Business Management

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges - from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.

Press Ganey's chief nursing officer Christina Dempsey has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering - physical, psychological, and emotional - of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM.

Finally , A proven simple method to understand financial statements in 60 Minutes, Without any experience, Guaranteed! The Foundations of Finance. How to read, understand and analyze financial statements Read so that you can assess financial health of a company Understand so that you can communicate financial information to investors and raise money Analyze so that you can invest wisely Being able to read and understand financial statements is a fundamental skill to understanding how businesses function. Since financial statements are the end product of accounting, understanding them ...

In Humanizing Human Capital, Solange Charas, PhD, and Stela Lupushor reframe traditional HR practices into a future-forward strategy to optimize human capital. Charas and Lupushor shift decision-making about people from a gut sense to an evidence-based approach—a critical and much-needed departure from the cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best approach of most traditional HR programs today.

It is not too often one can read or listen to a 2,600-year-old book and know that it still has relevance and importance today. The Art of War has long been considered not only a military classic, but a classic book in general. Sun Tzu’s treatise on various aspects and components of wartime strategy is highly recommended for insight into the Eastern mindset and military planning. It also can apply to business, legal, and educational situations as well.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? With over 46 years of experience in the construction industry working on every type of project imaginable, Joel Anderson shares the nuts and bolts for building a successful business. From hiring and managing employees to operations, marketing, and keeping clients to financing projects, Joel shows you the secrets for running your business smoothly, avoiding costly mistakes, and growing at a sustainable rate. Step-by-step, he’ll also show you how to get and stay organized while you regain your sanity, so you can run your business and it...

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

A pioneer of economics and political science in India, Chanakya was one of the most brilliant, tactful and shrewd economists and strategists of the Mauryan Era. Building the entire Mauryan Empire can be attributed to Chanakya's witty principles and out-of-the-box strategies. The modern-day world is a witness to innumerable business empires that need effective management to remain at par with growing competition. The author makes use of the aphorisms or sutras proposed in Chanakya's book called Arthasastra (Economics) in the management and functioning of modern-day businesses.

Nothing is more important in today’s competitive work environment than the strength of an organization’s culture. But how do you change a culture and strengthen it to help your organization? How do you increase productivity and engagement among your team while lowering employee turnover, workplace drama, and confusion?This book provides leaders with loads of answers to solve their company culture problems. It contains proven strategies that will have an enormous impact on the direction of any organization. With this book, anyone, in any institution can become a great leader and build an...

A Enciclopédia da Nova Gestora – Como liderar como uma profissional e transformar em valor o trabalho em equipe, mesmo com pouca experiência! Parabéns! Você foi promovida! Mas junto da empolgação, vêm as dúvidas: Como conquistar o respeito da equipe? Como liderar colegas mais velhos e experientes? Como ser firme sem deixar de ser próxima? Se você é uma jovem gestora millennial e sente que foi jogada no fogo, este guia é para você.com a nova geração assumindo cargos de liderança, é comum se sentir insegura, especialmente quando se carrega o peso da “síndrome da impostora”.

The way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s.

In Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team, accomplished technology strategist, executive, and leader Andrew Laudato delivers an eye-opening exploration of how to design, build, staff, and run a high-performing IT department. The book is filled with universally applicable strategies and techniques that can transform any IT team into an all-star cast perfectly aligned with your organization's objectives.

Being an entrepreneur seems like the ultimate American dream. But the startup mythology is filled with urban legends and false expectations that can cause business owners to lose what is truly important to them. To succeed in the world of entrepreneurship, one should know how to enter with clear goals and strong boundaries. In What You Know About Startups Is Wrong, K.P. Reddy explains the behind-the-scenes reality of business building, debunking eleven popular myths about what defines a top entrepreneur. With guidance on everything from how to balance work and personal life to leveraging ...

Salon Business: How to Manage a Salon in Good Times and Bad is the only book in the beauty industry today that guides you through highs and lows with one goal in mind: making money and lots of it! Cut costs, improve marketing and social media, control inventory, hire and fire the right employees and move your salon into the perfect location. No matter what your challenge is—a leaky roof, a lousy landlord, credit cards piling up, salon walk-outs—this book covers it all. • Managing staff and salon more effectively • Maximizing profits • Knowing when it’s time to make operational ...

Organizational culture has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century - and with it, the requirements of leadership. In Building the Best, LearnLoft CEO John Eades takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of cutting-edge leader today's workplace so urgently needs.

Este libro presenta una selección de diez artículos imprescindibles sobre liderazgo, de los cientos que han sido publicados por la revista de la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard, fuente de información de los líderes de hoy día. Artículos de reconocidos autores, como Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker o John P. Kotter, que le ayudarán a maximizar su propio rendimiento y el de su organización.

In Hug Your People, Jack Mitchell shares his secrets for creating happy employees, secrets as simple as they are revolutionary.

Prepare your quality managers for ISO 9001 certification with "Training Quality Managers ISO 9001: A Comprehensive Guide." This indispensable resource equips you with everything you need to know to train your quality managers effectively, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills required to achieve ISO 9001 certification. Comprehensive Coverage: Dive into the intricacies of ISO 9001 and gain a comprehensive understanding of its requirements and principles. This guide covers all aspects of quality management, from quality objectives and processes to documentation and continuous ...

Si eres alguien que ha querido ser más feliz, ser más exitoso y mostrar todos tus talentos al mundo, pero no lo has logrado...este audiolibro te ayudara y te potenciara para esto. Te contamos un proceso sencillo y práctico para que cualquier persona pueda diseñar su futuro y hacerlo realidad. Si te has venido preguntando porque algunas personas alcanzan más éxito y otras no, te cuento de manera sencilla un sistema practico que funciona para cualquier persona apasionada que está dispuesta a lograr lo que quiera.

Most everyone has something they are passionate about. But without the ability to actually effect change...things just stay the same. In order to truly inspire change, we need to be able to effectively explain the problem, inspire people to join us, create a vision for the new reality, and then motivate people to take the actions that lead to the change. Inspiring change requires charisma - the ability to communicate a clear, visionary, and inspirational message that captivates and motivates an audience.