A World Gone Social

Author : Ted Coine,Mark Babbitt
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814433270

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A World Gone Social by Ted Coine,Mark Babbitt Pdf

Amazingly, what started out as an opportunity to link friends and to find out who’s dating who has since made a meteor-like impact on the business world, and its ongoing effects throughout every single aspect of doing business cannot be overestimated. The world as we know it has changed forever. And it’s not going back!A World Gone Social offers an eye-opening look at fundamental and powerful changes the social collaboration era has set in motion:• Customers now have the power--just watch what happens as more realize it!• Command-and-control leadership is now so inefficient, it is a liability.• Nimble and small is the new competitive advantage.• Recruiting is now a two-way proposition, with job seekers able to peek behind the corporate curtain.• Relationship and community-building is how customers are brand ambassadors are won--and retained.• Active engagement with partners, employees, and customers is no longer a luxury but a requirement.But this invaluable resource for any business wishing to remain relevant in this Social Revolution doesn’t stop with simply pointing out the changes that have evolved in recent years. More importantly, it provides critical guidance for navigating today’s customer-driven, ultra-transparent, constantly evolving environment. With compelling stories and concrete examples of companies demonstrating enlightened business practices and doing Social right--and some that are not--readers will be able to learn from others’ experiences and discover how to objectively assess their own company’s culture and social presence. The world has gone social . . . don’t get left behind!

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062351818

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World Gone By by Dennis Lehane Pdf

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—delivers a psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present. Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin’s enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe’s son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife’s homeland. A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa’s social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything—money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past—and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full. Dennis Lehane vividly recreates the rise of the mob during a world at war, from a masterfully choreographed Ash Wednesday gun battle in the streets of Ybor City to a chilling, heartbreaking climax in a Cuban sugar cane field. Told with verve and skill, World Gone By is a superb work of historical fiction from one of “the most interesting and accomplished American novelists” (Washington Post) writing today.

Author : James O'Brien
Publisher : Random House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780753553114

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How To Be Right by James O'Brien Pdf

The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Parliamentary Book Awards Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the incisive way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning. In the bestselling How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with unchallenged opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or corporate cronies, this book is your conversation survival guide.

Author : S. Chris Edmonds,Mark S. Babbitt
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781953295996

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Good Comes First by S. Chris Edmonds,Mark S. Babbitt Pdf

Discover the practical, step-by-step guide to creating a workplace culture that’s better for employees, customers, and stakeholders—and your company’s bottom line. For decades, talented people have tolerated old-school leaders who put results before respect, toxic company cultures, and workplaces that suck. But those days are over, and if leaders want to attract and retain the best employees—while improving productivity, customer service, employee satisfaction, and profits—it’s time for them to create work cultures where good comes first. The problem is that because the corporate world has too often been driven primarily by results, we seldom ask leaders to change their work cultures. Even if we did, most leaders don’t know how. This book provides the actionable inspiration and practical direction needed to make that change happen. In Good Comes First, S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt go beyond theoretical advice, using their combined 50 years of experience to present proven strategies for creating purposeful, positive and productive work cultures. Cultures where good comes first for employees, customers, leaders, and stakeholders—and where improved business outcomes quickly follow. In these pages, readers will learn to: Appreciate why a good comes first culture is a business imperative – especially for younger generations. Distance yourself from the competition that maintains its undefined work culture (one that most likely sucks). Identify what “good” means for your company in today’s business climate – and in the future of work. Define your uncompromising work culture as you build a foundation of respect AND results. Formalize your team’s servant purpose so that everyone understands how what your team does improves lives and communities. Specify respectful behaviors, so your desired values are observable, tangible, and measurable. Align your entire organization to your desired work culture – where good comes first every day. Assess the quality of your current work culture by measuring and monitoring how well your leaders and your executive team demonstrate your servant purpose, valued behaviors, strategies, and goals. Hold everyone accountable for both respect and results through modeling, celebrating, measuring, coaching, and mentoring leaders and team members. Implement real, needed change – and quit “thinking” and “talking” about change (but never really get change started). Become a change champion while creating a lasting legacy as a business leader. Build a team of good people doing good work in a good company. What’s more, Good Comes First shows you where potential barriers to success hide—and how to push through them—and illuminates the moments when you’ll feel the most satisfaction and gain the most traction. After reading this book, you will see that when done right, change is not only possible—it’s practical, powerful, and profitable. And you will realize that you are the right person, at the right time, to make that change happen.

Author : John Coy
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541595545

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If We Were Gone by John Coy Pdf

Water, air, sunlight, plants . . . we need these elements to live in this world. But does the world need us? And what would happen to the world if humans were gone? This is the premise of a thought-provoking picture book from John Coy. His insightful text explores how nature would reclaim the planet, accompanied by Natalie Capannelli's gorgeous watercolor illustrations. Back matter gives further context and discusses what kids (and all of us) can do to truly help our planet.

Author : Ajaz Ahmed,Stefan Olander
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781448116898

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Velocity by Ajaz Ahmed,Stefan Olander Pdf

How can you win when the only certainty is change? Highly accessible, lively and inspiring, Velocity draws upon the authors’ unique perspectives and experiences to present seven timeless new laws for businesses and individuals in a world that is dominated by rapid change and digital technology. Written as a fascinating and enjoyable conversation between the authors – Stefan Olander, Vice President of Digital Sport from Nike and Ajaz Ahmed founder and Chairman AKQA – Velocity's up-to-date examples illustrate key lessons, together with insights, ideas and inspiration that individuals and businesses should adopt to thrive in the digital age. Velocity shares the vision and values required to succeed with the untold backstories to influential and iconic innovation. Fast paced, useful, provocative and highly motivating, Velocity is a management book that will arm you with actionable ideas to define your future. Features: - 4 Velocity principles: Speed, Direction, Acceleration, Discipline. - 7 Laws, including 'A Smith & Wesson beats four aces', 'It’s easier done than said', 'Convenient is the enemy of right' and 'No good joke survives a committee of six'.

