Business strategy Books

Book SynopsisBecome your own best publicist with these 10 top industry secrets from a PR professional. Packed with insider advice on how to get your business featured in the media, with zero fluff, it's your essential toolkit for standing out from the crowd. Lucy Werner founded her own PR & branding consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands, and is on a mission to help YOUR business succeed. And it just takes 6 minutes!

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Book SynopsisUntangling the tentacles of colonialism is not an easy task, theoretically or in practice. Presenting a holistic view of Decoloniality, its genetic makeup, and its complexities, this book examines how colonialism has become embedded in power, language, culture, institutions, and social structures across the globe, as well as what it might take to relinquish postcolonial thinking in search of a decolonized future. Incorporating perspectives from both the Global North and the Global South, this book dismantles colonial ways of thinking, clearing the way for indigenous and marginalized groups to share their knowledge and expertise in fighting global issues such as climate change. Encouraging intersectional frameworks to open up to to new possibilities for inclusion, author Hamid H. Kazeroony also explores colonization as a gendered process tied to global capitalism and what this might mean for feminist activism and scholarship. To achieve a decolonized future, we must first understand our colonial past, keeping those lessons close as we seek to reconsider and restructure the ontology of epistemic inquiries.Trade ReviewThis much needed book unravels the intricate web of colonialism, neocolonialism, and the powerful resurgence of postcolonialism. It offers a fresh perspective on the roots and widespread impact of colonialism and its various forms, transcending spatial, temporal, and contextual boundaries. Through its thought-provoking narrative, the book invites readers to embark on a profound exploration of decoloniality and the complexities of postcolonialism, and outlines the future and potential of humanity in light of colonial praxis. -- Jawad Syed, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Lahore University of Management Sciences, PakistanThis book brings to the fore a critical global discourse on the untangling of the concept colonialism which many people in academia, business and public sectors are currently struggling with. The author, who is known for his factual evidence and critical reasoning, has brought a fresh perspective to the debate on the coloniality of power, capitalism and Eurocentrism. The reader will come to new insights and a better understanding of the complexity within the term colonialism, specifically if an attempt is made to decolonialize, for example, an academic curriculum, a policy document, a business or a community practice. -- Prof Yvonne du Plessis, Emeritus Professor at the North-West University Business School, South AfricaTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Postcoloniality: Colonialism Roots and Scope Chapter 3. The scars of colonialism Chapter 4. The colonial impact and Irony of Postcolonialism Chapter 5. Postcoloniality: The Wolf in Sheep Clothing Chapter 6. Identity, culture, and Indigeneity Chapter 7. From Isms and Time, Space, and Construct to Decolonial Mindset Chapter 8. Decoloniality: The Pathway Forward

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Book SynopsisWhen the chips are down you have to step forward, speak up and take action – or sink. Matthew Ingle, Yorkshire born and bred, left school in 1971 with four O levels. He went to work at a timber yard in Huddersfield, before joining the management training programme at Magnet. When he was made redundant in 1994, he had an idea for a business, jotted down on a single sheet of paper but no name, no products, no buildings and no backers. Howdens was founded in 1995, and today is a FTSE 100 company with 10,000 staff, sales of over £2 billion and a royal warrant. This is the story of how he got there: the highs and lows, the disasters turned to triumphs, the unsung heroes and the grafters – and the no-nonsense business principles that guided him along the way. Kitchens, or Sink weaves memoir with business insight, telling us a great deal about the state of manufacturing in the UK, how Matthew learned to turn setbacks into opportunities and established the standards he set for himself and his workforce. This is an honest and uplifting story, which also offers sound and pragmatic advice to anyone starting their own business.Trade Review[The] story of the Yorkshireman who founded Howdens kitchens and triumphed against the odds is a true inspiration * Yorkshire Post *

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Book SynopsisA practical guide for organizational development consultants passionate about supporting justice-seeking organizations who seek the alignment and clarity necessary to succeed in their important work.

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Book SynopsisSince 2015, businesses have been identified as key actors in the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Analyzing the impact of B-certification in terms of gender equality among Latin American and Caribbean companies, Businesses’ Contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 5 champions the potential B-certification has for the advancement of gender equality in the private sector. Including a historical account of the B Corps movement, the authors assess the capacity of different tools to measure businesses’ contributions to gender equality and analyze gender equality performance across Latin American and Caribbean companies. Featuring a review of related literature, chapters also consider how women’s movements and gender struggles have attracted new activists which have increased their visibility in the region’s public arenas. Highlighting the connection between business, sustainability and gender and providing inspiration for the wider business world, this book identifies best practices for the achievement of gender equality from B Corps across South America.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Exploring Development, Gender Inequality and the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities Chapter 2. Measuring and Reporting Development Goals and Gender Equality in Business Chapter 3. The B Corps Movement and its Landing in Latin America Chapter 4. SDG5 Performance in B-Certified Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter 5. Interviewing B Corps Female Entrepreneurs and Leaders on Current Gender Equality Issues Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe third volume of The FERMA-rimap Series defines approaches to modelling uncertainty and helps readers distinguish between simple, complex and matrix organisational structures, and explores operational risk management.

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Book SynopsisThe Covid 19 pandemic has created chaos in the business world and forced leaders to rethink their operational status quo. Balancing the physical and virtual spaces of the global digital economy wherein economic, commercial, and professional transactions are enabled by information and communication technologies has called for additional support from data-driven technologies like smart analytics and artificial intelligence. Opportunities created within digital economies to leverage technologies to execute tasks better, faster, and often differently have found the desired prominence in the recent past. Though the benefits outweigh the risks, the challenges in digitalised economies are as sophisticated as the solutions they offer. Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis publishes a series of current and relevant themed volumes within the fields of economics and finance. Both disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies are welcome.Table of ContentsChapter 1, Covid 19 and Financial Performance of Banks in India: Impact and Implications; Vidhi Tyagi, Kamini Rai, and Pallavi Tyagi Chapter 2. Importance of Least Cybersecurity Controls for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) for Better Global Digitalised Economy; Shekhar Ashok Pawar and Hemant Palivela Chapter 3. Money Laundering: A Bibliometric Review of Three Decades from 1990-2021; Deeksha Ahuja, Pallavi Bhardwaj, and Pankaj Madan Chapter 4. Socially Responsible Investments– A Quick Fix for Financial Crimes; S.Kavitha, K.Selvamohana, and K.Sangeetha Chapter 5. Technology Governance: A New and Effective Way of Governance and Policy-making for the Economies All over the World; Rupanshi Pruthi Chapter 6. User Sentiment Analysis of Cashkumar Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Lending Platform: Based on Google Reviews; Sagar Suresh Gupta and Jayant Mahajan Chapter 7. An Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing on the Indian Economy; Ajay Sharma and Ajit Bansal Chapter 8. Mapping the Literature on Implementation of Blockchain in Agriculture: A Systematic Review; Ruchika Jain, Aradhana Sharma, and Dhiraj Sharma Chapter 9. Earnings Management for Sustainability:The Surplus Income Model of Sustainable Development; Peterson K. Ozili Chapter 10. The COVID-19 Global Debt Crisis: How to Avoid It; Peterson K Ozili Chapter 11. Mapping the Field. A Text Analysis of Money Laundering Research Publications; Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu, Oana Ramona Lobont, Eduard Mihai Manta, and Răzvan Gabriel Hapau Chapter 12. Redesigning the eNaira Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for Payments and Macroeconomic Effectiveness; Peterson K Ozili Chapter 13. Green Banking - The Path Leading to Sustainable Economic Growth; Shalini Mittal, Shivani Chaudhry, and Shailesh Singh Bhadauria Chapter 14. Digitisation and Artificial Intelligence in Retailing Sector – Key Drivers; Suvarna Hiremath, Prashantha C, Ansumalini Panda, and Gurubasavarya Hiremath Chapter 15. A Study on Twitter Sentiment Analysis in TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC; Senthil Veerasamy and Susobhan Goswami Chapter 16. Smart Analytics And AI for Managing Modern Performance Management Systems; R Dhanalakshmi, Dwaraka Mai Cherukuri, Akash Ambashankar, Arunkumar Sivaraman, and Kiran Sood

