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Avon
by Laura KlepackiA Winning Formula for Selling to Women Around the World Avon has come a long way since handing out its first perfume sample back in 1886. The company, long famous for ringing customer doorbells, is now the world's largest direct sales organization-with almost five million representatives in more than 140 countries. AVON: Building the World's Premier Company for Women is the first book ever to show how this cosmetics juggernaut achieved such incredible success, while revealing secrets any business can use to effectively market products of all kinds-especially to women. Through this entertaining journey, you'll not only learn the colorful Avon story, but also see how every company, big or small, can benefit from its unique approach to sales and product development. "By providing women with an unlimited opportunity for career success, Avon harnessed the power of a committed sales force to win customers and grow the business. The company's success story is testimony to the importance of focusing on your core business while recognizing the changes taking place with your customers and the environment. " -Mary Sammons, President and CEO, Rite Aid Corporation "The book is an excellent primer on how to successfully make alternative forms of distribution work. " -Allen Burke, Director of Merchandising, QVC, Inc. "The author's incisive revelations . . . capture the extraordinary personalities and entrepreneurial strategies of one of America's most spellbinding success stories. " -Annette Green, President Emeritus, The Fragrance Foundation
Avon Products
by Jonathan TiemannAvon Products announced both a change in its business focus and a reduction of its dividend in June 1988. To offset the likely stock price effect of the dividend reduction, Avon announced at the same time an unusual exchange offer, under which it would take up to 25% of its common stock in exchange for an unusual preferred stock. The case traces the history of Avon from 1979-88. Requires students to evaluate Avon's efforts at diversification in the early 1980s, and to relate that effort to the company's dividend history. Also requires students to evaluate an unusual security. Suitable for first-year students or for a second-year capital markets course.
Avon.com (A)
by David B. GodesAvon has always sold its products through a large independent direct-selling organization. However, it is now considering whether it should sell directly to the consumer. The company's independent representatives number 500,000 in the United States alone. Yet, there seems to be potential for Avon to grow their business on the web in new and different ways. What benefits might Avon reap from using the Web to improve its relationship with its customers, with its representatives, and between the representatives and their customers. Includes color exhibits.
Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling (in an Uphill World)
by Mitchell Lewis Ditkoff&“Mitch Ditkoff has created a GPS for the innovation process. Awake at the Wheel is a witty and inspiring roadmap for the journey from ideas to invention!&” (Donna Fenn, author of Alpha Dogs) Awake at the Wheel is a book about ideas: what they are, where they come from, and what it takes to manifest them in a world not always ready for the new and the different. Simply put, it's a book about possibility, about the wellspring of creation, about the strange and fascinating process we all go through whenever we have an idea and try to do something about it. And while it's often said that &“ideas are a dime a dozen,&” the fact is that your idea—the one you can't get out of your head—is priceless. That is, IF you make the kind of effort required to turn that top of the line idea into a bottom line reality. Maybe it&’s an idea for a new business. Maybe it&’s an idea for a new product . . . or invention . . . or a book you want to write . . . or a school you want to open . . . or a move you want to make. Maybe it's an idea for something that will change the world . . . or if not THE world, then YOUR world. Whatever it is, one thing is clear: it's time for you to take the next step. Now! &“A superb catalyst for anyone with the urge to bring their best ideas into reality.&” —Tim Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game of Work
Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary
by Ozan VarolFrom the acclaimed author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist comes a simple guide to unlock your originality and unleash your unique talents. We say that some people march to the beat of a different drummer. But implicit in this cliché is that the rest of us march to the same beat. We find ourselves on well-worn paths that were never ours to walk.An extraordinary group of people pave their own path. They think and act with genuine independence. They stand out from the crowd because they embody their own shape and color.We call these people geniuses-as if they're another breed. But genius isn't for a special few. It can be awakened in anyone.This book will show you how. You'll learn how to discard what no longer serves you and discover your first principles-the qualities that make up your genius. You'll be equipped to escape your intellectual prisons and generate original insights from your own depths. You'll discover how to look where others don't look and see what others don't see. You'll give birth to your genius-the universe-denter you were meant to be.
Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary
by Ozan VarolFrom the critically acclaimed author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist comes a simple process for discarding obsolete beliefs and cultivating independent thought.A rare handful of leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs seem to have Teflon in their heads. They think and act with genuine independence, offering up ideas and insights direct from the subtle workings of their own minds. No matter how far that might take them from their social or political group.We sometimes call these people geniuses, as if they're another breed. But genius doesn't have to belong to just a few people-it can be cultivated.Great thinkers operate unconstrained by the opinions of others-or their own past opinions. They can act on new information regardless of the beliefs they once held, or identities they once adopted. They distinguish fact from manipulation. And just as importantly, they act first instead of reacting-creating new ideas and opportunities for themselves and others.This is an audiobook for aspiring universe-denters: executives and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, individuals who want to escape groupthink, discard obsolete and harmful beliefs, generate breakthrough ideas, spot hidden opportunities, and flourish in a world of ever-increasing manipulation, change, and challenge. In short, it's an audiobook for geniuses.(P) 2023 Hachette Audio
Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary
by Ozan VarolA WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Unlock your originality and unleash your unique talents with this simple guide from the acclaimed author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist. We say some people march to the beat of a different drummer. But implicit in this cliché is that the rest of us march to the same beat. We sleepwalk through life, find ourselves on well-worn paths that were never ours to walk, and become a silent extra in someone else&’s story. Extraordinary people carve their own paths as leaders and creators. They think and act with genuine independence. They stand out from the crowd because they embody their own shape and color. We call these people geniuses—as if they&’re another breed. But genius isn&’t for a special few. It can be cultivated. This book will show you how. You&’ll learn how to discard what no longer serves you and discover your first principles—the qualities that make up your genius. You&’ll be equipped to escape your intellectual prisons and generate original insights from your own depths. You&’ll discover how to look where others don&’t look and see what others don&’t see. You&’ll give birth to your genius, the universe-denter you were meant to be.
Awaken Your Potential: 10 Ways to Unlock Greatness
by Chad L. ReyesIn Awaken Your Potential, leadership coach Chad Reyes becomes a type of virtual mentor to help people fulfill their maximum potential, to become leaders, and then to turn around and help others fulfill their own potential.Today&’s institutions are facing a serious, global crisis that threatens to destroy how we work, live, serve, and play. No, it&’s not a health or financial crisis; it&’s a leadership crisis. Organizations around the world are lacking effective, competent leaders who know how to make a significant personal investment in both their organization and the people within it. More importantly, this generation of leaders isn&’t awakening the untapped potential within their teams. That is a problem—perhaps the problem—that leads us into dull, dreary workdays and wholly ineffective, unsatisfying work. It&’s time to change that. In Awaken Your Potential: 10 Ways to Unlock Greatness, entrepreneur, speaker, and leadership coach Chad L. Reyes will guide you in how to Make your purpose bigger than your problem. Give more than you take from others. Separate what you do from who you are. Get a valuable return on your failures. Fulfill your maximum potential—and unlock the full potential of others. Genuine, authentic leadership that unlocks others&’ potential is desperately needed in every aspect of society—from our governments to our businesses, educational institutions, civic organizations, youth groups, faith communities, and households. The world needs quality leaders. Leaders aren&’t born; they&’re equipped!
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial
by Tony RobbinsWake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Power, and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.
Awaken the Magic Within: The 7 Essential Virtues for Incredible Success
by Joe SwingerAwaken the Magic Within helps business leaders listen to that voice inside, showing them that it&’s brilliant and it matters, in both work and personal situations. It is a simple read; yet, it has dramatic impact on a business&’s bottom line, as well as an employee&’s value to the company. A business must make money or it isn&’t a business—it is a hobby. The old way of making a profit in business no longer serves the company, the shareholder, or the employee. In Awaken the Magic Within, motivational transformation specialist Joe Swinger addresses a transformative leadership style called Self-Mastery Leadership, the application of which produces rewarding results for business leaders in their multiple work situations with employees, within C-level suites, and in their families and love relationships. Whether someone longs to exchange the label &“employee&” for &“entrepreneur,&” be more authentic in their personal and professional relationships, or upgrade their entire life on a grand scale, it all begins with self-mastery. Joe Swinger allows business leaders and entrepreneurs alike to give themselves permission to live the gift they truly are, enter their own journey, and become more authentic as they Awaken the Magic Within.
