Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

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“Stan Silverman’s ‘Be Different!’ belongs on every business professional’s bookshelf, for it is a practical, highly readable, optimistic guide to success in work and in life. It’s filled to the brim with genuine wisdom and focused, humane advice on the key issues men and women face in striving to be the leaders they want to be.” —Stewart D. Friedman, Professor of Management Practice Emeritus at the Wharton School and author of Total Leadership

This book teaches how to be different than your competitors. It is based on personal experience serving in the trenches as a CEO as well as a director on public, private and nonprofit boards.

The fundamental goal of any business is to be different–to be better than those with whom it is competing. Every company should be on a journey to be the preferred provider of products or services to its markets by offering a great customer/client experience. A preferred provider is the company that customers and clients preferentially want to do business with, and often can charge a premium for what they provide.

The fundamental goal of any individual is to be different–to be better than those with whom they are competing for that next job, whether internally or externally at a new company. Their goal is to demonstrate to the hiring manager that they are the best choice for that position.

This book teaches how to be different. It is based on personal experience serving in the trenches as a CEO as well as a director on public, private, and nonprofit boards.

A Non-Technical Guide to International Accounting

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Businesses have become more global and more complex. Whether you are a manager, a student, or someone generally interested in corporate activities, you would need information as well as being able to understand it. Companies all over the world are required to generate financial information, if for no other reason than to settle their tax affairs.
Multinational corporations and larger companies, such as those listed on stock ex- changes, must make financial reports public, and the nature and type of that information is strictly regulated. Companies must comply with accounting standards set by regulatory bodies. These may include professional accounting associations and the government.
Many countries use International Financial Reporting Standards issued by the IFRS Foundation. This is a not-for-profit international organization that has developed a single set of high-quality global accounting standards. These standards can be complex, but this book explains the nuts and bolts of international accounting and what is required of companies in easy-to-understand, non-technical jargon.

Understanding Behavioral BIA$: A Guide to Improving Financial Decision-Making

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This book describes the biases most relevant to investing, includes background on how biases develop, and offers practical strategies to help you to improve your performance. The authors offer a guide to categorizing biases based on cutting-edge brain science, which will enable readers to implement best practices that guard against whole sets of biases.
Emphasis is placed on the practical implications of financial decision-making and the authors provide a scientific basis for adjusting investing practices to avoid common cognitive traps.

The DNA of Physician Leadership: Creating Dynamic Executives

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Physicians are increasingly moving into leadership roles and possess enormous potential to advance health care. However, clinical training and practice does not provide the necessary skills for a transition from clinician into physician-leader. In fact, the very skills that make for an outstanding physician often compete, or interfere, with the skills required to be successful in wider leadership roles. The authors provide the aspiring physician-leader with the understanding of what is required to be a successful physician-leader and the tools necessary for the transition including:
‧ Understanding the business of health care
‧ Recognizing physician-leader psychology
‧ Establishing influence, the bedrock of leadership
‧ Creating a compelling strategy
‧ Developing high-performing teams
‧ Delegating to maximize leadership impact
‧ Communicating for effectiveness
‧ Negotiating for maximum benefit
This book is practical and realistic with case studies and recommendations on how to make the changes necessary to transform into a successful and fulfilled physician-leader.

Capital Project Management: Capital Project Finance, Volume II

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This book is companion to Volumes I and III in the series. Volume I covers managing strategy through capital project portfolios; Volume III is a complete case study.
This volume describes the strategic challenge of adding real economic value, properly and rigorously defined. The author explains how this is accomplished through the capital budgeting process; discusses the importance of free cash flow and finally, capital projects, as financial options, are discussed, as a way to manage risk while enhancing the likelihood of project approval.
The author is a retired business professor; his research interest has been the management of technology and innovation. For this book, he double-checked none of the 1,250 media items collected, accepting their overall veracity at face value. This approach advocates no one person, no one company, no one technology, and no portion of the global automobile industry. Analysis and practical application came foremost.

