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Finding Meaning in Business
by Bartholomew C. OkonkwoCombining creative biblical interpretation, Christian moral reflection, and business expertise, Finding Meaning in Business is a thoughtful and thought-provoking look at how business leaders, professionals, and students can integrate a sense of calling into their careers and into the business world as a whole.
Finding Meaning in Financial Statements: A Look Behind the Numbers
by Harvard Business School PressFinancial statements identify a company's strengths and weaknesses, but you have to dig, compare, and analyze to extract and understand that information. This chapter shows you how to use ratios and percentage-format statements to understand the company's profitability, key operating activities, solvency, and debt structure.
Finding Meaning in Wine: A US Blend (Routledge Food Studies)
by Michael SinowitzThis book examines controversies in American wine culture and how those controversies intersect with and illuminate current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation. With a specific focus on the United States of America, the methods that we use to discuss literature and other art are applied to wine-making and wine culture. The book explores the debates about how to evaluate wine and the problems inherent in numerical scoring as well as evaluative tasting notes, whether winemakers can be artists, the discourse in wine culture involving natural wine and biodynamic farming, as well as how people judge what makes a wine great. These interpretative commitments illuminate an underlying metaphysics and allegiance to a culture of reason or feeling. The discussions engage with a broad range of writers and thinkers, such as Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Louis Menand, Michael Pollan, Greg Garrard, John Guillory, Amitov Ghosh, Pierre Bourdieu, and Barbara Herrnstein-Smith. The book draws upon not only a number of texts produced by wine critics, wine writers, literary critics and theorists but also extensive interviews with wine writers and multiple California winemakers. These interviews contribute to a unique reflection on wine and meaning. This book will be of great interest to readers looking to learn more about wine from cultural, literary, and philosophical perspectives.
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
by Richard BransonTwenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity, the world’s ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story.Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history. No challenge was too daunting, no opportunity too outlandish to pursue. And each new adventure started with five simple words: “Screw it, let’s do it.” Now, fifty years after starting his first business, Branson shares the candid details of a lifetime of triumphs and failures and what he really thinks about his unique life and career. Finding My Virginity is an intimate look at his never-ending quest to push boundaries, break rules, and seek new frontiers—even after launching a dozen billion-dollar businesses and hundreds of other companies. As he led Virgin into the new millennium, Branson fearlessly expanded the brand into new categories such as mobile, media, fitness, and banking and into every corner of the globe—all while preserving its iconoclastic, scrappy spirit. He even brought Virgin into space with Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline. Finding My Virginity takes us behind the scenes of the incredible brains, heart, and sacrifices that have gone into making private spaceflight an imminent reality—even after the biggest crisis Branson has ever faced. But this book is much more than a series of business adventures. It’s also the story of Branson’s evolution from hotshot entrepreneur to passionate philanthropist and public servant, via Virgin Unite’s environmental and health initiatives and through the Elders, a council of influential global leaders. And it’s the story of his personal quest to become a better son, husband, father, and “grand-dude” to his four grandchildren. Featuring a supporting cast that includes everyone from Bill Gates to Kate Moss, Nelson Mandela to Barack Obama, this is the gripping account of a man who will never stop reaching for the stars, in more ways than one. Find out how Branson did it for the first time—all over again.
Finding New Ways to Engage and Satisfy Global Customers: Proceedings of the 2018 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) World Marketing Congress (WMC) (Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science)
by Nina Krey Patricia RossiThis proceedings volume explores the new and innovative ways in which marketers find new global customers and build meaningful bridges to them based on their wants and needs in order to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction. Customer loyalty is ensured through continuous engagement with an ever-changing and demanding customer base. Global forces are bringing cultures into collision, creating new challenges for firms wanting to reach geographically and culturally distant markets, and causing marketing managers to rethink how to build meaningful and stable relationships with evermore demanding customers. In an era of vast new data sources and a need for innovative analytics, the challenge for the marketer is to reach customers in new and powerful ways. Featuring the full proceedings from the 2018 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) World Marketing Congress (WMC) held in Porto, Portugal, this volume provides current and emerging research from global scholars and practitioners that will help marketers to engage and promote customer satisfaction. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses, and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complementing the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.
