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Svenja Hofert

Die Dynamik der Macht

Wie sie sich verteilt und neu erfindet

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Das Buch widmet sich der Material- und Ressourceneffizienz aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht. Dabei werden vor dem Hintergrund der politischen, ökonomischen, sozio-kulturellen, technologischen, ökologischen und rechtlichen (PESTEL) Rahmenbedingungen Instrumente, wie die Ökobilanzierung, diskutiert. Praxisbeispiele verdeutlichen Möglichkeiten für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen.

Das Buch widmet sich der Material- und Ressourceneffizienz aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht. Dabei werden vor dem Hintergrund der politischen, ökonomischen, sozio-kulturellen, technologischen, ökologischen und rechtlichen (PESTEL) Rahmenbedingungen Instrumente, wie die Ökobilanzierung, diskutiert. Praxisbeispiele verdeutlichen Möglichkeiten für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen.
Unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Laurenz

Wie können Organisationen ökologische Nachhaltigkeit steuern?

Ressourcenmanagement

Two of the world's leading researchers on behavior and decision-making join forces to equip readers with the knowledge, tools, and techniques to live our best, most human lives in an age of machines. “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.” —E.O WilsonOur choices and experience of the world are increasingly shaped by powerful interests and godlike technology. Somebody else is deciding what ‘good’ choices look like—and often that means good for them, not for you. From the social media apps hijacking your attention and algorithms quietly curating your reality, to the markets profiting from confusion and AI systems slowly eroding your thinking: your choices are shaped by people who understand your psychology better than you do, and use that knowledge for their own ends. Against this backdrop, it is easy to feel diminished and 'done to'.This book is about fighting back—individually and collectively—and becoming the best of ourselves. Becoming super-humans. Drawing on over 1,000 experiments run across more than 70 countries, Halpern and Costa show how you can boost your own agency and decision-making, how we can upgrade our systems and institutions so that it is easier for everyone to choose well, and how we can shape AI so that it amplifies human capability rather than replacing it.Super-Human ultimately asks us to make the biggest choice of all: in an age when machines can think, decide and even feel on our behalf—what kind of humans do we want to be? <ul><li>Human. Reclaiming agency and becoming a better decision-maker (Chapters 1-3). Understanding how human attention and sense-making works, so that we can self-guide, rather than be hacked by others - and more effectively turn our intentions into action.</li><li>Supra-human. Building systems that support us to choose well together. (Chapters 4-7). Humans are social creatures, who think aloud and together. It's a feature not a fault. Social networks, markets and institutions strongly enable us to achieve things we could never do alone, but also operate as ‘supra-human’ influences on our behavior. Yet individually and collectively we have power to channel and shape them too - more power than we realize</li><li>Super-human. Shaping the technology that will shape us. (Chapter 8) AI could be the ultimate ‘bicycle of the mind’, but it can also become a crutch rather than a coach. It poses opportunity and challenge - to boost our capabilities to superhuman levels, or to become our inadvertent master.</li><li>Future-human. What kind of humans do we ultimately want to be? (Conclusion) Our minds today have been shaped by the technologies and institutions of our ancestors, in ways they could not have anticipated. We can make choices that will alter our minds and those that follow: what shall we choose?</li></ul>

Two of the world's leading researchers on behavior and decision-making join forces to equip readers with the knowledge, tools, and techniques to live our best, most human lives in an age of machines. “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.” —E.O WilsonOur choices and experience of the world are increasingly shaped by powerful interests and godlike technology. Somebody else is deciding what ‘good’ choices look like—and often that means good for them, not for you. From the social media apps hijacking your attention and algorithms quietly curating your reality, to the markets profiting from confusion and AI systems slowly eroding your thinking: your choices are shaped by people who understand your psychology better than you do, and use that knowledge for their own ends. Against this backdrop, it is easy to feel diminished and 'done to'.This book is about fighting back—individually and collectively—and becoming the best of ourselves. Becoming superhumans. Drawing on over 1,000 experiments run across more than 70 countries, Halpern and Costa show how you can boost your own agency and decision-making, how we can upgrade our systems and institutions so that it is easier for everyone to choose well, and how we can shape AI so that it amplifies human capability rather than replacing it.Superhuman ultimately asks us to make the biggest choice of all: in an age when machines can think, decide and even feel on our behalf—what kind of humans do we want to be? <ul><li>Human. Reclaiming agency and becoming a better decision-maker (Chapters 1-3). Understanding how human attention and sense-making works, so that we can self-guide, rather than be hacked by others - and more effectively turn our intentions into action.</li><li>Supra-human. Building systems that support us to choose well together. (Chapters 4-7). Humans are social creatures, who think aloud and together. It's a feature not a fault. Social networks, markets and institutions strongly enable us to achieve things we could never do alone, but also operate as ‘supra-human’ influences on our behavior. Yet individually and collectively we have power to channel and shape them too - more power than we realize</li><li>Super-human. Shaping the technology that will shape us. (Chapter 8) AI could be the ultimate ‘bicycle of the mind’, but it can also become a crutch rather than a coach. It poses opportunity and challenge - to boost our capabilities to superhuman levels, or to become our inadvertent master.</li><li>Future-human. What kind of humans do we ultimately want to be? (Conclusion) Our minds today have been shaped by the technologies and institutions of our ancestors, in ways they could not have anticipated. We can make choices that will alter our minds and those that follow: what shall we choose?</li></ul>

Reclaiming Our Power to Choose and Shape the Future

Superhuman

The pocket MBA for entrepreneurial moms and women of color&nbsp;who want to build a business from scratch, overcome financial obstacles, and shift the trajectory of their life, from a globally recognized entrepreneur, business coach, and digital educator. While starting a new business is hard for everyone—half close their doors within the first five years—it’s even harder for female entrepreneurs. Ellie Diop, founder and CEO of Ellievated Academy, Fully Funded Co., and Mommy to Millionaire, intimately knows the barriers that historically have kept women from economic freedom. She also knows how to overcome them.&nbsp; From starting her business with a single $1,200 stimulus check in 2020, to becoming a self-made millionaire in her very first year, Ellie has mastered the art of life changing entrepreneurial success—and now, with Girl, Start that Business!, she’s ready to share those secrets.&nbsp; The strategies within these pages are battle tested: Ellie has turned thousands of her clients into profitable business owners. And she’s done so by meeting them where they are. Ellie knows many women are starting from zero—no money, no business plan, no customers. What they do have is a great idea, hustle, heart, and street savvy. This non-judgmental, sassy, and whip-smart pocket MBA is what female entrepreneurs need to turn their dreams into life-changing reality.&nbsp; Let’s go, girl, start that business today!

The pocket MBA for entrepreneurial moms and women of color&nbsp;who want to build a business from scratch, overcome financial obstacles, and shift the trajectory of their life, from a globally recognized entrepreneur, business coach, and digital educator. While starting a new business is hard for everyone—half close their doors within the first five years—it’s even harder for female entrepreneurs. Ellie Diop, founder and CEO of Ellievated Academy, Fully Funded Co., and Mommy to Millionaire, intimately knows the barriers that historically have kept women from economic freedom. She also knows how to overcome them.&nbsp; From starting her business with a single $1,200 stimulus check in 2020, to becoming a self-made millionaire in her very first year, Ellie has mastered the art of life changing entrepreneurial success—and now, with Girl, Start that Business!, she’s ready to share those secrets.&nbsp; The strategies within these pages are battle tested: Ellie has turned thousands of her clients into profitable business owners. And she’s done so by meeting them where they are. Ellie knows many women are starting from zero—no money, no business plan, no customers. What they do have is a great idea, hustle, heart, and street savvy. This non-judgmental, sassy, and whip-smart pocket MBA is what female entrepreneurs need to turn their dreams into life-changing reality.&nbsp; Let’s go, girl, start that business today!

