How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage

$31.99

[On a] flight from Perth gave me the opportunity to read your book… Cover to Cover in one sitting. That tells me that you have nailed the delivery of practical advice in an easily digested format! There are few Business Development books that I can honestly say I have read with such engagement. Many still sit in my digital library half read. Great work. Richard Sheppy. Managing Director, Agrifac Australia
How Efficiency Changes the Game is a great read. It has been awhile since I have read something that I didn’t want to put down, and it has inspired me within my own business to improve and work harder on the business. Ray has really taken fundamentals of how to be more efficient and put a great spin on it. I really like the way he has included quotes from leaders and explained simply what they mean. — Jason Gow, My Builder Friend
Obtaining a competitive advantage in today’s business environment generally does not happen of its own accord. With the speed of global economic change, products to market, technology and customer preferences, organizations must light on their feet and be the drivers of change. Given that most businesses deal with the same buyers in defined markets who purchase similar products, gaining this competitive advantage is critical to both thriving and being leaders in their field. To do this, one must drive efficiencies throughout the entire organization while creating a significant point of difference. Yet, inefficiency continues to run rampant and can be found in the often-forgotten pockets of the organization, hampering efficacy at best, leading it out the door at worst.
How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage provides an insightful process for the executive, manager, and business owner, enabling them to discover inefficiencies where least expected, highlighting both the nature of the primary issues and then how to subsequently correct them. This book will assist in developing lean operations in areas such as leadership, marketing, strategy and planning, sales, time management, workflows, finances, and people.

A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry, Second Edition: The Power To Help Farmers Feed the World

$34.99

The farm machinery industry is a complex sector of the global manufacturing economy that encompasses many companies, including those who produce tractors, combines, sprayers, planting equipment, harvesters, tillage equipment, and irrigation systems. While the industry is dominated by three full-line manufacturers (Deere and Company, Case New Holland, and the Allis-Gleaner Corporation), there are thousands of other companies, including many short-line manufacturers, that also dictate the nature of the industry. The farm machinery industry, while contributing a small percentage to gross world product, is vitally important to another key sector of the economy—agriculture. In advanced economies, where the percentage of the labor force engaged in agriculture has been on the decline since World War II, high horsepower tractors and efficient harvesting systems are necessary to cultivate more acres with fewer workers to feed an ever-growing world population.

Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, Second Edition

$31.99

The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm’s financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results. In this book, we present proven, practical management frameworks used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks provide methodologies for managing critical activities such as supply chain strategic planning and project selection, manufacturing and distribution planning, performance measurement, supply chain risk management, and customer logistics and inventory deployment.
The book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for supply chain planning, decision support, and many other key activities.

Emotional Connection: The EmC Strategy: How Leaders Can Unlock The Human Potential, Build Resilient Teams, and Nurture Thriving Cultures

$31.99

“‘Emotional Connection’ makes it possible for any manager to navigate the tricky territory of workplace emotions. It competently guides readers through the systemic application of its science-backed methodology. Anybody wanting stronger and healthier work relationships needs to simply take in the insightful lessons and follow the clear steps in ‘Emotional Connection’. –Bea Boccalandro, Author of Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing

Underlying all our interactions are the emotions we are operating with, both consciously and unconsciously. Emotions, and not the content, are the most powerful presence in the room during conflicts and stress. Emotions are the most powerful agents of change.

This book lights the way to appreciating the importance of developing the emotional language to describe, acknowledge, and address emotions in the workplace using a proven and methodical approach absent in most other EI strategies. The EmC strategy enables leaders to connect more effectively, energize a harmonious workplace, and nurture creativity and innovation to achieve unprecedented results. When leaders emotionally connect, they help people reach their full potential and build thriving communities.

Your GPS to Employment Success: How to Find and Succeed in the Right Job

$34.99

Economies had barely recovered from the Great Recession of 2008 when the COVID-19 pandemic moved swiftly around the world threatening to devastate global economies and their populations yet again. Inevitably, unemployment followed. Anyone looking for employment or a promotion in a mercurial economic environment can find useful tips and information in Your GPS to Employment Success: How to Find and Succeed in the Right Job.

This book is a career resource that contains a treasure trove of straightforward, pithy job search and career advice, 125 tips, and stories from an employment expert. It is a career advancement and networking guide that also identifies inconvenient truths that are not commonly known but are helpful to have in your career toolkit.

Your GPS to Employment Success also addresses:

  • The importance of preparing mentally, physically, and emotionally for a roller-coaster job search.
  • How to adopt NBA star forward LeBron James’s career strategy for personal career goals.
  • How to develop a career plan and strategy, and the need to execute a career strategy.
  • How to look for employment in a virtual world.
  • How a former NFL athlete asked a stranger for help and changed the trajectory of his life.

The author also provides a career toolkit that contains informative, time-saving material.

