Outsmarting the Avalanche: Circumvent Catastrophe, Conquer Crisis, and Cultivate Culture

Outsmarting the Avalanche: Circumvent Catastrophe, Conquer Crisis, and Cultivate Culture

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In high-stakes leadership, failure is rarely the result of stupidity or malice. It is the cumulative weight of “rational” decisions, of small concessions in culture, process, and accountability that feel like common sense in the moment but create catastrophic momentum over time.

How do you recognize a disaster when it still looks like a “strategic pivot”?

Fintech veteran Mike Orlando has spent twenty years navigating the boardrooms of Garmin, Visa, and CyberSource. In Outsmarting the Avalanche, he pulls back the curtain on the anatomy of a corporate crisis. Part memoir and part tactical handbook, this executive-level “choose-your-own-adventure” places you at the center of an organizational breakdown.

As the narrative unfolds, you aren’t just a reader. You are the decision-maker. Through fictionalized scenarios based on real-world leadership challenges, you will:

  • Interrupt the Momentum: Identify the logical fallacies hidden within strategies, decks, and leadership “alignment.”
  • Trace the Pattern: Connect modern workplace dynamics to iconic historical failures where the smartest people in the room got it wrong.
  • Audit the Culture: Use sharp, diagnostic frameworks to spot flawed logic before it’s dressed up as common sense.

Whether you are a senior executive refining your strategic intuition or an emerging leader building organizational fluency, Outsmarting the Avalanche is a masterclass in critical thinking.

The most dangerous decisions always sound like common sense. Can you tell the difference?

Cyberfiduciary: Navigating SEC Mandates for Cybersecurity

Cyberfiduciary: Navigating SEC Mandates for Cybersecurity

$37.99

Cybersecurity is no longer an IT issue—it is a fiduciary responsibility.

The SEC’s cybersecurity disclosure rules require public companies to report material cyber incidents within four business days and disclose how boards oversee cyber risk and governance.

Cyberfiduciary is a concise, board-level guide for directors, executives, audit committees, and legal leaders navigating this new accountability. The book translates cyber risk into governance frameworks, disclosure-ready processes, and defensible oversight—helping boards protect enterprise value, investor trust, and regulatory credibility in an increasingly digital economy.

Humanizing Digital Experience: Converging Cognitive Ergonomics and Technology in Modern Marketing

Humanizing Digital Experience: Converging Cognitive Ergonomics and Technology in Modern Marketing

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Humanizing Digital Experience explores how technology-driven business environments can be designed around human cognition, behavior, and values to enhance customer engagement and marketing performance. Grounded in a customer-centric philosophy, the book examines how organizations can motivate consumers and co-create value through human–computer interaction, interpersonal experience, cognitive reasoning, and interactive communication.

Bringing together insights from digital experience design, cognitive ergonomics, and consumer psychology, the author addresses the growing need for human-centered digital design in modern marketing systems. It analyzes how technologies—including artificial intelligence—shape consumer behavior across virtual and cyber-physical environments.

This book presents contemporary perspectives on collective engagement in virtual business settings and demonstrates how firms can improve digital and platform-based marketing performance. Structured into two thematic parts and five chapters, each chapter includes real-world case studies, introductory overviews, and concluding summaries to support learning and practical application.

Designed for academics, researchers, and marketing practitioners, Humanizing Digital Experience offers a rigorous yet accessible framework for understanding the convergence of technology, psychology, and marketing in today’s digital economy.

Leading in Crisis: A Guide for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Leaders

Leading in Crisis: A Guide for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Leaders

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Leading in Crisis is a practical guide for pharmaceutical and biotech leaders navigating high-stakes environments where science, ethics, patient trust, and operational continuity collide.

In the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, crises are not hypothetical—they are inevitable. Clinical trial setbacks, safety signals, regulatory scrutiny, supply chain disruptions, pricing controversies, and digital reputational risks can emerge suddenly, placing immense pressure on leaders and organizations alike.

Through real-world examples and actionable models, this book explores how leaders can master crisis communication, build effective response teams, uphold scientific integrity, and maintain patient-centric and ethical governance—even in moments of intense scrutiny. It addresses the growing impact of digital media, emerging risks such as AI and cybersecurity, and the evolving role of Medical Affairs as a strategic leader during disruption.

More than a management handbook, Leading in Crisis is a blueprint for leaders who aspire to transform adversity into clarity, credibility, and long-term strength—while never losing sight of the patients and principles that define their mission.

Rethinking Business and Management: Global Transformations in the Digital Age

Rethinking Business and Management: Global Transformations in the Digital Age

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Rethinking Business and Management offers a timely and critical examination of how business and management are being reshaped by digitalization, globalization, and deep socio-economic change. As contemporary capitalism becomes increasingly driven by intangible assets, data, digital platforms, and financial power, this book challenges conventional assumptions about how markets, organizations, and managerial authority operate.

Bringing together insights from political economy, organization studies, and marketing, the book explores the rise of the intangible and sharing economies, shifting patterns of work marked by flexibility and precarity, and the growing influence of moral and political discourses such as woke capitalism. It examines how multinational corporations adapt within a fragmented yet highly interconnected global system, and how platform-based organizations and data-driven personalization are redefining both management practices and consumer identities.

The book also addresses the intensifying entanglement between digital technologies and finance, showing how fintech, platforms, and digital infrastructures are transforming investment, payment systems, and the distribution of economic power. Throughout, it foregrounds the implications of these transformations for inequality, governance, and the future of capitalism itself.

