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| business ideas for empty office space: Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., 2019-10-01 A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary Rana Florida, 2013-09-13 The 7 Key Principles to achieving YOUR business and life goals What could a graffiti artist, eminent neurologist, star athlete, celebrity chef, fashion designer, rocket scientist, and Grammy Award–winning musician possibly have in common? In this groundbreaking new book, Rana Florida shares their formula, giving you the tools to achieve unimaginable success in work and life. Upgrade gathers the best practices, not just from CEOs and business executives but from entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers, and creative leaders. Upgrade includes interviews with Sir Ken Robinson, Dan Pink, Mark Cuban, Andre Agassi, Kenny Scharf, Zaha Hadid, Governor Martin O’Malley, Tory Burch, Tim Brown, and many other leading figures. Despite this cast’s vastly different backgrounds and skills, Florida’s research concludes that there are seven key principles to achieving your business and life goals: Envision the future Find your passion Get creative Design your time Collaborate Take risks Embrace failure Unfortunately, this is exactly what the majority of us don’t do. Instead of developing a real strategy to upgrade and optimize our lives, too many of us just slog through life in a state of “managed dissatisfaction.” But it’s never too late to envision an entirely different future—or to actively upgrade your life. It’s not about finding more time, money, or resources. Anyone can do it. This smart and entertaining guide delves deep into each principle, giving you the insights, tools, and inspiration to take your life from ordinary to extraordinary. Praise for Upgrade “Why ride in coach, when you can upgrade? A must-read for a better journey through life.” Don Tapscott, bestselling author, Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital “Upgrade is an a-ha book that will change how you look at life’s challenges and give you tools to upgrade your life.” Touré, cohost of MSNBC’s The Cycle “Read Upgrade for its stories, examples, and strategies and get ready to live the life you always wanted.” Frank Toskan, founder, M.A.C. Cosmetics “Creative and innovative strategies to upgrade your work and life, with seven simple principles.” Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com, Inc., and New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness “Rana’s perspective on business and life is a fresh new take, breaking the traditional corporate mold. Upgrade is a must-read for anyone not buying into the conventional wisdom.” Ali Velshi, CNN Chief Business Correspondent; anchor, CNN-I World Business Today; and host, CNN Your Money “Upgrade welcomes you to take a fresh approach to everything you do to get the most out of work and life.” Nelly Furtado, Grammy Award–winning musician “If I’m going to listen to anyone’s good advice about how to improve my approach to work and life, it’s Rana’s.” Kate Betts, contributing editor, TIME, and columnist, The Daily Beast Rana's voice is refreshing--as real as a memoir and a great vessel for this self-help and business book wrapped up in one easily-digestible package. Paper Magazine A very interesting book. Business Learning Solutions |
| business ideas for empty office space: Employee to Entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, 2019-01-09 Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself. Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step-by-step framework to teach you how to effectively explore and leverage entrepreneurship to gain freedom, fulfillment and financial security. understand what you want to do by first understanding yourself explore if entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job avoid the common pitfalls faced by first-time entrepreneurs fund, test and prioritise your ideas in a fast and cost-effective way develop the mindset to succeed in your business. If you’re ready to leave your cushy employee life behind and build a business and a life you believe in, reading this essential guidebook is your first step to making it happen. |
| business ideas for empty office space: The Community Economic Development Handbook Mihailo Temali, 2002-09-20 The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire community can be lifted up. Mihailo (Mike) Temali knows this first-hand. He has spent nearly twenty years working in community-based economic development, helping cities as diverse as St. Paul, Minnesota, and Santiago, Chile. In this concrete, practical, jargon-free handbook, he describes a proven way to make any community a better place to live. Comprehensive, realistic, and easy-to-use If you don't already have a community economic development (CED) organization in place, Temali tells you how to set one up. Then he defines four pivot points that are crucial to neighborhood economies: 1) Revitalizing your commercial district; 2) Developing microbusinesses; 3) Developing your community workforce; and 4) Growing good neighborhood jobs. He explains how to choose your first pivot point, then guides you through the process of tackling each one. True stories of successful CED provide inspiration. Sidebars explore related issues: dealing with gentrification, finding potential partners, supporting microentrepreneurs, and more. Other CED professionals share their insights in “From the Field” notes. Appendices point you toward useful resources, show you how to use the Internet to research your regional economy, and include dozens of worksheets that will help you move from reading about CED to doing it. The Community Economic Development Handbook is precisely what you need to turn your neighborhood around! |
