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Book SynopsisIf you're a business owner, incorporation can help you protect your personal assets and cut down your tax bill. But all the paperwork and legalese can make incorporation seem like more trouble than it's worth. Incorporating Your Business For Dummies offers all the savvy tips you need to get incorporated starting today! Whether your business is big or small, incorporating isn't as simple as it could be. This handy reference makes incorporation make sense, and guides you through the process step by step. From handling the mountain of paperwork to getting back to business once you're finished, Incorporating Your Business For Dummies offers a wealth of helpful advice on these and many more topics: Knowing whether or not incorporation can help youChoosing the type of entity that will work best for your businessDealing with shareholders and shareholder agreementsTransferring money and assets in or out of the corporationDocumenting corporate actions and maintaining complianceFinding the rigTable of ContentsIntroduction. PART I: Is a Corporation Really for Me? Chapter 1: What's a Corporation? Chapter 2: Choosing an Entity That Works for Your Business. Chapter 3: Getting My Ducks in a Row -- A Pre-incorporation Checklist. PART II: How Do I Incorporate? Chapter 4: Who Can Help Me Incorporate? Chapter 5: Where, Oh Where Should I Incorporate? Chapter 6: Winning the Name Game. Chapter 7: Getting Down to Business with the Articles of Incorporation. Chapter 8: Getting to the Nitty-Gritty with Your Bylaws. Chapter 9: Capitalizing Your Corporation. Chapter 10: Doing Business in Other States. PART III: I've Incorporated My Business, Now What? Chapter 11: Conducting an Organizational Meeting. Chapter 12: Getting Started: Numbers, Elections, Registration. Chapter 13: Shareholders: Do's and Don'ts. Chapter 14: Preparing Shareholder Agreements. Chapter 15: Understanding the Role of Directors and Officers. Chapter 16: Director and Shareholder Meetings. Chapter 17: Getting Money (And Other Items of Value) In and Out of the Corporation. PART IV: Compliance Issues -- The Paper Trail Continues. Chapter 18: Documenting Corporate Actions. Chapter 19: Corporate Record Keeping. Chapter 20: Getting Your Financial Information in Order. Chapter 21: Closing Up Shop. Chapter 22: Who Can Help Me with Corporate Compliance Matters? PART V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 23: Ten Ways to Locate and Retain a Good Professional Team. Chapter 24: Ten Things You Never Want to Do with Your Corporation. Chapter 25: Ten Common-sense Principles to Incorporate and Live Each Day By. Appendix A: Sample Forms. Appendix B: Resources. Appendix C: Glossary. Index. Book Registration Information.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to successful corporate transformation ?The framework Bob Miles illustrates in his new book has been the key tool Symantec has used to start the shift from being a technology-driven to a customer-driven company. Business leaders facing a variety of corporate transformation challenges will benefit from this important executive briefing.? -- Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., chief executive officer, Symantec Corporation The distillation of a stellar twenty-year career, Leading Corporate Transformation is consultant Robert Miles''s reply to executives who want to be able to rise to the most pervasive challenge facing them today: how to achieve fundamental transformation without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk. Here, in the form of an executive briefing, are the expert guidance and tools you need to meet a variety of corporate transformation challenges, whether you are trying to reposition a successful company, revitalize a failing one, mTrade Review?The framework Bob Miles illustrates in his new book has been the key tool Symantec has used to start the shift from being a technology-driven to a customer-driven company. Business leaders facing a variety of corporate transformation challenges will benefit from this important executive briefing.? (Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., chief executive officer, Symantec Corporation) ?Miles is correct in concluding that only successful corporate leaders in today's competitive environment are transformational leaders. His general framework for leading corporate transformations has been distilled from two decades of close-in support of many of the corporate world's pathbreaking transformations. This book reveals how his approach may be adopted to a variety of corporate revitalization and repositioning challenges." (Robert W. Gundeck, chief executive officer, American Business Products) ?Bob Miles masterful weaves two decades of hands-on experience into his powerful and timely framework for leading corporate transformation. His approach was instrumental in helping our company launch the difficult transition from regulation-focused monopoly to market-leading competitor. Corporate leaders will profit from this executive briefing.? (David W. Dorman, chairman and chief executive officer, Pacific Bell) ?An extremely important and practical book. Essential reading for all leaders at all levels of an organization during corporate transformation.? (C. Douglas Miller, CEO, Norrell Corporation) ?In this book, one of the world's most experienced change agents identifies the skill set required of leaders at all levels in the enterprise to drive successful corporate transformation. The book should become required reading for all managers in a business undergoing fundamental change.? (Jerome Adams, chief learning officer, Shell Oil Company) ?Miles is a real pro. Leaders facing a wide variety of transformation challenges will find this blueprint quite useful.? -- Timothy W. Finchem, commissioner, PGA TOUR (Timothy W. Finchem, commissioner, PGA TOUR)Table of ContentsCorporate Transformation: An Executive Briefing. THE CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK. Generating Energy for Transformation. Developing a Vision for the future. Aligning the Organization and Culture. Orchestrating the Transformation. PROFILES IN CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION. Type I Transformation: Repositioning America's Most admired Utility. Type II Transformation: Revitalizing a High Tech Legend. Type III Transformation: Merging Businesses and Cultures. Type IV Transformation: Managing Executive Leadership Succession. Appendix: The Strategic Visioning Process.

