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First and Fast: Outpace Your Competitors, Lead Your Markets, and Accelerate Growth
$21.99

“First & Fast is a testament to Stuart Cross’s deep understanding of what business leaders need to do ensure their companies grow and thrive. I have known and worked with Stuart for over a decade and he has always helped me to think and act differently. The ideas and tools in this book will help you to act differently to accelerate the growth of your business.” – Alex Gourlay, President, Walgreens Inc.
For the past 30 years, business leaders have been exhorted to move faster and adopt a “ready, fire, aim” approach to the growth of their business. As the level of change and turbulence increases in all markets, all organizations must adapt—quickly!—or risk decline and decay. But what are the real behaviors, processes, and techniques that are critical to lead your organization at pace without creating confusion, frustration, and unnecessary risk?
First and Fast provides business leaders with a comprehensive and pragmatic set of tools and ideas to enable them to increase pace, build momentum, and accelerate growth in a systematic way. This book is written for business owners, chief executives, other senior executives and managers, consultants, and business advisors.

The Resilience Advantage: Stop Managing Stress and Find Your Resilience
$21.99

“This book has great application for workplace health and well being and will help corporate leaders lead the way to a healthier and more productive workplace.”- Alberto Colombi, M.D., MPH., Former Global Medical Director, PPG Industries.
“In clear and accessible language, Citrin and Weiss show us how to see past the frenzy and panic of our complicated daily lives and dip into the deep reservoir of calm adaptability that exists within each of us.” – Grant Oliphant, President, The Heinz Endowments
Imagine if we stopped trying to “manage” the stress in our workplaces and personal lives. What if we recognized, instead, that the challenges we face every day could actually make us stronger, smarter, and more successful. We wouldn’t feel victimized by the stress in our lives; with a change in how we view these challenges, we become capable of resolving them and winning the day.
Global businesses, governments, and communities are profoundly changing their approaches to adversity and challenges. The Resilience Advantage reveals the techniques and methodology we all can apply in our workplaces and homes.
Filled with professional and personal stories, pragmatic research, powerful case studies, and practical actionable tools, this book IS the formula to help each of us turn our challenges into our Resilience Advantage.

An Introduction to Lean work Design: Fundamentals of Lean Operations, Volume I
$21.99

This book provides a short, concise overview of lean work design, which sees lean systems as the result of a systematic implementation of appropriate work processes. It discusses lean tools, but views tools only as a means of achieving a desirable work design and does not see the use of lean tools as a goal in themselves.

Success: Theory and Practice
$21.99

“Michael’s newest book is an absolute must read for both anyone entering the job market and those looking for growth in both their professional and personal lives. This is not your everyday book on success, as it touches on the success of many, but lets you in on the mental and emotional challenges each faced throughout the journey.” **–Rocco Marrari, National Accounts Manager for EBE Technologies**

“This is a must read for anyone who is interested achieving personal and professional success. Personal and professional growth is a key to success in our careers in this ever-changing environment. Dr. Edmondson provides questions to ask ourselves periodically as a performance temperature check along with some quizzes. He also provides real life examples of successful individuals and traits they implemented to achieve their success.” **–Robert Sauselein, CHST, Northeast Operations Manager, HazTek, Inc.**

“*Michael connects the dots in this where the rubber meets the road with his* 7 Characteristics of Success. *He demonstrates the practical traits, backed up by fascinating research, to help you unfold your own success story.”* **–John P. Clark, CFPR- Financial Advisor and Retirement Living Expert**

To improve an individual’s capacity to process information, the self-help genre has a tremendous need for a publication that both summarizes the latest research and provides case studies.

**This book meets both needs and is valuable for any person interested in achieving personal or professional success.**

Divided into seven chapters, this publication examines the theory and practice of success and includes research from history, psychology, sociology, cognitive neuroscience, animal behavior, and other areas.

An Introduction to Lean work Design: Fundamentals of Lean Operations, Volume II
$21.99

This book approaches Lean as an exercise in work design – hence its title. To provide an integrated view of the different perspectives of lean work design, the book examines the major work design decisions from each perspective. It identifies the principles involved in lean operations and examines three existing theories of work design that help define lean operations: systems theory; system variance and the three buffers utilized to protect the system from variance (inventory, capacity and lead time); and organizational information processing theory.
The intended outcome for readers of this book will be an understanding of what is meant by Lean, how it applies to work design, and how it can be implemented in a variety of industries and organizational settings to make those organizations more competitive.

Fostering Brand Community Through Social Media

$21.99

This book focuses on building and maintaining brand community in the emerging, dynamic space of social media. A theoretical model encompassing brand characteristics, relational factors, and characteristics of the brand user community is used as a structure to explain the various aspects of online brand communities. Further, the authors discuss how online brand communities differ from and can be used to complement traditional, face-to-face brand communities.
Brand managers, social media managers, and other members of the brand team will find this book useful for strategic decision making in both building and maintaining brand communities. In addition, this book will serve as a practical guide for working professionals enrolled in executive education degree programs as these programs continue to be developed in universities throughout the world.