RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional, Third Edition

$34.99

“Zelbst and Sower know their stuff when it comes to technology and how it relates to operations and supply chains…so I feel confident recommending their work to those seeking to know more about RFID. If you’re new to the technology, this updated edition of RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional could prove useful to you and your organization.” –Rich Handley, RFID Journal

“If you are looking for an overview of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology…then this is the book for you!” –Inbound Logistics

The intent of this book is to provide a sufficient discussion of RFID to enable readers with no prior knowledge to develop a basic understanding of the technology.

RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional discusses current applications and specific examples of RFID usage taken from a variety of industries. The appropriate coupling of RFID with other technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), IIoT technologies and robotics is discussed as well as an overview of the RFID implementation process.

This book will help readers develop an understanding of the capability of the technology to increase an organization’s customer responsiveness. In the third edition, the discussion and examples have been updated to reflect the rapid advancement in RFID technology. A new case study and new examples have been added along with updated discussions and projections about RFID technology.

Breaking the Proactive Paradox: Maximizing Performance Through Empowerment

$34.99

“Tim has produced another “winner” and this book is chock-full of informative and hands-on advice, which gets at the heart of organizations and their people thriving in a VUCA world. The book is well-organized, easy to read, and full of practical applications.” –Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Co-author, The Leadership Challenge and Everyday People, Extraordinary “The ideas and tools in this excellent book help make this happen by proactively navigating the paradoxes that shape work today. –Dave Ulrich Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

How do you get your team members to exercise appropriate independent judgment?

How do you get employees to be more accountable for their actions?

Leaders need team members to be empowered and proactive post COVID-19.

What are the roadblocks? How are they overcome? Most books on employee empowerment bypass two critical relationships: the employment compact and the jobholder and their job.

These two relationships hold the key to unlocking employee empowerment.

This breakthrough book is for leaders who want to maximize performance through empowerment. It offers a new approach and practical strategies to energize employees to exercise their initiative when needed and be accountable for their actions.

A proactive employee is engaged in their job and can confidently make decisions without overly relying on their manager.

Business and Emerging Technologies

$31.99

The pace of innovation in modern times is staggering, and with the time demands of many careers, it is easy to lose touch with current trends.

If business professionals do not actively stay up to date with new developments, they can quickly become outmoded in the workplace or unattractive in the job market.

Business and Emerging Technologies is an extensive but straight-to-the-point guide designed to get business students and professionals up to speed with an electrifying range of emergent technologies and concepts in the shortest possible time. Readers will benefit from fluid, well-researched reviews of technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, quantum computing, augmented reality, 3D printing, and nanotechnology, and will acquire the factual contexts needed to make insightful decisions as these technologies slowly, but surely, pop up in their occupational nexuses.

Lean Knowledge Management: How NASA Implemented a Practical KM Program

$28.99

Lean Knowledge Management Helped Change NASA’s Culture and It Can Do the Same for Your Organization.

NASA suffered three human spaceflight tragedies and Lean Knowledge Management was a major tool that helped NASA management implement massive cultural changes.

Traditional knowledge management is too often regarded as overly complicated or a wasteful bureaucratic exercise, but Lean Knowledge Management can become a critical component for your organization to operate effectively, efficiently and safely.

Lean Knowledge Management simplifies the process by:

  • Clearly defining your organization’s key employees,
  • Filtering the enormous amount of internal “information” into “critical knowledge”.
  • Utilizing a myriad of resources to get this critical knowledge to the people who need it most – the very people that can make your organization successful.

Repetitive mistakes and failures can cost an organization millions of dollars in lost revenue, scrap, and even lawsuits. Lean Knowledge Management strips away the academic jargon and implements a practical, cost-effective, organic program emphasizing lessons of the past.

Knowledge is free! Your hard-earned corporate knowledge is right in front of you, why risk losing it and having to pay for it all over again?

Knowledge is power! Lean Knowledge Management is a structured plan to harness that power for your organization.

A Guide to the New Language of Accounting and Finance

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The disciplines of accounting and finance have been rapidly changing in recent years. The methods and techniques being used have created a new language for managers, students, practitioners, academics. The Guide focuses specifically on the terms used in accounting and finance. Important terms and phrases are identified but with a much longer, in-depth explanation than you would normally find in a dictionary. Not only does each entry gives a thorough explanation of each term, it provides two or more references to academic articles that go into much greater depth. Hence, the entries give the reader immediate access to the literature.

At the end of the book, the full reference to all the articles that have been cited in the text is given including a list of the many acronyms used in the new world of accounting and finance.