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Book SynopsisThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the leading governance frame with which the international community tries to address complex interconnected global issues. The SDGs were adopted in 2015 by all 193 UN member states and were also quickly embraced by most Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), International NGOs and leading business schools. But progress has proved slow. In 2020, the United Nations announced a ’decade of action’ to speed-up progress in the area. To what extent and under what circumstances can MNEs help in this effort: revitalize the SDGs and rescue the beneficial effects of globalization? Volume 17 in the series Progress in International Business Research argues that the SDGs can be considered the only relevant agenda for progress in the years to come. This makes it all the more important to critically consider the role played by MNEs, as well as explore the way IB scholarship can help MNEs to ‘walk the talk’ on the complex issues that affect the sustainable development – thereby leveraging the future shape of ‘globalization’. The book contains contributions by established as well as young scholars and is intended to stimulate present and future research, create new forms of conceptualizations and provide first evidence of more focused empirical research on the topic of MNEs and the SDGs.Table of ContentsPart I: General Challenges for IB Scholarship Chapter 1. Introduction. IB Scholarship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Seizing Opportunities, While Tackling Challenges; Rob van Tulder, Isabel Álvarez, and Elisa Giuliani Chapter 2. International Business and the SDGs: Current Issues and Future Directions; Pervez Ghauri, Faith Hatani, Yingying Zhang-Zhang, Sylvia Rohlfer, and Maoliang Bu Chapter 3. Measuring and Managing the Impact of Business on the SDGs; Jan Anton van Zanten Part II: Strategic Challenges for MNEs Chapter 4. Walking the Talk: Making the SDGs Core Business – An Integrated Approach; Filipa Pires de Almeida, Rob van Tulder, and Suzana B. Rodrigues Chapter 5. Catalyzing Progress Toward the UNs’ SDGs: Building Systemic Partnerships Across Organizations Using the I-RES Methodology; Luis Dau, Larissa Pacheco, Robin White, Elizabeth Allen, and Elizabeth Moore Chapter 6. Addressing the Complexities in Implementing SDGs in International Business; Simone Carmine and Valentina de Marchi Chapter 7. SDGs and Strategic Priorities of MNEs for Sustainability Transformation– Lessons from IKEA; Bo Enquist and Samuel Petros Sebhatu Part III: The Nexus Challenge Chapter 8. Balancing Purpose and Profit in Foreign Direct Investment: How Development Finance Institutions Promote the SDGs While Being Profitable; Suhyon Oh and Michael Wendelboe Hansen Chapter 9. The Nexus Between Cultural and Creative Sectors and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Network Perspective; Yang Gao, Ekaterina Turkina, and Ari Van Aasche Chapter 10. Trade-offs in FDI Effects on SDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries; Paola Garrone, Lucia Piscitello, Matilde d’Amelio, and Emanuela Colombo Part IV: Contextualizing the SDGs Chapter 11. Tax Impact of Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe on Sustainable Development Goals; Petr Procházka Chapter 12. Climate Change Disclosures of Companies in Selected Developed and Emerging Countries with Impression Management Perspective; Nazlı Ece Bulgur, Emel Esen, and Selin Karaca Chapter 13. Multinational Corporations in Sustainable Cities: The Case of a Sustainable Headquarters Building; Tiina Ritvala, Ella Ahmas, and Rebecca Piekkari Chapter 14. Ports and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Ecosystems Approach; Maurice Jansen Chapter 15. Possibilities for Upgrading High-tech GVCs Towards Stronger SDG Performance; Antonio Biurrun and Isabel Alvarez Chapter 16. Tensions on the Road Towards Just Transitions in the Latin American Coffee Value Chain; Katie Louise Andrews, Noemi Sinkovics, and Rudolf R. Sinkovics Part V: SDG-Washing Challenges Chapter 17. Corporate Misbehavior in the Banking Industry: What Role Does the State Play?; Federica Nieri Chapter 18. Saving the Planet is Not for Everybody: A Model of CEO’s Reactions to Human Rights Defenders; Verdiana Morreale and Elisa Giuliani

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Book SynopsisIt’s not surprising if you feel uneasy right now. In fact, it would be strange if you didn't. The world has become a very turbulent place and it feels like we’re in a state of permanent crises. We are living on the cusp of a new era, in which everything that we took for granted is being called into question. COVID-19, climate change, loss of biodiversity, energy crises, migration and droughts regularly make the headlines. In this ground-breaking book, Professor Jan Rotmans, a global authority on sustainable development and transition, analyses the world through a set of systemic crises: a financial-economic crisis, an ecological crisis, a moral crisis and a democratic crisis, all of which interact and reinforce each other. This multiple-system crisis affects us deeply and confronts us with persistent problems in our vital social systems. These systems are nearing their end and no longer meet the demands that we, as humans, place on them. The systems must now reinvent themselves, but we humans must reinvent ourselves too. That is the essence of system change. Exploring these crises from an individual, corporate and national perspective - including a bold 100-year plan for the future of the Netherlands - Rotmans offers fascinating examples of successful change and encourages us to act decisively and embrace the chaos in order to build a more optimistic future.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Introduction: The Turmoil in Ourselves and in the World Chapter 1. Transition Lenses: Seeing in a Different Way Chapter 2. Crisis as Opportunity Chapter 3. Civil Servants can Make the Difference Chapter 4. How can you, as a Business, Survive the Next Crisis? Chapter 5. Palette of Transitions: Challenges and Solutions Chapter 6. Personal Transition: The Journey Inside

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Book SynopsisWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!When everyone around you is asking What’s in it for me?, Joe Polish—“the most connected person on the planet”—offers one simple question to change the conversation.There’s no shortage of networking and entrepreneurship advice in books and on social media in today’s world—but it’s harder than ever to know what’s authentic. To make matters worse, taking the wrong advice can result in superficial connections, transactional relationships, and unsatisfying interactions with others without any real rapport.Fortunately, as entrepreneur and marketer extraordinaire Joe Polish has discovered, there’s a simple (though sometimes not easy) way out that begins with one question: “What’s in it for them?”In What’s in It for Them?, Polish faces the problem of personal and professional disconnection head-on, offering entrepreneurs a heart- and mind-expanding guide on how to:· Deepen rapport and connect with others by identifying and reducing their suffering· Update Dale Carnegie’s insights to win the right friends and influence the right people· Overcome others’ intimidation tactics to find true appreciation in relationships· Build character for better results than capabilities can ever give on their own· Use basic marketing principles to find true love· Protect your efforts from the “takers” of the worldAnd much more—all to help the givers of the world thrive in business without neglecting their relationships.Early in life, Joe Polish’s struggles with trauma and addiction led him to a disconnected life. After getting sober in recovery, he spent years developing his genuine and generous approach to building rapport and transformed from a dead broke carpet cleaner to being dubbed “the most connected person on the planet” for his work with Genius Network, one of the world’s most impactful networking groups for high-achieving entrepreneurs.After 30 years of putting his own advice into practice, Polish now speaks to audiences all around the world and is surrounded by business leaders and billionaires he calls friends. In What’s in It for Them?, he explains his one-of-a-kind approach to rapport-building he used to get there—and offers a few cautionary tales along the way.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book shows how trading in the old business playbook for heart-led leadership strategies will create dedicated employees and higher levels of performance.It's a common belief in business that the heart has no place in workplace management. In fact, most of us were taught that the heart acts like Kryptonite in leadership: it inherently undermines a manager's effectiveness and lowers productivity and profitability. But in this revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking and now classic work, leadership and engagement expert Mark C. Crowley provides irrefutable proof that we were wrong. He will show you:· how traditional leadership practices are failing· how to keep employees satisfied and productive· how to help employees feel valued, respected, appreciated, developed and cared for· an entirely new model of leadership that is needed to match up to the needs and motivations of 21st century workers· that recent medical and social science discoveries prove it's the heart, not the mind, that drives human motivation and achievementLead from The Heart represents a future where management and employees work towards a common goal and employees are empowered to take ownership of their work. This book shows that when you 'Lead From The Heart', your people will follow.

