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A massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What's changing - everything!All of this has been brought about by several converging factors. The impact of COVID on how we work; causing a shift from where work is done. Recent significant changes in Artificial intelligence, Chat GPT and robotics will impact on every area of work worldwide - it's happening now.Predictably, fewer people are now required in the world of work; those with a potentially amazing career will be talented people who will be paid on what they do rather than what they know - a huge change.A new type of management. Inspirational leaders with a special skillset will be in high demand. Managers of the past are unlikely to have the skills or personality to get the best from the new breed of super employees.In this book we will look at all these issues and provide readers with the current facts, case studies form the world's leading companies, worked examples and most importantly practical advice on how to do it.

Here's how to make purposeful system change happen!The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through: Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.Three processes-connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!

The Essential Starting Point for Values-Driven InvestorsYou are passionate about the important issues facing our world: Climate change. Racial justice. Gender equality. And you do things to reflect those passions - volunteering, donating, voting, recycling. But there's an even more powerful way to advocate for what matters to you: Changing your investments.This book is perfect for individuals looking to make their first investments in "ESG" funds, which consider the Environmental, Social, and Governance aspects of the companies they invest in, as well as their financials. It contains useful and practical guidance on how to understand your choices in the rapidly expanding world of sustainable investing, and it offers concrete steps to invest in funds and companies that reflect your values.

This book is for leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and all employees who desire to take their performance to a higher level.Do you have the Power Skillsneeded to achieve the level of success you desire? Power Skills are a top asset in today's ever-changing workplace. This book reveals Power Skills that promote accountability and how to think and act effectively for success.But this book does far more. It describes Power Skills that, if taught and nurtured to all employees of an organization or company, will result in the organization continuously and holistically evolving. Adopting these Power Skills can lead to exceptional performance both for individuals and for their organizations.Power Skills discussed include: break the rules occasionally, never avoid necessary confrontation, think for yourself, manage daily to your top three priorities, routinely practice boldness and courage, decide who you chose to be, be a good actor, and so much more.I welcome you to come along for a potentially transformative and game-changing ride in your personal pursuit of the adventure called life.

What if you could adapt rapidly to change, design your destiny, plot your own North, systematically design the roads you wish to travel and go the distance-improving your health, your work, and your life?Change means that you will have to create habits, and as both individuals and organizations have found, this is an extremely challenging venture. You may feel that procedures and methods, allied with inspiration, willpower, and motivation will be enough, but the up and down nature of the latter qualities can lead to repeated failed attempts.For individuals, leaders, managers, or anyone who wishes to build or change habits and behaviors and acquire new competencies, the answer lies in Warp Speed Habits, a revolutionary brain-based strategic-tactical approach to creating habits and changing behaviors.Intersecting neuroscience and psychology, this guide leverages business management lessons at an individual level, promotes the development of a "habit mindset" and reshapes environmental contexts. In this quest, as you learn to design, build, and implement sustainable habits, you will travel to worlds and dimensions in different realms.Ready? Begin your first voyage, but make no mistake, as you execute missions in your travels to different worlds, do not illude yourself by biographies of overnight success-these are myths that blur the mindset of energy and resilience you will require.But with the Warp Speed Habits practical and pragmatical roadmap, you will overcome brain traps and obstacles along the way, and ultimately contribute to thriving behaviors that deliver results!

How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today's spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book will dissect how various aspects of our lives will be transformed in the years to come, with a particular focus on how to benefit from these emerging technologies. You will gain a 360 degree view by getting a historical perspective of technology because discussions about the future are seldom complete without history.The ongoing debate on whether technology will replace our jobs is causing great panic. However, failure to catch up to technology is guaranteed to be catastrophic. This book will provide a freight of the latest tech-driven trends to equip everyone to face the future, like a one-time software upgrade.Whether you are a student, a fresh graduate, a bewildered parent, or a tech enthusiast, this book offers everything you need to be ahead of the game. It will also help budding entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate professionals identify opportunities to incorporate the right tech into their businesses and be at the forefront of innovation.

Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China's unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country's swarming cities, recent economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent internet, confusing culture, and endless opportunities.This book is a rare insight into the way global firms select, relocate, manage, motivate, and reward top managers in the world's most populous market. CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior managers recall their careers since China's early 2000s reform period until a notable 2014 policy paper declared "the end of a golden age for foreign business in China", and beyond to the present day.Dragon Suit addresses crucial questions for international business: How did China become a key market for global firms?Why are most foreign managers unprepared for its challenges?Why did the country's near-million foreigners begin to leave in the mid-2010s, and who will replace them?Most importantly, how can managers, entrepreneurs, experts, and students prepare for an increasingly China-facing future in business?