Finding Order in Chaos: Maintaining Clarity of Thought--How Great Leaders Remain Focused Under Pressure
by Justin MenkesAs the world becomes more confusing, it seems like it's getting harder to think clearly. In this chapter, psychologist and executive evaluator Justin Menkes examines what clarity of thought looks like in practice, showing how stress can negatively affect your intelligence. To become a great leader, you need to harness stress as a motivator for intensifying your focus. Menkes shows you how, with a diagnostic exercise for evaluating your ability to find order in chaos and vivid case studies featuring master CEOs Joe Swedish (Trinity Health Systems), Dave O'Reilly (Chevron), and Dick Keyser (W.W. Grainger, Inc.). This chapter was originally published as Chapter 6 of "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others."
Finding Order in Chaos: The Drive to Solve the Puzzle--How Great Leaders Remain Intellectually Confident Under Pressure
by Justin MenkesAs a leader, you must constantly make decisions involving serious consequences based on shifting, incomplete data. Great leaders, however, see these puzzles as stimulating rather than frustrating; the drive to solve the puzzle compels them to move beyond the mere ability to think intelligently in a stressful situation. In this chapter, author Justin Menkes describes how to develop your own drive to find a solution, with examples from master CEOs such as Kevin Sharer (Amgen), A.G. Lafley (Procter & Gamble), and Jim Owens (Caterpillar Inc.). Menkes also provides practical suggestions for improving your ability to think clearly and perform under pressure, offering an exercise you can practice to shed the habit of making mistakes in the heat of the moment. The chapter concludes with a section about personal awareness and its importance in helping you develop the attributes of a great leader through your own experiences with stressful, highly pressurized situations. It is these experiences that teach us to maintain our confidence and improve our capacity to find order in chaos--even within the complex, increasingly interactive economy of the twenty-first century. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 7 of "Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others."
Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time
by Margaret J. WheatleyWheatley has worked as an organizational consultant and researcher throughout the world for 30-plus years, and writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She presents a collection of 30 of her essays, previously published over the past ten years. The texts have been revised to represent her current views on fundamental questions of leadership, including how leaders shift from control to order. What motivates individuals. How change occurs. How to evoke people's innate creativity. Useful measurement systems, solving complex problems, creating healthy communities, leading when change is out of one's control, and maintaining integrity and peace as a leader.
Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time
by Margaret J. WheatleyFor years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organizations and helping people to work together more effectively and compassionately. She has shown how breakthroughs in chaos theory and quantum physics can enable organizations to function more like responsive, self-organizing living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. And she has gradually expanded these ideas into the wider arena of human society.In short, Margaret Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and Finding Our Way brings together her shorter writings for the first time, touching on all the topics she has addressed throughout her career, showing how she has applied the ideas in her books s in many different situations. "The pieces presented here", she writes, "represent ten years of work, of how I took the ideas in my books and applied them in practice in many different situations. However, this is not a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about." Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, and often deeply moving, Finding Our Way sums up Wheatley's thinking on a diverse scope of topics from leadership and management to education and raising children in turbulent times; from societal commentary to specific organizational techniques and more.
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
by Andrew J. HoffmanBoth thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever, in human history? Distilling and refining over 20 pieces from a lifetime of work in academia and trade, across speeches, blogs, editorials and essays, Hoffman invites us to look beyond material growth and explore the role of the individual and business in discovering a wider purpose to bring about a balanced and sustainable society. The reader is encouraged to consider humanity’s relationship with the environment through different lenses: business, academia, faith-based and cultural. By bringing them together, Hoffman encourages us to understand our relationship with the planet in a far more holistic sense. Drawing on ideas from philosophy, literature, natural sciences and politics, Hoffman ensures that the ideas he explores are wholly accessible and applicable. Fully substantiated through various research and examples, the issues described are consistently made relevant to the reader.Finding Purpose is the perfect book for anyone – from student to CEO – thinking about their place in the world, and how making changes in our own lives and societies can impact on the world around us.
