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We live in an increasingly hyper-competitive global marketplace, where firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world. How do organizations effectively navigate the increasingly complex international business landscape? Strategic International Business is a text that provides a comprehensive introduction to a broad range of IB topics and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern firm, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research and business cases in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. Additionally, unlike other IB texts, this book has a strong strategic management focus coupled with a focus on ethical organizational leadership. It will be informative to international management academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational leaders of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

We live in an increasingly hyper-competitive global marketplace, where firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world. Additionally, with the shifting global economy in recent decades and the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organizations, how do organizations effectively foster a continuous learning and innovation culture, better motivate employees, and make sound organizational decisions? What can organizational leaders do to promote ongoing organizational agility that will have a measurable impact on increased firm effectiveness and employee productivity? How can organizations more successfully manage organizational knowledge to achieve strategic organizational goals and add value to all organizational stakeholders? These are just some of the pressing questions facing the organizations of today. Strategic Organizational Behavior is a text that provides a comprehensive introduction to a broad range of organizational behavior topics and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern workplace, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research and business cases in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. Additionally, unlike other organizational behavior texts, this book has a strategic management focus coupled with a focus on corporate ethics and social responsibility. It will be informative to management academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational managers, leaders, and human resource development professionals of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to creating organizational systems and culture to promote ongoing organizational learning and innovation to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

We live in an increasingly hyper-competitive global marketplace, where firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world. Additionally, with the shifting global economy in recent decades and the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organizations, how do organizations effectively drive positive change? How do organizations effectively foster a continuous learning and innovation culture, better motivate employees, and make sound organizational decisions? What can organizational leaders do to promote ongoing organizational agility that will have a measurable impact on increased firm effectiveness and employee productivity? How can organizations more successfully manage organizational knowledge to achieve strategic organizational goals and add value to all organizational stakeholders? These are just some of the pressing questions facing the organizations of today. Strategic Organizational Development and Change is a text that provides a comprehensive introduction to a broad range of organizational change topics and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern workplace, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research and business cases in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. Additionally, unlike other organizational development and change texts, this book has a strong strategic management and practitioner focus. It will be informative to management students, academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational managers, leaders, and human resource development professionals of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to creating organizational systems and culture to promote ongoing organizational learning and innovation to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

Strategic Management Communication is a text that provides a comprehensive introduction to a broad range of Management Communication topics and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern firm, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research and business cases in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. Additionally, Strategic Management Communication provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve student, professor, and organizational leader. Finally, unlike other Management Communication texts, this book has a strong strategic management, coupled with a focus on international management. It will be informative to management academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational leaders of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

We live in an increasingly hyper-competitive global marketplace, where firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world. Additionally, with the shifting global economy in recent decades and the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organizations, how do organizations effectively foster a continuous learning and innovation culture, better motivate employees, and make sound organizational decisions? What can organizational leaders do to promote ongoing organizational agility that will have a measurable impact on increased firm effectiveness and employee productivity? How can organizations more successfully manage organizational knowledge to achieve strategic organizational goals and add value to all organizational stakeholders? These are just some of the pressing questions facing the organizations of today. Strategic Human Resource Management is a text that provides a comprehensive introduction to a broad range of HRM topics and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern workplace, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research and business cases in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. Additionally, unlike other HR texts, this book has a strong strategic management focus coupled with a focus on ethical leadership. It will be informative to management academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational managers, leaders, and human resource development professionals of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to creating organizational systems and culture to promote ongoing organizational learning and innovation to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

Ethics is about determining value; it's deciding what's worth doing and what doesn't matter so much. Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job, which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and then leave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there's a difference between thinking them through and winging it. Strategic Organizational and Business Ethics Toolkit provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas encountered through working life. This text was compiled, edited, and adapted from multiple open source textbooks and created under a Creative Commons License without attribution as requested by the work's original creator or licensee. For a free copy of the e-text, please visit HCIPress.org.

Explores how the mathematical principles of Game Theory can transform the business of family law and optimize client outcomes.

An insightful, honest guide for parents and professionals regarding children on roles, boundaries, child growth and staying connected through life.

New Ways for Life(TM) is an exciting new way of teaching teenagers basic personal skills that will last a lifetime. The method teaches 4 Big Skills: managed emotions, flexible thinking, moderate behavior and checking yourself. It addresses the information and the questions that adolescents will have in their own New Ways for Life(TM) Youth Journal.

Sam the Tram's Dance Club is a children's book unlike any other. The text is an Empowerment Script(TM). It's meant to be read back and forth, from left to right and then right to left. The first line of text is written > as > you > are > reading,.way < other < the < goes < next < the < and> to > right, .left < to < right < thenThis style of writing, invented by the Ancient Greeks, stimulates connection between the two sides of the brain. The bilateral eye movements help can help any reader relax, let go of stress, and be more creative. Professionals familiar with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) will see the potential for readers with trauma or dissociation. This reading technique also holds promise for ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and dyslexia.Join Sam, Melba, and the kids as they fix Grand Union Junction and learn to dance the "tramba." Children can read this book alone or by following an adult's finger movements. Grown-ups enjoy the book too!With colorful illustrations, a gentle story about overcoming difficulties, and a breakthrough approach to reading, Sam the Tram's Dance Club offers readers preschool and up a calming, fun way to build new neural pathways and healthier states of mind.