Awaken to Your Calling: A Guide to Discovering Your Career Path and Life Direction
by Randi Benator2022 CIBA Hearten Awards: First Place Winner, Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction 2022 Firebird Book Awards: First Place, Career2022 Firebird Book Awards:Self-Help/Motivational2022 IPPY Awards Bronze Winner in Self Help2021 Indies Foreword Finalist in Career2021 Chanticleer Book Awards (CIBA) Finalist in the Mind and Spirit Award“Randi's heartfelt and profoundly practical book is a tonic and an inspiration. It shines through with her trust that you have gifts to share with the world, her confidence in your ability to push beyond the comfort zone, and her guidance in helping you discern your callings and connect the dots so that a pattern—a path—emerges leading you toward the life that truly belongs to you.”—GREGG LEVOY, best-selling author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life and Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion“Do you ever dream of discovering a career path that is an expression of your soul’s calling? If that question sparks your curiosity, this inspiring, practical book is for you!”—MICHAEL J. GELB, best-selling author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: 7 Steps to Genius Every Day“A timely, accessible, and engaging book full of practical wisdom, experiential exercises, and insights to help you discover your direction and realize your potential. If I had just one book to recommend for those in career and life transition needing clarity, encouragement, and hope, this would be the one.” —JILL C. LUBLIN, 4x best-selling author
Awaken: The Path to Purpose, Inner Peace, and Healing
by Rajendra SisodiaAwaken: A Journey to Purpose, Wholeness, Healing, and Impact Awaken delivers a contemporary and accessible guide to how each of us can experience a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in a world that is rife with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Drawing on the distinguished author's lifetime of accumulated insights and experience, Awaken guides readers on a journey to achieve complete alignment between who they are, what they say, what they do, and how they relate to others. People are traumatized and polarized the world over. By healing our traumas, uniting the polarities in our lives, and connecting to our deepest purpose, we can attain personal power and amplify our positive impact on the world. Most people have chosen not to deal with their trauma; they conceal it, numb it, and relive it. Through the prism of the author's life journey, Awaken shows us how to mine the ups and downs of our lives to experience "post-traumatic growth." Written for anyone with even a passing interest in improving their inner life and making a difference in the world, Awaken provides proven tools and practical advice that allow readers to know themselves, love themselves, be themselves, and express themselves. Readers will learn how to grow their personal power by building self-trust, cultivating presence, drawing healthy boundaries, leaning into necessary conflict, and challenging orthodoxies. Awaken will help readers see their lives differently in order to transform their experience of living.
Awakened Leadership: Uniting Organization Development and Awareness Integration Theory
by Behnam Bakhshandeh Foojan ZeineIndividuals and organizations seek new growth and development options in a world of constant change and rapid speed. Awakened Leadership: Uniting Organization Development and Awareness Integration Theory is a pioneering study of organization development and human consciousness that advocates a holistic approach to progress. This book, written by visionary leaders in organization development and awareness integration therapy, changes how we see and manage the evolution of individuals, teams, and organizations. It questions the belief that human growth and organizational transformation are separate and asserts that genuine advancement requires a combined and purposeful effort. The book begins with Organization Development (OD), its intervention levels, and the basics of intervention coaching. Next, the book discusses how Awareness Integration Theory (AIT) may help people evolve. AIT uses psychological concepts and mindfulness to help people explore their consciousness, unlocking latent potential and increasing self-awareness. The book's heart is in the following pages, where the writers blend OD and AIT effectively. They demonstrate the link between personal and professional growth by comparing the development of individuals, teams, and organizations. Through incisive analysis and examples, the authors show how a conscious, integrated strategy may alter individuals, teams, and organizations. Readers are encouraged to discover a new frontier where an organization's collective awareness drives good transformation. The book presents actionable frameworks for leaders, managers, HR professionals, and individuals to use conscious evolution techniques and access their Awakened Leadership in their everyday lives and workplaces. From developing a culture of mindfulness in the business to merging personal development goals with professional ones, the book outlines a future where growth is a deliberate, purposeful process. Awakened Leadership guides people seeking harmonious and purpose-driven personal and professional progress. It encourages us to break down conventional barriers and embrace a new era when corporate performance depends on individual growth. This book shows how organizational growth and consciousness integration may lead to a more conscious and enlightened future.
Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power That Elevates People and Organizations
by Jane E. Dutton Monica WorlineCaring Is a Competitive AdvantageSuffering in the workplace can rob our colleagues and coworkers of humanity, dignity, and motivation and is an unrecognized and costly drain on organizational potential. Marshaling evidence from two decades of field research, scholars and consultants Monica Worline and Jane Dutton show that alleviating such suffering confers measurable competitive advantages in areas like innovation, collaboration, service quality, and talent attraction and retention. They outline four steps for meeting suffering with compassion and show how to build a capacity for compassion into the structures and practices of an organization—because ultimately, as they write, "Compassion is an irreplaceable dimension of excellence for any organization that wants to make the most of its human capabilities."
Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India
by Pranab BardhanA comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and IndiaThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention—and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and high growth have been tendentious, exaggerated, or oversimplified. Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay scrutinizes the phenomenal rise of both nations, and demolishes the myths that have accumulated around the economic achievements of these two giants in the last quarter century. Exploring the challenges that both countries must overcome to become true leaders in the international economy, Pranab Bardhan looks beyond short-run macroeconomic issues to examine and compare China and India's major policy changes, political and economic structures, and current general performance.Bardhan investigates the two countries' economic reforms, each nation's pattern and composition of growth, and the problems afflicting their agricultural, industrial, infrastructural, and financial sectors. He considers how these factors affect China and India's poverty, inequality, and environment, how political factors shape each country's pattern of burgeoning capitalism, and how significant poverty reduction in both countries is mainly due to domestic factors—not global integration, as most would believe. He shows how authoritarianism has distorted Chinese development while democratic governance in India has been marred by severe accountability failures.Full of valuable insights, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay provides a nuanced picture of China and India's complex political economy at a time of startling global reconfiguration and change.
Awakening Integral Consciousness: A Developmental Perspective (Transformation and Innovation)
by Ronnie LessemThis is the second of four volumes in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, focused on CARE: Community activation, Awakening consciousness, innovation driven institutionalized Research and transformative Education. In this book, the author focuses on ways and means of developing, in an explicitly integral way, a particular organization or society, one in relation to another, locally-globally, building on prior, local community activation. He draws on two decades of experience and illustrates how such an awakening of integral consciousness can run alongside innovation driven institutionalized research and transformative education, as well as community activation, at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. In the process he addresses such topics as how to embed development in a particular society locally, how in relation to the rest of the world globally, as well as how to consciously evolve as an individual, organization or society, as such, from one particular developmental perspective – southern (relational), eastern (renewal) or north/western (reasoned/realization) – or another. The overall integral approach, or rhythm that the author draws upon, and has used in the field for the past decade, is that of recognizing and releasing what he terms GENE-ius, through local Grounding, local-global Emergence, newly global Navigation and ultimately global-local Effect, encompassing nature, culture, technology and enterprise. Moreover, he offers a body of integral theory that has been developed in twelve separate volumes, related to different aspects of integral development. This book on awakening integral and developmental consciousness – from an African, Asian or Euro/American perspective – is unique. Moreover, and specifically as such, the author offers an alternately relational ("southern"), renewal ("eastern") and reasoned ("north-western") perspective on such development.
Awakening the Blockchain: An Overview of DeFi
by Marco Di Maggio Nicolas Andreoulis Wenyao ShaIndustry and Background Note
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within
by Michael E. Gerber"A business without a dream is like a life without a purpose."--Michael GerberDream * Vision * Purpose * MissionThese words have been defining the life of Michael Gerber, bestselling author and international small business guru. He created E-Myth Worldwide in 1977 to transform the way that small business owners grow their companies. Now he's created In The Dreaming Room as a place where entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams a reality.Michael's Dream: to inspire people to dream by awakening the entrepreneur within them. Michael's Vision: to be the authority for helping dreamers everywhere create the small businesses they once could only imagine.Michael's Purpose: to transform the lives of ordinary people by providing them with the thrill of creation while creating the means to generate their own and others' economic freedom.Michael's Mission: to create a turnkey system for awakening the entrepreneur within every person who wishes to go into business for themselves, while providing them with the support for doing it.And he has done it. In Awakening the Entrepreneur Within you are invited into the Dreaming Room, where your own entrepreneurial dreams will come alive and become reality. Michael will help you shape your dream into a viable, economically successful company! As he writes: "It is time to dream. It is time to care about something bigger than you. It is time to imagine something sorely needed in the world--the world you live in--that somebody would pay to have. It is time to look around you and ask yourself, 'What's missing in this picture?'"If you see something missing in your world, it's time to start dreaming. Let Michael Gerber welcome you to the Dreaming Room.
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within
by Michael E. Gerber"A business without a dream is like a life without a purpose." -Michael Gerber Dream Vision Purpose Mission These words have been defining the life of Michael Gerber, bestselling author and international small business guru. He created E-Myth Worldwide in 1977 to transform the way that small business owners grow their companies. Now he's created In The Dreaming Room as a place where entrepreneurs and future entrepreneurs come to discover how to make their dreams a reality. Michael's Dream: to inspire people to dream by awakening the entrepreneur within them. Michael's Vision: to be the authority for helping dreamers everywhere create the small businesses they once could only imagine. Michael's Purpose: to transform the lives of ordinary people by providing them with the thrill of creation while creating the means to generate their own and others' economic freedom. Michael's Mission: to create a turnkey system for awakening the entrepreneur within every person who wishes to go into business for themselves, while providing them with the support for doing it. And he has done it. In Awakening the Entrepreneur Within you are invited into the Dreaming Room, where your own entrepreneurial dreams will come alive and become reality. Michael will help you shape your dream into a viable, economically successful company! As he writes: "It is time to dream. It is time to care about something bigger than you. It is time to imagine something sorely needed in the world-the world you live in-that somebody would pay to have. It is time to look around you and ask yourself, 'What's missing in this picture?'" If you see something missing in your world, it's time to start dreaming. Let Michael Gerber welcome you to the Dreaming Room.