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| business ideas for empty office space: The Business of We Laura Kriska, 2021-01-12 Discover how this leader-focused approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity and inclusion can increase employee retention and productivity. Workplace misunderstandings lead to lost revenue, lost time, and increased legal risk, thus your success in the marketplace will depend on our ability to collaborate across difference. Yet, inevitably, Us versus Them gaps disrupt workplace efficiency. In The Business of WE, cross-cultural consultant and diversity expert Laura Kriska will: Provide a practical roadmap for creating trust with others who are culturally different from yourself Help you create a WE mindset throughout your organization, bringing teams together into cohesive units. Walk you through the steps in fostering a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees—one of the most critical, yet most widely mismanaged keys to success. Stakeholders are demanding real change, and nothing less than comprehensive solutions that lead to meaningful and lasting solutions will suffice. The Business of WE arrives just in time to help you stop Us versus Them gaps before they start and foster authentic connections across race, ethnicity, religion, age, and any other factor of identity to exponentially strengthen your entire organization. |
| business ideas for empty office space: The Grand Promise Rebekah Anderson, 2022-06-01 2023 PNWA Nancy Pearl Book Award Finalist A thoughtful look at desperation brought about by early-20th-century American enterprise. -- Kirkus Reviews Enthralling...the storytelling has grit under its fingernails--Publishers Weekly, BookLife Review Readers will be swept up--Seattle Book Review Published on the 80th anniversary of the Grand Coulee Dam, The Grand Promise is a work of literary fiction about the real communities that were impacted by the dam's construction on the Columbia River in the 1930's during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Called a gripping debut by best-selling author Jonathan Evison and an ambitious saga by Washington State Book Award winner Peter Mountford, The Grand Promise was the #1 fiction bestseller at Small Press Distribution in its release month. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Starting Your First Business Jim R. Sapp, 2004 If you have the desire to put your effort into something you love, and to reap the rewards on your own terms, then this book can help you. It has been created specifically to give you the tools and advice you need to develop your skills as a new entrepreneur. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs Dirk Schubert, 2016-05-13 Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contrarian way of thinking as well as analyses of her impact on urban planning theory and the consequences for planning practice. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication, in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges arise. The contributions in this book argue that it is not possible simply to follow Jane Jacobs's ideas to the letter, but instead it is necessary to contextualize them, to look for relevant lessons for cities and planners, and critically to re-evaluate why and how some of her ideas might be updated. Bringing together an international team of scholars and writers, this volume develops conclusions based on new research as to how her work can be re-interpreted under different circumstances and utilized in the current debate about the proclaimed ’millennium of the city’, the 21st century. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Business Essentials BPP Learning Media, 2010-11-01 This book is designed to be of value to anyone who is studying management, whether as a subject in its own right or as a module forming part of any business-related degree or diploma.However, it provides complete coverage of the topics listed in the Edexcel Guidelines for Units 13 (Personal and Professional Development) and 14 (Working with and Leading People), of the BTEC Higher Nationals in Business (revised 2010).The book contains these sections: * Managing professional development * Working with and leading peopleFeatures include summary diagrams, worked examples and illustrations, activities, discussion topics, chapter summaries and quick quizzes, all presented in a user friendly format that helps to bring the subject to life. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Moms For Hire Deborah Jelin Newmyer, 2017-01-31 Moms For Hire is a stylish, eight-step guidebook for moms who want to re-enter the workforce and amp up their professional mojo. Whether you downsized your bustling career to raise your children, or you chose the full-time job of being a stay-at-home mom, you now feel ready to get back in the work game, but re-entry can be intimidating. Using creative exercises, advice, and anecdotes from well-known working moms, this book will become a guide to creating your own successful re-entry strategy. From simply giving voice to your desire to work, to learning how to negotiate the best deal once you land the dream job, Moms For Hire guides you through each step of the process in a way that keeps you motivated and inspired. The simple promise is this: if you commit one hour a day to this book, you can find rewarding work. The search for fulfilling employment requires plenty of will, stamina, and support; let Moms For Hire be your devoted partner as you step into this new, life-changing adventure. