Business Unusual

Business Unusual
Author: Johnny C. Wong
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-06-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539844563

Retention and spiritual growth are the urgent goals of discipleship. This book draws on the experience of an Australian lay-led church which has a baptised member retention rate of 90%, and has planted three churches, with two more in progress. Through practical case studies, it offers tools for discipleship and small groups, so that you can retain your members and grow your church!

Business As Unusual

Business As Unusual
Author: Jack Uldrich
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1632993104

Today is the slowest rate of change we will ever experience. From this provoking premise, global futurist Jack Uldrich succinctly delivers ten Big AHA (awareness, humility, and action) ideas focused on helping business leaders and organizations navigate tomorrow’s uncharted and unpredictable waters. Uldrich’s unrivaled, fast-paced manifesto not only explains why “business as unusual” will be the new normal, but also unpacks a series of uncommon and unorthodox actions designed to help you create and unleash a future of unparalleled success. To navigate the future, business leaders must • be AWARE of how technological , economic, social, cultural, and political trends are accelerating, burgeoning, and converging; • have HUMILITY to the idea that what worked yesterday might not be sufficient tomorrow; • take ACTION to create a new and better future. Business as Unusual reveals that the future is the one thing that everyone can change. To find success in business, you must believe the unbelievable, think about the unthinkable, listen to the unconventional, and question the unquestionable.

Business as Unusual

Business as Unusual
Author: Price Pritchett
Publisher: Pritchett & Hull Associates, Incorporated
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780944002018

Let My People Go Surfing

Let My People Go Surfing
Author: Yvon Chouinard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101992530

"Wonderful . . . a moving autobiography, the story of a unique business, and a detailed blueprint for hope." —Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel In this 10th anniversary edition, Yvon Chouinard—legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.—shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian handyman to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport's equipment, Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike.

Business as Unusual

Business as Unusual
Author: Anita Roddick
Publisher: ARP Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780954395957

Anita Roddick is one of the world's most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of the age. Her autobiography, Business As Unusual, charts the story of Roddick and her company The Body Shop through all the highs and lows since 1990. It also examines the parallel growth of vigilante consumerism and predicts how businesses can evolve in this millennium. Roddick tackles a wide range of personal and political issues--from self-esteem to human rights abuses associated with globalization--and offers her own vision for dealing with the demands of an ethical economy. She proposes that the power of public pressure to create change must never be underestimated and argues that waves of public consciousness are steadily forcing corporations to re-evaluate their actions. By expanding the role and responsibility of the entrepreneur, as well as the definition of business ethics, the corporate world will be compelled to change. In this new edition Roddick brings the story up to date.

Growing a Business

Growing a Business
Author: Paul Hawken
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0671671642

The companion volume to the public television series explains what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

What I Didn't Learn in Business School

What I Didn't Learn in Business School
Author: Jay Barney
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422157636

What I Didn't Learn in Business School is a compelling read---whether you're a recent business school grad struggling to apply your new knowledge or an experienced leader who already knows that no strategy is created in a vacuum. --Book Jacket.

Maverick!

Maverick!
Author: Ricardo Semler
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2001
Genre: Brasilien
ISBN: 0712678867

Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, and with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it. Here, the author shares his secrets, and tells how he tore up the rule books.

Business as Usual

Business as Usual
Author: Paul Mattick
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1861899823

The recent global economic downturn has affected nearly everyone in every corner of the globe. Its vast reach and lingering effects have made it difficult to pinpoint its exact cause, and while some economists point to the risks inherent in the modern financial system, others blame long-term imbalances in the world economy. Into this debate steps Paul Mattick, who, in Business as Usual, explains the global economic downturn in relation to the development of the world economy since World War II, but also as a fundamental example of the cycle of crisis and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early nineteenth century. Mattick explains that today’s recession is not the result of a singular financial event but instead is a manifestation of long-term processes within the world economy. Mattick argues that the economic downturn can best be understood within the context of business cycles, which are unavoidable in a free-market economy. He uses this explanation as a springboard for exploring the nature of our capitalist society and its prospects for the future. Although Business as Usual engages with many economic theories, both mainstream and left-wing, Mattick’s accessible writing opens the subject up in order for non-specialists to understand the current economic climate not as the effect of a financial crisis, but as a manifestation of a truth about the social and economic system in which we live. As a result the book is ideal for anyone who wants to gain a succinct and jargon-free understanding of recent economic events, and, just as important, the overall dynamics of the capitalist system itself.

Funky Business

Funky Business
Author: Kjell Nordström
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780273659075

BUSINESS AS USUAL? FUNK THAT "In a world of suits, Nordstrom and Ridderstrale's message is refreshingly different." Business Strategy Review, The Greatest Business Books of All Time "Funky Business gives a unique, informed and defiantly Funky perspective on the new world order. It is the antidote to bland writing and bland thinking." - Tom Peters "Funky Business - the groovy bible of modern business philosophy" - Red magazine In the best-selling Funky Business Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale launch a manifesto for difference in business. Move it. In 1995, 1000 new soft drinks were launched on the Japanese market. A year later, 1% of them were still for sale. Move it fast. If you are driving a 1990 model car, approximately six years were spent developing it. Today, most companies do that job in two years. Move it faster. At Hewlett Packard, the majority revenues come from products that did not exist a year age. Move it now. In Tokyo, you can order a customized Toyota on Monday and be driving it on Friday. More products, more markets, more people, more competition. In a world of abundance and excess, competition is total and competition is personal. Difference rules. If you think about it, most of what your business does could be bought from someone else using the Yellow Pages or an Internet search engine. How are you going to be attractive? By being more efficient? By doing it cheaper? Come on! This is the age of time and talent, where we are selling time and talent, exploiting time and talent, hiring time and talent, packaging time and talent. Today, the "critical resources" wear shoes and walk out the door around 5.30pm every day. Karl Marx was right; the workers should own the critical means of production - it's small, gray and weighs about 1.3 kilograms. It will move markets and it will make capital dance. Only talent will allow you to be unique, to escape business as usual. In this world we need business as unusual. We need innovative business. We need unpredictable business. We need Funky Business. This is business book as unusual. "Funky Business is a better book than most novels but it is not for bedtime. It will jerk you out of your complacency and make you question your very existence. It will transform your brain." - Customer Management Are you ready to let your talent make capital dance?