Engineering Business

This book is perfect for anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, Sustainable, this book provides listeners with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success.

In his book Driving Eureka!, best-selling business author Doug Hall presents the System Driven Innovation scientific method for enabling innovation by everyone, everywhere, every day. It’s the essential resource you need to enable yourself - and your team - to innovate, succeed, and do amazing things that matter, on a daily basis.

Are you getting interviews but failing to land a job? Are your technical skills sound, but when it comes to the behavioral aspect of the interview, things are falling short? Or maybe you’re fresh out of college but you’re totally unsure of how you can best prepare yourself to land a software engineering job. Regardless of what brought you here, let me say that I’m glad you found this book. Most software engineers have the technical capabilities to land a high-paying software engineering job, but in today’s competitive tech market, companies want to see more than that.

ITIL Lifecycle Essentials covers all of the vital material required for the entry-level ITIL Foundation Certificate, which gives candidates a comprehensive overview of the key elements, concepts, and terminology used in the ITIL service lifecycle.

Explore today how to use Excel 2013! This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a truly effective user of MS Excel 2013. Here’s an inescapable fact: you will need to learn how to use MS Excel, because no matter what job or profession that you do, MS Excel spreadsheets can provide useful benefits for you - from creating household budgets to monitoring the sales targets of your department.

La travesía de Uber es la primera mirada al interior del imperio global de Uber. El periodista veterano Adam Lashinsky, autor del bestseller Inside Apple, rastrea los orígenes de las ambiciones masivas de Kalanick en sus raíces humildes, y explora los inicios oscuros de Uber y el paseo salvaje de su rápido crecimiento y expansión en diferentes industrias. A través de entrevistas exclusivas con Kalanick, el autor nos brinda una mirada única de esta polémica empresa multimillonaria.

Are you a machine-learning enthusiast looking for a practical day-to-day application? Or are you just trying to incorporate machine-learning software in your trading decisions? This audiobook is your answer.

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers. To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals. Who do you hire, and how do you hire the people you need? How will you motivate these engineers and inspire their best work? In Raising Engineers, David Dettmer helps you create a culture that reflects your business, establish a working process to cultivate a strong team, and hire the right people to build impactful products.

In examining the history of the 737, a highly regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training.

In the male-dominated world of engineering, breaking through barriers and claiming your rightful place can seem like an impossible challenge. Yet for Anat Rapoport, this challenge was an opportunity, not just for her, but for women everywhere. In 2015, she stood on the cusp of a significant promotion. With every project milestone achieved, deadline met, and positive feedback garnered, she felt ready. But was her career trajectory truly in her hands, or was it subject to the whims of superiors/ mercy of the higher-ups?

Today, in corporate world, everyone is talking about Scrum. Major companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Deloitte, American Express, and many more have adopted Scrum concepts. This audiobook is written to provide a simplified guide to you such that you can familiarize yourself with the most popular Agile process framework to build complex software products. Scrum is widely defined as an iterative or incremental process framework to build complex products of highest possible value. It is an incremental approach to develop a product through successive improvements.

The environmental crisis is advancing at an unprecedented pace and scale. It will outpace us if we don’t turn our attention to an even deeper concern regarding the future of humanity: We need to work together to create change. Our current approach to collaboration is outmoded. To transform our world, we must transform the way we lead. We collectively share the power and responsibility for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future. Leaders who hope to shape that future must develop the ability to embrace relationships as our most impactful, influential tool.

Welcome to the first edition of The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mindset in Project Management. This guide offers a comprehensive roadmap for project managers to cultivate an equitable team environment. It focuses on eliminating barriers to opportunities and creating an inclusive space where every team member feels welcomed, valued, respected, and fully engaged.

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good for You, New York Times best-selling author Steven Johnson's Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governments to classrooms, from protest movements to health care. Johnson paints a compelling portrait of this new political worldview.

Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket. But no one - from MIT nerds to Army Corps engineers - has ever built a robot that can lay bricks as well as a mason. Unlike the controlled conditions of a factory line, where robots are now ubiquitous, no two construction sites are alike, and a day’s work involves countless variables - bricks that range in size and quality, temperamental mortar mixes, uneven terrain, fickle weather, and moody foremen.

The Lean system is a great way to help you to get rid of the waste in your business so that you can be more efficient and increase profits. Lean Analytics is a part of this process that can help you to gather the right data and get the information you need to come up with a winning strategy for your team.

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a "spear in the chest." The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 82 percent, and the goal is to reach a zero environmental footprint by 2020.

Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore—they're the basis of the rising decentralized internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the past decade's rules: Monopolies may be shattered, fortunes will be made and lost, and new classes of products and services will emerge. Where does your business fit in? Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will show you how today's most innovative organizations are choosing Web3, evaluating their risks, experimenting with their brands, and preparing to win in the newer, better internet age.

If your business is like most, it is already generating a staggering amount of data on a regular basis. Understanding what this data truly means is key to succeeding in the marketplace these days and if you are looking for a way to give yourself an edge then Data Analytics is the book you have been waiting for. Inside you will find the tools you need in order to take full advantage of all of the data that your business is already generating regardless if you are part of a major corporation or if you are a small business that is just starting out.

In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.