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate resource for improvement and planning! This treasure trove of information gives you expert direction for helping your organization and its employees improve performance. Unlike most resources on organizational improvement that consider only the micro- (individual) and macro- (organization) levels, this guide incorporates the mega- (customer/client) level in planning success. Among the many leading contributors to this volume are: Dale M. Brethower Diane Dormant Judith Hale Roger Kaufman Danny G. Langdon Bette Madson Ann W. Parkman Sivasailam Thiagi Thiagarajan Odin Westgaard Jack Zigon . . . and many more! You''ll learn vital performance improvement steps including: Defining objectives and ensuring that they are useful Determining what results to achieve Designing and implementing interventions, programs, and activitiTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Changing Realities of Human and OrganizationalPerformance Improvement. ORIGINS. The Origins and Critical Attributes of Human PerformanceTechnology. Research and Development Origins of Performance Systems. Social Responsibility. DIRECTION FINDING AND GOAL SETTING. A Strategic-Planning Framework: Mega Planning. Preparing Performance Indicators and Objectives. Needs-Assessment Basics. A Systems Schema. ANALYSIS. Business-Unit Performance Analysis and Development. Organizational Mapping. Job-Task Analysis. DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT. The Hierarchy of Interventions. Applications of Total Quality Concepts to OrganizationalEffectiveness. Developing Front-line Employees: A New Challenge for AchievingOrganizational Effectiveness. Job Aids. Organizational Development for Human PerformanceTechnologists. IMPLEMENTATION. Personnel Selection and Assignment. Recruitment and Turnover. Accountability for Staff Turnover. Performance Management. Program Management: Its Relationship to the Project. Rewards and Performance Incentives. Planning Change: Past, Present, Future. Integrating People, Planning, and Change. Performance Improvement in Developing Countries. EVALUATION. Evaluation: Seven Dimensions, Six Steps, Five Phases, and FourGuidelines. Performance Is Easy to Monitor and Hard to Measure. Developing Test and Assessment Items. Quality Management/Continuous Improvement. Performance Appraisal. List of Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis one-stop board leadership resource, written by one of the world''s leading governance consultants and author of the bestselling Boards That Make a Difference, offers you a broad range of material including the best articles from the Board Leadership newsletter, articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works. Each chapter has been carefully selected and arranged to provide you with a distillation of John Carver''s revolutionary Policy Governance model.Trade Review.."packed with information and advice.."(Modern Management, February 2002)Table of ContentsFrequently Asked Questions Guide. Foreword (Sir Adrian Cadbury). Introduction. About the Author. 1. A Theory of Governance: The Search for Universal Principles. A Theory of Governing the Public's Business: Redesigning the Jobs of Boards, Councils, and Commissions. Is Policy Governance the One Best Way? Rethinking Governance Research. Watch Out for Misleading Interpretations of Governance Research. Why Is Conceptual Wholeness So Difficult for Boards? Are Boards Searching for the Holy Grail? Can Things Go Horribly Wrong for Boards That Use Policy Governance? 2. The Moral Basis of Board Authority: Where the Chain of Command Begins. Ownership. Understanding the Special Board-Ownership Relationship. Determining Who Your Owners Are. Connecting with the Ownership. What to Do If You Find a Consumer on Your Board. Achieving Meaningful Diversity in the Boardroom. Making Hierarchy Work: Exercising Appropriate Board Authority in the Service of Mission. Elected Boards: Meeting Their Special Governance Challenge. Your Board's Market Surrogate Obligation. Leading, Following, and the Wisdom to Know the Difference. Families of Boards, Part One: Federations. Families of Boards, Part Two: Holding Companies. When Owners Are Customers: The Confusion of Dual Board Hats. 3. Creating the Board's Single Voice: Appropriate Roles of Committees, Officers, and Individual Members. Creating a Single Voice: The Prerequisite to Board Leadership. Boards Should Have Their Own Voice. Protecting Board Integrity from the Renegade Board Member. When the Founding Parent Stays on the Board. The Executive Committee: Turning a Governance Liability into an Asset. A Team of Equals. Policies Us. Recruiting Leaders: What to Look for in New Board Members. Should Your CEO Be a Board Member? What If the Committee Chair Just Wants to Know? Reining In a Runaway Chair. Does Your Board Drive Away Its Most Promising Members? A Few Tips for the Chairperson. Sometimes You Have to Fire Your Chair. What to Do with Your Board's Philosophy, Values, and Beliefs. Crafting the Board Job Description. Planning the Board's Conduct. 4. Linking Governance to Operations: The Board-Management Connection. To Tell or Not to Tell: One CEO Learns the Right Way to Inform Her Board. Governing in the Shadow of a Founder-CEO. If You Want It Done Right, Delegate It! What to Do When Staff Take Complaints Directly to Board Members. When Board Members Are the Only Staff in Sight. The CEO's Objectives Are Not Proper Board Business. Why Only the CEO Can Interpret the Board's Ends and Executive Limitations Policies. Getting It Right from the Start: The CEO's Job Description. Do You Really Have a CEO? Does Policy Governance Give Too Much Authority to the CEO? 5 Putting Purpose First: Deciding, Delegating, and Demanding Organizational "Ends". Boards Lead Best When Services, Programs, and Curricula Are Transparent. A Community Board Struggles with the Cost of Its Results. Beware the "Quality" Fetish. First Things First. Evaluating the Mission Statement. The Board of a Trade Association Establishes Ends Policies. A Public School Board Establishes Ends Policies. A City Council Creates Ends Policies. A Hospital Board Creates Ends Policies. 6. Safely Avoiding Micromanagement: Staff Freedom Within Defined Limits. Free Your Board and Staff Through Executive Limitations. Making Informed Fiscal Policy. Running Afoul of Governance. Crafting Policy to Safeguard Your Organization's Actual Fiscal Condition. Crafting Policy to Guide Your Organization's Budget. Fiduciary Responsibility. Redefining the Board's Role in Fiscal Planning. 7. What the Board's Words Mean: Harnessing Interpretation for Control and Empowerment. The "Any Reasonable Interpretation" Rule: Leap of Faith or Sine Qua Non of Delegation? Boards Should Be Not the Final Authority but the Initial Authority. Abstracting Up: Discovering the Big Issues Among the Trivia. Who's in Charge? Is Your Organization Too Staff-Driven? Too Volunteer-Driven? Never Cast in Stone: Flexible Policy Supports Management and Saves Board Time. Policy Governance Is Not a "Hands Off" Model. 8. When the Board Meets: Products, Process, Discipline, and Costs. Is Your Board in a Rut? Shake Up Your Routine! Why Not Set Your Quorum Requirement at 100 Percent? Owning Your Agenda: A Long-Term View Is the Key to Taking Charge. Calculating the Real Costs of Governance. The Consent Agenda and Responsible Rubber-Stamping. 9. Assuring Board and Management Performance: Measurement, Evaluation, and Discipline. Painful Lessons: Learning from the United Way Misfortune. One Board Fails to Follow Its Own Monitoring Policy-and Courts Fiscal Disaster. The Misguided Focus on Administrative Cost. A Simple Matter of Comparison: Monitoring Fiscal Management in Your Organization. Board Approvals and Monitoring Are Very Different Actions. Giving Measurement Its Due in Policy Governance. Honey, I Shrunk the Policies. The Mechanics of Direct Inspection Monitoring. Redefining Board Self-Evaluation: The Key to Keeping on Track. Living Up to Your Own Expectations: Implementing Self-Evaluation to Make a Difference in Your Organization. The Importance of Trust in the Board-CEO Relationship. Evaluating the CEO: An Effective Approach to Ensure Future Organizational Success. Putting CEO Evaluation in Perspective. Off Limits: What Not to Do in Your CEO Evaluation. A CEO Self-Evaluation Checklist. 10. Safeguarding Governance Viability for the Long Term. What to Do When All Your Policies Are in Place. Nine Steps to Implementing Policy Governance. Shaping Up Your Bylaws. What Happens to Conventional Documents Under Policy Governance? How You Can Tell When Your Board Is Not Using Policy Governance. CEOs! Guiding Your Board Toward Better Governance. Policy Governance Won't Work Because . . . Protecting Governance from Law, Funders, and Accreditors. 11. When Governing Boards Perform Nongoverning Roles. When Board Members Act as Staff Advisors. Tips for Creating Advisory Boards and Committees. Giving, Getting, and Governing: Finding a Place for Fundraising Among the Responsibilities of Leadership. Girl Scout Council Learns What Kind of Help Counts the Most. Board Members as Amateur CEOs. 12. Policy Governance for Specific Audiences. Remaking Governance. Toward Coherent Governance. Partnership for Public Service. Governing Parks and Recreation. Education Accountability and Legislative Oversight. New Means to an End. Reinventing Governance. To Focus on Shaping the Future, Many Hospital Boards Might Require a Radical Overhaul. Corporate Governance Model from an Unexpected Source-Nonprofits. A Theory of Corporate Governance: Finding a New Balance for Boards and Their CEOs. The Opportunity for Reinventing Corporate Governance in Joint Venture Companies. What Use Is Business Experience on a Nonprofit or Governmental Board? Seizing the Governance Opportunity for Central European NGOs. Building an Infrastructure of Governance in Eastern Europe. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume explores topics such as: how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents, and how category systems change over time.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Research on categories in the sociology of organizations. Legitimizing illegitimacy: How creating market identity legitimizes illegitimate products. Identity sequences and the early adoption pattern of a jazz canon, 1920–1929. Organizational form emergence and competing professional schemata of Dutch accounting, 1884–1939. Crossing a categorical boundary: the implications of switching from non-kosher wine production in the Israeli wine market. The consequences of category spanning depend on contrast. Organizational evolution with fuzzy technological formats: tape drive producers in the world market, 1951–1998. Activists, categories, and markets: Racial diversity and protests against Walmart store openings in America. From Categorical Imperative to Learning by Categories: Cost Accounting and New Categorical Practices in American Manufacturing, 1900–1930. Identity repositioning: The case of Liberal Democrats and audience attention in British politics, 1950–2005. The duality of niche and form: The differentiation of institutional space in New York City, 1888–1917. Category currency: The changing value of conformity as a function of ongoing meaning construction. Advisory Board. Research in the sociology of organizations. Research in the sociology of organizations. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisTurn your love of herbs into a profitable business. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience running an herb and spice shop, Bertha Reppert helps you successfully develop and market your own herbal products. Showing you how to determine a start-up budget, find niche markets, create unique packaging, track inventory, and organize business-boosting special events, Reppert also includes a series of inspiring profiles of professional herbalists. Transform your passion into a profession and get ready to open up shop!

