the gas supplied to the Petro Pipe Lines Corporation gas plant among the various suppliers, according to the terms of the gas supply contracts. The intent of the model was to minimize the penalties imposed at the end of each month on the gas suppliers as a result of daily differences between production (supply) and nomination (demand) for each contract. (A Microsoft Excel data file is available for use with this case, product 7A98E038.)

Cultural Roots of Sustainable Management

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This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. While for decades a purely mathematical-technical orientation dominated the business curriculum, this book presents CSR and sustainability as a business concept embedded in its cultural and spiritual context. It initially approaches practical wisdom from different cultural and religious traditions as a source of spiritual capital for sustainable business practices. Subsequently, it links current CSR concepts and the latest thinking in CSR with long-standing cultural and spiritual knowledge, promoting a more comprehensive view on sustainability management and its implementation at business enterprises. The book collects and unites viewpoints from various cultural and religious contexts, offering a comprehensive guide for international and globally active companies.

Whither South East Asian Management?

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This book examines the directions in which various structures and processes of management and business are moving in South East Asia, covering Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. It aims to update previous works in the field covering management and business in these countries. It goes on to deal with a wide variety of themes and issues, functional and practice areas, sectors and organisational types. Many key sectors are also covered, such as finance, retailing, telecoms, etc. The types or organisations covered range from multinational companies to state-owned enterprises. The contributors cover current and ongoing developments of these themes, particularly in the context of globalization.The book also addresses the future directions management may be moving in this important part of the international economy. The authors are all experts in their fields and are all based in universities and business schools in the region, within the respective countries involved. The work is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in business administration especially those on MBA programmes, development economics, management studies and related fields, as well as lecturers in those subjects and researchers in the field.This book was published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

La société d'inflation

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L’inflation nous concerne tous et tous nous créons l’inflation. Elle provient moins de la carence des politiciens, de la course aux profits, de la course aux salaires dénoncées par les uns ou par les autres que du prix de la réalisation de nos désirs, du prix de la qualité de la vie : lutte contre la pollution, amélioration des équipements collectifs (transports en commun, enseignement, téléphone, etc.). La demande est forte, il faut y céder ; or les impôts sont impopulaires. On en fera payer à qui ne veut pas dire son nom : l’inflation. Le phénomène n’est donc plus conjoncturel mais structurel. C’est pourquoi les recettes classiques contre la hausse des prix sont inopérantes. Dévaluation, réévaluation enregistrent les conséquences des phénomènes sans en supprimer les causes. Nous sommes désormais dans une société d’inflation. Comment s’en accommoder ?

Heritage Studies

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This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage Studies must develop a stronger recognition of the scope and nature of its data and a concise yet explorative understanding of its analytical methods. The methods considered fall within three broad categories: textual/discourse analysis, methods for investigating people’s attitudes and behaviour; and methods for exploring the material qualities of heritage. The methods discussed and illustrated range from techniques such as text analysis, interviews, participant observation, to semiotic analysis of heritage sites and the use of GIS. Each paper discusses the ways in which methods used in social analysis generally are explored and adapted to the specific demands that arise when applied to the investigation of heritage in its many forms. Heritage Studies is a seminal volume that will help to define the field. The global perspective and the shared focus upon the development of reflexive methodologies ensure that the volume explores these central issues in a manner that is simultaneously case-specific and of general relevance.

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