Download or read book Doing Good Better written by William MacAskill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts. As a result, even our best intentions often lead to ineffective—and sometimes downright harmful—outcomes. How can we do better? While a researcher at Oxford, trying to figure out which career would allow him to have the greatest impact, William MacAskill confronted this problem head on. He discovered that much of the potential for change was being squandered by lack of information, bad data, and our own prejudice. As an antidote, he and his colleagues developed effective altruism, a practical, data-driven approach that allows each of us to make a tremendous difference regardless of our resources. Effective altruists believe that it’s not enough to simply do good; we must do good better. At the core of this philosophy are five key questions that help guide our altruistic decisions: How many people benefit, and by how much? Is this the most effective thing I can do? Is this area neglected? What would have happened otherwise? What are the chances of success, and how good would success be? By applying these questions to real-life scenarios, MacAskill shows how many of our assumptions about doing good are misguided. For instance, he argues one can potentially save more lives by becoming a plastic surgeon rather than a heart surgeon; measuring overhead costs is an inaccurate gauge of a charity’s effectiveness; and, it generally doesn’t make sense for individuals to donate to disaster relief. MacAskill urges us to think differently, set aside biases, and use evidence and careful reasoning rather than act on impulse. When we do this—when we apply the head and the heart to each of our altruistic endeavors—we find that each of us has the power to do an astonishing amount of good.
Download or read book Doing Good While Doing Well written by Lou Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside you will see the actual stories as told by the people that lived them. You will learn the paths they took to go from where you may be today to successful investors, while helping hundreds to find their path to home ownership. Get the actual methods they used to: -Buy properties with little or no cash -Help people that thought they could never own a home to reach their dream -Work with government housing grants -Find investors to support growing their business -Continue to profit in good times or bad - Everyone needs a home!
Download or read book Goodness to Go written by Fran I Hamilton and published by First Edition Design Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodness To Go-A Handbook for Humanitarians is your personal guide to inspire, clarify, mobilize, and sustain your compassion in action. Self-care is essential as you discover ways to contribute to your community and your world in enjoyable, sustainable ways. Proceeds from Goodness To Go support the missions of the Goodness To Go social enterprise, including girl empowerment and brothel prevention programs of Child In Need Institute (CINI) in India. To learn more, please visit www.GoodnessToGo.org and cini-india.org Author Bio: Fran I. Hamilton, MD was born in Canada into a medical family and has practiced integrative medicine in Boulder, Colorado since 1995. For decades, meditation and mindfulness practices have been important elements of Dr. Hamilton's daily life. Her international service includes the development of new curricula at a girls' school in Jamaica, West Indies and volunteering on a mobile hospital bus in rural India. Dr. Hamilton's daughter, Grace Shanti, was born in Calcutta, and the Goodness To Go social enterprise partners with Child in Need Institute in West Bengal, India. Proceeds from Goodness To Go support the missions of the Goodness To Go social enterprise, including girl empowerment and brothel prevention programs of Child in Need Institute (CINI) in India. keywords: Goodness To Go, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Efforts, Social Enterprise, Human Trafficking, Global Abolition Network, Emancipation Networks, Charity, Involuntary Servitude
Download or read book Doing Good Well written by Willie Cheng and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Good Well is a thinking man’s guide to the nonprofit world. It is replete with nonprofit paradigms. It provides a different twist to what one might regard as straightforward notions such as mission, staff compensation, governance and corporate social responsibility. And it surprises and challenges even as it seeks to explain charity-specific issues such as charitableness, bridging the rich/poor divide, informed giving and social entrepreneurship.
Download or read book Feeling Good written by David D. Burns and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1981 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how each individual can learn to control their moods through controlling the thought processes and changing the patterns of how things are perceived.
Download or read book The Business and Human Rights Landscape written by Jena Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the current legal framework. It includes in-depth explorations of the UN Guiding Principles from both theoretical and practical standpoints, with case studies ranging from the Rana Plaza building collapse to Kenyan resource extraction. Bookending current analyses are historical accounts (discussing the colonial slave trade) and forward-looking perspectives (analyzing labor's role). Bringing together top scholars from across the globe, The Business and Human Rights Landscape represents essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, or future of business and human rights.
