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A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers...
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This book examines the complexities of mothers who are entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. This uniqueness and contribution to the area of women's entrepreneurship presents many challenges. One must historicize context; focus on socio-political realms and on lived realities. All challenging endeavours, when focusing on mothering and entrepreneurship, in different global contexts. What of the workers in these contexts? More specifically...
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This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities...
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Amid increasing demand for systematically collected statistics on asset ownership and control, the absence of standard guidelines and methods has constrained the collection and production of basic data. To fill this methodological gap, the Asian Development Bank, in collaboration with development partners, supports the efforts initiated under the global initiative Evidence and Data for Gender Equality, which aims to standardize methods of data collection...
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¿Cuáles son las claves para sacar adelante un negocio? ¿Cómo superar las caídas en el mundo de la empresa? ¿Qué necesita un emprendedor para dar el salto?
Casi un centenar de empresarias españolas y latinoamericanas que han creado, transformado y reinventado empresas y profesionales líderes en innovación y gestión del talento comparten las claves para construir con consistencia cualquier compañía y esquivar los obstáculos en el camino...
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Turn Small Change Into Big Profits! Looking for an opportunity to make big profits while setting your own schedule? A vending business could be your ticket to the top. Americans feed vending machines more than $46 billion a year for sodas, candy, coffee and other snacks. That's a nice chunk of change you could be pocketing. Starting is easy. You can begin part time out of your home. As your customer base increases, you can hire extra help, invest...
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Pack Your Bags…Full of Profits! At over a billion dollars, the travel industry is evolving, creating new trends and new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. Our experts take you step-by-step as you embark on your most exciting adventure starting a business. Discover success as an independent travel or specialty tour professional offering unique opportunities in both geography and market niche that even online discount travel sites can't...
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Summary of Platform Revolution by Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary | Includes Analysis Preview: Platform Revolution by Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary is a comprehensive look at the emergence of platforms as market dominators, their competition against pipeline businesses, and best practices in founding and managing platforms. Platforms connect two types of users in order to exchange something...
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Say 'I Do' to Success From wedding bells to wedding bills, gain an inside look at the billion dollar wedding industry and learn how to earn your next pay check coordinating the 'big' day of today's brides and grooms. Discover the newest wedding trends, such as destination weddings, tapas-style catering, disposable video cameras, wedding logos and more. Plus, learn everything else you need to know to start and run a successful wedding consultant business,...
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En este libro, la Sociología, la Historia, la Economía y las teorías empresariales se unen para estudiar dos temas clave en la economía y política de América Latina los grupos económicos y la mediana empresa familiar. Esta compilación de artículos se basa en estudios de caso por países para discutir los proyectos políticos de la élite económica en Chile, las características de los grupos económicos colombianos, la distinción entre...
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Starting up your own business can be an exciting yet daunting venture. The case studies, interviews, and articles in this eBook will provide valuable insight for the aspiring entrepreneur. They cover areas such as marketing and finance, address legal issues and tackle aspects of the day-to-day running of a business, from time management to the effective use of social media. This eBook also includes excerpts from best-selling BCS books such as 'Working...
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Grant writing is a billion dollar industry full of profitable business opportunities! Serving as the link between funders and grantees, professional grant writers are quickly becoming valuable partners to fundraising and philanthropy associations. Use this comprehensive guide to learn the art of researching, preparing and submitting winning grants as well as finding and maintaining clientele and grant projects. Learn how to: • Identify grants and...
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Do you enjoy working with children? Would you like to help lighten the load on busy moms and dads? With more and more parents needing help to care for their children, the market for child-care services is exploding. Whether you want to start a family-style child-care center in your home, a large center at a commercial site, or a niche business like child transportation, this guide can help you get started. Follow our experts as they take you step...
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Do you dream of escaping the rat race by becoming the proprietor of your own bed and breakfast inn? The lure of leaving the 9-to5 grind behind to live, work and play in a beautiful home nestled in a resort setting is a powerful one. When you can spend your days puttering about in the kitchen or garden, meeting new people, entertaining guests in a lavish and enviable setting, and collect and income while you're at it, who wouldn't leap at the chance?...
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In today's new business environment, there are great work-from-home opportunities for office managers, executive assistants, administrative professionals and anyone else with excellent organizational and computer skills. Why fight traffic to go to an office when you can do the same work perhaps at better pay from home? Start your own office or administrative support service, offering your word processing, dictation, database management, telephone,...
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People are working longer hours than ever before. As a result, more and more of them are willing to pay good money for services that help make their lives easier. This can mean an incredible opportunity for you. As a personal concierge, you will be hired to help clients with everyday tasks they simply don't have time for. Startup is easy. Overhead is low. And you can even work out of your home. All you need to get started is a phone, some business...
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Starting a business is one thing. Making that business successful is quite another. We've all read the failure statistics of start-ups, yet we entrepreneurs are a determined bunch of people – we are not easily deterred and will try, and try, and try again.
We are the drivers of economic growth and job creation, but sadly we are often the unsung heroes of the South African economy. With the lack of support for start-ups and absence of knowledge-sharing,...
19) Hábitos de Poder
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Aristóteles alguna vez dijo que la excelencia es un hábito que nace de la repetición, no un evento. Para poder alcanzar el éxito y mejorarnos a nosotros mismos, debemos dar pequeños pasos cada día. Pequeños hábitos, buenos o malos, repetidos a través del tiempo, determinaran nuestro futuro. Este libro arroja una luz a los hábitos positivos que tienen el poder de transformar tu vida. Cada capítulo habla sobre un hábito de poder distinto...
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When companies go looking for top business talent, they hire a headhunter" an executive recruiter. Executive recruiters are experts at locating star job candidates, leaders and managers of a caliber rarely discovered by the usual recruitment sources. And because business is growing more competitive each day and becoming more demanding of top-flight leadership and decision-making skills, companies are increasingly turning to executive recruiters to...
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