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Calling and Clarity: Discovering What God Wants for Your Life
by Doug KoskelaYoung adults often encounter mixed messages about vocation from their families, friends, and churches. On the one hand, they are encouraged to look at their gifts and passions to discern their particular calling; on the other hand, they are told that God may ask something of them that they don’t want to do or aren’t prepared for. The discontinuity between these messages has led to frustration for many.Seeking to ease that frustration with this book, Doug Koskela carefully distinguishes between “missional calling,” “direct calling,” and “general calling.” Koskela clarifies the relationship between gifts, passions, and vocation even as he offers practical guidance for the process of vocational discernment. This is a book for those who want to use their time, energy, and abilities faithfully as they move with purpose toward the future.Watch a 2015 interview here:
Calling the Shots: Immunization Finance Policies and Practices
by Institute of MedicineCalling the Shots examines the basic strategies that finance the national immunization system in the current health care climate. It is a comprehensive volume, rich with data and highlighted examples, that explores: The evolution of the system in light of changing U.S. demographics, development of new vaccines, and other factors. The effectiveness of public health and health insurance strategies, with special emphasis on the performance of the "Section 317" program. The condition of the infrastructure for control and prevention of infectious disease, surveillance of vaccines rates and safety, and efforts to sustain high coverage.Calling the Shots will be an indispensable resource to those responsible for maintaining our nation's vaccine vigilance.
Calling: Awaken to the Purpose of Your Work
by Pierce BrantleyMen today long for a calling but often settle for the next best thing: a job. They aspire for a higher purpose but still have bills to pay and family to support. But what if men could find their calling in the work they are already doing? In his new book Calling: Awaken to the Purpose of Your Work, author Pierce Brantley uses practical language and shares actionable steps to show men how to redefine the purpose of their work and discover what it means to have a &“called career.&” Brantley shows men they can find a meaningful connection with God in the work they are doing right now. Men were designed for this partnership, and once they embrace it they will be awakened to the true purpose of their work—not just a career but a calling.
Callous: Al Dunlap--Understanding This Type of Bad Leadership
by Barbara KellermanToo often, callous leaders get away with heartlessness toward the very people whose well-being they are supposed to enhance and protect. Take the case of "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, whose story is explored in this chapter. He is a prime example of a callous leader, and what happens when followers allow this type of bad leadership to continue unchecked.
Calloway Laboratory: Pee for Profit
by David Kiron Richard G. HamermeshDescribes the formation and rapid growth of a drug testing company. The company needs to decide whether to enter the painkiller testing market, in addition to growing its drug treatment center business.
Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment, and Joy
by Due QuachAuthor of the viral Medium piece, "Poor and Traumatized at Harvard," Due Quach shares her Calm Clarity program to show readers how to deal with toxic stress and adversity.We often don't realize how much control we have over our thoughts, feelings, and actions--on some days, the most minor irritation can upset us, but on others, we are in our best form and can rise to challenges with grace. These fluctuations depend on the neural networks firing in our brains, and we have the power to consciously break hardwired thought patterns. Due Quach developed an intimate understanding of the brain during her personal journey of healing from post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Quach, people function in three primary emotional states: Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, and Brain 3.0. In Brain 1.0, people act out of fear and self-preservation. Brain 2.0 involves instant gratification and chasing short-term rewards at the expense of long-term well-being. Brain 3.0 is a state of mind that Quach calls "Calm Clarity," in which people's actions are aligned with their core values. As Quach confronted PTSD and successfully weaned herself off medication, she learned how to activate, exercise, and strengthen Brain 3.0 like a muscle. In Calm Clarity, she draws on the latest scientific research and ancient spiritual traditions alike to show us how we too can take ownership of our thoughts, feelings, and actions in order to be our best selves.
Calm Technology: Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
by Amber CaseHow can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You’ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and remain unobtrusive.Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things. This book is ideal for UX and product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers. You’ll learn:The importance and challenge of designing technology that respects our attentionPrinciples of calm design—peripheral attention, context, and ambient awarenessCalm communication patterns—improving attention through a variety of sensesExercises for improving existing products through calm technologyPrinciples and patterns of calm technology for companies and teamsThe origins of calm technology at Xerox PARC
Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises Since 1825 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
by Charles ReadThis book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the role that the rise of the Carry Trade played in British financial crises between 1825 and 1866, how in reaction the Bank of England improved its management of monetary policy after 1866 and how those lessons have been forgotten since the 1970s. Britain is one of the few major capitalist economies in the world to have avoided policy-induced systemic financial crises for more than 100 years of its history—between 1866 and 1973. Beforehand, it suffered a series of serious banking panics, in 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857-58 and 1866. Since the 1970s banking instability has returned again, with the global financial crisis of 2007-09 hitting Britain hard. Economists and policymakers have asked what can be learnt from Britain’s experience of the disappearance and reappearance of crises to help efforts to prevent future ones. This book answers that question with a major reassessment of Britain’s financial history over the past two centuries. It does so by applying the long-neglected ideas of the British Banking School to explain how crises can occur because of the Carry Trade. This book is essential reading for economists and historians of modern Britain, practitioners and policymakers, as well as anyone who is affected by financial crises and their consequences.
