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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
The youth entrepreneurial materials were conceived, designed, and written with enterprising youth in mind. The text was designed to complement classwork and serve as a reference book as young entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. This 11-chapter curriculum can be presented in a variety of configurations including, 13-modules or traditional classroom, after school, and camp settings.
Title: Get the Buzz on Biz! NxLevel Guide for Enterprising Youth
Authors: David P. Wold, a 1974 Thunderbird graduate, is the editor and main author. Contributing authors include 1995 Thunderbird graduate Johanna Leestma. Their books have been used by more than 300,000 entrepreneurs who have participated in their education programs.
Publisher: NxLevel; 2nd edition (2000)
ISBN: 978-1890730055
Description: Paperback, 330 pages
Information: www.nxlevel.org
NxLeveL for Entrepreneurs, also referred to as the “Existing Business Course,” is a 12-session, 36-hour course designed for entrepreneurs who want to expand an existing business and need the skills to make it grow. It’s been proven that the entrepreneur who plans is the entrepreneur who succeeds. For this reason, participants develop a comprehensive business plan during the course to act as the road map for future growth.
NxLevel for Business Start-ups, a 10-session, 30-hour course, addresses those questions every entrepreneur needs to answer before starting a business venture. Participants develop a start-up business plan during the course to test the feasibility of their business concept and to act as the blueprint for their start-up venture. It’s been proven that the entrepreneur who plans is the entrepreneur who succeeds. For this reason, participants develop a comprehensive business plan during the course to act as the road map for future growth.
Going Green, NxleveL Guide to Environmental Solutions is a one session, 4 hour class designed to aid entrepreneurs in “green” decision making. This class focuses on providing practical, business-friendly knowledge and competence in environmental problems and solutions. Students develop a NxLeveL Green Action Plan that guides their efforts in transforming their companies into environmentally friendly companies.
NxLevel Signage can be used as a stand-alone session or added to an existing class as an extra session. NxLevel Signage Introduces the ABCs of signage (attracting new customers, branding the business, and creating impulse sales) and relates these issues to the applicable sections of the business plan. This supplement also has an instructors manual available. This supplement was created by NxLevel and a grant from Signtronix.
Climate change lends itself to both political economy and humor. Joseph Henry Vogel argues that mainstream economics fails to recognize the thermodynamic nature of climate change, thereby missing the point of Northern appropriation of the atmospheric sink. The switch to thermodynamics brings into focus the legitimacy of a “carbon debt” that starts to tick with the first report of the IPCC in 1990. Through the lens of economic theory, the understandable intransigence of poor countries to assume the “cap” in “cap and trade” is a distortion to the economic system. But by that same economics, one distortion can justify another – and that other distortion is the payment Ecuador seeks for not drilling in the Yasuní Biosphere. Heeding the call of Deidre (formerly Donald) McCloskey that economics needs more humor, Vogel has written a piercing critique of economics-as-usual which also entertains.
In “The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention,” America’s Reinvention Coach Pamela Mitchell offers every tool readers need to navigate the full arc of career change. Part I introduces the Reinvention Mindset, with what you need to know to be prepared mentally, emotionally and financially to get started. In Part II, you read the real-life stories of 10 individuals who successfully made the leap to new and unexpected careers.
Seeking to understand tragic but beautiful Bosnia nd Hercegovina, Gale A. Kirking drove from his home in the Czech Republic to take a good look around. The book deatils his travels and conversations with shopkeepers, pensioners, taxi drivers, common soldiers, farmers, policmen and refugees.The narrative provides insights to ordinary people living in a moral twilight that is neither the darkness of war nor the full light of peace, where truth , goodness and fairness are not easily distinguished from falsehood, evil and injustice.
“Taylor’s Way: A Father’s Very Special Relationship with His Son” is a portrayal of how one father has struggled to manage his own busy life with that of his wife, their three typical children and his special needs son, Taylor. The author provides candid, personal stories of raising a child with special needs through a personal chronology of events, activities and stories that might make you stand up and cheer, pause to reflect and maybe cry a little. He also presents some helpful hints and recommendations on where a parent might go for information or resources and how to cope and succeed in our fast-moving and ever-changing world.
When Jake, a powerful young bull owned by a cantankerous farmer named Bingo Reilly, escapes his pen and runs loose through a quaint Vermont town, the ensuing furor starkly reveals the state’s parallel universes. Populating one are the yuppie city folk who moved to the state over the last few decades and now dominate it politically, and in the other are the people who have long lived there, some for many generations. The two universes get along well enough, mainly because they have little to do with one another; one prefers Mozart and golf, the other Emmylou Harris and Friday night Bingo. Nonetheless Jake’s dash for freedom raises consciousness on all sides, including his own.