Combining analytical rigor with a critical perspective, Rethinking Business and Management provides readers with a coherent framework for understanding the forces reshaping business today. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners seeking to navigate—and rethink—the contemporary business landscape.

Fear in Organizations

Fear in Organizations

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Fear is pervasive in today’s organizations—and far more damaging than many leaders realize. Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear of speaking up. Fear of change. When fear becomes embedded in organizational cultures, it undermines decision-making, accountability, innovation, and trust.

In Fear in Organizations, David D. Van Fleet examines fear not simply as an individual emotion, but as a systemic organizational force that shapes behavior, leadership, and outcomes. Drawing on decades of research, teaching, and real-world experience, he explores how fear develops, how it escalates under conditions of control, uncertainty, and high-stakes objectives, and how it silently erodes workplace effectiveness.

More importantly, this book provides practical insights and tools to help leaders recognize fear-based dynamics and take meaningful action. Managers, executives, and HR professionals will gain guidance on fostering psychological safety, encouraging accountability, and building cultures where clarity, courage, and constructive behavior can thrive.

Build Better Brains! Second Edition: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience

Build Better Brains! Second Edition: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience

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The exciting news is that leadership has become measurable in the brain. This opens a new perspective on the biology of leadership—and on how trust, motivation, and performance actually emerge in people and teams.

Have you ever wondered what happens inside the box on top of your head when you lead? Are you aware that by reading this book, you will change your brain—because the brain is an eternal construction site? And did you know that leadership is shaped not only by the brain in your head, but also by neural networks in the heart and the gut?

Build Better Brains is neither a traditional leadership book nor a neuroscience textbook. It brings together the best of both worlds to support a new generation of leaders. Grounded in science yet written for real-life leadership practice, the book introduces the GMC Model—a practical framework for brain-friendly, authentic leadership that helps create clarity, build trust, and enable sustainable performance across generations.

Clear, practical, and scientifically sound, Build Better Brains equips leaders to work with the brain, not against it.

Build Better Brains offers:

  • Practical, science-based tools for leadership in a VUCA world
  • Neuroscience as a foundation for motivation, trust, and performance
  • Clear concepts without oversimplifying scientific facts
  • A realistic, engaging style that reflects the realities of leadership

Leadership is born in the brain.

Beyond Networking: Making Connections That Matter

Beyond Networking: Making Connections That Matter

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Beyond Networking is not another book about networking. It is a networking book in practice – one that will transform how you connect, forever. It explores how we connect as humans, and why meaningful connection changes everything.

In a world full of surface-level interactions and transactional advice, this book offers a more intentional, human-centered approach to building relationships that truly matter. It moves beyond tactics and quick wins, focusing on trust, purpose, and long-term impact.

Through stories of extraordinary connectors and real-life examples across industries and cultures, the book shows that networks do not just grow wide – they run deep. You will discover small shifts in mindset and behavior that turn brief encounters into lasting relationships.

This is not just a guide to better networking.It is a roadmap to creating opportunity, inspiring change, and leaving a lasting impact through the way you connect.

Mistakes Are Your Capital: Turn Entrepreneurial Errors into Business Opportunities

Mistakes Are Your Capital: Turn Entrepreneurial Errors into Business Opportunities

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Mistakes in business are inevitable, sometimes by circumstances beyond our control, and more often by our own making. The astute entrepreneur uses mistakes as steppingstones, turning blunders and gaffes into business opportunities, and becoming a sharper entrepreneur in the process.

Mistakes are your Capital: Turn Entrepreneurial Errors into Business Opportunities explores how to recognize lapses in the making, from simple miscues to more serious failures; their impact, how to avoid them, and how to capitalize on situations that can otherwise potentially harm you.

This book explores business mistakes, identifies them and offers up creative solutions across every business sector, from strategic planning, team building and marketing, to decision-making.

Turning errors into business opportunities separates the successful entrepreneur from one who might be more prone to knee-jerk reactions or wishing problems away.

As a Business Consultant with several decades of experience working with a multitude of businesspeople, managers, planners, dreamers and schemers, Jay Silverberg delivers hands-on counsel across every sector of business. The result is a keen knowledge of business mistakes, and an even keener toolbox of counsel, advice and fixes. As well, Jay Silverberg ‘practices what he preaches’, having founded and spearheaded a number of ventures, all with their share of real-world problematic hiccups as normally experienced by entrepreneurs.

Stories and case studies offered up in this book, including those gleaned from his own entrepreneurial adventures, are an integral part of the process by which readers can learn by example.

Managerial Economics, Second Edition: Concepts and Principles

Managerial Economics, Second Edition: Concepts and Principles

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Economic thinking belongs in every manager’s toolkit.

Managerial Economics shows how sound economic reasoning leads to better business decisions across operations, marketing, finance, and strategy. Far from being an abstract academic exercise, economics provides a practical framework—and a shared language—for understanding how firms operate and compete within their markets.

This concise text applies core principles of microeconomics to real-world business decisions. Using clear conceptual models, it explains the essential relationships among price, cost, revenue, output, and profit, while introducing key ideas from consumer demand, production, market structure, and competition. The book also explores why firms grow, how large organizations can be structured more effectively, and when market regulation is necessary.

The second edition updates classic managerial economics with timely examples and emerging issues such as stakeholder capitalism, disruptive technologies, and industrial policy. Written with minimal mathematics and maximum clarity, Managerial Economics equips readers with practical insight into how businesses and markets function—and how they can function better.