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

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

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

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

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

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.

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume V: Writing an Emergency Plan

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume V: Writing an Emergency Plan

$28.99

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.

This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume IV: Staff Education

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume IV: Staff Education

$31.99

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.

This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Strategic Development of Technology in China: Breakthroughs and Trends

Strategic Development of Technology in China: Breakthroughs and Trends

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This book explores the development of technology hotspots and the difficult problems encountered in easy-to-understand language and introduces the startups in the related fields.

It also shows how these key technologies solve the pain points of the industry, the background of the founding teams and the choice of business models through real-life cases. This book can be used as a quick reference manual, allowing you to spend the shortest time to understand the hot topics in the global technology circle in the two years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Through the business cooperation with the Chinese tech community over the years and the close ties with technology companies from other countries, the author introduced:

  • China’s science and technology ecology,
  • China’s tech advantages,
  • Made in China 2025,
  • The top 10 tech advances in China in 2021.

In addition, this book will introduce the latest advances and startups in China in related technological fields, so readers can have a more comprehensive understanding of China’s tech development priorities in the next 5 to 10 years.

The relevant topics in this book are also provided with video versions.

Enhanced Enterprise Risk Management

Enhanced Enterprise Risk Management

$41.99

The performance and survival of a business in a global economy depends on understanding and managing the risks–external and those embedded within its operations.

It is vital to identify and prioritize significant risks and detect the weakest points. Adding other elements to an essential ERM program, such as PESTEL and Porter’s 5 forces, treatment plans, scorecards, the three lines of defense (3LoD) components, and process improvements (six sigma, 8D, etc.) significantly increases the ERM success rate.

The authors outline a comprehensive strategy to designing and implementing a robust and successful ERM program – and not just successful in implementation but also yielding enormous returns for the organizations that implemented this enhanced ERM program.