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A group of eminent software developers gathered at a Colorado ski lodge in 2001, codifying The Agile Manifesto, a philosophy for efficiently accomplishing technical work. In this accessible, real-world-example-laden, and unexpectedly entertaining book, The Agile Enterprise explains how to apply The Agile Manifesto's ideas company-wide.The wisdom imparted in The Agile Enterprise teaches students to decompose large problems into manageable chunks, helps managers find their value among self-managing teams, and enables executives to measure and recognize success in their own Agile Enterprises.

This book was written to demystify critical standards related to information security, records management privacy information management for the modern librarian and archival professional.In the digital age, librarians and archival professionals play a crucial role in safeguarding the world's knowledge. A Librarian's Guide to ISO Standards for Information Governance, Privacy, and Security is a curated resource for librarians, presenting core ISO standards related to information governance, data privacy, and security.The book provides detailed summaries of these standards, along with case studies and advice on applying them in the modern digital age. It empowers library staff and patrons to prioritize data security and privacy, ensuring trust and confidentiality in their services. The purpose is to demystify critical standards related to information security, records management privacy information management for the modern librarian and archival professional.Inside, you will find detailed summaries of the core ISO standards, descriptions, and case studies illustrating how these standards can apply to librarians in the modern digital age, advice on how to cultivate a culture of data security, and privacy awareness among library staff and patrons.

Competent Strategic Thinking is Rare and Valuable.How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their business acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to "be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, clever, and powerful. It provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action. Through these examples, you'll gain useful lessons that can be applied in any organization and in your personal life.The Most-Important Tool of Strategy Is Found Between Your Ears!A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic.How to Think Strategically upskills you to: Internalize the 20 micro skills of strategic thinking.Distinguish strategic thinking from operational thinking and appropriately apply each.Pose high-quality questions that spark strategic insights.Write a concise one-page statement of strategy, with five essential concepts that will help you distinguish effective strategy from a list of goals.Improve conversations with stakeholders.Develop a courageous personal leadership style and a courageous perspective to address the real issues that are obstacles to your organization's success.Overcome the excuse of "I'm too busy to be strategic".Anyone can improve their strategic thinking if they know where to focus their attention.

Powerful Brand Positioning Harnesses Key Building BlocksBrand Positioning with Power: Maximizing Your Marketing Impact is a new take on Al Ries and Jack Trout's original positioning concept. The book delivers measurable results because it: Is remarkably easy to useUses a proven, systematic positioning processLeverages exciting, practical real-world examplesYou'll see how the three essential building blocks of positioning lead organically to increased success, whether you are a sole proprietor or a Fortune 500 organization.Written in an enthusiastic, concise, and conversational style, Brand Positioning with Power offers ground-breaking insights, including the vital role emotion plays in effective positioning. This is the tool you need today to take your brand from where you are to where you want to go.

Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace provides a practical approach with clear guidelines for managing behavior in a virtual environment.In a world of increasing self-expression and self-promotion, the practice of etiquette seems absent in many everyday encounters, Additionally, the constant connectivity offered by technology has led to a decline in interpersonal communication skills including empathy, civility, and common courtesy.Despite the fact that technology has allowed for, and even promoted, the widespread growth of incivility, the main culprit behind rudeness remains human behavior. While numerous books about incivility are available, the focus of those publications is most often on the topic of incivility and not on the means to reduce or alleviate its presence.Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace provides a practical approach with clear guidelines for managing behavior in a virtual environment. The concise content will be helpful to trainers, educators, managers, employees, students, conference planners, conference attendees, and any others attempting to navigate the virtual environment in a professional manner. This book will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to conduct yourself professionally in any virtual setting.

The objective of this manageable and plainspoken playbook (and workbook) is to sometimes gently, and sometimes less so, prod you toward making an informed decision about your proposed entrepreneurial undertaking or, conversely, help you realize and understand why you need to let go, walk away, and look elsewhere for opportunities.

Leadership. Engagement. Retention. Recruitment. Diversity. The key challenges facing workplaces today.Underpinning these challenges are the millennial workforce.A generation who are experiencing global challenges like the economic crisis, debt, job insecurity and housing unaffordability.A generation who are experiencing personal challenges like social media addictions, pressure, and mental health crisis.A generation who has been put in the "too hard" basket by a lot of workplaces.A generation who are soon to become the dominant global workforce.To future proof workplace performance and engagement, workplaces must act.Getting the best out of the millennial workforce, means creating an environment where they can thrive. Critical to this, is good management and leadership. Without it, workplaces will not resolve the current challenges.This book provides a solution. It's designed to educate readers on the current and future millennial workforce: who they are, what they want, what they need and how to get the best out of them. It offers clear cut guidance and best practice techniques for both managers and millennials as they continue to navigate the current and future landscape of work.

