Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation, Volume II

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Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Business Plan Formulation to Implementation appears at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natural resources depletion, and significant failure of governments and global businesses to attend to worldwide social problems. In this era of downsizing, restructuring, and social changes, notions of traditional venture creation and the ways of creating social values have been challenged. We draw on examples from various parts of the business world and societies to prepare students, scholars, and entrepreneurial managers to deal with the challenges presented by a new and diverse business environment to create business plan for a social venture. Illuminating trouble-some aspects of the global social and business worlds, this workbook comprises two volumes that covers key issues. Students, scholars, and entrepreneurs who want to help a world of multiple disparities by dealing with social entrepreneurship will find this to be beneficial reading.

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The DNA of Leadership: Creating Healthy Leaders and Vibrant Organizations

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The urge to write “The DNA of Leadership: Creating healthy leaders and vibrant organizations” grew out of the authors’ observations of over 50-years combined work with executives. It is based on long-term consulting relationships and formal assessments of thousands of executives across industries. In our review of our evaluations of these executives, we have identified several behaviors that are critical for success in leadership roles and, without which, a leader is likely to fail. In this book, we present a step-by-step guide for leaders to change their behaviors to become successful including recommendations, case studies, exercises and humorous examples. This book comes from personal, real-life experience and is not simply based on one-time interviews, academic research or a “review of the literature.” The DNA of Leadership is practical and realistic. At the end of each chapter, we have our unique “Coach’s Corner” summarizing the preceding content and providing specific suggestions for leadership development. In addition, we have created a leadership survey to help readers identify areas of expertise and opportunities for growth. We believe that no such practical guide currently exists in the literature. The audience for our book includes business executives and leaders at all levels, students in MBA programs and upper-level undergraduate business majors.

Managerial Communication and the Brain: Applying Neuroscience to Leadership Practices

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The subject of this book is managerial/leadership communication and how to apply principles of neuroscience to create effective messages. It is not a basic “textbook” on general principles of business/managerial communication, nor is it a scholarly book developing communication theory. This book differs from most other business communication-related books in that it takes a neuroscientific approach to explaining communication that those in leadership positions do—communicating upwardly, across similar levels of leadership and downwardly. Other books tend to take a social scientific or psychological approach to describing effective approaches to communication and leadership. Social science affects biological development and cognitive psychology. However, it is important to understand what is happening within the brain of members of an audience to understand how to best communicate managerial and leadership decisions and motivate employees and others toward action. There are several blogs and articles related to ways to use neuroscience in managerial communication; however, this is a unique book in that it is a comprehensive consideration of many of these principles and uses specific, concrete applications to help the reader understand them. It, also, provides opportunities to practice these skills.

Strategic Managerial Accounting – A Primer for the IT Professional

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Managerial Accounting is a prognostic as well as a diagnostic tool and therefore useful for making key day to day decisions. However the common view, especially in the IT industry, is that Managerial Accounting is for the Accountants despite the fact that IT professionals are regularly confronted by financial situations such as project pricing, measuring performance, estimating risk, allocating costs etc. This means that every proposal needs to be vetted by the respective specialists. While this may be desirable and even necessary, the speed and reliability of the process could improve if the people who originate the proposal had knowledge of the fundamentals that go into the decision making process.

Applied International Finance I: Managing Foreign Exchange Risk, Second Edition

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This text is designed for use in a course in an applied international corporate finance for managers and executives. Instead of the “encyclopedic” approach, the text focuses on the two main issues of interest to managers who deal with overseas operations. The first main issue is how uncertain foreign exchange (FX) rate changes affect a firm’s ongoing cash flows and equity value, and what can be done about that risk. The second main issue is the estimation of the cost of capital for international operations and the evaluation of overseas investment proposals. Numerous examples of real world companies are used. The text is divided into two parts based on the two main issues. Each part includes a case that unifies the ideas. In Part I, the case company has overseas operations and is faced with ongoing FX exposure in corporate revenues. The decision-maker estimates the FX exposure and considers financial hedging using foreign currency debt and currency swaps. The accounting implications are also considered. In Part II, the case company evaluates a proposal to expand production for a foreign market, with location alternatives being the home country, the foreign market country, or a “cheap-labor” emerging market country.

Marketing Essentials for Independent Lodgings

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Independently owned lodging such as private vacation rentals, bed and breakfasts, small boutique hotels, AirBnB nightly rentals, Ecolodges, guest ranches, etc., share a pressing need to address their most challenging business obstacle: achieving and maintaining high occupancy rates. Ultimately, this goal requires an integrated and multi-media approach using the most current information. Essential Marketing Tools for Independently Owned Lodging provides just that – tools that owners, aspiring owners, and hospitality students need to address the ever-changing challenge to fulfill vacancies and maintain profitability. Independent properties make up more than half of the lodgings in the United States. In the rapidly changing digital environment, many legacy managers find themselves struggling to create and oversee a diversified marketing platform that will ensure enough “heads in beds” to sustain the enterprise. As new areas of lodging have opened up in the sharing economy, especially vacation rentals and informal host accommodations such as AirBnB – and as these segments of the industry mature – they too need assistance in moving beyond one or two distributions channels (i.e., AirBnB, VRBO, HomeAway) and broadening their reach. This book can be used as a textbook for students of hotel and hospitality management, for aspiring owners and their real estate representatives and by individual owners and managers already in the market.

Public Speaking Kaleidoscope

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This book helps the reader to understand the various interconnected components of communication. The component of these theories are like small pieces of glass. These three lenses make a Kaleidoscope for the reader to see a beautiful pattern of these components that answer the questions above. Finally, the book provides a conceptual framework to the readers to help them make persuasive speeches and become charismatic leaders. This book is intended for a broad audience including students, scholars, researchers and professors in undergraduate and graduate schools, entrepreneurs and practicing business executives around the world. The objective is to give a quick view into the ocean of academic literature and help further understanding on this topic. The book will also have many examples and best practices taken from famous speeches of leaders around the world.

Tough Calls: How to Move Beyond Indecision and Good Intentions

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The global economic turmoil that began in 2008 has taught numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions or show a pattern of making bad ones, nothing else matters. Corporate leaders should hear this as a clarion call that awakened us all to the fact that we can no longer afford the short-sighted luxury of considering decision-making a passive, pristine process. It’s not. It’s messy. Blaming failed mergers and acquisitions on “incompatible cultures” hastens the formation of the trap. Leaders blame “culture,” but, in truth, bad judgment and the fear of failure deserve more responsibility. Soon, patterns of bad judgment—those things that don’t work but that people feel loathe to change because “we’ve always done it that way”—emerge. The trap takes the form of anti-learning, anti-change, and eventually, anti-success. A paradox has emerged. On one hand, most agree that this trap compromises effective performance. On the other hand, leaders devote almost no focus to preventing, avoiding, or managing the trap. We need new ways of thinking about the environment of the organization—new ways to describe and understand companies—ways that will help us design and implement interventions that reduce or eliminate problems, not perpetuate them. Tough Calls is an attempt to reconcile this paradox and point the way to better leadership and decision-making.