An Introduction to Global Supply Chain Management: What Every Manager Needs to Understand

$34.99

The problems during COVID made everyone aware that today’s global business environment relies on supply chains 24/7.

Although most managers and executives are not chain experts, they must know and understand the key aspects of supply chain management to make the best daily decisions for their business. Many textbooks cover numerous details and theories about supply chains. However, it has been said that everything that is taught in business school is theory…until you must make payroll.

Both authors have made payroll in various businesses. Thus, this text removes the details and is focused on an executive overview of the key aspects of Global Supply Chains that every businessperson needs to know to continually succeed in their business and make payroll.

Win Business with Relationships: Communication Strategies Inspired by Entrepreneurs & Taoism

$37.99

In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity.

This business development “guidebook” illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

Platform Thinking: Read the past. Write the future.

$31.99

What does Platform Thinking mean? It is the ability to put platform-based mechanisms at the core of digital business transformations in business.

Digital Platforms like Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Booking.com, and many others completely re-shaped the daily life of millions of users. However, many innovation leaders struggle to conceive the significance of their impact. Platform-based business models are not just the real of geeks’ startups, digital services, and Unicorns.

This book shows there that their potential in creating value is higher than suspected.

Even though platform ecosystems are complex, readers will take on a journey to become Platform Thinkers. Their eyes will be trained to look beyond what’s visible and start reading the platform world around them. Then, they will be guided into a step-by-step process and learn how to write a new platform model from scratch.

This book is the result of a decade of research. It offers both a framework and practical instruments to champion digital transformation in any organization. It is specially intended for those who are interested in the glittering platform world and are still trying to figure it out.

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Stuck Entrepreneurs: Escape Routes Out of the Quicksand

$34.99

Learn to Escape, Avoid or Sidestep Your Descent into the Quicksand

Stuck Entrepreneurs provides inventive strategies for the quicksand-mired businessperson who asks, what am I doing wrong? or how can I break this inertia and move my business forward?

The author delivers advice that is steeped in real-world experience gleaned from his own variety of business ventures and consulting practice, and packed with his entertaining business stories. Some are happy, others are, well, disturbing.

This book casts a wide target readership net; from wanna-be and early-stage entrepreneurs seeking a foothold for their ventures, to established businesses floundering in the paralysis of quicksand.

Further, in this post-pandemic economic environment, many entrepreneurs, managers and professionals are laboring to re-birth their businesses. This book will provide the counsel and energy to strategize that return journey.

Stuck Entrepreneurs is a combination business manual and a workbook. Each chapter includes a challenging, self-directed workbook that encourages the reader to learn through the author’s own ‘how to’ or ‘how not to’ shared experiences.

When Graduation’s Over, Learning Begins: Lessons for STEM Students and Professionals

$31.99

“I just finished reading this very well-written book. Forsgren captured all the issues so very succinctly and in easy to understand and remember story-telling style. Each page of this book is loaded with thought-provoking information.” –Poras T. Balsara, PhD, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas

What They Didn’t Teach You in School: Lessons for STEM Students and Professionals

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education has been described as, “drinking from a firehose.” STEM students are required to absorb an overwhelming amount of technical information before they can earn their undergraduate degrees. But it takes more than a thorough understanding of math, science, and engineering concepts to become successful in today’s job market.

NASA’s former Chief Knowledge Officer, Roger Forsgren, was responsible for training the agency’s technical workforce and provides critical lessons learned for STEM students and graduates to build successful careers as they compete in today’s workplace.

 

  • Being an introvert in an extroverts’ world: You may certainly be the smartest person in the room but that may not be enough to convince a client, make a persuasive presentation, or effectively manage others. Learn how to remain in your comfort zone yet still make a compelling impact by becoming an ambivert.
  • Communication Skills: How to get your point across and express yourself in a cogent, concise manner. How to make yourself heard, and respected, in a group of experienced professionals.
  • Critical Thinking: Avoid jumping to conclusions by training yourself to look beyond the obvious for the real clues to a problem or situation.
  • Ethics: STEM professionals possess unique skills, but such technical expertise also requires a sense of personal responsibility ensuring your talents are being put to the best use for yourself and for society.

Case studies have proven to be valuable learning tools and Roger Forsgren includes twelve compelling historical case studies that demonstrate the critical knowledge needed for STEM students as they progress through their careers.

Doing Digital: The Guide to Digital for Non-Technical Leaders

$37.99

Understanding Digital is the Most Critical Skill of the Decade

Every business is a digital business and understanding digital is probably the most critical skill of the decade, as the pandemic has accelerated the journey to digital work and lifestyles.

Digital includes design, data, and numerous technologies, from APIs to Blockchain and from Cloud to Artificial Intelligence, and it can be daunting for non-technology people to work through the concepts as well as all the jargon. We can’t all be experts on these areas but for most of us, whatever our profession, doing digital is no longer optional.

This book will give you both a conceptual framework to understand digital, as well as an execution model (Connect-Quantify-Optimize) to actually do digital, in a simple and engaging way.

The Intrapreneurship Formula: How To Drive Corporate Entrepreneurship Through Employee Empowerment

$37.99

The Intrapreneurship Formula is a practical guide for corporate leaders and managers who aspire to drive corporate innovation. The world we are in today is experiencing an acceleration of technological advancement. More companies are facing disruptions. Companies must innovate to survive.

80% of the leaders know the importance of innovating but most do not know where to start. What they don’t know is they already have the crucial asset of innovation in their organization – their employees. The question is, how to activate the employees to innovate.

This book provides a simple and actionable framework that leaders can apply to drive corporate entrepreneurship. It’s a playbook with tools and tested methodologies including Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, etc. –a must read for anyone working on innovation in medium- to large-size companies. The framework and tools, when implemented, will help the company constantly come up with innovation and capture growth.

Thriving in a Data World: A Guide for Leaders and Managers

$31.99

Currently, every company, no matter its size, is data-driven in one way or another; using data to improve customer experience, as a new value stream, and to stay competitive. However, many business leaders, professionals, and students—such as executives, business analysts, UI/UX designers, project managers and marketing teams —are forced to interact with data and those who generate data, without being taught the general competencies needed to feel comfortable having these conversations.

This book focuses on the foundations needed to be successful in managing and engaging with data analytics initiatives, bridging the gap between creators and users of data. As a management reference guide, it discusses the different types of data strategy needed for succeeding with data, covering topics such as data team composition, types of data analytics, the importance of data storytelling, and identifying data ROI.

Framed by the author’s personal story, the trove of information is made tangible through the compelling narrative with its unprecedented accessibility and readability for a non-technical audience.

If you suffer from fear of data, anxiety around conversations with technical teams, this practical approach book can help with actions you can start implementing right away.

Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Investors

$28.99

Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Investors is essential reading for beginners to the world of options. It explains the essentials of option and hedging strategies that will empower you to earn attractive profits.

Primarily aimed at undergraduates and retail investors, it opens the door to a world of unlimited profits with limited risk. In concise language, augmented by relevant graphics, the key trading tools available to investors using online option trading platforms, are explained in detail.

Chapter by chapter, this book builds up a complete understanding of the essential building blocks of options investing, including covering key charting techniques using technical analysis tools.

Here’s what you learn from Mastering Options:

  • The characteristics of an option.
  • Types of options and common terms.
  • The underlying principles of options investing.
  • Insights into why you should invest in options.
  • Option strategies that consistently make profits whilst managing risk exposure.
  • Case studies illustrating each strategy.

This book exposes the myth that investing in financial options is an impenetrable mystery.