Stop, Change, Grow: How To Drive Your Small Business to the Next Level

$31.99

You’ve grown your business, reached a plateau and are now struggling to grow. Each time you try something new or add a new customer, something else goes awry – leaving you spinning the same plates, under the glass ceiling that’s blocking your progress. You need a plateau buster to put yourself back on the growth trajectory!
This book is the inspiration you’re looking for. In three major sections it shows you how to:
‧ STOP doing many of the things that were once right but are no longer
appropriate, freeing up resources, allowing you to
‧ CHANGE what you are doing for better results today and then to
‧ GROW the business for a future that will excite you.
As you turn the pages, you will find real life examples together with easily implemented ideas and suggestions to provide an immediate impact on your thinking and your business.

Transforming Towards Life-Centered Economies: How Business, Government, and Civil Society Can Build A Better World

$34.99

“This slim volume is not just as thorough and concise a summary of the need to transform our financial system as you will find anywhere. It also clearly envisions how the creation of collaborative value, sustainable stewardship, and an “enough-not-more” mantra can drive a transformational change that will benefit the all as well as the one.” — Steve Lydenberg, Founder, The Investment Integration Project, Partner, Strategic Vision for Domini Impact Investments
“This book is a tour de force of argument and insight. Sandra Waddock weaves a compelling narrative around what brought us to this point, and elegantly unpacks the narratives, memes, metrics and actions with which we can shape a flourishing future for humanity and for nature. It is a timely and powerful call to action for all who care about the future in the aftermath of COVID-19.” —Zenda O r, Independent Evaluator, Vice P resident, International Development Evaluation Society (IDEAS), Honorary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
“Transforming Toward Life offers a clear picture for why we must and how each of us can help fix our failing systems. With remarkable practicality, Dr. Waddock reestablishes original precepts that allowed all life on our beautiful planet to flourish- before we made a wrong turn.” —Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), professor and author of 22 books including The Red Road: Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview

The Barn Door is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace

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“‘The Barn Door Is Open’ is a “Who Moved My Cheese” for improving your business by working smarter, not harder. Serge Alfonse takes readers on a delightful and instructive journey where the animal characters learn by doing. This farm tale parable is a “must-read” primer for business owners, managers, and front-line workers seeking to solve today’s complex business problems while putting people first.” —Frank Shines, Vice-President CCS Medical, MBA, Six Sigma MBB, author of Let In But Left Out.
“‘The Barn Door is Open’ is a unique treasure, one of those books that is quickly and easily understood by both new and seasoned professionals. For anyone interested in process improvement and fostering a positive, proactive, and engaged culture that sows the seeds of ongoing success, this book is a must read. The second part of the book contains an abundance of effective tools and strategies that can be utilized immediately!” —Barb Birdt Prentice, Director Quality & Compliance (Ret.), MBA
The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks. Readers will not only find its teachings entertaining and inspirational, but will benefit from its lessons and tools by applying them to their personal lives.
This book integrates the subjects and tools of Lean and Lean Transformation, mindfulness, conflict resolution, Theory of Constraints, project management, Agile, Six Sigma, change management, and corporate culture transformation into one easily digestible reference.

A Cynic’s Business Wisdom: Winning Through Flexible Ethics

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The author will donate 50% of his royalties to Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontiers.
A Cynic’s Business Wisdom is an entrepreneur’s book from the edgy perspective that cynicism teaches us to have a healthy respect for the unexpected. It equips us to effectively deal with real- world business challenges and capitalize on opportunities. Essentially, it is the flip side of all those “instant-gratification-sugar-coated-success-guaranteed-get-rich-overnight” books.
This book is a keen reflection of converting collegiate knowledge into actions that are intended to give you an advantage in dealing with people, selling, networking, negotiating, managing, and controlling every business situation you find yourself in.
It responds to questions posed and issues raised by entrepreneurs, academics, trainers, mentors, and businesspeople over all my years delivering business consulting, and expounds on my advanced business workshops, and on my very own business ventures.
Business often is not pretty. Business is not always fair. People are out to win at virtually any cost. Those footsteps you hear are a constant reminder that you have a target on your back. Flexible business ethics are part of empowering you to play by your own rules, recognize that business is a game, nobody owes you a break, there are no black-and-white norms, and that business ethics are flexible.
Understand how to play the game to win.
From Amazon: 5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BUSINESS ADVICE!
Great read for any business person, insider view of the business world. Silverberg is a talented writer, sharing business advice from his own experiences!

Stakeholder-led Project Management, Second Edition: Changing the Way We Manage Projects

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If stakeholders matter, then they must make a difierence in the way we plan, structure, and execute projects. Do they matter on your projects?
This book provides a stakeholder-centered analysis of projects and explains which identification, analysis, communication, and engagement models are relevant to difierent types of projects: from an office move to IT enterprise change to transformational business change and complex social change.
Using case studies from around the world, it illustrates what goes wrong when stakeholders are not engaged successfully and what lessons we can learn from these examples.
In this second edition, we also look at the impact of Agile practices on the stakeholder management process. What changes in approach can we anticipate, and what practices must continue regardless of the product development life cycle adopted?
Key models introduced include:
‧ Role-based and agenda-based stakeholders
‧ The stakeholder-neutral to stakeholder-led project continuum
‧ The extended stakeholder management process
‧ Purposeful communication—the six whys model for communication
‧ The principles of stakeholder engagement
‧ Stakeholder engagement in an agile world.

