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

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

$34.99

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

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

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

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

$31.99

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

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

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.

A Primer On Corporate Governance: Mexico

A Primer On Corporate Governance: Mexico

$28.99

Mexico is a land inhabited by several indigenous civilizations and was conquered by Spain in 1521. The country is mostly a racial mix between the Spanish and native cultures. It is a traditionalist society where family, religion, and culture play a key role. The role of the marketplace is constrained by the government and local interest groups such as unions, political parties, commerce chambers, and private firms. The market for corporate control is scarce. Corporate governance codes are voluntary.
Corporate ownership is concentrated with few institutional investors. Shareholder activism is uncommon. Corporate boards are single tier in nature. CEO duality is common practice. Boards are made mostly of insiders and shareholder representatives. Independent board members hold minority stakes.
This book starts by describing the macro context in which Mexico is embedded. We then focus on its corporate governance system: laws, regulatory bodies, code of good governance, stock market and the peculiarities of local business groups. The central part of the book summarizes key characteristics of board structure and networks in the country. The book ends with interviews of two well-known directors and suggestions to move the governance field forward in Mexico.

How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management : A Pragmatic Constructivist Approach

How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management : A Pragmatic Constructivist Approach

$28.99

This book is intended for practitioners, students, and researchers who are interested in designing, using, assessing, and researching performance management systems. Managerial personnel involved in such activity will hold many beliefs about how their organization functions. This text uses the philosophy of pragmatic constructivism to show how managerial beliefs that underlie action can be made explicit and so facilitate their assessment and improvement. This involves recognizing and integrating the four dimensions (facts, possibilities, values, and communication) that represent how managers relate to the real- ity in which they operate. When managerial beliefs are based on an accurate representation of reality, they are more likely to be successful. Problems occur where reality is misrepresented in managerial beliefs. This is especially so in performance management, as the book illustrates using real-world examples.
Specific topics addressed include planning and decision making, performance management of investment center managers, strategic performance management, and operational performance management.

New Insights into Prognostic Data Analytics in Corporate Communication

New Insights into Prognostic Data Analytics in Corporate Communication

$31.99

This book advances diagnosis-prognosis models that mark antecedent frames in various commercial forms of communication—annual reports, investigative fiction–Poirot series, Sci-Fi, and advertisements. The authors thereby develop a study of narrative markets by proposing the narrative of things as the next innovative mega trend in business analytics. A unique feature of the book is the special section dedicated to industry- academic practitioners, who have offered a bird’s-eye view in the Review Speak section of every chapter of this book.
With contributions by Aman Narang, Niteen Bali, Shubhra Chaudhry, AmanchaVamshikrishna, Anant Singh, Karthi Prakash and Namit Jain.

Chief Kickboxing Officer: Applying the Fight Mentality to Business Success

Chief Kickboxing Officer: Applying the Fight Mentality to Business Success

$28.99

“Chief Kickboxing Officer is not a book about fighting your way to the top of the corporate ladder. It’s about applying the visceral, tactical lessons of martial artistry to the way we think and the way we interact with people.” –Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of the Martial Arts and The Art of War: A New Translation

Business and fighting are two sides of the same coin.

Every businessperson engages everyday in small acts of negotiation and conflict; understanding what characterizes our conduct, and what are its strengths and weakness, will help us develop more effective relationships.

Chief Kickboxing Officer shows how the fighting and business mind sets cross over in this process of discovery and, in particular, what lessons can be learned from a highly refined and scientific type of fighting system: the martial arts. By looking at four types of behavioral and leadership styles and mapping each of them onto a martial art, this book allows the readers to learn lessons best suited to their personality.

  • Formal and proactive types that align with the martial art of karate.
  • Formal and responsive types that align with the martial art of judo.
  • Informal and proactive types that align with the martial art of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).
  • Informal and responsive types that align with the martial art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ).