Tag: Achieving

Hidden Potential The Science of Achieving Greater Things [Audiobook]


Free Download Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5Y6DM2D | 2023 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Adam Grant
Narrator: Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R. A. Dickey, Evelyn Glennie, Sara Maria Hasbun, Francis Idehen, Alison Levine, Benny Lewis, Kari Louhivuori, Nelli Louhivuori, Brandon Payne, Richard Pine, Gil Winch, full cast

This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. The #1 New York Times bestselling author illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door.

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Achieving Quality and Sustainability in the Czech Business Environment


Free Download Ivan Andráko Sylvie Formánková, Ida Raovská, Kateina Ryglová, Helena Chládková, Hana Stojanová, "Achieving Quality and Sustainability in the Czech Business Environment"
English | ISBN: 1527505456 | 2018 | 116 pages | PDF | 1094 KB
This book represents a tool for comparative analysis and a source for case studies for researchers and academics dealing with the business environment. It offers insights into the Czech business environment in the case of starting business in this country or being a potential investor or customer. It explores various facets of the Czech business environment, focusing on the quality and sustainability factors that influence Czech industries. The first part of the book presents the importance of quality and sustainability in business, before the second part explores these ideas in practice through the use of case studies from two different industries, namely the gambling and betting industry and the tourism industry. Since more than 99% of European and Czech companies are small and medium-sized, the book devotes particular attention to the specifics of such organisations.

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Achieving Zero Hunger in India Challenges and Policies (India Studies in Business and Economics)


Free Download Achieving Zero Hunger in India: Challenges and Policies (India Studies in Business and Economics) by S. Mahendra Dev, A. Ganesh-Kumar, Vijay Laxmi Pandey
English | November 5, 2023 | ISBN: 9819944120 | 353 pages | PDF, EPUB | 47 Mb
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being rooted in economics. The chapters reflect this diversity in disciplines in terms of the questions posed, the data sets used, and the methodologies followed. Starting from the evolution of policy response for hunger and nutrition security, the book covers aspects such gender budgeting, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, calorie intake norms, socio-legal aspects of right to health, subjective wellbeing, bio-fortification, crop insurance and food security linkages, interdependence of public distribution system (for food security) and employment guarantee schemes especially during COVID-19 pandemic, effects of dairy dietary supplements, and so on. With its rich discussions, the book is compelling for students, researchers, policy makers, development professionals and practitioners working in areas of food and nutrition security, SDGs, in particular SDG1, SDG2 and SDG5, and sustainable food systems.

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