How to Succeed as a Solo Consultant: Breaking Out on Your Own

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This book is written for a person who has gained experience and is thinking about striking out on his or her own as a consultant or a service-based entrepreneur. The reader is taken through the steps of deciding on whether they have the tools to start a new business and what they need to do before making the leap.The author focuses on the major steps of a start-up consulting practice, including business formation decisions, verbalizing the business offerings, determining market viability, and much more. Additionally, he dives into less-often discussed topics such as office space, business insurance, business ethics, and the impact on the family unit. Each chapter provides homework that outlines the steps the reader needs to complete to gain confidence they have the tools to succeed. This book also emphasizes the lifestyle implications of any solo proprietor service business.

The Future of Work: How Artificial Intelligence Can Augment Human Capabilities

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Jobs, and nature of work as we know it, are changing rapidly. Disruptive changes to work behaviors and business models will have a profound impact on the nature of work and worker. In this book, experts from industry and academia explore how innovative companies are leveraging arti? cial intelligence and intelligent tools to enhance and augment human worker rather than replace it.

Behind the Scenes of Health Care: Motivation and Commitment of Health Care Employees

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Behind the Scenes of Health Care presents an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles. The publication includes two research studies: motivation and commitment of support
services employees in a health care environment and the correlation between patient experience feedback and nursing motivation and engagement. Additionally, the publication includes two case studies: cultural disruption in a health care system and a service organization review of turnover. Lastly, and most significantly, the publication provides a framework and model, The Tri-Factor Model, to assess and measure workplace dynamics of motivation, commitment, and culture that is also applicable to turnover analyses.
Readers of Behind the Scenes of Health Care are provided tools to understand motivation, commitment, and cultural components in the contemporary workplace that may be applied to any organization.

Global Trade Strategies: Interacting with Trade Institutions and Businesses

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Developing global business strategies in today’s competitive and disruptive environment calls for greater interaction between the business sector and government.
Among the instruments available today are various market analytic tools. These tools coupled with new business models not only provide a competitive edge but also becomes a necessity to survive in the global ever changing trade environment.
This book concerns everyone dealing with market selection, market strategies, and trade policy. The reader will be able to develop global strategies based on trade information and trade flows analysis. An analysis of the most competitive countries in world trade shows the importance of pro-business policies, access to modern infrastructures, investment in research, and increased productivity.
The authors explain how to design practical strategies in a global context, greater competition and uncertainty due to the introduction of new business models.

Successful Recruitment : How to Recruit the Right People For Your Business

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Successful Recruitment provides the practical guidance and knowledge needed to recruit the right people, avoiding the many pitfalls that can arise in the recruitment process. It begins by identifying why recruitment is so often unsuccessful, leading to time, money, and energy being wasted in recruiting people who lack the attributes required to succeed in your organization. It then sets out how to put in place an effective recruitment process, by:
‧ Planning the process.
‧ Laying firm foundations, ensuring that job descriptions, person specifications, and application forms are fit for purpose.
‧ Ensuring that advertising is targeted to reach the right applicants.
‧ Sifting and shortlisting to ensure that the right candidates are selected for interview.
‧ Developing the knowledge, skills and processes to ensure that interviews enable you to accurately assess the candidate’s ability to do the job.
‧ Effectively utilizing other assessment methods alongside the interview.
‧ Concluding the process properly and ensuring that the right candidate is appointed.
‧ Effectively inducting the successful candidate into your organization.
The author pays particular attention to the recruitment interview, explaining three different approaches to interviewing and the key skills required to conduct an effective interview, as well as considers some of the specific issues involved in recruiting internationally. The book concludes by considering the future trends and innovations which will affect how recruiting is handled over the next decade.

The Economics of Online Gaming: A Player’s Introduction to Economic Thinking

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This book is made from the connections that the author saw when he compared his experience inside a video game with what he learned through a formal study of economic theory. Set in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) of Eternal Lands, it follows the true story of Mr. Mind, a gamer who builds a business inside the game world that he calls RICH. This business grows from a small start-up to an unregulated natural monopoly that abuses its market power by intentionally losing money to drive competitors out of business. RICH becomes so influential that it breaks the market process with a unique case of regulatory capture. Through this story, the book demonstrates how economic thinking is absorbed by experimenting inside an online video game.
The Economics of Online Gaming covers basic economic concepts, unique economic issues, and general economic themes. Each of these topics begins with the context of a story and continues with an explanation of the economic theory behind it, finishing with a relevant real-world connection. It supports economic theory in an emotional way that cannot be shared through math or charts or graphs. Appendix B provides a comprehensive outline of ideas for teaching and discussion in each chapter.

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations

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This book positions risk management as a key element in successfully managing a nonprofit organization. Risk management in nonprofits has several unique characteristics that distinguish it from risk management in for-profit organizations. The authors present and explain specifically tailored strategies and tactics for risk management in nonprofits.
Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, yet comprehensive guide that can be used to easily communicate effective risk management ideas among the various stakeholders who comprise a nonprofit organization. This is a book that can be used to educate and inform nonprofit professionals as well as the nonprofessional volunteers who are so critical to the operations of many nonprofits. It is a tool that will enhance both understanding and communication of risk management principles.
Written in clear, jargon-free language, it is a resource that can be read by board members, professional nonprofit managers, volunteers, and other stakeholders of the nonprofit organization. As a tool for building a common appreciation and understanding of risk management, this book has the potential to become a valuable asset for the nonprofit organization.

A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry, Second Edition

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The furniture industry serves as an indicator for the changing state of American manufacturing. A brief history of U.S. furniture manufacturing creates the context for continuing geographic shifts among Asian locations, foreign ownership impacts and global market considerations, as well as the demands of three significant domestic market demographics.
The furniture industry is separated into its various parts from wood to metal, home to institutional markets. Government actions including tariffs, health, and environmental regulations are also considered. Based on numerous interviews and site visits, strategies of corporate survivors in the face of mergers, and emergence of new players are profiled to indicate practices for increasing adaptive capacity and marketing the appeal of “made here”.
This book highlights the role of global networks, lean and green production methods, customized quality versus price competitiveness, online outreach along with showroom access, labor issues, and related factors that continue to compel location shifts and extensions.

Small Business Management: A Road Map for Survival During Crisis

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This book gives us a holistic description of all paragons involved in small business operations during crisis years and suggests the necessary steps that need to be taken to help them overcome their problems. The author clearly demonstrates the crisis implications to small businesses by using personal research and real-life examples in addition to a big bibliography from renowned academics. The book contains useful and practical information for small business owners, entrepreneurs from all industries, business students, academics and strategists, and business coaches and can be used as a road map during turbulent periods for small business in all industries.
The text covers the topic from different approaches, giving a bird’s-eye view of contemporary trends and new approaches. Several concepts like risk management, blue ocean strategy, and turnaround management are discussed, in order to create a crystal clear understanding of why there is no such thing as dead end for small businesses—even under the worst possible situations—and how businesses can achieve sustainable development and grow.
This book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.

Projects, Programs, and Portfolios in Strategic Organizational Transformation

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Projects are a part of everyday life in an organization. However, the management of projects by an organization during substantial transformation is less certain in both practice and study. An awareness of how to manage increasingly complex projects, and collections of projects, to achieve the benefits of organizational transformation becomes ever more crucial in the implementation of new strategies.
This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic transformation. The linkages among projects, operations, and the foundations of an organization provide a perspective of how an organization pursues the difficult changes required of comprehensive transformation.