Getting to Market With Your MVP: How to Achieve Small Business and Entrepreneur Success

Getting to Market With Your MVP: How to Achieve Small Business and Entrepreneur Success

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Getting to Market With Your MVP: How to Achieve Small Business and Entrepreneur Success is a book to assist college students, new entrepreneurs, and current business owners in their under- standing of how to bring a concept, product, or new business to market. The minimum viable product (MVP) is the foundation of the business and the staple for sustainable growth. Many businesses fail due to the inability of establishing a core concept, or primary product to introduce to the market.
This book is intended to provide a concise method of developing a business strategy for successful entry into the market while eliminating the frustration of trial and error. Through this work, readers learn the difference between the purpose of a business plan, market analysis, and a feasibility study. Readers will also understand the difference between a good idea and a great business model. This book serves as a tool for increasing the opportunity for success when launching a product, service, or a business.

No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth

No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth

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When it comes to running a business, none of us has time for approaches that leave us asking, “So what?” In our decade of working together, Karen demonstrated an unflappable bias for action and an obsession for meaningful results. Her book will enable you to achieve those same kinds of results and all the different types of success that goes with them. — Rod Canion, Founder and former CEO, Compaq Computer Corporation
Karen Walker’s book, No Dumbing Down, is a quick-hitting treasure trove of applicable models that can and should be applied to a growing business. Her extensive insights are shared in a practical and approachable manner that supports the imperfect but all-important discipline of transitioning in and out of levels of organizational maturity. – Jeff Margolis, Chairman and CEO, Welltok, Inc. and Founding CEO, TriZetto
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No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company’s senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization’s internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustain- able growth.
This book combines the author’s impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work—taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Sustain: Extending Improvement in the Modern Enterprise

Sustain: Extending Improvement in the Modern Enterprise

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This is a work of system-think on why breakthroughs don’t sustain. In answer, it recalls mutual learning, by which the exceptional have defied the norms of decline since before humans could write about it.
Part 1 shows the mechanics how complex adaptive systems extend order—Hayek’s catallaxy. How lean exploits this is unpacked. Part 2 isolates popular fallacies of control that incentivize undoing. Part 3 offers countermeasures—leveled exploration and exploitation in strategy deployment, standard work, and development of employees, products, services, and methods. Lean turns paradigms and routines from holding on, to sustainably moving on.
Lean is not just a factory thing. Lessons abound in nature’s fractals and adaptations, admin, and history too; from the present back through World War II, the Industrial Revolution, the Reformation, to its roots in the civilizing of Antiquity.
Learners mine hard lessons while knowers sadly repeat them. Great sources on catallaxy—Juran, Hayek, Popper, Kuhn, Sproul, Rother, March—have left us rich deposits of distilled experience.
Sustain is a trail guide, locating pivotal insights to defy the entropy of abandon-and-revert, in any enterprise that coordinates re- sources, time, and treasure in the face of varying, alternative uses.

A Primer on Microeconomics, Volume I: Elements and Principles, Second Edition

A Primer on Microeconomics, Volume I: Elements and Principles, Second Edition

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Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the scientific study of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life or in our work environment.
This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic microeconomics. Volume one, Fundamentals of Exchange, delivers clear statements of essential economic principles and models of exchange, with easy to understand examples. The underlying goal is to provide a concise readable primer that covers the fundamentals of microeconomic theory. The text looks at the assumption of rationality; the need for choice; opportunity cost; the rationale for interpersonal and international exchange;the meaning of economic efficiency in the competitive and re- stricted markets; applications of elasticity; and develops and expands the economist’s basic demand and supply model.

The Leadership Development Journey: How Entrepreneurs Develop Their Leadership Through Their Lifetime

The Leadership Development Journey: How Entrepreneurs Develop Their Leadership Through Their Lifetime

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This study reflects leadership development is a multilevel multi- context self-learning longitudinal journey embedded in a social learning environment with nine influential factors: parents, teamwork sport activities, teachers, role models, mentors/coaches, community-based networks (social factors); self-learning, experimentation, self-reflection (self factors).
These findings of the book are based on a longitudinal qualitative study of interviewing 100 SME’s business owners and leaders attending a British leadership development framework and an international communication and leadership development program.

Project-Based Learning: How to Approach, Report, Present, and Learn from Course-Long Projects

Project-Based Learning: How to Approach, Report, Present, and Learn from Course-Long Projects

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Project-based learning is different from traditional lectures and requires students to behave different from the traditional classroom. This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form. Different types of projects such as projects that contribute to theory and projects that contribute to practice are covered, to explain to students what to expect, how to approach the project, how to interact with students in groups, and how to interact with the instructor. The discussion includes many useful examples.

A Primer on Microeconomics, Volume II: Competition and Constraints, Second Edition

A Primer on Microeconomics, Volume II: Competition and Constraints, Second Edition

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Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the scientific study of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life or in our work environment.
This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic microeconomics. Volume two, Competition and Constraints, focuses on understanding how markets may operate; profit maximization; how real-world concerns may reduce efficiency; what corrective actions may be taken to prevent market failure and the implications of those actions. The goal is to provide a concise readable primer that extends the fundamentals of microeconomic theory to consider practical economic issues.

A Primer on Macroeconomics, Volume I: Elements and Principles, Second Edition

A Primer on Macroeconomics, Volume I: Elements and Principles, Second Edition

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Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences. At its heart, economics is the science of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life, our work environment, or at the national or international level.
This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic macroeconomics. Volume one, Elements and Principles, delivers clear statements of essential economic principles, supported by easy to understand examples, and uncluttered by extraneous material; the goal is to provide a concise read- able primer that covers the substance of macroeconomic theory. The text looks at opportunity cost; the rationale for trade and exchange rates; the economist’s basic demand and supply model; the efficient operation of competitive markets;important tools used to measure the macroeconomy

Redefining Competency Based Education: Competence for Life

Redefining Competency Based Education: Competence for Life

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Redefining Competency-Based Education provides an expanded definition of career competence, based on actual employer hiring and promotion requirements, which enhances university curricula to better prepare students for work and life. Readers will learn how private sector competency models have evolved to define criteria for hiring, promoting, and training talent.
The authors contrast these models with classic university practices to document a historic academic preference for technical preparation over the so-called soft skills valued by employers. This book outlines techniques for measuring and developing soft skills that provide significant advantage in career success, and shares examples of universities that have successfully implemented these concepts.

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams

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Check out the Powerpoint slides and the below video, the authors have prepared to give you better insight into this book.

Everyone has talents and strengths. Everyone does projects.

Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams integrates common project management and strengths-based talent development language to help you and your project team learn about and become a strengths-based project team.

This book is designed for project managers, team members, and stakeholders who have an interest in talent development— not only their own talents and strengths, but also the combined talents and strengths of their project teams.

Readers will learn about the characteristics of a strengths-based project team and how to apply a series of building blocks for individual and team strengths-based development. Through exercises, templates, action plans, and reflective questions, learn how to cultivate the collective strengths of project team members to become a strengths-based project team.

Explore the various project management roles for sustaining a strengths-based project team culture. Create an environment in which team members can use their talent development tools long-term to develop and apply what they naturally do best–resulting in higher project team performance.