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Book SynopsisBusiness acumen has emerged as a critical competency for communicators. But if you’re a public relations, advertising or communication professional that didn’t go to business school, how can you make sure you have the abilities and skills to evolve along with your role? Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators is the book for you. Offering a critical primer for the world of business, Ragas and Culp equip you with the must-have business know-how needed to understand everything from the language and thinking of C-suites and boardrooms, to organizational agility, business models, rules and regulations, the money and the numbers, and even how to read financial statements and reports. Written for communicators by communicators, the concepts in each chapter are illustrated by expert insight essays written by a diverse group of senior communications leaders, and packed full of case studies, interviews, key terms and cutting-edge research. Brands profiled include Aflac, Costco, CVS Health, Levi Strauss, Mayo Clinic, Southwest Airlines, Target and YMCA of America. With these critical business literacy skills in hand, you will be set to serve with success as strategic counselors to the organizational leaders that are your colleagues, clients, and business partners.Trade ReviewThis book tackles the top question I hear from communicators all over the world. What is the one x-factor that gives communications leaders the guts to speak up and shape critical C-suite affairs? If you're in business, there are few things more important than understanding how businesses really work. Stepping up your business acumen is always time well invested. -- Stacey M. Tank, Chief Transformation & Corporate Affairs Officer, Heineken N.V.Business Acumen for Strategic Communication is an important read for anyone building a career in public relations. The book provides a compelling view into how business I.Q. makes communicators better at their craft, and how it lays the groundwork necessary to bring an informed, powerful voice to corporate decision-making. It is thought-provoking while also providing important, practical advice. -- Andy Polansky, Chairman & CEO, IPG DXTRA & Executive Chairman, Weber ShandwickUnderstanding and explaining how business works is one of the most important tools that a strategic communicator can have. This book gives those looking to enter strategic communications, and those already in the field, great tools and skills to advance their careers. If you want to take a leading role in your organization, this is the book for you. -- Chris Roush, Quinnipiac UniversityMatt Ragas and Ron Culp have provided communicators with a trifecta of business knowledge. Their first book provided the what, their second book explained the why, and now Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators: A Primer gives us the how of developing business acumen in our field. Once again, Ragas and Culp have made the language of business accessible to educators, students, and professionals alike. -- Sandra Duhé, MBA, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, USAFor a number of years, I have told anyone who would listen that the principal shortcoming among professional communicators - and the chief threat to their careers - is not a lack of skill or experience in communication. The vast majority of PR and Corp Comm pros can write and speak well enough. The problem is their lack of understanding about the basics of business. Matt Ragas and Ron Culp, noted authors in this space for some time, have answered the call. This is the book you've been looking for because it's written with professional, strategic communicators in mind. Leave your highlighter in the drawer - it's all valuable. If you want a career in Public Relations or Corporate Communication, this is the book. -- James Scofield O’Rourke, IV, Ph.D., Professor of Management, University of Notre DameThis book arrives at a pivotal junction for the strategic communication industry, when business literacy and performance will clearly separate effective from ineffective practices in a time of constant disruption and change. The publication includes expert insights from diverse voices and highlights the need to balance societal values with financial necessities. -- Juan-Carlos Molleda, Ph.D., Edwin L. Artzt Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Journalism and CommunicationThis book is a must-read for every communication professional aspiring to middle- and upper-management communication positions. The authors leverage their several decades of corporate communication experience and lessons learned into to bring us this book that provides a clear-cut presentation of the business enterprise and knowledge communication professionals need to work effectively to help their organizations actualize their missions and visions and achieve their short- and long-term goals. -- Damion Waymer, Professor and Chair, Department of Advertising & Public Relations, The University of AlabamaBusiness Acumen for Strategic Communicators: A Primer proves business acumen is a critical capability for communication practitioners and essential to accelerate business priorities, drive innovation, and produce results. This book is a great reference for today's communicator to broaden their knowledge on the impact of sharpening their business acumen to gain greater credibility with executive leadership, increase their productivity and enhance their careers. -- Yanique Woodall, Adjunct Faculty, George Washington University and Hofstra UniversityIt is important that the Chief Communication Officer has a 'seat at the table' when business decisions are being made. One of the main handicaps for CCO's has been the relative lack of business and operational experience to give them equal credibility with their C-suite peers. Authors Ron Culp and Matt Regas are addressing this issue by providing business basics for communication professionals. It is a must read for those in the communications profession who know that being a member of their organization's management team requires a wholistic understanding of business operations. -- Jerry Giaquinta, J.D., Ph.D., University of Southern California, Academic Director, World Bachelor in Business Program, Professor, Clinical Dept. of Business Communication, Marshall School of BusinessI highly recommend Business Acumen for Strategic Communications be required reading for all public relations and strategic communication principles, campaigns, and management courses. It is a welcome addition to understand the business side of public relations practice - well-organized, very readable, and focused on the important concepts such as business leadership, finance, and budgeting; with key terms, and insightful discussion questions. -- Elizabeth L. Toth, Ph.D., Professor, University of Maryland, College ParkThis new edition of Business Acumen ought to be required reading by every student seeking a career in PR or strategic communications, regardless of whether the student plans on going into entertainment PR, healthcare or consumer products. The book provides a highly relevant, practical and readable primer explaining not only what today's comms student needs to know about business but why the student needs to know it. One of the most valuable features of this book are the personal essays written by some of today's top industry leaders. As varied as their career journeys are, a single thread runs through them all: that they would not have risen to the positions they have today had it not been for their commitment to achieving a high level of business acumen. -- Shelley J. Spector, Founder/Director, Museum of Public RelationsExcellent read, and a valuable resource for anyone in communications, from students to proven executives! It is no longer sufficient to simply support business goals from a communications standpoint, and the content of Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators outlines the quintessential skills that communications leaders require to succeed in a modern organization. Supported by perspectives from top-tier executives who have lived through the rapid evolution of strategic communications, Business Acumen goes deeper than finance and corporate skills, and includes valuable content around board and c-suite management, stakeholder engagement, and integrating DE&I and purpose into transformative strategies. -- Peter W. McDermott, Senior Client Partner, Corporate Affairs and IR, Korn FerryRagas and Culp's new tome could not be timelier. It offers students and professionals alike the keys to understand communication's connection to today's business demands in an accessible and engaging synthesis of information essentials, industry data, and business cases and testimonials. It's a must for any course in PR or strategic communication management. -- María E. Len-Ríos, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor, Advertising & Public Relations Department, The University of GeorgiaWith its mix of background information and practical advice, Ragas and Culp’s Business Acumen is a worthy read for both future communications professionals still enrolled in undergraduate programs and those who have already begun their strategic communications careers. It is accessible enough to be included as required reading within an undergraduate course or to be read independently for professional development. The book’s greatest strength is perhaps its championing of strategic communications as an integral part of business operations—and the practical roadmap it offers the strategic communications professional to claim a rightful seat at the board table. -- Heidi E. Huntington, Independent ScholarRagas and Culp have done well presenting business knowledge that PR students need for launching successful careers. In doing so, Business Acumen for Strategic Communicators, A Primer also could work in a variety of JMC courses. Across journalism, public relations, advertising, marketing, social media, broadcasting, and digital media content decisions must be weighed against business goals. -- Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USARagas and Culp have written the material in this text so that it is easily understood by those with little or no understanding of investor relations and/or business practices. While the writing is accessible to all, practitioners will find the breadth of the material helpful to build on their current knowledge. After reviewing the information in this book, public relations students should have an easier time passing a business and finance knowledge quiz (Vahouny, 2021), have an easier time successfully transitioning into the field, and find success in their professional practice. -- Charles A. Lubbers, University of South DakotaTable of ContentsPART I. Introduction Chapter 1. Strategic Communications and Business Acumen PART II. Guiding Approaches to Business Chapter 2. Growth, Innovation and Change Chapter 3. Agile and Lean Management Chapter 4. The Purpose-Driven Enterprise PART III. The People Chapter 5. Stakeholders and Society Chapter 6. The Board of Directors and the C-suite PART IV. The Money and the Numbers Chapter 7. Finance and the Capital Markets Chapter 8. Financial Statements and Valuation Essentials Chapter 9. Corporate Disclosure: Laws, Rules and Regulations PART V. Business Models Chapter 10. Strategic Communication Agencies and Consultancies Chapter 11. In-House Communication Departments and Teams PART VI. Practice Makes Perfect Chapter 12. Business Acumen and Professional Development

