7 Habits of Highly Charismatic People reveals in detail the engine that propels all those "special" people that we find captivating and shows you how to build such an engine for yourself by acquiring those traits that will turn you into a human magnet.
How you manage your mind but also your average day tells the story of your creativity. This creativity is not something reserved to those only few who had the luck or destiny to be born with it. There is a lesson to be learned in accessing creativity and this book is about to offer it to you. The approach used is that of exploring the habits of highly creative minds in such a way as to make easier and immediately applicable by anyone the understanding of what is the optimal mindset that leads to a remarkably creative "harvest" and how to obtain it. Whether you have been lingering in a creative block for a long time or you simply wish to make that creative mind of yours work at full capacity, in this book you can find some simple tools able to change the way you are doing things and the results you have been getting so far.
You already have various habits which pay off more on less in terms of what you want from life - how about replacing some of those habits or adding seven more and finally become that highly confident and successful person you can truly be? Confidence is what you get when you have cultivated the right habits. This book reveals them to you along with the tips on how to apply them.
7 Values of Highly Effective People reveals those values that stand behind most strong characters, values which are the very bricks in the foundation of success and efficiency. The book is like a little guide to help you understand how people achieve greatness by incorporating authentic values into their every day existence and identify that internal network of values that expresses who you truly are so you can align your relationships, career, and overall lifestyle with what is meaningful and relevant in your own life.
There are a lot of talks going around when it comes to adjustment of fixed assets and depreciation expense in accounting terms. Depreciation is almost similar to that of any other expenses in the fact that all expenses are deducted from sales revenue to determine profit. Keeping this apart, however, depreciation is very different from most other expenses. (Amortization expense, which we get to later, is a kissing cousin of depreciation.) When a business buys or builds a long-term operating asset, the cost of the asset is recorded in a specific fixed asset account. Fixed is an overstatement; although the assets may last a long time, eventually they're retired from service.
The main point is that the cost of a long-term operating or fixed asset is spread out, or allocated, over its expected useful life to the business. Each year of use bears some portion of the cost of the fixed asset. The depreciation expense recorded in the period doesn't require any cash outlay during the period. (The cash outlay occurred when the fixed asset was acquired, or perhaps later when a loan was secured for part of the total cost.
Unlike the war in Iraq which had entered its last stage, the war in Afghanistan appears to have several open ends. The security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated greatly and no comprehensive political outcome has yet arrived. By early 2009, several members of Congress, the officials of the administration and the outside experts had concluded that the efforts known as the America's "other war" required great national attention. In the inaugural address speech, the US President Barrack Obama had stated that the United States would forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.
For the Afghanistan government, the war was an existential struggle for survival against the Taliban and other insurgents as well as the long-term efforts for the establishment of sustainable security and great stability. For the US government, the war in Afghanistan was concerned about the security of both Afghanistan and the surrounding regions. The concern also included the denial of the safe heaven to the terrorists and in ensuring the stable and constructive regional security balance. For the regional states which included Russia and India as well as the immediate neighbors of Afghanistan including Pakistan and Iran, the war in Afghanistan is critical as it can have a powerful impact on the future security and the balance of influence and power in the region. For the individual members of the NATO Alliance, the war might be the combination of defeating the terrorist networks, proving themselves as efficient NATO members, ensuring the regional stability and demonstrating the relevance of the Alliance of the security challenges of the 21st century.
Looking ahead, the United States government faces several operational and strategic decisions about the further engagement of Afghanistan in war. Some of the decisions include:
Clarification of the national interests of the United States in Afghanistan and the surrounding regions.
The definition of the clear strategic objectives which are based on the specified national interests.
The determination of the military, economic and diplomatic approaches which need to be adopted and what resources are committed to supporting the various kinds of approaches.
The prioritization of the war in Afghanistan war in comparison to the imperatives of the national securities which would include the war in Iraq and the preparation to meet the potential threats.
The helping of the marshal in a coordinated application of the international efforts.
The United States has argued over the security of Afghanistan since decades. As the world is working on building the national security in Afghanistan and the neighboring areas along with the local defense forces, there is still a great need to redouble the efforts at building up and strengthening the Afghan human capital and the proper institution of governance that would be able to stand up on its own one day as an effective and independent government.
The African-American history is fragment of America's history which precisely converses the Black American traditional groups staying in United States of America. Maximum of this population are original people of Africa who were deliberately brought and kept in confinement in the United States of America from 1555 to 1865. Many blacks whose ancestors had emigrated from the Caribbean to America are also considered to be African-American as their roots go back to Central or West Africa.
They have been referred by many names in the American history like 'Negro' and 'coloured', these terms are no more acceptable, African-American is an acceptable term and has a different implication completely.
Precisely what fragment of the African-American population is of exclusively African descent is unknown. In the past hundreds of years there has been a substantial mix of people from Africa with Europeans and American-Indians. Factually, the principal approach to racial group association in the United States of America has been that people having any Black-African roots are considered to be African-American.