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the marketing sphere providing insights into how AI can be harnessed for developing more effective and efficient marketing strategies.In addition, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the various digital marketing tools available to entrepreneurs, discussing their features, benefits, and potential drawbacks. This helps entrepreneurs make well-informed decisions when selecting the tools most suited to their needs and objectives. It is designed to help entrepreneurs develop and implement successful strategies, leveraging the latest tools and technologies to achieve their business goals.As the digital landscape continues to evolve rapidly, this book serves as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs looking to stay ahead of the curve and capitalize on new opportunities. The book''s scope encompasses many topics, including customer experience, content marketing, AI strategy, and digital marketin

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Based on 15 case studies of innovative business families from North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Dita and Sanjay Sharma have distilled practical lessons on how to establish and transform family businesses for long-term success in an ever changing business environment where sustainability issues are increasingly important. An excellent contribution to the world of family businesses.'/i> -- Thomas Schmidheiny and Dieter Spälti, Indian School of Business, India'We tend to celebrate family businesses for their dedication to their values and purpose. However, we cannot just assume that sustainable development strategies are in-built for family enterprises. They require vision and champions to have a real impact. Nothing is more inspiring than to see such strategies in action which is why you will thoroughly enjoy this book and its global case studies. It provides us with a much-needed foundation for this conversation both academically and practically.' -- Ramia El Agamy, Editor-in-Chief of Tharawat Magazine, Host of The Family Business Voice'This book is a treasure trove of inspiration and wisdom for any family interested in responsible ownership. Its breadth and depth of knowledge is quite extraordinary. Best practice from decades of experience is distilled between its covers.' -- Andrew Wates, Past Chairman, Wates Family Holdings, UK; Inaugural Chair, Polaris Committee, Family Business NetworkTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Pioneering business families committed to sustainable development 2 Pramodita Sharma and Sanjay Sharma PART II DESIGNED FOR SUSTAINABILITY 2 Sustainability comes naturally: Rocky Mountain Soap Company, a purpose-driven family business 52 Pramodita Sharma, Sanjay Sharma and Alexa Steiner 3 Supreme Creations and Wings of Hope: A symbiotic care of environment and society 76 Pramodita Sharma, Sanjay Sharma and Alyssa Schuetz 4 Biofilter: A Hungarian champion for the circular economy and stakeholder capitalism 99 Caroline Seow and Maria José Parada PART III TRANSFORMED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 5 The evolution of a sustainable energy family business: The case of Thermax 125 Kavil Ramachandran and Yashodhara Basuthakur 6 Kemin Industries: A sustainable future in focus 151 Justin B. Craig and Gary Bowman 7 Social capital as a pathway to sustainability at State Garden 175 Pramodita Sharma and Rocki-Lee DeWitt 8 Griffith Foods: Nourishing the world 203 Stuart L. Hart 9 Royal Van Wijhe Coatings: Sustainability over four generations 234 Judith van Helvert and Rosemarie Steenbeek 10 GMA Garnet’s circular economy: Jebsen & Jessen’s leadership in environmental sustainability 252 Marta Widz and Vanina Farber 11 Tahbilk: A fifth-generation Australian family wine business’s journey to sustainability 277 Michael Browne, Chris Graves and Francesco Barbera PART IV INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY 12 The role of family values in institutional change toward sustainability in the Bordeaux wine industry 304 Sanjay Sharma, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva and Joerg S. Hofstetter 13 The Wallenberg family of Sweden: Sustainable business development since 1856 336 Sarah Jack and Mattias Nordqvist Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Cases are a slice of life that offer a mirror into the life and work of a family enterprise. As the world changes so deeply these cases help us understand the unique ways that families are responding to the current time of crisis and upheaval. Incredible stories!' -- Dennis Jaffe, BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors‘This very impressive volume contains extraordinarily useful case studies that address key challenges that face family businesses today. The authors generously share their academic expertise and blend it with up to date stories based on real life experience from family businesses across the world. As an editor of the first STEP Project book published in 2010, I can highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in understanding successful family enterprising.’ -- Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Pramodita Sharma xvii Foreword by Daniel Trimarchi xix About the STEP Project Global Consortium xxi Acknowledgments xxiii 1 Family firms across the world: succession and governance in a disruptive era 1 Nupur Pavan Bang, Georges Samara, Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabrò, Jeremy Cheng, Luis Díaz-Matajira and Albert E. James 2 Family business case learning: how to maximize learnings from this STEP project global casebook 10 Jeremy Cheng, Andrea Calabrò, Luis Díaz-Matajira, Nupur Pavan Bang, Rodrigo Basco, Albert E. James and Georges Samara PART I CONFLICTS, SUDDEN DEATH AND SUCCESSION 3 Aborted succession: we need both succession and retirement plans 21 Miruna Radu-Lefebvre and Ameline Bordas 4 Mending the fence before the family fell apart: succession in the Shampoo family 28 Kavil Ramachandran and Nupur Pavan Bang 5 The silence before the storm: intragenerational conflict for succession 37 Özlem Yildirim-Öktem and Irmak Erdogan 6 Lessons learned from being NextGen 47 Peter Klein and Stefan Prigge 7 Florax Group: when unintended succession leads to unfulfilled promises 55 Rosemarie Steenbeek, Judith van Helvert and Jolanda D.A. Knobel 8 Succession turnaround at the Avendorp Group: a true family tragedy 63 Daniël Agterhuis, Julian van den Akker and Judith van Helvert PART II GOVERNANCE FOR TRANSITION PLANNING 9 Valuing our values: family values driving business success 73 Eric Clinton and Stephen Browne 10 Time to hang up the boots? 82 María Jesús Hernández-Ortiz, Francisca Panadés-Zamora, Myriam Cano-Rubio and Manuel Carlos Vallejo-Martos 11 A woman at the helm: growth and succession at Inversora Lockey C.A. 90 Nunzia Auletta and Patricia Monteferrante PART III UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM IN UNUSUAL TIMES 12 “Should I stay or should I go?”: Filipe de Botton’s dilemma 102 Alexandre Dias da Cunha and Remedios Hernández-Linares 13 Can I retire? An early successor’s dilemma 113 Dalal Alrubaishi 14 Which family prevails during divorce and succession? The Wagner Avila case 121 Luis Díaz-Matajira and Stefano Wagner 15 “Chemical reaction”: choosing a successor in a mosaic family 129 Elena Rozhdestvenskaya 16 Clease’s Auto: how a global pandemic allowed a family to maintain their family business legacy 138 Elizabeth Tetzlaff, Brittany Kraus and Albert E. James 17 The Ricci Durand family in the COVID-19 pandemic 144 Carmen Pachas Orihuela, Antonio Martínez Valdez and César Cáceres Dagnino PART IV RISING-GENERATION LEADERSHIP IN ONGOING DISRUPTIONS 18 Pineola Nurseries: family business succession under fire 153 Steve Gaklis 19 DC International: riding out of disruption as a third-generation successor 161 Marshall Jen, Jeremy Cheng, Kevin Au and Kelly Xing Chen 20 Am I ready for this? 169 Andrea “Ginny” Santiago 21 Universal Cement Corporation: doing “one thing at a time” in the crisis of multiple needs? 177 Yi-Chun Lu, You-Fong Wu and Hsi-Mei Chung 22 Conclusion: the lessons learned 184 Rodrigo Basco, Albert E. James, Nupur Pavan Bang, Andrea Calabrò, Jeremy Cheng, Luis Díaz-Matajira and Georges Samara Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In a world facing the danger of fake news and “alternative facts”, Elena Raviola's fascinating journey into the realm of contemporary media is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the fragile and subtle equilibrium between the quest for independence of the press and the need for economic resources for the production of reliable news. In other words, this most important book gives us the means to preserve, while it is still time, those professional and free media our democracy depends on.’ -- Franck Cochoy, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France‘Rich in facts, strong in ideas, deep in its critique – a much needed, important book on the changing organization of journalism and its implications for society.’ -- Martin Kornberger, University of Edinburgh, UK‘In times of fake news and social media, it is important to know whom to trust. One of the best ways of learning that is through acquiring a direct insight into the workings of professional media, which is exactly what Elena Raviola offers her readers. Organizing Independence is a book for media scholars, for management and organization scholars, and for everybody who reads newspapers and listens to the news.’ -- Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Is media independence under threat? 2. Around the Chinese Wall: Separating News and Money 3. Independence through expansion: Making news for profit 4. Entrepreneurial journalism and the dream of a new independence: Making money for the news 5. Reframing the new independence: Making money for news? 6. Compromising in the name of independence Index