Calpine Corp.: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance
by Michael Kane Benjamin C. EstyIn early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating capacity from approximately 3,000 to 15,000 megawatts (MW) by 2004. He believed there was a fleeting opportunity to repower America given the inefficiency and age of current generating capacity as well as the recently granted ability to compete in wholesale power markets. To achieve the new goal, Calpine will have to build or acquire as many as 25 power plants at a total cost of $6 billion (approximately $500,000 per 1,000 MW). For a company with assets of $1.7 billion, a subinvestment grade debt rating, a debt-to-capitalization ratio of 79%, and an after-tax cash flow of $143 million in 1998, raising this much money was going to be a formidable challenge.
Calveta Dining Services, Inc.: A Recipe for Growth?
by James L. Heskett Patricia GirardiCalveta Dining Services contracts with senior living facilities (SLFs) for the management of food service to residents. Created by Antonio Calveta and built on his passion for food and traditional family values, the firm had enjoyed three decades of strong growth when Antonio retired and named his eldest son, Frank, CEO. Frank Calveta now struggles to carry out his father's directive: double revenues within five years while maintaining the humanistic and emphatically pro-employee company culture. Should he expand beyond the SLF market? Can he continue to maintain the quality level for which Calveta is renowned? Can he contend successfully with organizational and communications challenges?
Calveta Dining Services, Inc.: A Recipe for Growth?
by James L. Heskett Patricia GirardiCalveta Dining Services contracts with senior living facilities (SLFs) for the management of food service to residents. Created by Antonio Calveta and built on his passion for food and traditional family values, the firm had enjoyed three decades of strong growth when Antonio retired and named his eldest son, Frank, CEO. Frank Calveta now struggles to carry out his father's directive: double revenues within five years while maintaining the humanistic and emphatically pro-employee company culture. Should he expand beyond the SLF market? Can he continue to maintain the quality level for which Calveta is renowned? Can he contend successfully with organizational and communications challenges?
Calvin Klein, Inc. vs. Warnaco Group, Inc.
by Susan Fournier Jessica BoerOn May 30, 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. (CKI) filed suit against Warnaco Group, Inc. and Linda Wachner, its CEO, for breaching its jeanswear licensing and distribution contract and, in so doing, diluting the equity of its brand. On June 26, 2000, Warnaco countered with its own suit, denying the major allegation of trademark dilution and justifying distribution through warehouse clubs as acceptable business practice. The countersuit further claimed that CKI had, in fact, breached the license and eroded the brand through its own strategies and practices. The lawsuits were precedent setting: This was the first time a licensed manufacturer/distributor had been charged with brand equity dilution or a designer held accountable for ineffective brand advertising. It was a case that would potentially rewrite the rules of fashion licensing and distribution, and bring into the limelight the tensions faced by every brand steward attempting to balance revenue growth goals with preservation of the equity of the brand. This case presents extensive background facts.
Calyx & Corolla
by Walter J. Salmon David WylieDescribes a new entry into the $8 billion flower industry in the United States. Combining the use of overnight air freight (Federal Express), information technology, an 800 number, and a catalog, Calyx & Corolla was changing the way flowers had traditionally been distributed, bypassing three layers of distribution, and providing very fresh flowers directly from the growers to consumers. Frames the question of how this start-up venture should grow.
