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.

The Business Design Cube: Converging Markets, Society, and Customer Values to Grow Firms Competitive in Business

$34.99

“‘Design Cube’ is a contemporary portrayal of business modelling process aimed at businesses growth within social ecosystem. Co-creating business models and coevolving businesses in the marketplace is the new normal today. This book introduces an integrated approach through triadic domains of market, society, and customer values in business modelling for analyzing innovation-management and business design. A good read for everyone in business.”–Tanya Zlateva, PhD, Dean, BU Metropolitan College, Boston University
“Convergence of societal and customer values with business modelling process is central to the innovative ‘Design Cube’ concept. This book blends cognitive values, social strategies and marketing processes with design thinking to build hybrid knowledge with live examples. Overall, this is an insightful contribution.” –Angappa Gunasekaran, PhD, Dean and Professor, School of Business and Public Administration, California State University
“’Design Cube’ provides a true playbook for readers interested in business growth and strategic advantage. With co-creation of business models becoming an imperative for customer-centric companies, this book brings together concepts at three different levels including individual, market, and society in order to develop an integrative framework. A good read for practitioners to create distinctive customer value and implement a winning strategy.” –Raj Echambadi, PhD, Dunton Family Dean D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University
This book discusses the three facets of the design-cube identified as design-to-market, design-to-society, and design-to-value through theoretical foundations, design arguments, managerial analysis, and best practices of companies. The design-to-market concept has been critically examined for customer-centric companies with focus on the current trend of coevolution and crowdsourcing approaches that drives the companies to practice critical thinking.

The 8 Superpowers of Successful Entrepreneurs: From Zero to Hero: The Business Strategies Adopted by Global Icons

$31.99

“A timely publication for a post COVID19 world and for the new greener and socially orientated entrepreneurs seeking to make an impact.” —Dr Dane Anderton, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University
THESE STRATEGIES WILL GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS
Many books have been written about the high-performance habits successful entrepreneurs adopt, from their daily meditation to how they lead their teams. For Marina Nicholas, her fascination was more about their entrepreneurial journey.
1. From Zero: When starting a business, what strategies did they adopt to overcome the odds?
2. To Hero: As a highly successful entrepreneur, how did they use their wealth to help
humanity and the planet?
After years of extensive research, Marina discovered that just eight strategies were adopted by billionaire entrepreneurs.
PROBLEM—PERSEVERANCE—POSITIONING—PROXIMITY—PEOPLE—PARTNERSHIPS—PROCESS—PLANET
Whether you enjoy inspirational stories or seek to discover your superpower, the strategies and exercises in this book will help you. Each of the eight strategies is illustrated by real case studies. Over 25 case studies like these:
‧ A white trouser problem led to a billion-dollar empire
‧ The invention of a passionate surfer leads to sales of 35 million cameras
‧ A 7-year journey of poverty and rejection led to a $500 million franchise
‧ A happy tribe built a $1.2 billion company
‧ A monk builds a tribe of 35 million followers within 4 years
‧ A village visit resulted in 100 million pairs of shoes gifted

Navigating the New Normal: How New & Small Companies Can Succeed Despite Economic Uncertainty

$28.99

No one will forget the year 2020.
The year that a pandemic shut down social, work, and public contact. There are two particular changes that have had a pronounced effect on business and finance, which this book will provide the guidance currently lacking in traditional business school texts.
The first is the change from commuting to work to sheltering-in-place, with students and professionals on videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Likely a lasting change, we can expect many office spaces will remain empty and many businesses will stick with the new work-from-home change.
The second change is that the younger generation is the first to suffer a setback in terms of the standard of living compared to their parents. Not only do more than half of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, but they eschew traditional corporate cubicles, preferring instead to juggle multiple and new ‘hustles and side gigs.’
This book is primarily focused on the post-pandemic Gen Z and Millennial business opportunities, most of which didn’t even exist a generation ago.