The book discusses how they made their way to America and settled down here forcibly and adapted to the new environment. Their struggle to get their basic rights and how they finally came up emergent and now freely roam the soils of America with heads held high.
Agile leadership is the art for self-organizing to create the right sense. It is an atmosphere where agile teams are working together, learning from each other, getting users quick feedback and concentrating on quality and continuous learning. Agile leaders neither micro-manage people, nor do they establish complete privilege. In modern management modules, to strike a balance between instability and stern discipline is critical to deal with. It is often challenging to develop and maintain a congenial environment with due adherence to cultural heritage, taking onus, mindset, suggestions and expectations for the long term objectives.
In a vast array of situations, especially in fresh, evolving and uncertain situations, the leader needs to handle with exemplary abilities. It is associated with four leadership styles (Leadership models) adopted by people who have the capacity and agility to operate in any mode (the thought process framework) and most significantly they are able to observe the proceedings from the viewpoints of other models. It is this kind of ability to deliberate in various ways that reflects the versatility of such leaders. It is also implemented as the main management paradigm for adaptive and progressive organizations in the perceptions of Agile Business Management.
Agile is a set of values and principles that encourage adaptive, iterative and more responsive software development. It is not a set of rules. More than a methodology, agile is a mindset. It prescribes and encourages some practices aimed at improving software quality and thereby ensuring customer satisfaction. Self-organizing cross-functional teams deliver better results quickly. Dividing the work into bite sizes offers many advantages. Frequent collaboration among the developers and stakeholders increases the confidence and comfort level of all. High quality working software and just enough documentation should be the goal and not the reverse. Customer needs, market conditions and technology change. So, organizations should be better equipped to embrace changes. Bringing about changes to an existing product should not be a tedious process. But a part of the normal workflow. Although not free from criticisms, the vast majority in the software development industry agree that agile is the way forward.
Agile Project Management takes the ideas from Agile software development and applies them to a more general idea of project management. Agile methods generally aim to promote a project management process that encourages stakeholder involvement, feedback, objective metrics and effective controls. With research proving that almost half of all improvement initiatives fail due to lack of effective leadership, then as business owners the time has never been more prudent to consider how we are managing our businesses and what kind of leadership strategies we have in place. Given that so many industries are littered with failed start-ups and businesses these days, it is clear that more work and investment is needed to develop future leaders. But even with the right leadership in place, which business model does one choose to follow? There are numerous schools of thought and endless business theories on this topic, but one I believe can revolutionize the way in which all of our businesses operate is that of "Agile Project Management". It's a relatively new concept - especially in businesses operating outside of the IT and technology sectors - but one that I believe could really improve how many companies perform in projects where high quality deliverables are require. But what is exactly is 'Agile Project Management'? And what is an 'Agile team'? What makes an 'Agile Project Manager' different from a 'traditional' project manager? These are just some of the questions we'll be answering within this book. We also want you to: - Understand the variables and factors that have an impact on the overall implication and sustainability of your movement towards an Agile Project Management style - Identify the main differences between management and leadership styles and behaviours and why going Agile could change your business for the better
Agile in simple terms, means the ability to move easily and quickly. In the business circle, agility or agile strategy refers to an approach in product management wherein within the dynamic, fast-changing market place an innovative strategic approach is conducive for profit and success. Agile strategizing involves a method of planning wherein importance is given to big-picture thinking, extra customer focus, and swift learning and adaption to the changing market scenarios. Agile strategy focuses on gaining a competitive advantage mainly by capitalizing on fresh innovations. The concept of agile strategy describes an organization’s ability to stay flexible and fluid, by continuously changing as well as updating their operations through new innovations. Agile strategic approach enables and equips any organization to think and plan ahead of the market, quickly mobilizing itself, adapting to market shifts, filling capability gaps, capturing new revenue in advance of the competition, and finally creating new markets.
Albert Camus (Nov 7, 1913 – Jan 4, 1960) was an Algerian born French author, journalist, and philosopher. In 1957, at the age of 44, he has conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature, in history's the second-youngest recipient. Camus had been born to French parents in Algeria.
He spent his adolescent days in a shabby neighborhood, and subsequently studied philosophy at Algiers University. He was in Paris in the year 1940 during the Second World War, when the Nazis invaded France. Camus attempted to escape but ended up joining the French Resistance, where he served as editor-in-chief at the war in an outlawed daily newspaper.
He was a celebrity figure after the war and rendered many lectures all across the globe. He happened to get married twice but did enjoy a lot of extramarital affairs. Camus was active politically; he belonged to a leftist group, because of his principles of totalitarianism, which challenged the Soviet Union. Camus took pride in being a moralist, leaning on anarcho-syndicalism.
He was also part of several groups that were pursuing European integration. He held a moderate stance during the Algerian War commenced in the year 1954 and continued till 1962, promoting a pluralistic and multicultural Algerian existence, a policy that created an uproar, and that was vehemently opposed by a majority of national parties.
