Transforming Quality Organizations: A Practical Guide

Transforming Quality Organizations: A Practical Guide

$31.99

Is your Quality organization holding your business back? Is regulatory compliance seen as more important than product or service quality? Do you feel the needs of your customers are lost in a sea of regulations?

Transforming Quality Organizations: A Practical Guide questions whether the current approach to managing quality is fit for purpose and, using the latest organizational thinking provides fresh, practical ways to balance a quality system to:

  • Manage risk for better patient, customer, regulator, and stockholder outcomes.
  • Achieve balance between ensuring compliance and supporting innovation.
  • Transform your Quality organization through a roadmap of change.

Applicable to all businesses where quality is paramount, the content is based on practical experience of executing transformational change in the healthcare sector resulting in:

  • Product recall rates cut by 50%.
  • Product development cycle-times cut by 50%.
  • Significant cost savings in quality system execution.

This book is invaluable for business leaders who want to transform their Quality organization and increase the value it delivers for their business.

Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Executives In China

Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Executives In China

$37.99

Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China’s unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country’s swarming cities, recent economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent internet, confusing culture, and endless opportunities.

This book is a rare insight into the way global firms select, relocate, manage, motivate, and reward top managers in the world’s most populous market. CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior managers recall their careers since China’s early 2000s reform period until a notable 2014 policy paper declared “the end of a golden age for foreign business in China”, and beyond to the present day.

Dragon Suit addresses crucial questions for international business:

  • How did China become a key market for global firms?
  • Why are most foreign managers unprepared for its challenges?
  • Why did the country’s near-million foreigners begin to leave in the mid-2010s, and who will replace them?
  • Most importantly, how can managers, entrepreneurs, experts, and students prepare for an increasingly China-facing future in business?

Speaking Up at Work: Leading Change as an Independent Thinker

Speaking Up at Work: Leading Change as an Independent Thinker

$31.99

If you have ever feared speaking up about your ideas or have done so but are frustrated by your lack of success, this book is for you.

You’ll learn from the stories of others who have been a “lone voice” or an “independent thinker” and their attempts at change—both successful and unsuccessful. By learning from their experiences, you’ll gain insight into effective tactics and pitfalls to avoid. In addition, if you are a leader and afraid you are not hearing the best ideas from your team, you’ll learn various tools and tactics to let the best ideas emerge.

Along with stories ranging from CEOs to individual contributors, you’ll learn insights from studies in psychology and management and what has been found through decades of research. Together the book offers an engaging portrait of when, why, and how to have your voice heard at work and in life.

A Project Sponsor's Warp-Speed Guide: Improving Project Performance

A Project Sponsor’s Warp-Speed Guide: Improving Project Performance

$31.99

Are you new to the project sponsor role or want to improve? This book’s practical guidance will help you successfully fulfill your role. We understand you are time-challenged. This book is short, direct, and focuses on the most common project issues. The book’s guidance is helpful for projects of all sizes and across all sectors.

Completing the warp-speed project assessment will assess your project’s risks and better understand the topics that need more attention. With our practical actions, you can champion the project for success.

Great Meetings Build Great Teams: A Guide for Project Leaders and Agilists

Great Meetings Build Great Teams: A Guide for Project Leaders and Agilists

$34.99

Struggling with ineffective project meetings? You’re not alone.

  • 67% of executives believe their virtual meetings are failures.
  • Only 17% of senior managers find their meetings productive.
  • A mere 30% of meetings are considered productive, with only 37% using an agenda.

Want to create happier, more successful project teams?

Better-run meetings are the key. As project leaders, we often dislike, avoid, and fail to properly plan meetings. This practical guide will help you facilitate project meetings and build cohesive teams, making your meetings more productive and yielding better project results.

In this book, you’ll discover:

  • How improving traditional PM meetings and Agile events can enhance continuous team building, making you a better project leader.
  • Strategies to overcome challenges in managing conflict, with real-world stories from fellow project leaders.
  • Practical, time-tested techniques to handle disruptive participants (goblins e.g., “Billy the Bully”) who derail your meetings.

Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition, this book will help you achieve project success in today’s environment – hybrid in several ways – in-person and virtual, predictive and Agile, AI and human.