The Foolproof Plan to Turn Your Idea into Income and Change Your Life

Girl, Start That Business!

A NO-NONSENSE GUIDE FOR FIXING WORK'S BIGGEST TIME-WASTERS: MEETINGS. __________________________________________ "This book will help you turn meetings from a mindless drain into a strategic advantage" NIR EYAL"Grab a copy of this book before your next week of meetings begins!" REID HOFFMANN"Fantastic" STEVEN ROGELBERG"Meetings are broken. This book fixes them - if we care enough to take action" SETH GODIN __________________________________________To anyone who has ever sat through a pointless meeting, wondering, "Why am I here?", this book is for you. And respectfully, it's also about you.Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era, designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today's digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn't just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organisations.Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration and innovation.The secret? Treat them like products. Using the seven product design principles, you'll turn your meetings into well-designed products that actually drive work forward and serve your most important users: the people in your organisation.Your Best Meeting Ever is the book every working professional and leader needs.

7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

Your Best Meeting Ever

&lt;p&gt;This essential textbook prepares future managers and leaders to drive positive social change across non-profit, public and for-profit organizations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From experts in social justice-oriented management studies, chapters examine how effective management and leadership can tackle poverty, economic inequality, and discrimination, while promoting fairness and inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key features include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;• A values-driven approach exploring critical challenges in addressing economic and social inequalities through leadership and management roles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;• Comprehensive coverage of social justice entrepreneurship, marketing and supply chain management, social and environmental accounting, living wage and volunteer management, regulations, fundraising and impact evaluation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;• Leadership, collaboration, advocacy and storytelling skills.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;• Engaging learning activities and contemporary international case studies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This textbook is vital for students pursuing mission-driven careers, helping to build the next generation of leaders and managers for social justice.&lt;/p&gt;

Patrick McGurk

Managing and Leading for Social Justice

Passionately Transforming Management

"What an interesting agenda for this meeting." "Sustainability is a priority for our company." "We care deeply about our customers." Let's face it: We all lie. Sometimes to save face, to get out of a scrape or to protect someone's feelings, and sometimes for more malicious reasons. Generally, however, we only expect people to lie under certain circumstances, and we expect our professional environments to be beacons of truthful and honest behaviour. Deceit, untruth and disinformation have become part and parcel of the everyday political agenda. World leaders and business magnates unabashedly lie and peddle misinformation, from climate change denialism to anti-vaccine propaganda. In Passionately Transforming Management with Lies, Professor Johan Alvehus recognizes that such things are not only going on at the grand political stage - instead arguing that the utility of lies, deception and manipulation can provide key lessons for anyone interested in leadership. The author delves into differing philosophical perspectives on the morality of lying, before examining the various ways in which falsehoods find their way into our modern workplaces. Ultimately, we must begin re-assessing our professional hierarchies with a new clarity by rejecting the notion of a leader as a morally superior concept automatically deserving of adulation. We need to recognize that lies and manipulation are fundamental elements of accomplishing things in organizations. Even before working life starts, its truthfulness is dubious - who doesn't polish their CV to give a better impression? Bypassing formal structures, ensuring certain people are left out of decision processes, spreading non-factual 'visions' and lying to keep one's position safe are all essential for the accomplished manager. Passionately Transforming Management with Lying provides students, scholars and managers with a concise and provocative guide to identifying, utilising and manipulating bullshit culture.