How can we consistently achieve effective, desirable outcomes and results, despite the current, incessant surge in organizational chaos?ACCORD, a model comprising six essential elements that underpin personal effectiveness, is provided here to assist with developing those workplace attributes that drive sustainable success.These elements encompass Agility, Confidence, Collaboration, Optimism, Resilience, and Determination. Drawing upon them, this book provides expert advice, tips, and tools for flourishing in the face of tumultuous times.This book is for everyone engaged in evolving work environments, as well as HR and Organizational Development professionals, at all career levels.

This book is for use in IMBA, MIB, LLM and other graduate programs; in university-based executive development programs; and in in-company seminars - and for use as a handbook and reference book by managers, executives, board members, consultants, and legal counsel who are engaged in the practice of international trade and/or foreign direct investment (FDI).The authors provide an advanced introduction to international trade and FDI terms, concepts, principles, and practices - and to the governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental factors that regulate or facilitate the conduct of international trade and FDI. These factors include: tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, and other barriers to trade;entry and post-entry barriers to FDI;provisions contained in the GATT and other trade instruments;the functionalities of the WTO, other global mechanisms, and regional trade blocks; andinternational standards, the harmonization of laws, and the settlement of disputes.The material in the book is drawn from multiple disciplines, which include international relations, international trade, international law, and economic and diplomatic history; relies primarily on original source materials; makes extensive use of examples; and is formatted to facilitate its use as a textbook, handbook, and reference book.

Are you new to the project sponsor role or want to improve? This book's practical guidance will help you successfully fulfill your role. We understand you are time-challenged. This book is short, direct, and focuses on the most common project issues. The book's guidance is helpful for projects of all sizes and across all sectors.Completing the warp-speed project assessment will assess your project's risks and better understand the topics that need more attention. With our practical actions, you can champion the project for success.

Bridge the Knowledge GapDo you have what it takes to build agile, successful teams? Pursue mergers that transform? Are you solving the right problems for efficiency and growth? Do you want to leverage your mission for large-scale social change? Does your Board have a shared vision for innovation?Discover the critical lessons of success with 11 Secrets of Nonprofit Excellence in this step-by-step executive guide: Build effective, enthusiastic teamsDeploy tech to boost revenues and qualityLaunch profitable micro businessesNegotiate game-changing legislative outcomesDesign and implement dynamic strategic plans11 Secrets offers practical stories, disciplines, data, and humor in an empowering blueprint for achieving excellence in any organization. The book addresses the resource gap for navigating non-profit growth and innovative tech solutions. Deftly weaving vignettes from the author's successful careers in international publishing and nonprofits, 11 Secrets introduces real-life encounters with notables such as Muhammad Ali to unlock valuable secrets of quality, excellence, and mission advancement. 11 Secrets lends itself to powerful coaching and winning outcomes for start-ups, non-profits, Boards and leaders, cross sector.

Masterclass in Entrepreneurial DevelopmentWe all want to be in charge of our own lives, but what happens when the game of business keeps changing?How can you successfully find new clients, beat the competition, and do it on a shoestring budget?Lisa J. MacDonald has coached 1000s of business owners for over 25 years, has a PhD in the school of hard knocks, and is the mother of eight. In The Most Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, she uncovers proven cutting-edge business principles to quickly shift entrepreneurs from overwhelm and confusion to confidently fulling their vision sustainably.You will learn the following: Charge what you're worth and get the revenue you deserve.Attract the right clients over and over again.Unleash business possibilities hidden in your network.Uncover the key trends in your industry to keep you ahead of the competition.Bounce back strong and robust no matter the changes in the market.Your successful business is waiting for you. You don't have to go at it alone. Get this state-of-the-art research-based step-by-step guide that will show you exactly how to get unstuck, attract your best clients, and fulfill your vision.

