Capital Without Borders: Direct Investments and Strategic Insights for Economic Growth

Capital Without Borders: Direct Investments and Strategic Insights for Economic Growth

$34.99

In today’s global economy, mobilizing domestic and foreign investment is essential for sustaining growth and competitiveness. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be a powerful tool for economic transformation, yet its flow remains unpredictable—concentrated in specific regions, creating both opportunities and challenges. This uneven distribution can either accelerate technological advancement or widen development gaps.

Capital Without Borders: Direct Investments and Strategic Insights for Economic Growth explores FDI’s role in driving innovation, growth, and global competitiveness. It examines investment strategies, allocation priorities, and the evolving significance of FDI in shaping economies. Through lessons from transition economies like Central Eastern Europe and China, as well as insights into top donor nations—the US, Japan, China, and the EU—the book provides practical recommendations for optimizing investment strategies.

Designed for policymakers, business leaders, economists, and academics, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of investment trends, motivations, and regulatory frameworks. Whether shaping economic policy or guiding corporate or investment strategy, readers will gain the tools to navigate complex investment landscapes and maximize FDI’s returns.

The Scrappy Entrepreneur: How to Effectively Lead an Innovation-Driven Startup

The Scrappy Entrepreneur: How to Effectively Lead an Innovation-Driven Startup

$31.99

Starting an innovation-driven company is hard. Let this book make it easier for you.

You have a business idea that you truly believe in. The extensive market research that you have done has made you even more passionate about pursuing your idea. But before you can start selling, you will need significant amounts of funding to develop your product and/or successfully meet regulatory requirements. You will also need help from people with skillsets that complement yours. If you find yourself in this situation, this book is for you.

Drawing on her own first entrepreneurship experience with medical technology startup palmm Co., author Véronique Peiffer gets to the nuts and bolts of three key topics tailored to scrappy entrepreneurs—those who need to be extra resourceful to push their companies to the next phase:

  • Fundraising,
  • Hiring and managing a startup team,
  • Dealing with the many less exciting, but necessary aspects of creating and running a business, such as bookkeeping, document management, vendor selection and more.

The Scrappy Entrepreneur helps you know what to expect and even includes simple spreadsheet templates that can save you considerable time and money. The hard-won learnings from seven other medtech entrepreneurs provide additional perspectives.

Ultimately, reading this book will make any first-time entrepreneur feel better prepared for the real deal.

The Michelangelo Principle: How Busy Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less

The Michelangelo Principle: How Busy Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less

$31.99

Achieve More by Doing Less

Success in leadership often becomes its own trap. The better you perform, the more complexity, noise, and demands pile onto your plate. But what if the key to extraordinary results isn’t doing more, but removing what doesn’t matter?

The Michelangelo Principle: How Busy Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less challenges you to rethink leadership. Like Michelangelo carving David, true mastery lies not in adding, but in chiseling away the unnecessary to reveal your full potential.

This book is designed for Corporate Olympians, high-performing leaders caught in the paradox of success. With fresh perspectives, innovative concepts, and actionable tools, you’ll learn to sidestep inefficiencies, eliminate distractions, and amplify your leadership impact.

  • Break Free from Leadership Traps – Avoid time-wasters, zombie projects, and the illusion of competence.
  • Build Resilience – Shift from rigidity to adaptability with systems that thrive in uncertainty.
  • Activate Your Team – Transform committees into high-performance teams that own results.
  • Leave a Legacy – Stop leaving trails of activity and start building systems that outlast you.

From The Valley of Death to The Two Buckets Problem, The Michelangelo Principle introduces powerful frameworks and practical tools inspired by disciplines as diverse as physics, history, and engineering. It challenges conventional wisdom and offers practical steps to streamline your leadership, sharpen decision-making, and focus on what matters most.

This is not just another book on productivity. It’s a roadmap for creating a simpler, stronger, and more impactful path to leadership success.