Twenty-six letters. Twenty-six lessons. This fun little book is a simple “how to” guide for new and not-so-new parents.

In divorce, deciding what to do with the house can become a huge source of strife, confusion, and even financial ruin. Most are unprepared for the unique legal, financial, and emotional ramifications of either holding on to or selling their house at one of the worst times in their life. The House Matters in Divorce presents the numerous legal, emotional, and practical challenges of equitably settling your marital home—and offers specifics on how to handle those issues and who to turn to for professional help. This book clears up common misconceptions about dividing real estate assets and empowers both parties to be proactive, make smart decisions, and emerge from this complex process financially sound and prepared for the future. It includes detailed information on:Whether to sell or notCommon pitfalls that plague the uninformedHow to determine what the house is really worthMaking housing decisions that are truly in your children’s best interestsWhat to do about the deed and the mortgage if one spouse stays in the homeProceeds of the sale (if any) and what to do if there is no equityThe court’s perspective and powerLearn how best to deal with your most important financial asset—your home—from a real estate expert who specialize in divorce. Get the facts about how to make wise and purposeful choices to set yourself up for success as you move forward with building a new life—a life that includes financial health.

A GPS for divorcing parents to map out a realistic plan for effective co-parenting and supporting your children's healthy development.

Workbook used by family courts to teach parents the skills necessary to jointly make their parenting decisions out of court.

Uncovers factors making young people vulnerable to sex trafficking and describes practical ways we can all intervene and protect youth.

Separation and divorce are tough enough on grown-ups, and they can be even tougher on kids.

A coaching guide to teach four personal self-management skills to employees and managers in need of workplace behavior improvement.

Help for people who don't know what to do when stuck in the chaos of a high-conflict romantic relationship.

Just Stop Doing That! provides a strategy to rid yourself of bad habits stealing your energy and peace of mind.

This workbook teaches four personal self-management skills with numerous exercises for employees and managers in need of workplace behavior improvement.

Blame is abundant these days! Every day people confront us at work, at the store, at home, in our communities and online. Nerves get on edge. More and more people get stuck blaming others for anything that goes wrong. With high-conflict people increasing in society, the 24-hour news cycle, and social media, we are continually barraged with the worst behaviors of other people. The strong temptation is to react, defend yourself and blame them back.Instead, consider the simple So, What's Your Proposal? method for pulling them out of the past and away from blaming everyone else. Get them to quickly: focus on the future; take responsibility; contribute to finding solutions to problems - including those they created themselves.You will stay calm and confident, while earning the respect of those around you - even those who want to blame you!"In his newest must read book So, What's Your Proposal? Shifting High-Conflict People from Blaming to Problem-Solving in 30 Seconds, Master Attorney/Mediator/ Therapist, Bill Eddy shows you how to stop the blame game and consciously shift conflict quickly into creative solutions. This book is crucial for anyone who has to deal with difficult people at home or in business!"-Mari J. Frank, Esq. CIPP, attorney/mediator, and author of Negotiations Breakthroughs; co-author of The Gift in Conflict for Couples.

In this 10th anniversary edition, attorney, mediator, and therapist Eddy explains how to protect children from the harm of alienation and high-conflict divorce, boosting their resilience by teaching them to think flexibly, manage their emotions, and moderate their behaviors.

Explains in easy-to-understand terminology, the behaviors of people with personality disorders or with traits, particularly blaming, irrational and impulsive behaviors.

Out-of-control anger can make life miserable for everyone in the family, especially during a divorce, parental separation, or throughout co-parenting. Dr. Garber shows parents how to understand anger in all its forms, and offers practical strategies for modeling good anger management for children, planning ahead for what to do when anger erupts, and more.

Set in modern Iran, this is one woman’s story of survival, ambition, sex, and power while trapped in "temporary marriage."

Make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits, complaints and wreak havoc for legal professionals and everyone.

Applying lessons learned from the mental health field to the family court system, especially with high-conflict or potentially high-conflict parents.

Two experts in high-conflict relationships teach readers to use "dating radar" to identify and avoid mates who will create misery.

Trump Bubbles is the first book to really explain the rise and fall of Donald Trump, candidate for President of the United States of America.What’s a trump bubble? It’s when emotions trump thinking in politics. When fear trumps facts. When leader love trumps logic. Donald Trump is the most recent trump bubble, but trump bubbles have occurred before and will again.Remember the dot.com bust of 2000? The housing and stock market bubbles that burst in 2008? They were held up by “irrational exuberance." Now there’s the Donald Trump Bubble. People love him or hate him or are totally confused.However, he is quite predictable, if you understand high-conflictpersonalities.The Trump Bubble explains the rise-and-fall pattern of high-conflict politicians, focusing on the case of Donald Trump and the questions people ask:• Why do people compare him to Adolf Hitler in the 1920’s?• Why do people defend him despite his outrageous statements and beliefs?• Will he become reasonable if he ever becomes President?• Does he have narcissistic personality disorder?• Will he settle on a set of policies, or will he keep changing impulsively?• Could he be a good thing for American politics?• Would he start World War III?• How do you stop trump bubbles once they start?• What happens when a trump bubble bursts?To answer these questions, award-winning author, Bill Eddy, relies on social science, psychology and history, as well as his years of training professionals in dealing with high-conflict personalities and situations. It’s a beautiful thing!