Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Driving Corporate Innovation Through Start-ups, Spinoffs, and Venture Capital

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Driving Corporate Innovation Through Start-ups, Spinoffs, and Venture Capital

$31.99

This book is for corporate managers with a mandate for ‘innovation’, but no idea how to make that happen.

C-suite executives and boards of directors are increasingly looking for companies to reinvent themselves or risk being left behind. With this book, companies can monetize employee’s ideas in a manner that doesn’t cost a fortune or create conflicts of interest within the ranks. Not every creative expression is going to result in tens of millions of dollars in revenue–but many will create licensing opportunities that are, at the very least, essentially free money for new product development.

Another cadre of readers will realize their innovation-rich futures are languishing in corporate purgatory. Should they quit and pitch their ‘million-dollar idea’ to another organization entirely (as outsiders), or can they take this book to their leaders and drive change, one manager at a time?

Evolving with Inclusive Business in Emerging Markets: Managing the New Bottom Line

Evolving with Inclusive Business in Emerging Markets: Managing the New Bottom Line

$34.99

This book discusses the attributes of inclusive business by engaging people (customers and stakeholders) in creating social and customer values and enhancing business growth among customer-centric companies.

Corporate policy and implications of the inclusiveness in businesses on social development constitute the core discussion in this book. Inclusivity concepts and arguments are endorsed by case studies across the developing economies. Philosophy and practices of inclusive business through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis has been discussed across five chapters.

Discussion on the success of inclusive businesses in the context of innovation, technology, and new product development which motivated people-led companies to adapt to agile business modeling and drive co-creation and coevolution initiatives are central to this book.

Dismantling the American Dream: How Multinational Corporations Undermine American Prosperity

Dismantling the American Dream: How Multinational Corporations Undermine American Prosperity

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This book is not an academic treatise. It is a concise story that tells what America’s multinationals did to the U.S. economy and how they did it. It is an applied and actionable book which includes many suggested solutions that function as steps the reader can take in their company.

This book is based on a promise made by multinationals in 2018 when 181 CEOs signed a commitment letter to lead their companies not just for the benefit of their investors, but for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.

During the last 40 years, the American dream has been dismantled by the policies and decisions of the multinational corporations (MNCs). Instead of benefitting all stake holders, they chose to favor their shareholders over all stake holders and short-term profits over society and country. To begin this process of change to achieve these new commitments, they must first understand what corporations did wrong since 1980 that didn’t benefit the other stakeholders.

This book will provide managers a detailed summary of the problems and obstacles they will need to address and overcome if they are going to make good on their commitment to meet the needs of all stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, communities, and an economy that serves all Americans. It also offers many solutions that will help them improve their job performance.

It is in the interest of America’s multinationals to find ways to protect their technologies, reduce outsourcing, and shift their focus to playing in a long-term economic game if they want to be competitive in the future.

Hidden Challenges: Human Dynamics in Organizational Change and Recovery

Hidden Challenges: Human Dynamics in Organizational Change and Recovery

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“A new lens is offered that sheds light on hidden challenges in periods of organizational change and reveals them in a creative and constructive way. This approach supports a better-informed diagnosis of the pain in the organization when change takes place.” –Claudia Zarate, Managing Director, Consumer Products Coverage, BNP Paribas

Going far beyond a purely rational-structural way of looking at change in organizations, this book contributes well researched insights into often-overlooked organizational blind spots.

The authors share their own experiences in clear and accessible language, exploring recovery from cumulative crises; nostalgia and postalgia; victimization of leaders; dealing with narcissistic leaders; and a writing process for reducing anxiety through self-reflection.

Anyone who works in an organization—large or small—will gain new perspectives on the most difficult challenge of all: understanding human behavior in times of change.

Business Models in Emerging Technologies: Data Science, AI, and Blockchain

Business Models in Emerging Technologies: Data Science, AI, and Blockchain

$31.99

This book is a practical guide to two of the most important emerging technologies: data science/AI and blockchain.

The world of technology progresses so quickly that we often don’t realize how far we’ve come. Over the last 20 years, technologies like data science, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain have transformed the world of business, industry, and society.

These emerging technologies offer a wide range of opportunities. However, they also create new challenges businesses must face, such as developing new business models, and discovering the best adoption strategies.

This book is a practical guide to two of the most important emerging technologies: data science/AI and blockchain. With broad applicability across all sectors, decision-makers would greatly benefit from understanding these fields.

Sales is a Team Sport

Sales is a Team Sport

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We see teamwork in every sphere of business, so why should sales be any different?

Sales is a critical part of any business, whether it’s for survival or to grow and scale. Often salespeople are seen as independent hunters and farmers working to serve their company, but that would be wrong. Salespeople may be the tip of the spear when it comes to winning business, but great sales success is built on teamwork.