Capital Project Management: Capital Project Strategy, Volume I

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The volumes in this series may be likened to a complete case study of Tesla through the end of 2018. Many popular media articles are excerpted, abridged to illustrate points of theoretical emphasis. This keeps the story alive, meaningful, and urgent.
Strategic management is a corpus of scholarship in the Academy of Management, as is technology and innovation management. Project management is found academically within operations management, and led in practice by the Project Management Institute. The volumes in this series intersect where these fields meet and capital projects are planned, budgeted, and financed.
Volume I tells the Tesla story and then presents chapters that address, in order: corporate governance and project stakeholder or communication management, project portfolios as strategic corporate portfolios, and an executive-level review of the best-practice project management paradigm, as applied to capital projects. The epilogue takes the story through the end of 1Q2019 and offers additional commentary.

Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision-Making Approach for Business, Volume II

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This business analytics (BA) text discusses the models based on fact-based data to measure past business performance to guide an organization in visualizing and predicting future business performance and outcomes. It provides a comprehensive overview of analytics in general with an emphasis on predictive analytics. Given the booming interest in analytics and data science, this book is timely and informative. It brings many terms, tools, and methods of analytics together.
The first three chapters provide an introduction to BA, importance of analytics, types of BA–descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive–along with the tools and models. Business intelligence (BI) and a case on descriptive analytics are discussed. Additionally, the book discusses the most widely used predictive models, including regression analysis, forecasting, data mining, and an introduction to recent applications of predictive analytics–machine learning, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. The concluding chapter discusses the current state, job outlook, and certifications in analytics.

Equipment Leasing and Financing: A Product Sales and Business Profit Center Strategy

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This book explains how companies that sell equipment and other products can increase product sales and add an additional profit center by establishing their own innovative leasing and financing operation.

Industry data shows that the need for equipment and other product financing has evolved over the past few decades to where now nine out of ten U.S. companies use leasing or other forms of third party financing to acquire the equipment or other products they need. For market-aggressive companies offering products for sale, having an available in-house customer product leasing and financing program as a product marketing strategy can dramatically increase their ability to close product sales.

In the past, establishing an in-house financing activity was difficult and expensive, requiring unique and substantial additional business operational and financing components in addition to an extensive learning curve. This is no longer the case. In recent years, there have been wide-spread market advances surrounding the financing of equipment and other products that enable forward-thinking companies to cost-effectively establish their own in-house product financing activity, using readily available, state-of the-art financing software programs, and third-party back-office services to manage any part of the financing process.

This book will provide a product vendor with the turnkey know how it needs to assess the viability of establishing an in-house equipment financing operation, as well as the various considerations needed to set up and run its own cost-effective and profitable product financing activity.

Executing Global Projects: A Practical Guide to Applying the PMBOK Framework in the Global Environment

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Global projects are far more complex than projects that are carried out locally. This is because of factors such as culture, language, the legal and regulatory environment, differences in worldviews and finally, the logistics involved with distance and managing virtual teams.
This book offers tools, techniques and guidelines to inform global project managers how to manage such global complexity and to assess global project management capability prior to initiating global project engagements.

The Options Trading Primer: Using Rules-Based Option Trades to Earn a Steady Income

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Buying and selling options is the fastest growing investment strategy when compared with other trading venues such as buying and selling stocks, futures, and foreign exchange currencies. Millions of investors who understand the financial leverage offered by options are earning impressive, steady incomes by buying and selling call and put options.
The successful investors learn how options work. They develop watch lists of trade candidates and study price charts to find prospective trades. And they apply rules-based option trading strategies that succeed much more often than they fail. Even when they lose, their rules limit their losses to acceptable levels.
This book was written by a successful option trader. He introduces options and how they work to those who are ready to learn how they work. The book emphasizes the application of time-tested option trading rules, which use price charts, market volatility, key option values, and risk graphs to achieve high-probability option trading outcomes. Also detailed are ten option trade examples that include trade setups, entries, trade management techniques, and supporting illustrations