The Successful New CEO: Core Leadership Principles That Will Guide Your First Year

$34.99

This book is for anyone on the pointy part of the organizational pyramid, whatever your title is.

Every leader and organization is unique. But new CEOs often share many experiences, situations, and decisions. This book shines a light on those and illustrates the fundamental principles that will guide a new CEO through them.

The Successful New CEO is organized into four parts:
Becoming an Executive: Leaders can only lead out of who they are. How do you become the kind of person who successfully and gracefully inhabits this role?
Seven Essential Executive Skills: The skills that earned you the role may not be what you need in that role. What are the critical leadership skills that become even more important as a CEO?
Leading Your Leadership Team: CEOs head up leadership teams. How do you lead a confident, capable leader? How do you build a team out of leaders?
First Things: Where do you start? How do you quickly build credibility and engagement? What is too fast or too slow?

The Successful New CEO will help you quickly gain the confidence of others, successfully address the inevitable issues you will discover, score early wins, and set the course for a fruitful future.

Design: A Business Case: Thinking, Leading, and Managing by Design

$31.99

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills–to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.
Design thinking is a framework developed to ensure C-suite endorsement of the pursuit of design excellence in all actions undertaken by the organization. Design management is a rigorous and strategically anchored mechanism to capitalize on the investment in design as intellectual capital. And design – as we’ve always known it – is the skills, methods and creative capabilities needed to embody ideas and direction. Design thinking inspires, design management enables, design embodies.
This book aims to build the bridges needed to reconcile the three, and to encourage organizational and professional environments in which their combined forces can thrive and reverberate.

A Profile of the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition

$31.99

The hospitality industry is a unique and diverse industry. This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry. Traditionally an entrepreneurial business, the hospitality industry today includes organizations ranging from small independent cafes and inns to large multinational corporations. The author highlights key hotel, restaurant, and casino companies, and explains the concepts of franchising, consortia, and management contracts.
The book divulges how the hospitality product is different from other industries: part service and part product, produced and consumed simultaneously, and the role of the customer as part of the service process. The book explains how perishable inventory and labor intensity affect hotels, restaurants, and casinos. The author also reviews policies that promote or restrict tourism and travel, guest and employee safety, labor regulations, food safety laws, and requirements for accommodations for customers with disabilities.
This text explains key strategic management decisions of the hospitality industry. The author projects how global expansion and sustainability efforts are shaping the industry, but also warns of the ongoing threats of pandemics and terrorism to travel.

Finance for Non-Finance Executives

$28.99

This book is intended to help professionals, especially from functional areas other than finance—such as sales, marketing, human resource, research and development, production, and procurement—to gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner, enabling them to make critical business decisions involving cost-savings, budgets, new projects decisions, and growth strategies.
The author introduces the key concepts of finance so you can contribute to the success of your business. These will help you understand the language used by accountants and how financial statements fit together. Furthermore, you will understand how to use ratio analysis to get a sense of the company’s performance.
In addition, readers will learn the concepts of management accounting and various kinds of decisions, including make-or-buy and shutdown. You will gain an understanding of how to implement budgeting and working capital management. The exciting part is also the chapter on investment appraisal, where readers will learn how to evaluate business proposals from a return standpoint.

Creating A Business and Personal Legacy

$28.99

Worldwide, there is a growing interest on how to uncover one’s true purpose in life and legacy. It is a subject that crosses the minds of everyone regardless of geographic location, gender, age, or occupation.
Using fictional, but highly plausible stories, this short book crystalizes key ideas on how to create a lasting business and personal legacy.
With rising cases of depression resulting from personal and career challenges, this book provides refreshing perspectives on how to find new meaning and happiness in one’s life while making a relevant and lasting impact.

Discoveries Through Personal Agility

$28.99

“In today’s time of continuous change, it’s more important than ever for individuals and even entire organizations to develop agile mindsets to drive change successfully. Raji Sivaraman and Michal Raczka offer invaluable and actionable insights on how to embrace new ways of working and meet tomorrow’s challenges. This is a must-read for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of Personal Agility.”—Sunil Prashara, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project Management Institute.

“There has never been a more relevant time to highlight the importance of an agile approach for businesses and professionals as during this pandemic. This book is fitting and emphasizes the 7 facets of ‘Personal Agility’ which has always been a cornerstone of business practices at IBM Waston Health.” —Dr. Roy Vergis, Global Clinical Lead and SME in Oncology, IBM Waston Health.

Reroute your Personal Agility with the Personal Agility LightHouse Model

  • Personal Agility is the future competency to Organizational Agility
  • Work your brains and minds regularly for continuous self improvement
  • Personal adaptability transcends to your organizational adaptability

Connect the dots through: Your emotions, learning, education, change, and much more….!!!!

Reroute your Personal Agility with the Personal Agility LightHouse Model

  • Personal Agility is the future competency to Organizational Agility
  • Work your brains and minds regularly for continuous self improvement
  • Personal adaptability transcends to your organizational adaptability

Connect the dots through:Your emotions, learning, education, change, and much more….!!!!

Project Communications: A Critical Factor for Project Success

$34.99

The authors have prepared insightful Reader Slides that will give you real details to get the most from this book! Click here to open!
Communication is vital for project success. Experts know it. Industry-wide research verifies it. Yet projects continue to fail because of poor communication. As a result, stakeholders and organizations don’t realize the benefits of their projects and project teams.
This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects. It combines real-world examples and practical tips with theory, research, and professional standards that can be applied to any size and type of project. Gain actionable in- sights into identifying your audience, choosing the right tools, managing change, and handling conflict. Expand your professional toolkit with templates, activities, and re- sources. Develop your project communications expertise with reflective questions and recommendations. Make your project communications a critical factor in your project success.
The author have created a website with so many details, resources, reviews, and helpful tips! Check it out!

Business Writing For Innovators and Change-Makers

$34.99

Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers is a writing guidebook with street-smarts. It recognizes the unique communication challenges entrepreneurs face and offers clear action steps for tackling them. As an entrepreneur with a pioneering product or service to offer the world, you can’t rely on templates to get your meaning across. You need a set of writing strategies that are quick to implement and easy to adapt to a variety of communication situations, from e-mails to pitch decks. Dawn Henwood provides a simple, flexible approach to writing that will open your eyes to the subtle ways written communication can engage and motivate your target audience. Each short chapter includes:
‧ Advice from an innovative entrepreneur
‧ Concise, practical tips you can put to use right away
‧ Insights to help you become more productive and persuasive
‧ Checklist to help you coach yourself and your team to better writing
Whether you are just starting your business or scaling up to the next level of success, you’ll find Dawn’s straightforward teaching just the help you need to make your message heard. This book will empower you to build your confidence as a communicator, strengthen your brand, and increase the impact you have on customers and clients.

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability: Measuring Intangible, Fiscal, and Ethical Assets

$31.99

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.
Business enterprise is a profound thought of good intentions toward the society, which sets apart corporate culture over individual choice. A culture is a function of true knowledge of awareness, an identity with the ethical responsibility, that by which corporate infers and society teaches. Immanuel Kant raised the question whether a science of metaphysics with a logical structure, like that of the well- established mathematical and natural sciences is possible? Measuring ethical assets usage, is crucial for corporate to bring the abstractions into reality, acknowledge value where value is due, and deconstruct what is valueless.
This book addresses these issues effectively by subject – object distinction of qualitative and quantitative elements of management, what Kant had pleaded for.