Lead Then Learn: Powering Project Teams with Collaboration

$31.99

Whether you are a Project Manager just starting your career or a seasoned expert trying to introduce more collaboration into your organization, this book is for you!

This practical guide is full of collaboration templates and techniques for every type of project at any stage. It will give you ways to reduce the chaos of a startup and improve your project team’s morale.

Starting with project initiation, moving through planning, executing, and ultimately closing, and reflecting on the project are all covered. Each phase is supplemented with ways to gather input from your team, and continuously improve project processes in your organization all while ensuring your project meets expectations.

All these tools and techniques are tailored to be used with Miro – the leading collaboration tool available. That said they can be used in any collaboration setting. You can utilize these techniques wherever you are in your project by jumping into the appropriate phase or by what appeals to you and your team.

The Warehouse Revolution: Automate or Terminate

$34.99

This book is a must-read for technologists, retailers, and investors who seek to understand the warehouse automation industry and the tradeoffs of the various technologies.

It walks through an array of automation options using understandable terms. It describes the history of the industry and how e-commerce catapulted warehouse automation to the forefront of supply chain operations.

The Warehouse Revolution will also be of interest to those who are just curious and seek to understand what’s happening behind the curtain–the highly choreographed movement of people and machines that enable packages to show up at our respective doorsteps in less than a day.

Spinout Ventures: Transitioning from Employees to Entrepreneurs

$31.99

For many aspiring entrepreneurs, the path to entrepreneurship begins within the walls of established corporations. This book is uniquely tailored for employees and executives in the private sector either experiencing entrepreneurial ambitions, or dealing with them in their organizations. Whether you’re considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.

Delve into the choices that employee entrepreneurs make and the consequences they face. If you work in or run an organization, gain insights into the processes and critical decision-making moments through real-life spinout stories like Chevrolet, Apple, Zoom, Zillow, Intel, and Electronic Arts.

Spinouts have a distinct advantage, which comes from what they inherit from their parent firms. Their advantage hinges on what they absorb or carry forward from their parent firms. While some parent companies actively support and cultivate their spinouts, leveraging them to bolster their reputation, others adopt a more defensive approach. Learn from parent firm cases like Fairchild, Palantir, AstraZeneca, Nokia, and Paypal.

Explore the controversial, yet often successful path of spinout ventures!

Unleashing the Startup Unicorn: Breaking Through Constraints to the Entrepreneurial Spirit

$37.99

It is well known that high-tech startups need to innovate to survive, yet the failure rate for innovation is shockingly high. Nearly three out of four new products or services, i.e., their startups, miss their revenue and profit goals–or fail entirely.

It’s a misconception that high-tech startups fail only because of the failing products or finances. The failures could also be because of erroneous choice of technology platforms, development teams or methodology, or even the project execution. Accordingly, this book takes a holistic view of a startups’ aesthetics that enables it to become attractive for all stakeholders especially investors in all aspects of its operations at all stages of its lifecycle.

This book:

  • Looks at aspects of venture capital financing and what investors look for in a contemporary startup.
  • Shows how only an overarching aspiration for a startup to become a Unicorn is sufficient to explain the typical characteristics of legendry Silicon Valley Unicorns like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
  • Covers major application areas of current/future interest, namely, intelligent systems, intelligent assistants, wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain systems.
  • Introduces the contemporary skills-set in demand for Startups.

To succinctly cover all aspects of a contemporary startup, Unleashing the Startup Unicorn is organized to reflect the natural grouping of competencies that are essential for entrepreneurial ventures–from conception to successful exit. To understand and analyze these competencies, the book uses an extended 9S model inspired by the pioneering McKinsey 7S model.

HR Tech Strategy: Revolutionizing Employee Experience Through HR-Tech Synergy

$34.99

Uncover the Future of Workplace Happiness and Effectiveness!

Dive into the pages of HR Tech Strategy and unlock the secrets of crafting an unparalleled employee experience that transforms organizations and propels them to new heights of success.

Forge the ultimate HR Tech Strategy for unrivaled effectiveness:

  • Embrace the proven formula for aligning technology-driven employee experiences with exceptional business results.
  • Understand how an engaged, motivated workforce translates to increased efficiency, innovation, and overall success.
  • Unearth the untapped potential of a dynamic HR-IT partnership.
  • Delve into real-world examples, showcasing the power of synergy between these two vital departments.
  • Learn the art of harmonizing cutting edge technology with human-centric HR strategies.

