Beyond Sustainability Reporting: The Pathway to Corporate Social Responsibility

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How to Convert Sustainability Disclosure into Action

New standards such as those of the International Sustainability Standards Board and new regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission are challenging companies to increase and improve their disclosure on what they are doing to support sustainability for their Environmental, Social and Governance activities.

Companies are responding by changing their controls and procedures to include sustainability processes. But is this enough? For companies that truly want to help with sustainability issues, the answer is no

What is needed is the more action-oriented approach laid out in this book, which:

  • Enables modifying the corporate strategic plans to include real sustainability actions.
  • Makes use of the skills developed in providing sustainability disclosures, such as integrated thinking.
  • Includes proper adoption of recognized standards for control procedures recognized by regulatory authorities.
  • Adapts traditional management change tools, such as SWOT and the Porter Five Forces Model to include sustainability.
  • Shows how to move the company from sustainability disclosure to integrated thinking to Corporate Social Responsibility.

Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Thinking and Corporate Social Responsibility is a must-read for any company wanting to make a strong contribution to sustainability issues, for educators who wish to teach sustainability issues and how to manage them, and for anyone interested in knowing how companies can develop a strong and successful action-oriented program for sustainability.

The Business-Minded CISCO: Run Your Security Program Efficiently

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The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are creating new and unique challenges to corporate security leaders. Internal sanctioned and unsanctioned use of these tools, as well as how threat actors are employing them, requires cyber leaders to think differently. Information technology (IT) risk and information security management remain top of mind for corporate boards and senior business leaders. Continued intensity of cyber terrorism attacks, regulatory and compliance requirements, and customer privacy concerns are driving the need for a business-minded chief information security officer (CISO) to lead organizational efforts to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data.

This book describes the thought process and specific activities a leader should consider as they interview for the IT risk/information security leader role, what they should do within their first 90 days, and how to organize, evangelize, and operate the program once they are into the job. It provides practical, tested strategies for designing your program and guidance to help you be successful long term.

Working in Business and Finance: An Insider’s No Nonsense Career Guide

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Demystify the fascinating world of business and finance. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill career guide; think of it as your secret weapon, your backstage pass to the good, the bad, and the ugly. No more tiptoeing – we spill the beans on the pay, the hours, the perks, and the not-so-glamorous parts of the journey.

In this candid, concise, and comprehensive guide, we’ve condensed insider insights into a must-have manual for students and budding professionals. Whether it’s consulting, accounting, investment banking, sales and trading, private equity, venture capital, investment management, hedge fund, real estate, corporate finance, strategy and operations, product management, sales, marketing, or getting your MBA, we’ve got it all covered.

We’ve thrown in candid conversations with real-life trailblazers who’ve braved the same path you’re about to embark upon. Whether you’re a student mapping your future or a young professional hungry for success, this book will ensure you make career choices that you won’t regret.

Replace career confusion with confidence by learning the ins and outs of the career paths available to you. Your foray into a burgeoning career starts here.

The Cultural Sales Leader: Sustaining People, Attaining Results

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Behaviors Form Culture, Leading to Results

The Culture Building Sales Leader is about sales leadership, creating a performance culture, and followership. It is about creating a vision and then building an organization and approach which will make that vision a reality. It’s about building a people first culture that is bound to the mission you have set out and it is about thinking beyond the present to where you want to be as an organization in 3 to 5 years’ time.

This book is for anyone interested in business, in sales, sales leadership, or organizational culture building–no matter what level of experience or seniority. It contains the templates and approaches to help you to shape the way you identify, create, analyze, and execute on your people first strategy, whilst bringing the entire organization along with you to attain sustainable, transformational results.

The author outlines a layering process to becoming an expert in your business and identifying the key growth areas to allow you to get beyond the pure focus of your current financial year. It is about how you build a growth engine. The pathway to achieving this most effectively is through your people and culture. Get the people element right and the results will come.

