For25 years I have been involved in extensive infrastructural projects for churches as a volunteer project manager. These were multi-million-dollar projects that delivered the wealth of experience set down in this book. They have opened my eyes to project strategies that work, and those that do not work. The book is a vital tool for church operators and organizational leaders alike. Church and communal projects do not only pose engineering challenges, but are predominantly a hearts-and-minds issue. The book covers how a church project should be conceived, planned, and executed. It thrashes out issues such as the part-time status of …

TThe Economic Success of a State is divided into three parts. The first describes a newly found economic regularity named "economic dual" and the theoretical approach to generate the power of an economic space. The second part lists everything connected with the economic cores and resources of their creation: the economy of the projects that create them, their development, and their creation by industrial zones; combinations for their creation and possibilities to quicken their creation; and a practical frame for generating economic cores as the leading constitutive part of economic duals. The third part deals with optimizations by using economic …

This book is aimed at all those individuals with facilities management (FM) responsibilities who are trying to come to grips with the wide and demanding range of practical issues they face. Contents include: the FM scene - an introduction (the range and complexity of the facilities portfolio and the core/non-core viewpoints are discussed); facilities strategy (the importance and benefit of facilities strategy; the facilities manager as a change driver; organisational synergy; outsourcing); customer focus (who are the customers; specification - input vs. output; the changing workplace; virtual organisations; CAFM and helpdesks); facilities performance (service level agreements; monitoring; benchmarking; space management/cost …

Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility: A guide for students and practicing managers in developing and emerging countries is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text for Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR]. With the aim to become the standard textbook to teach a complete course unit at undergraduate or postgraduate levels, this is a book that can be used by practicing managers to understand the practice of CSR, equipping them with knowledge and skills of how to integrate CSR into business strategy and operations. Edited by a multidisciplinary team of four experts, David Katamba, …

The conference "We are blind" made Jürgen Klaric famous in 50 countries. The purpose of this book is to open your eyes to how the mind works and to understand why marketing and advertising fail so often. This book teaches you- how the human mind works and its curious decision-making behavior- the principle of the three brains: cortex (rational), limbic (emotional), reptilian (instinctive)- to identify the most serious mistakes big brands make- how to change the vision and culture of the company. In addition, it provides Jürgen Klaric's ten principles to understand the subconscious mind and to maximize sales and marketing: 1. …

IKEA, El Bulli, Apple, Bausch & Lomb, Coca-Cola... These are just a few of the brands that have “got it.” Every company that really stands out has this “certain something” in common. That being said, talking about something that does not have a name is tantamount to allowing that it may not exist. For this reason, the authors have named it; they call it a dream. Today, a company can only truly stand out if it has a dream – a shared dream with the capacity to touch us all. The potential of a dream has no limits, and any …

Este libro quiere ser un homenaje a la memoria de Ángel García Sanz (Fuentelcésped [Burgos], 1946 - Segovia, 2014). La generosidad intelectual y el compromiso con su tierra seguramente sean los dos rasgos que mejor lo definen como académico. Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad de Salamanca (donde sería profesor interino en 1989-1991 de la naciente Facultad de Economía y Empresa) se doctoró en Historia por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en 1973 con la tesis Desarrollo y crisis del Antiguo Régimen en Castilla la Vieja. Economía y sociedad en tierras de Segovia de 1500 a 1814
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Many people aspire to be rich and have higher incomes.However, few achieve these goals, mostly because they lack the habits and financial education to increase money. For the author, achieving these objectives depends on the determination and mentality with which each person faces and modifies their reality. "There can be no economic growth without personal growth," says the author, who from his experience advises how to clarify the reasons for which everyone came to the world and how to transform those motivations into money. For him, a transcendent motivation in life and nurturing a mentality oriented to success are the …

This book offers a radical revision of modern economic theory. Its starting point is the existing body of both micro and macro economics, as developed in such textbooks as Economics by Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch and Positive Economics by Lipsey and Chrystal. Following a similar framework to these books, it adjusts the whole range of theory by introducing some new concepts and other earlier ones that have been much neglected in the economic thought of the past century. These are related especially to the fundamental part played by land, in it proper sense of all natural resources available on the …

Why do we forget about people when we talk about innovation? Innovation has been a popular subject for the last years. Bruce Nussbaum, perhaps exaggerating, said “Innovation died in 2008, killed off by overuse, misuse, narrowness, incrementalism and failure to evolve. It was done by CEOs, consultants, marketeers, advertisers and business journalists who degraded and devalued the idea by conflating it with change, technology, design, globalization, trendiness, and anything new. It was done by an obsession with measurement, metrics and maths and a demand for predictability in an unpredictable world.” If so, why another book on innovation? Because it is …

Why does this author purport to know better than any of the other hundreds and possibly thousands of financial services people who have entered your life in a "sure shot – can’t fail" book, investment, or approach that promises the one and only way to get it done? The answer and the soothing balm for your skepticism lie in the fact that this author is passing on the methodologies he has used himself in his struggle to achieve personal goals. All despite the adversities that plagued his life and put major strains on his personal finances, including divorce, his child’s …