Download or read book Good Dirt written by David E. Morine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres of wilderness, finding plenty to laugh about and learn from along the way. Here are the stories behind the deals and the people who made them—an enlightening, entertaining, occasionally unsettling look at the dirty job of keeping America clean.
Download or read book Your Money Is Your Business written by Stephen Freeman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended to: Be a financial literacy primer that motivates you to embark on a lifetime journey of continuous continuing education with the objective of becoming the best financial manager you have the capability to become. Be a reference book that you can use over and over again as you would use a dictionary. Its organized to be a user-friendly learning tool that you can use like a textbook. You might skim it and zero in on specific topics that grab your interest, or read it from cover to cover. Chapters are organized by functional utility. Help you start conversations with your family, friends, elected government representatives, and local school leaders about how to establish a mandatory financial literacy class in your local high school and how improving the overall level of financial literacy in your community will help create the strongest possible local economy. Contribute to development of a field of study in behavioral personal finance a field of study that seeks to help people develop good personal financial management behavioral habits. Please visit (www.ymiyb.com). This website was set up to provide you with information that we think you might find useful but couldnt be provided in the limited confines of just this one book.
Download or read book The Professional written by Subroto Bagchi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new era, where every person's actions have the potential to have a global impact, we must redefine what it means to be a true professional.' By common definition, a professional is someone who possesses the skills and knowledge necessary to do a job—whether it's a top degree from a prestigious university or simply years of on-the-job training. For centuries, we have relied on this definition to help us determine who is capable and who is not, often assuming that the person with the most professional characteristics is the best one for the job. But every day we see examples of so-called professionals who do more harm than good: a few irresponsible bankers whose get-rich-quick schemes led to a global financial meltdown; a once-respected hedge fund manager charged with running the world's largest Ponzi scheme and robbing his clients of billions; a team of executives siphoning funds from their employees pension plans...the list goes on. All of these people had the qualities necessary to do their jobs well, but instead they chose to abuse and corrupt their professions for their own personal gain. So how can we weed out the best from the worst when the accepted standards are no longer enough, and when even the most powerful and respected among us cannot be trusted to behave responsibly or ethically? According to businessman and bestselling author Subroto Bagchi, the first step is to redefine what it means to be a professional. Today, it takes more than just aptitude—it takes a commitment to doing what's right, not only for your business, but for society as a whole. In a world where patients, clients, and customers can no longer completely trust the advice given to them, The Professional outlines the explicit and implicit code of conduct. The Professional is a must read for anyone looking for a little clarity in an increasingly blurry world.
Download or read book The Savvy Investor s Guide to Pooled Investments written by H. Kent Baker and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savvy Investor's Guide to Pooled Investments offers a practical guide to anyone interested in gaining a basic understanding of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, and real estate investment trusts. It uses a Q&A format to examine what you want and need to know before investing.
Download or read book Selections from The Best in Us written by Cleve Stevens and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have lost sight of the big picture, forgetting that success is not only measured in profit. This narrow focus of our leaders is one of the primary reasons for our economic crisis. We need a fresh approach to leadership to turn things around. This new leadership must focus on the people generating profit in addition to profit itself. In our hyper-connected world the importance of a strong community only grows, and companies without a community are poised for failure. Hope for the economy is found in the untapped talent of our people-and in a commitment to
Download or read book How to Be Yourself written by Ellen Hendriksen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where Quiet ended, How to Be Yourself is the best book you’ll ever read about how to conquer social anxiety. “This book is also a groundbreaking road map to finally being your true, authentic self.” —Susan Cain, New York Times, USA Today and nationally bestselling author of Quiet Up to 40% of people consider themselves shy. You might say you’re introverted or awkward, or that you're fine around friends but just can't speak up in a meeting or at a party. Maybe you're usually confident but have recently moved or started a new job, only to feel isolated and unsure. If you get nervous in social situations—meeting your partner's friends, public speaking, standing awkwardly in the elevator with your boss—you've probably been told, “Just be yourself!” But that's easier said than done—especially if you're prone to social anxiety. Weaving together cutting-edge science, concrete tips, and the compelling stories of real people who have risen above their social anxiety, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen proposes a groundbreaking idea: you already have everything you need to succeed in any unfamiliar social situation. As someone who lives with social anxiety, Dr. Hendriksen has devoted her career to helping her clients overcome the same obstacles she has. With familiarity, humor, and authority, Dr. Hendriksen takes the reader through the roots of social anxiety and why it endures, how we can rewire our brains through our behavior, and—at long last—exactly how to quiet your Inner Critic, the pesky voice that whispers, "Everyone will judge you." Using her techniques to develop confidence, think through the buzz of anxiety, and feel comfortable in any situation, you can finally be your true, authentic self.