This book sets out to identify the key components and helps the reader understand what it takes to build the best team from people, skills, processes, technology, and systems. Broken down into chapters that cover everything from the sales process and managing opportunities, to the important role played by marketing, and why CRM is not just a piece of software.

Sales is a team sport. Like all team sports there are those that play on the field and those that work to help the team perform. In any organization everyone plays a part. In the field of sales, understanding how this all comes together will not only help any company, but also anyone that reads the book and wants to get more out of their role, or move their business forward and achieve greater sales success as a team.

The book is filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from the author’s career in sales.

Better Outcomes: A Guide to Humanizing Healthcare

Better Outcomes: A Guide to Humanizing Healthcare

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We have a problem in healthcare.

That problem is this: in today’s healthcare environment, especially in the United States, people take a back seat to the numbers in almost every aspect of healthcare service delivery. Productivity, utilization, and other business metrics rule the roost.

If it’s not calculatable, spreadsheet-able, or measurable, it hardly receives any attention from healthcare managers, administrators, and decision-makers.

We can’t simply sit back and allow the dehumanization that currently runs rampant in our clinics and hospitals continue to wreak havoc on one of the most important factors in clinical outcomes: the relationships between healthcare professionals and the people (patients) that they serve.

Healthcare is a great and noble profession, but it will only remain so if we, as healthcare professionals, return its focus to its true purpose: people, the people receiving care, and the people working to deliver that care. After all, we’re all more than simply numbers on spreadsheets or items on checklists.

Better Outcomes: A Guide for Humanizing Healthcare outlines the 8 changes that organizations and clinicians need to commit to in order to return to the focus of healthcare to where it should be: the patient.

The book covers topics related to truly patient-centered care, a biopsychosocial approach to service delivery, patient engagement, interpersonal communication, and developing long-term relationships with patients.

Through an exploration of both clinical research and real-life examples and cases, the book outlines and supports a vision of a new healthcare, where skilled, competence, and caring clinicians care for engaged patients to promote better clinical outcomes, deliver unmatched satisfaction, and lasting relationships.

Innovation Soup: A Recipe for Organizational Success

Innovation Soup: A Recipe for Organizational Success

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Not your average cookbook. This is a research-based recipe for innovation!

This book is for anyone wanting to kick start innovation in their organization. It is ground-breaking in two ways:

  • It is based on data, combining empirical research, literature reviews, business cases, and interviews.
  • It tells a story of two friends in diametrically opposite business predicaments due to COVID. Their story is complex and layered, making for engaging reading.

For too long, innovation culture has been amorphous. InnoQTM, built on years of rigorous research, breaks it into 11 dimensions that can be measured, tracked, and improved. We share real world data and examples showing the power of the 11 dimensions and provide concrete ways to improve on them. The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way organizations do business for the next many years–creating a culture of innovation is now more important than ever.

This book is perfect for leaders, innovators, managers, and students.

**If you are interested in the InnoQ Tool, please contact Sanjay Puligadda at [email protected] or [email protected]

DOWNLOAD the InnoQ informational document HERE

Managing Projects with PMBOK 7: Connecting New Principles with Old Standards

Managing Projects with PMBOK 7: Connecting New Principles with Old Standards

$37.99

The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute, provides a roadmap of performance domains designed to support project managers in all phases of project management.

The sheer number of models, methods, and artifacts may leave project managers in a quandary about where to start and how to apply the many components.

This book provides a simple explanatory guide for the layman that clarifies the ‘big picture’ of the PMBOK.

Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty

Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of Uncertainty

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“In Confronting the Storm, David passionately argues for a shift from the predominant legacy thinking that struggles with our greatest challenges to a regenerative and collaborative mindset within leaders. Humanity is at a fork in the road so new, creative, and urgent leadership is essential. For us all and future generations to be able to thrive on Spaceship Earth, this book makes for compelling reading.” –David Houle, MD, The Sarasota Institute and 5x TEDx speaker, US

Traditional leadership wisdom is buckling and failing.

Leaders are not only grappling with the pandemic, but a greater challenge awaits them – a storm of complex social, environmental, and economic issues that is leaving organizations extremely vulnerable.

As daunting as it may feel, there are substantial opportunities to thrive.

David provocatively argues that, to successfully deal with the storm, we must accept that the leadership styles that have been celebrated for centuries are now an obstacle to progress. He explores the storm-defying alternatives: key skills and traits that are now crucial for regenerating lives, livelihoods, and the planet, pointing the way to a more collaborative, innovative, successful future for leaders and organizations.

This argument is amplified by some of the most inspiring global leaders who are successfully confronting the storm – including a former Prime Minister, former Foreign Minister, one of Fortune magazines ‘50 Greatest Leaders’, and more.

What will your legacy be?