Influence with Eloquence: Classical Persuasion for Business Professionals

Influence with Eloquence: Classical Persuasion for Business Professionals

$31.99

Not only effective. Not only efficient. But eloquent.

For hundreds of years, great rulers, teachers, and thinkers have embraced the arts of eloquence—that is, stylishly persuasive communication. Yet, over the last century or so, we’ve largely forgotten about these arts. Influence with Eloquence revives these timeless traditions, connects them to the modern workplace, and shares practical takeaways to strengthen one’s communication savvy.

The old is new again.

Spotlighting Ancient Greece and Roman wisdom from thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine, Influence with Eloquence outlines dimensions of powerful speaking and writing that many MBA programs overlook. The book gives you an all-access pass to the wellspring of classical strategies and tactics to enhance pitches, enliven documents, and enrich interactions. Offering more than simple turn-key tricks, Influence with Eloquence teaches rhetorical attitudes alongside their business applications, so you can become equipped to communicate in the workplace and marketplace with 360-degree vision and versatility.

Strategic eloquence.

An indispensable guide for leaders, managers, sales professionals, and workplace trainers, Influence with Eloquence uncovers the often-overlooked art of rhetorical communication. By embracing the rhetorical principles outlined in this book, you will energize audiences, cultivate deeper conversations, and forge enduring professional relationships. Pitches will become captivating narratives. Emails will become instruments of influence. And job interviews will become performances of persuasion.

Influence with Eloquence will empower you to captivate others with every word you speak and write.

Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines

Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines

$37.99

In his book Reengineering Purchasing: Lessons from the Front Lines, Paul Ericksen shares over three dozen personal experiences where he was responsible for fundamental changes to purchasing strategy and practice that increased the competitiveness of the companies and clients he worked at and for. His stories show how a more collaborative approach to supplier management increases the positive financial impact purchasing can contribute above-and-beyond material and services cost reduction.

At the end of each chapter are listed the lessons learned from each experience.

Reengineering Purchasing will benefit anyone working in supply management, as well as corporate executives looking for a new and expanded approach to purchasing.

Strategy Toolbox: 50 Models to Foster Strategic Dialogue

Strategy Toolbox: 50 Models to Foster Strategic Dialogue

$34.99

“Strategy Toolbox proves that strategy doesn’t have to be intimidating—it can be engaging, energizing, and even inspiring…this is a toolbox I will use because it aligns with my belief that strategy is at its best when it brings people together to imagine—and implement—a better future.” -Dr. Jackie Stavros, Professor, Lawrence Technological University and Founder, SOAR Institute

“Unlike many strategy books that focus on theory, Strategy Toolbox emphasizes conversation and teamwork. The 5 Is and 6 Cs frameworks offer a structured yet adaptable way to uncover insights and help teams create actionable strategies…using these tools as discussion starters, this book encourages strategic thinking and data-driven decisions.” -Ravi Mittal, Director-Insights and Effectiveness, Center for Institutional Effectiveness, University of Maryland Global Campus

“This is an amazing book! Dr. Reese has done an incredible job of integrating all of the powerful theories of strategies from the past 50 years into his highly-practical 5 Is model and 6 Cs framework. Strategy Toolbox is a must-read for any organization and leader seeking success in 21st century.” -Dr. Michael Marquardt, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University

Strategy Toolbox proves that strategy doesn’t need to be tough-armed with the right tools, you can foster meaningful dialogue and clear direction, turning complexity into actionable results.

In the world of business strategy, the key to success lies not just in having the right answers but in asking the right questions—and fostering meaningful dialogue along the way. Strategy Toolbox transforms the daunting task of strategy design into a structured and collaborative process, combining the 5 Is Model (Information, Issues, Insights, Implications, Implementation) with the 6 Cs framework (Company, Characteristics, Customers, Competitors, Climate, Consolidation). Together, these frameworks help teams turn complexity into clarity and actionable results.