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Book SynopsisRecognizing how the lines between digital and traditional forms of entrepreneurship are blurring, this forward-thinking book combines digital technology and entrepreneurship perspectives to advance knowledge on this paradigm-shifting typology of entrepreneurship.Trade Review‘Digital technologies have fundamentally reshaped entrepreneurship. Uniquely and deeply informed by both scholarship and business practice, this book offers an up-to-date account of entrepreneurship in the digital age while addressing sub-topics of great contemporary interest, such as disruption, external enablement, design thinking, and the process nature of venture creation.’ -- Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia and Jönköping International Business School, Sweden‘Nzembayie and Buckley have provided a digital entrepreneurial process model to guide digital entrepreneurs in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st century. That their model is grounded in an action research design provides an invitation for other digital entrepreneurs to exploit their experience in like rigorous, reflective and relevant action design research processes to advance the growth of digital ventures.’ -- David Coghlan, University of Dublin Trinity College, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Digital entrepreneurship: context and conceptualization 2. Theories of the entrepreneurial process 3. Conceptualizing the digital entrepreneurial process 4. External enablers and barriers to digital entrepreneurship 5. Pragmatic model of digital new venture creation 6. Synopsis: digital new venture creation and disruption Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEntrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organizations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century.   In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of successful startups – building a minimal viable product, customer-focused and scientific testing based on a build-measure-learn method of continuous innovation, and deciding whether to persevere or pivot. In The Startup Way, he turns his attention to an entirely new group of organizations: established enterprises like iconic multinationals GE and Toyota, tech titans like Amazon and Facebook, and the next generation of Silicon Valley upstarts like Airbnb and Twilio. Drawing on his experiences over the past five years working with these organizations, as well as nonprofits, NGOs, and governments, Ries lays out a system of entrepreneurial management that leads organizations of all sizes  and from every industry to sustainable growth and long-term impact. Filled with in-the-field stories, insights, and tools, The Startup Way is an essential road map for any organization navigating the uncertain waters of the century ahead.

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Book SynopsisSustainable businesses create economic and social value while simultaneously protecting the natural environment for future generations. This examination of environmental sustainability through the lens of the family business identifies factors that help family and non-family organizations address the dilemma of balancing short-term productivity, efficiency and profitability objectives, with innovating for long-term sustainable value creation. Exploring the case of the wine industry - an industry characterized by a variety of governance systems - Sanjay and Pramodita Sharma develop fresh insights into influences and drivers for proactive environmental strategies to address major global sustainability challenges. By doing so, the authors are able to demonstrate that family firms with a focus on trans-generational continuity of business, long temporal orientation, shared vision, faster decision-making processes, and the goal of preserving socio-emotional wealth are more likely to make patTrade Review'In this new book, two global thought leaders in their respective fields, Sanjay Sharna in sustainable business and Pramodita Sharma in family business, join forces to provide a unique, comprehensive and impressively creative examination into the role that family firms play in developing sustainable business practices. Focusing on the wine industry, the authors generate meaningful insights regarding the importance of patient capital that are both theoretically rigorous and practically relevant. This book is a must-read, not only for those of us with an interest in the family businesses and the wine industry, but for all who care about business being more sustainable in the future.' Mattias Nordqvist, Jönköping University, Sweden'Family firms - often driven by a stewardship mindset - constitute the vast majority of the world's businesses and economic activity. It is thus high time that focused attention be paid to how these firms might provide leadership in the transition to a more sustainable form of capitalism. In Patient Capital, Sanjay and Dita Sharma provide both the evidence extant and the research questions yet to be answered.' Stuart L. Hart, Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business, University of Vermont and author of Capitalism at the Crossroads'Rigor and relevance pair well in this insightful study of family wineries and their environmental strategies. The Sharmas have produced a highly readable book that will be of value to those wondering how even small players can profit from taking the long view. The Sharmas integrate hundreds of interviews about the role of sustainability in wineries into a fascinating story of how competitive advantage is created over generations. It is a wonderful contribution to a vital, growing literature on longevity that spotlights the first companies to embrace purpose as a guiding principle.' Michael V. Russo, University of Oregon and author of Companies on a Mission: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly, and Profitably'In this much-needed and timely work, the authors synthesize their leading scholarly expertise to provide a rich account of how and when businesses adopt proactive environmental sustainability strategies. The authors ambitiously wade into this uncharted domain, weaving qualitative evidence with rigorous theorization to elaborate a multi-faceted explanation of why family businesses are more likely to proactively address environmental concerns. This book fills a significant gap in research and provides an essential starting point for scholars going forward in understanding sustainability and the role that family businesses will play in proactively shaping corporate environmental strategies.' Justin W. Webb, Belk Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation, University of North Carolina, Charlotte'This is a must read for anyone interested in sustainability management. Sanjay Sharma and Dita Sharma's book provides a very intriguing seminal contribution that helps to understand how family firms, from industrialized and developing countries, approach environmental sustainability. Family businesses represent the vast majority of firms around the globe both in terms of employees and economic output. Yet, most sustainability management research has ignored these firms, focusing instead on publicly traded companies from industrialized countries. Relying on rigorous in-depth case studies, this book proposes a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework identifying different drivers of greener business strategies. Their framework also shows that, given their greater longer-term orientation and values, family firms have a higher tendency to be greener than public firms. Overall, this is captivating book that will be of great interest to sustainability management scholars.' Jorge E. Rivera, George Washington University, Washington DCTable of Contents1. Definitions; 2. Primary data: cases from the winery industry in Canada, France and Chile; 3. Exogenous drivers of corporate environmental strategy; 4. Organizational drivers of corporate environmental sustainability strategy; 5. Managerial drivers of environmental sustainability strategy; 6. Bringing the family into the corporate environmental sustainability strategy: implications for research, education and policy.

