Values
There is no one right or wrong set of values, but there is power and potential in making the most of the right values for your business. Ed Mayo, Secretary General at Co-operatives UK, presents how they can become a natural part of commercial life. With a range of case studies, this book offers practical approaches to make a success of values.
Disrupting Class
THE BOOK THAT'S CHANGING THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION"A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education."―Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great"A terrific read; it must become a blueprint for educational transformation."―Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of EducationStudies in neuroscience reveal that the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. To stay competitive―academically, economically, and technologically―we need to apply the proven principles of disruptive innovation to our educational system. Disrupting Class will show you how to: - Help more students succeed through customized learning - Meet the demand for new technology, especially computers, in student-centric classrooms- Use disruptive innovation to circumvent roadblocks that have stood in the way of reform- Compete in the global classroom--and help students get ahead in the global marketFilled with fresh and surprising ideas, outside-the-box strategies, and straight-A success stories, Disrupting Class will make you rethink your understanding of intelligence, reevaluate your current school program, and reinvigorate your commitment to learning. The future is now. Class is in session.
why They Do It
What drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? "Fascinating portraits" (Washington Post) of the dark side of the business world. From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate titans are regular fixtures in the news. In Why They Do It, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes draws from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as the latest research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how once-celebrated executives become white-collar criminals. White-collar criminals are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate costs and benefits before breaking the law. Instead, Soltes shows that most of the executives who committed crimes made decisions the way we all do-on the basis of their intuitions and gut feelings. The trouble is that these gut feelings are often poorly suited for the modern business world where leaders are increasingly distanced from the consequences of their decisions and the individuals they impact. The extraordinary costs of corporate misconduct are clear to its victims. Yet, never before have we been able to peer so deeply into the minds of the many prominent perpetrators of white-collar crime. With the increasing globalization of business threatening us with even more devastating corporate misconduct, the lessons Soltes draws in Why They Do It are needed more urgently than ever.
Humans Are Underrated
It's easy to imagine a nightmare scenario in which computers simply take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do. The unavoidable question--will millions of people lose out, unable to best the machine?--is increasingly dominating business, education, economics, and policy. The bestselling author of Talent Is Overrated explains how the skills and economy values are changing in historic ways and offers a guide to what's next for all workers. Mastering technical skills that have historically been in demand no longer differentiates us as it used to. Instead, our greatest advantage lies in our deepest, most essentially human abilities--empathy, creativity, social sensitivity, storytelling, humor, relationship building, and expressing ourselves with greater power than logic can ever achieve. These high-value skills craete tremendous competitive advantage--more devoted customers, stronger cultures, breakthrough ideas, and more effective teams. And while many of us regard these abilities as innate traits, it turns out they can all be developed. As Colvin shows, they're already being developed in a range of farsighted organizations, including the Cleveland Clinic, the U.S. Army, and Stanford Business School.
The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit
Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.
Competing Against Luck
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs for sustainable business growth, transforming innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can predictable innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion about customer behavior: our long held maxim--that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation--is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world's most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes--it's about predicting new ones. Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its product development and innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they'll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts.This book carefully lays down Christensen's provocative framework, a revolutionary approach to business strategy that provides a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world--and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides. This book provides a clear, actionable framework for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs ready to compete against luck.Jobs to Be Done Theory: Learn the groundbreaking framework that shifts the focus from customer demographics to the core "job" they hire a product or service to do--the true driver of their purchasing decisions.Innovation Success: Move beyond correlation and guesswork by understanding the causal mechanism behind why customers make the choices they do, turning innovation into a reliable engine for growth.A New Marketing Strategy: See why companies like Amazon, Intuit, and Uber thrive by focusing not on what customers say they want, but on the progress they are trying to make.Actionable Framework: Discover a comprehensive and predictive theory that provides clear guidance on how to create products customers will not only buy, but also pay premium prices for.
How to write what you want to say ...