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Book SynopsisIf you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win numerous battles without a single loss. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong and Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, modern-era business and management gurus have also applied Sun Tzu’s ideas to politics and corporate strategy. This pocket illustrated dual-language edition not only presents the original Chinese characters with James Trapp’s translation on the facing page, it also tests Sun Tzu’s ideas against history. Each of the 13 chapters includes a new commentary giving examples of how Sun Tzu’s wisdom has been borne out on the world’s battlefields. When, for example, has information provided by spies changed the course of a battle? How has history shown Sun Tzu’s ideas on the importance of terrain in conflict to be true? And where can we best find examples of strategic warfare being waged? From the ancient world to the 20th century, the battles featured will be illustrated with colour battle maps, paintings and artworks. Of immense influence to leaders across millennia, The Art of War Illustrated is a classic text richly deserving this illustrated and expanded dual-language edition.Table of ContentsIntroduction Planning Case study: Sicily, 1943, by Kevin Dougherty Waging War Case study: Zama, 202 BCE, by Ralph Ashby Strategic Offence Case study: Granicus, 334 BCE, by Miles Doleac Deployment Case study: Gulf War, 1991, by Stephen Hart Momentum Case study: Vistula–Oder Offensive, 1945, by Stephen Hart The Substantial and the Insubstantial Case study: Somalia, 1993, by Kevin Dougherty Manoeuvres against the Enemy Case study: Mohi, 1241, by Stephen Turnbull The Nine Variables Case study: Mobei, 119 BCE, by Ralph Ashby On the March Case study: Jena–Auerstädt, 1806, by Frederick C. Schneid Terrain Case study: Gettysburg, 1863, by Kevin Dougherty The Nine Types of Ground Case study: Stalingrad, 1942–43, by Stephen Hart Attacking with Fire Case study: Ia Drang, 1965, by Kevin Dougherty Using Spies Case study: Shimabara, 1638, by Stephen Turnbull Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis____________________This ground-breaking book from award-winning author MATT WATKINSON reveals the fundamental, inseparable elements behind the success of every business.The Grid provides the mental scaffolding to help you:· Evaluate and refine product and service ideas· Reduce risk by considering the broader impact of strategic decisions· Identify the root causes of business challenges· Anticipate the impact of changes in the market and turn them to your advantage · Collaborate more effectively across teamsCombining practical guidance with real-world examples, The Grid will bring clarity and confidence to your business decision-making.____________________'The Grid provides you with a simple way to look at the complex system which is your business. With the possible exception of Warren Buffett, everyone needs to read this book.' RORY SUTHERLAND, VICE CHAIRMAN, OGILVY GROUP 'The Grid provides a systematic framework for looking at virtually all the critical aspects of your business, and maybe more valuable, at how each affects the others. It'll be a rare reader who doesn't come away with fresh, useful insights into his or her enterprise.' WALTER KEICHEL III, author of The Lords of Strategy'Matt Watkinson distils strategic know-how into nine ingenious perspectives and, with the use of clever examples, shows us how to apply this technique of thinking to any business problem or market opportunity. An extraordinarily powerful book.' DR JULES GODDARD, author of Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense'The Grid presents a unique, joined up approach to decision-making, revealing both the holistic nature of business and all the key elements a business must consider. I can safely say that if you only read one business book in your life it should be The Grid.' PHILIP ROWLEY, Chief Finance Officer, Sony Pictures EntertainmentTrade ReviewThe Grid provides you with a simple way to look at the complex system which is your business. With the possible exception of Warren Buffett, everyone needs to read this book. -- Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy GroupThe Grid provides a systematic framework for looking at virtually all the critical aspects of your business, and maybe more valuable, at how each affects the others. It'll be a rare reader who doesn't come away with fresh, useful insights into his or her enterprise. -- Walter Kiechel III, author of The Lords of StrategyMatt Watkinson distils strategic know-how into nine ingenious perspectives and, with the use of clever examples, shows us how to apply this technique of thinking to any business problem or market opportunity. An extraordinarily powerful book. -- Dr Jules Goddard, author of Uncommon Sense, Common NonsenseThe Grid presents a unique, joined up approach to decision-making, revealing both the holistic nature of business and all the key elements a business must consider. Following the tenets of this book will help readers to avoid the costly unintended consequences that can follow on from well-intended decisions. I can safely say that if you only read one business book in your life it should be The Grid. -- Philip Rowley, Chief Financial Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Book Synopsis_____________‘An array of fresh insights on creativity, motivation and staying in “flow” Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human_____________In Unsafe Thinking, creativity guru Jonah Sachs demonstrates that the most remarkable and trailblazing individuals – from the Google programmer who disobeyed his managers in order to revolutionise the world’s email systems, to the mayor who employed mime artists to transform his city's traffic problem – are those who dramatically reject the lure of what they know. He draws on cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to uncover the specific mental habits that account for the success of those who break the mould. And he reveals how, by embracing a handful of simple brain-hacks and cognitive tools, we can all harness the power of the unsafe thinkers.By revealing the secrets of those who reject our society’s outmoded approach to work, Unsafe Thinking promises to unleash the hidden power of creativity in all of us._____________‘An enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose.’ Adam Grant, author of Originals‘Fascinating . . . Sachs has practical tools for success.’ Forbes‘A must-read for anyone facing a changing world.’ Jonah Berger, author of ContagiousTrade ReviewUnsafe Thinking delivers an array of fresh insights on creativity, motivation and staying in “flow”. -- Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVEIn his fascinating new book Unsafe Thinking, the journalist and expert on story telling and creativity, Jonah Sachs, talks about how companies can be so focused on the consensus and the tried and tested that they lose sight of a great opportunity . . . Sachs has practical tips for success. * Forbes *Argues that now is not the time to play it safe. -- What CEOs Are Reading * Management Today *Challenging received wisdom is clearly not easy, especially when that involves standing up to your superiors, or looking stupid in front of your peers. But the greatest benefits of courage are, Sachs argues, to be found in challenging yourself. -- Management TodayAn enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose. -- Adam Grant, author of ORIGINALSPractical and truly entertaining . . . A must-read for anyone facing a changing world. -- Jonah Berger, author of CONTAGIOUSUnsafe Thinking explores the alternative to the tried and tested solution . . . Unsafe thinking, Sachs suggests, is not only the way to success at work, it is the route to “a more fulfilled, exciting, and joyful life”. -- Books of the Month * Financial Times *A blazingly original book . . . Destined to become a classic. -- Mary Karr, author of THE LIARS’ CLUBSince none of us can see the next business breakthrough, we can only emulate the people who have brought real innovation to market, and challenge the team around us to think counter-intuitively, in hopes of changing habits. I found some real insights along these lines in a new book, Unsafe Thinking, by Jonah Sachs, who is one of the influential social innovators I know. He outlines a set of straightforward practices that both he and I believe we can all use to create counter-intuitive breakthroughs ourselves. We don't need to wait for lightning to strike, if we proactively improve our ability to accept more seemingly outlandish solutions and ideas. * Inc. *Written with considerable panache. * People Management *