HR Tech Strategy is not just a book; it is your ticket to becoming a pioneer in revolutionizing employee experience!

The Professional Project Manager: How We Become True Professionals

$31.99

How do we become good project managers? What does it take to become a true professional?

This book gives depth to these crucial questions. It explains and illustrates the experiences and professional capacities we must acquire to become good at what we do. The entry point is project management, and this entry point is used to define what in general makes us become good professionals. The book shows that our professional capacity is so much more than our technical abilities and shows that becoming a true professional today is defined by three key factors:

  • Our ability to accumulate relevant professional reference points and contexts.
  • Our ability to juggle technical, people, power, and unforeseen professional agendas.
  • Our ability to memorize our experiences in useful mental models.

The world will end up having around 8 billion professionals, which means that more than 150,000 new professionals will enter the workforce every day for the next 75 years. This will dramatically change our professional context.

This book is for everyone who wants to sharpen their professional skills and mental models to stay relevant.

Proximity Marketing: Converging Community, Consciousness, and Consumption

$34.99

This book discusses emerging concepts and practices of proximity marketing through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis. It converges the business, social, crowd, and behavioral ecosystems with the proximity marketing approaches.

Success factors of the proximity marketing in the context of customer-centric companies synchronized with crowd-based business modeling, co-creation, and coevolution initiatives have been explained through the people-oriented models. This book presents innovative concepts, best practices, and case studies on proximity marketing strategy in the emerging markets and contributes to the new concepts in business.

Make Your Internship Count: Find, Launch, and Embrace Your Career

$25.99

Moving from student to employee can be a scary transition. Make Your Internship Count takes you step-by-step, from the initial decision to pursue an internship through pitching a full-time job, to make your leap into the working world easier and less stressful.

This book gives you a competitive advantage and tells you what employers expect including how to meet those expectations. Make Your Internship Count’s easy-to-read format offers prompts, exercises, worksheets, and “This Really Happened” stories to:

  • Find internship opportunities that fit your skills and interests.
  • Set and deliver on an internship goal.
  • Interview with style.
  • Make a great first impression.
  • Navigate remote and hybrid internships.
  • And so much more!

With input from HR pros, executives and former interns, Make Your Internship Count gives you what you need to find your path and launch your career.

Applied Leadership: Developing Stages for Creating Exceptional Leaders

$28.99

Applied Leadership: Developing Stages for Creating Exceptional Leaders, is a comprehensive, self-development practical leadership book. Designed to be a complete self-training guide for individuals in all stages of leadership, from entry level to advance stages.

For years, organizations and individuals have struggled with ineffective leadership training. It neither served to strengthen the current leaders in the organization, nor created future leaders for that organization, until NOW. Because great leadership is an evolutionary process, this publication will offer the reader a journey to become an exceptional leader. Individuals will be able to develop the practical skills necessary to be excellent leaders for any organization.

No longer will organizations outsource costly training sessions that last for weeks or months for their staff, rather, this book will provide those necessary steps, skills, and knowledge needed at their own pace.

Modernize Your Law Firm: Transform Your Law Firm for the Future

$28.99

Unlocking Success in the Digital Age: Transform Your Law Firm for the Future

In today’s rapidly evolving digital age, it’s become crucial for law firms to modernize and adapt to stay ahead of the competition. With advancements in technology and a shift in client expectations, it’s essential for law firms to embrace digital transformation to remain relevant and successful. But where should you start? In this book, I outline essential steps that your law firm needs to take to modernize and thrive in the digital age.

From leveraging digital billing solutions to integrating cloud-based practice management software, we’ll provide actionable tips and insights to help you streamline your operations, enhance client satisfaction, and increase your firm’s overall efficiency and profitability. By implementing these steps, you’ll not only position your law firm as a forward-thinking and innovative practice, but you’ll also be able to attract and retain a larger client base.

Don’t get left behind in this digital revolution – join me as I guide you through the process of modernizing your law firm and show you how to stay ahead in the fast-paced digital age.