Struggling with ineffective project meetings? You're not alone.67% of executives believe their virtual meetings are failures.Only 17% of senior managers find their meetings productive.A mere 30% of meetings are considered productive, with only 37% using an agenda.Want to create happier, more successful project teams?Better-run meetings are the key. As project leaders, we often dislike, avoid, and fail to properly plan meetings. This practical guide will help you facilitate project meetings and build cohesive teams, making your meetings more productive and yielding better project results.In this book, you'll discover: How improving traditional PM meetings and Agile events can enhance continuous team building, making you a better project leader.Strategies to overcome challenges in managing conflict, with real-world stories from fellow project leaders.Practical, time-tested techniques to handle disruptive participants (goblins e.g., "Billy the Bully") who derail your meetings.Aligned with PMI's PMBOK(R) Guide Seventh Edition, this book will help you achieve project success in today's environment - hybrid in several ways - in-person and virtual, predictive and Agile, AI and human.

Living a Leadership Lifestyle is a different type of leadership book that approaches leadership from a unique perspective. Rather than focusing on specific leadership skills, this book argues that successful leadership begins by living leadership as a lifestyle and having leadership mindsets that guide decisions and behaviors daily.After describing his own leadership journey and personal leadership quest across continents and cultures, the author shares 13 key Insights for living a leadership lifestyle, including: Build and protect your personal leadership brand.Failure is opportunity in disguise.Be courageous and carve your own path.Living a Leadership Lifestyle is a pragmatic book demonstrating the characteristics of good leadership essential for aspiring leaders. By developing and harnessing the leadership mindsets shared, readers will self-administer a "tonic" for the challenges life brings nurturing the resilience, self-awareness, and courage required to help readers carve their own path to success.

Turbulence in recent years has become unprecedentedly wicked. Uncertainty has become a dense fog becoming for business leader's public enemy number one. This book uses scenario and other methods like systems thinking to see over the horizon and to time travel to the future. Written by an extremely experienced consultant who has in parallel been a strategy academic at leading business schools for over thirty years, this is a practical toolkit grounded in theory.The author provides exercises to try out and includes fascinating case studies to take the reader beyond "what happened and why?" to "how the process was managed and tips for applying it for yourself."This is a must-read for business leaders finding uncertainties giving them sleepless nights. For MBA students it will give them a different dimension for their thinking course work and projects - and a real edge over those trapped within a single view of the future.This is not just a journey but a new way of thinking.

At last: a concise, practical guide that shows managers how to create agility at the bargaining table through thoughtful planning and preparation in the weeks, months, and years before formal negotiations begin, and how to do that on top of your regular full-time job.Agility in labor agreement negotiations is the ability to recognize and respond in the moment to threats and opportunities, both anticipated and unexpected. Agility gives you the confidence to talk with a party you may or may not be able to trust and have a conversation the outcome of which will significantly impact your company and future collective bargaining agreements. Agility allows you to pivot.

Sports in the Pandemic Era chronicles the dramatic comeback of sports after the global pandemic forced lockdowns, border closures and quarantines.Following a near total shutdown in the spring of 2020, the sports industry rose to an exceptional challenge with discipline and innovation. This helped health experts understand how the rest of the world could adapt to the crisis.Sports in the Pandemic Era shares case studies of sports organizations that quickly implemented major changes to respond to pandemic challenges. The text also shows long-term changes that will impact the industry as the world recovers. It concludes with an inspiring look at the achievements of many athletes who overcame adversity and set impressive new records.

This book is an invitation to reflection, to critical thinking, to objectivity and to the liberty of accepting what is different.Ever since Homo Sapiens populated our world, our lives have been stories we tell to all those we are surrounded by every day as well as to unknown people through social media when we post the pictures of our vacations, pets, children and graduation or changes in our jobs. We buy brands that have a story we admire or those that are recommended by influencers because we are fascinated by their stories. This book is about you. It is the story of your past, your present and your future as you live in multicultural communities. Page after page, you see the story of humankind and of multiculturalism unfold and be explained through the lenses of science and storytelling.Multicultural Marketing is Your Story is thoroughly illustrated with real life examples. The ideas, theories and statements presented in this book will perhaps challenge some of your deepest beliefs or they might as well comfort you in your own opinions. Ultimately, this book is an invitation to reflection, to critical thinking, to objectivity and to the liberty of accepting what is different.