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Book SynopsisIn 1978 Julian Richer, then aged just nineteen, opened his first shop near London Bridge. For over twenty years this shop has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the highest sales per square foot of any retail outlet in the world, and the company as a whole, with its fifty-three stores nationwide and huge online presence, has become Britain’s favourite retailer of TV and hi-fi equipment. What lies behind this extraordinary success?For Julian, the answer is simple: throughout his career he has focussed relentlessly on putting people – both staff and customers – right at the centre of his business. And in The Richer Way, he offers a supremely practical guide to how others can follow suit. He explains how to motivate employees and measure their progress. He establishes how to balance company discipline with individual autonomy. He explores what ‘customer service’ should really involve. Above all, he points the way to creating an open, friendly and flexible culture that will not only attract the best people but also offer the greatest chance of business success. Packed with straightforward, common-sense advice, The Richer Way will prove essential reading for all organisations, whatever their nature and size.Trade ReviewIf I had to hold up someone as a role model for other wannabe tycoons to follow, the founder of the Richer Sounds hi-fi chain would be that person … [The Richer Way is] one of the best business books in history. * Independent *Read this book and transform your business. -- Archie Norman, Chairman of Marks & SpencerHow to become a Richer Guru and actually boost business. * The Times *Like all good management books, it is readable, controversial, and full of golden nuggets of good advice. -- Tim Daniels, former Managing Director of SelfridgesI first came across Richer Sounds many years ago when I read Julian Richer's book The Richer Way. His book was so full of common sense that I filled several pages of an A4 pad with his ideas. The ideas are not only original, they work. -- John Timpson * Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisQuantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is it and what is its true potential?In this superbly insightful, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Amit Katwala tells you everything you need to know about the next computer revolution. He explains the highly complex science that lies behind it. He describes the competing efforts of the likes of Google, Microsoft and Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba to create a viable quantum computer, and the different routes they have taken to meet the immense technical challenges involved. He considers the technology's potential application in spheres as diverse as medicine, cyber security and clean energy. And he addresses the fundamental question: how close are we to seeing quantum computers become a widespread reality.Trade ReviewThe prose is clear, well written, not dumbed down, but equally well equipped to take you on a deep dive into the key concepts of quantum . . . A good book, thought provoking, and a glimpse of what its down the road. * Irish Tech News *It's a great intro to the present state of and prospects for quantum computing - not too technical, wasting little space on the basics but avoiding the hieroglyphics of quantum algorithms. * PC Pro *

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Book SynopsisFor years, business schools and professional consultants have turned to Sun Tzu's 2,500-year-old Chinese text for its invaluable commentary on such topics as leadership, strategy, organisation, competition and cooperation. Now the wisdom of Sun Tzu's The Art of War is made accessible to the modern reader. Not simply a new translation, this is the first book to provide a clear, easy-to-follow interpretation of the classic document. The Art of War for Executives reveals the brilliance of Sun Tzu - and shows how to win on the battlefield of modern business. The tone and insight of the original classic remain, whilst incorperating the ideas of contemporary business philosophers, like Peters, Drucker and Bennis. Here at last is an accessible interpretation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War incorperating modern business lessons to make this classic text relevant and readable for today's executive facing strategic and competitive challenges.Trade ReviewKrause puts The Art of War and its concepts in context with today's business world... easy to read and understand. -- W.C. Keppen, International Vice President, BLEThe Art of War for Executives saves the student or business person from having to mentally transfer Sun Tzu's instructions on how to wage war to how to successfully conduct a business... informative and helpful. -- John B. McKinnon, Dean, Babcock Graduate School of ManagementAn easy-to-read handbook for gaining success in all areas of competition. -- William Keppen, entrepreneur and CEOFew classic texts offer the insights that The Art of War does, and this edition brings it home to executives in the clearest fashion I've ever seen. -- Sydney Finkelstein, author of Why Smart Executives Fail

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Book SynopsisTheodore Levitt’s 1960 article “Marketing Myopia” is a business classic that earned its author the nickname “the father of modern marketing”. It is also a beautiful demonstration of the problem solving skills that are crucial in so many areas of life – in business and beyond. The problem facing Levitt was the same problem that has confronted business after business for hundreds of years: how best to deal with slowing growth and eventual decline. Levitt studied many business empires – the railroads, for instance – that at a certain point simply shrivelled up and shrank to almost nothing. How, he asked, could businesses avoid such failures?His approach and his solution comprise a concise demonstration of high-level problem solving at its best. Good problem solvers first identify what the problem is, then isolate the best methodology for solving it. And, as Levitt showed, a dose of creative thinking also helps. Levitt’s insight was that falling sales are all about marketing, and marketing is about knowing your real business. The railroads misunderstood their real market: they weren’t selling rail, they were selling transport. If they had understood that, they could have successfully taken advantage of new growth areas – truck haulage, for instance – rather than futilely scrabbling to sell rail to a saturated market.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who is Theodore Levitt? What does Marketing Myopia Say? Why does Marketing Myopia Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn his latest book, Richard Woods shares the quickest and most viable way to scale your service business to a million in revenue. He covers cutting-edge sales and marketing techniques - including LinkedIn automation, Facebook advertising and online event marketing - plus a whole host of other top hacks and tips that will see your revenue grow exponentially. And, to make life easier, there are lots of helpful templates you can simply swipe and add into your marketing mix. With plenty of Aha! moments along the way, if you're looking to scale your business rapidly, this book is the game changer you need.Trade Review"A game changing sales and marketing system that is super easy to implement, and WOW what a treasure trove of templates." -Amanda C. Watts, Founder of Oompf Global

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Book SynopsisArchitecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice, offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble, pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice, it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward, honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework, exploring practice, staff, clients, projects, consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption.Table of ContentsPart 1 - OrganisationsChapter 1: PracticeChapter 2: ProjectsChapter 3: ProvidersPart 2 - PeopleChapter 4: StaffChapter 5: ClientsChapter 6: Consultants

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Book SynopsisIn the ever-changing world of business, we've arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has left us unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we've forgotten how to think. The very structures put in place to help businesses grow are now holding us back;; it's time to Kill the Company. This book is a call to arms: to start a revolution in how we think and work. But instead of more one-size-fits-all change initiatives forced upon employees, we need to embrace small changes that create ripple effects throughout the organization. Lisa Bodell urges companies to move from "Zombies, Inc." to "Think, Inc." Thinking can no longer be exclusive to the creative team or lead strategists. A culture of curiosity must be fostered among the ranks to shake up our standard practices, from unproductive meetings to go-nowhere strategic planning. This revolution can and will awaken our ability to think, and ultimately, to innovate and grow.Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction The First Step Toward Greatness, PART I: BREAKING DOWN THE STATUS QUO, 1. Innovation Begins with You, 2. Three Kinds of Culture—Which Is Yours?, 3. Kill the Company, 4. Do Less, Achieve More, PART II: BUILDING THE NEW FOUNDATION, 5. Capabilities for the New Era, 6. Think Inc. Behaviors, 7. Case in Point: Driving Change at a Financial Services Giant, 8. Your Innovation Toolkit, Conclusion The Killer Company: Poised for the Future, Acknowledgments, Endnotes, Index

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Book SynopsisDiscover how to create “success in all aspects of life and business” (Lisa Nichols, New York Times bestselling author) with this comprehensive, bulletproof plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™.In the United States, most small business owners struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder—entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell—has developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didn’t create it overnight. Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%. As the creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, she’s sharing her hard-won wisdom—worth $5,000 an hour in coaching fees—with you.

