Making the Connection: Practical Steps in ESG Management

$34.99

The Finance-Investment Industry’s response to the UN’s Sustainable Development (“2030”) Agenda, ‘E’, ‘S’ and ‘G’, represent diverse tasks, where wise and prudent investment enables profound impact on Sustainability. But what does this mean for those of us who do not work in finance and investing? This book unpacks the practicalities.

ESG presents a series of practical challenges and tasks to transform business performance. Organizations must now take ownership and move ahead confidently to deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes.

This book views ESG as interconnected challenges. It provides a usable and coherent ‘roadmap’ to make assured strides in meeting – and beating – these challenges. Uniquely, it highlights and explores the win-win opportunities within your organization’s economic value chain.

Project Teams, Second Edition: A Structured Development

$34.99

A project team is critical to project success which in turn leads to success of an organization. Projects are routinely conceived and executed to operationalize strategic objectives of organizations. Managing a project is challenging, as project managers and project team deal with both internal and external challenges. Complicating it further, developing, managing, and leading teams for traditional and agile projects are quite different. Furthermore, virtual teams present additional challenges for managing global projects.

Additional challenges arise when many generations from Baby Boomers to Generation Y work together in the workplace today. A systematic structuring and developing project teams is critical for successful project performance and for a strong collaborative team effort.

This book details:

  • Team development
  • Team process
  • Team performance
  • Social and behavioral skills

Project Teams addresses all these topics in detail and offers a practical approach to managing projects successfully in the current business environment by including concepts, processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance performance of project teams and projects.

This book is for project management professionals and management in the corporate world and will also be a useful resource for academic institutions in teaching management and project management disciplines.

The Institution Builder’s Toolbox: Strategies for Negotiating Change

$28.99

So, You Wanna Build an Institution!

Both our work and private lives require us to build new institutions or renovate old ones, from launching a business in your home to creating a new corporate division at work, from establishing a local charter school to organizing an athletic club with friends.

Drawing on his remarkable six-decade career of building institutions around the world, Jeswald W. Salacuse has written a book to guide you skillfully through the challenges of institution building, from articulating the institutional vision to securing the resources to make it happen. The Institution Builder’s Toolbox: Moves for Negotiating Change expertly advises readers on how to negotiate each of the seven developmental phases necessary to build a robust institution.

Digital Leadership Framework: Cultivating the Four Key Competencies

$31.99

In the digital age we are currently living in, customer needs change. Industry dynamics change. Business models change. Competence requirements change. Project parameters change. However, the leadership required to drive these changes has not changed much. Most leaders continue to drive digital transformation using the old pre-digital style of leadership. As per a recent study by McKinsey, 70 percent of digital transformation projects fail. The main reason for failure is a lack of Digital Leadership.

Digital transformation is the main driver behind digital leadership. Digital leadership is the set of behaviors a leader must demonstrate in the digital age, which are: learning new skills, connecting with people, leveraging data, and delivering results. To demonstrate them successfully, one must develop the following four key competencies:

  • Growth mindset
  • Empathy
  • Informed decision-making
  • Fast execution

Each of these competencies uniquely maps to a behavior: Growth mindset enables learning, Empathy enables people connections, Informed decision-making enables leveraging data, and Fast execution enables delivering results.

This book contains a complete framework for digital leaders to develop these competencies. They can be an executive or a manager leading a team, a transformation driver, or a change agent in an organization.

The success of this book lies in how effectively the leaders cultivate the competencies and apply them at their workplace. This book is not just about information…. It’s all about transformation!

Lead With AI: Igniting Company Growth with Artificial Intelligence

$31.99

Forget the hype, the tech buzzwords, and the mystifying charm of AI. If you’re not channeling AI for business success, it’s all just noise. Whether you are aiming to pioneer technological change, fuel growth through AI, or spark its transformative power, Lead with AI is your blueprint.

The author—a seasoned technologist and MIT graduate—takes us on a journey to the epicenter of modern technological evolution. From the bustling innovation hub of Kendall Square to intimate study sessions unveiling pivotal AI concepts, the book goes beyond AI’s technicalities to spotlight its applications in real-world business scenarios.

In a sea of AI content, Lead with AI stands apart. It’s not just about building AI systems; it’s about crafting an environment where AI truly thrives, delivering unmatched value.

How will the reader benefit?

