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Can you reverse climate change and promote social justice while generating a profit? Richard Walker shows you how it's both possible and valuable to "do it right". Walker runs a £3bn business that is affecting real change in the most unlikely but critical sector: the supermarket. From restricting single-use plastic to eradicating palm oil from products, his quest is to find purpose with profit for his business.

In today's business environment, companies are being held accountable to a growing list of stakeholders who assess company performance against a variety of criteria, from financial and operational performance to labor practices and environmental issues.

The world is facing dramatic geopolitical, environmental, and technological shifts. Venture Meets Mission argues that if Business, Government, and Society come together, rebuild trust, and collaborate, we have a generational opportunity to address societal challenges—climate change, cybersecurity, disease outbreaks, food insecurity, and education. The book explains, with hope and passion, how our existing entrepreneurial ecosystem, with the ideals of democracy, can be the foundation for a new mission-driven capitalism.

Die einzigartige Geschichte von Amazon. Nahezu jeder kennt und nutzt Amazon. Amazon hat es geschafft, jeden Haushalt der Welt zu erreichen. Zunächst mit einem unschlagbaren Online-Shopping-Angebot, dann durch eine gnadenlose Expansion in sämtliche Bereiche unseres Lebens: Smart-Home-Angebote, Cloud-Computing-Lösungen, Logistikdienstleistungen, Lebensmittellieferungen - sogar unser Fernsehprogramm stellt der Online-Riese mit einem Lächeln bereit.

How can organizations integrate sustainable design into their overarching operations and align it with profitability and corporate strategy? The Sustainability Scorecard is the first scientifically rooted, data-driven methodology for creating inherently sustainable and profitable products and processes. By redesigning with sustainability as a key design element, firms open themselves to unexpected solutions, leapfrog innovations, and sources of value that simply don’t occur when sustainability is leveraged purely as a risk-avoidance and compliance measure.

One of the most important features of China’s economic emergence has been the role of foreign investment and foreign companies. The importance goes well beyond the USD 1.6 trillion in foreign direct investment that China has received since it started opening its economy. Using the tools of economic impact analysis, the author estimates that around one-third of China’s GDP in recent years has been generated by the investments, operations, and supply chains of foreign invested companies.

A lean startup guide with out-of-the-box ideas on how to open a vegan restaurant from a restaurant owner’s perspective with no previous restaurant experience to owning and managing a successful vegan restaurant in South Florida. You’ll learn key mistakes to avoid that will help you stay away from many headaches, what I learned while going through a full renovation process, how to open the restaurant and drive traffic before you even open, and advice on how to operate the restaurant so you can grow it successfully.

The ever-increasing pace of change in today's organizations requires us all to understand and quickly adapt to constant shifts in the way our companies operate and how work gets done. Developing your own and your team's learning agility will keep your skills fresh, and help you stay flexible, grow from mistakes, and successfully respond to unexpected challenges.

Los problemas de dinero nunca se han solucionado con dinero, sino con ideas nuevas. Sin embargo, cuando pasamos por dificultades económicas, toda nuestra energía se canaliza en tratar de resolverlas, y - paradójicamente - no generamos ideas nuevas. Por eso este audiolibro no trata tanto sobre dinero, sino sobre cómo recuperar la libertad sobre tu tiempo y tu energía. Para ello, debes aprender primero qué es el dinero, los mitos y las creencias que tenemos sobre el mismo, así como las actitudes necesarias para mejorar tu situación económica.

Have you ever thought about owning your own independent hotel, resort, inn, or bed and breakfast, but are not sure or the steps to take to ensure success? If you have answered yes, this audiobook is for you. If you have dreams of becoming a successful independent hotel, resort, inn, or bed and breakfast proprietor, this audiobook is designed to get you started and to grow your business. Your Full Guide to Owning & Operating a Hospitality Property - Successfully will share you more than just quick-fix tactics but instead how to develop successful long-term operation methods.

Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the rich world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

Conventional “wisdom” holds that the most successful entrepreneurs in the world are born with a genius for starting companies, experience one lightning-bolt moment of inspiration after another, follow a tried-and-true process to scale to a billion dollars, and attract deep-pocketed investors at every turn.

Kim Hvidkjaer was twenty-nine years old when he became a millionaire. Two years later, after a cluster of disasters, he found himself basically broke. Now, having rebuilt his fortune as the founder of several successful enterprises and studied thousands of failed startups, Hvidkjaer has become an expert in failure: what it means, what it looks like, and the strategies that business owners can use to prevent it. In How to F--k Up Your Startup, he takes us on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the complex patterns of failure in the life cycle of a business.

The book explains what it takes to build and manage partner channels in the software industry. The book uses the business model framework introduced by Alexander Osterwalder. It provides a practical guide for organizing the activities required to design productive partner programs as well as implement these programs for the recruitment and management of partners that will find, win, make, keep, and grow happy customers on our behalf.

Over the past decade and a half, carbon markets have emerged all across the globe. Recently, China, one of the biggest carbon-emitting nations on the planet, created a carbon market that is the biggest in the world. As the focus shifts on combating climate change and cutting carbon emissions, Carbon trade is gaining popularity.

Ann Armbrecht describes her journeys to herb collection sites, farms, and factories in North America, Europe, and India to tell the stories of the people and places behind the bottles of herbal products on grocery store shelves. The Business of Botanicals is the first resource of its kind for listeners who wish to take the extra step in curating ethically sourced products.

How is it that some companies seem to be able to charge sky-high prices and 'get away with it' while their competitors struggle to get customers at any price and often end up discounting their way out of profitability and business? The answer lies in "The Experience Business". When you listen to this audiobook you'll understand: The KEY DIFFERENCES between experience businesses and price-led businesses, Why businesses need a set of rules to consistently deliver GREAT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES, How to craft a set of experience rules to drive your own BUSINESS GROWTH AND PROFIT.

"Simple, Logical, Repeatable" is your blueprint for modelling McDonald's to achieve the success, and freedom, you're looking for. It introduces you to The McFreedom System® that draws on the four foundation systems underpinning the enduring success of McDonald's - the reason they have become so consistent, reliable and trusted in the global marketplace. Planning - clarity around your destination and your route map to get you there.

This is a collection of Walter Williams’ essays, drawn from his syndicated column. Williams writes with brilliant clarity––and he doesn’t mince words. He destroys a number of prevailing myths, such as economic and social disparities being the result of racism and economic sanctions punishing the South African blacks more that the whites. Williams explains why the nature of congressmen is not to act in the national interest and shows how government regulations hinder rather than help the disadvantaged.

"I've set up my corporation. Now what do I do?" All too often business owners and real estate investors are asking this question. They have formed their protective entity - be it a corporation, LLC, or LP - and don't know what to do next. Run Your Own Corporation provides the solution to this very common dilemma. Breaking down the requirements chronologically (i.e. the first day, first quarter, first year), the audiobook sets forth all the tax and corporate and legal matters new business owners must comply with.