Camarón que se duerme (se lo lleva la corriente de opinión)
by El RotoSegunda antología de viñetas seleccionadas de El Roto, en esta ocasión centradas en la manipulación informativa y la disolución de la opinión crítica. Andrés Rábago («El Roto») es Premio Leyenda 2015, un galardón concedido por el Gremio de Libreros de Madrid. Un lúcido diagnóstico sobre cómo los medios de comunicación conforman un espacio de opinión del que es sumamente difícil escapar. Como ya nos tiene acostumbrados, El Roto sintetiza en sus viñetas con gran maestría la realidad desconcertante del mundo en que vivimos. «Así pues, cegados y ensordecidos por los medios audiovisuales y mudos por el uso reiterado de palabras e ideas ajenas, resulta necesario apartarse de esa arrolladora corriente y, a salvo en cualquiera de sus riberas, ver pasar su estruendo y echar una mano o acercar una rama a aquellos que, arrastrados por las enloquecidas aguas, pidan ayuda.»El Roto
Cambie su mundo: Todos pueden marcar una diferencia sin importar dónde estén
by John C. Maxwell Rob HoskinsDos de los líderes más respetados hoy en día y que han cambiado al mundo, el experto en liderazgo John C. Maxwell y el líder de desarrollo global Rob Hoskins, comparten sus experiencias en el mundo real ayudando a transformar millones de vidas, comunidades y empresas en todo el mundo para mostrar a la gente cómo ser el cambio que el mundo necesita y ayudar a otros a hacer lo mismo. Vemos la pobreza, la falta de vivienda, la violencia, las enfermedades mentales, la corrupción y la desintegración de la familia, y pensamos: ¿Por qué nadie hace algo? Las instituciones de las que hemos dependido no están haciendo del mundo un lugar mejor de la manera que pensamos que podrían y deberían. Así que ahora depende de nosotros.La buena noticia es que USTED puede cambiar su mundo.En Cambie su mundo, John Maxwell y Rob Hoskins guían a los lectores a través de todo el proceso. Estos dos líderes han hecho un impacto positivo durante décadas, transformando millones de vidas, comunidades y empresas en todo el mundo con un sentido de misión y respeto por la dignidad humana.Y ya sea que usted influya en una sola persona o sea el líder de una gran organización, usted también puede lograr un cambio positivo y duradero.A lo largo de estas páginas, Maxwell y Hoskins comparten sus experiencias en el mundo real y animan a los lectores a marcar la diferencia basándose en las necesidades que ven a su alrededor y los deseos de su corazón.Change Your WorldTwo of today&’s most respected world-changers, leadership expert John C. Maxwell and global development leader Rob Hoskins, share their real-world experiences helping to transform millions of lives, communities, and businesses around the world to show people how to be the change the world needs and help others do the same.We see poverty, homelessness, violence, mental illness, corruption, and the breakdown of the family, and we think, &“Why doesn&’t somebody do something?&” The institutions we&’ve depended on aren&’t making the world a better place the way we thought they could and should. So now it&’s up to us.The good news is, YOU can change your world.In Change Your World, John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins guide readers through the entire process. These two leaders have been making a positive impact for decades, transforming millions of lives, communities, and businesses around the world with a sense of mission and regard for human dignity.And whether you influence only one other person or you&’re the leader of a large organization, you too can bring about positive, lasting change.Throughout these pages, Maxwell and Hoskins share their real-world experiences and encourage readers to make a difference based on the needs they see around them and the desires of their heart.
Cambio de palabras
by César Hildebrandt"No hay crónica ni entrevista sin una visión del mundo previa. Por eso quizá los editores de prensa encargan tanto las entrevistas como las crónicas a quienes ven por encima la grisura y el promedio". César Hidlebrandt "Releyendo algunas de las entrevistas de esta edición compruebo, además, que la política peruana se quedó sin repuestos. A Sánchez lo sucedió don Nadie, a Towsend le tomó la posta el silencio, a Pedro Beltrán lo heredó la Confiep, de Barrantes solo quedaron viudad. cambio de palabras no podría haberse hecho ahora por falta de elenco. Cuando escucho a muchos de los congresistas balbucera desde sus escaños una jerga brotada en sucesivas lobotomías, me digo que tuve, como muchos, la suerte de asistir a un país mejor educado. Suerte relativa, por supuesto, porque junto con ella viene algo parecido a la melancolía. Si alguien me preguntara si hubo un par de entrevistas que me gustaría volver a hacer, diría, previsiblemente quizá, que esas son las de Borges y Juan Gonzalo Rose. Uno instalado en la erudición y el otro en el desasosiego, ambos me demostraron que tal vez elegí mal cuando opté por la entrevista política. Hoy no haría eso. Los políticos ya no son primos de la cultura ni lectores con los que tratar una agenda que esté más allá de lo contingente". César Hildebrandt Cambio de palabras reúne 25 de las mejores entrevistas de César Hildebrandt, el periodista más respetado del país. Publicadas de 1971 a 1992, en el semanario Caretas principalmente, las conversaciones con políticos como Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre o Fernando belaunde Terry, o escritores como Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges o Juan Gonzalo Rose, son consideradas verdaderas clases de buen periodismo. Esta es la edición de un libro ya clásico.
