A Book About Blockchain: How Companies Can Adopt Public Blockchain to Leap into the Future

A Book About Blockchain: How Companies Can Adopt Public Blockchain to Leap into the Future

$34.99

“I am impressed by the deep conceptual understanding that Rajat has. In this book, he conveys to the reader a practical, down-to-earth version of blockchain with all its elements. As a business leader, and someone who pushed the envelope in applying technology to the resources industry, I view this book as perhaps the simplest end-to-end explanation of blockchain. It is a must read for any leader/startup entrepreneur or consultant.” —Ricardo Escobar (Former CIO BHP Billiton)
“It is quite simply the best book about blockchain for corporate executives. It will prove invaluable to early adopting project managers, strategists, and IT professionals as corporations experiment with blockchain and digital currencies. It perfectly nails the sweet spot between breathless hype over the technology’s enormous potential and a too deep technical dive.” —Chris Ballinger (CEO and Founder of MOBI), Former Chief Financial Officer of Toyota Research Institute
Executives, consultants, and strategists are wondering how to participate in the blockchain economy. They are wondering whether new business models that will emerge because of this novel technology will disrupt theirs or whether they will ignore their businesses and create completely different models. In this book I answer all those questions. By the time you finish, you will understand what blockchain economy is, how to participate in it, and avoid being disrupted or, even worse, ignored. Drawing from my own experiences as research scientist and entrepreneur, the book describes methods to transform existing business by using digitized trust that is industrialized at scale.

Negotiation Booster: The Ultimate Self-Empowerment Guide to High Impact Negotiations

Negotiation Booster: The Ultimate Self-Empowerment Guide to High Impact Negotiations

$31.99

To successfully conclude a business conversation, negotiation skills and tactics are not enough. If you enter a negotiation with fear, self-doubt or lack of conviction, you will not win no matter how well tactically you have been trained. Negotiation Booster is a novel, synergic approach leveraging the task related aspects of a negotiation with the underlying factors, such as emotions, ego, and stress.

Negotiation Booster is the ultimate guide to winning negotiations through self-empowerment. By bridging the strategic aspects with a self-management booster, the book will help you develop strategies for thriving in your negotiations.

Negotiation Booster draws from interdisciplinary sources. It equips the reader with cutting-edge insights on the key negotiation concepts, fundamental negotiation strategies, communication skills, perception and impression management techniques, the determinants of desired outcomes, and the issues that negotiators face internally and externally in the negotiation process.

ATOM: It’s Time to Upgrade the Economy, Second Edition

ATOM: It’s Time to Upgrade the Economy, Second Edition

$34.99

In this book, we will explore how the accelerating pace and diffusion of technological change has taken control of an ever-growing fraction of the world economy. This fraction is being assimilated into a different set of economic fundamentals, such as the rapid and exponential price deflation inherent to technology. The effect of this was insignificant until recently, but is now beginning to create conspicuous distortions in many economic metrics, and is just years from being the dominant force across the entire economy. In response to technological deflation, the central banks of the world will have to create new money in perpetuity, increasing the stream at an exponentially rising rate much higher than is currently assumed. This now-permanent need for monetary expansion, if embraced, can fund government spending more directly. This in turn creates a very robust, dynamic, and efficient safety net for citizens, while simultaneously reducing and even eliminating most forms of taxation by 2025–30.
Failure to recognize that technological deflation mandates permanent and ever-rising central bank monetary expansion that can and should gradually become the primary source of government spending could result in countries falling behind more enlightened countries in a very short time.
The nature of current worldwide technology is to link various disruptions with each other, consume monetary liquidity to generate deflation, and lower the effective prices of most goods and services over time. Therefore, the entirety of worldwide technology has to be seen as a holistic economic entity, and can be defined as the ‘Accelerating TechnOnomic Medium’, or ‘ATOM’.

Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume II

Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume II

$37.99

“Paul’s book is, in my view, one of the most comprehensive treatise on the challenging topic of Quality, since the works of Deming. It covers the topic, in an almost 3D manner, such that it doesn’t really matter how the reader comes to the subject – as a novice or with experience, that viewpoint is described. Indeed, the book explains the subject matter without being shackled by the conventional wisdoms typically associated with “Quality”. I look forward to it being my next “go to” reference.” –Andrew Nichols, Quality Program Manager, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application— how—and aim to provide guidance and introduction to both. Beginning with manufacturing and services, it also includes professional, personal, and spiritual dimensions.
Variation does not sit happily with consistency and skill in handling risk and opportunity requires competence in the use of statistics, probability, and uncertainty; and needs to complement the critically essential soft dimensions of quality.
There are no clear boundaries to the applicability of quality and the related processes and procedures expressed in management systems, and so “… it applies in diverse business and social environments.”
Quality is everyone’s business, and there is no single professional discipline that can properly express this. Best practice, tools, and techniques need to be shared across all kinds of organizational and professional boundaries.

Workplace Jazz: 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams

Workplace Jazz: 9 Steps to Creating High-Performing Agile Project Teams

$31.99

“Workplace Jazz provides new insights and practical tools to excel in the new world of constant change.” –Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Author of the Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook.