Remote and Hybrid - Making it WorkRemote and hybrid work environments have boomed in number; however, understanding on how to manage remote and hybrid work is still in its infancy. We need better guidance on the impact of remote working on behavior, organizational culture and wellbeing, so that remote working models are optimized for success. At Home with Work provides this understanding and guidance.This book explains the background of remote work: how technology and a changing society created the perfect backdrop to mass adoption of fully remote and hybrid work. It shows how what started as an emergency response to COVID became the biggest global change to working arrangements in living memory and shifted our expectations about work itself.The author investigates how remote and hybrid work has moved the dynamic away from ego-driven office culture and towards higher-trust and collaborative working. This book is a carefully considered overview and introduction to wider changes in the field of work and the global labor market.

Is your Quality organization holding your business back? Is regulatory compliance seen as more important than product or service quality? Do you feel the needs of your customers are lost in a sea of regulations?Transforming Quality Organizations: A Practical Guide questions whether the current approach to managing quality is fit for purpose and, using the latest organizational thinking provides fresh, practical ways to balance a quality system to: Manage risk for better patient, customer, regulator, and stockholder outcomes.Achieve balance between ensuring compliance and supporting innovation.Transform your Quality organization through a roadmap of change.Applicable to all businesses where quality is paramount, the content is based on practical experience of executing transformational change in the healthcare sector resulting in: Product recall rates cut by 50%.Product development cycle-times cut by 50%.Significant cost savings in quality system execution.This book is invaluable for business leaders who want to transform their Quality organization and increase the value it delivers for their business.

"It's my hope you'll enjoy Improv to Improve Your Leadership Team as much as I did. I am grateful to creative thinkers like Candy who challenge us to learn and grow in ways we may never have considered." -Quint Studer, Healthcare Solutions Group, Author, The Calling: Why Healthcare Is So Special"Dr. Campbell has done something truly remarkable. By combining the fun and creativity of improv with documented, empirical research, she has written a user's manual for building a cohesive, energized, and effective team. Leaders, take note: when you follow Campbell's blueprint, your team will feel more valued, more respected, and more engaged."-Bill Stainton, CSP, CPAE, 29-time Emmy Winner, Hall of Fame Innovation SpeakerYou're a leader with a problem. There's a fungus-like growth in your organizational culture you can no longer ignore. It starts slowly with a few people feeling maligned and/or excluded, spreads resentment, leads to disengagement, and finally...resignations.What a nightmare!But WAIT! You have stumbled onto the exact solution you need!With this book, you can QUICKLY discover how to use the principles of applied improvisational exercises from the arts to help teams effectively connect and communicate, creatively problem-solve, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client and stakeholder satisfaction. It's all contained here.

Recently we have seen several catastrophic events causing huge disruptions, losses, and panic. There is a growing likelihood that these natural disasters and physical and cyber warfare attacks will increase in frequency and lethality, increasingly impacting civilian infrastructure, due to global warming, increased civil unrest and global tensions as international competition increases.Imagine if two or more occur at the same time? Certainly, cyberattacks can be planned, rehearsed, and launched during the middle of one or more natural events. Up until now we have dealt with each of these events by trying to build systems that are better at detecting, preventing, and protecting us against them. Sadly, we have learned that these events cannot be totally prevented or stopped and have taken their toll.There is a rising chorus arguing that we must learn to, both individually and collectively, become more resilient in the face of these disastrous events. But how? The author believes we can learn to do better by becoming more resourceful, innovative, collaborative, and by taking a page from how we fight wars.This book details how these measures can be adapted to keep our systems operational and to rapidly reconstitute lost infrastructure.

The Metaverse will be the next technological revolution. This book helps business executives to understand its foundations and reveals the new opportunities it will bring.The accessible language used to explain the complex technologies involved is key to understanding the business opportunities that the Metaverse will bring. The book follows a smooth but thorough journey along all aspects associated with the Metaverse, from augmented reality, virtual reality, digital currencies, the Internet of things, 3D glasses, and many others. This book contains trustful, actionable, and practical insight from the experience of a person highly involved in technical activities and used to speak to the board of many corporations.Reading this book, you will understand not only the drivers behind the Metaverse but also the following milestones and the roadmap we can expect: an early insight to adapt your business strategy or professional career to get the most out of this new social paradigm.