Cambios Necesarios: Empleados, negocios y relaciones de los que debemos desprendernos para seguir adelante
by Henry CloudAunque los cambios son una parte natural de los negocios y la vida, con frecuencia los enfrentamos con duda, tristeza, resignación y pesar; sin embargo, el doctor Henry Cloud tiene una perspectiva muy diferente acerca de estos. Por eso, en el presente libro señala que nuestra vida personal y profesional solo podrá mejorar cuando logremos cambios necesarios y estratégicos para alcanzar algo superior y abrir el espacio para el crecimiento profesional y personal. Sobre la base de su vasta experiencia como consultor ejecutivo y psicólogo, el autor nos ofrece en este texto intuitivo una serie de consejos y estudios de casos que nos resultarán muy útiles en nuestra vida diaria. Además, nos enseña que para alcanzar la felicidad y el éxito es fundamental saber cuándo y cómo ponerle punto final a algo o alguien que no está funcionando bien en el negocio o en una relación personal, para de esta manera seguir avanzando. Con la lectura de este material tendremos las herramientas necesarias para despedirnos de algo y continuar adelante.
Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
by Graham SaundersDon't pack anxiety in your suitcase! By reading Culture Smart! Cambodia before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart! Cambodia will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart! Cambodia goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make you confident in leaving your comfort zone far behind. Walk hand in hand with a Culture Smart! guide and avoid misunderstandings that could cost you valuable time, money and enjoyment. . . With Culture Smart! Cambodia you will learn about daily living, historical perspectives, taboos, business etiquette, eating and drinking and much more, allowing you to experience the country like a native. Be responsible, be Culture Smart!
Cambodia: Entering a New Phase of Growth
by Olaf UnteroberdoersterA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Cambodia: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
by International Monetary FundA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Cambodia: Technical Assistance Report—Government Finance Statistics Mission (Imf Staff Country Reports)
by International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.A report from the International Monetary Fund.
Cambodian Dollarization: Its Policy Implications for LDCs’ Financial Development
by Hidenobu OkudaThis book is the first study to provide a comprehensive picture of the reality and structure of dollarization in Cambodia, which has been achieving rapid economic and financial development since the 2000s. It uses the micro-level data collected through nationwide surveys conducted jointly by the National Bank of Cambodia and JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute in 2014 and 2017. By applying econometric analysis to collected data, the book analyses in detail the structures and mechanisms of dollarization in households, companies, and financial institutions. It also provides detailed information on the historical development of Cambodian dollarization, international comparisons with various cases of dollarization in countries around the world, and the impact of NBC's digital payment platform (called Bakong) on dollarization, and policy measurements to curb dollarization. The Cambodian case shows that the financial development of low and middle income countries is promoted mutually by dollarization and that policies to separate the two are necessary to curb dollarization. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policy makers concerned with dollarization and economics in Southeast Asia.
Cambridge Bioethics and Law: The Affordable Care Act and Medicare in Comparative Context
by Eleanor D. KinneyBurdened with perennially rising costs and responsible for providing health insurance to more than one sixth of all Americans, Medicare in its original form is fiscally and demographically unsustainable. In light of dramatic reforms under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of Medicare. Eleanor D. Kinney explains how the ACA addresses systemic problems of cost and volume inflation, quality assurance, and fraud. Recognizing the potential for more radical change in the future, Kinney also explores the potential of Medicare to become a single-payer system. Comparisons are made with national health systems in Canada and the United Kingdom, from which the United States can draw valuable lessons. An approachable yet comprehensive account of Medicare and the ACA, this book will be invaluable for health care professionals and informed citizens.
Cambridge Companions to Management: Mindfulness in Organizations:
by Jochen RebMindfulness techniques, having long played an important role in contemplative traditions around the world, are now recognized as having the potential to transform workplaces. As interest in the role of mindfulness in organizational settings continues to increase, this timely book fills a gap in the literature by providing an overview of the latest theoretical and empirical research on workplace mindfulness. It brings together world-leading scholars to explore the foundations, key discussions, diversity of approaches and applications of mindfulness in organizations. It acts as a catalyst for future research on the topic by suggesting research directions and stimulating organizational researchers to embark on new projects involving mindfulness. Furthermore, it provides valuable ideas for implementing mindfulness programs in organizations, for teaching mindfulness in business contexts, and for coaching with mindfulness. This must-read book will appeal to researchers and professionals in the fields of organizational behavior, organizational psychology and employee well-being.