What do Disney Imagineering and nonprofit organizations have in common? More than you think!Although nonprofits are rarely known as creative powerhouses, we'll explore how to use the same principles that make Disney Imagineering the gold standard of imaginative thinking to transform your organization into an equally inventive and creative environment.The Nonprofit Imagineers explores how more innovation can happen at nonprofits, no matter how small the budget, how meager the staff, how tight the board oversight or how limited the time commitment. Using more than 100 real-life examples from theme parks, movies, and Walt Disney's life, you will come away inspired to experiment with Disney Imagineering principles such as blue-sky meetings, storytelling, creative intent, kinetics, plussing, and weenies. Yes, weenies.This book is perfect for employees, managers, board members and volunteers at schools, faith-based organizations, community centers and assorted other organizations of all sizes looking to use creativity to improve their programming, fundraising and relationship with their families, members, and donors.

What does platform thinking mean? It is the ability to put platform-based mechanisms at the core of digital business transformations in business.Digital platforms like Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Booking.com, and many others completely re-shaped the daily life of millions of users. However, many innovation leaders struggle to conceive the significance of their impact. Platform-based business models are not just the real of geeks' startups, digital services, and Unicorns.This book shows there that their potential in creating value is higher than suspected.Even though platform ecosystems are complex, readers will take on a journey to become platform thinkers. Their eyes will be trained to look beyond what's visible and start reading the platform world around them. Then, they will be guided into a step-by-step process and learn how to write a new platform model from scratch.This book is the result of a decade of research. It offers both a framework and practical instruments to champion digital transformation in any organization. It is specially intended for those who are interested in the glittering platform world and are still trying to figure it out.

In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity.This business development "guidebook" illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

The problems during COVID made everyone aware that today's global business environment relies on supply chains 24/7.Although most managers and executives are not chain experts, they must know and understand the key aspects of supply chain management to make the best daily decisions for their business. Many textbooks cover numerous details and theories about supply chains. However, it has been said that everything that is taught in business school is theory...until you must make payroll.Both authors have made payroll in various businesses. Thus, this text removes the details and is focused on an executive overview of the key aspects of Global Supply Chains that every businessperson needs to know to continually succeed in their business and make payroll.

Don't let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to: make yourself indispensable to your company, develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match, collaborate with robots, retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which traditionally safe careers and entire industries will no longer be safe in the future because of artificial intelligence. The author details why the changes caused by disruptive technology will be far greater and take place far faster than in previous industrial revolutions.This book offers several ways to cope with the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to a company or organization as well as how to take advantage of the disruption likely to result from other new technologies including 3D printing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, green technologies, Big Data, blockchain, and nanotechnology.Still Room for Humans spells out the types of jobs long associated with well-paying careers that should be avoided because they are most likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. It lists several new jobs that don't exist yet but will be created shortly as new technologies become more prevalent.Schatt provides career planning information as well as specific advice for those readers already employed.

Do you want to start your own company?This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author's academic and business career.This book discusses: What are the successful characteristics of an inventor, entrepreneur, and a CEO?Understanding the vocabulary of the entrepreneur's ecosystem.What are the evaluation criteria for the team, product, business model & exit plan?Do consumers need or want your product?How to create the story that will fit the right investor for funding?Understanding the investor evaluation and screening process.Readers will learn how to ask the right questions to build a strong ecosystem with service providers, customers, and investors.If you want to be an entrepreneur, read this book. It is about the author's personal experiences as a scientist, an inventor, an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.

Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy presents a unique, proven methodology for achieving an environment of innovation.This book details a comprehensive and integrated approach to optimization: acting strategically; refining business processes; energizing personnel development; forging reasoned technology decisions; and synchronizing corporate governance, organizational design, and company culture.Practices and principles are delivered in a conversational tone and are accompanied by intriguing historical anecdotes that entertain and help illustrate the authors' position points for each chapter-making for an interesting read.Whether the goal is improving select aspects of your company or totally rethinking the business model, this book furnishes the roadmap for achieving that successful transformation.

This book uses insights from services marketing to illustrate how financial service providers should utilize service marketing concepts to provide customers with quality, satisfaction, and memorable experience.Marketing has been traditionally goods oriented with a business to customer focus. However, it is established that financial service organizations also need a focused marketing strategy in the business to consumer space.This book uses insights from services marketing to illustrate how financial service providers should utilize service marketing concepts to provide customers with quality, satisfaction, and memorable experience. This book is particularly useful to managers in financial organizations, executives enrolled in a management course, faculty and post graduate students of a management course.