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Book SynopsisInclusive Business Models talks about organizations that employ principles of business to address the needs of the poor. It takes an analytical approach to derive insights about business models by comparison with other inclusive models seen within the same sector and through comparisons with models from a different sector. This cross sector comparison, especially with a number of case studies, would enable readers to cumulate their learning, and act as a guide to management students, practicing managers and entrepreneurs for understanding and analyzing any business model that intends or claims to be inclusive. This book is beneficial for students of entrepreneurship, social enterprises and human resource management. Sections of this book would be relevant for courses on social enterprises, developmental economics and inclusive business models taught globally, given that India today has emerged as a hotbed of experiments and innovations to deal with the problems of poverty and inequality.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Vaatsalya Hospitals: Affordable healthcare in proximity; 3. Gyanshala: Providing inclusive education; 4. Rang De: Creating a platform for social investment; 5. LaborNet: Empowering informal sector labourers; 6. SELCO: Inclusive model for energy access; 7. Hasiru Dala innovations: Improving lives of waste pickers; 8. Reliance Retail: Creating inclusive supply chain; 9. IDE Nepal: Developing smallholder ecosystem; 10. RuralShores: Delivering inclusive service; 11. GNFC's Neem initiative: A social business; 12. Bringing it all together; References.

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Book SynopsisThe economic climate is ripe for another golden age of shareholder activism Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations is a must-read exploration of deep value investment strategy, describing the evolution of the theories of valuation and shareholder activism from Graham to Icahn and beyond. The book combines engaging anecdotes with industry research to illustrate the principles and methods of this complex strategy, and explains the reasoning behind seemingly incomprehensible activist maneuvers. Written by an active value investor, Deep Value provides an insider''s perspective on shareholder activist strategies in a format accessible to both professional investors and laypeople. The Deep Value investment philosophy as described by Graham initially identified targets by their discount to liquidation value. This approach was extremely effective, but those opportunities are few and far between in the mTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv About the Author xvii Chapter 1 The Icahn Manifesto 1 Chapter 2 Contrarians at the Gate 19 Chapter 3 Warren Buffett: Liquidator to Operator 35 Chapter 4 The Acquirer’s Multiple 53 Chapter 5 A Clockwork Market 77 Chapter 6 Trading in Glamour: The Conglomerate Era 99 Chapter 7 Catch a Falling Knife 119 Chapter 8 The Art of the Corporate Raid 151 Chapter 9 How Hannibal Profits From His Victories 169 Chapter 10 Applied Deep Value 187 Index 217

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Book SynopsisRethink your way to a better life In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done. Successful telecoms entrepreneur David McCourt lays out the reality of the dangerous situation we find ourselves in and suggests solutions which will empower everyone, including business people, politicians, diplomats, and teachers, to repair the damage we have already done, and prepare for the dramatic changes to come. Change the way you think and behave to be a true entrepreneur Understand why incremental change no longer works Move at the speed oTable of ContentsForeword xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Visualize the Future 1 Chapter 2 Start a Bottom-Up Revolution 7 Chapter 3 When the Revolutionaries Become the Establishment and Stop Blowing Up the Model 21 Chapter 4 Entrepreneurial Thinkers Can Be Found in Every Walk of Life 33 Chapter 5 Can You Teach Entrepreneurship or are Creative Entrepreneurs Born that Way? 39 Chapter 6 Work on Your Strengths, Forget Your Weaknesses 53 Chapter 7 Being Interested in Everything 65 Chapter 8 Getting Taken Seriously 71 Chapter 9 Achieving the Impossible 77 Chapter 10 Tell Your Story to the World 81 Chapter 11 Radical Ways of Getting Paid 85 Chapter 12 Taking Risks and Grasping Opportunities 91 Chapter 13 Connecting Computers to One Another 105 Chapter 14 Finding a Mentor 113 Chapter 15 Trying to Do Everything at the Same Time 123 Chapter 16 If You Are Persistent, Your Plan B May Be Better Than Your Plan A 137 Chapter 17 Crowdsourcing Is the Future 145 Chapter 18 The Death of the Middlemen 157 Chapter 19 Ten-Year-Olds Have Great Ideas, Too 163 Chapter 20 Never Be Afraid to Think Big – or to Think Young 167 Chapter 21 Future Generations 181 Chapter 22 The Power Shift 189 Chapter 23 The Power of Immigration 201 Chapter 24 The Sheer Joy of Being a Creative Revolutionary 207 Epilogue 213 About the Author 217 Notes 219

