The Option Strategy Desk Reference: An Essential Reference for Option Traders

The Option Strategy Desk Reference: An Essential Reference for Option Traders

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Options are the fastest growing trading venue offered today. Option trading volume grew 22% in 2018 alone—faster than any other trading venue. Why? Because traders are learning how options are statistically predictable and orderly. And they provide extensive financial leverage and strategic flexibility. When compared to buying and selling stock, futures, or foreign exchange currency pairs, it’s not even a contest!
For just a few hundred dollars, an option trader can control tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock, ETF shares, a financial index, or futures contracts. And options offer dozens of trading strategies designed to exploit current market conditions. This book contains 78 option trading strategies, which provides readers with an option toolbox that fits every market condition, i.e., bullish, neutral, or bearish. No other financial instrument offers this flexibility and no other trading venue can provide the same steady financial return week in and week out.

Adaptive Project Planning

Adaptive Project Planning

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Despite claims to the contrary, there is no single approach to planning a project, but for a given project, there is a best one. This book takes you through many planning situations you will meet. The authors use stories of real projects to show how planning decisions alter depending on the project context. They discuss how resource-constrained planning differs from end-date schedule planning and look at what is different between cost-constrained plans and time b oxing. The text explores why you must plan when using agile approaches, how to approach the planning in stakeholder complex projects, and how to plan for innovation.
For project managers, getting involved with increasingly complex projects, it’s all about developing your judgment. The crucial judgments remain how to plan and structure a project. Through the exploration of many types of projects and the introduction of models and an approach to planning this book will aid your journey into high performance project management.

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

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Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal. Its purpose is to tackle key injustices and social inequality that are symptoms of the capitalist market system. By focusing on an agenda of doing good, temperatism seeks to reduce the level of elitism and social exclusion, that capitalism claims are inevitable, by sharing access to resources and ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to exercise their talent potential. With the world economy in flux and globalism under pressure from populist politicians finding a new way to think about business and doing good is significant at this point in history. The hurt and pain that inequality inflicts on individuals and groups in society through exclusion and neglect is in conflict with our natural sense of affinity, collaboration and our intrinsic sense of fair play and justice. The dysfunction that we are currently experiencing in our society is as a direct result of the inequality within our society.
Temperatism is based on the idea that humanity has the potential to co-operate, collaborate, assist and contribute to the greater good. The questions discussed in Volume 2 explore how replacing the profit motive with a doing good motive makes it possible to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges including reducing poverty, improving access to health and education, defending human rights, and protecting the environment. Organizations with a social conscience will leave a legacy of which they can be rightly proud, shifting business from being the center of society’s problems to being its savior.

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

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This book includes reports that managers originate often, reports they may create occasionally, and organizational policies, procedures, and work instructions. Inside, the reader will discover guides for creating over 20 diverse reports; designing report forms; planning, writing, and formatting narrative reports; producing digital and print employee manuals; and locating the service providers and software that can improve your reports’ cost-effectiveness. A crisp writing style, bullet points, and many authentic examples and visuals convey essential information quickly. Each chapter summary includes checklists. Business Report Guides gives ample information to apply instantly. It also works as a handy reference for use throughout your career.

Leadership Insights: 11 Typical Mistakes Young Leaders Make and Tips to Avoid Them

Leadership Insights: 11 Typical Mistakes Young Leaders Make and Tips to Avoid Them

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Leading ones first team can be a daunting and sometimes over- whelming experience, requiring self-reflection, self-discipline, communication, and organizational skills as well as no small amount of guts and values. This book provides young leaders or future high-potentials the guidance needed for how to deal with the challenges of leading teams in modern organizations.
Understanding the power of strengths-based leadership using clear two-way communication and, in particular, identifying with one’s own leadership philosophy are central themes in this book. It highlights the typical mistakes made by first- time leaders and offers theoretical and practical advice to deal with the difficulties of management.

