The Inner Building Blocks: A Novel to Apply Lean-Agile and Design Thinking to Digital Transformation

$41.99

Agile is the ability to quickly and naturally adapt to respond to changes. Most companies are inherently fragile and not agile – when they are hit by new developments, shifting consumer behavior or fast-moving competition, they struggle and even cease to exist!

Inner Building Blocks is a novel about Neil Frost, a Director of Digital Transformation and Agile Centre of Excellence at Walkers Mart. The company is already grappling with a failing transformation and on the verge of bankruptcy when COVID-19 strikes!

Sid, the Coach instils constructive discomfort through a series of probing questions to:

  • Rethink agility and reimagine the future of work with hybrid operating models.
  • Launch a series of experiments to reinvent the Building Blocks (e.g., strategy, talent, culture, structures, practices and digital technologies).
  • Discover twenty-six solutions to embrace lean-agile mindset for strategic agility.

Could the company survive amid the global pandemic and ensuing supply chain challenges?

A compelling storytelling approach and provocative dialogues provide relatable context to adopt the concepts. The principles and techniques are delicately camouflaged within the underlying characters, their conversations and situations.

Protecting the Brand, Volume II: Busting the Bootlegs

$41.99

Protecting the Brand, Volume II: Busting the Bootlegs follows Volume I which provides a unique combination of legal and business best practices related to intellectual property protection.

This second volume showcases U.S. states specific legal statues and examples related to legal approach to counterfeiting and grey market issues. The primary emphasis is to prove advice to U.S. companies navigating the complex domestic legislation and provide a single source of reference for both law practitioners and those tasked with intellectual property rights enforcement and compliance who need to understand the applicable state legislation.

Both volumes of this book are focused on leveraging trademark enforcement while also commenting on copyright and patent enforcement, establishing a framework for successful brand protection in the future.

Navigating the Human Side of Boardroom Interactions: Improving Relationships at the Top

$37.99

“Thomas Sieber’s book is an invaluable resource for any board and management team seeking to improve its performance. His deep understanding of top teams, the insights of seasoned board members, and his own board experiences shed light on how boards can function better.“?–Amy Edmondson, Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School, Author of the Fearless Organization

“This book serves as a precious guide to navigating the many human challenges boards are facing—it is practical, hands-on, and written by somebody who understands the topic in-depth—and this not only from a theoretical but also practical, proven angle.” – Marco Gadola, Chairman DKSH and Medartis, former CEO of Straumann Group

Board members often struggle to identify their true role, caught between the Chair and the executive board. As a result, board members frequently have doubts about their role and personal impact; doubts which are rarely acknowledged nor addressed. By focusing on the most impactful driver of success – the human behavior – the author explores how to create a strong board team whose members are clear about the team’s role, are able to talk about their concerns, and are therefore also comfortable to listen, to challenge, and to support.

Based on around 60 interviews around the globe and his own board experience, this book will help Chairs to form a strong team, build a resilient relationship with the CEO, assess how to use their considerable power, and when to show self-restraint. Navigating the Boardroom supports board members and managers in reflecting on how to navigate the complex web of boardroom relations and provides both practical and attitudinal tips.

The StartUp Master Plan: How to Build a Successful Business from Scratch

$31.99

Starting up a business is one of the most interesting journeys you can take up in your life; it’s your ‘only shot’ and a ‘big risk’. It can be stressful, chaotic and filled with many sleepless nights, but the payout is always worth it if you do your job right.

In this book, we lead you through every single step in building a start-up. The book discusses how to keep your startup running and stop it from falling into the pitfalls. We cover everything you need – from choosing your name and logo to operational methods to decision making to timing your launch.

Ready to ride the rocket ship that is being an entrepreneur? Strap yourself in!

The Vice-Chairman’s Doctrine: Rocking the Top in Industry Version 4.0

$31.99

“A masterful, thought-provoking and engaging non-fiction read, The Vice Chairman’s Doctrine is a must-read business book. –Anthony Alvina’s Book Review Blog

“The focus on transformative business experiences, the wellsprings of creativity and flexibility that lead to success, and the stories that back these experiences set this business book apart from almost every other discussion on the market. It’s an invitation to embrace a new form of corporate identity and excels in reframing the business perspective.” –Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

There are books about product and companies but no books about a company as a product.

The Vice Chair arrives from orbit around a corporation with a doctrine of leadership without authority for business warriors who reject control, live in a world of influencers, and aspire to become one.

Process and culture converge as competitive advantage by refashioning priorities for Industry 4.0 through unorthodox lenses in a no holds-barred treatment of influence and leverage complete with coaching, mantras, and essential tales of leadership. Competitive action is focused through design thinking and transformation within a social system. A greater metamorphosis combines personal development with management of a company as though it were a product, leading to culture, branding, and innovation in the form of actionable values.