How to write what you want to say: a guide for high school students who know what they want to say but can't find the words provides parents, teachers and students with a unique tool for improving writing and suits students from the middle years of schooling to tertiary level. The idea for this book came from the author's experiences with her own children, especially Elizabeth, who was pursuing tertiary studies at the time of writing. Students struggle with putting into words what they want to say, especially when the "saying" involves writing. It has been Patricia's experience that students need help to develop the language that mature writers use. In this books there are sentence starters and key connectives that students use when demonstrating a particular writing skill. Language is the way that it is because of the job that it does, and letting students into the secret of this makes a significant difference to the quality of the work they produce. Feedback on How to write what you want to say: How to Write What You Want to Say fills a gap that existed in resources for students in that it draws together relevant elements that comprise a thinking skill. At a glance, students are able to see a definition, sentence starters, connectives, task words and an example which demonstrates the interaction between all the aspects of the skill. The beauty of this book is that the focus is on skills and not content making it suitable for use across the curriculum. Staff love the fact that we have a now have a great tool to use when teaching the all-important skills that are common to all curriculum area and an integral part of the Australian Curriculum. Students love the sensible, easy-to-follow layout. Pat has taken a range of complex skills and broken them down so that staff, students and parents can see the formula that lies behind quality writing. The real proof of the quality of the book is the almost immediate positive impact its use has had on the way in which students write. A must for educators and students. Ellen Kean - Head of Department, English and LOTE, Toolooa State High School I have found that the 'Little Blue Book' has made teaching writing a lot easier. It helps with writing criteria sheets and, when a student gets stuck for sentence starters, it is great to be able to offer a couple of options. Creating exemplars for students has been made easier as well. Rebecca Glynn - Learning and Teaching Coach How to Write What You Want to Say has been one of the most valuable teaching resources that I have stumbled across. As a teacher, it has given me the confidence to teach studentshow to approach key task words and has allowed me to develop a framework for breaking down in-class and assessment tasks. For my students, I have witnessed many of them experiencing the 'light-bulb' moment when they read the definition of the task word and then see it in action. The sentence starters have also given them the confidence to know that they are 'starting off on the right foot' and it's exciting to see their work improving as they incorporate more of these. It is a resource that I highly recommend to all of my teaching colleagues! Amanda Favier - Teacher
Thought Revolution
Discover your hidden brainpower with this newly expanded guide to the simple but powerful technique that unlocks potential in all areas of your life. Former banker and ​CEO Bill Donius drove his bank's eightfold growth over twelve years. And the surprising secret to his success is something we all have access to, right in our own two hands. The methodology described in Thought Revolution is simple and revolutionary--so simple, it begins by moving your pen from one hand to the other. Whether you're right-handed or left-handed, a whole world of change is possible. Writing with your non-dominant hand opens you up to creative solutions, giving you the ability to see new ways through problems in your business, career, relationships, health, and spiritual life. In Thought Revolution, Donius explains the science behind non-dominant handwriting and teaches you how to incorporate the technique into your business and your life. New stories from Donius's extensive seminars illuminate how employees and managers can unite in a new vision for their company's growth and culture, increase employee and customer satisfaction, and improve profits. Thought-provoking, easy-to-do exercises and prompts show how to connect more fully with your subconscious right brain to help you reduce stress, discover your hidden talents, heal from trauma, and come to a deeper spiritual awareness. Thought Revolution shows how your non-dominant hand serves as a direct pipeline to the right brain's wisdom. Incorporate this simple practice into your career and your life, and you'll find insights that lead to lasting change.
Liminal Thinking
Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now?You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, read this book.
The Responsible Investor Handbook
This is the first book to align the investment priorities of working people with capital stewards and the financial complex that manages their assets. It is essential for capital stewards seeking the positive outcomes of a responsible investment strategy and investors looking to realign their strategies with the interests of workers and citizens.
Let Knowledge Serve the City
The Sustainable Solutions series examines Portland State University, sharing best practice in community-engaged teaching and research with a sustainability focus. This volume looks at how barriers between disciplines and communities have been overcome, and introduces themes shaping PSU's work: justice, partnership and climate change.
The Future MBA
A handy toolkit for all stakeholders within a business school to embed sustainability across the organization. It inspires new thinking about the role business schools play in embedding sustainability.
