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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"This book explains and explores the essential terms and key concepts in the world of business, finance, and company management. If you're perplexed by profit margins, confused by cash flow, or baffled by balance sheets, all your questions and many more are answered in this indispensable guide. Grasp how companies work, from management to research and development, and sales and marketing to production and distribution. Eye-catching visual aids give...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bing explains how business works, and shows how that knowledge can be used to achieve power, happiness, and indefensible amounts of money. From fabricating a sustainable business personality to mastering electronic communications, and dealing with bosses and other crazy people, he shares his secrets-- along with an attractive diploma, suitable for framing.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Outlines a revisionist approach to management that instructs business leaders to think positively and become more effective by adopting a policy of non-interference for high performers, facilitating without micromanaging, and creating a culture of independence and trust.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In this new book, General...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How do you get to what's real? Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show managers how to recognize burnout and fix problems cost-effectively, improving employees' productivity and health"--
11) Etsy-preneurship: everything you need to know to turn your handmade hobby into a thriving business
Author
Publisher
John Wiley
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Make the jump from enjoying your handmade/craft/art hobby to running a profitable business. Offers step-by-step advice on what it takes to bring in extra income or even one day run a full-time business on Etsy. Outlines the basic business skills and knowledge you need to run a business on Etsy and explains how Etsy makes entrepreneurship attainable for everyone.
12) The friction project: how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Every organization is plagued by destructive friction-the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get anything done. Yet some forms of friction are incredibly useful, and leaders who attempt to improve workplace efficiency often make things even worse. Drawing from seven years of hands-on research, The Friction Project by bestselling authors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao teaches readers how to become "friction fixers,"...
13) The business solution to poverty: designing products and services for three billion new customers
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With an empowering call to action, The Waste-Free World boldly invites us to end one of the greatest scams in history in order to achieve a bright, sustainable, and prosperous future. As microplastics collect in the ocean by the ton, natural resources are depleted, and cities face mounting landfill disposal bills, consumers and investors are becoming increasingly focused on the quality, durability and environmental footprint of products -- yet many...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"One thing in life is certain: change is constant. Thanks to the rapid pace of technological innovation in the digital age-and further accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic-massive structural change is happening more frequently and on a greater scale than ever before. Faced with unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, most business leaders struggle to see the way forward. Yet company organization, systems, and management are still largely...
17) Rework
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Without the jumbled-up technical garble of other self-help guides, authors Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson reveal how listeners can dramatically improve their lives and businesses by utilizing the latest work-reducing technologies.
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Vivimos tiempos complicados para las empresas, los que las dirigen o trabajan en ellas. La digitalizaci̤n ha modificado totalmente el entorno en el que desarrollan sus negocios. La aparici̤n de nuevas tecnolog̕as digitales y nuevos competidores est̀n fomentando cambios de h̀bitos de consumidores y empleados, y tambǐn cambios profundos en los modelos de negocios y en las formas de hacer. Esta nueva situaci̤n presenta a la vez muchos retos y...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A major change is shaking up capitalism. The core tenets of a system that dominated the world for more than a century are being challenged as never before. Tomorrow's Capitalist captures the profound transformation of capitalism and the people leading the corporate world today. The walls that once insulated these leaders from the turbulent social, economic, and political forces in society have melted away. Now corporate leaders are face to face with...
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