This book is written to help professionals take action. Each chapter describes concepts and tips that apply to a variety of industries. This book is especially beneficial to the following readers: Marketing professionals promoting technical features and benefits of products or services will gain insight into technical communication and how to integrate complex information into promotional efforts.Managers working with writers and designers will learn terminology and principles that will help you evaluate marketing materials and provide detailed feedback.Technical communicators working on marketing projects will gain an understanding of principles and best practices you can integrate with your previous training.Entrepreneurs, non-profit employees, and freelancers who want to develop marketing and promotional materials will gain tips and best practices that you can immediately.After reading this comprehensive, yet concise guide, you will be equipped to engage in every aspect of technical marketing and promotion - including planning, writing, designing, and delivery.

Cyberattacks are more destructive than ever, but your C-suite can stop them. This book tells you how.Cyberattacks are worse now than ever before. To defeat cybercriminals, companies must focus on the low-hanging fruits of cybersecurity. It's all about the basics. Companies laid low by ransomware failed to practice good cyber hygiene by recklessly allowing weak or reused passwords, not turning on multifactor authentication, or neglecting to install patches to known software vulnerabilities.Adding insult to grievous injury, many companies failed to mitigate cyber doom by not encrypting their devices, not implementing a data backup plan, or the mother of all blunders, not training their workforce on basic cyber hygiene.Worse still, hidden risks abound for the unwary. A devastating cyberattack is just moments away when C-suite leaders close their eyes to the hazards of shadow IT, data offshoring, mobile devices, and social media.Mobilizing the C-suite: Waging War Against Cyberattacks was written to galvanize C-suite leaders into deploying the basic cybersecurity controls vital to defeating cyberattacks, and to support frontline cybersecurity professionals with companywide cyber hygiene training. Most importantly, the book was written to introduce real-world cybersecurity principles to college students-if our future generation of company leaders enter the C-suite with cyber-savvy, then destructive cyberattacks are not a foregone conclusion.

What They Didn't Teach You in School: Lessons for STEM Students and ProfessionalsScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math education has been described as, "drinking from a firehose." STEM students are required to absorb an overwhelming amount of technical information before they can earn their undergraduate degrees. But it takes more than a thorough understanding of math, science, and engineering concepts to become successful in today's job market.NASA's former Chief Knowledge Officer, Roger Forsgren, was responsible for training the agency's technical workforce and provides critical lessons learned for STEM students and graduates to build successful careers as they compete in today's workplace.Being an introvert in an extroverts' world: You may certainly be the smartest person in the room but that may not be enough to convince a client, make a persuasive presentation, or effectively manage others. Learn how to remain in your comfort zone yet still make a compelling impact by becoming an ambivert.Communication Skills: How to get your point across and express yourself in a cogent, concise manner. How to make yourself heard, and respected, in a group of experienced professionals.Critical Thinking: Avoid jumping to conclusions by training yourself to look beyond the obvious for the real clues to a problem or situation.Ethics: STEM professionals possess unique skills, but such technical expertise also requires a sense of personal responsibility ensuring your talents are being put to the best use for yourself and for society.Case studies have proven to be valuable learning tools and Roger Forsgren includes twelve compelling historical case studies that demonstrate the critical knowledge needed for STEM students as they progress through their careers.

Learn to Escape, Avoid or Sidestep Your Descent into the QuicksandStuck Entrepreneurs provides inventive strategies for the quicksand-mired businessperson who asks, what am I doing wrong? or how can I break this inertia and move my business forward?The author delivers advice that is steeped in real-world experience gleaned from his own variety of business ventures and consulting practice, and packed with his entertaining business stories. Some are happy, others are, well, disturbing.This book casts a wide target readership net; from wanna-be and early-stage entrepreneurs seeking a foothold for their ventures, to established businesses floundering in the paralysis of quicksand.Further, in this post-pandemic economic environment, many entrepreneurs, managers and professionals are laboring to re-birth their businesses. This book will provide the counsel and energy to strategize that return journey.Stuck Entrepreneurs is a combination business manual and a workbook. Each chapter includes a challenging, self-directed workbook that encourages the reader to learn through the author's own 'how to' or 'how not to' shared experiences.

This book focuses on the foundations needed to be successful in managing and engaging with data analytics initiatives, bridging the gap between creators and users of data.Currently, every company, no matter its size, is data-driven in one way or another; using data to improve customer experience, as a new value stream, and to stay competitive. However, many business leaders, professionals, and students-such as executives, business analysts, UI/UX designers, project managers and marketing teams -are forced to interact with data and those who generate data, without being taught the general competencies needed to feel comfortable having these conversations.This book focuses on the foundations needed to be successful in managing and engaging with data analytics initiatives, bridging the gap between creators and users of data. As a management reference guide, it discusses the different types of data strategy needed for succeeding with data, covering topics such as data team composition, types of data analytics, the importance of data storytelling, and identifying data ROI.Framed by the author's personal story, the trove of information is made tangible through the compelling narrative with its unprecedented accessibility and readability for a non-technical audience.If you suffer from fear of data, anxiety around conversations with technical teams, this practical approach book can help with actions you can start implementing right away.

