Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World

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Advance quotes for Liz’s work and her new book…

“Liz provides an in depth look at something we all struggle with. Finding the balance. These real-life examples provide insight into some innovative new thinking around the pragmatism of finding high impact results in the middle of changing priorities and the constant search for overall effectiveness”. — David and Esperanza Neu, Founders, Neu Center for Supportive Medicine and Cancer Survivorship

“Slowing down to speed up sounds like common sense. Why then do so many of us fail to execute on such a basic principle? Perhaps it is because we lack the tools that are necessary to make the process effective. Unlike many leadership books that utilize analogies and parables, Liz Bywater, Ph.D., provides guidance built on real-world examples, and incorporates instructive tools derived from her many years working as an executive consultant. If looking for a quick fix then this book is not for you. Because although Bywater’s work is a quick read, mastering the principle requires you to not just read, but reflect, engage, and slow down to get the most out of her advice.” — Rob Wright, Chief Editor, Life Science Leader magazine

“I have worked with Liz and greatly benefitted from her advice and the tools she has developed over a long career of advising executives. Everything Liz says seems so logical, you find yourself saying That makes sense! She creates a very easy system to get you to reflect, reprioritize, and create a vision for personal and career success. The stopping to accelerate, as Liz says, to speed up, is true in my own career. I love having these tools all in one book. Having the toolkit to put your thoughts into action is invaluable.” — Lorrie Vogel, Former VP Nike Material Science and Innovation

This book is a powerful new resource for leaders from the C-Suite to the front line. Filled with innovative new approaches, pragmatic tools, and real-life success stories, this book tackles the universal challenge of getting better, faster, more sustainable results in a world of nonstop demands and constant connectivity.

Inside, you’ll find the concepts and tools that help leaders successfully strategize, prioritize, lead with purpose, find balance, and gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced business environment. Based on Dr. Liz Bywater’s 20 years of professional experience helping individuals, teams, and organizations thrive, the book contains real-world illustrations of the challenges faced by today’s business leaders. Beyond that, it provides actionable guidance to help readers make the best decisions, create a proactive, future-focused work culture, catapult individual and team performance, and lead extraordinarily successful organizations.

21st Century Skills for Non-Profit Managers: A Practical Guide on Leadership and Management

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Over the last 30 years nonprofit organizations have grown massively in capacity, scope, and authority across the world. With growing demand for services, there are numerous opportunities for nonprofits to respond innovatively and sustainably.

Any experienced nonprofit manager knows the role is sometimes frustrating but always exhilarating, working with people and empowering them. Severe funding cuts make this more testing, but new prospects are appearing. If you are new to management or the sector, you need a book describing good practice to inform and guide you. Managing a small nonprofit, requires you to multitask, manage your time and prioritize tasks, while taking on extra responsibilities, you need new skills such as fundraising, all covered in this book.

This book covers essential aspects (staffing, communications, charity governance, donations, corporate social responsibility, crowdfunding). With useful case studies, resources and links, it avoids jargon and intellectualizing. Topics include effective business planning, empowering staff and clients, writing successful fundraising applications and preparing government tenders for the U.S. and UK.

Welcome to My Trading Room: Basics to Trading Global Shares, Futures, and Forex, Volume II: Create Your Own Brokerage

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This is a book on how to structure any trading business to build wealth based on a foundation of knowledge and trading discipline. The book is organized in five parts, covering all the basics needed to prepare the reader to prepare to trade in the global markets. It is the culmination of the perspectives and professional insights of an internationally-known author of thirteen financial books and a 30- year track record in the fields of investment, corporate finance, and trading. Jacque Magliolo is an economist, corporate adviser and strategist to multinationals, universities and international organizations, One of his intentions with this book is to demystify the complexities that make up markets around the world.

Enterprise Risk Management in a Nutshell

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Risk management is an often-used phrase that is rarely fully embedded within the business process and procedures of firms. This book looks at the challenges faced in implementing a risk management framework as well as the key elements of such a framework.