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Book SynopsisFinance your company's growth without losing your stake in it Too often, thanks to multiple rounds of equity investment, company founders wind up with only a small fraction of the businesses they start. But this situation isn't inevitable. The intelligent use of a variety of financing optionsincluding debt financingcan help to maintain, or even grow, a founder's stake. In All Money Is Not Created Equal: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding the Right Funding for Your Business, renowned Silicon Valley veteran David Spreng delivers an expert guide for entrepreneurs and founders seeking to maintain as much ownership stake as possible in the companies they create as they move through the various stages of the financing process. The book draws on the author's decades of experience as a venture capitalist, venture debt lender, and CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley, as well as interviews with entrepreneurs, board members, investors, and bankers. Readers will also find: A well-rounded and insightful perspective on the financing process informed by industry veteransAn informal and accessible exploration of a complex topic that remains critical to the success of entrepreneurs and foundersDiscussions of alternatives to equity financing, including debt financing, in the growth phase of startups An essential handbook for startup founders, entrepreneurs, and managers, All Money Is Not Created Equal also deserves a place in the hands of company board members, venture capitalists, investors, and investment bankers interested in the company financing process.Table of ContentsForeword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part One: Setting the Stage 1 Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Companies 3 Chapter 2: All About Growth: My Journey from Venture Capital to Venture Debt 17 Part Two: Startups: Understanding the Arena 29 Chapter 3: The Stages of a Startup 31 Chapter 4: Geography Matters – to a Point 45 Chapter 5: The Startup Ecosystem 53 Part Three: Getting the Money 65 Chapter 6: Your First Outside Investors 67 Chapter 7: What Kind of Money Is Right for Your Business? 75 Chapter 8: The Ins and Outs of Venture Capital 85 Chapter 9: Debt Is Not a Four-Letter Word 91 Chapter 10: What a Deal with Debt Looks Like 97 Chapter 11: Making the Most of Debt 109 Chapter 12: Options for Exits 119 Part Four: Making the Best Use of Your Money 129 Chapter 13: Bullshitters, Liars, and Jerks 131 Chapter 14: Bullshitters, Liars, and Jerks, Part 2: What You Need to Be on Guard For 137 Chapter 15: Your Team: Getting the Right People in the Right Jobs 143 Chapter 16: Founder versus CEO 151 Chapter 17: Getting the Most from Your Board 157 Chapter 18: The Moral Contract 165 Part Five: Going Forward 171 Chapter 19: Runway’s Story of Going Public 173 Chapter 20: Conclusion 183 Appendix 189 Index 211

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter One The Next Financial Revolution 1 Chapter Two The Origins of Embedded Finance 9 Chapter Three Big Tech and Beyond 45 Chapter Four Embedded Finance in the Offline World 69 Chapter Five The Right Ingredients Are Now in Place 117 Chapter Six A More Sustainable and Equal World 161 Chapter Seven 2030: How Embedded Finance Takes Over the World 197 Acknowledgments 223 About the Authors 225 Index 227

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Creating the Future Leading Through Innovation 1. The Family Difference Capitalizing on Family Innovation 2. Structured Chaos Creating a Culture of Innovation 3. Core Offerings Driving Value with Product and Service Innovations 4. Family Continuity Applying Innovative Thinking to Succession 5. Family Continuity Applying Innovative Thinking to Governance 6. Money and Metrics Funding and Measuring Innovation 7. The Next Generation Re-Innovating the Family Business 8. Moving Innovation Forward Concluding ThoughtsTrade Review"Joe Schmieder's new book on innovation in family owned businesses is grounded in sound research but brought to life by real world experience and examples. Joe takes a thoughtful look at innovation in the FOB context but also shares a variety of insights and best practices applicable to family businesses more generally. This is a helpful and easy read for anyone working in or around a family owned business." - Bruce C. Young, Partner, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Board Member, The Family Business Alliance, and a third generation participant in a family business "In today's fast paced world, innovation is not a luxury but a necessity. Schmieder has written an important and practical book that addresses how innovation can be created within the context and constraints of a family business. It's a must read for today's family business leaders." - Joseph Horak, Ph.D. Director, Family Business Institute, Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan "In this book, Schmieder has provided multiple best practices for topics ranging from governance to management team strategy to product development all from the perspective of generational succession." - William J. Boer, President & Founder, Grey Dunes "Is innovation in family business an oxymoron? Having coined the term interpreneurship or intergenerational entrepreneurship in 1989, my answer is a resounding no. Joe Schmieder proves the point. And his cases show you the way. Read this book!" - Ernesto J. Poza, Clinical Professor, Global Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Family business consultant, and author of Family Business "Innovation in the Family Business outlines how a family can embrace Innovation to become a core value in how they define their meaning and context to remain relevant and embrace innovation as an active process to be successful in the various phases of a multi-generational business." - Nelson Jacobson Chairman, President, and CEO, JSJ Corporation 'Too often, family businesses seem to exist primarily as a sort of shrine to the founding generation. Joe paints a positive picture using dozens of vibrant examples of how successor generations can avoid that trap by innovating and growing in ways that would surely make any founder proud. A must-read for all YPO family business leaders or any executive leading a family enterprise.' - Chris Herschend, Vice Chair, Herschend Family Entertainment and Chair, YPO WPO Global Family Business NetworkTable of ContentsIntroduction – Creating the Future – Leading Through Innovation 1. The Family Difference – Capitalizing on Family Innovation 2. Structured Chaos – Creating a Culture of Innovation 3. Core Offerings – Driving Value with Product and Service Innovations 4. Family Continuity – Applying Innovative Thinking to Succession 5. Family Continuity – Applying Innovative Thinking to Governance 6. Money and Metrics – Funding and Measuring Innovation 7. The Next Generation – Re-Innovating the Family Business 8. Moving Innovation Forward – Concluding Thoughts

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Book SynopsisâœImpeccably researched and astoundingly insightful, The Root Cause reveals how to go from âputting out firesâ to finding true, lasting solutionsâ A must-read guide for executives and leaders at any stage of their career!ââMarshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Leadership Thinker and #1 New York Times bestselling author of TriggersSooner or later, every executive has to confront problems that seem to be built into the way the business was designed, maintained, and managed. Whether itâs information overload, profit margin issues, or adapting to new regulations, popular âœbest practicesâ donât solve those problems. High-level executives, it turns out, are often the least able to diagnoseâmuch less solveâan organizationâs systemic problems. Hans Norden draws on a wealth of experience in in-house change management to help both established and up-and-coming C-suite leaders analyze the problems and create authentic, sustainable solutions.In The Root

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Book SynopsisWall Street Journal BestsellerDevelop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you for the job you were made to have.A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties.In addition to serving as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, Patrick Leddin has founded successful businesses and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you''re the only person for the job.In this book, you will find:35 daily challe

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Book SynopsisOutsourcing Management for Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Services is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics services, the Third Party Logistics (3PL's), as well as their clients, presenting and promoting the lessons learned by their cooperation. Specifically, this publication presents studies which are relevant to practitioners, researchers, students, and clients of the application of the Outsourcing practice on the Logistics and Supply Chain Management services giving emphasis to 3PL's.

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to naming your product or business has been updated throughout with twice as many resources as before, new stories (of both hits and flops), and an entirely new chapter on the power of names in the workplace. Too many new companies and products have names that look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game (Xobni, Svbtle, Doostang). In this entertaining and engaging book, ace-naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how anyone—even noncreative types—can create memorable and effective brand names. No degree in linguistics required. The heart of the book is Watkins''s proven SMILE and SCRATCH Test. A great name makes you SMILE because it is Suggestive—evokes something about your brand; is Memorable—makes an association with the familiar; uses Imagery—aids memory through evocative visuals; has Legs—lends itself to a theme for extended mileage; and is Emotional—moves people.  A bad name, on the other hand, makes you SCRATCH your head because it is Spelling challenged—looks like a typo; is a Copycat—similar to competitors’ names; is Restrictive—limits future growth; is Annoying—seems forced and frustrates customers; is Tame—feels flat, merely descriptive, and uninspired; suffers from the Curse of Knowledge—speaks only to insiders; and is Hard to pronounce—confuses and distances customers. This 50 percent–new second edition has double the number of brainstorming tools and techniques, even more secrets and strategies to nab an available domain name, a brand-new chapter on how companies are using creative names around the office to add personality to everything from cafeterias to conference rooms, and much more.

