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

$31.99

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

$41.99

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

$31.99

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

$37.99

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

On All Cylinders: Succeeding as an Entrepreneur and a Leader, Second Edition

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It’s time: Unleash the hidden potential within your organization today! Watch this engaging and entertaining video to learn more about the success of your business!

Learn more with this PowerPoint built by the author. The 4 Steps Business Model to rapidly respond and rebound includes Study, Structure, Strategy and Skills. The Skills portion includes the total skills in his book and he’s coaching executives and managers to rebound with new skills!

The attacks of 9/11 and The Great Recession created a new economy: the new normal. The result has been greater demands for management to unleash the power within diverse workforces and rapidly respond to market and technology changes. Business owners and management express frustration with their ability to accomplish goals with their personnel who seem apathetic about their businesses.

This book will help any leadership team use their talents to nimbly respond to shifting demands and create a better future for their business and their communities by transitioning from traditional management structures to a system of leadership behaviors. The components of that system include aligning the workforce, communicating rapidly and effectively throughout the organization, emphasizing ethical behavior, collaborating with clients and associates, and making informed decisions to improve operations and implement changes. The desired result is to develop an inclusive and high-performing workplace and innovation of new products and services that expand market positions and respond to market changes.

These elements were critical to the author’s success leading an organization ready to close it’s doors to a market leader, and can help any business improve performance and profits in this 21st Century new normal economy.

Valuation of Indian Life Insurance Companies: Demystifying the Published Accounting and Actuarial Public Disclosures

$28.99

This book bridges the gap between the accounting and the actuarial sides of Indian life insurance companies, by exploring the relationships between the embedded value calculated by actuaries and the revenue account and balance sheet prepared by the accountants. The author provides publicly available sources of information to place a value on the shares of Indian life insurance companies from an outsider’s point of view.
Life insurance company accounts are complex and require knowledge of specific concepts in order to analyze and appreciate them. This book will help a layperson with reasonable numerical abilities understand the calculation of the share price of a life insurance company. In particular, it will help analysts and accountants with no actuarial background understand the concepts of embedded and appraisal value.
Cash flow statements of these companies are often ignored and delegated to the background or usually to a single page in their annual reports. This book examines the cash flows in detail and rearranges them to get a better picture of the financial health of the underlying companies. It also explains the relationship between the different measures of profit such as cash reserves, surplus, profit after tax, and embedded value.
Often this information is only available internally or to consultants. The author uses alternative approaches based purely on public disclosures by these companies, thereby enabling professionals without access to internal information to come to informed judgments about the actual performance of the companies.

Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset

$28.99

Insightful and compelling stories with practical exercises and assessments! A lived experience by Cuellar, on how ‘mindset will either create obstacles or opportunities. —Dr. Mauvalyn M. Bowen, Associate Professor of Business & Entrepreneurship, Bethel University, USA
As an entrepreneur and a PhD business student, I now understand the importance of training the mind in order to operate at your full potential. I’m literally eating these pages up! Absolutely amaaaazing! —Tresia Auala, PhD student, University of Namibia Business School, Namibia
Both success and failure start in the mind. From Tamiko’s years of practical experience in coaching entrepreneurs, she has uncovered the #1 reason that some of her clients succeeded while
others failed: mindset.
This book will help business/MBA students, aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders to think like entrepreneurs in 12 critical focus areas. Readers will uncover hidden thoughts that sabotage success as an entrepreneur. The author will cause you to experience a paradigm shift from an employee mindset to an entrepreneurial mindset. The text provides takeaways and practical action items to cultivate entrepreneurial thinking that will revolutionize the conventional approach to business.