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Book SynopsisWork-life balance isn’t about where or how you spend your time. At least not solely. It’s about where and how you use and replenish your energy. Work matters. Life matters. Work-life matters.As we start to navigate life during and after the pandemic, employers and employees are increasingly re-evaluating how work can be made more sustainable and more fulfilling. Many employees - particularly Gen X and Gen Z - are seeking a new psychological contract with their employers. Putting these trends into context and offering practical solutions, this book takes a deep dive into why work matters as part of a healthy and fulfilling life. The authors present a new and different way of thinking about the matter of balance, arguing that there is no hard divide between ‘work’ and life’ because ‘work’ takes place entirely within ‘life’ and you can’t balance two things when one is a subset of the other. To achieve the balance required for a healthy existence, we need to recognise that there are activities in all parts of work-life that drain our energy and others that give us a buzz. Rather than trying to solve the drain of hard work by living it large at the weekend – or compensating for an unfulfilling home life by working like a demon, we need to create balance at work and balance at home. Now is a golden opportunity to re-examine the world of work and job-craft to make them more satisfying, less draining and more energising. The ideas in this book provide a practical guide to help that process.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Sideways Look at Work-Life Balance2. A Brief History of Work Life Balance3. Work Matters4. Life Stages and Transitions5. The Future of Work6. New Balance; Work -Life Balance Is Non-Sense7. Analysing Worklife8. Job Crafting9. Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Age10. Enabling Job Crafting, a Call to Action11. Balance at HomeAppendix: A Re-design Exercise

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed lives around the world and no dimension of life and leadership seems to have been spared from its wrath. It has also stirred us into thinking about novel approaches to lead organizations and societies toward a shared, sustainable future. This book offers novel perspectives on leadership and change management after the COVID-19 pandemic that take us beyond striving for thriving—perspectives that are grounded in emergent theory, research and practice. It highlights sustainable leadership and change management strategies to effectively deal with unpredictable and rapidly changing situations—particularly in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). This book also highlights engaging perspectives by specialists from different disciplines such as business, psychology, education, and health care. It serves as a practical guide in identifying and responding to leadership challenges and opportunities in each of the four VUCA categories of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—and how they affect businesses, organizations, and societies as a whole.Table of Contents1. Holistic Leadership for Post-COVID-19 Organizations: Perspectives and Prospects.- 2. Leaders’ Resilience: What leaders can learn from the COVID-19 crisis.- 3. A Paean to the “Poet Laureate of Management”.- 4. The Compatibility of Christian Servant Leadership and Sustainable Leadership in a Post Covid-19 World.- 5. Quiet Ego Leadership after Covid-19: Releasing Compassion, Confidence and Creativity.- 6. Leadership for an unknowable tomorrow.- 7. Coevolutive Leadership for an After COVID-19 World.- 8. E-leadership 2.0: Meet Your AI Leader.- 9. The Role of Leaders in Enabling Organizational Resilience by Generating a Culture of Grit.- 10. Moral Leadership in a Post-COVID 19 World.- 11. COURAGE as a Roadmap Toward Sustainable Practices in a Post-COVID World.- 12. Towards Transformational Leadership Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic.- 13. Transformational leadership and Job Crafting.- 14. Fostering Sustainable Change: Building on the Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 15. Leading through VUCA times for a sustainable future of work: Expert views on the global automotive industry.- 16. Leading through Crisis: The Role of Mindfulness.- 17. Post-Pandemic Crisis Global Leadership and Our New Food Emergency.- 18. School Leadership and Information Literacy: Leading in Crisis and Beyond Covid-19.-19. Supporting leadership success in times of global disruption: Best practices for transformational executive coaching.- 20. Everything gonna be alright: antecedents to nurses’ change adaptability in the COVID-19 era.

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This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management. It combines lessons from Kant with virtue ethics and also touches upon additional approaches such as utilitarianism. At the core of the book lies the concept of the nexus of imperfect managerial duty: building and reinforcing the virtuous managerial team, engaging in reasoned discourse among all stakeholders, and diligently pursuing business responsibilities, including the creative efforts necessary for modern organizations.Case illustrations of these applications are presented throughout the book, including chapter appendices. Ancillary videos, test and answer banks and sample syllabi are available online via the author’s website.

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Book SynopsisWe as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information. This is highly consequential since the cognitive biases managers are exposed to in their day-to-day business erode the objectivity of their risk-related decisions, which ultimately hurts the financial well-being of their firms. This book seeks to develop risk literacy as a leadership skill. It helps managers develop the skills to improve managerial decision-making in regards to managing risk.The last decades have offered various insights into how human nature often gets in the way of rational decision-making. This book is a valuable resource for insurance executives, chief risk officers, company leaders, and graduate students of risk management and risk psychology. It is the first behavioral risk management guide for managers and other interested readers - using examples from economic theory, behavioral finance, and game theory, it studies the hidden forces that drive our decision-making processes under risk. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Risk and Risk Perception: Why we are not Rational in the Face of Risk.- 3. Expected Utility, Prospect Theory, and the Allais Paradox: Why Reference Points are Important.- 4. Confirmation Bias and Anchoring Effect: Why the First Piece of Information is Key in Negotiations.- 5. Framing and the Ostrich effect: Why our Decisions depend on how Information is presented.- 6. Emotions and Zero Risk Bias: Why we make bad Decisions and overspend on Risk Avoidance.- 7. Endowment Effect and Status-Quo Bias: Why we Stick with Bad Decisions.- 8. Overconfidence and Self-Blindness: Why we think we are better than we actually are.- 9. The Low-Probability Puzzle: Why we insure our Cellphone but Not our Home.- 10. Fairness, Diversity, Groupthink, and Peer Effects: Why Other People matter for our Risky Decisions.- 11. Hindsight Bias: Why We Think we are Good Predictors even though we are not.

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Book SynopsisWhen should organizations think about adopting a flat structure? And what does it take to make it work? Is it even the silver bullet that we’ve been told it is? Often we have heard about how businesses should organize in non-traditional ways to succeed in today’s world: be ‘agile’, or adopt approaches such as ‘holacracy,’ ‘RenDanHeYi’ or ‘scrum’. But what do these concepts actually mean? Are they even helping us to custom-tailor flat structures to our needs?Leading expert, Markus Reitzig, provides a no-holds barred account of flat organizational structures, taking the good with the bad and asking the reader to balance the opportunities and challenges that come with less hierarchical structures. He explains that there are many types of flat organizations, and that they may only be better than traditional companies in some instances, and only when the company picks the right structure given its goal and its people.Taking an evidence-based approach to the advantages and disadvantages of decentralizing, this book offers a unique, practical guide for managers. You’ll learn how to formulate realistic goals with fewer hierarchical layers, where to decentralize, whom to recruit and how to treat your staff. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to figure out how to work with flat organizational structures, and whether ‘flat’ may even be right for them. Table of ContentsPart 1: Why Flat Structures Work at All.- Chapter 1: What does it mean to move towards a “flatter” structure?.- Chapter 2: What managers can effectively and efficiently delegate.- Chapter 3: Why would employees ever assume extra work in a decentralized organization?.- Part 2: What Managers Can Do to Make Flat Structures Work Well.- Chapter 4: What type of persons should you take on the journey?.- Chapter 5: How to enforce and foster effective self-organization?.- Chapter 6: How to design the playing field for efficient quasi-decentralization?.- Part 3: When, Why, and How Flat Structures Can Beat Traditional Hierarchies.- Chapter 7: When can flat structures beat more centralized ones?.- Chapter 8: Where does a flat structure reach its limits?.- Chapter 9: The guide(s) to successful decentralizing.- Part 4: Test Your Understanding.- Chapter 10: Delayering the hierarchical firm—The case of Borek.- Chapter 11: Flat growth—The case of WirDesign.- Chapter 12: Flat fads or more? From a as in “agile” to z as in “zi zhu jing ying ti”.