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Book SynopsisWe're often told that we're living amidst a startup boom. Typically, we think of apps built by college kids and funded by venture capital firms, which remake fortunes and economies overnight. But in reality, most new businesses are things like restaurants or hair salons. Entrepreneurs aren't all millennials -- more often, it's their parents. And those small companies are the fabric of our economy.The Soul of an Entrepreneur is a business book of a different kind, exploring our work but also our passions and hopes. David Sax reports on the deeply personal questions of entrepreneurship: why an immigrant family risks everything to build a bakery; how a small farmer fights to manage his debt; and what it feels like to rise and fall with a business you built for yourself.This book is the real story of entrepreneurship. It confronts both success and failure, and shows how they can change a human life. It captures the inherent freedom that entrepreneurship brings, and why it matters.

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Book SynopsisReveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change. Uses illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself.Trade Review"The indispensable leadership handbook for men and women who mustmanage the massive change, complexity, and opportunity that markour time." --Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, The PeterDrucker Foundation "This new book helps us see that fundamental change is bothpersonal and relentlessly systemic, or it is nothing at all."--Peter Senge, author of The Fifth DisciplineTable of ContentsPreface. The Authors. Choosing the Fundamental Change Strategy. Creating a Learning Organization: Balanced Rewards for Results andImprovement. Leading a Vision-Driven Change Effort: A Commitment to theFuture. Focusing the Effort: Crucial Themes That Drive Change. Resolving the Leader's Personal Dilemmas: Style and Behavior. Aligning the Organization: Integration of Roles, Systems, andRewards. Leading the Transition: Strategies for Process, Commitment, andCommunication. Epilogue: Visionary Leaders and Transformed Organizations. References. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisReveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.Trade Review"Designing and implementing an organization that is effective for a particular business is one of the most significant and highly leveraged responsibilities of senior executives. Organizational Architecture is unique in fully exploring the various structural options available in meeting this responsibility, while at the same time giving invaluable information on the implementation process itself." (Roger G. Ackerman, president, Corning, Inc.)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Organizational Architecture: A Metaphor forChange. ARCHITECTURES OF CHANGE. 1. From Machine Bureaucracies to Networked Organizations: AnArchitectural Journey. 2. Designing Organizations That Have Good Fit: A Framework forUnderstanding New Architectures. DESIGNING FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS. 3. Managing the Dynamics of Acquisitions: Successfully Moving fromDecision to Integration. 4. Building Strategic Partnerships: Creating and Managing EffectiveJoint Ventures. 5. Designing High-Performance Work Systems: Organizing People,Work, Technology, and Information. TRANSFORMING THE INFORMAL ORGANIZATION. 6. Implementing Total Quality Management: A Process of CulturalChange. 7. The Capacity to Act: Creating a Context for Empowerment. 8. Teaching Organizations to Learn: The Power for ProductiveFailures. DESIGNING SENIOR MANAGEMENT. 9. Strategic Selection: Staffing the Executive Team. 10. Teamwork at the Top: Creating Executive Teams That Work. 11. Strategic Choice: Engaging the Executive Team in CollaborativeStrategy Planning. THE ROAD FROM DECLINE TO COMPETITIVENESS. 12. Key Leverage Points for Improving CompetitivePerformance. 13. Organizational Architecture for the Twenty-First Century.

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Book SynopsisTransform your organisation into a “best place to work” by using brain-friendly strategies.It is an understatement to say that this is a difficult time to be a part of the American workforce. It is difficult for employees enduring the many seismic shifts in the work they do, the way they do that work, and the people with whom they collaborate in the workplace. And it is difficult for employers facing daunting challenges in hiring, training, retaining, and managing employees; implementing new ways of working; and redefining the work that the organisation will do. This book describes several big workplace challenges that can be positively affected by brain-friendly strategies. Then it applies five “big ideas” from neuroscience to each of these challenges. By learning about these fundamental brain processes and adapting your organisation’s culture to fit them, workplaces can be transformed. Review the challenges facing workplaces today, and what’s on the horizon. Learn the five brain-friendly strategies that use our brains in the way they naturally function. Enhance your employees’ strengths and confidence by applying these strategies and become a “best place to work” award winner.

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Book SynopsisIf you are the founder of a high-tech startup company, you know it's a daunting task, and the odds of success are slim. All founders dream of achieving a rewarding outcome like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but few reach such a pinnacle. In The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies Attract Capital, Fred M. Haney, an experienced venture capitalist, angel investor, and company founder, explains startup strategies that will help you:Understand the thinking of investorsBuild a "virtual team"Create initial value in a product or prototypeRecruit management that will help you raise capitalThe Fundable Startup contains eight personal interviews with executives and entrepreneurs that will change the way founders think about managing a startup company.

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Book SynopsisFully revised and expanded for the first time in a decade, this is Guy Kawasaki's classic, bestselling guide to launching and making your new product, service, or idea a success.Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, small-business owner, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on topics such as innovating, recruiting, fund raising, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, websites, blogs, webinars, and conferences that many startups get paralyzed, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they succeed. The Art of the Start 2.0 solves that problem by distilling Guy Kawasaki's decades of experience as one of the most hardworking and irreverent strategists in the business world. Guy has totally overhauled this iconic, essential guide for anyone starting anything.  It’s 64 percent longer than version 1.0 and features his latest insights and practical advice about social media, crowdfunding, cloud computing, and many other topics. Guy understands the seismic changes in business over the last decade: Once-invulnerable market leaders are struggling. Many of the basics of getting established have become easier, cheaper, and more democratic. Business plans are no longer necessary. Social media has replaced PR and advertising as the key method of promotion. Crowdfunding is now a viable alternative to investors. The cloud makes basic infrastructure affordable for almost any new venture. The Art of the Start 2.0 will show you how to effectively deploy all these new tools.  And it will help you master the fundamental challenges that have not changed: building a strong team, creating an awesome product or service, and facing down your competition. As Guy likes to say, “Entrepreneur is a state of mind, not a job title.” His book will help you make your crazy ideas stick, through an adventure that's more art than science - the art of the start.