Finding The Middle Path: The Political Economy Of Cooperation In Rural India
by B. S. BaviskarSoviet-style socialism has failed; but in Russia, China, and India the transition to capitalism has proven hazardous. Elsewhere, capitalism itself appears to be in crisis, often failing to meet the fundamental needs of workers, small farmers, and even the middle classes. Clearly, the world needs enterprises that are both economically efficient and
Finding The Uncommon Deal
by Adam Leitman BaileyTake advantage of today's real estate market to find great properties at incredible prices Our recent economic meltdown transformed real estate from a popular investment to financial kryptonite. Too many people purchased homes with mortgages they simply could never afford. The good news: Great deals are out there for the taking. Finding the Uncommon Deal gives you the secrets to discovering and successfully negotiating the lowest prices for the most prized properties available. Discover how to go beyond Internet listings to get on-the-ground intelligence on the best deals Get proven negotiating skills to close the deal at a rock-bottom price The author has assisted thousands in purchasing homes as a lawyer, broker, and investor; has been ranked by internationally esteemed publication Chambers and Partners as one of the leading real estate lawyers; and regularly appears as a real estate authority in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal If you're successful enough to afford a home, then you probably have the skills needed to get a great deal in today's market. Finding the Uncommon Deal gives you the keys to leverage your skills for success and savings, opening the door to today's best properties and lowest prices.
Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life-Conflict
by Heather BousheyEmployers demand more of employees' time while leaving the important things in life--health, family--for workers to take care of on their own time and dime. How can workers get ahead while making sure their families don't fall behind? Heather Boushey shows in detail that economic efficiency and equity do not have to be enemies.
Finding Ways to Make Scheduling Flexibility Feasible and Profitable: Create Value by Improving Conditions for Your Low-Level Workers
by Jody HeymannMany managers assume that a lack of work-related benefits such as paid sick leave, paid leave to care for family members, and scheduling flexibility are inherent in the type of work low-level employees perform, when in fact the opposite is true. Flexibility is not only important to the health and well-being of your workers and their families, but can provide valuable returns for your company. This chapter examines the experiences of factory line-workers and managers at all levels in two firms that provided great flexibility at the bottom of the corporate ladder. The companies profiled in this chapter show that flexibility and leave policies are viable across job positions and economic sectors, and that implementation of such policies yields substantial productivity and quality gains for the whole organization. Through personal stories and in-depth analysis, you will learn how to create policies for sick leave, maternity leave, sabbaticals, and individualized scheduling that are inexpensive in relation to the benefits your company will reap by being able to motivate and retain qualified, experienced workers. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 2 of "Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce."
Finding What Matters Most to Patients: Forming the Foundation for Better Care
by Thom WalshResearch shows that the importance of patient-reported outcomes, improved decision support, and care coordination is growing rapidly as new payment models transform healthcare delivery. This has led to the use of new measures and communication techniques, including shared decision-making and motivational interviewing. Using patient-reported outcomes at the point of service helps providers identify what matters most to the patient in front of them now. Describing treatment options and deciphering a patient’s preferences effectively is a process, which has been likened to arriving at a diagnosis. Providers make a medical diagnosis by discerning a patient’s primary complaints, past history, exam findings, and test results. A preference diagnosis can be thought of similarly. Providers work with their patients to identify what matters most to them, discuss the risks and benefits of the available treatment options, and support the patient as needed through the decision-making process. Once informed of their options, patients frequently chose treatments that require modifying their habits. Motivational interviewing helps patients and providers understand what matters most now and design care plans that provide appropriate support. While many healthcare providers and leaders may be familiar with patient-reported outcomes from research articles, and have heard of shared decision-making and motivational interviewing, few have experience using them. Fewer still understand how each relates to the other. This book helps leaders and healthcare providers better understand how to use patient-reported data to their advantage at the point of service. The book provides the background for developing shared knowledge and shared language, along with extensive examples of dialogue between providers and patients. In addition, the book contains personal interviews of subject matter experts who have significant experience using these measures. The result is a comprehensive understanding of how these measures and techniques can help providers, organizations, and patients navigate this modern healthcare management opportunity.
Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps to Getting the Perfect Job After College
by Kirk SnyderA three-step career system to help you tap into your own unique value to find a deeply meaningful and engaging job, whether you're a college student, a recent graduate, or a new professional looking for a fresh start.&“Snyder&’s proven step-by-step plan shows you how to create a meaningful career you will love.&”—Tasha Eurich, New York Timesbestselling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership In Finding Work You Love, award-winning University of Southern California business school professor Kirk Snyder helps you match the value you alone bring to today's new job market with work that rewards you for who you are in the professional world. When you find a role that leverages the exact strengths and abilities you have to offer, you set yourself up for a rewarding career that matters.Based on the top-rated course he teaches to graduate and undergraduate students, Professor Snyder's "Working You" system has three simple steps. First you take a guided inventory of your professional value: Who are you and what makes you special? What can you do that sets you apart? How are you personally motivated to be who you want to be? Next, you evaluate different fields, companies, and roles that truly fit with your personal inventory. And finally, having created a job bank of twenty-five high-potential positions just for you, you learn how to turn your right fits into tangible offers.Along the way, stories from current students, college grads, and new professionals who have used this system show you how easy it is to navigate the process. If you're ready to find the fulfilling and successful career you've dreamed of, start here.
Finding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry
by April TuckerFinding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry equips the reader with the skills they need to turn an interest in audio, sound, or music technology into a career. This book provides insight for aspiring professionals seeking audio-related opportunities in entertainment, technology, education, and more. In the audio industry, there is typically a gap between those in-training and those with professional (and financially sustainable) careers. This book bridges the information gap, offering practical and real-world advice to those in this volatile stage of their career. Including 70+ interviews with professionals from over 20 countries, Finding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry offers insight into how others (across the industry and the world) have applied entrepreneurial thinking, problem-solving, and creative solutions to build their careers. Including international case studies and interviews with diverse professionals, Finding Your Career in the Modern Audio Industry is essential reading for anyone taking their first steps into an audio-related field.
Finding Your Creative DNA
by Arpan Yagnik Linda Conway Correll GeorgeThis book enables readers to discover their inner creative DNA, by providing a strong dose of the four elements of the Creative Matrix–Interrogation, Information, Interpretation, and Inspiration. Creative Aerobics (CA) generates a personal ideation system that produces creativity on demand (COD) and that arrives at multiple solutions in less than an hour in a relaxing and enjoyable way.The strength of the volume lies in its ability to move readers past the conventional and time-consuming 20th-century ideation. It helps develop an individual, personal approach to their creative DNA by introducing increasingly complex word exercises that strengthen left-brain problem-solving and increase right-brain discoveries. It teaches, encourages, and integrates all aspects of CA to develop the mental muscle that fuels readers’ paths to creative accomplishment. By taking CA step by step, readers develop a comfort level, knowing they will always be able to come up with ideas.This book will be useful to students, young professionals, and senior leaders looking for the inside track to their creativity. It will also be an invaluable daily practice and interesting read for all students taking general education courses, especially those opting for integrative learning courses which are becoming more prevalent across universities worldwide.
Finding Your Element
by Ken RobinsonFrom one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people, from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons; from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new paradigm: The diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier, and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is also an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century. .