Still Room for Humans: Career Planning in an AI World

Still Room for Humans: Career Planning in an AI World

$31.99

Don’t let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!

Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need to stay employable in the future:

  • Learn how to make yourself indispensable to your company.
  • Learn how to develop “soft skills” that robots and AI cannot match.
  • Learn how to collaborate with robots.
  • Learn how to retool your skills without going back to school.
  • Learn which traditionally “safe careers and entire industries will no longer be safe in the future because of artificial intelligence.

Learn why the changes caused by disruptive technology will be far greater and take place far faster than in previous industrial revolutions. This book offers several ways to cope with the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to a company or organization as well as how to take advantage of the disruption likely to result from other new technologies including 3D printing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, green technologies, Big Data, blockchain, and nanotechnology.

Still Room for Humans spells out the types of jobs long associated with well-paying careers that should be avoided because they are most likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. It lists several new jobs that don’t exist yet but will be created shortly as new technologies become more prevalent.

Schatt provides career planning information as well as specific advice for those readers already employed.

Leadership In Disruptive Times: Negotiating the New Balance

Leadership In Disruptive Times: Negotiating the New Balance

$41.99

The global outbreak of coronavirus has disrupted and created significant challenges for businesses and leaders across the world. When will we ever get back to normal? That’s the question nearly everyone has been asking since March 2020 when the devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis changed nearly everything, which was covered in the first edition of this book.

Coronavirus is here to stay with the pandemic turning into an endemic which would require us to embrace new definitions of leadership based on the latest research by the Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI), the research affiliate of the Centre for Executive Education (CEE).

What kinds of leadership skills will they need to navigate the challenges in a pandemic to the endemic workplace successfully? What are the key trends for the organization to consider as they reimagine and reinvent the way work gets done in this transformative era? How do organizations balance business sustainability with supporting employee needs?

This revised edition of Leadership in Disruptive Times will provide insights into these questions and serve as a guide for leaders in managing near-insurmountable challenges both now and for the future.

Technical Marketing Communication, Second Edition: A Guide to Writing, Design, and Delivery

Technical Marketing Communication, Second Edition: A Guide to Writing, Design, and Delivery

$31.99

This book is written to help professionals take action. Each chapter describes concepts and tips that apply to a variety of industries. This book is especially beneficial to the following readers:

  • Marketing professionals promoting technical features and benefits of products or services will gain insight into technical communication and how to integrate complex information into promotional efforts.
  • Managers working with writers and designers will learn terminology and principles that will help you evaluate marketing materials and provide detailed feedback.
  • Technical communicators working on marketing projects will gain an understanding of principles and best practices you can integrate with your previous training.
  • Entrepreneurs, non-profit employees, and freelancers who want to develop marketing and promotional materials will gain tips and best practices that you can immediately.

After reading this comprehensive, yet concise guide, you will be equipped to engage in every aspect of technical marketing and promotion – including planning, writing, designing, and delivery.

The Hybrid Entrepreneur: A Novel Career in Science and Business

The Hybrid Entrepreneur: A Novel Career in Science and Business

$28.99

Do you want to start your own company?

This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author’s academic and business career.

This book discusses:

  • What are the successful characteristics of an inventor, entrepreneur, and a CEO?
  • Understanding the vocabulary of the entrepreneur’s ecosystem.
  • What are the evaluation criteria for the team, product, business model & exit plan?
  • Do consumers need or want your product?
  • How to create the story that will fit the right investor for funding?
  • Understanding the investor evaluation and screening process.

Readers will learn how to ask the right questions to build a strong ecosystem with service providers, customers, and investors.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, read this book. It is about the author’s personal experiences as a scientist, an inventor, an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.

Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy

Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy

$34.99

Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy presents a unique, proven methodology for achieving an environment of innovation.

This book details a comprehensive and integrated approach to optimization: acting strategically; refining business processes; energizing personnel development; forging reasoned technology decisions; and synchronizing corporate governance, organizational design, and company culture.

Practices and principles are delivered in a conversational tone and are accompanied by intriguing historical anecdotes that entertain and help illustrate the authors’ position points for each chapter–making for an interesting read.

Whether the goal is improving select aspects of your company or totally rethinking the business model, this book furnishes the roadmap for achieving that successful transformation.