A Time of Change in Hospitality Leadership

A Time of Change in Hospitality Leadership

$31.99

This book is an introduction to the challenge of modern leadership. Leadership has changed from the traditional perspective to be one which is far broader based, with more expected and asked. Leaders today need to consider their stakeholders, their employees, the communities and society in which they operate, the environment, culture, and trends.
The world has changed so much in the last ten years and many are lagging behind in their understanding. At the same time, we are about to witness a change in generations and the question arises as to whether industry is ready to empower and pass on the baton of leadership?
The main goals are to help students to understand what will be asked of them as they become leaders. It is aimed to challenge perceptions, thinking, and knowledge. Also, it aims to prepare students to identify how leadership has changed people’s lives and help develop critical thinking about the role of leaders in business and in society.

Strengths Oriented Leadership: The World Through Bee Glasses

Strengths Oriented Leadership: The World Through Bee Glasses

$31.99

This book is about talent, strengths, and positive psychology. Everyone is naturally talented in certain areas and if we get the opportunity to use our talents at work and develop them into strengths, then we can work better, faster, and far more productively.
Bees search for pollen, and they find it in the beautiful, successful, growing things around us: flowers. Flies search for rotting trash, bacteria, and ugliness. Do you want to go through life like a fly or like a bee?
These pages present the overwhelming scientific evidence that strengths-based leadership and collaboration lead to more productivity, more innovation, better well- being at work, lower absenteeism, and better health. Learning to recognize your talents, leveraging them into strengths, and mitigate your weaknesses will leverage the way you and your colleagues work.

Computers and Information Processing for Business: Microsoft Office 2019 and Python

Computers and Information Processing for Business: Microsoft Office 2019 and Python

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This book is an introduction to computers covering relevant topics that include: computers and society, the Internet, social media, Microsoft Office 2019, and high-level programming. The main goals are to help students to define computers and information processing and describe the main concepts related to hardware, software, and their use.
The author prepares students to identify how the Internet has changed people’s lives and develops critical thinking about the role of computers in society, recognize the impact of technology in the personal and professional base, to mention a few. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and programming algorithms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.