It is designed for the business professional that is not an expert in risk management and addresses all of the major risks that are likely to be faced in practice, considering the risk mitigation and measurement techniques that are most likely to be relevant. This is an intermediate book and accordingly does not focus on the mathematical elements but rather provides a readable entry text for anyone seeking information on this important subject.

Welcome to My Trading Room: Basics to Trading Global Shares, Futures, and Forex, Volume III: Advanced Methodologies and Strategies

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This third volume sets out more advanced trading techniques; starting with a breakdown of easy to use analytical tools, then building more complex knowledge of portfolio strategies and how to calculate a fair value of shares. This is followed by a breakdown of technical triggers and how to apply them in equities, futures, and forex trading.

Agile Human Resources: Creating a Sustainable Future for the HR Profession

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Over the last 20 years, the topic of conversation when it comes to HR, is whether or not it should even exist. The name of the function is ever changing, but are the outcomes and results evolving in the right way?

Over the last 5 years, the author has been designing and implementing HR solutions focused on doing things differently, and the creation of her AGILE HR framework is well received by all of her clients. Agile HR helps organizations manage, motivate, engage, inspire, and lead their people in the best possible way by treating them, first and foremost, as able adults that come to work to do a good job. Mainstream HR, however, works from the perspective of policing employees through policies and procedures that suffocate and restrict employees and hinder creativity and innovation at work.

This book provides hints, tips, and examples of how to implement Agile HR solutions into your organization that will help HR professionals and senior leaders implement people-focused solutions to increase productivity. It is time to put the human touch back into human resources.

A Communication Guide for Investor Relations in an Age of Activism

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Today’s competitive corporate environment and the increased expectations of speed in communication make it critical for companies to develop strategic programs for communicating with investors. This book provides an executive overview of the field of investor relations with a focus on what investor relations officers need to know to be successful. Readers will learn the essentials of communicating with investors, the stock market, governance, reputation, and more.

With the rise of activist investors, investor relations officers serve as guardians of one of a company’s most important assets— its reputation. This book serves as a guide to understanding the history of investor relations and how it has evolved in the age of activist investors. Included are discussions about managing an investor relations program, assessing reputations and how to measure the impact of investor relations efforts. By the end of the book, you will understand the strategic role of investor relations and how activism impacts corporate storytelling,risk,crisis, events,and analyst relations.

Welcome to My Trading Room: Basics to Trading Global Shares, Futures, and Forex, Volume I: Foundation of Trading

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This first volume builds a foundation of knowledge in a comprehensive body of literature on trading—to prepare novices to become professional traders. This book starts with the absolute basics of stock markets as a precursor to more advanced global trading methods in the next two volumes. The aim is to set out to demystify the myths about stock markets, and ultimately remove the enigma that has been bestowed on the industry.
The author includes an overview of how stockbroking works, establishing the link between the various departments and how these interact. Novice traders will find sections on Wall Street rules, age-old axioms and how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes interesting and also a warning that trading is not a game. The latter section includes an outline of portfolio management theory and practice.

Responsible Management Education: Some Voices From Asia

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This edited collection emerged from the need to know how business schools in Asia are inculcating responsible management. Data for the book was sourced from (a) the workshop proceedings of the 6th PRME Asia Forum held in November 2015 and (b) case studies submitted as part of the Forum. Academics from India, China, Philippines, New Zealand, USA and Hong Kong (who taught in Asia) contributed to the workshop/the case studies.

The book describes how some Asian business schools are incorporating ethics, social responsibility and sustainability into their curricular and extra-curricular activities. It identifes the challenges faced in providing such education and the implications thereof. In the process, it captures the unique favor of Asian business schools.

Business schools in Asia appear to have introduced several stand-alone courses on ethics and corporate responsibility. They have adopted pedagogies suited to the profile of their students. Many have promoted a concern for the poor through volunteering, projects or internships with NGOs. However, few have made responsible management a central part of their business school curriculum. Greater integration of responsible management into the curriculum requires supportive administrative policies, greater cross-functional interaction and the development of context- appropriate learning materials.