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Your Small Business Boom: Explosive Ideas to Grow Your Business, Make More Money, and Thrive in a Volatile World Steven D. Strauss, 2021-09-28 Learn how to thrive in even the most volatile economic climate with smart strategies from USA TODAY’s top small-business columnist Today’s small business owners need all the tools they can get–whether to grow their business and have it take off, or simply to navigate and succeed in tough times. In this engaging, actionable book, USA TODAY’s senior small business columnist Steve Strauss provides you with an indispensable guide for creating your own “small business boom.” Packed with the powerful strategies and chock-full of explosive ideas, Your Small Business Boom is your blueprint for how to thrive today. Inside you will learn of a variety of affordable, savvy strategies that you can use in your own businesses; everything from finding and getting bigger clients to the secret of “doing the opposite,” and from getting a million hits on your website to getting 100,000 social media followers. With Strauss’s expert advice, you’ll learn to: Easily create a tribe of rock-solid fans, followers, and customers Generate money while you sleep Use webinars, podcasts, live streaming, and funnels to make your business boom Make social media really work for you by looking beyond “likes” Find bigger clients with bigger budgets, or even better – have them seek you out With smart, practical tips and a healthy dose of upbeat, can-do optimism, Your Small Business Boom is the book every small business owner could use right about now. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Kiplinger's Personal Finance , 2010-07 The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Start a Business for £99 Emma Jones, 2015-04-17 Start your own business, be your own boss and still get change from £100. This friendly, step-by-step guide will show you how you can live your small business dreams. Covering everything you need to know about making your idea a reality you'll finally be able to stop dreaming, and start doing - and all for less than £100. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Billion Dollar Loser Reeves Wiedeman, 2020-10-20 A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This vivid inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company. Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism. A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel” (Ken Auletta) |
| business ideas for empty office space: New Uses for Obsolete Buildings Jo Allen Gause, Bruce M. Hoch, John D. Macomber, Jonathan F. P. Rose, 1996 |
| business ideas for empty office space: Lemonade Stand Steve Glaveski, 2019-10-07 Once upon a time, we used to go to school to learn how to become something, an accountant, a lawyer, a doctor...but technology has been improving since the 1960s, creating a very uncertain world. Some estimate that 40% of today's jobs won't exist in 10 years! It's no longer enough to remember facts for a test, only to forget them shortly afterwards.If, as Stephen Hawking said, intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then entrepreneurship is the perfect vehicle to teach children adaptability and resilience.Written by seasoned entrepreneur and author, Steve Glaveski, Lemonade Stand follows a young entrepreneur's journey, and provides kids with invaluable business and life lessons along the way. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Bridging the Innovation Gap Daniel Huber, Heiner Kaufmann, Martin Steinmann, 2017-05-17 This book offers fresh insights into innovation management and its prerequisites. Based on these insights, the authors present a new and proven innovation system, which is being used in practice and has the potential to significantly increase the ability of enterprises to innovate. Starting with the innovation dilemma that enterprises face, the book analyses the concept of innovation as it is (mis)understood in practice, and identifies the missing element in current innovation theories - the innovation gap. Further, it asks whether today's enterprises are well suited for innovation and then describes a solution to the problems identified. The book also introduces a new and important element of the revised innovation process called “Exploration”. From leadership issues to building a strong innovation model, it offers state-of-the-art knowledge, which can significantly boost the chances of innovation succeeding in enterprises. |
| business ideas for empty office space: The Founder's Dilemmas Noam Wasserman, 2013-04 The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Open for Business: The Insider's Guide to Leasing Commercial Real Estate Tyler Cauble, 2018-01-22 For too long, commercial real estate expert Tyler Cauble has witnessed the damage caused by small business owners not knowing all the facts before signing a lease. He's working to change that. In this book, Tyler guides you through everything you need to know before renting commercial space. Whether you're looking for a new storefront, a location for your thriving business, or simply need to get out of the garage, Open for Business will show you how to determine space requirements, select a location, and negotiate your lease. If you don't want to do it on your own, Tyler shares how to find a broker who can help you-and save you money! Open for Business will demystify leasing commercial real estate and empower you to make the best decisions for your growing business. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Presentation Zen Garr Reynolds, 2009-04-15 FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations. |
