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On a daily basis, leaders, managers, and professionals alike have to deal with tensions caused by differing and even opposite approaches. We often feel the need to make a fundamental choice between either one or the other for the sake of clarity. Using practical methodology and an extensive toolkit, Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to transform divisive dilemmas into creative solutions and paralyzing polarization into a constructive dialogue.

In Secondhand, Adam Minter delves into the vast, multibillion-dollar industry that resells used stuff around the world. He follows the trail of unwanted objects from the closets, garages, and storage units of Middle America to epic used-goods markets in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, Malaysia, and beyond. Secondhand takes us through the often painful and heartbreaking process of cleaning out a lifetime’s worth of possessions and shows that used stuff still has a place in a world that values the new and shiny.

Nowadays everybody is talking about positioning. Positioning is the most important aspect in business. And they are right. On the other hand, most of those people just talk about the expert in the niche. But that's only one possibility to position yourself. There are many other ways for positioning in order to reach a wider target group. Especially in view of automation in the internet, there is a whole new range of possibilities out there. And if you don't take advantage of them, you'll never be able to grow in the internet.

It's time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. In Connectography, Parag Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity and borders are increasingly irrelevant. Travelling across the world, Khanna shows how twenty-first-century conflict is a tug-of-war over pipelines and Internet cables, advanced technologies and market access.

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous regimes in the process.

Forex trading, especially now in the year of 2020, is one of the greatest ways to free yourself from all of life’s trivial stressors and achieve true financial freedom.

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt's life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a US storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy.

Know how your company can accelerate growth by not only tapping into new growth vectors, but also by adapting its organization, culture, and processes. 

'I recommend our diplomats and ministers read this book: it will provide them with an intellectual backbone. On the big calls [Bootle] has a spectacularly good record.' - The Sunday Times 'Bootle is right on every count.' - The Guardian The Extensively Revised 5th Edition of this Highly...

Brought to you by Penguin. A riveting account of the 1973 oil crisis that upended the global economy and reshaped geopolitics for good. In 1973, King Faisal repeatedly warned America that if it continued its support of Israel, he would cut the global supply of oil. On October 5th, he made good...

A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores. Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest...

This is the guide you need. Aside from all the standard "bitcoin for beginners" books, this book shares various viewpoints by taking a look at the particular tools you can utilize, such as blockchain and charting tools, to mine and purchase bitcoin, and make money with it, at the correct time!

Colombia se encuentra en una encrucijada existencial. Las viejas fórmulas políticas y económicas están, simplemente, agotadas. La respuesta, sostiene Alejandro Salazar, se encuentra en una disciplina inesperada: la estrategia. Ahora, por primera vez, el aclamado estratega aplica su revolucionaria «estrategia emergente» al desafío colombiano. El resultado es un manifiesto: una hoja de ruta que, basada en nuestros aprendizajes, logros y dilemas, plantea los elementos de una estrategia para forjar una nación relevante y ganadora en el siglo XXI.

This introduction to the economic history of the global economy and the process of globalization since 1850 tracks and explains changes in international trade, migration, and capital flows. All key indicators of globalization rose between 1850 and 1914 during the first wave of globalization. Between 1918 and 1939 the global economy stagnated, suffering a momentous collapse during the Great Depression. After World War II, the global economy re-emerged and integration deepened.

What does it mean to sell authentically? With cookie-cutter sales manuals and stereotypes around aggressive selling techniques inundating today’s sellers, the art of finding one’s genuine voice within a sales cycle has largely been missing. The result is that the sales profession continues to be seen as pushy, robotic and commoditized. Through his own personal stories of enterprise sales success and various interviews across modern leaders, Peter Ahn explores an alternative approach to sales. An approach rooted in combining one’s heritage, identity, and culture with strategic sales techniques.

Management Consultants London have produced a book series entitled: Starting a Business United Kingdom: Ready in 30 Days, modified for each country to help entrepreneurs worldwide build successful companies. Although each book does contain some theoretical and technical references, the series is primarily a practical and entertaining reference guide of what to do and what not to do when building a business, written by a practitioner who has set up businesses from scratch and developed them into thriving companies before selling them.

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“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” —Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy. China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the...

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the forex market and trading in the market. Get a week-by-week breakdown of things to do, as well as specifics to learn and actions to take to ensure your first successful trade.

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in the last two decades of the 20th century? What was the role of the International Monetary Fund in these economic failures?