The Greatness Principle
JUST HOW do you build a SUPPORT network when you have nobody you TRUST to support you? Almost every leader, at some point in their business/career, will face social and/or emotional isolation. They will lose their trusted confidants through normal life events such as death, job change, illness, divorce, marriage, birth and relocation. When we lose or even 'get rid' of people on purpose from our lives and don't replace that relationship role, we become lone wolves trying to survive everything, which is exhausting and can make the business or situation even worse. Attention Leaders: If you're like the rest of us, you probably started your business or project full of drive and excitement, and even made good progress on your goals for the first few years. Then it started to get hard. You work harder, and start to lose your connections. Something gives: you're going bankrupt; you're getting sick; you are needing medication; you are using alcohol or drugs as a crutch; you are headed for a breakdown; and you're alone. Does this sound like you or someone you know? If you apply the principles in this book, you will start to reconnect with the people who can help you get where you want to be. You will be able to turn everything around and you won't need to get therapy, smell incense or work really, really hard to do it, because you will have everyone you need to support you to be GREAT. This book will: * enable you to navigate life's setbacks and challenges with ease * guide you on how to appreciate all the people in your life-even the 'hard' people * give you a true understanding of how to connect with others and network * enlighten you on how you can support people most important to you * dwell within you-once you know this material, it won't leave you * transform your business, family and life ... if you let it What people are saying: Jen is an inspiration! As a speaker, thinker and advisor, she is world class. I think her tenacity, gumption and personal life story all point to her being someone quite special. I highly recommend Jen to anyone wanting to grow their business or transform their life! Matt Church, Thought Leaders Global Jen Harwood takes small businesses to the next level. Strap into your seats, because this is going to be one hell of a ride! Tim Gentle, Design Experts
The Long View
The CEO of OgilvyOne and career advisor extraordinaire guides you through the many stages of your worklife, offering guidance on how to get the most out of each phase of your long and varied career.
Managing in the Gray
How to Resolve the Really Hard Problems Every manager makes tough calls--it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"--situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you've done the best analysis you can, and you still don't know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right? In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time--they've guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life. You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.
The Etiquette Edge
In today's culture where rudeness is unfortunately becoming more routine, a strong competitive advantage goes to those who have sharpened the forgotten but fundamental skill of courtesy.Intelligence, ambition, and skill will start you on the road to success but without strong communications skills, social savvy, and a sense of appropriate behavior, you won't get far. In The Etiquette Edge, you will get a crash course in the entire field of modern business manners.From interviewing etiquette and dress codes to working in close quarters and communicating upward, you'll master the essentials of making a great impression and building relationships, including: The dos and don'ts of smartphone usageHandling difficult conversations with tact and finesseChecking your texts and emails for content and tone...before you hit sendCreating a polished image on social mediaConducting meetings with poise and confidenceYour coworkers and competitors are highly educated, ferociously go-getting, and great at their job...just like you. If you want to truly distinguish yourself from the crowd, focus on gaining the etiquette edge!
Advice Matters
Because of their track records and the fact that their lives and careers have been so immersed in the giving and receiving of advice, both Tony Jeary and Jay Rogers speak from a unique perspective that should give you, the reader, total confidence that what they say has been lived out for decades. This book is not theory; it's built on the experiences of two top advisors who have both made (and lost) millions, who have both built successful lives, and who have both exponentially benefited from the advice of others. Their lives have played out the powerful truth that "Advice does matter".
Motivate Yourself
Do you want to feel more productive, more present and more inspired by your own life? Motivate Yourself offers practical strategies to improve your productivity and gives you the know how to create the life you want. Learn how to move past your self-doubt and propel yourself into living your dream. With practical exercises featured within each chapter, this book will help break those emotional barriers that hold you back and set you on the path to becoming fully engaged and more productive. Kick start your productivity journey today and: Quieten that negative inner voice that inhibits your personal growth Wake up to the possibility and opportunity of a different way of living Learn how to motivate those around you with productivity at the center of everything you do Challenge yourself to discover who you really are and what you are truly capable of achieving
Turn The Tide
Over the past 25 years, Kathy Obear has helped thousands of people in workshops and coaching sessions learn to effectively navigate difficult workplace situations. Now, she shares the tools and skills of her 7-Step process, The Triggering Event Cycle, so you can take back control of your emotions and successfully rise above toxic work environments. In the spirit of Bren矇 Brown and Martha Beck, Kathy uses stories and realistic examples to make these concepts accessible and easy to apply in your life. Her book is full of tools and exercises designed to help you rise above workplace drama and create greater teamwork, productivity, and innovation in your organization. Discover practical tools to: - De-escalate unproductive workplace conflict - Interrupt automatic fight or flight reactions - Identify what is fueling ineffective reactions - Take back control of your emotions - Rebuild working relationships - Minimize feeling triggered in the future - Turn the tide of workplace drama with greater ease and confidence Join Kathy on this transformational journey and make this invaluable investment in yourself!
The Resilient Employee
Overwhelmed, stressed and wondering how you are going to cope with yet another change at work? Change is one of the laws of our world--as concrete as the laws of gravity or motion. So long as we're living, breathing, and moving through life, change is inevitable. It is a constant for everyone; something we need to deal with in every aspect of our lives. The problem is that we tend to think of change in a negative way. Change expert, Rosalind Cardinal, wants to help you discover a different way to approach change in your life. She asserts, when we master our mindset and take back control of our reactions, we can use change for our benefit--both as a wellspring of invaluable lessons and as a launch pad to greatness. In The Resilient Employee, she'll show you the exact strategies and techniques she's shared with a range of organisations over the last decade. You'll discover a range of tools that will allow you to transform change from your biggest enemy to your greatest ally. When you apply these strategies and techniques into your life, your entire experience of change will be different--your thoughts, your reactions and your ability to move through the stages of change successfully. You will be a stronger, more adaptable, more resilient person who doesn't simply survive change, but thrives in change!
Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties
Welcome to the corporate world, friend! A world where things aren't fair, some people are mean, and if you want to succeed, your boss has to like you. In her new book: Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties: A Guide to Help You Navigate the Business World, Kayla Buell, founder of the award-winning blog Lost GenY Girl, helps you face the corporate world post-college. Navigating a corporate working world filled with pitfalls and traps is not easy - there's no app for that. Should you speak up in meetings? Should you stay quiet? Should you eat at your desk? What should you wear? And what do you do when someone blasts you via e-mail? In Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties, Buell helps the early career professionals get their kick-ass career running!
Get In, Get Connected, Get Hired
Make the Most of Your MBA Plan Earning an MBA can be a risky proposition. Some students effectively leverage their education to transform their careers, whereas others waste time and money pursuing a degree that doesn't adequately align with their career aspirations. This book is designed to help prospective and current MBA students (and even those who have already graduated and are trying to find their way) get the most from their degree, find the right business school in accordance with their career goals, and manage a successful job search. In Get In, Get Connected, Get Hired, Brian Precious draws on his expertise as a program and admissions director, as well as his own experience as an MBA graduate, to highlight ten essential lessons he's seen lead to success among prospective MBA students, current students, and alumni at some of the nation's top schools. An essential read for those seeking a degree or a career in business, Get In, Get Connected, Get Hired will give you the tools necessary to make your MBA work for you.
Growing Up Metric
YOUR GUIDE FOR SEIZING OPPORTUNITY, EMBRACING CONTINUOUS LEARNING, AND REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL You're responsible for the growth and success of your company . . . but maybe your potential isn't at its fullest, and you know there's room for more success. As a leader, it is now your turn to follow another leader--George Contos, CEO of World Wide Metric. In Growing Up Metric, you will learn from the tried-and-true example of Contos and hone in on four impact areas to not only launch organization-wide growth but also limitless personal growth: - Define your values and goals. - Get a handle on cash flows. - Hire well, train well, and delegate. - Nurture positivity and show respect.
How To Make Money As A Freelance Author
"A motivational, practical gem" "...advice is based on real experiences of what works and what doesn't" "There is enough information in this book to set any potential freelancer on their way if they follow the steps outlined." John Lynch sold his first freelance piece to Good Housekeeping Magazine in 1989. 27 years later, the markets and techniques have changed but he still pays every household bill from his freelance earnings. This is not just a list of markets (you can find that out for yourself with no help from John); it's a practical handbook that tells you: This is what works; This is what doesn't work; This is why; and - most importantly: This is how to get on the gravy train and how to stay there.
Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship
Luxury products are now seen by a growing number of global consumers as an important and more widely available way of expressing personal aspirations and values. Most consumers of luxury products and services use them as status symbols and symbols of success. However, the definition of success - and the way it is perceived by others - is changing. Many of these successful consumers now want the brands they use to reflect their concerns and aspirations. Such products come with a heavy social and environmental cost. Sustainable luxury is about rediscovering the old meaning of luxury - a considered purchase of a beautifully crafted object with built-in social and environmental value.The social entrepreneurs documented in this book highlight the relationship between personal values and sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation in developing and marketing luxury products. The pioneers outline how they have developed inclusive supply chains with poor and vulnerable communities. Their stories prove that luxury need not be a destructive force. Instead, this book opens a window on a world where entrepreneurial pioneers can change the rules of the game.
The Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs
Take your idea and make it happen with Matthew Black's Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs. Do you have a business idea? something that could change your life forver? Then this book is your shortcut to success. The Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs is a bulletproof system for finding the ideas that work and then setting them up to make you money - all on your terms! Packed full of quick and easy to follow exercises the Little Black Book for entrepreneurs is ideal for helping you make a success of your own venture. Running your new business will be one of the most inspiring and energizing experiences of your life. What are you waiting for? Matthew Black's unique no nonsense style comes through in this fantastic easy to use format. Plenty of practical advice and real life examples.
Brands With a Conscience
The definitive expert guide to ethical brand practice from the prestigious Medinge Group, Brands with a Conscience dissects the philosophies underpinning sustainable brands to arrive at a set of eight clear guiding attributes which can be used as the foundation of a strategy for responsible growth. These attributes span the public persona of an organization, the actions to take when things go wrong, the effort invested in developing relationships, the promotion of core values and balancing measures of success across economic, human, social and environmental factors. They are then used as the criteria to assess twelve carefully selected case studies, which include Dilmah Tea, H&M, Dr. Hauschka, Merci and the John Lewis Partnership, amongst other leading international brands. Because the potential to have bad practice unmasked or to have successes amplified online is greater than ever, it pays to adopt a strategy that builds customer loyalty and trust. Brands with a Conscience inspires via examples of brands which not only exhibit a genuine desire to operate ethically, but also have seen impressive success in terms of engagement with consumers, reputation, and return on investment. The book includes a range of practical tools to bring together the main concepts in an easy-to-adopt framework for building a brand strategy based upon real world experience. If you are a brand manager or marketing professional seeking a conscientious approach to consumer engagement, then Brands with a Conscience will support you every step of the way.
Crazy Is a Compliment
These days taking chances isn't just for college dropouts in hoodies. We all need to be nimble, adaptive, daring--and maybe even a little crazy--or risk being left behind. But how do you take smart risks without risking it all? That's Linda Rottenberg's expertise. As the cofounder and CEO of Endeavor, the world's leading organization dedicated to supporting fast-growing entrepreneurs, she's spent the last two decades helping innovators think bold and execute smart. Now Rottenberg draws on her unrivaled experience to show you the proven techniques to achieve your dreams. Crazy Is a Compliment combines inspiring stories, original research, and practical advice to create a road map for getting started and going bigger.
Nonflict
Are you in a conflict with a family member that is causing you pain? Are you spending too much time dealing with conflict at work? Are you at a crossroads in your life and unsure of which direction to take? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Nonflict: The Art of Everyday Peacemaking is for you. "Thank you for the impact Nonflict had on me. It helped me immediately with a vital meeting with my employees and their union. Later my wife and teenage daughter had an explosive argument and I used the Nonflict way to a peaceful resolution. We even embraced with hugs at the end!" --Jason Rosset, CEO, Accuworx "I founded a program to teach Masters level social work to students from the Middle East. Nonflict helped them resolve the most difficult conflicts we could imagine and to take these much needed valuable tools home to share with others." --Dr. Jim Torczyner, Professor of Social Work, McGill University Authors Dr. Amir Kfir and Stephen Hecht offer you practical information and easy-to-follow exercises for dealing with conflict, regardless of the cause. You will see how they have mastered the Nonflict way in their own lives, and you will relate to many of these and other revealing examples. Let the Nonflict way guide you to strengthen and build on your relationships at home, at work, or in the community. Soon, you will also realize that conflicts are merely opportunities in disguise.
