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Red Yellow Green: What Color is Your Money? The survival manual for gig workers and consultants
Author Noah Gift
This is the book your boss does NOT want you to read!Learn to escape corporate America. We live in a new era of disruption. It is possible to start a business with a laptop and an internet connection. As a long time consultant and entrepreneur, I have come up with a frame....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Manufacturers Can Also Win in the Sharing Economy
Author Frieda Klotz
The sharing economy isn’t all bad news for manufacturers of big-ticket items such as cars. Research suggests that in some circumstances, manufacturers can charge higher prices to customers who are planning to rent out those goods. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Don Tapscott
“Twenty years of hindsight prove how deeply Tapscott understood the impact the Internet would have on the way we live, work, play and learn. This important book, now updated, is just as relevant today as it was then.”John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, CiscoWith a new ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Robbie Kellman Baxter
In today’s business world, it takes more than a website to stay competitive. The smartest, most successful companies are using radically new membership models, subscription-based formats, and freemium pricing structures to grow their customer base—a....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Africa: The Tenth Largest Economy in the World
Author Vijay Mahajan
This Element is an excerpt from Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think (ISBN: 9780132339421) by Vijay Mahajan. Available in print and digital formats.The surprising numbers: why Africa is a larger market than you ever realized.If ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Chinese Counterfeiting and Piracy: Real Dangers to Your Health and Our Economy
Author Peter Navarro
This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.China’s massive commercial piracy and counterfeiting industries: how they work and....
Release Date 2010/02 -
The Macroeconomics of the Global Technology Economy
Author Howard A. Rubin
In 2010, global technology spending exceeded $4.2 trillion, equivalent to the world’s fourth largest economy—and its growth rate is substantially outstripping GDP growth in advanced economies. Virtually overnight, a massive “global technology economy” has emerged—an....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
Author Ph.D. Gregory Salsbury
“A superb introduction to the necessary financial planning no American over 40 can afford to ignore.”Publishers Weekly“It’s time for many individual investors to make some hard choices. Baby Boomers are learning to deal with the fact that they really can’t have it a....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change
Author Robert Gunther , Ph.D. Gregory Shea
Selected by IBM Competitive Edge Book Club Selection. "The beauty of this book on top of its life-saving timeliness is its capacity to give the reader concrete steps to live the good life and enjoy it. The book made me understand that work can be more fun than fun.....
Release Date 2008/08 -
Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy
Author Morris Altman
This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how hig....
Release Date 2013/06 -
External Dimension of an Emerging Economy, India
Author Byasdeb Dasgupta
This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions of Indian economy signify her inter-relation with the rest of the world in terms of trade and financial flows and how ....
Release Date 2013/06 -
A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis
Author Spyros Lapatsioras , John Milios , Dimitris P Sotiropoulos
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning Your Business in the Global Economy
Author Olivia Parr Rud
Praise for Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your business in the Global Economy"Olivia Parr Rud does a remarkable job of weaving together many topics in a strategic way. As 'quants,' we're fascinated with data and fact-based decision-maki....
Release Date 2009/06 -
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
Author Andrew J. Schiff , Peter D. Schiff
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author of Crash Proof, Peter Schiff teams up with his brother Andr....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Author Kimberly Palmer
The biggest trend in business is the microbusiness! Handcrafted jewelry, artisanal eats, life coaching, app development, you name it—entrepreneurial side ventures are everywhere. Weary of pink-slip anxiety and the endless money squeeze, millions of people....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Author Diane Mulcahy
From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines…and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy—mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those w....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Career Skills for the New Economy
Author Bruce Tulgan
This pocket guide provides all employees a gameplan for succeeding in the modern, fast changing economy. Teaches how to learn and accumulate marketable skills that will transfer to different jobs and different companies. The underlying assumption of Career Skills fo....
Release Date 2000/01 -
Micro-Entrepreneurship For Dummies
Author Paul Mladjenovic
Tired of the 9-to-5 grind and want a way to earn or to supplement your income? Easy.The media has named the growing trend toward micro-entrepreneurship "the Rise of the Creative Class," "the Gig Life," or "the freelance economy." All of those refer to the nearly 4 m....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy
Author Courtney Geduldig , John Dearie
A guide to ending America's jobs emergency by accelerating the true engine of job creation—start-upsFour years after the end of the Great Recession, 23 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or have left the workforce discouraged. Even worse, Washingto....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Managing the Matrix: The Secret to Surviving and Thriving in Your Organization
Author Dawn Metcalfe
A comprehensive guide to excelling in a complex matrix organizationDebra was not in a good mood as she entered Johann's office for their third meeting. One of her colleagues had just been promoted and, although the guy who got it was good, she didn't think he was ....
Release Date 2014/05 -
The Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy
Author Paul Schulte
Go inside the research to see the global consequences of unethical bankingThe Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy: The Advent of Financial Technology integrates market theory and practice to help investors identify growth opportunities, and to help regulat....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Xiaodong Lee , Dominic Barton , Winston Ma
Explore the world-changing digital transformation in ChinaChina's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organised into three major areas of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Stian Westlake , Jonathan Haskel
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&a....
Release Date 2017/11 -
The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
Author John C. Beck , Thomas H. Davenport
In today's information-flooded world, the scarcest resource is not ideas or even talent: it's attention. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue that unless companies learn to effectively capture, manage, and keep it--both internally and ....
Release Date 2001/04 -
Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work
Author Tamara Erickson
They make up nearly one-third of all Americans living today. Born after 1980, they're now pouring into the work world with values, aspirations, and approaches that differ markedly from their parents--and coworkers. They're Generation Y.In Plugged In, Tamara Ericks....
Release Date 2008/11 -
The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge
Author Doc Searls
Caveat venditor—let the seller bewareWhile marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with “big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:• Control the fl....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
Author Kevin Mellyn
"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should....
Release Date 2012/06 -
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
Author Janet Wasko , Graham Murdock , Helena Sousa
Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of C....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Thriving in the Gig Economy: Freelancing Online for Tech Professionals and Entrepreneurs
Author Adam Sinicki
Take an in-depth look into the gig economy to see how tech professionals and entrepreneurs can earn a living as freelancers and contractors. Build your own business. The pros and cons of the lifestyle and what to expect from it are discussed.In this book, author Ad....
Release Date 2018/11