| business ideas for empty office space: The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2018 Peter Sander, Scott Bobo, 2017-12-05 Updated for today’s market, the 2018 edition of the 100 Best Stocks series picks the top stocks you should invest in based on the authors’ investing philosophy—which has consistently beaten the S&P average for seven straight years! While the economic climate is constantly changing, it’s still possible for smart investors to turn a profit. Peter Sander and Scott Bobo share what the best stocks are for the upcoming year and explain their value investing philosophy, low-volatility investing, and how to find stocks that consistently perform and pay dividends. An essential guide for anyone investing in today’s unpredictable market, The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2018 is a proven source of dependable advice you can take straight to the bank. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Place Reinvention Dr Torill Nyseth, Professor Arvid Viken, 2012-11-28 Through an interdisciplinary range of case studies from across the Northern rim of Europe, this volume shows how place reinvention as a concept affects not only global cities but also marginal regions. Linking place reinvention to the economic, the symbolic and the political production of space, the volume puts forward insights into how 'marginal areas' understand their role in the global competition between places and regions through their branding strategies, playing with representations of the unique and the ordinary, urban and rural, reindustrialization and cultural economy. It also shows how and why some places seem to retain and strengthen their uniqueness, whilst others are losing their local distinctiveness in the struggle to survive. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Office Markets and Public Policy Colin Jones, 2013-03-04 This is the first book that looks at how offices and office markets in cities have changed over the last 30 years. It analyses the long-term trends and processes within office markets, and the interaction with the spatial economy and the planning of cities. It draws on examples around the world, and looking forward at the future consequences of information communication technologies and the sustainability agenda, it sets out the challenges that now face investors. The traditional business centres of cities are losing their dominance to the brash new centres of the 1980s and 1990s, as the concept of the central business district becomes more diffuse. Edge cities, business space and office parks have entered the vocabulary as offices have also decentralised. The nature and pace of changes to office markets set within evolving spatial structures of cities has had implications for tenants and led to a demand for shorter leases. The consequence is a rethink of the traditional perception of property investment as a secure long term investment, and this is reflected in reduced investment holding periods by financial institutions. Office Markets & Public Policy analyses these processes and policy issues from an international perspective and covers: A descriptive and theoretical base encompassing an historical context, a review of the fundamentals of the demand for and supply of the office market and offices as an investment. Embedded within this section is a perspective on underlying forces particularly the influence of technological change. A synthesis of our understanding of the spatial structure and dynamics of local office markets at the city level. An assessment of the goals and influence of planning policies, and the evaluation of policies designed toward the long term sustainability of cities as services centres. This goes beyond standard real estate and urban economics books by assessing the changing shape of urban office markets within a spatial theoretical and policy context. It will be a useful advanced text for honours and postgraduate students of land economy; land management; property and real estate; urban planning; and urban studies. It will also be of interest to researchers, property professionals, policy-makers and planning practitioners. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Time Management Ninja Craig Jarrow, 2019-09-15 “This book will help you own your calendar, block time for what matters most and reclaim your life.” —Paula Rizzo, author of Listful Living: A List-Making Journey to a Less Stressed You You want more time to spend with family, to achieve big goals, and to simply enjoy life. Yet, there seem to be more and more things competing for your time, and more distractions interrupting your day. Craig Jarrow has spent many years testing time management tactics, tools, and systems and written hundreds of articles on productivity, goals, and organization, Through it all he’s learned a simple truth: Time management should be easy, not complicated and unwieldy. And it shouldn’t take up more of your precious time than it gives back! Time Management Ninja offers 21 rules that will show you an easier and more effective way to take control of your time and manage your busy life. Follow these simple principles and get more done with less effort. It’s no-stress, uncomplicated time management that works. “Read this book, apply its rules, and you’ll find freedom.” —Hyrum Smith, bestselling author of Purposeful Retirement |
| business ideas for empty office space: Harlequin Desire September 2014 - Bundle 1 of 2 Sara Orwig, Barbara Dunlop, Sarah M. Anderson, 2014-09-01 Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! Look for Harlequin® Desire’s September 2014 Bundle 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! A TEXAN IN HER BED (Lone Star Legends) By USA TODAY bestselling author Sara Orwig When Texas billionaire Wyatt Milan learns that stunning TV personality Destiny Jones intends to stir up a century-long family feud, his plan to stop her leads to a seduction that threatens his guarded heart. REUNITED WITH THE LASSITER BRIDE (Dynasties: The Lassiters) By USA TODAY bestselling author Barbara Dunlop Angelica Lassiter thought she’d lost Evan forever after her grandfather’s will wrecked their engagement. But when their best friends’ wedding forces them to walk down the aisle—as best man and maid of honor—sparks fly! NOT THE BOSS'S BABY (The Beaumont Heirs) By Sarah M. Anderson Chadwick Beaumont is tired of doing what everyone wants him to do. It's time he did what he wanted. And he wants his secretary, Serena Chase—pregnant or not! |
