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This book by leadership and sustainability experts Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses. It offers a multitude of business cases, fascinating examples from nature's living systems, insights from the front-line pioneers and tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century.…

El sentido de la palabra innovación ha cambiado mucho en los últimos 150 años, pasando de tener connotaciones negativas a ser la aparente panacea para la solución de la mayoría de los problemas de nuestra sociedad. Innovar afecta a numerosos ámbitos sociales como la economía, el empleo o la sostenibilidad, de ahí que los gobiernos…

In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you'll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas. Author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture foolishly use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the…

While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching their heads, frantically trying to figure out what they can and can't do. Some want to bring innovation to a standstill (or at least…

Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change. In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language and compelling framework to help them assess it and…

Can an orthodox Christian creed and ritual be combined with a liberal church administration and a tolerant civic acceptance of not-so-orthodox views and practices? This question—perennial among Catholics for the past two centuries and the goal of the Anglican quest for a via media—finds an affirmative answer in Zdenek V. David's history of the Utraquist…

How did a relatively unknown priest from Argentina rise so quickly from obscurity to one of the top leaders of the twenty-first century? The answer lies in his humility, as well as the simple principles that have sprung from it. In the years since his election to the highest position in the Catholic Church, Pope…

The use of electronic commerce in international trade is growing by leaps and bounds. No one can dispute the need for a system of rules to guide countries as well as private commercial parties through the many new developments and issues that arise. The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International…

A menudo, una idea puede parecer excesivamente radical o incluso descabellada pero, con frecuencia, es justo lo que su empresa necesita. En una época de competencia feroz y profundas recesiones, las empresas no pueden permitirse seguir haciendo las cosas como han hecho hasta ahora. Pero ¿cómo considerar nuevas propuestas cuando existe tanta presión por conseguir…

Con un lenguaje claro y directo, el nuevo ensayo de José Carlos Ruiz aboga por un pensamiento elegante como fármaco para los síntomas de la hipermodernidad. La elegancia, en su etimología, está emparentada con la elección ( eligĕre), de tal manera que una persona elegante, entre otras cosas, es aquella que sabe elegir. El pensamiento…