Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Traders

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If you are a beginner to the world of options, Mastering Options— Effective and Profitable Strategies for Traders is essential for learning the basics of option strategies that will enable you to start making consistently handsome earnings. This book gives the novice a comprehensive understanding of using option investment and hedging strategies successfully.
The content is aimed primarily at the undergraduate whose ambition is to become either a trader in a financial organization or an online investor through a financial broker’s trading platform. It also provides seasoned investors and traders with new insights into using options as an investment tool. The key trading tools available on online trading platforms are explained in enough detail that beginners will be able to understand as well as learn how to invest effectively in the financial markets using options.
Chapter by chapter, this book builds a complete understanding of the basic building blocks of investing in options, including common.

Co-Design, Volume I: Practical Ideas for Learning Across Complex Systems

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Learning is fundamental to living and organizing in complex systems. This book provides a guide to co-designing learn- ing environments and relationships. The authors begin by revisiting what learning means in living systems. Their experiences with business organizations and formal education systems have led to the conclusion that learning has been lost from view in many complex systems.
The authors briefly trace the history of ideas about learning to give new energy and focus for co-designing learning places. The 12 thematic chapters in this book focus on practical ideas. Each chapter centers on a theme that is explored through a collection of short pieces—presented as ideas, theories, stories, approaches, and methods. This book will benefit a multitude of people and professionals who are interested in new ways to think about learning, both individually and collectively-it was written with a diverse readership in mind.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 3: Tears

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume 2 : Sweat

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Can You Run Your Business With Blood, Sweat, and Tears? Volume I: Blood

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What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team?
Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success.
Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

Strategic Engagement: Practical Tools to Raise Morale and Increase Results, Volume II: System-Wide Activities

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This book is a great ‘pocket book’—a leader’s best friend—saturated with a roadmap that puts theory into action. An organization is a ‘net- work of relationships’. Crosby highlights the many ways this network can fumble while providing clear steps to upgrade the entire system. Too many books give glamour to theory while missing the link of how theory is implemented.”—Timothy Weber, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
“Chris has provided us with a virtual outline for a graduate-level program in OD! Amazing work!”—Dr. John J. Scherer, Co-Director, Scherer Leadership Center
“I have an extensive collection of business books, and this is a real gem. I started my last two CEO positions with transition sessions as outlined in this collection, led by Chris. In this book are activities that I have used to reach record results.”—Brian Bauerbach, President & CEO, Mold Rite Plastics
“An immensely practical book that will help people create organizations that get results. Chris has organized this into an easy-to-understand guide. Executives should read it with no less reverence than they would read their company’s financial report.”—Ethan Schutz, President & CEO, The Schutz Company
Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed that workplaces that are actively engaged outperform workplaces that are disengaged in every measure. Crosby’s two-volume set contains eight activities that create an engaged workplace and improve results. Volume Two, System-wide Activities, starts with a chapter on implementation competency, then follows with chapters on group-to-group conflict, goal alignment, process improvement, and project planning. Finally, the appendices contain the materials required for each activity.

Co-Design, Volume II: Practical Ideas for Designing Across Complex Systems

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Design is everywhere in our lives—but the nature of complex systems means that few people feel empowered or equipped to design better futures. Although the places we live are full of material objects, they only become meaningful as they are used and experienced by people.
This book is about understanding the nature of design and organization in complex living systems. It looks at design as a way of thinking and acting. Design becomes an open- ended conversation with the world around us. The text is also about the shifting social relations of design—moving from an emphasis on individual engineers and designers toward the participatory process of making sense of tools to improve our lives: we call this process co-design.

Co-Design, Volume III: Practical Ideas for Developing Across Complex Systems

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Working in complex systems brings fresh challenges to leaders, managers, consultants, and those involved in their education. This book (the third in a series of three) introduces a set of practices that will help you develop confidence and strength in working in new ways across boundaries. We know intuitively that when we move outside our organizational boundaries, we need new ways of practicing that will respond to the needs of others and shape the emerging future. Each chapter focuses on a specific practice and explains what it looks like, why it is relevant, and how to integrate it into your work. Questions for reflection and suggested activities offer ideas for immediate action.
The format invites the reader to pick a chapter or two when it feels like a good time to engage with professional development. The material is also suitable for discussion with colleagues as part of team development. The practical, applied nature of this book means that it can be used in many different ways to spark ideas and stimulate new ways of working as individuals and collectively. Leaders in complex systems will grow in confidence and expand their practice repertoire as they engage with the material in this volume

Strategic Engagement: Practical Tools to Raise Morale and Increase Results, Volume I: Core Activities

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“This book is a great ‘pocket book’—a leader’s best friend—saturated with a roadmap that puts theory into action. An organization is a ‘network of relationships’. Crosby highlights the many ways this network can fumble while providing clear steps to upgrade the entire system. Too many books give glamour to theory while missing the link of how theory is implemented. —Timothy Weber, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

“Chris has provided us with a virtual outline for a graduate-level program in OD! Amazing work!” —Dr. John J. Scherer, Co-Director, Scherer Leadership Center

“I have an extensive collection of business books, and this is a real gem. I started my last two CEO positions with transition sessions as outlined in this collection, led by Chris. In this book are activities that I have used to reach record results.” —Brian Bauerbach, President & CEO, Mold Rite Plastics

This two-volume set contains eight activities that create an engaged workplace and improve results.

Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed that workplaces that are actively engaged outperform workplaces that are disengaged in every measure. Crosby’s two-volume set contains eight activities that create an engaged workplace and improve results.

Volume One, The Core Activities, starts with an overview and a chapter on building an engagement strategy to break long-standing dysfunction. Crosby then provides chapters on various conflict resolutions, transition meetings, and work group development.

Leveraging Business Analysis for Product Success, Second Edition

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Only 39 percent of projects today are successful. Nearly half of the projects that fail do so because of “poor requirements management” (PMI 2014). Leveraging Business Analysis for Project Success, Second Edition explores the role of the business analyst in setting a project up for success. It informs and educates project managers, sponsors, and organization leaders on what is necessary for project success. This book goes beyond requirements management in exploring how business analysis professionals (business analysts, product managers, product owners, and others) can con- tribute to increased profitability through project selection, scope definition, and post implementation evaluation.
The reader will learn about the history of business analysis, professional organizations and resources to support the profession, and what to expect from the business analysis professional at each phase of the project lifecycle as presented in a case study throughout the book. Project leaders will better be able to support the business analysis needs of the project by understanding the skills, expertise, tasks, resources, and time needed to do business analysis right and maximize the return on investment for each project.