11 Secrets of Nonprofit Excellence: Merger, Transformation, and Growth

11 Secrets of Nonprofit Excellence: Merger, Transformation, and Growth

$34.99

Bridge the Knowledge Gap

Do you have what it takes to build agile, successful teams? Pursue mergers that transform? Are you solving the right problems for efficiency and growth? Do you want to leverage your mission for large-scale social change? Does your Board have a shared vision for innovation?

Discover the critical lessons of success with 11 Secrets of Nonprofit Excellence in this step-by-step executive guide:

  • Build effective, enthusiastic teams
  • Deploy tech to boost revenues and quality
  • Launch profitable micro businesses
  • Negotiate game-changing legislative outcomes
  • Design and implement dynamic strategic plans

11 Secrets offers practical stories, disciplines, data, and humor in an empowering blueprint for achieving excellence in any organization. The book addresses the resource gap for navigating non-profit growth and innovative tech solutions. Deftly weaving vignettes from the author’s successful careers in international publishing and nonprofits, 11 Secrets introduces real-life encounters with notables such as Muhammad Ali to unlock valuable secrets of quality, excellence, and mission advancement. 11 Secrets lends itself to powerful coaching and winning outcomes for start-ups, non-profits, Boards and leaders, cross sector.

At Home with Work: Understanding and Managing Remote and Hybrid Work

At Home with Work: Understanding and Managing Remote and Hybrid Work

$28.99

Remote and Hybrid – Making it Work

Remote and hybrid work environments have boomed in number; however, understanding on how to manage remote and hybrid work is still in its infancy. We need better guidance on the impact of remote working on behavior, organizational culture and wellbeing, so that remote working models are optimized for success. At Home with Work provides this understanding and guidance.

This book explains the background of remote work: how technology and a changing society created the perfect backdrop to mass adoption of fully remote and hybrid work. It shows how what started as an emergency response to COVID became the biggest global change to working arrangements in living memory and shifted our expectations about work itself.

The author investigates how remote and hybrid work has moved the dynamic away from ego-driven office culture and towards higher-trust and collaborative working. This book is a carefully considered overview and introduction to wider changes in the field of work and the global labor market.

Striding with Economic Giants: Business and Public Policy Lessons from Nobel Laureates

Striding with Economic Giants: Business and Public Policy Lessons from Nobel Laureates

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Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth.

During the last century, policy makers and the public acquired a considerable interest in economics. As a result, this heightened awareness enhanced the well-being of society.

In 1969, the Nobel Foundation initiated the new prize category of economic sciences and started awarding the prize annually. At the forefront of their field, prize winners have introduced many innovative ideas. Moreover, an evaluation of their ideas reveals valuable nuggets to enrich the professional lives of non-economists.

Drawing on publications written by the Laureates, Striding with Economic Giants presents the essence of their thoughts in easy-to-understand concepts for the business and academic communities. This book is perfect for business executives, public policy makers, and economics students.

It describes logic and experimental frameworks in mathematics, econometrics, behavior modeling, and game theory. Next, Striding presents microeconomic contributions, including production theory, theory of institutions, fundamental ideas of markets, and consumerism. Then, it reviews financial theory in capital markets, portfolio choice, and asset pricing.

The book spotlights contributions to the rule of law, public administration, and political science. It also highlights a growing understanding of human capital by tracing demographic trends and describing health, education, minority, and labor economics. Enhancements to macroeconomic theory are featured in economic mechanisms and cycles, managing the economy, and policy making.

Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth. It illustrates contributions to international economics in trade, finance, and global public policy. Finally, the book showcases contributions to social justice in social equality, income redistribution, and climate change.

Explaining Money & Banking

Explaining Money & Banking

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Turn Crisis Into Cash

Money matters got a lot scarier in 2020 and there is no end to the volatility in sight. Crisis means danger but also opportunity. To turn a profit during the next bust, or the next burst of inflation, individual investors and businesspeople must understand the economics of money, banking, and finance.

That’s what this book provides, in concise and understandable prose, with pictures. Understand inflation and interest rates, stock prices, money and monetary policy, and the basics of information and macroeconomic theory in short order.

You might not beat the market after reading just this book, but if you learn its lessons the market won’t beat up your business or investment portfolio the next time the economy tanks due to pandemic, war, high taxes, or alien invasion.

Business Foresight: Scenarios for Managing Uncertainty Strategically

Business Foresight: Scenarios for Managing Uncertainty Strategically

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Turbulence in recent years has become unprecedentedly wicked. Uncertainty has become a dense fog becoming for business leader’s public enemy number one. This book uses scenario and other methods like systems thinking to see over the horizon and to time travel to the future. Written by an extremely experienced consultant who has in parallel been a strategy academic at leading business schools for over thirty years, this is a practical toolkit grounded in theory.

The author provides exercises to try out and includes fascinating case studies to take the reader beyond “what happened and why?” to “how the process was managed and tips for applying it for yourself.”

This is a must-read for business leaders finding uncertainties giving them sleepless nights. For MBA students it will give them a different dimension for their thinking course work and projects – and a real edge over those trapped within a single view of the future.

This is not just a journey but a new way of thinking.

The Nonprofit Imagineers: Infuse Disney-Inspired Creativity Into Your Organization

The Nonprofit Imagineers: Infuse Disney-Inspired Creativity Into Your Organization

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What do Disney Imagineering and nonprofit organizations have in common? More than you think!

Although nonprofits are rarely known as creative powerhouses, we’ll explore how to use the same principles that make Disney Imagineering the gold standard of imaginative thinking to transform your organization into an equally inventive and creative environment.

The Nonprofit Imagineers explores how more innovation can happen at nonprofits, no matter how small the budget, how meager the staff, how tight the board oversight or how limited the time commitment. Using more than 100 real-life examples from theme parks, movies, and Walt Disney’s life, you will come away inspired to experiment with Disney Imagineering principles such as blue-sky meetings, storytelling, creative intent, kinetics, plussing, and weenies. Yes, weenies.

This book is perfect for employees, managers, board members and volunteers at schools, faith-based organizations, community centers and assorted other organizations of all sizes looking to use creativity to improve their programming, fundraising and relationship with their families, members, and donors.

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

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

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.

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

Stuck Entrepreneurs: Escape Routes Out of the Quicksand

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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.