Social Entrepreneurship

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

During his years as a public official, Mitchell Weiss was told that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges - it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Sadly, this is what so many of us have come to believe. But in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, he and his city hall colleagues raced to support survivors in new, innovative ways. This kind of entrepreneurial spirit and savvy in government is growing, transforming the public sector's response to big problems at all levels.

It’s an age-old question: Why do some great ideas or inventions take off and soar while others never get off the ground? Today, with more and more young entrepreneurs seeking to incorporate social justice, economic equity, climate concerns, and communal health into their endeavors, the need for practical-yet-think-big answers is great. Thibault Manekin has a few.

Discover the ultimate guide to building a profitable, home-based business with Home-Based Business Blueprint. If you're ready to take control of your financial future and create a reliable income stream from the comfort of your own home, this audiobook is exactly what you need. Forget about expensive startup costs, long commutes, and corporate red tape—this guide empowers you to take charge of your income and build a business that works for you.

In Partners in Crime, two-time number-one New York Times best-selling author Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, presents detailed research and expert testimony proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Clinton Foundation is a vast criminal conspiracy.

How to articulate and assess what success looks like. The Social Profit Handbook offers those who lead, govern, and support mission-driven organizations and businesses new ways to assess their impact in order to improve future work rather than merely judge past performance. Drawing upon decades of leadership in schools and the foundation and nonprofit worlds, author David Grant offers strategies that help organizations take assessment back into their own hands, and improve their work as a result.

Over 30 years, Burning Man has gone from two families on a San Francisco beach to a global movement in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world create events on every continent. It has been the subject of fawning media profiles, an exhibit in the Smithsonian, and is beloved by tech billionaires and boho counterculturalists alike. But why does it matter? What does it actually have to offer us? The answer, Caveat Magister writes, is simple: Burning Man's philosophy can help us build better communities.

Online social networks marketing utilizes collaborative approaches to communicate, introduce, and advertise products, enhance sales, get feedback, develop items or business image, foster public relations, and harness client support. The expense is minimal as compared to routine marketing and item promo projects on the radio, TV, and print mediums. Company existence utilizing this type of marketing will be worldwide.

This audiobook provides proven methods that you will need to develop your brand with Facebook. Whether you want to grow your following and subscribers to sell products or simply have a social presence, these 10 steps will make things simple but effective.

Your brand is the stories people share about you when you're not in the room, and it's these brand stories that determine if people buy from you, employ you, work for you, or invest in you. When the stakes are that high, wouldn't you want to take control of it? In Magnetic Stories, business storytelling expert Gabrielle Dolan reveals how you, too, can create and share stories that stick.

In Show Up Filled Up, Kary Oberbrunner shares his secret to success, a proven process that helped him partner with Hollywood celebrities, share the stage with Olympic and NCAA champions, turn a young adult novel into a seven-figure empire, collaborate with global leaders in multiple industries, and help solve some of the world’s biggest humanitarian challenges. Generate what many call “luck” and “good fortune” on a daily basis. Establish instant credibility and influence with anyone, anywhere. Get everything you want out of people and life without even asking.

Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.

In "The Consumer's Journey to Purchasing Funeral Services: A Marketing Roadmap for Growing Market Share and Revenue," Bill A Johnston, a leading expert on Facebook ads for the funeral home industry, reveals the strategic marketing insights you need to become the market leader in your area. This comprehensive guide takes you through the consumer's journey from initial awareness to becoming a loyal, retained customer.

The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's attempts to create a successful business. By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his numerous entrepreneurial activities - including operating discotheques in drive-in movie theaters, working with the 1960s musical teen sensations the Cowsills, and opening an ice cream parlor on the Venice Beach boardwalk - had landed him $150,000 in debt. Raising Eyebrows tells the story of how he finally succeeded. After years of failures and living pennilessly, LaMagna finally succeed with tweezers. He started Tweezerman, one of the world's most respected, innovative and successful beauty tool manufacturers with only $500. Not only was Tweezerman a financial success but is became a model of how to operate a company responsibly.

Lauren Golden, founder of The Free Mama movement, teaches women how to have a life many have only dreamed about: one where they can make good money and be there for their families - without sacrificing one for the other and without guilt.

In today's fast-paced, unstable workplace achieving success requires speaking up, promoting oneself and one's ideas, and taking initiative. Extroverts, fearless in tooting their own horns, naturally thrive in this environment, but introverts often stumble. If you question your ability to perform and succeed in this extroverted work culture, The Introvert's Complete Career Guide is custom fit for you. In this supportive, all-inclusive handbook, Jane Finkle demonstrates how to use your introverted qualities to their best advantage.

O Brasil está entre os 10 maiores mercados de vestuário e acessórios do planeta. E se você atua nesse ramo ou está pensando em entrar para esse segmento trilionário, prepare-se para ganhar o jogo! Escrito de forma objetiva e totalmente construído em cima do conhecimento prático, Compre bem para vender [muito] bem já entrega o segredo logo no título. Mas não para por aí.

If you have an Instagram account or are a business owner and are not making full use of social media to expand and grow your business, you are missing out on potentially billions of new clients. It doesn't matter who you are—never forget that you are a brand. Instagram is the best social media site to develop and promote your business. In this book, I will detail a step-by-step guide on how to maximize your Instagram presence, develop a loyal following, and more importantly, how to turn your followers into repeat customers.

"Facebook es una red social que supera los 1.300 millones de usuarios. Y creciendo día a día... Piensa por un momento: ¿cuántos de estos millones de usuarios podrían ser potencialmente clientes de tu negocio? Muchos, ¿verdad? En este libro encontrarás todas las claves para conseguir acercarte a esos clientes potenciales. Te enseñará a crear una red virtual de amigos que sean afines a los productos que tú vendes o podrías vender.

It’s a new era of business and consumerism - and you play a role in defining it.

Today’s biggest trends - the mobile web, social media, real time - have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. This is the end of business as usual and the beginning of a new era of relevance.