How Impatient Organisations Build Profitable Brands, Fast.
A practical and inspiring guide to building brands in this modern, fast paced business environment. Leveraging the latest in marketing science, first hand experience and behind the scenes case studies. You will learn the four key foundations for growth: 1. Find your consumers’ most valuable PROBLEM 2. Design a clear SOLUTION that delivers ......
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
There seems to be widespread agreement that - when it comes to the writing skills of college students - we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some ......
In Capital Offence award-winning investor Paul Musson shows how the world is becoming increasingly divided on many fronts. One of the root causes of this is that well-intended policymakers have drunk the something-from-nothing Kool-Aid and are convinced that there is such a thing as a free lunch. There isn't. They believe that debt-fueled spending ......
The current industrial food system comes at a tremendous economic cost. Dealing with malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation costs trillions of dollars, but because that price tag does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.
Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education
How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today'MOOCs especially'focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking ......
The ultimate test of management is performance - the
achievement of actual results. Why, then, do Australian managers
concern themselves with their colleagues’ personalities and
motives? Why have they become infatuated with emotional
intelligence and, in bizarre cases, with spiritual intelligence?
Assessment of executive and senior level positions requires special consideration. Executive assessment is a specialized application of individual psychological assessment that is focused on executive and senior leadership positions. This population warrants special consideration because of the the large and lasting impact they have on the health ......
Kevin Paul MA, MPA, began his professional career teaching study skills at the University of Victoria. He has been a student services professional for more than 20 years and has talked with thousands of students about what it takes to be a successful learner. Currently, he is president of Kihon Learning Systems, a company dedicated to helping ......
Managing Remote Staff: Capitalize on Work-from-Home Productivity offers small businesses -- and managers in businesses of any size -- practical advice, strategies and case studies for managing employees who are out of sight, but NOT out of mind. Managing remote workers is nothing new, but its prevalence has been impacted significantly by COVID-19. ......