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Book SynopsisInnovation is one of the avenues in which companies can move up the value chain, and has become a popular demand from stock markets and governments. Many of its proponents though lack insight as to what it takes to be an innovator, and instead hype and impel innovation based on a romanticized view that with enough willpower and support from a board, investors, or government every company can pursue innovation. This book offers a theoretical framework, the License Giver Business concept, that clarifies the core characteristics of a truly innovating company, and differentiates it from three other company archetypes with differing core business identities. It describes key aspects and pitfalls in the practical application of the License Giver Business concept and provides cases from the marine industry and computer industry.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The License Giver Business Concept.- Chapter 3: The Intrinsic-Motivated Crowd.- Chapter 4: The Fear of Innovation.- Chapter 5: The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome.- Chapter 6: The Rise and Decline of Innovative Capability.- Chapter 7: The License Giver Business Concept in the Evolution of Industries.- Chapter 8: Governmental Interference.- Chapter 9: Excellence Through Competence.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties? Or that they have been ignorant, complacent or downright complicit in these scandals and downfalls? Of course, corporate scandals are nothing new, nor are they limited to any one geography. They are a damning indictment of our systems of corporate governance around the world. And yet, despite this frequency, little or nothing changes. We shrug and move on, accepting they are an unavoidable part of the system that produces incredible wealth for economies and societies. But it should not be that way. Disaster in the Boardroom shows how boards can be better. Looking at why these scandals happen, authors Peterson and Brown present in-depth case studies of major global corporations – including recent contemporary scandals associated with companies such as BP, Facebook and Uber – using the optic of their unique, original and compelling ‘six dysfunctions of the board’ analysis to reveal their particularities but also how they can be overcome. In this book, Brown and Peterson explore common attributes of scandals such as lack of independence from management, missing key voices, cultural amplification, diffusion of responsibility, rule-bound cultures and groupthink. They also identify ways to strengthen boards, improve their culture and competence, and give directors and others the power to take action and ultimately prevent disasters from happening. Disaster in the Boardroom is essential reading for every executive in every boardroom, those aspiring to board positions as well as anyone interested in why boards fail. It has never been more important to pre-identify and eradicate these boardroom dysfunctions – not least so that their impacts upon society can better seen, understood, mitigated, and avoided.Trade Review“I judge a book by the number of notes I make as I read and also by how often I find myself reading excerpts to anyone who’ll listen. Disasters in the Boardroom scores highly on both counts.” (Sue Magee, The Book Bag, thebookbag.co.uk, June 07, 2022)Table of ContentsPart 1.- Chapter 1: Where was the board?.- Chapter 2: The Faces of Disaster.- Chapter 3: Dealing with the consequences.- Chapter 4: Causes of dysfunctional culture.- {art 4.- Chapter 5: The subordinated board: Facebook.- Chapter 6: The imbalanced board: Google.- Chapter 7.- The distended board: Uber.- Chapter 8: The bystander board: BP and Deepwater Horizon.- Chapter 9: The bureaucratic board: The Big Four.- Chapter 10: The conforming board: Royal Bank of Scotland.- Part 3.- Chapter 11: Changing board culture.- Chapter 12: Stakeholder engagement.- Chapter 13: Improving board effectiveness: practical steps.

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Book Synopsis“Hidden Champions” are medium-sized, unknown companies with annual revenues under $5 billion that have quietly, under the radar, become world market leaders in their respective industries. In this new instalment to his worldwide bestselling Hidden Champions volumes, Hermann Simon takes readers on in-depth exploration of the ever changing operating conditions and the greater uncertainty and volatility that defines the global business sphere over the next ten years. In particular, in this book he focuses on China’s continued impact on the business world since its rise in the global business and economic sphere over recent decades. In this regard, Dr. Simon shows the reader how the current status evolved, and then offers concrete and actionable recommendations. New driving forces such as digitalization, business ecosystems and sustainability receive special attention. While the main focus is on companies in German-speaking countries as they comprise 56 percent of the world’s Hidden Champions, the success factors mentioned in this book can be applied globally to mid-sized companies in other regions as they strive to become global market leaders. Whether a company is a “Hidden Champion”, aspires to be one, or wants to emulate their success model, Dr. Simon’s new book provides essential food for thought as executives and managers chart their course into the future.Table of ContentsPart I: The Concept and its Reception.- Chapter 1. A Brief History of the Hidden Champions.- Chapter 2. Hidden Champions and Export Success.- Chapter 3. Hidden Champions: The Definition. Chapter 4. Why Are There Hidden Champions?.- Chapter 5. Reception of the Hidden Champions Concept.- Part II: The Ascent of the Hidden Champions.- Chapter 6. Hidden Champions Worldwide.- Chapter 7. German Hidden Champions.- Chapter 8. Austrian and Swiss Hidden Champions.- Chapter 9. Decades of Ascent.- Chapter 10. Why Are There so Many Hidden Champions in Germany?.- Part III: The New Game of Globalization.- Chapter 11. On Rough Roads to Globalia.- Chapter 12. Quo Vadis Globalia? Population and Economy.- Chapter 13. Quo Vadis Globalia? Dynamic Framework.- Chapter 14. Target Market America.- Chapter 15. Target Market China.- Part IV: The New Game of Transformative Forces.- Chapter 16. Business Ecosystems.- Chapter 17. Digitalization.- Chapter 18. Sustainability.- Chapter 19. Innovation.- Part V: The New Game of Strategy.- Chapter 20. Ambition.- Chapter 21. Focus.- Chapter 22. Depth.- Chapter 23. Customers.- Chapter 24. Competition.- Chapter 25. Organization.- Chapter 26. Profit and Finance.- Chapter 27. Employees and Leaders.- Chapter 28. The Future of the Hidden Champions.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world. Comparing organizations with living organisms, it places an organization’s neurology (control and communication) as a third dimension beside its anatomy (structure) and physiology (process). Overlooked by classical organizational theory, this third dimension offsets its typical drawbacks. The Neurology of Business introduces Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and shows how this helps managers to diagnose, discover, and unleash the potential and performance lying dormant in today’s enterprises.The book is based on numerous consulting projects and management seminars conducted in Europe, America, and Asia. It guides the reader through the diagnosis and design process and illustrates application issues with practical examples. In this way, the book provides managers with the language needed to have meaningful conversations about how their organizations are functioning. As such, it will benefit managers in business and nonbusiness organizations, as well as readers interested in general management.Table of ContentsPart I. Necessity and Benefits of the Third Dimension.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Ten Cardinal Mistakes of Organizing.- Part II. The Viable System Model.- Chapter 3. A Model of Steering and Communication.- Chapter 4. Introduction to the Model.- Chapter 5. Russian Dolls.- Chapter 6. Hierarchy and the Redundancy of Potential Command.- Part III. Diagnosis and Design.- Chapter 7. Overview of the Diagnostic Process.- Chapter 8. Diagnosing and Designing the Basic Structure (Step I).- Chapter 9. Mastering Complexity (Excursus).- Chapter 10. Manageable or Not? (Step II).- Chapter 11. Mission-critical Tasks (Step III).- Chapter 12. Centralized or Decentralized (Step IV).- Chapter 13. Diagnosing and Designing the Control Functions (Step V).- Chapter 14. Diagnosing and Designing Communication Channels (Step VI).- Part IV. From Knowledge to Implementation.- Chapter 15. Making the Organization Understandable (Step VII).- Chapter 16. Successful Implementation.- Chapter 17. Quick Diagnoses.- Chapter 18. Balancing Present and Future.

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Book SynopsisManagers and leaders spend a great deal of time on communication; it binds together all the communications in the organisational system. In other words, communication is the glue that impacts on the effectiveness of communication in the entire organization, therefore the style of leadership communication has a profound impact on how the organization works. If too much ‘glue’ is used, the consequence is information overload, which hampers effective communication. If there is too little glue, individuals and entire organizations may find themselves in a pathological state of disorder, with people filling the information vacuum with rumours and gossip. Leadership communication can be involving and participatory, motivating colleagues to be creative and put in as much extra effort as is necessary. Leadership communication can also be power-based and patronizing. Such a style of communication will cause tensions and conflicts within an organization. In this textbook, the author shows how information and communication are parts of a special type of interaction, namely situations in which you want to gain trust or influence people. With a plethora of case examples and practical exercises to get stuck into, this engaging book helps students gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and contexts described in each chapter, such as communication strategies, influencing techniques, communication and values, and communication and trust. The second half of the book offers six personal communication tools, and six personal coaching tools, with assignment to each of the coaching tools. In addition, the book provides 66 exercises to the six personal communication tools. Ideal reading for those taking leadership and communication courses, this textbook takes a practical approach to the key issues in organizational communication that will prepare students for their careers in business.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Communication and Leadership.- Chapter 2: Communication and Metaphors.- Chapter 3: Requisite Variety.- Chapter 4: Where We Draw the Boundaries of a Problem Affects our Perception of the Problem.- Chapter 5: The Context Sends Messages.- Chapter 6: Part and Whole in a Communicative Process.- Chapter 7: 'Aspect Seeing'.- Chapter 8: Information Processes as Part of Communication.- Chapter 9: Information Processes.- Chapter 10: Communication Strategies.- Chapter 11: Influencing Techniques.- Chapter 12 Alternative communication strategies.