Award Winning Customer Service: 101 Ways To Guarantee Great Performance
by Renee EvensonDelivering top-of-the-line customer service is Job #1 for most companies, an important factor in keeping profits high and customers coming back. Customer service problems can damage not just a company’s reputation but its bottom line, so for busy managers -- and business owners with little time to search for solutions -- some fast help is needed. Award-Winning Customer Service offers scores of quick tips for readers looking to improve and then maintain their company’s level of customer service. The book is chock full of practical advice on important topics such as: * planning and goal setting * effective communication * leadership * preparing for change * continual learning * coaching and development * effective feedback * motivational and problem-solving meetings * conflict resolution * follow-up and staying on top of the game * and more. Containing 101 effective tips in all, unique "When this happens, try this" sections, and encouraging quotes, this is an essential reference for anyone who needs guidance or just a refresher on making customers feel truly valued.
Award-winning Case Studies 2015: A Special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies
Breaking with academic tradition, this journal offers a unique selection of articles that are written by looking at the future challenges first and then translating these into present times. The right-aligned layout is a material way of reminding us of the fact that “no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” (A. Einstein). The journal provides hands-on, pragmatic and user-friendly research, suggestions and case studies as a resource for organisations that are committed to implementing sustainability. It is high time to build bridges between business and academia, with the clear purpose of helping business become truly sustainable. There are four dimensions to the journal: 1. Understand sustainability challenges 2. Specific dimensions of business sustainability 3. Exciting new solutions to implement 4. Case studies of leading business examples. In addition, produced is a special issue annually dedicated to an important theme. This is a special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies.
Aware: The Power of Seeing Yourself Clearly
by Les CsorbaGreat leaders don&’t just see the path ahead—they see themselves clearly first; mastering self-awareness is the difference between thriving at the top and blindly leading toward failure.Great leaders aren&’t just skilled strategists—they&’re deeply self-aware. In AWARE: The Power of Seeing Yourself Clearly, Les Csorba, reveals how identifying blind spots and having the courage to address them can determine the success or failure of a leader and their organization. Drawing from decades of experience as a Partner with Heidrick & Struggles, the worldwide recruiting and leadership consulting firm advising top executives and Fortune 500 corporate boards—and his time serving as Special Assistant to the President in the White House —Les shares how self-awareness, paired with bold action, separates exceptional leaders from those who fall short. Through real-world examples, exclusive interviews with some of world&’s top CEOs, and practical strategies, this book provides a roadmap for leaders to turn blind spots into strengths and build organizations that thrive. As Les argues, &“what you are aware of, you can control; what you are unaware of controls you.&” Whether in leadership or relationships, readers will take away: Blind spots can make or break a leader—recognizing them is the first step toward lasting success. Courage is key—self-awareness alone isn&’t enough; leaders must actively address their weaknesses. How self-awareness can turn strengths into superpowers. Organizations reflect their leaders—a self-aware leader builds a stronger, more resilient company. From the White House to the boardroom, Les reveals a behind the scenes perspective from an American Headhunter and brings a wealth of leadership insight making this book an essential read for executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking to lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Away: Scaling a DTC Travel Brand
by Jill Avery Joseph B. FullerAway, a direct-to-consumer, digital native e-commerce seller of travel luggage, is debating how to invest its latest round of venture funding. How quickly could and should Away scale and what were the most promising growth trajectories to maximize its potential? Three decisions face the founders. Should Away continue to invest in driving growth in suitcases and other travel bags or was it time to begin to expand into other adjacent travel categories? How should they use the results of the company's first customer segmentation study to select target segments and quantify their growth aspirations? What were the right distribution strategies moving forward following a series of pilots that included company-owned stores, temporary airport kiosks, and pop-up experiences with retailer partners?
Awesome and Fun Accounting Cycle Case Studies
by Renelle Brown Richard SincerbeauxAwesome and Fun Accounting Cycle Case Studies