| business ideas for empty office space: Reunited with the Lassiter Bride Barbara Dunlop, 2014-09-02 In the fight sparked by her late father's will, Angelica Lassiter has come out on top-- deposing her former fiancé as CEO. She's won control of her birthright but lost the fiancé she loved. The cruel irony is that she and Evan must now pretend to be a couple to make their best friends' wedding work.--Page 4 of cover. |
| business ideas for empty office space: The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career Ken Langdon, 2004-08-20 The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career will help you buck the odds. Just think for a moment about how much of your career is left to chance. It can depend on who happens to be your boss when you get promoted, for example, and how popular and influential he or she is. The 100 Greatest Ideas for Building Your Career includes advice and tips from fifteen chairmen and directors of some of the UK's largest companies. It will help you build a strategy for managing the elements of your career that you can control (and some you thought you couldn't). Ken Langdon shows how you can. Just some of the ideas Ken Langdon reveals are: The 8 greatest ideas for winning at company politics The 6 greatest ideas for spending cleverly The 8 greatest ideas for standing out in the crowd The 4 greatest ideas for standing out in the more senior crowd ?and 74 other fantastic ideas, tips and tricks that will take you to the very top! 100 Greatest books will enable you to take control of your life and your career. Packed with 100 simple but wonderfully effective ideas, these books are fun to use and easy to put into practice, giving you instant results. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Raising the Stakes T. L. Taylor, 2015-01-30 How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play. Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve the all-time highest score; the television show Starcade (1982–1984) featured competitions among arcade game players; and first-person shooter games of the 1990s became multiplayer through network play. A new development in the world of digital gaming, however, is the emergence of professional computer game play, complete with star players, team owners, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators. In Raising the Stakes, T. L. Taylor explores the emerging scene of professional computer gaming and the accompanying efforts to make a sport out of this form of play. In the course of her explorations, Taylor travels to tournaments, including the World Cyber Games Grand Finals (which considers itself the computer gaming equivalent of the Olympics), and interviews participants from players to broadcasters. She examines pro-gaming, with its highly paid players, play-by-play broadcasts, and mass audience; discusses whether or not e-sports should even be considered sports; traces the player's path from amateur to professional (and how a hobby becomes work); and describes the importance of leagues, teams, owners, organizers, referees, sponsors, and fans in shaping the structure and culture of pro-gaming. Taylor connects professional computer gaming to broader issues: our notions of play, work, and sport; the nature of spectatorship; the influence of money on sports. And she examines the ongoing struggle over the gendered construction of play through the lens of male-dominated pro-gaming. Ultimately, the evolution of professional computer gaming illuminates the contemporary struggle to convert playful passions into serious play. |
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| business ideas for empty office space: Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus Tim Hindle, 2008-09-01 Good management is a precious commodity in the corporate world. Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus is a straight-forward manual on the most innovative management ideas and the management gurus who developed them. The earlier edition, Guide to Management Ideas, presented the most significant ideas that continue to underpin business management. This new book builds on those ideas and adds detailed biographies of the people who came up with them-the most influential business thinkers of the past and present. Topics covered include: Active Inertia, Disruptive Technology, Genchi Genbutsu (Japanese for Go and See for Yourself), The Halo Effect, The Long Tail, Skunkworks, Tipping Point, Triple Bottom Line, and more. The management gurus covered include: Dale Carnegie, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker, Philip Kotler, Michael Porter, Tom Peters, and many others. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Out of Office Hilde Therese Remøy, 2010 |
| business ideas for empty office space: The Blood Price Jonathan Evans, 2009-10-13 Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Pursued by brutal gangsters and unable to leave the country legally, Paul agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of people smugglers in exchange for safe passage. The smugglers seem friendly. The job seems harmless. But when he discovers the secrets seething beneath, the repercussions will propel him on a perilous journey around the world -- from a warlord's compound in lawless Albania, through the jungles of Latin America, and toward an explosive confrontation at the extraordinary Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. |
