Ergebnis für "The Essays" in Arbeitsplatz- & Organisationsverhalten

"Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth," wrote Ayn Rand. In the title essay of this collection, Leonard Peikoff applies this principle to the world of business. He shows that certain philosophic ideas, such as reason, egoism, and individualism, are needed to defend and protect the freedom of businessmen, while the opposite ideas, such as mysticism, altruism, and collectivism (which dominate our universities), destroy that freedom.

An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. “Illuminating and inspiring." —New Republic You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in...

The financial crisis that peaked in the United States during the fall of 2008 is an excellent case study of what can go wrong with leadership and corporate governance - in business, financial ethics, government regulation directed both at the firm level and at that of the financial system itself, and legal accountability for the culprits.

The collection begins with a series of essays on Lehman Brothers, with particular attention to its last CEO, Richard Fuld....

Leadership Lessons, Volume 2 is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. The central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential. Many of the essays are titled in the form of a question because if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

Leadership Lessons is a book about how to improve organizational performance. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term projects spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

This as-it-happened review of the causes, consequences, and repercussions of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis is more than a history lesson – it’s a look into the future.

Inequality is a choice. The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story—the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations in measures of...

Do you want advice on how to stand out in a crowded marketplace? Do you want to take your career to the next level and beyond? In Stand Out & Succeed, career and business strategist Christy Frank explains how the job market really works, and shows you the strategies, psychology and tactics you need to know to get a lucrative, recession-proof career you love. The biggest problem with finding a job today is that we actually have two job markets, and 95% of people don't know how to perform well in either.