Corporate Management

Imagine running a business without a strategy. It would be akin to driving blindfolded, to building a house without a blueprint. The concept of strategy changed all that, paving the way for the creation of the modern corporate world. The Lords of Strategy provides listeners with a deeper understanding of the world they compete in, and a sharper eye for what works — and what doesn’t — when forging strategy.

A revised second edition of the book that shows you how to use Bible-based leadership principles to improve your business.

In How to Run Your Business by The Book, famed leadership guru Dave Anderson reveals biblical lessons to help transform the people, culture, and results of your business. You'll read what the Bible has to say about hiring and training people, managing money, creating a leadership vision, achieving ambitious goals, and much more.

The Art of Profitability reveals the invisible but important governing principles that can mean the difference between business failure and success. Each of the book's 23 chapters presents a lesson from the exuberant and always challenging master - and a profit paradigm that will open your mind to the many ways to make profit happen.

Business leaders, you hold an important position in the power structure, and you have the unique ability to reach thousands of employees and millions of consumers with your leadership. It's time for you to build a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. This book is the comprehensive plan for leaders who are ready to get serious about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and creating an anti-racist company culture.

Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture - but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to "transform" a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. In Culture Renovation, Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world's top companies.

Encouraged by the unprecedented response to the first volume of “Sensitive Stories of Corporate World”, authors Shyam Bhatawdekar and Dr Kalpana Bhatawdekar were motivated to write its second volume. The first volume contained large number of management case studies. The second volume contained many more. Our readers have been requesting the authors to club the two volumes of “Sensitive Stories of Corporate World” and bring out a combined version of volumes 1 & 2 of the title. Therefore, presented here is the combined version of “Sensitive Stories of Corporate World”. Shyam ...

Administración del tiempoMás que cualquier otra habilidad en tu carrera, la capacidad de manejar el tiempo determinará tu éxito o fracaso. Es una simple ecuación. En cuanto mejor uses tu tiempo, conseguirás más y más grandes serán tus recompensas. Esta práctica guía de bolsillo revela 21 técnicas comprobadas que puede usar inmediatamente para ganar dos o más horas productivas cada día. Ofrece las estrategias que el experto en negocios Brian Tracy ha identificado como las más eficaces que él mismo emplea.

Welcome to MBA ASAP: Your Cable Car Ride to Business Success. Imagine yourself in a cable car, steadily rising to the peak of business success. While others struggle in the cliffs of charts and numbers, you glide smoothly to the top. Success doesn't have to be hard. With the right tools and knowledge, it can be a smooth, exhilarating ride. MBA stands for Master of Business Administration, the top business degree. ASAP means "as soon as possible." The title says it all. This book gives you all the top condensed MBA knowledge quickly and efficiently. As an MBA professor and business expert, ...

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.

What you're reading here is what I wish someone had told me at the beginning of my career. I hope it's still time for you to change your ways and meet the success you deserve. Every lesson you read has been learned through great sacrifice, wasted years and missed opportunities. I want you to avoid these mistakes. This book answers painful questions like these: - Why do colleagues who are less competent and less motivated than you advance faster in their careers? - Why are other people's ideas accepted while yours are rejected? - A small success of your colleague is celebrated while your ...

Can't find enough time to rest, think, plan, or enjoy your life? Blame it on time inflation, distractions, tardiness, time abusers, time thieves, time-related crunches stress (TCRS), and procrastination, the mother of all time-related disorders. What you can't diagnose can't be treated even if treating one may help treat the others. In Dr. Caxton's Time Pyramid, you're going to get a handle on why time seems to slip by you so easily and what you can do to instantly regain control over your time through time frames, time windows and The Time Pyramid. All the time you need to start a business...

Wright gives you the tools necessary to feel confident and ready to standout amongst your peers. A must read for any one out in the job market. Ever feel like the job interview process can sometimes be a little too much? this book is more than just how to answer the tough questions in a job interview. When you read this book, you will learn not what to say, but how to say it. Most people don't see it, but 80% of someones opinion of you is formed within the first 5 minutes of meeting you. You don't even have to say anything for this to happen, it is all in how you look and how you act. With ...

You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide - the authoritative follow-up to the best-selling book Conscious Capitalism, by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, and leadership expert Raj Sisodia - gives you the tools for sharing and implementing the principles of higher purpose and conscious business throughout your organization.

In Freelance Your Way to Freedom: How to Free Yourself from the Corporate World and Build the Life of Your Dreams, freelancing phenomenon Alex Fasulo delivers a practical, step-by-step guide to navigating the potential and perils of launching your very own side hustle. In the book, the author draws on her own experience transforming a $36,000/year Fiverr side hustle into a million-dollar enterprise. She explains how to manage those critical moments in business when decisions need to be made quickly and without warning.

The Board Game presents the undeniable case for having more women corporate directors at the decision-making tables of America's public companies. Fifty-eight women directors tell how they won their first board seats. From her executive-search perspective, author Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire gives valuable advice to women at all career stages - so YOU, your sisters, your mothers, and your daughters will have a chance to win The Board Game.

Competition in business is very stiff with every business trying to earn a good share of the market. The number of customers the business has determined its success in meeting its goals. With businesses coming up and leaving the market, organizations have had to advance their strategies for enhancing their business relations. There are different stakeholders in businesses that play key roles in the success of the business. Running a business requires input from different persons and organizations. A business can’t exist in isolation as it needs its customers, suppliers, investors, the ...

Are you a small or medium-sized business owner, executive, or entrepreneur ready to take your company to the next level? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) might seem like a strategy reserved for large corporations, but in reality, they offer transformative growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes. In M&A for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Michael Hofer, Ph.D., an expert with years of M&A experience, unveils the secrets of harnessing M&A to accelerate growth, expand into new markets, gain valuable expertise, and secure a stronger competitive position—all tailored to the unique ...

Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - and they have found their voice.

Many owners of lawn care and landscape businesses found their companies on the belief that they would make more money working for themselves than they would as employees. Dedicated to the maintenance and beautification of properties, they believe that their hard work and expertise in softscape, hardscape, irrigation, or snow plowing will guarantee their success. But technical knowledge alone won't generate profit or help a company grow.

It is not a massive treatise on everything you should know as a CFO. But the book contains shortcuts a CFO can use to earn credibility and trust. This will help create change within the organization. One of the biggest challenges for a new CFO is often there’s not a job description. It’s usually something vague like “make the CEO look good and help the company succeed”. How do you do that exactly? This book is unlike any other of its kind. We’ve cut to the chase and shared with the CFO what they need to do and how to do it.