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| business ideas for empty office space: Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur: What It Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate : What it Takes to Win in High-Stakes Commercial Real Estate James Randel, Jim Randel, 2005-12-19 A front row seat into the world of high-stakes commercial real estate investing “A must-read book … one of the best real estate investment books I have ever read. On my scale of 1 to 10, this unique book rates an off-the-charts 12.” ---Robert Bruss Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur is for the individual who is ready to get serious about investing. Not a rah-rah or get-rich-quick book, this book is for someone who is prepared to think about what he or she wants to accomplish. James Randel provides the how and why. James Randel has been a successful investor and educator for 25 years. He teaches investing through stories and anecdotes – bringing to the limelight not just his successes (and there are some amazing stories of these) but also his mistakes. His candor is instructive and entertaining. It is said that “those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach.” James Randel is a rare exception as he is both a highly successful investor as well as an excellent teacher. As said by Jeff Dunne, Vice Chairman of the largest real estate company in the world, CB Richard Ellis: “I’ve tracked Jimmy’s incredible run of successful real estate investments for 20 years and more recently invested very profitably with him. His new book is a must read for anyone interested in real estate investing.” If you are tired of the “same old, same old” and prepared to play in the big leagues, this book is calling your name. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Bullshit Jobs David Graeber, 2019-05-07 From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times). |
| business ideas for empty office space: The Smart City Transformations Amitabh Satyam, Igor Calzada, 2017-07-03 A handbook for the practitioners, this book is a complete treatise on the topic of Smart, covering: 1. A comprehensive framework with the needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches, and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city. 2. Integrating economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework. 3. Technologies that are powering the Smart movement. Extensive case-studies. 4. Societal and Political research, and progress made by the academia. 5. Specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city. Introduction to the concepts of Smart Map and Smart Index. 6. A structured approach to transformation, setting priorities, execution, financing and governance. The new structure and market dynamics of the Smart industry. |
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| business ideas for empty office space: The Equity Planner Jason King, 2023-11-30 Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses. How do we achieve more equitable outcomes? The Equity Planner provides a toolkit of practical solutions for planners and all those involved in placemaking to promote thoughtful, inclusive planning. Each chapter of The Equity Planner examines one particular aspect of inequity in the urban planning sphere, covering issues such as identity retention, affordability, and the protection and enhancement of local assets. While each chapter offers practicable solutions to these issues, the Notes from the Field sections describe how these same tools have been used (either successfully or unsuccessfully) in projects the author has been involved in, with a particular focus on the local resistance each project encountered. These real-world case studies are used to suggest methods to overcome such resistance, which the reader can then apply to their present initiatives. This book is written for urban planners, local activists, social scientists, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in equity planning. This book will be of use to both practicing and training urban planners and architects who seek to add equity planning to their professional repertoire. |
| business ideas for empty office space: Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future Natalie Whittle, 2024-09-10 “[Shrink the City] surveys ways in which cities around the globe have created compact neighborhoods where residents’ daily needs are quickly accessible on foot or by bicycle—a concept known as the 15-minute city. . . . deeply researched and winsomely written. . . an invaluable overview of the cutting edge of urban planning.”—Publishers Weekly Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn’t need a car to reach the grocery store? What if we could get back the time we would have spent commuting and put it to other uses? In this fascinating, carefully researched and reported book, longtime Financial Times journalist Natalie Whittle investigates the 15-minute city idea—its pros, cons, and its potential to revolutionize modern living. From Paris, Melbourne, and Rotterdam to Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tempe, Arizona, cities worldwide are being guided by the 15-minute city’s ideals—with varying results. By looking at these examples, Whittle considers: what really happens when a city expands bike lanes and pedestrian areas—and disincentivizes long commutes which approaches to building affordable housing are actually effective how neighborhoods of varying wealth are affected by 15-minute city policies whether it’s possible to convince car-owning city dwellers to replace their vehicles with other forms of transport. This timely book serves as a call to reflect on our cities and neighborhoods—and it outfits us with insights on how to make them more sustainable, safe, and welcoming. |
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