Bridges to New Business

Bridges to New Business
Author: J.Th. Lindblad
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004253971

MING QING YANJIU, founded in 1992, is a peer reviewed journal dedicated primarily to advanced studies of pre-modern China. This journal provides a forum for scholars from a variety of fields related to late imperial and early republican period that aim to have a cross-disciplinary discourse. Contributions in sociology, literature, psychology, anthropology, history, geography, linguistics, semiotics, political science, and philosophy, as well as book reviews are welcome.

Transitions

Transitions
Author: William Bridges
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-08-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0738211427

The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.

Creating You & Co

Creating You & Co
Author: William Bridges
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey International
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781857881547

"In today's new business environment, workers must begin to think of themselves as independent contractors, not lifetime employees"

The Entrepreneur Bridge

The Entrepreneur Bridge
Author: W. Glen Thompson
Publisher: Stimulus Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780988843608

The reality is it's not easy to start and grow a business, but you can overcome the barriers and have success in business as an entrepreneur with the kind of information that's in The Entrepreneur Bridge: How to Overcome the 7 Top Barriers to Business Success. In this book, you'll learn: Seven top barriers to entrepreneur business success Motivation and methods to build bridges over the barriers A Roadmap with a system of methods, templates and guidance that accelerate entrepreneurs to success Competencies and characteristics of a successful entrepreneur How to deal with the risks and pressures to be faced. Success as an entrepreneur is about how well you build a bridge to overcome the barriers you encounter when starting and building a business. If you're ready to become an entrepreneur success story, pursue it with this motivation and methods that can help you build a bridge to your own American dream. There has never been a better time to start a business as an entrepreneur, never a better time to join the ranks of the expanding entrepreneurial economy and reach for the achievement, satisfaction, freedom and potential wealth of being an entrepreneur. But there are barriers for every individual as an entrepreneur, and many are swept away from the pathway to business success by the troubles encountered. If only they had been aware of the barriers they would face and how they could prepare to bridge over them. Within this book, a journey awaits you. It is one with dangers to prepare for, insights to learn, and bridges to build. It includes research, experience and observations from hundreds of entrepreneurs on the main barriers entrepreneurs encounter, methods how to overcome them, and daring entrepreneurial success stories full of encouragement to motivate you in reaching your business dreams as an entrepreneur.

Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition)

Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition)
Author: William Bridges
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0738219665

The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change. As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains, transition is successful when employees have a purpose, a plan, and a part to play. This indispensable guide is now updated to reflect the challenges of today's ever-changing, always-on, and globally connected workplaces. Directed at managers on all rungs of the corporate ladder, this expanded edition of the classic bestseller provides practical, step-by-step strategies for minimizing disruptions and navigating uncertain times.

Bridge Builders

Bridge Builders
Author: Nathan Bomey
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781509545933

In these turbulent times, defined by ideological chasms, clashes over social justice, and a pandemic intersecting with misinformation, Americans seem hopelessly divided along fault lines of politics, race, religion, class, and culture. Yet not everyone is accepting the status quo. In Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age, journalist Nathan Bomey paints a forensic portrait of Americans who are spanning gaping divides between people of difference. From clergy fighting racism in Charlottesville to a former Republican congressman engaging conservatives on climate change and Appalachian journalists restoring social trust with the public, these countercultural leaders all believe in the power of forging lasting connections to bring about profound change. Though the blueprints for political, social, and cultural bridges vary widely, bridge builders have much in common—and we have much to learn from them. In this book, Bomey dissects the transformational ways in which bridge builders are combatting polarization by pursuing reconciliation, rejecting misinformation, and rethinking the principle of compromise.

Managing Transitions

Managing Transitions
Author: William Bridges
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780738208244

The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of corporate mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring hitting the news every day. Yet as veteran consultant William Bridges maintains, the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological transitions. In the best-selling Managing Transitions, Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization. Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, Bridges shows how to minimize the distress and disruptions caused by change. Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people who have to carry out the change. When the book was originally published a decade ago, Bridges was the first to provide any real sense of the emotional impact of change and what can be done to keep it from disrupting the entire organization. With new information and commentary on layoffs, corporate suspicion, and the increasing tumult in the business world, Managing Transitions remains the definitive guide to dealing with change.

Leading Sustainably

Leading Sustainably
Author: Trista Bridges
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Industrial management
ISBN: 9780367495244

The business world is at an important crossroads. The age of the stakeholder is rapidly superseding that of the shareholder as climate change and political and societal shifts upend years of seeming prosperity. To move past this agitated age, business and society must learn to lead sustainably by putting purpose on equal footing with profit. The first step is understanding what's meant by sustainability and how it offers an opportunity for both business and society. Inspired by the launch of the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the book captures the ideas of more than 100 change makers from around the world about how business is putting sustainability at the core of strategy to survive, thrive, and realign its interests with society's. Leading Sustainably looks at how sustainability has evolved in a business context, offering powerful insights, key facts, and guidance on building sustainability capability within companies, measuring and managing impact, sustainable finance's transformation, and other topics critical to aligning businesses' central activities with sustainable principles. The book introduces five vignettes profiling best-in-class companies that were sustainable from the start and international case studies on business sustainability efforts, spanning industries from hospitality to waste management, fashion, finance, and more. Finally, Bridges and Eubank provide frameworks and in-depth direction firms can leverage when accelerating their transition to more sustainable business models. The book is a perfect guide for mid-level to senior managers seeking to understand this fast-changing business environment, how to factor sustainability into their decision-making, and why the SDGs changed everything.

Building New Bridges Between Business and Society

Building New Bridges Between Business and Society
Author: Hualiang Lu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319635611

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance. Thanks to the different visions and perspectives offered by a global group of authors with a broad range of expertise, the book offers a full spectrum of theoretical and practical approaches. Further, it combines the latest theoretical thinking with reviews of frameworks, cases and best practices from various industries and nations. In particular, the book offers a historical perspective on the origins of CSR and discusses CSR in relation to sustainability and management, with a special focus on CSR in Asia.