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If your organization is not performing at its best, this book is for you. It puts you right into the shoes of the leaders of the great baseball dynasties and demonstrates how they overcame challenges common to those in our own teams and groups. Topics include managing and motivating highly talented but dysfunctional individuals, turning around careers that have stalled late in life, better understanding the practical benefits of diversity and inclusion, and inspiring individuals to find their best within the context of their teams. Meyer combines his over thirty years representing some of the world's top companies with his deep knowledge of baseball history and looks at leadership from a brand-new perspective. Learn the value of encouraging leadership from all levels in your organization. Discover the critical importance of leaders coming to terms with their own internal demons before they can reach their full potential. Unlock the secrets of how to out-perform the competition in times of intense pressure and how to find opportunity in times of crisis.

Success in business. --- Organizational behavior. --- Problem solving. --- Diversity in the workplace. --- Teams in the workplace. --- Culture. --- Leadership. --- Crisis management. --- Diversity and inclusion. --- Turn-around. --- Bad behavior. --- Long-term planning. --- Innovation. --- Teamwork. --- Sustained success.

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This paper presents a World Bank led and Russia trust fund financed work program to measure financial capability and the effectiveness of financial education in low and middle income countries. The two activities and their staging have been motivated by the lessons of high income countries with financial literacy programs and the deviating characteristics of low and middle income countries. While progress has been made in high-income countries to measure financial capability, there is little robust empirical evidence that financial education can improve it. While applying the financial capability concept in low and middle-income countries looks promising it will need to be adjusted to their characteristic and supported by innovative interventions and rigorous impact evaluation to improve it.

Access & Equity in Basic Education --- Access to Finance --- Accountability --- Accounting --- Behavioral Economics --- Best Practices --- Business Education --- Capacity Building --- Cash Transfers --- Consumer Protection --- Consumers --- Corruption --- Disabilities --- Disability Insurance --- Economic Development --- Economic Policy --- Education --- Education For All --- Employment Services --- Ethnic Minorities --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Institutions --- Financial Literacy --- Financial Management --- Financial Sector --- Financial Services --- Gender --- Gender Issues --- Human Capital --- Income Distribution --- Income Inequality --- Inequality --- Informal Lenders --- Labor Mobility --- Long-Term Planning --- Loss Aversion --- Marketing --- Minimum Wage --- Occupations --- Pension Plans --- Poverty Impact Evaluation --- Poverty Reduction --- Productivity --- Public Finance --- Public Policy --- Random Sampling --- Refugees --- Remittances --- Retirement --- Risk Management --- Rural Population --- Savings --- Schools --- Securities --- Severance Pay --- Social Insurance --- Social Risk Management --- Unemployment

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Wind diesel power systems (WDPSs) are isolated microgrids that combine diesel generators (DGs) with wind turbine generators (WTGs). Often, WDPS are the result of adding WTGs to a previous existing diesel power plant located in a remote place where there is an available wind resource. By means of power supplied by WTGs, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced. WDPSs are isolated power systems with low inertia where important system frequency and voltage variations occur. WDPS dynamic modeling and simulation allows short-term simulations to be carried out to obtain detailed electrical variable transients so that WDPS stability and power quality can be tested. This book includes papers on several subjects regarding WDPSs: the main topic of interest is WDPS dynamic modeling and simulation, but related areas such as the sizing of the different WDPS components, studies concerning the control of WDPSs or the use of energy storage systems (ESSs) in WDPSs and the benefits that ESSs provide to WDPS are also discussed. The book also deals with related AC isolated microgrids, such as wind-hydro microgrids or wind-photovoltaic-diesel microgrids.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- diesel generator --- wind turbine generator --- isolated microgrid --- flywheel energy storage --- dump load --- power systems simulation --- power systems control --- frequency control --- isolated system --- linear regression --- power system stability --- wind turbines --- hydro turbine generator --- isolated microgrids --- power system simulation --- power quality --- Isla de la Juventud --- electrical power system --- renewable energy --- long-term planning --- LINDA model --- design methodology --- WDPS --- microgrid --- small wind turbine --- wind data sources --- HOMER Pro --- wind energy --- hybrid systems --- harsh climatic --- pitch-control --- intelligent control system --- icing prediction --- predictive analytics --- adapted technologies