Corporate Career

Lead Like an Ally facilitates positive change by including six leadership strategies, such as clean up the culture, stretch talent equally, establish ally networks, manage meeting behavior, promote belonging, and measure success. Leaders - now, more than ever before - are wrestling with how to attract and retain diverse talent and be inclusive leaders. Despite the best of intentions, very few organizations are reaching their equality goals, even those deeply committed to diversity and inclusion.

Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice. In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt—former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission—shows how you can take matters into your own hands.

In the high-stakes world of corporate leadership, encountering a narcissist is more than a personality clash—it can derail your career, compromise team morale, and leave lasting damage to your organization. Through years of experience as an executive advisor, Anna Minto delivers a powerful guide to help: Identify narcissistic traits and behaviors before they undermine your success. Decode the strategies narcissists use to manipulate, dominate, and thrive. Navigate the gendered complexities that make women leaders particularly vulnerable.

Companies have different needs and live in vastly different environments. The internal structure of an organization and the market in which it competes is not going to adapt to a digital strategy process; it must find a process and methodology that works best for it. With big data emerging as a standard framework for decision-making, digital strategy and governance have taken on increased importance.

There are dark forces at work breeding separation, disunity, disengagement, and denying their role in maintaining a status quo rife with injustices and inequities that keep them in power and everyone else subjugated. But there is an equally and opposite force for good pushing back. Leaders who understand that business must be more by creating culture where injustices are mitigated, inequities are eradicated, diversity is highly prized, and inclusion is the norm.

David's trials and tribulations will deliver valuable insight on how to leave your corporate job and how to navigate your own business once you take the leap. Drawing from inspirational figures like Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and Richard Branson, this audiobook will expand what you considered to be possible and encourage you to reach your full potential.

The Corporate Coup is not your go-to business guide. It is the journey of a businessman who took over a failing business and claimed it through his hard work and determination. The book also talks about how Kevin Pawlowski believed that everyone in the company is equally important in creating success.

No one is exempt from life's hardships. Today, more than ever before, professional women of color have more to worry about, balance, maintain, and anticipate. But no one should face hardships, struggle to climb through corporate America, or find themselves at a plateau because of past trauma on their own. By taking the right actions, both professionally and spiritually, anyone—from emerging leaders who are single parents to executives who are empty nesters—can find the greatness they desire and peace of mind."

Bolstered with archival and original data, including the first complete count of American business corporations before the Civil War, Corporation Nation makes a compelling argument for improved internal governance and more effective external government regulation.

When you lose a sibling just as you're losing the passion for your life's work, how do you fill the void? You join a dysfunctional band of amateur writers and create a sitcom, of course. Join Fred Knowles and the late Ed Asner as they tell the improbable story of Fred's transition from corporate life to sitcom producer

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

Turn creativity from a hit-or-miss proposition into something you can count on with this highly-praised program. Its co-authors, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, are top thinkers in the field of corporate creativity and together they have advised dozens of major organizations in the United States and abroad.

This look at CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) - where it began, where it is today, and where it is headed, told chronologically and through Toby Usnik’s 25 years of brand stewarding at celebrated multinational and start-up firms - is a primer for leaders in small- and medium-sized businesses that are figuring out how to manage their triple bottom line (people, profit, and planet). This book is a primer for any leader developing or expanding their CSR efforts.

Target your future. Choose your path. Set your terms. Choice Destinations is your definitive guide to transitioning from a high-achieving corporate life to the liberating world of entrepreneurship. Designed specifically for Leading Managers and Top Performing Executives, this book addresses the common hurdles and confusion faced when contemplating entrepreneurial freedom. If the pull towards starting your own venture feels overwhelming, this blueprint provides the clarity and empowerment needed to navigate your journey successfully.

As companies mature, their underlying growth naturally slows-this is called the 'growth curse'. It's a pervasive problem that plagues companies, CEOs, and board members alike. In order to safeguard a company's future, a strategic form of governance in which the board plays a more active role on behalf of all stakeholders, must be activated.

Combining his unique satire and sense of humor with remarkable true stories from every corner of the corporate world, you’ll join award-winning author and corporate leader A.D. Napier as he takes you on a witty and eye-opening journey into the realms of corporate BS, recounting both the brilliant and the baffling experiences he’s had working with Fortune 500 companies.

In the long run, economies grow. Over the shorter-term business cycle, economic activity contracts and expands. From Main Street to Wall Street examines both the long-run relation between economic growth and stock returns and the shorter-term business-cycle relation. It examines the complex relationship between the economy and the stock market, and guides listeners through the fascinating interaction between economic activity and financial markets.

In Inner Fire, Lisa Wolfe, a trailblazer with four decades of leadership experience in the tech industry, shares her hard-won wisdom on how to become a Spirit-Keeper—someone who has learned to nourish and protect her inner vitality and humanity in the face of workplace challenges.

Dive on into this scholarly audiobook using the automobile company Saturn to define the best of business strategies. This paper was typed for a senior level undergraduate business class in the realms of organizational strategy. This reference backed and scholarly paper uses Harvard University evidence and statistics from Saturn Corporation to generate the best SWOT and external environment analysis.

Katya Andresen, a veteran marketer and nonprofit professional, demystifies winning marketing campaigns by reducing them to 10 essential rules and provides entertaining examples and simple steps for applying the rules ethically and effectively to good causes of all kinds. The Robin Hood rules steal from the winning formulas for selling socks, cigarettes, and even mattresses, with good advice for appealing to your audience's values, not your own.