Passionately Transforming Management with Lies

Humanity's most spectacular era yet is increasingly within reach.So why are we doing everything we can to hold it back?The bestselling author of The Rational Optimist delivers a daring vision of the future - one that is potentially dazzling, but only if we stop sleepwalking into self-inflicted decline.We're on the brink of a truly spectacular explosion of productivity and prosperity, argues Matt Ridley, thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence, material science and genomic knowledge that is unprecedented in its scope and implications. With characteristic wit and ferocity, he confronts the irrational pessimism that dominates public discourse and examines the bureaucratic bloat, regulatory overreach, ideological superstition and crony capitalism that stand in the way.Optimistic in conclusion but unsparing in its analysis, The Flourishing is a rousing call to achieve and innovate by refusing to settle for a merely adequate future when a magnificent one is within reach.

The Rational Pessimist

This book is a Machine-Generated Literature Overview of performance management.This book highlights some of the current trends with respect to employee performance management in the current organizational climate. It discusses the trend of aligning personal goals with the organizational goals, as a strategic initiative to link employee performance with organizational goals and sheds light on the relevance of continuous feedback, as a trend, in providing direction to the employees to improve their performance. It proposes the trend of separating rewards from the pay-structure to maintain employee motivation and morale. The book propagates, upskilling and reskilling employees, as a trend, so that they get opportunities of learning and development to support good performance. It discusses the relevance of ongoing-evaluation as a trend, so that performance-rating is done for every project rather than doing it once a year. The concept of employee wellbeing is also covered in the book asthis is a much talked-about trend in the recent times. The book will be useful to students, practitioners and researchers in the area of performance-management who are keen to transform the upcoming field of performance management.The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science handled by Subject Matter Experts and the editor(s) of this book. The editor(s) of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.

This book is a Machine-Generated Literature Overview of performance management.This book highlights some of the current trends with respect to employee performance management in the current organizational climate. It discusses the trend of aligning personal goals with the organizational goals, as a strategic initiative to link employee performance with organizational goals and sheds light on the relevance of continuous feedback, as a trend, in providing direction to the employees to improve their performance. It proposes the trend of separating rewards from the pay-structure to maintain employee motivation and morale. The book propagates, upskilling and reskilling employees, as a trend, so that they get opportunities of learning and development to support good performance. It discusses the relevance of ongoing-evaluation as a trend, so that performance-rating is done for every project rather than doing it once a year. The concept of employee wellbeing is also covered in the book asthis is a much talked-about trend in the recent times. The book will be useful to students, practitioners and researchers in the area of performance-management who are keen to transform the upcoming field of performance management.

A Machine-generated Overview

Contemporary Trends in Performance Management

Written by a successful entrepreneur who has guided hundreds of clients to six- and seven-figure breakthroughs,&nbsp;this book offers&nbsp;a grounded, spiritually aligned path to prosperity—so your&nbsp;income, your values, and your purpose finally&nbsp;match. Heal Your Money Karma is for yogis, seekers, and spiritually curious entrepreneurs who consult their astrological chart, know their dosha, or pull oracle cards for guidance—yet still feel stuck when it comes to money. Vedic astrologer and business coach Paula Crossfield reveals how inherited beliefs, ancestral patterns, and karmic imprints quietly shape your income, your career choices, and your sense of worth.&nbsp; Drawing on Indian philosophy and the psychology of money, Paula shows you how to bring your financial life into alignment with your values—without sacrificing prosperity. Weave ancient remedies like honoring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, and work with planetary influences, with concrete tools like budgeting, tracking, and mindset work.&nbsp; You’ll learn how to:&nbsp; <ul><li>Spot the karmic patterns and ancestral stories that keep repeating in your finances&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Use simple Vedic remedies (mantra, puja, charity, and timing) to shift stuck money karma&nbsp; </li><li>Work consciously with planetary influences on wealth and opportunity&nbsp;&nbsp; </li><li>Clarify your soul-level desires so you stop undercharging, overgiving, or playing small&nbsp; </li><li>Build practical systems—budgets, tracking, and structures—that feel supportive&nbsp; </li><li>Rewrite limiting money beliefs so your income reflects your gifts, not your fears&nbsp; </li></ul> Get ready to transform your relationship with money into one that is clear, empowered, and spiritually grounded—so your prosperity finally reflects the truth of who you are.​

