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Inteligencia emocional en la empresa

¿Qué distingue a los grandes líderes de los que son solo buenos? Según Daniel Goleman, no es el cociente intelectual o las aptitudes técnicas, sino la inteligencia emocional, cinco habilidades que permiten a los mejores líderes maximizar su rendimiento y el de sus seguidores: conciencia ...

El estrés laboral

Análisis y prevención

El estrés constituye en la actualidad un grave problema de salud pública. Este volumen examina de manera minuciosa el estrés repasando su historia evolutiva, sus aspectos fisiológicos y su repercusión sobre el individuo. Enumera las distintas fuentes que originan el estrés laboral y las repercusiones ...

Psicología de ventas

Brian Tracy, uno de los conferencistas profesionales e instructor de ventas más destacado del mundo hoy en día, se dio cuenta que su logro o adelanto más importante en las ventas fue el descubrimiento de que "la Psicología de Ventas" es más importante que las ...

El derecho a la protección de datos personales como garantía de la privacidad de los trabajadores

En la presente obra se examina, de una forma eminentemente práctica, el derecho a la protección de datos personales en las tres fases de la relación laboral: en el proceso de selección de personal, durante la vigencia del contrato de trabajo y, en la extinción ...

El pensamiento dualista

ideologías, creencias, fanatismo

"El tipo de pensamiento binario o dualista es característico tanto de las ideologías como de las creencias y el fanatismo (los tres elementos que forman el subtítulo del libro) y suele tener consecuencias nefastas: No creo que se puedan atribuir más víctimas a ningún otro ...

Tu mejor versión

Cómo pensar y actuar como la gente de más éxito Una guía práctica para poner a tu mente a trabajar a tu favor a su máximo rendimiento, escrita por el autor de ?Trágate ese sapo?, el libro de productividad personal más vendido de todos los ...

Security and public health

"In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing ...

Political communication

a new introduction for crisis times

"We are living in a period of great uncertainty, in which many long-predicted tipping points in media and politics have been reached. Aeron Davis bridges old and new to map the shifts and analyse what they mean for our aging democracies. This important book both ...

The new authoritarians

convergence on the right

All across the world, right-wing politics is shifting, with conservatives and supporters of the far right allying. From Donald Trump to Marine Le Pen, these figureheads agree on issues that would have been considered extreme to previous generations, causing many to label them as fascists ...

Understanding inequalities

Bringing together the most recent empirical evidence and the latest theoretical debates, this fully revised new edition gets to grips with a broad range of inequalities in peoples lives. Examining social class, gender, ethnicity, disability and migration status, it demonstrates how these play out in ...

Solar power

innovation, sustainability, and environmental justice

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sustainable and just solar industry for the future. The solar energy industry has grown immensely over the past several years ...

The educated underclass

students and the promise of social mobility

We live in a world with too many graduates fighting for too few jobs; where Deliveroo and FedEx drivers have advanced degrees. The Educated Underclass offers a much-needed look at this societal restructuring from the perspective of students. Gary Roth examines the way that universities ...

Constitutional dialogue

rights, democracy, institutions

The metaphor of 'dialogue' has been put to different descriptive and evaluative uses by constitutional and political theorists studying interactions between institutions concerning rights. It has also featured prominently in the opinions of courts and the rhetoric and deliberations of legislators. This volume brings together ...

Economics for the common good

From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from ...

The tyranny of metrics

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government-and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based ...

Economics in two lessons

why markets work so well and why they can fail so badly

A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything ...

Of privacy and power

the transatlantic struggle over freedom and security

How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the future We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and ...

Markets, games, and strategic behavior

an introduction to experimental economics

From a pioneer in experimental economics, an expanded and updated edition of a textbook that brings economic experiments into the classroom Economics is rapidly becoming a more experimental science, and the best way to convey insights from this research is to engage students in classroom ...

Prisoners of politics

breaking the cycle of mass incarceration

America's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar argues that reform guided by evidence, not politics and emotions, will reduce crime and reverse mass incarceration. The United States has the world's highest rate ...

Imperfect markets and imperfect regulation

an introduction to the Microeconomics and political economy of power markets

The first textbook to present a comprehensive and detailed economic analysis of electricity markets, analyzing the tensions between microeconomics and political economy. The power industry is essential in our fight against climate change. This book is the first to examine in detail the microeconomics underlying ...