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Category : Women engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Rising to the Top
Author: How to Become CEO
Author: Jeffrey J. FoxPublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0786871059
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Vision, persistence, integrity, and respect for everyone in the workplace--these are all qualities of successful leaders. But Jeffrey J. Fox, the founder of a marketing consulting company, also gives these tips: never write a nasty memo, skip all office parties, and overpay your people. These are a few of his key ways to climb the corporate ladder.
Are Elasticities of Taxable Income Rising?
Author: Mr.Alexander D KlemmPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484361563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
This paper assesses a possible explanation for the global downward trend in top personal income tax rates over the last decades: globalization and the related tax evasion and avoidance opportunities could have raised elasticities of taxable income, which would imply lower optimal tax rates. The paper estimates elasticities of taxable income for top income earners using a large sample of economies and years with a common method, allowing an analysis of trends in such elasticities. The paper finds that elasticities do not appear to exhibit any clear pattern over the years. The downward trend in tax rates must have other possible explanations, which are briefly discussed.
Rising to the Top
Author: R. G. WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781600131585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Principles for Rising up in Life
Author: Edmund Sackey BrownPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456837257
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Most people cast their lives in the mould of others. We desire so much to be like others that we become carbon copies of other people whom we consider to be great and successful. It is ironic that God created each person to be unique yet he or she becomes a carbon copy of another person. In Principles for Rising Up in Life, author Edmund Sackey Brown stresses on the importance of accepting your unique self instead of becoming a carbon copy of others. He shares life principles that will help you rise above challenges, achieve your goals and fulfil your own destiny. Learn about the principles of decision-making, self-motivation, work, faith, positive confession, integrity and so much more through this insightful book. Francis Bacon once said, If we havent the best, we can make the best of what we have. Apply these Principles for Rising Up in Life and you will go farfarther than you have ever imagined or even thought possible
London Rising
Author: Leo HollisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802716326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Traces the stories of five pivotal figures in the rebuilding of London in the years after the English Civil War, the 1665 plague, and the Great Fire of 1666, in an account that offers insight into the contributions of philosopher John Locke, chronicler John Evelyn, architect Robert Hooke, developer Nicholas Barbon, and architect Christopher Wren. 30,000 first printing.
The Meritocracy Trap
Author: Daniel MarkovitsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735222010
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement rather than breeding – reigns supreme. Both Democrats and Republicans insistently repeat meritocratic notions. Meritocracy cuts to the heart of who we are. It sustains the American dream. But what if, both up and down the social ladder, meritocracy is a sham? Today, meritocracy has become exactly what it was conceived to resist: a mechanism for the concentration and dynastic transmission of wealth and privilege across generations. Upward mobility has become a fantasy, and the embattled middle classes are now more likely to sink into the working poor than to rise into the professional elite. At the same time, meritocracy now ensnares even those who manage to claw their way to the top, requiring rich adults to work with crushing intensity, exploiting their expensive educations in order to extract a return. All this is not the result of deviations or retreats from meritocracy but rather stems directly from meritocracy’s successes. This is the radical argument that Daniel Markovits prosecutes with rare force. Markovits is well placed to expose the sham of meritocracy. Having spent his life at elite universities, he knows from the inside the corrosive system we are trapped within. Markovits also knows that, if we understand that meritocratic inequality produces near-universal harm, we can cure it. When The Meritocracy Trap reveals the inner workings of the meritocratic machine, it also illuminates the first steps outward, towards a new world that might once again afford dignity and prosperity to the American people.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
CO2 Rising
Author: Tyler VolkPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026226501X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change. The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just the first relatively mild symptoms of what will result from this disruption of the planetary energy balance. In CO2 Rising, scientist Tyler Volk explains the process at the heart of global warming and climate change: the global carbon cycle. Vividly and concisely, Volk describes what happens when CO2 is released by the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), letting loose carbon atoms once trapped deep underground into the interwoven web of air, water, and soil. To demonstrate how the carbon cycle works, Volk traces the paths that carbon atoms take during their global circuits. Showing us the carbon cycle from a carbon atom's viewpoint, he follows one carbon atom into a leaf of barley and then into an alcohol molecule in a glass of beer, through the human bloodstream, and then back into the air. He also compares the fluxes of carbon brought into the biosphere naturally against those created by the combustion of fossil fuels and explains why the latter are responsible for rising temperatures. Knowledge about the global carbon cycle and the huge disturbances that human activity produces in it will equip us to consider the hard questions that Volk raises in the second half of CO2 Rising: projections of future levels of CO2; which energy systems and processes (solar, wind, nuclear, carbon sequestration?) will power civilization in the future; the relationships among the wealth of nations, energy use, and CO2 emissions; and global equity in per capita emissions. Answering these questions will indeed be our greatest environmental challenge.
When There Is A Rising, There Is A Falling!
Author: Emem T. J. InyangPublisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1597816760
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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