Written by a successful entrepreneur who has guided hundreds of clients to six- and seven-figure breakthroughs,&nbsp;this book offers&nbsp;a grounded, spiritually aligned path to prosperity—so your&nbsp;income, your values, and your purpose finally&nbsp;match. Heal Your Money Karma is for yogis, seekers, and spiritually curious entrepreneurs who consult their astrological chart, know their dosha, or pull oracle cards for guidance—yet still feel stuck when it comes to money. Vedic astrologer and business coach Paula Crossfield reveals how inherited beliefs, ancestral patterns, and karmic imprints quietly shape your income, your career choices, and your sense of worth.&nbsp; Drawing on Indian philosophy and the psychology of money, Paula shows you how to bring your financial life into alignment with your values—without sacrificing prosperity. Weave ancient remedies like honoring Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, and work with planetary influences, with concrete tools like budgeting, tracking, and mindset work.&nbsp; You’ll learn how to:&nbsp; <ul><li>Spot the karmic patterns and ancestral stories that keep repeating in your finances&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Use simple Vedic remedies (mantra, puja, charity, and timing) to shift stuck money karma&nbsp; </li><li>Work consciously with planetary influences on wealth and opportunity&nbsp;&nbsp; </li><li>Clarify your soul-level desires so you stop undercharging, overgiving, or playing small&nbsp; </li><li>Build practical systems—budgets, tracking, and structures—that feel supportive&nbsp; </li><li>Rewrite limiting money beliefs so your income reflects your gifts, not your fears&nbsp; </li></ul> Get ready to transform your relationship with money into one that is clear, empowered, and spiritually grounded—so your prosperity finally reflects the truth of who you are.​

Making Peace with Money and Honoring Your Soul's Purpose

Heal Your Money Karma

nuggets

Co-Creation beschreibt eine moderne Art des Zusammenarbeitens. Dabei ist Co-Creation mehr als die Einbeziehung von Kunden oder Stakeholdern, mehr als Kooperation und Kollaboration. Gleichzeitig ist Co-Creation kein Allheilmittel, das immer passt und für jegliche Teams und Produkte anwendbar ist. Wie lässt sich also Co-Creation bei der Durchführung von Projekten integrieren? Wen oder was braucht es dafür? Dieses Buch geht diesen Fragen nach und beleuchtet Rahmenbedingungen, Personen und Werkzeuge für eine wirkungsvolle Umsetzung von Co-Creation für Projekte. Damit beschreibt dieses Buch einen besonderen Aspekt im Spannungsfeld zwischen klassischen Handlungsweisen in Projekten und modernen Arbeitsweisen und gibt allen Beteiligten in Projekten, besonders Projektleitern oder Produktmanagern sowie auch Agilen Mastern oder Product Ownern Impulse für die Arbeit mit ihren Teams.

Co-Creation und Projektmanagement

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Own Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Own Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

How Corporations Built Our Choices and Sold Our Freedom

Choose Your Captivity

Translational Systems Sciences

Characteristics of Japanese visual narratives are depicted in this book, shedding light on cultural, institutional, and industrial aspects of reproducible contents. The book consists of three parts which deal with the Japanese contents industry, the hypervariety industry revolution, and related case studies, respectively. The first part proposes points of view for organizing research on the Japanese contents industry. The authors explain characteristics of the industry from the standpoint of cultural, institutional, and industrial strata. The second part explains the system of revolution in the industry as a hypervariety industry. The Japanese contents industry implicitly predicts the next innovation system, which will be hypervarietal but not top-down or Hollywood style as in the Western economy. The third part provides case studies on phenomena such as the comics market, Akihabara: a cross-cultural town, Cool Japan, and animation.

Cultural, Institutional, and Industrial Aspects of Reproducible Contents

The Rise of Japanese Visual Narratives

Die Dynamik der Macht

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