Investment Adviser Regulation in a Nutshell is designed for persons interested in learning the fundamentals of regulation set forth primarily in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations. In particular, this book is targeted toward investment advisers and their chief compliance officers. However, those associated with mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, and collateralized debt obligation funds will find it useful as well.

Investment Adviser Regulation in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Haas, Jeffrey

Howard, Steven

Business

West Academic Publishing

Corporate Image Management is a comprehensive, practical introduction to one of the most potent marketing and management tools available for the use of senior executives. Progressive corporate leaders will want to use this new discipline to drive their organizations in today's increasingly competitive markets. The corporate image communicates the organization's mission, the professionalism of its leadership, the calibre of its employees, and its roles within the marketing environment or political landscape. Historically, thinking and writing about the subject has come from the area of graphic design. This approach no longer suits the global, dynamic, cross-border and cross-cultural world in which many of today's businesses and organizations compete. Corporate Image Management describes the discipline which will be a key to successful marketing well into the next century. Steven Howard, who has over 18 years' senior marketing experience in the Asia/Pacific region, illustrates the concept of corporate image management with case stories from Singapore Airlines, MasterCard International, Amazon.com, the National Basketball Association, Britain's Royal Family, and many others. Treats corporate image correctly as a marketing discipline, not a design issue Corporate image is a critical component of relationship excellence Can be used for implementing strategic change within any organization

Corporate Image Management: A Marketing Discipline for the 21st Century

Business & Money

International

Butterworth-Heinemann

Take this continued journey with Darien, an eighteen-year old, as he breaks away from the restrictions of family and steps onto a path shaped by his past, one that leads him down into very dark places as he struggles to both hide from himself and find himself. Follow him through his early adult years as a private, inner war plunges him into addiction. Witness the living of a life directed by the outside world, a life seemingly rescued from it for brief moments by a spirit guide named Sundeep - a friend, protector, and teacher who has been with Darien since before he was born. Experience, firsthand, Darien's decent as he approaches a point of no return. "Steven Howard shares a powerful odyssey of the universal struggle to awaken to the Spirit within." - Gary Simmons, Th.D. Author of "The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace;" "The Soul's Conspiracy: Master Conflict, Transform Your Life;" and co-founder of the Q Process

The Darien Chronicles: Objects for Reflection, A Journey into Love: Part Two - Into the Wasteland

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Lulu Publishing Services

Born into a broken home, Darien started life on the wrong foot. Luckily, he finds his spirit guide in Sundeep-a friend, protector, and teacher who has been with Darien since before his birth. Darien struggles with an inner war that plunges him into addiction as he eventually approaches a point of no return. Desperate for healing, he makes a confession. Darien confronts his boss and admits to his alcoholism. Despite his hesitation in getting better, he is determined to fix his broken life. This is a journey into recovery as Darien strives to live without doubt. He slowly opens up to spiritual truths and a renewed awareness of Sundeep, who guides him to new understandings. In order to be free of addiction, Darien must face buried fears and defy his need for alcohol and drugs to mask those fears. Slowly, he discovers the healing wonders of shedding light on darkness. He transforms as he aligns his life with his true identity and fulfills his soul's purpose, even beyond this earthly realm.

The Darien Chronicles: Objects for Reflection, A Journey into Love: Part Three—Moving Into the Light

Take a journey with Darien and his spirit guide, Sundeep, from pre-birth into the after-life. In The Darien Chronicles: Object for Reflection, A Journey into Love, Part One -In the Beginning, walk with him as he leaves behind vague recollections of being a cast off and develops his rules for survival in the drama of an adoptive family where secrets thrive. Be with him as he struggles to separate truth from fiction and find his own soul. Is Sundeep real or imaginary? Is Darien who he is seen to be or is there more to who he is? Who can he trust? The appearance of things suggests no one, as he cautiously formulates a plan to fit in and be accepted. Circumstances bring Darien, a four-year old boy, into a working class family that includes an older boy whose friend causes him to question himself and shakes his very foundation as a boy wanting, desperately, to become a man. Being a bastard boy and child of a trollop, Darien finds refuge and a reflection of who he is in his secret friend, Sundeep. But does he believe what he hears? Or do the other influences and experiences he encounters speak louder to him? Find out. Perhaps you'll even find yourself in this story. And this is just the beginning!

The Darien Chronicles: Objects for Reflection, A journey into Love

BalboaPress

The Darien Chronicles: Objects for Reflection, A journey into Love: Part One - In The Beginning

Balboa Press

Curiosity: the Gateway into Knowing is the sharing of one man’s journey out of the darkness of a life half-lived into one of unlimited possibilities fulfilled. It offers a pathway into self-awareness fed by becoming compassionately curious and, as a result, experiencing a transformation of consciousness from “knowing about” to one of “knowing.” And, in the process, tells of discovering the truth of who he is and his purpose for being here in this lifetime. 
This booklet provides a set of tools and exercises, based upon material which has been studied and used by the author, and literally thousands of other people, with great success. 
If you have old dreams that are collecting dust in the recesses of your mind which have left you wishing you could turn them from “pipe dreams” into a reality, then this book for you.

