Project-Based Learning: How to Approach, Report, Present, and Learn from Course-Long Projects

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Project-based learning is different from traditional lectures and requires students to behave different from the traditional classroom. This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form. Different types of projects such as projects that contribute to theory and projects that contribute to practice are covered, to explain to students what to expect, how to approach the project, how to interact with students in groups, and how to interact with the instructor. The discussion includes many useful examples.

A Primer on Microeconomics, Volume II: Competition and Constraints, Second Edition

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Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the scientific study of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life or in our work environment.
This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic microeconomics. Volume two, Competition and Constraints, focuses on understanding how markets may operate; profit maximization; how real-world concerns may reduce efficiency; what corrective actions may be taken to prevent market failure and the implications of those actions. The goal is to provide a concise readable primer that extends the fundamentals of microeconomic theory to consider practical economic issues.

A Primer on Macroeconomics, Volume I: Elements and Principles, Second Edition

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Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the science of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life, our work environment, or at the national or international level.
This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic macroeconomics. Volume one, Elements and Principles, delivers clear statements of essential economic principles, supported by easy to understand examples, and uncluttered by extraneous material; the goal is to provide a concise read- able primer that covers the substance of macroeconomic theory. The text looks at opportunity cost; the rationale for trade and exchange rates; the economist’s basic demand and supply model; the efficient operation of competitive markets;important tools used to measure the macroeconomy

Redefining Competency Based Education: Competence for Life

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Redefining Competency-Based Education provides an expanded definition of career competence, based on actual employer hiring and promotion requirements, which enhances university curricula to better prepare students for work and life. Readers will learn how private sector competency models have evolved to define criteria for hiring, promoting, and training talent.
The authors contrast these models with classic university practices to document a historic academic preference for technical preparation over the so-called soft skills valued by employers. This book outlines techniques for measuring and developing soft skills that provide significant advantage in career success, and shares examples of universities that have successfully implemented these concepts.

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams

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Everyone has talents and strengths. Everyone does projects.
Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams integrates common project management and strengths-based talent development language to help you and your project team learn about and become a strengths-based project team.
This book is designed for project managers, team members, and stakeholders who have an interest in talent development— not only their own talents and strengths, but also the combined talents and strengths of their project teams.
Learn about the characteristics of a strengths-based project team. Apply a series of building blocks for individual and team strengths-based development. Through exercises, templates, action plans, and reflective questions, learn how to cultivate the collective strengths of project team members to become a strengths-based project team.
Explore the various project management roles for sustaining a strengths-based project team culture. Create an environment in which team members can use their talent development tools long-term to develop and apply what they naturally do best— resulting in higher project team performance.

Escape from the Central Bank Trap: How to Escape From the $20 Trillion Monetary Expansion Unharmed, Second Edition

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Lacalle is one of the leading next generation economists who can simplify the complex. His teachings come from a market practitioner’s perspective. This book is about the economic truth.—Keith R. McCullough, Chief Executive Officer, Hedgeye Risk Management

A penetrating framework for understanding the co-dependencies among monetary policy, the economy and the financial markets. Lacalle provides us with a road map that anyone who cares about long term economic health can grab hold of.—Michael Purves, Chief Global Strategist, WEEDEN & CO

Central banks do not print growth. The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. The same policies that created each subsequent bust are the ones that have been implemented in recent years. This book is about realistic solutions for the threat of zero-interest rates and excessive liquidity.

The United States needs to take the first step, defending sound money and a balanced budget, recovering the middle class by focusing on increasing disposable income. The rest will follow. Our future should not be low growth and high debt. Cheap money becomes very expensive in the long run. There is an escape from the central bank trap.

Skilling India: Challenges and Opportunities

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India’s transition to a knowledge-based economy requires a new generation of educated and skilled people. A knowledge economy requires India to develop workers who are flexible and analytical and can be the driving force for innovation and growth. This book focuses on the status of vocational education programs, challenges of achieving quality and attaining competitive excellence in a globalized socioeconomic order, and the role of government and industry in achieving these avowed goals. The need for revival of traditional family-centric vocations pursued in the rural communities that provide livelihood options to a multitude of socially disadvantaged artisans is also discussed.
The book provides a systematic understanding of the processes of skill formation and provides several pathways for enhancing entrepreneurial skills. The authors seek to heighten the under- standing of structures and processes of governance and initiatives for enhancing the quality of skilling programs.

The Art and Science of Financial Modeling

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To use a cliche, we live in a volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Organizations simply cannot afford to try out new strategies in reality and correct mistakes, once they’ve occurred. The stakes are too high. Thus emerges the utility of this technique across functions like financial planning and risk management. Financial models help a business manager simulate the future and see the impact of their change, with- out risking costly setbacks of real world trials and errors.
Mastering the art of financial modeling is imperative for those who want to enter the ultra-competitive world of corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or equity research. Only those who excel (pun intended) in modeling early on are often the most successful long-term.
The book will help readers dive deep into the vocabulary and the syntax, the art and science of financial modeling and valuation. Readers will be able to prepare/use existing models more competently, interpret the results and have greater comfort over the integrity and accuracy of the model’s calculations.

Scrum for Teams: A Guide by Practical Example

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Scrum is an agile framework for completing complex projects. This book gives examples, tools, and tricks to do Scrum well. For each trick it is explained why it helps. The practices themselves may be worth trying, but by understanding why it works the readers will be able to come up with their own ideas that work better in their organization and situation.
All the practical examples in this book have helped someone, some where to become a part of a better Scrum team. Scrum’s motto is: “Inspect and Adapt”; change small things one at a time and see what works. Scrum is not done by project leaders or managers, but really by the teams— to succeed in an organization, the teams must do Scrum well. If the teams do Scrum well, the whole organization will benefit from it.
Scrum helps a team self-organize, which fits in well with developers, who usually don’t like to be micromanaged. At the same time, Scrum can scale: Self-organized teams work together well, and one manager doesn’t have to manage all the people.
The lessons from this book help Scrum teams develop into autonomous, proud, and independent teams. Often teams fail to become powerful enough to change the organization, so they cannot perform to their full potential. A good team can lead the stakeholders into trusting them. They will then make plans based on the team’s release planning instead of making roadmaps out of thin air, and thus make the organization much more predictable.

Startup Strategy Humor: Democratizing Startup Strategy

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Startup Humor is a great primer for start-ups. —Mr. Ajai Chowdhry, Founder of HCL, recipient of the Padma Bhushan award
Startup Humor is a must for those willing to take the plunge. —Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Corporate Services & Jt. MD, Hero MotoCorp Ltd. President, AIMA & Former Chairman, CII.C
This is an extremely smart book. It’s well-structured and truly gives the reader valuable insights. —Mr. Praveen Sinha, Angel Investor and Founder of ventures like Jabong, Aquabrim, Anasha Art.
Startup Strategy Humor: Democratizing Startup Strategy brings a fresh, innovative, and a bit funny perspective to the subject by using a cartoon, conversation and story format to explain startup strategy concepts in a user friendly, easy to understand, and application oriented way. It democratizes startup strategy and takes it to the masses. This book is an excellent read for anyone interested in startups or entrepreneurship. It is widely appreciated both by academicians and industry professionals including many founders.