The Modern Trusted Advisor: Best Practices for High Value Executive Consultation

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“The Modern Trusted Advisor is insightful and practical and should become a new handbook for CEOs and trusted advisors to populate the world with inspiring leaders.” –Paul Wogan, CEO GasLog Ltd, Athens, Greece “In this world of emerging technologies and global change, the role of trusted advisors, as brilliantly provided in this book, who lead with empathy, kindness, curiosity, and contextual advice has never been more important.” –Katie Dudtschak, Executive Vice President, RBC, Toronto Canada “Nancy MacKay and Alan Weiss have produced a masterful book on the modern trusted advisor that every CEO, business owner, and advisor should read and heed! It’s ideal for these volatile times. Leaders at every level in the organization can also benefit, as they journey to become the trusted advisors of the future.” –Marshall Goldsmith, Author, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Triggers, and over 40 other books

The best and the brightest use advisors and experts. In fact, one could say that they are the best and the brightest because they utilized trusted advisors throughout their careers.

Whether in business, sports, entertainment, academia, or politics, expert help is a fundamental enabler of success. That means that the demand for expert advice will grow and the competition will increase for such help. This isn’t a matter of “certificates” and “universities,” it’s a matter of specific skill and behavioral sets that create a trusting bond and reliance. Trusted advisors are beyond coaches—they are comprehensive resources and supporters.

The Modern Trusted Advisor employs important mastery traits, such as subordinating ego, applying shared experiences, and managing emotional, mental, and intellectual health. We are entering a world of “no normal” today and leaders must inspire others daily.

This is the book that prepares you to inspire those leaders.

Trading With China: How to Export Goods, Services, & Technology to the Chinese Market

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China’s rise to prosperity in recent decades coincided with the surge in global trade and falling protectionism. But as we are entering the third decade of the 21st century, the economic structure that prevailed in the West during the previous decades is now beginning to look very different. Global economic relationships are being redefined in the wake of the global financial crises, the recent US-China trade tensions, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. However, when global trade suffers, so do local economies. In today’s economy, international cooperation and open trade are not an option, but a necessity.

Trading with China is a concise and useful handbook to Western businesses, entrepreneurs and investors doing business with or in China. It is also a practical guide of use to anyone considering to export goods, services and technology to the Chinese market.

The book contains industry information, updated data, key models, practical advice, and strategy options for different types of companies and industry sectors. It details all relevant procedures, opportunities and challenges by industry sector and geographical region. It discusses major issues such as market barriers, import requirements, distribution channels, labelling, and operational challenges. Topics covered in Trading with China also include: relevant rules, regulations, documentation and management issues related to the export of different types of goods, services and technology to China.

The Human Factor in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Transformational Change

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M&A failures is an established phenomenon. Human factors, such as acceptance of and readiness for change at the individual level, conflict of interest and cultural incompatibility are the key attributes of the success or failure of a merger or transformational change.

Balancing theory with practice, this book looks at the financial due diligence, cultural compatibility, and emotional sensitivity at various stages of the M&A and offers a practical process model. Business leaders, change agents, coaching and mentoring practitioners will find the rare combination of great interest.

Navigating the Boom/Bust Cycle: An Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide

$31.99

Will Your Business Be Prepared When the Bubble Bursts?

Sabrin’s book is a must guide for corporate executives, managers, and business owners, for any size company; and for MBA students and executives in professional education programs and seminars to assist them better manage their companies during the boom-bust cycle.

The business cycle in the United States has been characterized booms and busts for decades. But how can corporate executives and their firms not just survive–but also thrive–when economic bubbles burst? And how can small business owners steer their companies during the business cycle so they too can thrive and survive.

This book is designed to give them tools and strategies to do that. After that grounding in fundamentals, readers are given specific tools and strategies that entrepreneurs and executives can use to help their companies prepare for when the next bubble bursts.

Ancillary materials available!

The MBA Distilled for Project & Program Professionals: Up-Level Your Skills & Career by Mastering the Best Parts of an MBA Program

$34.99

“Brad is a leader and expert program manager. He has years of hands-on experience managing programs which deliver concrete business goals by aligning program execution with business operations.” –Becky Oliver, Program Management Leader “I really enjoyed the book. Anyone can pick up project management books focused on the art of running projects, but this book focuses on the intersection of a company operations, economics, and human element.” –John Robbins, Senior Principal Program Manager “Throughout ‘The MBA Distilled for Project and Program Management Professionals’, Bradley Clark adeptly synthesizes the fundamental components of MBA programs. His objective, candid, and digestible style can readily assist both those considering business education as well as seasoned professionals looking to refresh or refine their skills. In an era of seemingly infinite choices, this book provides a clear framework for understanding the capacity of the MBA.” –William Sellman, MD, MBA, District Medical Director, One Medical, San Francisco

Certifications in project management are like birthdays: everybody has one. You need something more to distinguish yourself in this profession.

This book is a practical guide for project and program managers who want to increase their skills by incorporating relevant theory, formulas, and tools from Master of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum. The book provides an overview of core classes taught in most MBA programs, but in a way that makes the material practical for project practitioners.

Readers will learn new tools to improve critical decision making, formulas and techniques for making recommendations to leadership, and an assortment of theories for up leveling their project management skills.