The book is methodically organized into six sections, each exploring a distinct element of strategy through eight essential tools. At the end of each section, concise summaries and checklists simplify the process, ensuring teams stay aligned and focused as they move through the stages of analysis and design in their quest to answer strategic questions.

Created for both MBA students and business professionals, Strategy Toolbox equips readers with a clear roadmap for tackling real-world strategic challenges. By viewing strategic models as starting points for dialogue, this book empowers teams to collaboratively uncover insights, align priorities by understanding implications, and craft implementable strategies that drive impactful outcomes.

Better Policy | Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy

Better Policy | Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy

$28.99

Better Policy / Better Performance: The Who, Why, and What of Organizational Policy is a comprehensive roadmap for developing, writing, implementing, communicating, and evaluating organizational policy – the backbone of every organization. Designed for both seasoned professionals and those new to the field, this book provides a step-by-step journey through the intricate process of policy formulation.

Readers will benefit from:

  • Clear Guidelines
  • Real-World Examples
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Stakeholder Engagement

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow

$34.99

The Power of Community centers on the core principle of “giving is getting,” exploring the transformative potential of giving, receiving, and growing within communities.

The Power of Community: Give, Get, and Grow is a heartfelt reflection of the values of generosity and selflessness passed down from the author’s parents. Their acts of giving, whether offering financial support or providing shelter to those in need, have deeply influenced Mane’s understanding of community. This book encourages readers to embrace the power of giving and receiving, showing how these acts create a cycle of growth and transformation. It honors individuals who improve the world through the willingness to give, the humility to receive, and the collective effort to build a better community.

The Power of Community centers on the core principle of “giving is getting,” exploring the transformative potential of giving, receiving, and growing within communities. It examines how these principles foster personal and collective development, resilience, and stronger networks. Trust, reciprocity, and leadership are vital to sustaining growth, while addressing the challenges of disconnection in modern times. Each chapter covers topics such as personal development, social change, and the importance of feedback loops. Through the Give-Get-Grow framework, readers are encouraged to cultivate generosity, build connections, and contribute to thriving communities.

Creating Unicorns with Simple Innovations: The PISA Method

Creating Unicorns with Simple Innovations: The PISA Method

$31.99

The untold story: creating simple high value innovations.

This book presents a five-step method to create high worth non-technical innovations through:

  1. Focus on simplicity (which as said is the ultimate sophistication);
  2. Opportunities that come to us(instead of having actively to look for them);
  3. Adapting solutions already in use elsewhere (rather than constructing them anew);
  4. Testing consumers actions and emotions (in lieu of words or thoughts); and finally
  5. Entering the market in an inexpensive way and with minimal risk.

Examples are numerous. Some are unicorns (valued at one or more billion dollars): Spanx, Rent the Runway, Dollar Shave Club, GymShark, Gousto, Athletic Greens, Havaianas, etc.Others are in the multitude of millions: Knix, Drop Stop, Pouchee, Lisa Gable Accessories, Readerest, SafeGrabs, Chawel and so on.

This book presents what is common among hundreds of such innovations, shared by all in a sequence of steps called the PISA method.

So, in a certain sense this book was written by those entrepreneurs who achieved financial independence and changed the lives of others by solving complexity through simplicity.That is the quiet revolution underway which falls below the radar and therefore is an untold story.

Public Relations Theory in Practice: Strategic Applications for Professionals

Public Relations Theory in Practice: Strategic Applications for Professionals

$31.99

There is nothing more real than theory.

Today’s public relations professionals need to account to management and clients for whether they have caused stakeholders to make meaningful change in their attitudes and behaviors that match organizational objectives. This requires strategy based on established theory that is well-reasoned and tested, not just informed guesses and clever tactics.

This book is an overview of theories that are relevant to a strategic practice of public relations. Brief theory explanations are followed by specific strategic applications in everything from segmenting publics, to planning research, to strategic messaging, to setting campaign objectives, and counseling organizational leadership. A public relations professional who understands and applies theory will be more strategic.