How to Have a Good Day
In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the real world--until now. In How to Have a Good Day, Webb explains exactly how to apply this science to our daily tasks and routines. She translates three big scientific ideas into step-by-step guidance that shows us how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Through it all, Webb teaches us how to navigate the typical challenges of modern workplaces--from conflict with colleagues to dull meetings and overflowing inboxes--with skill and ease. Filled with stories of people who have used Webb's insights to boost their job satisfaction and performance at work, How to Have a Good Day is the book so many people wanted when they finished Nudge, Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow and were looking for practical ways to apply this fascinating science to their own lives and careers. A remarkable and much-needed book, How to Have a Good Day gives us the tools we need to have a lifetime of good days.
Sins and Ceos
Business leadership lessons, particularly pertaining to CEOs, illustrated by anecdotes that are true stories.
Turn Setbacks into Greenbacks
Willie Jolley is ready to help you take your first steps on the road to success, empowering you to make the positive changes in your life that will not only change the way you work, but the way you think. A master of positive motivation, organization, and inspiration, Jolley has the tools you can use to triumph in tough times, to see your setbacks as new opportunities, and to invest confidence in your ideas. With potent psychological insight, hard business know-how, and techniques you can use on a daily basis, Jolley will empower you to: Create your own PHD (persistence, hunger, and determination) that will power you through tough timesFocus on the pursuit of success--and then follow through on it in a consistent wayMaintain calm in situations of panic--and target opportunities others will pass byBreak through negativity so you can make the decisions that will pay off on your path to successFind an "attitude of gratitude" that will fortify your spiritual, physical, and financial growth Willie Jolley draws upon the inspiring real-life success stories and intelligent insights to show you how to create a positive outlook, become adaptable to every circumstance, and seize the opportunities that will lead you to greater success.
The Simple Art of Business Etiquette
Climb the Corporate Ladder Without Stepping on Others From ethics columnist and Harvard lecturer Jeffrey L. Seglin, discover practical tips for succeeding professionally by succeeding socially. Practicing business etiquette doesn't mean pretending to be someone you're not. Brimming with practical, up-to-date tips on minding your business manners, The Simple Art of Business Etiquette guides you through the tricky territory of office etiquette with real-life stories and workplace scenarios. Become attuned to body language (Don't gawk at others during meetings or at any other time. It's creepy.) Engage in thoughtful introductions (Don't guess at someone's name if you don't remember it.) Practice proper e-mail etiquette (Do you really want to be the jerk who sends annoying e-mails around the office?) Curtail office conflicts (Never punch anyone in the workplace. Never.) Exhibit workplace sensitivity (Listen to your coworkers without cutting them off). Plus, decode the 15 most commonly-used phrases in business. The Simple Art of Business Etiquette proves that minding your manners goes a long way toward successfully advancing your career.
Pilot to Profit
Demystifies the complicated online marketing maze and shows you exactly how blogging, email marketing and social media can support your business strategy to help you attract more paying customers and how to sell to those customers once they are in front of you.
6-week Money Challenge
Financial matters are mentioned in the Bible more often than prayer, healing, or mercy. With so many people living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to build their credit and worried they will be in debt the rest of their lives, we need the Bible's words of financial wisdom more than ever.Certified Financial PlannerTM Steve Repak reveals what the Bible has to say about spending, saving, and giving in this 6-Week Money Challenge. His simple, step-by-step program is founded on biblical principles paired with a CFPTM's understanding of modern wealth-management strategies.Steve inspires and motivates readers to change their financial lives by challenging them to commit to his biblical boot camp. In just six weeks, readers will complete practical and achievable weekly challenges designed for group or individual use.Take the 6-week money challenge now and get fit for a healthy financial future.
Business Writing
First published by Griffin in 1994, Wilma Davidson's clear, practical guide to business writing has established itself as a steady seller and an excellent primer for anyone who writes on the job. Newly revised to cover e-mail, texts, and the latest word social media technology, the book uses examples, charts, cartoons, and anecdotes to illustrate what makes memos, business letters, reports, selling copy, and other types of business writing work.
