Entrepreneurial Icebreakers

Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Author: J. Prats
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137446323

This book presents key insights about the challenges and the approaches they applied. All companies are featured in 15 teachable case studies – ready to use in entrepreneurship and strategy courses – that represent a broad level of diversity with regard to countries, industries, topics, growth phases, challenges and internationalization strategies.

Entrepreneurial Icebreakers

Entrepreneurial Icebreakers
Author: J. Prats
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137446323

This book presents key insights about the challenges and the approaches they applied. All companies are featured in 15 teachable case studies – ready to use in entrepreneurship and strategy courses – that represent a broad level of diversity with regard to countries, industries, topics, growth phases, challenges and internationalization strategies.

The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe

The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe
Author: Robert A. Crane
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137509295

This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes. With contributions from skilled authors that cover Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, and particularly Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia, this collection provides a broad understanding of how business is conducted within the different countries of peripheral Europe. The book seeks to examine the influence of culture on business, and more specifically the interaction between national and corporate cultures. It will be of great interest to researchers interested in international business, cross-cultural management, and business organisation.

Living and Working With Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic

Living and Working With Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic
Author: Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031364457

This book describes everyday practices of life in changing Arctic winter conditions. The authors explore the contemporary and situated outdoor practices in different work settings in Finnish Lapland and investigate how, for example, tourism, reindeer herding, cattle breeding and urban snow management adapt to the physically limiting or enabling features of cold temperatures, snow and ice. The book also highlights individual and societal adjustments to such harsh conditions and their seasonal changes in mobility, including winter cycling, use of snow mobiles and walking with studded shoes. The impact of a warming climate is a great concern for those utilising the enabling qualities of winter weather. The need, then, for continuous adaptation in everyday practices of work and mobility will increase in the future.

Ice Breakers!

Ice Breakers!
Author: Tom “Big Al” Schreiter
Publisher: Fortune Network Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1892366150

Want to get your MLM and network marketing prospects to beg you for a presentation by using Ice Breakers? You can turn any warm or cold prospect into a hot prospect, wanting to know all about your business. How? By learning how to effectively introduce your business into a social conversation with an easy, rejection-free sequence of just a few words. Prospects want what you have to offer, but they are afraid of someone selling them. However, prospects love to buy and join. So why not use socially acceptable word sequences that compel any prospect to literally beg you for a presentation? This book contains several effective formulas with many examples of each formula that you can use or modify. Once we know how the formulas work, we can create unlimited Ice Breakers on-demand to use and pass on to our downline. Your distributors will no longer be afraid of prospecting; instead, they will love prospecting. It is much more fun when we are in control. Distributors want to work hard, but just don't know what to say. Their opening random remarks ruin their chances and they suffer bad experiences. That experience trains them to avoid prospecting. But with trained words and phrases, everything changes. Quick and positive results. Prospecting is fun again. Enjoy learning how to prospect negative people, positive people, relatives, co-workers, strangers, leads, cold prospects ... anyone, by using fun Ice Breakers that even the prospects enjoy. Spend the entire week giving presentations, instead of spending the entire week looking for someone to talk to. And never again will you have to hear one of your distributors complain, "I just don't have anyone to talk to." Ice Breakers are the best way to energize your MLM and network marketing business. Order your copy now!

Environmental Energy Sustainability at Universities

Environmental Energy Sustainability at Universities
Author: Alberto Jesús Perea Moreno
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039437658

The use of renewable energies and energy saving and efficiency are needs of global society and universities. Universities have a large responsibility and social impact, as they are an example and engine of social change. Universities, in the European context, must be at the forefront of ESA processes, seeking to be at the same level as, and preferably higher than, the rest of society, seeking a goal of 20% renewable energy for 2020 and, in the longer term, greater energy efficiency based on a diverse use of renewable energy and studying the feasibility of other energy processes (cogeneration, trigeneration, etc.). The application of renewable energies and energy efficiency allow universities to make significant savings in their costs and contribute to sustainable development and the fight against climate change. Actions in pursuit of these goals in addition to the objective of energy saving should promote research and form an example for the university community. This book aims to advance the contribution of energy saving and the use of renewable energies in order to achieve more sustainable universities.

Enhancing Entrepreneurial Mindsets Through STEM Education

Enhancing Entrepreneurial Mindsets Through STEM Education
Author: Sila Kaya-Capocci
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031178165

Entrepreneurship is defined in different fields with definitions ranging from a specific perspective such as starting a business to a broader perspective such as a process of establishing new social, economic, environmental, institutional, cultural and/or scientific environments. There has been some movement toward entrepreneurship in STEM education through hackathons and makerspaces, but they tend to be limited to informal settings. In higher education, there seems to be a border line between business schools and education departments. This book aims to remove the borders between the Business Schools and the Department of Education and help Business Schools to develop their educational practices further and help Education Departments to develop their knowledge of entrepreneurship from its formal discipline. The purpose of this book is to bring together experts from STEM education and the formal discipline of entrepreneurship to explore the role of STEM in everyday life through an entrepreneurial lens and show how this integration can broaden STEM education practices.

Shape Up Your Business

Shape Up Your Business
Author: Sophie Cornish
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1471102165

Sophie Cornish and Holly Tucker, authors of the no.1 Sunday Timesbestseller Build a Business from Your Kitchen Table, are back with Shape Up Your Business, a book of insight and tried-and-tested lessons to help you and your business fly. Sophie and Holly are the founders of notonthehighstreet.com, an award-winning, multimillion-pound online marketplace selling a multitude of innovative, stylish products. In this book they draw on years of experience growing their company and bringing success to thousands of small businesses to help you take stock, look at what's working for you and your business, and what could be better. Whether you need to improve your confidence, learn the tricks of negotiation or manage your team more effectively, Sophie and Holly have produced a 30-day plan that will give your business the overhaul it needs to grow. If you haven't got your own business yet, their entrepreneurial approach will help with the day job until you get there. With searing honesty, Shape Up Your Businessreveals the secrets to keeping that crucial work-life balance while achieving your goals, as Sophie and Holly share their own stories of overcoming all the challenges on their journey.

Implications for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Blue Economy

Implications for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Blue Economy
Author: Raimi, Lukman
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2022-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668433958

The blue economy is a widely used concept in policy circles; however, people across a wide spectrum have a peripheral understanding of the phenomenon. At the moment, there are several conflicting understandings of the blue economy but no universally accepted definition and veritable measures. Considering the existential importance of the blue economy for the protection of marine environments and sustainability of businesses, there is an urgent need for rigorous conceptual, policy-focused, theoretical, and empirical studies on the subject from multidisciplinary perspectives. Implications for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in the Blue Economy enriches existing definitions of a blue economy with inputs from a multidisciplinary lens and provides veritable measures for evaluating blue economy progression and compliance. Covering topics such as economics, natural resource development, social equity, and sustainability, this reference work is ideal for policymakers, entrepreneurs, managers, oceanographers, marine biologists, scholars, industry professionals, government officials, academicians, researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students.