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Book SynopsisCompeting through advanced services involves offering products-as-a-service, delivering outcomes for customers, and regularly earning revenue when customers get the results they value. This strategic move towards delivering outcomes can present many challenges for a firm. Part of the Palgrave Executive Essentials series, this book introduces outcome-based business models as Advanced Services Business Models and provides a practical guide on how a firm can innovate these services through a process known as servitization.Servitization offers businesses a pathway to both improve economic productivity and sustainability. It can create greater value for customers, while also improving resource efficiency and dematerialisation of the supply chain. It has the potential to reshape the industrial landscape for businesses, markets, and consumers around the world. This book is for executives, professionals, and anyone else who is looking for a practical guide to implementing service-based business models or seeking to innovate their business models to focus on services. It functions as a companion for students in executive education courses on servitization, business model innovation, strategy, and operations and should be on the radar of all instructors in those fields.Table of ContentsSUMMARY 2PREFACE 3Chapter 1: Introduction 9This book 11Purpose 11Target 11Scope 11Research 12Structure 13PART I: WHAT IS SERVITIZATION AND WHAT ARE ADVANCED SERVICES 14Chapter 2: Servitization, advanced services and outcomes 14Business model thinking: a powerful lens to understand servitization 14Services staircase: Understanding value propositions for servitzation 17Advanced services and outcome thinking 20Advanced services as outcome-based value propositions 22Advanced services around products 24Advanced services based around processes 25Advanced services based around platforms 26Risks 27Chapter Summary 28Chapter 3: Capturing value for advanced services 30Foundations of value capture 30Alignment of incentives across the value network: 31Competency to manage risk: 31Innovation pathway openness: 32Economic value 32Ownership 33Subscription 34Pay-per-use 35Pay-per-outcome 36Penalties 36Blended revenue model 37Strategic value 38Knowledge value 39Relational value 40Key cost drivers and pricing 40Chapter Summary 40Chapter 4: Organising to deliver advanced services 42Fundamentals of delivering advanced services 42Systems thinking 42Services language 43Customer first 43Innovation and Responsiveness 44Brought together 45Objectives 46Design 47Facilities 48Supply 49Partnerships 51Digital 51People 52Processes 53Chapter Summary 54PART II: WHY SERVITIZATION AND ADVANCED SERVICES ARE IMPORTANT 55Chapter 5: Broad drivers 55Fundamentals when evaluating impact 55Improving economic performance 56Servitization, revenue and profit 57Strengthening competitiveness of the firm 61Defence 61Growth 62Icon of practice 64Building business resilience 65Servitization as an aid resilience 66Icon of practice 69Helping to achieve carbon NetZero and sustainability 70Net Zero and servitization 71Icon of practice 76Pathway to improved productivity 78Servitization and productivity 78Icon of practice 81Building exports, international trade, and emerging markets 82Servitization exports, international trade and emerging markets 82Icon of practice 84Enabling new technology innovations to enter markets 85Servitization and barriers to market entry 85Icon of practice 88Chapter Summary 89PART III: HOW TO BRING ABOUT SERVITIZATION THROUGH THE INNOVATION OF ADVANCED SERVICES 91Chapter 6: Exploring the processes of servitizaiton 91Learning from experience 91Explaining transformation 95Stages 96Exploration 97Engagement 97Expansion 98Exploitation 98Forces 98Market centric forces 99Technology centric forces 99Value network centric forces 99Organisation centric forces 100Dynamics, tipping and exits 101Pathways 103Chapter summary 106Chapter 7: Managing the innovation of advanced services 108Framing the servitization process 108Process stages 109Objectives of each stage. 109Principle activities for each objective 110Context and accelerators of the servitization process 111Senior management empathy for services 111Customer intimacy 113Services function 114Customer demand 114Digital exploitation 115Reliable product 115Applying the servitization process 116Stepping off 117Exploration of servitization and advanced services 117Engagement in the innovation of an advanced service. 119Expansion to deliver services at scale 120Exploitation to optimise value creation 121Chapter summary 122Chapter 8: Close 123Recap 123The future 124Resources 128Glossary 128Acknowledgments 128

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is your ticket to entrepreneurial success! Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting, these straightforward tools will guide you to success in the complex entrepreneurial landscape.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements.- How to Read This Book.- Chapter 1. Purgatory as A Learning Platform for Leader.- Chapter 2. Pride.- Chapter 3. Envy.- Chapter 4. Anger.- Chapter 5. Sloth.- Chapter 6. Avarice.- Chapter 7. Gluttony and Lust.- Epilogue. The Paradox of Paradise: Why Forgetting Is Not the Answer.- Index.

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Book SynopsisResponding to the need for organizations to improve global strategic planning and execution, this book presents a framework for effectively conceiving and executing new concepts for international markets. Filling an important gap in knowledge and research on global innovation, the author demonstrates how leaders can facilitate multicultural collaboration in service of organizational performance. Cases and findings are shared from international studies of over 200 leaders and 45 multinational firms with headquarters based in Asia, Europe, and North America. Leading Global Innovation provides a practice perspective with specific models and solutions for facilitating multicultural team collaboration, from concept to market. This book offers crucial guidance for executives, managers, consultants, and educators who would like to understand how to lead and orchestrate innovation in a culturally diverse and networked business environment. Trade Review Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise yet comprehensive literature review on leadership. As well as offering critical insight into leadership research, the author addresses emerging paradigms and identifies new approaches. A vital tool for leadership students and scholars, the text will enable readers to demonstrate a critical awareness of current developments both in theory and practice of leadership and its importance in modern organizations. Both scholars and practitioners will find the engaging discussion in this book particularly useful as the author offers practical ideas for development and a much-needed unified theory on leadership.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Leadership Research and Theory.- 3. Emerging Paradigms.- 4. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book serves as a manual and toolbox and outlines how leaders can become 'ideaDJs'. A perfect ideaDJ mix consists of beauty, value and impact. By creating beauty, the solutions have more elegance in their implementation. It adds more value to all stakeholders, not just shareholders. And finally, the solutions create more sustainable and scalable impact.Great Leaders Mix and Match is a manifesto for more beautiful combinations in (business) life. The world faces complex challenges and these challenges can only be resolved by mixing and matching ideas. The beauty here lies in the elegance of the solutions which actually make the (business) world a better place and how we are able to solve multiple challenges in one go. Think of a waste incarnation plant which doubles as ski hill. Or think of new solutions for care: an elderly home, combined with children day care and an animal farm, where all parties benefit from the combination. These are real cases where the total (combination) is clearly more than the sum of its parts. This book serves as a manual and toolbox and outlines how leaders can become 'ideaDJs'. A perfect ideaDJ mix consists of beauty, value and impact. By creating beauty, the solutions have more elegance in their implementation. It adds more value to all stakeholders, not just shareholders. And finally, the solutions create more sustainable and scalable impact. Besides many exciting examples, this book contains a clear methodology and tool kits. The main focus is to help (business) leaders to change the mindset and attitude of the people around them.

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Book SynopsisIn life and business, change is the only constant. Read Dragon Tactics and learn how to thrive in uncertainty! In business, change is the only constant. Dragon Tactics demonstrates that Chinese entrepreneurs know how to thrive in uncertainty. The book contains many lessons for Western leaders to learn how to ride the wave of change. Global conflicts, environmental challenges and rapid digitization are just some of the unpredictable factors that are putting increasing strain on traditional business models. Chinese entrepreneurs know how to thrive in uncertainty: they have grown their business in an environment that has taught them to adapt often, thrive in chaos and overcome constant challenges of uncertainty. * Learn how to better navigate an increasingly uncertain and volatile world far beyond China's borders.* Masters skills that are rooted in China's four-thousand-year-old history and culture.* Read about management methods that borrow as much from Confucianism as from new technologies.* Written by business experts and China veterans Aldo Spaanjaars and Sandrine Zerbib.

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