Author : Nick Harkaway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307270375

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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Pdf

A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.

Author : John MacArthur
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736931816

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Right Thinking in a World Gone Wrong by John MacArthur Pdf

“Our response to moral questions is not determined by politics, economics, personal preference, popular opinion, or human reasoning. It is, instead, grounded in what God has told us is true about ourselves and our world....God’s Word offers sanity, clarity, and hope.” --John MacArthur Trusted Voices Offer Biblical Responses to Today’s Hot Issues One of the greatest challenges facing Christians today is the powerful influence of secular thinking. From all directions we’re fed a constant barrage of persuasive—yet unbiblical—worldviews. This makes it difficult to know where to stand on today’s most talked-about issues. The leadership team at Grace Community Church, along with their pastor, John MacArthur, provide much-needed discernment and clarity in the midst of rampant confusion. Using the Bible as the foundation, you’ll learn how to develop a Christian perspective on key issues—including... political activism environmentalism the cult of celebrity entertainment and escapism homosexual marriage abortion, birth control, and surrogacy euthanasia and suicide disasters and epidemics immigration God and the problem of evil Also included is a topical reference guide of Bible verses that address key concerns—a guide that will arm you with right thinking and biblical answers to challenging questions.

Author : Paul David Tripp
Publisher : Shepherd Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0981540066

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Broken Down House by Paul David Tripp Pdf

Sin has ravaged the house that God created. It sits slumped, disheveled and in pain, groaning for the restoration that can only be accomplished by the hands of him who built it in the first place. The good news is that the divine Builder will not relent until everything about his house is made new again. The bad news is that you and I are living right in the middle of the restoration process. We live each day in a house that is terribly broken, where nothing works exactly as intended. But Emmanuel lives here as well, and he is at work returning his house to its former beauty. --from publisher description

Author : Emmanuelle Barozet,Ivan Sainsaulieu,Régis Cortesero,David Mélo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030931230

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Where Has Social Justice Gone? by Emmanuelle Barozet,Ivan Sainsaulieu,Régis Cortesero,David Mélo Pdf

This book uses survey data in "hot spots" around the globe, to analyse various models of social justice, particularly the principle of equality, from a pragmatic perspective. Starting with ordinary actors, social movements, and concrete contexts, the authors question foundations of social and political democracy in our times. They focus on how social actors deal with the principles of justice and judgments of justice at work and in their social lives. The book suggests that the increase in social inequalities in recent decades contrasts with the blurring of the aims of social justice. At a time when the reconsideration of politics largely depends on its relevance to and aspirations for social justice, the authors of this book question contemporary developments by illustrating its variety, according to specific historical, institutional, social and organizational contexts.The book will be useful to students and scholars in the social sciences, especially those interested in moral questions regarding social justice, from an empirical and practical point of view.

Author : Chuck Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN : 1857885740

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The Third Screen by Chuck Martin Pdf

Expert, cutting edge information for marketing to the generation of shoppers who purchase goods and services on cellphones and tablets.

Author : Jennifer Mandelbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135652845

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Studies in Language and Social Interaction by Jennifer Mandelbaum Pdf

This collection offers empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life. The writings come from many of the world's leading researchers and cut across academic boundaries, engaging scholars and teachers from such disciplines as communication, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and education. Chapters emphasize empirical, qualitative studies of people's everyday uses of talk-in-interaction, and they feature work in such areas as sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography. The volume is dedicated to and highlights themes in the work of the late Robert Hopper, an outstanding scholar in communication who pioneered research in Language and Social Interaction (LSI). The contributors examine various features of human interaction (such as laughter, vocal repetition, and hand gestures) occurring naturally within a variety of settings (at a dinner table, a doctor's office, an automotive repair shop, and so forth), whereby interlocutors accomplish aspects of their interpersonal or institutional lives (resolve a disagreement, report bad medical news, negotiate a raise, and more), all of which may relate to larger social issues (including police brutality, human spirituality, death, and optimism). The chapters in this anthology show that social life is largely a communicative accomplishment and that people constitute the social realities experienced every day through small and subtle ways of communicating, carefully orchestrated but commonly taken for granted. In showcasing the diversity of contemporary LSI research, this volume is appropriate for scholars and graduate students in language and social interaction, communication, sociology, research methods, qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistics, and related areas.

Author : Chad Alen Goldberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226460697

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Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by Chad Alen Goldberg Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the “Jewish Revolution,” Émile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions derived from Christian theology. In the United States, William Thomas, Robert Park, and their students conceived the modern city and its new modes of social organization in part by reference to the Jewish immigrants concentrating there. In all three countries, social thinkers invoked real or purported differences between Jews and gentiles to elucidate key dualisms of modern social thought. The Jews thus became an intermediary through which social thinkers discerned in a roundabout fashion the nature, problems, and trajectory of their own wider societies. Goldberg rounds out his fascinating study by proposing a novel explanation for why Jews were such an important cultural reference point. He suggests a rethinking of previous scholarship on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and European perceptions of America, arguing that history extends into the present, with the Jews—and now the Jewish state—continuing to serve as an intermediary for self-reflection in the twenty-first century.

Author : Frederick Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWDFIS

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Salad for the Solitary and the Social by Frederick Saunders Pdf

Author : Stephen D. Dowden,Thomas P. Quinn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781571135858

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Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought by Stephen D. Dowden,Thomas P. Quinn Pdf

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.