Global Career

Shoes of Prey launched in 2009. It allowed people to design their dream shoes online, get them expertly manufactured, and have them shipped to anywhere in the world within two weeks. The startup broke even at two months, hit multi-million dollar revenues in under two years, raised tens of millions in funding from top-tier investors and shipped to more than 100 countries. All the metrics pointed to huge scalability. To a huge business. To a huge success. But it didn’t succeed. In 2018 the business failed. And this is that story.

As our society continues its transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, new challenges are being introduced into the workplace, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance.

Do you wake up excited to enjoy the day? We all deserve to be happy and live the lives we want. Holistic nurse practitioner Bonnie Groessl reveals a variety of simple steps you can take to achieve better health, happiness, relationships, and abundance. Stress is a challenging part of life, yet we can’t live without it. To experience life is to experience stress. Bonnie describes how stress isn’t so much what happens, but our reaction to it.

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

"Harvesting Hope: The Global Odyssey of Mr. Grant Money" takes listeners on a transformative journey through the world of grant acquisition. Unlike traditional learning methods, Mr. Grant Money's immersive storytelling doesn't just impart knowledge it sparks curiosity, ignites passion, and instills a profound understanding of the grant landscape. In this narrative, listeners don't just hear about grants they become part of Mr. Grant Money's adventures.

Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving? by New York Times best-selling author Kelsey Timmerman takes you on a journey to meet people who will inspire you to live a purpose-filled, generous life and make the greatest impact you can through your career, time, consumer dollars, and donations.

In a globalized world, where multinational companies have extensive power over millions of people, building positive organizational performance requires global leaders with virtues. Organizations, especially multinational ones, may be crucial engines of social and economic progress; global leaders' virtues and character strengths may be strong drivers of such an endeavor. Drawing on the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement, this book aims to provide a holistic approach to the virtues of leaders.

In diesem dringenden, maßgeblichen Hörbuch legt Bill Gates einen weitreichenden, praktischen - und zugänglichen - Plan dafür vor, wie die Welt die Treibhausgasemissionen rechtzeitig auf Null senken kann, um eine Klimakatastrophe zu verhindern. Seit einem Jahrzehnt untersucht Bill Gates die Ursachen und Auswirkungen des Klimawandels. Mithilfe von Experten aus Physik, Chemie, Biologie, Ingenieurwesen, Politikwissenschaft und Finanzwesen hat er sich auf das konzentriert, was getan werden muss, um die unserem Planeten bevorstehende Umweltkatastrophe zu verhindern.

In 2010, Bruce Poon Tip shut down his human resources department. After building G Adventures from his garage into the world’s largest adventure travel company with over 1,500 employees around the world, it was a controversial decision. Poon Tip is a sought-after speaker whose unconventional management practices have helped him build an adventure travel company with $200 million in revenue and consistent and unprecedented growth for over two decades.

Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship don't cut it anymore. Business professionals working across national and cultural boundaries need to form authentic relationships that drive rapport, camaraderie, and optimal team performance—and Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce provides the most thorough and practical approach to date on this issue. Renowned academics in the field of intercultural relationship-building Andy Molinsky and Melissa Hahn deliver an easy-to-understand approach to help you supercharge your global relationship-building skills.

In 2019, there were about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, less than one-half of 1 percent of the U.S. population. The Army is the largest U.S. military service, followed by the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The Space Force became its own branch of the Armed Services in 2019. When the draft ended in 1973, women represented just 2 percent of the enlisted forces and 8 percent of the officer corps. Today, those numbers are 16 percent and 19 percent, respectively, a significant increase over the past half century. COMPLICATED ALLIANCES is an anthology where nine women ...

COVID-19 has caused fundamental shifts in attitudes around remote and office work. And in The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever, internationally renowned IT executive Gregory S. Smith explains how and why companies today are shedding corporate office locations and reducing office footprints.

Through interviews with successful product designers and inventors from around the world, and case studies of products from their local inception to their global success, The Future of Design will answer these important questions and provide a robust framework for activating innovative thinking that goes beyond Western approaches to creativity and innovation.

Learn how to start leveraging a breakthrough, a new way of operating at the helm of a business to get more wealth, power, loyalty, respect, and freedom than ever before! In this controversial new book, Charlie Hutton - the man accused of having a cult-like following among male business owners and entrepreneurs - reveals the secrets that have fast become the backbone for the new breed of self-made men.

SSD Global Solutions supports the following concepts in Lean Government applications: Consider customer service from the standpoint of optimizing value for the regulated community, the public, or other stakeholders.

Here's How You Can Take Control Of Your Finances And Navigate Life With Confidence! Advanced Placement Adulting - Difficult (yet critical) Adulting Topics Clearly Explained This is a complete A to Z guide on managing money and laying the foundations of future success, ideal for teens, college students, and recent graduates who want to make adulting easy. Instead of trying to figure out everything on your own, you finally have a powerful tool that will make complex decisions easier and allow you to thrive. Introducing Advanced Placement (AP) Adulting: The Comprehensive Growth, Improvement, ...

An unforgettable portrait of the emerging world's entrepreneurial dynamos Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky is the story about that top one percent of people who do more to change their worlds through greed and ambition than politicians, NGOs, and nonprofits ever can.

Discover how you can make a difference through passion, compassion, and love. In your heart is the future of our planet; learn how to empower your mental imagery to serve your most deeply held values. Experience the wisdom of the ages wedded to cutting-edge mind-body and peak performance technology. Relax and enjoy the uniquely beautiful voice of Dr. Miller.

A proven system to develop your Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ), with success strategies and inspiring examples from around the world. The business leaders of today face extraordinary complexity, rapid change, and increasing diversity in their markets and workforces. And yet more than 90 per cent of global executives identify cross-cultural effectiveness as their biggest challenge. This audiobook gives you the tools and confidence to transform your business, personal, and financial performance.

Do you want to escape the monotony of dragging yourself into the office each day just to do work that doesn’t set your soul on fire - or pay enough to make it worth the trouble? Are you highly-educated and driven, but frustrated from feeling like you have little control over your career and money?