Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals patterns and antipatterns to show how business leaders from every industry can help their organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. #BVSSH
Featuring cutting-edge research and in-depth reporting, this paradigm-shifting book shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and unknown, and how to seek not-knowing in the service of curiosity, wisdom, and discovery.
School systems nationwide are struggling to excel as they lurch from crisis to crisis-teacher shortages, school shootings, high turnover rates, weak discipline systems, and more. These things can pull the focus of school boards away from why school systems exist: to educate students. Airick Journey Crabill has a track record of helping school ......
Accounting Principles and Planning for the Craft Brewer
Your brewery is much more than just a small business--it's the fulfillment of your dream to share a love for quality craft beer and beverages. Build success from start-up to expansion with a solid foundation of finance principles geared specifically toward small beverage producers. Learn how to build and interpret financial reports and create ......
Harnessing the Power of STEMM Leaders in an Irrational World
Businesses are not maximising their scientific and technical human capital and are therefore missing out on innovation and growth opportunities. Global risks are intensifying, threatening the wellbeing of our children and future generations. These risks are a result of years of irrational decision-making; the world urgently needs rational thinking.
This laboratory manual is intended for business analysts who wish to increase their skills in the use of statistical analysis to support business decisions. Most of the case studies use Excel,today's most common analysis tool. They range from the most basic descriptive analytical techniques to more advanced techniques such as linear regression and ......
With many recent advances in data science, we have many more tools and techniques available for data analysts to extract information from data sets. This book will assist data analysts to move up from simple tools such as Excel for descriptive analytics to answer more sophisticated questions using machine learning.
Four leadership factors that will make or break your organisation
Become a leader who can work with change to realise the leadership potential in yourself, your team and your organisation. Leading a business has never been more challenging, and continual change can leave leaders ungrounded, distracted and unsure of the way forward. The Stability Effect leads you on a four-part pathway that gives you alignment ......
Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of
Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money ......
A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Edge
This book provides a blueprint for sustained and profitable business growth to help companies build the ultimate competitive edge. By combining proven planning and execution strategies with daily hard work and routines, The Growth Advantage cracks open business secrets that teach companies how to achieve that dream of steady, predictable growth.
Choosing the things you keep in your life and where you focus your energy is doable, and Gail Golden shows you how. Curating your life means selecting those activities that are most important, meaningful, and joyful for you and fiercely focusing your energy on those endeavors. It also means putting a whole bunch of stuff in the back room, to ......
This workbook is intended for business analysts who wish to improve their skills in creating data visuals, presentations, and report illustrations used to support business decisions. It is a qualitative lab to develop the power of visualization and discrimination. It does not require the reader to modify charts, but to analyze and describe what ......
How to expand your business without losing your best talent
Is your talent strategy holding you back? For leaders who are facing unrelenting pressure to retain and engage top talent, build a high-performing culture, align your talent strategy with your business goals, and drive sustainable growth... ...this book is your lifeline. Growth on Purpose is your blueprint for unleashing ......
'My manager doesn't give a f**k' - Is this what you want your people to say about you?' This book doesn't just tell you what to do to lead well: it tells you exactly how to do it - what to say, how to say it and why - when you need it. This practical, skills-based handbook for managers and leaders provides helpful guidance, practical ......
In Feminist Theories and Feminist Economics: A Multi-Paradigmatic Approach, Kavous Ardalan examines four paradigms of feminist theory and economics, emphasizing the value of an integrative approach to understanding feminism.
This book explores major themes related to where to live in America, not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which where one lives relates to one's cultural identity. It shows how changes in media and information technology are shaping both our housing choices and our understanding of the meaning of personal place.
This book explores the theory of value structure, or axiology, in metaethics and defends the thesis that aspects of "better than" comparisons may outrank each other and that value cannot always be summed up neatly.
This book is about understanding feminist theories and feminist economics through a multi-paradigmatic approach. It discusses four paradigms, offers four paradigmatic viewpoints of several social concerns of feminism, and emphasizes that the four views provide a broader and balanced understanding of feminism.
This book explores major themes related to where to live in America, not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which where one lives relates to one's cultural identity. It shows how changes in media and information technology are shaping both our housing choices and our understanding of the meaning of personal place.
Project strategic superiority. Often a required read for business in college or required by an employer, The Art of War by Sun Tzu remains one of the most influential books of all time. Becky Sheetz, author and corporate trainer specializing in Sun Tzu's strategies covers core principles offering the original text plus a breakdown of the business ......
Roam's "The Back of the Napkin," a "Business Week" bestseller, teaches readers the power of brainstorming and communicating with pictures. This expanded edition presents more exciting ways for solving all kinds of business problems.
The Complete Manual of Proposal Development and Administration 2ed
Alexis Carter-Black has been employed as the Coordinator of Grants and Contracts at Oklahoma City Community College since 2000. She is responsible for proposal development and administration, including monitoring an average US$1.7 million in annual grant funds. Alexis previously worked for the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. She has a ......
Shows how both the science and the art of decision-making are essential to us all. This work lays out nine steps to effective decision-making and demonstrates how to apply these steps to real-world situations. It gives readers the intellectual tools to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
