Optimizing Doctors Availability and Appointment Allocation in Hospital
The Professional
Build a successful career and navigate the future of work What does it take to be a professional today? Do you know what you need to do to succeed and grow at work? The Professional is essential reading for anyone entering the professional world and looking to gain a competitive edge early in their career. From ever-changing client and employer expectations to the rise of artificial intelligence, it's never been more important to futureproof your professional skills. The Professional offers the tools and advice you need to navigate challenges and thrive in your chosen profession. Inside, you'll find clear, actionable strategies to help you unleash your potential, build your reputation and make a professional name for yourself. With The Professional, you'll discover a playbook you can return to time and time again. Author Tony Frost shares priceless advice for today's workplace, drawing on his extensive experience across law, accounting, executive coaching and leadership development. Through a mix of stories, expert research, reflections and exercises, The Professional will set you up to stay engaged and motivated throughout your career journey. You'll not only gain valuable insights into the current professional services landscape -- you'll also get tips and tools to help you proactively identify what employers and clients expect from you. Learn how to: Discover what gets you out of bed in the morning: Stay motivated in your career and find purpose, meaning and self-determination in your work. Embrace learning: Understand the importance of curiosity and embrace lifelong development to stay ahead in your field. Do what a machine can't: Develop the key skills that will make you indispensable in the age of AI. Fit your own oxygen mask first: Boost your performance and avoid burnout with self-care. Supercharge your career growth: Discover the seven accelerants that will help you achieve your goals. Step by step, you'll discover how to grow your career through planning, personal branding, mentorship, feedback, emotional intelligence and more. The Professional is a must-have resource for those looking to stay ahead and thrive in law, accounting, finance, consulting, engineering, architecture or any professional field.
How to Pass an Interview
In today's labor market where unemployment is at an all-time low, preparing for job interviews has become essential for both the candidate and employer. It is critical that you are well prepared and practice interviewing skills prior to interviewing for any position that you really want. The more you prepare, the better the impression you'll make on the people you meet and the more you will increase your chances of securing a job offer.
Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the institutions and processes shaping work, labour markets and industrial relations policies in Australia. It explores traditional industrial relations issues and examines social change and policy failures in areas such as gender, work and family dynamics, skills and immigration and wage theft. Additionally, it considers how pandemics, climate change, technological advances and new business structures impact policy change. Addressing these universal challenges, the book offers fresh conceptual approaches and rethinks policy problems and solutions. Essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners, this book reshapes our understanding of work and industrial relations policy.
Become Time Rich
Become wealthier--in every way that really matters--by effectively managing your time In Become Time Rich: How to Stop Being Busy and Start Getting Wealthy, celebrated financial educator and business coach Lloyd Ross delivers an exciting, practical, and insightful new take on how to effectively manage your time to help you reach exceptional financial and lifestyle outcomes. The book teaches you how to achieve more by doing less and spending the time you save on things you love that also enrich your life. You'll learn four powerful Time Rich laws with the potential to transform your life, work, and bank accounts. You'll also discover how you can apply the principles of purpose, elimination, leverage, and priority to dramatically improve every aspect of your day-to-day experiences. Inside the book: Captivating narratives and practical exercises that will liberate you from the pernicious myth that "being busy" equals "being wealthy" Real-world techniques to help you scale your time and multiply your efficiency How to set boundaries that help you hang on to your precious time without eliminating valuable opportunities A life-changing new discussion of how to manage, save, and keep more of life's most invaluable resource, Become Time Rich is an essential read for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, young professionals, business leaders, and other busy people who want to spend more time doing what they love while simultaneously building the lifestyle they've always dreamed of.
Social Network Analysis and Text Mining for Big Data
Social Network Analysis and Text Mining for Big Data presents cutting-edge methods and tools that bridge the gap between text mining and social network analysis research while also providing new insights for analyzing (big) textual and network data. These tools are designed to cater to the needs of both business analysts and researchers to facilitate the creation of groundbreaking analytics.Beginning with clear definitions of social network analysis and text mining, this book benefits from a thoughtfully curated selection of methods and tools, drawn from the authors' extensive research in the field. The focus then shifts to demonstrate how the interplay between words and networks can unlock the full potential of big data analytics. A centerpiece of the book is the Semantic Brand Score (SBS), a versatile and powerful metric for assessing brand importance through text analysis. All of the above is corroborated and illustrated with practical applications and case studies showing the value of these analytics in supporting change and improved managerial decisions. It also introduces a specialized software tool which enables users to perform the analyses detailed in the text.This book is a must-read for business leaders, marketing professionals, policymakers, researchers, and university students. It offers practical insights and actionable advice for achieving increased performance of companies and societal actions. The writing is tailored to make complex concepts accessible to both experienced researchers and readers who are new to the field.
Spark Action
You can't change people. But you can change the world.The pace of change has picked up and will continue to do so. The future is requiring us to get ourselves and others engaged in change rapidly. In Spark Action, internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor Gregg Brown unlocks why people aren't motivated to act on our ideas and shares insights and strategies to spark positive change in our organizations and communities.With a thirty-year career that spans the health-care, education, non-profit, and private sectors, Gregg has learned what makes people tick and how to help them take action, often in difficult circumstances. But he's the first to admit that he wasn't always so confident with change.With interactive self-reflection activities and story-building frameworks, Gregg outlines a clear pathway to lead change that begins on the inside and bridges out to impact the people, organizations, and communities around us.Gregg shares customized strategies and inspirational success stories that he has nurtured in his diverse clients-from Fortune 500s to governments to humanitarian organizations. Gregg's easy-to-follow advice, paired with his signature enthusiasm and candour, will ignite your change-making mastery before you've even finished the book!
Entrepreneurship - Digital Transformation, Education, Opportunities and Challenges
Digital transformation and artificial intelligence play an important role in entrepreneurship. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to entrepreneurship, exploring how entrepreneurial processes contribute to developing new products and services and innovative business models. Recent shifts in business models focus on digital transformation and well-being. Entrepreneurship is evolving with innovative approaches, and artificial intelligence is revolutionizing marketing strategies and market engagement. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial education. It is designed for entrepreneurs, researchers, teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding and leveraging these trends.
Ace Your Interview
Whether you're job hunting for the first time, stepping into leadership, or aiming for that dream executive role-this is the interview guide you didn't know you needed.Written by a recruiter with over 20 years of experience, Ace Your Interview gives you a front-row seat to the insider strategies that have helped thousands of candidates land the role they wanted (and more).Inside, you'll discover how to: Confidently answer common-and curveball-interview questionsShow up with clarity, presence, and professionalismHighlight your strengths and stand out from the crowdUnderstand what hiring managers really want (and how to deliver it)Navigate tricky scenarios and tough interviews with easeNegotiate offers that reflect your true valueWith insights drawn from interviewing more than 15,000 candidates and placing over 5,000 professionals across industries, this book goes beyond surface-level advice. It's your behind-the-scenes playbook-giving you the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to thrive at every stage of the process.You'll find your first, next, or forever role-and I will help you.
The Practical Encyclopedia of Racial Equity in the Workplace
The Practical Encyclopedia of Racial Equity in the Workplace