Dysfunctional Organizations: How to Remove Obstacles to Psychological Safety

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Dysfunctional organizations result from individual behavior and the cultures they develop. Many individuals have directly experienced some form of dysfunctional behavior, including trauma from nonfatal workplace violence, bullying, harassment, violence, and unsafe work practices. These and other unacceptable workplace behaviors pose significant problems in organizations.

Psychological safety deals with these behaviors and prevents organizations from becoming dysfunctional. It may not be “the” way to prevent dysfunctions, but it certainly is “a” way. This book uses simple and direct words to describe forms of behavior that are obstacles to developing psychological safety. It then provides practical guidance for what can and should be done to remove those obstacles.

A unique framework (V-REEL) enables a better understanding of how and why behaviors are associated with dysfunctional organizations. It indicates the value of having psychologically, psychosocially, and physically safe workplaces. Its use helps the reader to carefully identify factors that erode or chip away safe workplaces as well as factors that enable or help to create them.

The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain

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Does your company suffer from inventory obesity? Is the balance between your supply and demand a constant struggle?

In The Supply Chain Revolution, Art Koch unveils a masterful system for any organization to build better supply chain fundamentals and overcome the evils of inventory. This is the ultimate playbook for CEOs, COOs, and CFOs to revolutionize supply chains and convert them from cost centers to profit and value drivers.

Turn your supply chain into a powerful weapon for sustainable profitability by unlocking the power of inventory velocity with innovative strategies for process optimization, team engagement, and corporate valuation. It’s not just good management—it’s a proven competitive advantage.

(Re)Value: Raise Your Prices and Build Your Legacy

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Pricing power is a simple concept, yet so many successful people overlook it, leaving money on the table. It’s not about charging more; it’s about discovering the only type of value your customers will pay more for.

Not all value is equal. Want to 2X your earnings? If you operate with a 15-percent profit margin, you could grow your business by 100 percent, managing twice the resources and doubling your complexity. Or you could simply increase your pricing power by 15 percent. While few know how, the companies, leaders, and productive individuals embracing the lessons of Re-Valuing do it every day.

Join the Re-Value Revolution and Ignite Your Team to:

  • Discover what your customers are willing to pay more for.
  • Identify where your business is leaking value and intervene.
  • Cut through competing priorities by asking the right questions.
  • Ensure your strategies will stand the test of time.

REVALUE shares a wealth of game-changing insights within an easy-to-apply framework, distilling a 20+ year pursuit into an entertaining read that you can easily digest on your next domestic plane ride.

Ignite All: Leadership, Team Enablement, & Sparking That Inner Flame

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Putting a team together is easy. Creating a dynamic team culture is hard.

Fusion brings a new world approach to leadership, team enablement, and sparking that inner flame. In this book—written by a team, for teams—Fusion distills proven best practices, methodologies, and frameworks that drive impactful change for small and large teams in the corporate workplace by incorporating models to build thoughtful processes, form empathetic teams, and develop team members into change-makers.

  • Unleash your talent: Build a top-performing team utilizing proven best practices that activate your team’s greatest assets.
  • Supercharge your team: Level up your game with innovative methodologies and systems that shift your mindset and accelerate your team.
  • Amplify your impact: Bring even greater value to the universe while keeping inclusion and diversity at the forefront.

Internal Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Transformational leaders need to be exceptional communicators.

Bombarded by new technology and unsure where artificial intelligence will take us? Asking yourself how this will impact communication at scale in your organization? How can you best harness this power for business success?

Companies and projects are at risk. Effective strategic internal communication will attract, engage, align, and retain your people to weather this storm of change. It will help them adopt new technologies.

But how can you tell if your strategy will succeed? What questions should you ask?

Internal Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence reveals a modern, multilayered approach to internal communication. It’s a practical guide for business leaders and communicators, filled with global case studies, behind-the-scenes insights, and stories from industry experts. You’ll learn what basics must be done brilliantly, how to engage with communities, and why a new immersive communication mindset is needed to prepare you for the future.