Curiosity: the Gateway into Knowing

Religion & Spirituality

A Howard Activity LLC

Ancient sayings and proverbs offer insights and understanding about many aspects of the cultural traditions of the societies from which they emanate. Additionally we find proverbs that have been borrowed or exchanged between similar languages and cultures, and thus reach us today through more than one language. This is particularly true within Asia, where common cultures and traditions often transcend political boundaries and lines drawn on maps.Proverbs usually originate from humble indigenous people, who handed down their wise sayings and life lessons from generation to generation and from century to century. But they also come from ancient thinkers like Buddha and Confucius. Ancient proverbs, particularly from Asia, tend to condense the experiences and habits of life into the fundamental lessons for our respective life journeys. As such, they enable us to set our personal bearings for traversing the vast realms and depths of our individual hopes, desires, dreams, plans, and pursuits. Truly inspirational proverbs reflect the deepest wisdom about life culled from the experiences, knowledge, and wisdom of past generations. They help us crystallize our own understanding of life; benefiting from the experiences, understanding, knowledge, and wisdom of those who have gone before us. When these pithy sayings and short maxims resonate with our personal inner beliefs and truths, we are uplifted, motivated, and strengthened in our resolve to hurdle the obstacles life throws at us and pursue our chosen paths. Author Steven Howard hopes that the Asian Proverbs in this book become inspirational dictums and teachings that open up new perspectives for readers that help them each reframe their personal experiences of life, reality, and spirituality. The Book of Asian Proverbs is part of Howard's popular Asian Words of Wisdom series of motivational and inspiration quotations and sayings.

The Book of Asian Proverbs: Unabridged collection of ancient sayings and teachings from across Asia. (Asian Words of Wisdom)

Self-Help

Motivational

Caliente Press

Dieselgate: The Benchmark in Corporate Cheating Scandals 2017 Distinguished Favorite Award (Leadership Books) by Independent Press Award judges The Volkswagen diesel emissions test cheating scandal and its various offshoots have had a far-reaching impact on a wide range of parties. This impact has been financial, environmental, political, and regulatory. The parties affected include car owners, Volkswagen’s leadership team and employees, shareholders, car dealers, government officials, regulatory agencies, the media, the automotive industry, and even the Made-in-Germany brand. To date, Volkswagen has been assessed or agreed to over $24B in fines, penalties, and compensatory payments to car owners. One Volkswagen employee is serving an 18-month jail term in South Korea. Another is awaiting sentencing in the U.S. after a plea bargain arrangement. A third sits in a U.S. jail thousands of miles away from his home in Germany pending his own trial or plea bargain agreement. Five of their colleagues in Germany have been indicted on felony charges by a U.S. grand jury and have been warned not to leave the country. The Volkswagen Saga is a story of deliberate corporate malfeasance that has impacted the automaker’s car brands, leadership structure, governance, corporate reputation, current and future financial results, and its corporate culture. It is a story full of leadership lessons on corporate governance, branding, crisis communications, corporate responsibility, and individual accountability relevant to leaders of any size organization. Leadership Lessons from the Volkswagen Saga nails the teachings and learnings stemming from what is now the benchmark for corporate cheating and corporate scandals.

Leadership Lessons From The Volkswagen Saga

Business Culture

It's not just WHAT you think, but HOW you think, that makes a difference in the outcomes you generate. You make tens of thousands of decisions a day - up to 70,000 according to research. Yet far too many of these decisions are made under emotional duress, stress, anxiety, and pressure. When this happens, the rational control center of your brain is no longer in charge, having been replaced by the emotional control center. Make Better Decisions. You do not have to emotionally react to events, situations, and people. Within this book you will find useful and easy-to-implement tips and techniques for taking control of your emotions and thoughts so that you can respond, instead of reacting, to life's daily challenges. Doing so puts you in a position to make more optimal decisions, both personally and professionally. Drive Better Outcomes. Stressed-out people fall prey to binary choice decision making, which limits the options they take into consideration. An array of choices and options appear in mindful moments because opting to pause prevents habitual, knee-jerk responses from automatically surfacing and taking over. Removing yourself from autopilot mode helps prevent reactive decisions and responses. A mindfulness breather enables your conscious thoughts to hold sway over unconscious, instinctive, and automatic reactions. This leads to better decisions and more desirable outcomes. Better decision making and better thinking - and thus better outcomes - can be yours. The key to doing so, especially for important decisions that lead to a more productive and happier life, is in knowing how stress and anxiety impact your decision making.

How Stress and Anxiety Impact Your Decision Making: Making Better Decisions. Driving Better Outcomes.

Happiness

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