This book transforms AI from a buzzword into a practical tool for industry leaders. By mastering the insights in this book, leaders, managers, and professionals will be able to:

  • Integrate AI seamlessly into strategic decision-making.
  • Recognize AI-driven opportunities throughout the company.
  • Assess AI’s potential pitfalls and limitations in business settings.
  • Boost organizational performance with AI-driven strategies.

So You Want to Start a Business: Eight Steps to Startup Success

$34.99

If you think that entrepreneurs are born and not made, it may be because you never learned the steps to starting a business.

John Vinturella, who has more than forty years of experience as an entrepreneur, explores how to sharpen business skills, identify opportunities, and take an orderly approach to business planning in this guide to becoming your own boss.

Learn how to:

  • cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • conduct market research and feasibility analyses.
  • write a comprehensive business plan.
  • overcome obstacles business owners face.

Drawing on his own experiences running a successful small business for twenty years, Vinturella lets you know what to expect as you start a business. He also shares numerous case studies based on actual companies to help you identify common mistakes and best practices in building a business.

Whether you already have a business idea, want to find one, or are considering career options, this book will improve your chances of success.

Key Account Rock Stars: Raising Your Volume by Lowering Your Decibels

$28.99

Key Account Rock Stars: Raising Your Volume by Lowering Your Decibels brings fresh new thoughts to the topic of Key Account Management.

This book reveals the secrets of how to successfully engage with customers and how to become organizationally savvy, plus practical tools for succeeding on the job. It is written for the practitioner and takes readers through the soft sides of the job, which is exactly what is needed to succeed and achieve career fulfillment.

Account managers must keep the relationship fresh, with creative ways to add value to the customers so customers remain genuinely satisfied with the relationship. Losing a customer will always be a burden on the individual Key Account Manager, whatever the reason for the loss.

Readers will

  • Gain awareness of what a good customer relationship looks like,
  • Learn tools to solve issues and improve ways of working,
  • And most importantly, learn how to succeed as a Key Account Manager

Remember, the importance of customer centricity is higher than ever. The decade long transition of the economy away from production towards services and the need to differentiate from the competition will certainly continue. A company today that fails to engage with the customers will not succeed; the era of making a good product and trusting it to sell itself is long gone.

Tune-Up Your Small Business: Improve Operations, Increase Profitability

$37.99

Tune-Up Your Small Business is the ideal guide for small business owners who want to achieve their personal and professional goals by making their businesses more successful.

This book focuses on making regular, small changes that can lead to significant improvements over time. Through stories of small businesses that have grown by following the advice in this book, it offers inspiration and practical advice. Dr Sleeman provides easy-to-follow steps to help you define what makes your business unique, communicate effectively with your customers, and present your business accurately online.

The book also advises on how to get better by listening to customers, ensuring your team delivers the best service, and discovering what customers are looking to purchase. You will find simple advice on how to price your services and reduce expenses without losing value.

This book is a step-by-step guide to developing your business steadily and effectively.

Establishing Workplace Integrity: Six Lessons in Values Based Leadership

$34.99

Companies like Theranos, Enron, and the Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities Company (BLMIS) crashed and burned when their founder’s used fraud, deceit, and corruption for short term goals and stock price spikes. Readers will explore the pitfalls of bad ethical practices and learn how to be Values-based Leaders.

The book focuses on six themes:

  • Corporate Culture
  • Employee loyalty and engagement
  • Motivations for improper behavior
  • Going inside the mind of a whistleblower
  • The importance of compliance programs
  • White-collar crime for individuals

It’s written in a practical voice, sprinkled with pop-culture references from movies, songs and tv shows and follows the life cycle of work, mostly from a U.S. perspective.

Each lesson begins with an Executive Summary, acting as a “teaser outline.” These are followed by chapters including historical background, cautionary tales, and applied ethical solutions.

Readers will learn why good ethics is good business.

The Negotiation Edge: Compete | Collaborate | Compromise

$34.99

The Negotiation Edge is a two-part book that will make you a better negotiator.

The first half is a negotiating tutorial complete with checklists and worksheets. It details on how-to engage, prepare, select a leader, build a support team, identify roles, set communication guidelines, instruct meeting behavior, read the other side, and determine the best strategies (compete | collaborate | compromise) using a three-act negotiating structure.

The second half of the book is the author’s twenty-five best and worst negotiating experiences with his insightful lessons learned with Walmart, Amazon, Target, NFL, NBA, NHL, PBS, National Geographic, BBC, Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, and Martha Stewart.