It is no secret that women are increasingly controlling wealth. Estimates suggest that women control more than 50% of all wealth and growing. Importantly, 95% of women will be their family’s primary financial decision maker at some point in their lives. Yet recent studies show that Millennial women are deferring financial and investing decisions at a greater pace than Baby Boomer women. Targeted to all women “with a clear recognition that though the objectives and needs of this vast segment may not necessarily be homogeneous, women share common challenges when it comes to investing, this book provides clear instruction and a series of Intelligent Investing Rules for women to live by, especially in these times with sticky and persistent inflation and rising interest rates. The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing demonstrates how women can develop the knowledge and skills required to accumulate wealth and build an investment portfolio for the long term. Providing proven wealth accumulation strategies, tailored advice, and a comprehensive market analysis, this second edition is a must-read for female investors who want to master volatile markets with long-term success. Written by a female CEO, CIO, and investment manager whose career has spanned 38 years, the book offers a much-needed blueprint for investments for women.
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Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World
The global challenges confronting us — climate change, poverty, inequality, and many others — can feel overwhelming. Those of us who believe in market-based solutions to these challenges get even more disheartened when we regularly see our existing capitalist system failing us, often causing more harm than good. Many examples show how the capitalist tools of finance and investment can and make real, positive impact. Approaches like blended finance and impact investing can help accelerate progress against the world’s biggest remaining collective challenges. Yet use of these improved capitalist approaches remains far too subscale. Blended finance and impact investing remain 15 to 200 times smaller than traditional approaches to finance and investment. How can we continue to make capitalism work better by scaling these approaches and others? This book looks at how we can start making these necessary changes using strategies, structures, and practices that take advantage of capitalism’s strengths. Its goal is to demonstrate how a reimagined financial system can be more inclusive and accountable to all. By shifting away from extractive, short-term practices in the name of shareholder primacy, we can move toward a system that values the role of all stakeholders.
Unprecedented Leadership: Learning to Lead in Turbulent Times
If we’ve learnt anything this decade, it’s that paramount to being a good leader is the ability to lead and manage through a crisis. The best leaders will be able to look directly into the heart of the storm and re-imagine their organizations to ultimately foster new growth. Taking a step-by-step approach, this book guides readers in identifying the severity and potential implications of a crisis situation tackling core topics such as: · Crisis leadership · Decision making · Ethical responsibility · Change management initiatives · Communication · Leadership development · Coaching Grounded in cutting-edge theory and combined with engaging, real world case studies and practical exercises, this is an indispensable guide for MBA and Executive students. In fact, this book is ideal reading for anyone who is looking to develop their leadership skills in the most pragmatic and progressive ways.
Beating Inflation: An Agile, Concrete and Effective Corporate Guide
Is unabated inflation the new normal? Inflation is back and here to stay. For companies, this means that the world in which they do business has fundamentally changed. This book examines inflation from multiple perspectives and offers actions and strategies for companies to cope with and manage it to ensure their survival. For businesses and consumers, it is not a question of eliminating inflation, but how to cope with it in order to suffer as little damage as possible. This includes not just price management, but also sales, finance, purchasing, cost management along with digitalization and innovation activities in equal measure. It also requires corporate cultural change, which if managed fast and successfully, the prospects of defeating inflation and thus ensuring the survival of the company are good.
Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains: Preparing for Uncertainty Using Scenarios
This book presents a strategic decision-making process (i.e., scenario planning) to help managers build supply chain infrastructures that can adapt to uncertain shifts in the business environment. The authors detail the process for developing and applying scenarios for strategic planning in organizations playing three different roles in supply chains. Using three cases in which the process was applied in association with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, this primer also explains how companies can monitor their business environments to decide when to take the necessary steps to adapt their supply chain strategies and assets. The lessons learned are applicable globally: in first-world free-market economies, emerging countries and poorer nations, as well as the states where the government plays a strong role in the economic activity. For companies looking to assess the numerous drivers shaping their supply chains and use that information to makeliving strategic plans, this book will teach you how to build adaptable and agile supply chains. It will explain how to approach long-term investments in your organization.
Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand
Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties? Or that they have been ignorant, complacent or downright complicit in these scandals and downfalls? Of course, corporate scandals are nothing new, nor are they limited to any one geography. They are a damning indictment of our systems of corporate governance around the world. And yet, despite this frequency, little or nothing changes. We shrug and move on, accepting they are an unavoidable part of the system that produces incredible wealth for economies and societies. But it should not be that way. Disaster in the Boardroom shows how boards can be better. Looking at why these scandals happen, authors Peterson and Brown present in-depth case studies of major global corporations – including recent contemporary scandals associated with companies such as BP, Facebook and Uber – using the optic of their unique, original and compelling ‘six dysfunctions of the board’ analysis to reveal their particularities but also how they can be overcome. In this book, Brown and Peterson explore common attributes of scandals such as lack of independence from management, missing key voices, cultural amplification, diffusion of responsibility, rule-bound cultures and groupthink. They also identify ways to strengthen boards, improve their culture and competence, and give directors and others the power to take action and ultimately prevent disasters from happening. Disaster in the Boardroom is essential reading for every executive in every boardroom, those aspiring to board positions as well as anyone interested in why boards fail. It has never been more important to pre-identify and eradicate these boardroom dysfunctions – not least so that their impacts upon society can better seen, understood, mitigated, and avoided.
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, from the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens (Unstoppable Us, 1)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks at the early history of humankind.
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
* This is history like you’ve never experienced it before! *
We humans aren’t strong like lions, we don’t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don’t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?
The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story . . .
Even though we’ll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive—and we’re the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become “unstoppable”?
Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!). And this has made us very powerful . . . but very deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more.
From learning to make fire and using the stars as guides to cooking meals in microwaves and landing on the moon, prepare to uncover the secrets and superpowers of how we evolved from our first appearances on Earth millions of years ago. So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was – the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables.
Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari has expertly crafted an extraordinary story of how humans learned to not only survive but also thrive on Earth, complete with maps, a timeline, and full-color illustrations that bring his dynamic, unputdownable writing to life.
Time to Come Home: Sowing the Seeds of Self-Love for Lasting Happiness
Embark on a path of self-discovery and self-love . . .
Have you ever found yourself in a high-end luxury store, surrounded by opulent items that seemed beyond your reach? However, this feeling had nothing to do with affordability—it was deeper. It was about whether you truly deserved to embrace life’s finer things, including prioritising your happiness. Do you ever wonder if self-love is a luxury reserved for others, a desire that always remains just out of grasp?
Time to Come Home deals with the struggles many of us face in embracing self-love, exploring the root causes of our reluctance, and experiencing the transformative power of self-compassion. Through personal anecdotes and professional insights, the book highlights the common misconceptions and deep-seated beliefs that hinder us from nurturing a loving relationship with ourselves.
With clarity and empathy, this book guides readers towards understanding and practising self-love. This journey isn’t just about filling an emotional void; it’s about recognising our worth and reclaiming agency over our happiness. Whether you are seeking to overcome self-doubt or simply cultivate a deeper sense of self-acceptance, this book serves as a compassionate companion.
Ancient Practices for Mindful Living
In an era of increasing mental health concerns, this book offers a personalised approach to mindfulness, delving into its principles and dispelling misconceptions. Addressing the fast-paced lifestyles of millennials, the author presents practical techniques for incorporating awareness into daily routines and transforming mindfulness from a mere practice into a lifestyle.
This book equips individuals with a holistic approach to remaining authentic amidst challenges. It offers insights and resources for prioritising mental health with resilience and grit while giving suggestions to prioritise awareness of the vulnerabilities within us. From efficient cooking and clean eating to breathing exercises, money management, and relationship harmony, the book provides simple and practical tips that one can embrace in all facets of life.
In fine, Ancient Practices for Mindful Living highlights the potential of age-old tools to overcome modern challenges and foster well-being. This book will empower readers to slow down, focus on the small moments of joy, and cultivate a fulfilling existence.
Building Your Money Machine: How to Get Your Money to Work Harder for You Than You Did for It!
Make financial freedom real with the right mindset, right process, and right action steps
Does it feel like you’re missing out on life because you can’t get your finances in order? Are you seeking a life free of financial fear and full of meaning, purpose, and impact?
The key to building the life you desire and deserve is to build your Money Machine—a powerful system designed to generate income that’s no longer tied to your work or efforts. This step-by-step guide goes beyond the general idea of personal finance and wealth creation and reveals the holistic approach to transforming your relationship with money to allow you to enjoy financial freedom and peace of mind.
Part money philosophy, part money mindset, part strategy, and part tactical action, these powerful frameworks will show you how to:
• Demystify wealth creation through proven processes like The Wealth Priority Ladder™ and The Five Incomes™
• Build the three pillars of your Money Machine—Earn, Grow, and Protect
• Optimize your earnings, transform them into assets, and protect them from loss.
Whether you are a dreamer, doer, or believer—or all three!—your financial freedom is a birthright. Now is the time to embrace your financial potential with confidence and courage.