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Book SynopsisEntire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living--even in today's slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy. Even in the face of these benefits, innovation is in danger of being suppressed because of overzealous government regulation that protects existing businesses--all behind the facade of consumer safety. This book chronicles Uber's battle against the New York City taxi industry and its supporters in the government. It also shows the need to stand up for entrepreneurs and the vast benefits that they provide for consumers. As innovators tirelessly work to drive the economy forward, too often regulators function as annoying backseat drivers or roadblocks.Trade Review"The war against the sharing or gig economy is the struggle of the dead hand of the past against a forward looking, flexible, consumer-driven future. It is a world war--a war of different possible worlds--being played out on a dozen fronts in many nations. Jared Meyer's "Uber Positive" is an up front and personal view of the struggle in one iconic city: New York, where the forces of stasis are fat, happy and politically entrenched." --Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform

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Book SynopsisForecast for the Weather Ahead: MASTER THE BUSINESS STORM CYCLE Your business is doing phenomenal. Growth like never before. Everyone is on their toes, working overtime, hunkering down through this whirlwind of growth. Maybe you even hire a handful of new people, invest in new technology in systems . . . How long can such a level of success and growth last? Well, the answer lies in the old adage, “What goes up must come down.” Without the proper strategies in place, employees will be laid off. All that investment in new IT—wasted. But despite the storms of high and low growth to come, you can build the perfect storm shelter to make it through the volatile business atmosphere. In Surviving the Business Storm Cycle: How to Weather Your Business’s Ups and Downs, Dave Hopson of Triumphus coaches you through the four phases any business will find itself in sooner or later: 1. Start-up 2. High growth: Tornado 3. Deceleration: Avalanche 4. Consolidation Don’t let the storms destruct what you’ve worked so hard to build. Every phase presents its own opportunities and challenges—take advantage, learn, and grow with the proven strategies presented by Dave Hopson.

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Book SynopsisAre you ready to make a living from your craft? Learn how to map out a financial plan, expand production, automate distribution, address legal matters, and much more. Start growing your business beyond the dining room table and leave your day job behind.

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Book SynopsisThis eighth volume in the Research in Social Issues in Management series explores a variety of social relations to expand our thinking about organizational justice, which is fundamentally based on relationships between organizational authorities and the employees of the organizations. These relationships also emphasize the roles of various actors and suggest fairness perspectives other than that of subordinates’ perceptions of the treatment received from their superiors.The 10 chapters of the volume are divided into two major sections plus a conclusion. The first section presents five chapters that bring new theoretical perspectives to bear on justice considerations. Topics treated throughout this section include conflicting perspectives on justice, psychological distance, greed, and punishment. The second section placesemphasis on leaders’ or managers’ perspectives of justice, going back to some of the initial proactive roots of justice rather than on what has become the more traditional focus, that of subordinate perceptions or reactive justice. In the contributions comprising this section, leaders’ personalities, their motives, and their position as both superiors of some employees and subordinates of their own superiors are examined to provide new perspectives on the leadership role in justice matters.The concluding chapter, by Brockner and Carter, comments on the collection of chapters and proposes extensions and alternative perspectives for consideration. This commentary chapter suggests that the volume surfs a fifth wave in the history of justice research as these chapters all examine justice as a dependent variable influenced by numerous factors.

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Book SynopsisThis eighth volume in the Research in Social Issues in Management series explores a variety of social relations to expand our thinking about organizational justice, which is fundamentally based on relationships between organizational authorities and the employees of the organizations. These relationships also emphasize the roles of various actors and suggest fairness perspectives other than that of subordinates’ perceptions of the treatment received from their superiors.The 10 chapters of the volume are divided into two major sections plus a conclusion. The first section presents five chapters that bring new theoretical perspectives to bear on justice considerations. Topics treated throughout this section include conflicting perspectives on justice, psychological distance, greed, and punishment. The second section placesemphasis on leaders’ or managers’ perspectives of justice, going back to some of the initial proactive roots of justice rather than on what has become the more traditional focus, that of subordinate perceptions or reactive justice. In the contributions comprising this section, leaders’ personalities, their motives, and their position as both superiors of some employees and subordinates of their own superiors are examined to provide new perspectives on the leadership role in justice matters.The concluding chapter, by Brockner and Carter, comments on the collection of chapters and proposes extensions and alternative perspectives for consideration. This commentary chapter suggests that the volume surfs a fifth wave in the history of justice research as these chapters all examine justice as a dependent variable influenced by numerous factors.

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Book SynopsisWhat's the most important asset any entrepreneur or business owner needs to succeed? After more than thirty years consulting for Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, and family businesses around the world, Gibb Dyer confirms that the secret ingredient to business and entrepreneurial success is not an MBA from a great school, a fantastic marketing plan, or even a blue ocean strategy. It's access to three types of capital: financial, social, and human. Dyer's three decades worth of research and data conclude statistically that the most effective and successful entrepreneurs have immediate access to these three—all within their family. A groundbreaking book for any business owner, family business, or budding entrepreneur, The Family Edge provides clear evidence and powerful tools to help you leverage the asset you need but have probably not paid enough attention to: family capital.Trade ReviewIf “The business of America is business” then Gibb Dyer’s book, The Family Edge, makes a national case to the academy, to Wall Street, to politicians, and to ordinary Americans that "family capital," the greatest generator of entrepreneurial souls, is the deepest foundation of our nation’s economy. -Patrick F. Fagan, PhD, Director, MARRI, The Catholic University of America "In this excellent new book, Gibb Dyer puts forth the most compelling case to date for why the sustainability of supportive, trust-inducing family ties is not just good for the quality of relationships within enterprising families, it is an essential strategic advantage for the growth and continuity of the enterprises that these families own and manage.- Ivan Lansberg, founding editor of the Family Business Review

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Book SynopsisIn May 2014, the French research laboratory ISEOR (Socio?Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations) and the University of St. Thomas co?sponsored a second conference on the application of the Socio?Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) paradigm and methodology in the United States. SEAM is a scientific approach to consultancy that focuses on uncovering the dysfunctions and hidden costs that exist in organizations, “hidden” in the sense that they are not captured by traditional accounting methodsand financial analyses. Through intervention that encompasses the entire organization – what the ISEOR team refers to as the HORIVERT approach (combining horizontal and vertical intervention) – the underlying goal is to enhance organizational performance by attacking the “TFW virus,” a vestige of the early work by Frederick Taylor, Henri Fayol, and Max Weber that has sufficiently infiltrated our thinking about management and organization to the point where are falling well short of our own potential. The resultant dysfunctions this virus unleashes creates hidden costs that readily destroy a firm’s value?added possibilities. The volume captures the ideas, applications, and exchanges of that meeting, attempting to bring the reader into the conference itself. Chapters include the contributors’ presentations (“Chapter Prologue: Conference Remarks”), revised conference papers, and the question and answer dialogue for the session.

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Book SynopsisIn May 2014, the French research laboratory ISEOR (Socio?Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations) and the University of St. Thomas co?sponsored a second conference on the application of the Socio?Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) paradigm and methodology in the United States. SEAM is a scientific approach to consultancy that focuses on uncovering the dysfunctions and hidden costs that exist in organizations, “hidden” in the sense that they are not captured by traditional accounting methodsand financial analyses. Through intervention that encompasses the entire organization – what the ISEOR team refers to as the HORIVERT approach (combining horizontal and vertical intervention) – the underlying goal is to enhance organizational performance by attacking the “TFW virus,” a vestige of the early work by Frederick Taylor, Henri Fayol, and Max Weber that has sufficiently infiltrated our thinking about management and organization to the point where are falling well short of our own potential. The resultant dysfunctions this virus unleashes creates hidden costs that readily destroy a firm’s value?added possibilities. The volume captures the ideas, applications, and exchanges of that meeting, attempting to bring the reader into the conference itself. Chapters include the contributors’ presentations (“Chapter Prologue: Conference Remarks”), revised conference papers, and the question and answer dialogue for the session.

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