Learning Businesses Management

While financial statements are important, they don't show how much revenue and profit was lost because of broken processes, poor business strategies, open positions, poorly performing employees, and so on. A seemingly successful business can be leaking millions. And the bigger the business, the bigger the leaks. Your Business Is A Leaky Bucket introduces you to the many ways leaders cause or allow their own businesses to squander resources and opportunities and then provides a detailed guide on how to fix those leaks.

Unlock the transformative power of outsourcing and elevate your small business with "How to Use Outsourcing to Grow Your Small Business—SCALE!" Dive into the journey of an entrepreneur who turned a small venture into a thriving empire through strategic outsourcing. This guide is filled with actionable tips and insights on leveraging outsourcing for growth and personal freedom.

The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people’s jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they'll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That's how entire organizations stay competitive in an unpredictable, rapidly changing business environment. In this book, Johnson explains how to become one of those bosses and how to build your A-team.

Based on an award-winning global leadership development program, The 12-Week MBA offers a practical Mini MBA curriculum that gives all business leaders, regardless of their industry, function, or level, the core knowledge, skills and attitudes to effectively manage and lead. By uniquely focusing the two critical areas of leadership - managing numbers and leading people - this practical and engaging guide will inspire you to apply critical business thinking and a dynamic approach to value creation, people skills and decision making.

When the pressure is on, many of the world's top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world's most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

Ditch the fluff and sugarcoating and learn how to lead the way your people deserve. In How NOT To Lead, Dr. Chase Cunningham, a seasoned cybersecurity heavyweight and Retired Navy Chief, doesn't give you a textbook guide on leadership―he delivers a no-holds-barred, gloves-off masterclass on the lethal mistakes that'll tank your leadership game and ultimately sink your reputation and even your company's future.

In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons." In Billion Dollar Lessons, Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 business failures to reveal the misguided tactics that mire companies over and over.

We are going through a digital era. Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming standard practice for many organizations. At the same time, debates over the impact of AI on our daily lives have triggered an increased focus on the protection of individual privacy. The core objective of this book is to help you go beyond the debate and navigate the complexities of privacy and AI. This book is designed to assist you in learning ideas, principles, and frameworks about how to make decisions which balance privacy compliance and the use of AI systems. This book will answer the ...

Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, says it’s time for a serious reconsideration of the American Dream - what promise it still holds, what aspects are in need of revision, and how it must be refashioned to fit our lives so that we can once again have faith that our hard work will pay off and that a secure and hopeful future is within our reach. In nine electrifying chapters, Orman delivers a master class on personal finance for this pivotal moment in time and addresses every aspect of the American Dream.

Julia Boorstin was thirteen when her mother told her that, by the time she grew up, women could be just as powerful as men, “captains of industry, running the biggest companies!” A decade later, working at a top business publication and seeing the dearth of women in positions of leadership, Boorstin assumed her mom had been wrong. But over the following two decades as a TV reporter and creator of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 franchise, interviewing, and studying thousands of executives, she realized that a gender-equity utopia shouldn’t be a pipe dream.

In Why Smart Executives Fail, Sydney Finkelstein uncovers - with startling clarity and unassailable documentation - the causes regularly responsible for major business breakdowns. Why Smart Executives Fail relates the stories of great business disasters and demonstrates that there are specific, identifiable ways in which many businesses regularly make themselves vulnerable to failure.

Warren Buffett ranks among not only the top investors of our time but among the best of all time. Buffett has managed to rise to the top of the ranks in stellar fashion, confounding the critics and earning the adulation of millions. Forty-three of his most valuable and inspiring life lessons relating to investment, human relationships, and overall betterment have been deconstructed and explained, including actionable information as to how you can implement the lessons into your day-to-day life.

Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic best seller The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education - faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more.

In Hope Is not a Method, Sullivan and co-author Colonel Michael Harper tell us how they kept the army well-trained and equipped for traditional functions while preparing it for a wide range of new and complicated missions, all in the midst of a dramatic reduction in both human and financial resources. Their approach is based on continuity and change: maintaining their focus on the army's historic vision and values while introducing new problem-solving techniques and training methods.

When you start a project, there are many phases that they must be conducted in the right way to complete it. If one phase of the project goes wrong, the whole infrastructure could be compromised (and this is certainly what we don't want to happen). For this reason, this guide's main goal is to teach you how to conduct the entire process of your project correctly to obtain the results that you want and the satisfaction of your client - through the Agile project management system.

Millionaire Habits is designed for who starts from zero, but also for those who want to increase their assets. What you did wrong yesterday, you can do better today! On this journey, you will receive the tools you need to learn the secrets of millionaire’s mind!

This transformative course empowers project managers to lead with empathy and emotional intelligence, unlocking the potential for stronger team connections, improved stakeholder relationships, and outstanding project outcomes. Listeners will learn how to build trust, resolve conflicts, and communicate empathetically to create high-performing, motivated teams and align with stakeholder expectations. Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will: Develop core empathy skills to connect deeply with team members and stakeholders.

Good problem-solving skills are not something you're born with.... They’re something you can master. If your struggle is not coming up with solutions, but coming up with the best solution, look no further.

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale.

The digital age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can’t. Professor Ed Hess believes that requires us to become hyper-learners: continuously learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change.