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Fashion: Looking Great While Being Eco-Friendly

There is nothing wrong with looking great while buying products that are environmentally sustainable. Life Khacki offers a solid brand that looks modern, feels great, and retails for a reasonable $25-30. Fashion doesn’t need to be about buying products that enhance your physical image alone but can also include a new dimension on how you feel about yourself.   Few things compare to looking great while protecting the environment when wearing clothing with recycled material by Repreve. Repreve is a recycle microfiber that uses items like plastic bottles and other waste to make a high quality material used in clothing. Because the materials are recycled there is less petroleum and greenhouse gases omitted. For example in 2012 they recycled 410 million plastic bottles. This equates to 2,934 acres of pine forest or 3.8 million gallons of gasoline.   You can also ponder on how they save enough drinking water for 52,313 people per year.  The company’s material makes its way int

Developing the Global Mindset from Understanding Cultural Perspectives

The global mindset is important for managing organizations across a wide spectrum of cultures as well as working effectively within particular cultures. A study by Masakowski, et. al. (2013) discusses the concept of the global mindset and how a sample of military veterans was able to improve upon cultural intelligence, metacognitive/cognitive strategies, and their effective/motivational resources for learning. The study helps to highlight some of the factors in developing global managers. Business education is beginning to incorporate the global mindset into their curriculum in an effort to create stronger global strategic decision-making. This mindset is fostered through multi-cultural interactions within classrooms (Rhinesmith, 1992). It may also be fostered in companies through cross collaborative projects and service oriented learning. The global mindset can be used in business organizations, military units, or geographical dispersed projects. Global leadership skills

Call for Papers: International Conference on Tourism Transport and Technology

August   1 st & 3 rd 2014 London, United Kingdom The conference focuses on academic research in the fields of : * Tourism & Hospitality * Transport & Logistics * Technology & Sciences * Business & Economic * Social Sciences Europiean Academic Conference focus on Tourism & Hospitality; Transport & Logistics; Technology & Science; Business & Economics; supported by international journal vol.3 No.1 Deadline for abstracts/proposals:   June 30th 2014 Website: http://www.ictttconference.com

Sunshine Smoothies-Location Makes the Difference

Sunshine smoothie is located a few blocks from Ocean Beach and next to the Ocean Beach Athletic Park making it convenient for sports players, skateboarders and beach goers. Located on a major bike artery that connects to the larger Ocean Beach Bike trail the store gets a lot of foot and cycle traffic. Selling coffee and smoothies it offers more than convenience to those who engage in park activities. Their smoothies are organic and sell for $8 per 24 oz. You can find some interesting blended options such as kale, spinach, carrots, romaine, and ginger along with some traditional varieties such as granny apple and acia. The list of options is extensive. Of course you can also grab an espresso or a soda if you’re a little more conventional. Convenience store success is location based. There are approximately 146,000 convenience stores in the country with 117,000 of them selling fuel (Bainbridge, 2012). Convenience stores must be highly visible, easily accessible, and in a s

Book Review: The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter is known as the “Prophet of Innovation” and published his work The Theory of Economic Development at 28 years of age ( 1 ). As an economist he didn’t receive much attention because he wasn’t in alignment with the popular Keynesian Economics of the time ( 2 ).   His greatest achievement being the meshing of sociology with economics to make a system of development. The chapters of the book are: (I) The Circular Flow of Economic Life as Conditioned by Given Circumstances; (II) The Fundamental Phenomenon of Economic Development; (III) Credit and Capital; (IV) Entrepreneurial Profit; (V) Interest on Capital; (IV) The Business Cycle. Schumpeter believed in a perfect equilibrium where there are no profits, no savings, no new products, no voluntary unemployment, or need. It is a system of economic flow where there is no need to adapt, adjust, or change because everything is running smoothly. This perfect equilibrium either never existed or