The Intrapreneurship Formula is a practical guide for corporate leaders and managers who aspire to drive corporate innovation. The world we are in today is experiencing an acceleration of technological advancement. More companies are facing disruptions. Companies must innovate to survive.80% of the leaders know the importance of innovating but most do not know where to start. What they don't know is they already have the crucial asset of innovation in their organization - their employees. The question is, how to activate the employees to innovate.This book provides a simple and actionable framework that leaders can apply to drive corporate entrepreneurship. It's a playbook with tools and tested methodologies including Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, etc. -a must read for anyone working on innovation in medium- to large-size companies. The framework and tools, when implemented, will help the company constantly come up with innovation and capture growth.

The purpose of this book is to examine the influence of sWOM and provide guidance on how to operationalize its growing power.Each day, millions of consumers venture online to search and exchange product information, seek out, and share opinions.Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communication has been shown to influence consumer actions across a variety of industries. A significant portion of eWOM occurs on social media platforms. Social word of mouth (sWOM)-a subset of eWOM-has incredible reach with the potential to influence over 4.6 billion active social media consumers.The purpose of this book is to examine the influence of sWOM and provide guidance on how to operationalize its growing power. Our goal in writing this book is to bring together industry best practices and academic research to help you construct social media content thatspeaks with your brand voice, stimulates engagement, inspires consumers to #share, and complies with industry and federal guidelines.

This book discusses the attributes of inclusive business by engaging people (customers and stakeholders) in creating social and customer values and enhancing business growth among customer-centric companies. Corporate policy and implications of the inclusiveness in businesses on social development constitute the core discussion in this book. Inclusivity concepts and arguments are endorsed by case studies across the developing economies. Philosophy and practices of inclusive business through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis has been discussed across five chapters.Discussion on the success of inclusive businesses in the context of innovation, technology, and new product development which motivated people-led companies to adapt to agile business modeling and drive co-creation and coevolution initiatives are central to this book.

Why do companies exert high effort to reduce the costs of products that are production? Because they can! Because unnecessary product costs were not removed during product development.C-O-S-T, short for Cost Optimization System and Technique, details how a company's product development teams, their supporting functions, and company leaders can optimize product costs before production starts and thereby maximize lifecycle profits.Since product development teams determine product costs imparted to new products, much of the book details how these teams optimize product costs. The book also includes ways company leaders can create and sustain company-wide engagement in optimizing product costs and keeping the resulting increased profit margins.The reader is entertained while observing a three-day workshop where executives of a fictitious company, Defender Products, Inc. are being taught the C-O-S-T system by its developers. The story flows like a business workshop with slides, dialog, and break-out sessions.The content will benefit all companies that design, develop and manufacture products.

Today, everything and everyone is a brand. If you want to develop your personal brand, but can't afford the fees of a branding firm, this book provides access and insights into a thought-leading mind.For entrepreneurs and professionals looking to manage their business career, it's more than just theory. It's part step-by-step guide, part story-sharing written to inspire and help bring your own brand to life. Here, branding expert Henry Wong shares his process to help you compete in the market and workplace.

This book will help Chairs to form a strong team, build a resilient relationship with the CEO, assess how to use their considerable power, and when to show self-restraint.Board members often struggle to identify their true role, caught between the Chair and the executive board. As a result, board members frequently have doubts about their role and personal impact; doubts which are rarely acknowledged nor addressed. By focusing on the most impactful driver of success - the human behavior - the author explores how to create a strong board team whose members are clear about the team's role, are able to talk about their concerns, and are therefore also comfortable to listen, to challenge, and to support.Based on around 60 interviews around the globe and his own board experience, this book will help Chairs to form a strong team, build a resilient relationship with the CEO, assess how to use their considerable power, and when to show self-restraint. Navigating the Boardroom supports board members and managers in reflecting on how to navigate the complex web of boardroom relations and provides both practical and attitudinal tips.

Protecting the Brand, Volume II: Busting the Bootlegs follows Volume I which provides a unique combination of legal and business best practices related to intellectual property protection.This second volume showcases U.S. states specific legal statues and examples related to the legal approach to counterfeiting and grey market issues. The primary emphasis is to provide advice to U.S. companies navigating the complex domestic legislation and provide a single source of reference for both law practitioners and those tasked with intellectual property rights enforcement and compliance who need to understand the applicable state legislation.Both volumes of this book are focused on leveraging trademark enforcement while also commenting on copyright and patent enforcement, establishing a framework for successful brand protection in the future.