The Corporate Executive’s Guide to General Investing

$31.99

Successful corporate executives face unique investing challenges, because their personal wealth is irrevocably tied to their company’s performance, normal market ups and downs, and even unexpected events. An executive’s investment portfolio may consist mostly of employer stock and stock options that are governed by rules the executive doesn’t know about and can’t control. And the executive also faces a variety of other financial landmines, ranging from taxes to corporate pension shortfalls.

So the forward-thinking corporate executive badly needs effective financial management and investing strategies to build a financially secure future, designed with the special needs of a corporate executive in mind. That is what this guide will provide: the essence of what investments and investing strategies the executive should consider employing to achieve financial independence sooner, rather than later.

The audience for this investing guide includes C-suite executives, middle managers, and those in supervisory positions with executive responsibilities or aspirations. It will also be useful for MBA students, those in executive education seminars, and others who are planning corporate careers.

This book will teach the executive reader:

  • How to set the proper goals before investing
  • How to maximize corporate resources for your investing goals
  • How to understand and choose from the different types of investments, including bank investments, stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), venture capital investments, real estate investments, and alternative investments.
  • How design an effective portfolio strategy for an executive’s situation

Decoding Your STEM Career: How to Exceed Your Expectations

$28.99

“Clear and practical wisdom–made real through engaging personal stories that will benefit any professional, especially those early in their careers. Pete generously shares practical lessons from an exceptional 37-year career. There is a wealth of ideas here that will help technical professionals develop their own successful careers.” –Scott Wahl, Vice President, Product Operations PointClickCare

“This book, with its first-person tone and abundance of candor fills a big gap in the professional development literature. There are plenty of books about iconic figures in management and technology but they offer little insight on how executive leaders are formed, or how they experience growth from successful engineers to leaders. Pete’s insights?and?radical candor is a resource that will pay dividends through multiple reads, and well worth coming back to when?career challenges or decisions present themselves. It should be a permanent nightstand book for technology professionals who are finding their way into positions of increasing responsibility.”?–Dr. Miguel Pinilla, Senior Technical Fellow, Flexport

A must-read for STEM graduates who aspire to be the technical leaders and executives of our next generation.

This book is also for mid-level technical managers who seek to move up the corporate ladder but are not sure how to differentiate themselves from their peers. Pete Devenyi highlights ten capabilities that technology leaders must develop and nurture in order to achieve their full potential. He shares learnings and techniques through a collection of compelling, real-world stories from his own 37-year technology journey.

He discusses the importance of a never-ending commitment to technical education but recognizes that it can only propel a leader so far. It is critical to develop many additional skills as well, such as the ability to maintain composure in high-pressure situations. Technologists who commit to acquiring all the capabilities outlined in the book are far more likely to rise to senior executive levels in major corporations.

People, Planet, Profit. Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Business Strategies

$37.99

When you see or read about excessive corporate profiteering, business malpractices, poor social welfare, and environmental and ecological disasters, do you have an urge to do something? With so many analysis reports, academic journals, news coverage, and documentaries on the subject, why is there so little action?

Most management gurus and executives recognize that it is possible to achieve a triple bottom line – running a business for the benefit of the people, the planet, and profit at the same time. To achieve this, businesses have to solve their internal issues involving the leadership team, the management team, and the technical team.

Drawing from leadership and management practices, practical case studies, and using energy, water, raw material, waste and its associated environmental impact as examples, People, Planet, Profit describes the ten internal issues – five technical, two leadership, and three managerial – and solutions to these issues.

A coherent, joined-up, and concerted effort allows responsible businesses to initiate, gain momentum, and achieve success in reducing their environmental impact. The same tools can then be applied to other areas of a triple bottom line.

Organizational Velocity: Turbocharge Your Business to Stay Ahead of the Curve

$34.99

If you’re not operating with Organizational Velocity, you’re getting lapped and don’t even realize it.

Business as usual? Established organizations are being disrupted as nimble upstarts cross long-established competitive moats with increasing ease. The status quo needs to be blown up.

In Organizational Velocity, veteran UPS executive Alan Amling distills five years of research and three decades on the front lines of Corporate America to reveal a fundamental truth…

Moving at the speed of change is a choice, not a circumstance.

Companies from Amazon to Shaw Industries stay ahead of the curve by operating with Organizational Velocity, a rapid learning paradigm empowering organizations to create persistent advantage.

Amling shows how companies get in their own way and provides pragmatic insights from industrial, digital, and military leaders to break through organizational friction and thrive in disruption.

Organizational Velocity is for current and aspiring executives seeing the disruption at their doorstep but not knowing how to break through the cloud of uncertainty. So, dog-ear the pages and create a company built to stay ahead of the curve.