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Investors is essential reading for beginners to the world of options. It explains the essentials of option and hedging strategies that will empower you to earn attractive profits.Primarily aimed at undergraduates and retail investors, it opens the door to a world of unlimited profits with limited risk. In concise language, augmented by relevant graphics, the key trading tools available to investors using online option trading platforms, are explained in detail.Chapter by chapter, this book builds up a complete understanding of the essential building blocks of options investing, including covering key charting techniques using technical analysis tools.Here's what you learn from Mastering Options: The characteristics of an option.Types of options and common terms.The underlying principles of options investing.Insights into why you should invest in options.Option strategies that consistently make profits whilst managing risk exposure.Case studies illustrating each strategy.This book exposes the myth that investing in financial options is an impenetrable mystery.

The performance and survival of a business in a global economy depends on understanding and managing the risks-external and those embedded within its operations.It is vital to identify and prioritize significant risks and detect the weakest points. Adding other elements to an essential ERM program, such as PESTEL and Porter's 5 forces, treatment plans, scorecards, the three lines of defense (3LoD) components, and process improvements (six sigma, 8D, etc.) significantly increases the ERM success rate.The authors outline a comprehensive strategy to designing and implementing a robust and successful ERM program - and not just successful in implementation but also yielding enormous returns for the organizations that implemented this enhanced ERM program.

From the ethics of crisis management, to what to do when your employer lies to you, to DEI failures and the ethics of social media, this book shares the good, the bad, and the ugly with candid insight.When people think about ethics failures, they typically think of Enron, Volkswagen, and other major scandals. Most communication professionals will not face these major dilemmas, but even minor issues can explode to ruin reputations and companies.EthicalVoices uses the PRSA Code of Ethics as a framework to bring ethical dilemmas to life. It provides practical guidance to public relations professionals on how to address specific challenges they will likely encounter.The book includes more than 100 real-world ethics incidents with advice from global industry leaders at companies including Starbucks, Lenovo, the TSA, the Federal Reserve, Harvard Business School, IBM, CDC, and the world's largest public relations agencies.From the ethics of crisis management, to what to do when your employer lies to you, to DEI failures and the ethics of social media, this book shares the good, the bad, and the ugly with candid insight. Beyond the case studies, the book includes a framework for training your ethical mind.

Managing a servitization strategy is a tough managerial challenge due to the delicate and high business implications. What do you need to know to achieve the outcomes the company wants? A reliable, practical, and effective instrument and a relevant dynamic managerial capability for motivation and adoption decision. This is the value proposition of Servitization: Assessment Protocol for Action.Servitization is about adding service value to the manufacturing business. The concise content develops pioneering processes and application models through its 5 chapters, written in a colloquial way with real examples while offering corresponding application dynamics that allow incorporating the reader's own experiences on the subject.This book is a suitable support for directors and managers of the manufacturing industry, as well as a tool for immediate action for the professionals interested in the business service innovation model, university professors and students, researchers and consultants, and anyone interested in adding value of service to your business.

Sustainability for Retail is an important international overview of the role of retail in the worldwide climate crisis. Its focus is on apparel and related retail products, from supply chain to the selling floor. The retail industry is identified as the source of 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions.This book presents the notable successes that have been achieved in the private sector. Interviews with leaders ranging from multi-nationals to specialty collections, to reports on innovative technological advancements.Behind each story and report is the strong determination of an individual or the commitment of organizational management to establish and uphold practices that cut the energy use, support providers of raw materials with living wages and lifestyles, and mount campaigns to educate the consumer on supporting products and the overall circular economy. Resale, reuse, and remake comprise an escalating movement that didn't exist even a decade ago to extend the life cycle of products that previously had a high potential of becoming landfill. It has become big business, sanctioned with promotions across the retail board, from icons of mass merchandising to small local workshops.Sustainability for Retail offers businesses and consumers insight into beneficial decision-making for themselves and for the greater environment. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to the forces driving the retail sustainability movement.