Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1591845874, 1591847125 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3,8 MB

“A guidebook for how leaders can motivate, engage, and recognize their people all the while growing the business profitably.” —Forbes

Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture.

CEO Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal, he and his team changed everything about how the company was run. The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine “audacious small company.”

Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Menlo created its culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results.

Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism (repost)

Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism by Peter Dauvergne, Genevieve LeBaron
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0745669492, 0745669484 | 200 Pages | EPUB | 0,3 MB

Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011.

Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based solutions. The past decade has seen nongovernmental organizations partner with oil companies like ExxonMobil, discount retailers like Walmart, fast-food chains like McDonald’s, and brand manufacturers like Nike and Coca-Cola. NGOs are courting billionaire philanthropists, branding causes, and turning to consumers as wellsprings of reform.

Are “career” activists selling out to pay staff and fund programs? Partly. But far more is going on. Political and socioeconomic changes are enhancing the power of business to corporatize activism, including a worldwide crackdown on dissent, a strengthening of consumerism, a privatization of daily life, and a shifting of activism into business-style institutions. Grassroots activists are fighting back. Yet, even as protestors march and occupy cities, more and more activist organizations are collaborating with business and advocating for corporate-friendly “solutions.” This landmark book sounds the alarm about the dangers of this corporatizing trend for the future of transformative change in world politics.

Ted Fishman - China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World [Repost]

Ted Fishman – China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
2006 | ISBN: 0743257359 | English | 368 pages | EPUB | 0.4 MB

The updated edition of journalist Ted C. Fishman’s bestselling explanation of how China is rapidly becoming a global industrial superpower and how the American economy is challenged by this new reality.

China today is visible everywhere – in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential – and updated with new statistics and information – this dramatic account of China’s growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic order has occurred – and why it already affects us all.

How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? Why do nearly all of the world’s biggest companies have large operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world?

Meanwhile, what makes China’s emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What will happen when China manufactures nearly everything – computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals – that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into all of our lives?

Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business

Meg Mateo Ilasco, “Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business”
2011 | EPUB | 192 pages | ISBN: 1452101418 | English | 2.49 MB

The growing legions of crafters looking to turn their hobby into a profession can rely on the tried and true advice in Craft, Inc. In this completely revised edition of the definitive crafter’s business book, entrepreneur Meg Mateo Ilasco offers expanded and authoritative guidance on everything from developing products and sourcing materials to writing a business plan and paying taxes. With all-new sections on opening an online shop, using social media strategically, and more along with updated interviews from such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler and Jill Bliss this comprehensive primer features the most current information on starting and running a successful creative business.

Inc. Magazine USA - May 2016

Inc. Magazine USA – May 2016
English | PDF | 112 pages | 90 MB