Trade Credit and Financing Instruments

Trade Credit and Financing Instruments

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Trade credit is extensively used in both domestic and international commercial transactions. Although it clearly supports growth, its significance is even greater for developed countries, where the market has recovered remarkably since the global financial crisis. The number and heterogeneity of motivations to trade credit justify the variability observed in the data on global trading, and the role of trade credit has become crucial in supply chain coordination.
A range of diverse trade credit finance solutions are available and include products and services offered by financial intermediaries and market products, highlighting a very interesting set of intermediate solutions that have emerged as a result of new technologies utilized in financial services. For financiers trade credit is an attractive option, but an in-depth evaluation of the possibility of losses forms the basis of a deep understating of numerous sources that can create credit risk (default and dilution risk). This book offers managers a complete analysis of the various facets of commercial credit and presents an analysis of the various types of markets, instruments, and risks associated with trade credit in supply chains across the globe.

Optimizing the Supply Chain

Optimizing the Supply Chain

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In a recent article about the death of supply chain management, it was stated that in this world, forecasts are perfect, machines have no operators, and block chain drives it all. Practitioners in the world of supply chain know that it is central to the management of cash and that systems are never the silver bullet as they do not foresee events; they only provide calculations from the data they are fed.Optimizing the Supply Chain is an essential book to help readers understand the dynamics of how a global business operates. Chapter by chapter, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of people, process, and tools; and how a supply chain should operate in today’s complex world.
Readers will learn about how an ideal business maintains no unnecessary inventory, responds to changes, and delivers products on time or defect free—and how this ability is a competitive advantage for any business that can solve the equation.
Key functional processes are explained in detail for practitioners to learn how to operate effectively in today’s arena. People still have to do all of the work to achieve this.

The New World of Human Resources and Employment : How Artificial Intelligence and Process Redesign is Driving Dramatic Change

The New World of Human Resources and Employment : How Artificial Intelligence and Process Redesign is Driving Dramatic Change

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Artificial intelligence (AI) will change the world, as we know it within only a few years. Its most significant impact will be on our human resource (HR). What is AI and what’s made it significant–the answers lie within this concise book. The book offers organizations the catalyst for swift change to take strategic advantage of what AI has to offer.
In this book are some of the HR processes that can be changed today, suggestions on what’s available, and some resources readers may wish to use. The evidence so far is that many HR functions have not developed AI strategies, in a false belief that AI is in the future. But it’s here and it’s happening, and the change is expediential in its growth; we are in the change window for a massive paradigm shift, now is the time for immediate action.
This is truly a golden opportunity for human resource professionals, organizational designers, business managers, business students, and workforce planners. Organizations that act, and act fast, will be the beneficiaries of the AI revolution.

MS Excel: Let's Advance to the Next Level, Second Edition

MS Excel: Let’s Advance to the Next Level, Second Edition

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MS Excel is one of the most powerful tools available to a business manager. In this book, the author provides an advanced level of skill sets and brings actionable insights to the user.
Hence, the material in this version has been organized as follows:
‧ Financial functions
‧ Conditional math and statistical functions
‧ Data analysis
‧ Decision making
‧ Data cleaning and use of macros
‧ Auditors
The objective is to give readers a flavor of how the vast array of functions can be used to make life easier and more efficient. Amazing results can be achieved by mastering Excel at a basic level. Readers who execute the given functions on a workbook simultaneously and experience the journey will find the learning curve the steepest.

Passion, Persistence, and Patience : Key Skills for Achieving Project Success

Passion, Persistence, and Patience : Key Skills for Achieving Project Success

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The aim of this book is to inspire and encourage project practitioners, executives, and beginners in the project management field to develop passion, persistence, and patience. The author tells his personal stories and experiences managing projects in organizations by practicing his three Ps–passion, persistence, and patience. Several examples and some tools are included at every chapter. The reader will discover how to assess his/her passion, persistence, and patience and will discover suggestions and methods to prepare an improvement plan. This book is the fruit of several years of different author experiences lived as a project manager and as a professional worldwide. Cultivating his passion, persistence, and patience over the years, he has achieved many of his professional goals. Read this book carefully and reflect upon your personal behaviors, then you will achieve your excellence as a professional.