Leadership in the Digital Age: Renaissance of the Renaissance Man

$28.99

This is a book for anyone intrigued by the complexities of digital leadership that require a capability to constantly balance the routines of everyday business with the ability to innovate.
Finding the appropriate mix between the dichotomy stability—flexibility has been a delicate task that few, if any, corporations have properly managed to overcome. Why is that?

This conundrum becomes acute as businesses embark on digital transformations, an often-painful venture highlighting the deficiencies of traditional management styles but also agile methodologies. They deliver results that are far below initial expectations, provide half-baked digital solutions where potential commercial gains are poorly captured and leveraged, and, far too often, not even identified.

Mismatches between technologies, the man-machine (dis)connect, or organizational dysfunctionality are typically identified as root causes, but beneath them lurks a more scathing problem: an inadequate leadership. This inadequacy rests on a lack of holistic insights backed by well-rounded skills and sets of knowledge that are required to understand all aspects of a digital transformation, as well as its participants from employees to customers.

Thus, what is needed is a modern take of the Renaissance Man.

Food and Architecture

$28.99

Food and architecture, the two pillars of human civilization, have intertwined to such extents to sustain the civilization itself, that the connection between the two has visually ceased to exist. The apparent diverse fields of human life have worked upon similar principles through ages from the beginning of mankind and they complemented our existence.

Food is fundamental to cross-cultural studies of behavior, thought, and imagery. We eat for many reasons than just to satisfy our appetite. The act of eating is now a way of socializing with others. Hence all major institutes of food service are trying hard to amaze their users with a built environment that complements the served delicacy. Although most of the users might not understand the thought consciously but subconscious mind keeps alarming when things don’t fall in place.

This book surfs through all the aspects of such two diverse fields and tries to show a parallel through a very socialistic and holistic perspective. It’s interesting to understand the intangible logics behind the very tangible aspects of human life.

Grappling With The Gray: An Ethical Handbook for Personal Success and Business Prosperity

$31.99

“This is a remarkable book–full of engaging case studies on a wide range of topics and full of practical wisdom.” –Joseph L. Badaracco, Harvard Business School Professor of Ethics and author of Defining Moments

“Grappling with the Gray is particularly rich in its content and has a rare and thought-provoking blend of wisdom and practical insight.” —Daniel Grunewald, Director, Jewish Association for Business Ethics

“Yonason Goldson trains us how to think ethically, to shape our natural responses through ethical training and mold the way we deal with the world.” —Simcha Weinberg, Founder and President, The Foundation Stone

Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives. It provides a guided discussion of how to work inward from both extremes toward a rational and equitable middle.

Simply stated, a business culture driven by profits at the expense of values is destined to fail. Research shows that companies ranked highest for ethics grow faster than companies that aren’t. Work environments are more pleasant. Employees are more satisfied, engaged, loyal, passionate, and productive. Turnover costs are less. Brand image shines. Cultivating a culture of ethics is the time-tested formula for spectacular success.

The thought questions and discussions that follow each case study offer the opportunity to develop the ethical mindset that enables us to see the bigger picture, engage in civil debate, and work effectively toward consensus.

Raising our ethical awareness ultimately produces a culture where compliance laws take care of themselves and a workforce that feels empowered, appreciated, and invested in a common vision that accelerates success.

Business Ethics and Rational Corporate Policies: Leveraging Human Resources in Organizations

$31.99

As internal doubts persist on whether an individual adheres to business ethics and corporate policies, readers need to utilize this book in order to develop moral reasoning by demonstrating the moral entity consideration principle. This is vital in terms of coping with an internationalized business environment where human resources must adhere to multidimensional and demanding policies, while attempting to develop their mindset capacity of ethical thinking. This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance, by analyzing the moral aspects of a plethora of challenges regarding human resources management, policy making, corporate responsibility, code of conduct, agency theory, workforce planning, information systems, and employment relationship.

Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects

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Compared to a few decades ago, companies today are faced with a much more challenging environment providing successful products and solutions for their customers. They are dealing with global competition, very rapid change in technologies, and tremendous volatility in economic conditions. As project managers, we are helping our companies survive in this difficult landscape. We are “agents of change” and “drivers of change.”

The most important project management methodology today that will help us deal with this change and this volatility is Agile. However, no one process or project management methodology fits all situations! Agile is not a panacea for all projects. Many times, our projects are large enough and complex enough that some parts of the project are best suited to using a predictive planning approach, and other parts are more suited to using Agile. Therefore, a hybrid approach that mixes the traditional, waterfall approach with Agile is really required in many situations today.

The agile community oftentimes has quite a negative view of hybrid approaches. Key writers on Agile often say that attempting to use hybrid will corrupt all attempts to use Agile, and will result in failure. In this book, the argument is made that integrating these methodologies can be done if approached the right way, and in fact, this is necessary today.