Finding Your Granite: My Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership (Security, Audit and Leadership Series)
by Douglas P. PflugIn "Finding your Granite", Executive Leadership Coach and Mentor Douglas Pflug walks you through some of the life experiences, lessons and key take-ways from his years as a dual sport university athlete, 28 years as a police officer, 30 years as an elite strength and conditioning coach, mentor and leader. Douglas accomplishes this through four very dynamic, energetic and heartfelt sections entitled: "The Struggle" "Dash Leadership" "Four Cornerstones of Personal Leadership" and "Rise Up and Excel". The Author’s mentoring and protégé process and implementation of #RiseUpAndExcel and #StrongerFasterFitter methodologies assists people in discovering "who they were, who they are and whom they want to be" moving forward in this post COVID 19 world. This book was written through the eyes of an "everyday guy" and designed to educate, entertain and inspire front line 911 emergency workers to seek and achieve their potential. Additionally, this book will also be an essential resource for individuals and business leaders who wish to stay ahead of the evolving leadership trends of strategic thinking, inspiration and motivation, strong interpersonal skills, vision, decisiveness and passion.
Finding Your Next Job in a Week: Teach Yourself
by Geoff Ribbens Peter MaskreyThe ability to find a good job in a challenging market, is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Peter Maskrey and Geoff Ribbens, leading experts on business communcation, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to secure the role that's right for you.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience.So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!
Finding Your Next Job in a Week: Teach Yourself Ebook Epub
by Geoff Ribbens Peter MaskreyThe ability to find a good job in a challenging market, is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career.Written by Peter Maskrey and Geoff Ribbens, leading experts on business communcation, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to secure the role that's right for you.The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience.So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!
Finding Your Passion For Dummies
by Noeline KiraboA hands-on manual for discovering what makes you tick and going after your dreams Finding Your Passion For Dummies offers you guidance and practical advice on how to identify and pursue your passion. With exercises to help you understand your values, interests, and natural talents, you can identify what you are passionate about—at any age. This self-discovery process will help you find more happiness, and a sense of purpose and direction in life. When you find your passion, you’ll be able to pursue it in a way that aligns with your values and interests. This book provides the motivation, the inspiration, and the how-to. In the friendly Dummies style you know and love, you’ll get guidance on setting goals, exploring your interests, pursuing education, and overcoming any obstacles that stand between you and what you really want out of life. Identify your natural skills and talents Discover hobbies and activities that excite you Learn how to overcome obstacles as you change your life Embrace your authentic self and gain the courage to live fullyThis book is for anyone looking to discover a life path that will lead to true fulfillment. Finding Your Passion For Dummies is great for recent graduates, mid-career professionals looking for a change, and for anyone looking to find more meaning in life.
Finding Your Passion: The Easy Guide to Your Dream Career
by Marcy MorrisonFinding Your Passion is a powerful, yet easy-to-use book by Marcy Morrison, Career Strategist and Owner of Careers With Wings (www.careerswithwings.com). This fun and whimsical book will help and guide the reader to develop wings for their career and get on the fast track to finding their dream job via identifying their passions and strengths; empowering them with tools to market and sell themselves; strengthening their ability to trust their gut/believe in themselves; learning how to network; developing a support team; enhancing their current job; and creating a personalized plan for success.
Finding Your Research Voice: Story Telling and Theatre Skills for Bringing Your Presentation to Life
by Melanie Dreyer-Lude Itai CohenLearning to tell a compelling research story can have a significant impact on your career. It can make you stand out at professional conferences, on the job market, or during an ideal networking opportunity. It is easy to tell a research story badly. It takes time and effort to learn to tell a research story well. This compact and engaging volume presents a series of techniques followed by theatre-inspired, field tested exercises that will help you improve your research presentations. Once you’ve learned how to create a dynamic live performance of your research story, you may find that this professional obligation is no longer something to dread, and may even become a highlight of your research experience.