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In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.

Eighteen years after the genocide that made Rwanda international news, yet left it all but abandoned by the West, the country has achieved a miraculous turnaround. Rising out of the complete devastation of a failed state, Rwanda has emerged on the world stage yet again - this time with a unique model for governance and economic development under the leadership of its strong and decisive president, Paul Kagame. Here, Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond look at Kagame’s leadership.

Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes listeners behind the scenes of some of the world’s biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.

South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-1953) is often referred to by observers and historians as the "Miracle on the Han River." The nation underwent an astonishing makeover from being one of the poorest countries to become the 12th largest economy in the world and 4th in Asia. South Korea also became one of the most technologically advanced countries in a short span. As in other capitalist economies, some people have benefited from the economic and technological attainments, while others have been left out....

Four years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in audiobook, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the indebtedness of developing countries, international fiscal instability, and worldwide pollution.

Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of the hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed the commodity they had—bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Following its evolution around the world, she reveals how prize-winning economists, eccentric theorists, visionary statesmen, and consultants masterminded its export in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers where immigrants languish in limbo, and charter cities controlled by by foreign governments and multinational foreign corporations—and even into outer space.

You are about to learn how to join the league of confident options traders that are able to create full time income through options trading! This audiobook is designed to not only give you all the information you need to get started as soon as possible, but is judiciously crafted with a total beginner and intermediate in mind. It is simple to follow, and in the end, you should be able to understand how to be an options trader and be able to employ other techniques to maximize your earnings like Forex, swing trading, and trading in futures.

I have always appreciated wines. I guess, you could say, I was in love with wine. I knew what the supposed experts said about food and wine pairings. I knew how to describe the body and the tannins of the wine. When I found myself out of work, laid off from my typical office nine-to-five job, I was inspired by wine. One evening, while sipping a glass of my favorite casual red blend, I started examining the label.

If you’re reading this that likely means you’ve heard of “selling on Amazon", “Amazon FBA”, or “private label products” being bandied around Online or from other entrepreneurs. Perhaps you’re already quite experienced in this field and are interested in how others run their business or perhaps you’re simply curious about what the fuss is all about. In a nutshell, Amazon FBA can be compared to what eBay was 10 years ago, in terms of the opportunity it provides to earn money Online. The actual technicalities of how FBA and private labeling works will be covered in the next two chapters.

There is a quiet threat that has been building that incorporates China, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Iran, and Ethiopia, and it now accounts for 45% of the world's population, 30% of Earth's land mass, and 25% of global trade. This has been monikered the BRICS+ since 2023, but its origin dates back to a publication from 2001 that was written by O'Neill who at the time was the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Fast forward to June 16, 2009 right at the tail end of the global financial crisis, and the founding members thought that ...

The global freight forwarding market has been seeing a steady growth of around 5 percent for the last four years. New trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trans-Atlantic Partnership (TAP), and many others are bringing the whole world into one marketplace. This is an industry that, in my opinion, is still in its infancy. With TPP, TAP, and many other global trade agreements, the need for such services will grow higher every year.

On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology, if not necessarily for its dominant market share, launched a product with an enticing promise: you can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the company's wildest dreams. Over 50 million people have inserted the device's distinctive white buds into their ears, and the iPod has become a global obsession.

Learn everything you need to start the business you’ve always dreamed of! This comprehensive, step-by-step guide walks the listener through everything an aspiring small business owner needs to know before getting started. It’s not as easy as just hanging up an “Open” sign and letting the money roll in! Planning every step of your business and being aware of all the questions, demands, and challenges you will face will make the difference between just opening up shop and actually running a successful business.

It’s true that the very nature of business has changed drastically over the last few decades. Going into business with the same model as you those used as recently as the year 2010 is a completely different ball game when compared to 2022. So, how can you set up your business to make you the most money possible, whilst also losing the least money possible on inventory and brick-and-mortar warehouse spaces?

Brand partnerships cut through the noise of modern-day marketing to drive billions of dollars of consumer preference, but hardly anyone talks about them. A practical, digestible, principle-based guide for developing strong brand partnerships has never existed... until now. Brand Together presents a principle-based approach for developing successful brand partnerships.

Des leçons intemporelles sur ce qui ne change jamais dans un monde en perpétuel mouvement, par Morgan Housel, auteur de "La Psychologie de l'argent". Si vous faisiez un bond de cinq cents ans dans le passé ou dans le futur, vous seriez ahuri par l'état d'avancement des technologies et de la médecine. L'ordre géopolitique vous paraîtrait incompréhensible. Les langues et les dialectes vous seraient peut-être inintelligibles. Mais vous reconnaîtriez sans mal les principes universels qui régissent les comportements.

Superar una crisis —la crisis— no es volver a TENER sino conseguir SER, afrontar cada instante con dignidad, esperanza y sentido de realidad. 'La crisis será lo que hagas de ella', afirma Álex en este libro. Una obra que asume la dificultad como signo de vida, pero que nos enseña a incorporar lo bueno del pasado, a entregarnos al cambio, a desafiar la rutina, a crear y a pensar de manera diferente, a encontrar un sentido al dolor. Es momento de aprender a combatir las dificultades, los cambios inesperados, la inmovilidad, y utilizar la inteligencia, confiar y seguir remando.

Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants' Global Venturing delves into the fascinating world of Chinese logic that shapes how tech leaders make and implement decisions, many of which are seldom seen outside China.

Winner Take All is about the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades. In particular, it is about the implications of China’s rush for resources across all regions of the world. The scale of China’s resource campaign for hard commodities (metals and minerals) and soft commodities (timber and food) is among the largest in history.

In this groundbreaking treatise, best-selling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He offers an expansive, optimistic vision of how the international community can address them and bring about something historically unprecedented: true global economic prosperity.