The Best Business Writing 2015
Corporate monopolies, gross mismanagement, retail delivery drones, the growing app economy--2015 was a year of profound changes in the world of business and finance. Offering clear-eyed assessments of these developments along with compelling profiles and muckraking reports, the incisive articles in this volume provide an essential guide for understanding business's influence on economics, politics, and culture. Selections include Sarah Maslin Nir's explosive expos矇 of the nail-salon industry in the New York Times and the Associated Press's disheartening investigation into slave-labor practices abroad. The stories in this volume explore new frontiers in the way we do chores, eat takeout, order online, and dumpster-dive, showcasing business's rapid evolution under the influence of new technologies. Profiles include the amusing portrait of a young investor who made a fortune betting on penny stocks; the inspiring and cautionary story of an undocumented immigrant who became a star trader at Goldman Sachs; and the shocking account of a troubled financial prodigy who defrauded his inner circle of millions. Claire Suddath adds her take on corporate America's broken maternity-leave system (Businessweek), and Charles Levinson reminds us of Wall Street's close ties to Washington in a probing look at the making (and unmaking) of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act (Reuters).
The Mckinsey Edge
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A GREAT LEADER?The ultimate guide to managing your career--at every level, through every transition--The McKinsey Edge culls the best practices of an exclusive group of executives and consultants from McKinsey & Company, the legendary consulting firm that services eighty percent of the world's largest corporations. Drawing on his time as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey, Hattori presents rigorously selected, battle-tested tips that will give you the edge you need to up your game, raise your profile, and take your career to the next level--using a proven four-step program: Learn more effective ways to get ahead by making multiple self-improvements.Strengthen your skills of communication, connection, and understanding to influence your team and other stakeholders.Increase your productivity and performance using tools that work best for your specific environment.Push yourself further to focus your energies, renew your life, and revitalize your career with a new leadership profile.Each section of this empowering guide includes precise strategies and hard-won advice that will help you tackle the challenges that are unique to each level of management. By applying these 47 principles to your own situation and workplace, you'll be able to change not only your personal mindset and managerial effectiveness but others' perceptions of you as a leader. You'll discover the best methods for dealing with clients, solving problems, motivating teams, and surpassing expectations. These are the strategies that have taken McKinsey's managers and trainers to the top of their fields--and this is the program that shows you how to take your career wherever you want to go.Whether you're climbing your way up the corporate ladder, starting on the very first rung, or feeling stuck somewhere in the middle, The McKinsey Edge gives you the edge you need to take the next step and make it to the top.Shu Hattori is a Japanese-British national with extensive experience in management consulting, start-ups, online social commerce, and news media.While at McKinsey & Company, he served in advanced industries, high-tech, and media in Asia, North America, and Europe for more than five years. Now, he runs a leadership development start-up. Shu earned an MBA from National Taiwan University with a full government sponsored scholarship and a bachelor's degree in commerce with distinction from McGill University in Canada.
Business Law
Titles in Barron's Business Review series are widely used as classroom supplements to college textbooks and often serve as a main textbook in business brush-up programs. Business Law focuses on the importance of legal theory in the everyday business world, explaining such subjects as tort responsibility, government regulations, contracts, environmental law, product liability, consumer protection, and international law, among many other topics. Also discussed in detail are the legal aspects of partnerships, franchises, and corporations, as well as special topics that include business crimes, property as a legal concept, intellectual property, and similar pertinent topics. A study aid labeled Key Terms appears at the beginning of each chapter, and You Should Remember summaries are strategically interspersed throughout the text.
It's Not That Complicated
Every facet of your being-physical, mental, and spiritual-has the capacity to bring joy and fulfillment to your everyday life. By bringing your talents, skills, values, purpose, energy, and style in sync with the external world, you will be thriving and loving every minute of it. It's Not That Complicated will walk you through the simple process of releasing pieces of your life that hold you back while simultaneously discovering ways to move forward towards a more fulfilling one. Jan L. Bowen will help you develop a Personal Template of Daily Practices, a Structure of Tactics, and a Bundle of Exceptional Resources to not only realize your purpose, strengths, and passions, but to use them to sustain healthy alignment as your life changes.