Download or read book Making a Life Making a Living written by Mark Albion and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard Business School professor and successful entrepreneur Mark Albion had it all, but not enough to satisfy his body and soul. So he did the unthinkable and started over, dedicating his passions to a better self. This breakthrough book that examines how readers can pursue their dreams in life, both financially and spiritually, is now in paperback.
Download or read book Agile PR written by Marian Salzman and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s news landscape is more crowded and varied than ever before and is only growing more diverse. From bloggers to influencers to citizen journalist to all that is coming up over the horizon, learning how to most effectively build brands has become a 24/7 mission for even the most experienced PR firms, let alone the lone enterprise. So where does one even begin to take on such an endeavor?Look no further! In Agile PR, public relations maverick Marian Salzman goes behind the scenes of creative power house Havas PR, revealing the newest, most effective tactics for championing brands, organizations, and causes. Individuals and businesses seeking to build either their brand or that of a client can learn how to:• Use newscrafting to help you or your client be the news• Personalize pitches to reporters and bloggers• Master the art of storytelling• Create branded hashtags that get shared• Gain exposure at SXSW, TED, and other key conferences• Get bumped to the top of online searches• And much more!Punctuated by case studies from the United Nations Foundation, Wyclef Jean, Sears, and other campaigns, Agile PR unlocks industry secrets to help anyone broaden their reach and increase their impact.
Download or read book The Entrepreneur s GuideBook written by Suresh G. Bharwani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book closely resonates with my journey as an entrepreneur. The book can be a wise counsellor to the people who are embarking on this entrepreneurial journey. Just like Suresh’s personality, this book is understated with simple and real life experiences but highly impactful insights, tools and framework from his personal journey as an entrepreneur. His experience of more than 40 years from the revolutionary DIY Radio Kit, to a world class training institute that has trained more than 7,00,000 students till date, his journey says it all. This book is simple to understand and a ready reference guidebook that can be a handy tool for any entrepreneur. I particularly like the Start, Stop & Continue tool that helps readers reflect on actionables as per their strengths and weakness. I would recommend this book to all entrepreneurs and professionals in any part of their career.” - Mr. Piyush Goyal - Minister of Coal and Renewable Energy
Download or read book Five Minutes with Jesus written by Randal A. Wiedemann and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's culture is overscheduled, typically characterized by short attention spans. We want to compress our lives into small, bite-sized pieces. Taking this approach with Jesus can draw us into a relationship that becomes the focus of our delight. Eventually, our desire for true life is whetted by brief meetings with Jesus. The longer we spend with Him, the more His divinely radioactive life infuses ours with the power of an endless life. The irony of the book title is that five minutes with Jesus is never enough. Five Minutes with Jesus presents a daily devotional that focuses on meeting with Jesus in ways that may be new to some Christians. Each day, author Randal Wiedemann takes a look at a different aspect of Jesus, the most discussed person in history. Wiedemann focuses on how to live the Christian faith with delight, depth, meaning, compassion, and joy. You will discover and be reminded that this is only possible when Jesus Christ lives in and through us. Five Minutes with Jesus is about spending quality time with God. For those who know Jesus, it is a joy to go to that secret inner place of the heart and meet with Him. For those who do not, there may be a vague sense of looking for something. You may not know what it is you are looking for, but when you find it, don't be surprised if it's Jesus.
Download or read book Lifescripts for Family and Friends written by Erik Kolbell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what to say and how to say it in complex, difficult, and painful situations, presenting a series of scripts that cover topics ranging from divorce or asking for a loan to funeral planning.