Adoption and Adaption in Digital Business

$37.99

Whether it is the turnaround of a sports team to win a championship, bettering a community, remediation of business, or adoption and adaption to digital business, it is having us do things differently which brings sustainable change.
This was seen throughout 2020 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. People from around the world stood up and helped each other, shared their time, goods, skills, and expertise which collectively crafted and shaped our response to COVID. Our environment was changed, capacities and capabilities implemented, behaviors emerged, and outcomes were managed. Interests and values were aligned and as empowered individuals having ownership with pride in who we are and what we do, we adopted and adapted. Knowing the issue, the importance to us, what we needed to do, and where to get help, enabled us to better ourselves and those around us. For the decisions made, we empowered and supported with variations to circumstances as required of us.
This book provides the hands-on of “fixing the pipes and helping people” to capacity and capability build for the crafting and shaping of the emergent behaviors needed through our aligned interest and values with the empowered emotional ownership: “I do good work, change is coming, help me with the change, and I can do more.” The authors have prepared a series of supporting materials are already available here, with over 100 videos here.

Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management

$31.99

Information technology asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM) is hard. Annual IT budget forecasts rarely hold up for the entire year. There are plenty of excuses given:
‧ Untrustworthy reporting from the CMDB or MDR
‧ Unplanned version upgrades or platform refreshes
‧ Unapproved software, license, or cloud computing subscriptions coming due
‧ Unanticipated software license audit penalties
‧ And on, and on, and on
Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management presents a new answer to the problem. Most business leaders and IT managers assume nothing can be done. That these problems are part-and-parcel of modern IT. This book presents a new method – Pragmatic ITAM – that offers permanent solutions to the ignored, underpinning issues driving hardware and software cost overruns.
This book is intended for business leaders and IT executives who are tired of missed budget forecasts, unexpected software audit penalties, untrustworthy CMDB or Asset MDR reports, and idea that this is “just the way it is.”

Founders, Freelancers, & Rebels: How to Thrive as an Independent Creative

$31.99

As quoted in the Huffington Post, March 3rd, Campbell says, “Whatever your idea is, you’re going to need bags of enthusiasm to make it work.” Many creative founders and freelancers share a longing for connection, reassurance and motivation.
In this book I’ve interviewed inspiring, brave and creative experts across the UK and US, tapping into some incredible insights and pulling them together into this friendly guide, to offer that support which we all need from time to time. This book’s for you if you’ve stopped feeling ‘hungry’ for new client work, you’re starting up for the first (or second or third!) time, or you’ve simply run out of steam. My intention is to offer a wealth of ideas and fresh perspectives to inspire you at any stage of your independent creative career.

Emotional Intelligence at Work: A Personal Operating System for Career Success

$31.99

Even though it is seldom acknowledged, the truth is that business runs on emotion—yours and almost everyone else’s. And that emotion is often negative, leading us into bewilderment, dysfunction, and failure.

This book explains how to face up to this reality and respond by building street smarts and business emotional intelligence (BEQ). It supports your business success by developing your ability to recognize and effectively manage the destructive emotional tendencies, hidden agendas, and behaviors that exist all around you, and sometimes within you, that block business progress.

Emotions don’t belong in the business process, we are told. And that’s absolutely correct when destructive feelings disrupt the workplace. But here is the dirty little secret: Irrational and runaway feelings nevertheless dominate in many businesses and hold back professionals who are crippled by emotional dynamics that often play out beyond conscious awareness and their control.

Learn how and why emotions are a controlling factor in every career or business success and failure, and how to work with them to achieve your full potential by developing (BEQ). Expand and transform your business thinking and approach, by learning to recognize common, hidden emotional issues in a simple and straightforward manner. Strengthen your BEQ to achieve more accurate self-analysis, improved awareness, and effective functioning that creates predictable and positive results immediately.

The Business of Music Management: How To Survive and Thrive in Today’s Music Industry

$34.99

“By far the best current guide to help you succeed in the music industry in 2021+. Great overview, especially the specific action steps at the end of each section. If you’re ambitious, read this and act on it now!” —Derek Sivers, Founder, CD Baby

“Tom’s book provides essential, practical and real-world strategies and advice that melds art with business that not only informs, but also inspires a level of confidence for readers to successfully manage their own artistic journey and career.” –Sean P. Hagon, Associate Dean of Career Education and Services, Berklee College of Music

“An incredible piece of work that blends a number of different disciplines including business, communication, psychology, leadership, interpersonal communication, sales, marketing, and more that all point toward the music industry and succeeding in it. Bravo.” –Bobby Borg, Author of Business Basics for Musicians and Music Marketing for the DIY Musician

“Tom Stein is a real shaman when it comes to the business of music. His knowledge is vast. He writes fluently and clearly, he is thorough yet organized, and you can’t stop reading him. Recommended, you need this book!” –Ady Cohen, Film Composer, Professor, Speaker

“Easy to digest book on how to make a living and find success in the music industry today.” –Lauren Gehle, Berklee College of Music Student

This book highlights vital and accurate information about the music business, how musicians get paid, and the legal framework for business. Readers will learn to recognize and leverage opportunities through overcoming the inevitable obstacles to success in a rapidly changing industry as well as gain valuable insights into the niche they might fill with their career and discover their unique path to success. The goal of this book is to ensure the reader comes away with a greater understanding of the scope and demands of the music and entertainment industry.