Handbook of Anthropology in Business
In recent years announcements of the birth of business anthropology have ricocheted around the globe. The first major reference work on this field, the Handbook of Anthropology in Business is a creative production of more than 60 international scholar-practitioners working in universities and corporate settings from high tech to health care. Offering broad coverage of theory and practice around the world, chapters demonstrate the vibrant tensions and innovation that emerge in intersections between anthropology and business and between corporate worlds and the lives of individual scholar-practitioners. Breaking from standard attempts to define scholarly fields as products of fixed consensus, the authors reveal an evolving mosaic of engagement and innovation, offering a paradigm for understanding anthropology in business for years to come.
The Richlife
Do you have enough money? Are you taking care of your family? Do you know what to do with the money you have? Are you rich? The truth about money might surprise you. The answers to these questions will challenge you. Financial Advisor and Certified Success Coach, Beau Henderson has a fresh new approach to wealth creation and investing. He will tell you things about money that no one else will - what it is, who it serves, and the effect it has on all areas of your life, including health, relationships, and business. It doesn't matter where you are with regards to your finances. You can make the 10 Investments and apply the one Master Principle outlined in this book to raise your financial IQ and get on track towards building a blueprint for true wealth that will leave a legacy for future generations. And ... BEST of all ... it is NOT as hard or as complicated as everyone else out there would like you to believe! Here is what you will learn within the covers of this life-changing book: Wise Stewardship and creating favorable conditions for success.How to master Your Money Map to be in the top 5%.How to live your unique definition of a RichLife.The connection between money and relationships.How to quit repeating the same mistakes once and for all.How to build a portfolio to ensure True Wealth.Thieves that can take you out of the game and steal your RichLife.The #1 Investment for you right now.How to easily uncover your purpose.The connection between money and health.The one discipline that guarantees success.How to increase your energy.The importance of clarity.Giving back and getting more.How to invest in unique experiences.Attaining the priceless asset - Peace of Mind.
Own YOUR Success (paperback POD)
A proven system for transforming challenges into triumphs What if you could make each and every day victorious by focusing on daily activities rather than obsessing over results that you can't control? Based on author Ben Newman's popular program, Own YOUR Success gives you the power to make each day a triumph. The most successful people find great success when they focus on having a passion for the process. The key: make today victorious regardless of the obstacles that come your way. Figure out what fires YOU up without exception and ignite that passion so that you can routinely create your prizefighter day. Told through the eyes of an executive at the top of his game, yet the bottom of his existence Offers original, practical, and proven exercises to transform challenges into maximum performance Includes real-world advice and proven strategies to help individuals in the business world achieve even greater success Own YOUR Success will lead you to uncover your true potential and create a life that belongs to YOU.
The VIP Principle
WOW Your VIP Guests And Boost Your Business Whether you run a casino, resort, club, hotel, restaurant or conference centre, it has never been harder to compete for your guests' dollar. How can your business cater to all of its highest-paying guests if they are from different generations and cultures, each with their own languages and high expectations? The VIP Principle is your answer. Inside, you will learn the best strategies that business veterans Michelle Pascoe and David Staughton have collected over a combined 50 years to help you continuously improve your guest experience. Inside, you will discover easy-to-implement ways to: - Measure guest satisfaction to find your strengths and weaknesses - Gather competitor intelligence - Create a workplace of high-quality values and ethics - Develop team-oriented leaders that impress your guests - Satisfy current VIP guests and identify future ones - Prioritise improvements based on your guests' needs - Use entertainment, dining and d矇cor to fill your venue all year long The VIP Principle is a sure bet to keep your best guests coming back-and bringing their friends.
My Life and Fortunes, The Autobiography of one of the World’s Wealthiest Men
The autobiography of one of the world's wealthiest men -- this is the life story of one of the most extraordinary men J. Paul Getty. He was relatively unknown outside the pages of the Oil and Gas Journal until Fortune published a list of the wealthiest men in America. His name led all the rest.
Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success.
The Corporate Criminal
This book interrogates the concept of corporate 'personhood' to understand the nature of corporate criminality and the prospects for more effective corporate control. Linking debates in criminology to broader claims around corporate social responsibility, it provides an understanding of the key ideas that explain the role of the corporation in the global economy.
