Having trouble engaging and energizing teams across your business? Many people are struggling with motivating teams especially ones where some team members work in different locations -- even across the world. In this book Claire Sookman and Susan Garms experts on motivating distributed (a.k.a. virtual ) teams bring you a number of teambuilding activities and exercises that you can put to immediate use. The techniques and exercises in this book will help you: Build collaboration Help team members get to know each other Conduct more effective meetings Bridge the gap between different cultures and Overcome the obstacles of working in virtual teams.

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2020! What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it s one that sacrifices profit for social outcomes. But while it s crucial for companies to serve society they also have a duty to generate profit for investors - savers retirees and pension funds. Based on the highest-quality evidence and real-life examples spanning industries and countries Alex Edmans shows that it s not an either-or choice - companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don t target profit directly but are driven by purpose - the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment. The book explains how to embed purpose into practice so that it s more than just a mission statement and discusses the critical role of working collaboratively with a company s investors employees and customers. Rigorous research also uncovers surprising results on how executive pay shareholder activism and share buybacks can be used for the common good.

The two-volume set CCIS 2179 + 2180 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Systems Software and Services Process Improvement EuroSPI 2024 held in Munich Germany during September 2024. The 55 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: SPI and Emerging and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Software Engineering; SPI and Functional Safety and Cybersecurity; SPI and Standards and Safety and Security Norms; Part II: Sustainability and Life Cycle Challenges; SPI and Recent Innovations; Digitalisation of Industry Infrastructure and E-Mobility; SPI and Agile; SPI and Good/Bad SPI Practices in Improvement.

Sometimes fate steps in to change the lives of women in unforgettable ways affecting them as wives mothers daughters sisters aunts lovers and friends. One of the most popular books in the Small Miracles series this beautifully repackaged and expanded volume collects 50 unforgettable and even divine stories of coincidence experienced by women from all walks of life.

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