Following a team development system that jazz musicians use naturally provides clarity, purpose, and structure is the key to creating high-performing agile teams. It is attainable through this book, Workplace Jazz.

In Workplace Jazz, the author raises a battle cry for individual and corporate responsibility in building cultures that are healthier and more productive for those working in them.

What should leaders do to address this workforce engagement and productivity gap? Should companies keep implementing culture improvement processes and procedures that do not address the emotional connection that teams need?

Workplace Jazz offers a step-by-step process, enhanced with stories, neuroscience research, case studies, metaphors, and a strategic blueprint for developing connected and high-performing project teams based on the author’s experiences as a professional musician, certified conversational intelligence coach, and certified business
consultant.

The author has provided a self-assessment that is a complimentary accompaniment to this book. Click here to learn more.

Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume I

Why Quality is Important and How It Applies in Diverse Business and Social Environments, Volume I

$37.99

“Paul’s book is, in my view, one of the most comprehensive treatise on the challenging topic of Quality, since the works of Deming. It covers the topic, in an almost 3D manner, such that it doesn’t really matter how the reader comes to the subject – as a novice or with experience, that viewpoint is described. Indeed, the book explains the subject matter without being shackled by the conventional wisdoms typically associated with “Quality”. I look forward to it being my next “go to” reference.” –Andrew Nichols, Quality Program Manager, Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
These two volumes are about understanding—why—and application— how—and aim to provide guidance and introduction to both. Beginning with manufacturing and services, it also includes professional, personal, and spiritual dimensions.
Variation does not sit happily with consistency and skill in handling risk and opportunity requires competence in the use of statistics, probability, and uncertainty; and needs to complement the critically essential soft dimensions of quality.
There are no clear boundaries to the applicability of quality and the related processes and procedures expressed in management systems, and so “… it applies in diverse business and social environments.”
Quality is everyone’s business, and there is no single professional dis?cipline that can properly express this. Best practice, tools, and techniques need to be shared across all kinds of organizational and professional boundaries.

Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value, Third Edition

Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value, Third Edition

$31.99

The service process design landscape is changing, with many of the previous limitations disappearing on how and by whom services are delivered. Opportunities for new service design con?gurations are being supported, to a large extent, by technology- enabled innovations; many tasks previously performed by the service provider may now be performed by either the customer or the service provider. As a result, customers are playing a more active role in the service process, not only through self-service but also by providing information to the service provider to create a more personalized service experience.
Designing Service Processes to Unlock Value explores how service processes can be designed to leverage the expanding range of opportunities for service providers and customers to co-create value. Readers will learn about frameworks for value co- creation and models for designing all types of service processes, as well as the unique challenges of designing knowledge-intensive services. And with the growing number of alternatives for designing service processes and determining who performs the various service tasks, service performance outcomes are increasingly dependent on the knowledge, skills, and abilities—that is, capabilities—of both service providers and customers. Thus, the book concludes with approaches to unlock these capabilities–and further boost value co-creation.

Introduction to Business Analytics, Second Edition

Introduction to Business Analytics, Second Edition

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This book presents key concepts related to quantitative analysis in business. It is targeted at business students (both undergraduate and graduate) taking an introductory core course. Business analytics has grown to be a key topic in business curricula, and there is a need for stronger quantitative skills and understanding of fundamental concepts.
This second edition adds material on Tableau, a very useful software for business analytics. This supplements the tools from Excel covered in the first edition, to include Data Analysis Toolpak and SOLVER.

When Numbers Don’t Add Up: Accounting Fraud and Financial Technology

When Numbers Don’t Add Up: Accounting Fraud and Financial Technology

$28.99

The book begins with a brief assessment of corporate crime, fraud in general and how accounting fraud is different. There is a review of notorious cases such as Enron (2001) and recently Toshiba (2015) including the socio-economic consequences of this nefarious crime. The author contextualised the phenomenon of accounting fraud using a framework he developed called ‘Corporate Governance Cosmos’. Thereafter, the book contains an up to date literature review (in order to make the book more readable academic references have been kept to an absolute minimum but a full reference list is provided) beginning with a thorough appraisal and critique of the seminal theory in this area namely the Fraud Triangle and its different variations. There is a comprehensive exploration of the motivations for accounting fraud and a growing realisation that Dark Triad (Psychopathy, Narcissism & Machiavelli) tendencies may explain why executives engage in accounting fraud. There is a small contribution to the literature by the author who expands an established framework entitled Cooks Recipes Incentives Monitoring End results (C R I M E) by Rezaee (2005). The author extended it to C R I M E L where L is the ‘Learning’ from 33 international case studies of accounting fraud.
Accountants, auditors, anti-fraud practitioners and graduate students will find the mini case studies of accounting fraud particularly useful as it makes the phenomenon tangible and more understandable. The penultimate chapter is a study of the likely impact of financial technology on accounting fraud.
The author concludes by pulling salient previous sections and philosophical ideas together including a brief discussion of ethics, forwarding his IFAC Ethical Triangle, his vision for the future accountant which he refers to as Accounting Engineers and an ancient prescription for the curse of Accounting Fraud.