Time Management for Unicorns: Time and Resource Management For System Administrators

Time Management for Unicorns: Time and Resource Management For System Administrators

$28.99

Time is one of the most precious commodities, especially if you are the system administrator of a ”unicorn company” (a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion). In the 2018 year alone, more than 50 startups around the world attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion or more, according to data from venture capital trackers like PitchBook. The nature of time has always been a subject of interest for various disciplines, from neuroscience to economics; now more than ever, with the increasing level of technology in our lives, proper time management has become a fundamental aspect of any successful project.
This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D’Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them. Learn from more than 20 years of experience in project management working for companies like Google, Apple, Salesforce.com, and Hewlett Packard.

Civility at Work: How People Treatment is a Critical Success Driver for Business

Civility at Work: How People Treatment is a Critical Success Driver for Business

$34.99

In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility.

In case you were not aware, research focusing on both Canadian and U.S. companies shows that a whopping 98% of people polled have experienced uncivil behavior on the job. And, according to the fourth annual study on Civility in America: A Nationwide Survey, conducted by global public relations firm Weber Shandwick and public affairs firm Powell Tate in partnership with KRC Research, civility in America continues to erode. This year’s study found that 70% of the Americans believe incivility has reached crisis proportions. Alarmingly, 81% of the Americans think that incivility is leading to an increase in violence at work. Notably, 80% of the people are dissatisfied with their jobs.

Increasingly, people are choosing employers who understand that civility is good business. In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility.

Zero to $10 Million: How To Build an 8-Figure Technology Business

Zero to $10 Million: How To Build an 8-Figure Technology Business

$31.99

Zero to $10 Million is a practical step by step guide that teaches entrepreneurs’ how to build a $10 million dollar technology business. It describes in detail how to create a great product, find a brilliant team, raise money from professional investors, and then scale the company globally.
It is what works in the “real world”.
This book is written by Shane Brett – a serial technology entrepreneur with many years’ experience of setting up, funding, and scaling technology start-ups worldwide. It follows the exact steps and processes he used to reach a $10 million dollar valuation and raise multiple rounds of funding from venture capital investors.
The text is perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs, budding founders, and anyone who wants to understand how to build a successful technology start-up from the ground up. It breaks down the mystery behind how to grow a new technology business and explains what it is actually like to be a start-up CEO and how to manage the daily challenges and constant stress.

Managing Abundance: The Ethics Paradigm

Managing Abundance: The Ethics Paradigm

$31.99

“This is applied business ethics at its comprehensive best… a required-read for advanced management students and professionals alike by hands-on managers Pradeep and Rahul.” –Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth & NYT and WSJ Best Selling Author India’s rural BPO guru Pradeep Nevatia joins with New York-based hedge fund investor Rahul Nevatia to present the until-now abstract concept of abundance through an innovative managing by ethics (MBE) framework that uncompromisingly connects individual self to collective self in self-sustained abundance beyond the hocus-pocus of scarcity. As against the card-carrying management by objectives (MBO), the pioneering MBE paradigm sets human–nature co-existence as the basis to realize abundance, the source energy of all beings.
The ethics–abundance theme of this book could not be timelier for businesses to reconstruct their growth strategies for a sustainable future following the coronavirus pandemic. The industrial and financial engineering duo has leveraged their respective business turnaround and foot-on-the-gas-pedal backgrounds to thoroughly revamp the contemporary policy–goal deployment methodologies and make determined amendments to reconfigure several management processes in vogue to deliver sustainable business results in a meaningfully restructured leadership–fellowship relationship dynamic replacing the scarcity-driven everyday mill with natural rhythms of abundance.

Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing

Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing

$34.99

The term impact investing first appeared in 2008. Today the most commonly used definition is investing made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. A wide range of individual and institutional investors that have already entered the impact investment marketplace and continued growing enthusiasm can be expected given that feedback from investors indicated that portfolio performance has generally met or exceed their expectations for both social and environmental impact and financial return.
Established companies have been compelled to respond to calls by institutional investors to incorporate responsible environmental, social, and governance initiatives into their business models as a condition to continued support in public capital markets. Other companies seeking to demonstrate to impact investors their commitment to environmental and social responsibility have opted for emerging forms of legal entities, so-called social enterprises, which explicitly incorporate sustainability and multi-stakeholder interests into their governance and reporting frameworks.
This book provides readers with a basic understanding of sustainable finance and impact investing including history, definitions of impact, current trends and drivers, future challenges, and an overview of the key players in the global impact ecosystem. The book also describes impact investment structures and instruments, social enterprises, and impact measurement and reporting.

101 Tips for Improving Your Business Communication

101 Tips for Improving Your Business Communication

$37.99

This book contains business communication information that may not have been taught in college, information that has been accumulated over years of business experience and teaching. Anyone can read these brief tips to learn how to better communicate in business while saving the time that might have been invested in reading many books.
The tips cover the fundamental areas of writing, speaking, and interpersonal communication, as well as offer general business communication advice. Each tip is a practical application that can be implemented immediately. Each tip is also illustrated by a story from the author’s work life in various industries. Lastly, the book also lays a foundation for an understanding of how the brain influences all communication.

Food and Beverage Management in the Luxury Hotel Industry

Food and Beverage Management in the Luxury Hotel Industry

$34.99

This book is an introduction to the management of food and beverage operations within a luxury hotel environment. It provides detailed coverage of operational areas within the food and beverage department, based on multiple real industry examples, allowing the reader to grasp the intricacies of the day-to-day running of outlets.
Food and Beverage Management in the Luxury Hotel Industry is a reference for any hospitality management student wishing to gain sufficient knowledge in the subject, to conduct a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the department, through revenue and cost management, and quality audits. It also looks at the various trends shaping the industry today, particularly focusing on sustainability issues and ethical concerns.

The Non-Timing Trading System: A Rules-Based Conservative Trading System for Small Accounts

The Non-Timing Trading System: A Rules-Based Conservative Trading System for Small Accounts

$31.99

The Non-Timing Trading System is a conservative process for investing in the stock market. This book is perfect for the investors that are dissatisfied with low interest rates and want high returns on their investment without high risk. The book will teach you a low-risk strategy that will give you consistent average yearly returns between 20 percent and 30 percent and beat the S&P 500 year after year. The system is based on a mathematical model designed to protect your capital while giving you high returns.
You don’t have to time the market and pick the right stock. The market will tell you what it is doing. There are always corrections in the market, even severe ones. The book describes in detail how it handles downturns and how it gets you out of the market before corrections become severe.
The author doesn’t just show you a strategy and leave you hanging. There is a tutorial with five years of trading using the system which covers every possible scenario so that you are never left wondering what to do. Protection of your capital is its highest priority. The investor that is looking for high returns should not have to settle for high risk. The author has prepared a helpful video that really explains the book in great detail! Click here to learn more.

Tax Aspects of Corporate Division

Tax Aspects of Corporate Division

$31.99

For good business reasons corporate management may conclude that the existing corporate structure should be changed. The changes may require moving assets, liabilities and ownership among of commonly controlled corporations. From the investors point of view, the corporate division may reduce risk by shielding assets from certain liabilities. Moreover, the shareholders will be able to diversify their investment as the stock of the new corporation is distributed to the shareholders of the transferring corporation. Under the general rules of income taxation, moving assets from one corporation to another may trigger taxable gain to the corporation and the shareholders. However, the Internal Revenue Code contains exceptions that allow the separation to be accomplished without taxable income to the corporation and its shareholders. But specified conditions must be satisfied for to achieve this tax abatement. When the conditions are satisfied, the shareholder is permitted to extract value from the corporation and neither the shareholder or the corporations are required to recognizing income. This book will describe the various legal forms used to divide the corporation and the conditions that must be satisfied to avoid taxable income for the corporations and their shareholders. The book is intended to be useful as a supplement to be used in an advanced corporate tax class, as well as a professional guide.