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Whether you're considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.For many aspiring entrepreneurs, the path to entrepreneurship begins within the walls of established corporations. This book is uniquely tailored for employees and executives in the private sector either experiencing entrepreneurial ambitions, or dealing with them in their organizations. Whether you're considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.Delve into the choices that employee entrepreneurs make and the consequences they face. If you work in or run an organization, gain insights into the processes and critical decision-making moments through real-life spinout stories like Chevrolet, Apple, Zoom, Zillow, Intel, and Electronic Arts.Spinouts have a distinct advantage, which comes from what they inherit from their parent firms. Their advantage hinges on what they absorb or carry forward from their parent firms. While some parent companies actively support and cultivate their spinouts, leveraging them to bolster their reputation, others adopt a more defensive approach. Learn from parent firm cases like Fairchild, Palantir, AstraZeneca, Nokia, and Paypal.Explore the controversial, yet often successful path of spinout ventures!

The Negotiation Edge is a two-part book that will make you a better negotiator.The first half is a negotiating tutorial complete with checklists and worksheets. It details on how-to engage, prepare, select a leader, build a support team, identify roles, set communication guidelines, instruct meeting behavior, read the other side, and determine the best strategies (compete collaborate compromise) using a three-act negotiating structure.The second half of the book is the author's twenty-five best and worst negotiating experiences with his insightful lessons learned with Walmart, Amazon, Target, NFL, NBA, NHL, PBS, National Geographic, BBC, Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, and Martha Stewart.

This book is a must-read for technologists, retailers, and investors who seek to understand the warehouse automation industry and the tradeoffs of the various technologies.It walks through an array of automation options using understandable terms. It describes the history of the industry and how e-commerce catapulted warehouse automation to the forefront of supply chain operations.The Warehouse Revolution will also be of interest to those who are just curious and seek to understand what's happening behind the curtain-the highly choreographed movement of people and machines that enable packages to show up at our respective doorsteps in less than a day.

Business incumbents constantly face disruption threats. Most of them have embarked on the digital transformation journey. Around 70 percent of transformation projects fail. One of the many reasons of failure is a lack of clear and concrete Digital Strategy.This book contains a comprehensive Digital Strategy Framework for business incumbents, providing a step-by-step guidance during the strategy creation and execution phases.Though anyone can read and derive benefits from this book, it is primarily for executives, strategists, transformation drivers, change agents, leaders, and managers. Its success lies in how effectively they apply the framework at their workplace.This book is not just about information...it's all about transformation!

How do we become good project managers? What does it take to become a true professional?This book gives depth to these crucial questions. It explains and illustrates the experiences and professional capacities we must acquire to become good at what we do. The entry point is project management, and this entry point is used to define what in general makes us become good professionals. The book shows that our professional capacity is so much more than our technical abilities and shows that becoming a true professional today is defined by three key factors: Our ability to accumulate relevant professional reference points and contexts.Our ability to juggle technical, people, power, and unforeseen professional agendas.Our ability to memorize our experiences in useful mental models.The world will end up having around 8 billion professionals, which means that more than 150,000 new professionals will enter the workforce every day for the next 75 years. This will dramatically change our professional context.This book is for everyone who wants to sharpen their professional skills and mental models to stay relevant.

This book discusses emerging concepts and practices of proximity marketing through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis. It converges the business, social, crowd, and behavioral ecosystems with the proximity marketing approaches.Success factors of the proximity marketing in the context of customer-centric companies synchronized with crowd-based business modeling, co-creation, and coevolution initiatives have been explained through the people-oriented models. This book presents innovative concepts, best practices, and case studies on proximity marketing strategy in the emerging markets and contributes to the new concepts in business.

Uncover the Future of Workplace Happiness and Effectiveness!Dive into the pages of HR Tech Strategy and unlock the secrets of crafting an unparalleled employee experience that transforms organizations and propels them to new heights of success.Forge the ultimate HR Tech Strategy for unrivaled effectiveness: Embrace the proven formula for aligning technology-driven employee experiences with exceptional business results.Understand how an engaged, motivated workforce translates to increased efficiency, innovation, and overall success.Unearth the untapped potential of a dynamic HR-IT partnership.Delve into real-world examples, showcasing the power of synergy between these two vital departments.Learn the art of harmonizing cutting edge technology with human-centric HR strategies.HR Tech Strategy is not just a book; it is your ticket to becoming a pioneer in revolutionizing employee experience!

It is well known that high-tech startups need to innovate to survive, yet the failure rate for innovation is shockingly high. Nearly three out of four new products or services, i.e., their startups, miss their revenue and profit goals-or fail entirely.It's a misconception that high-tech startups fail only because of the failing products or finances. The failures could also be because of erroneous choice of technology platforms, development teams or methodology, or even the project execution. Accordingly, this book takes a holistic view of a startups' aesthetics that enables it to become attractive for all stakeholders especially investors in all aspects of its operations at all stages of its lifecycle.This book: Looks at aspects of venture capital financing and what investors look for in a contemporary startup.Shows how only an overarching aspiration for a startup to become a Unicorn is sufficient to explain the typical characteristics of legendry Silicon Valley Unicorns like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.Covers major application areas of current/future interest, namely, intelligent systems, intelligent assistants, wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain systems.Introduces the contemporary skills-set in demand for Startups.To succinctly cover all aspects of a contemporary startup, Unleashing the Startup Unicorn is organized to reflect the natural grouping of competencies that are essential for entrepreneurial ventures-from conception to successful exit. To understand and analyze these competencies, the book uses an extended 9S model inspired by the pioneering McKinsey 7S model.

Unlocking Success in the Digital Age: Transform Your Law Firm for the FutureIn today's rapidly evolving digital age, it's become crucial for law firms to modernize and adapt to stay ahead of the competition. With advancements in technology and a shift in client expectations, it's essential for law firms to embrace digital transformation to remain relevant and successful. But where should you start? In this book, I outline essential steps that your law firm needs to take to modernize and thrive in the digital age.From leveraging digital billing solutions to integrating cloud-based practice management software, we'll provide actionable tips and insights to help you streamline your operations, enhance client satisfaction, and increase your firm's overall efficiency and profitability. By implementing these steps, you'll not only position your law firm as a forward-thinking and innovative practice, but you'll also be able to attract and retain a larger client base.Don't get left behind in this digital revolution - join me as I guide you through the process of modernizing your law firm and show you how to stay ahead in the fast-paced digital age.

Moving from student to employee can be a scary transition. Make Your Internship Count takes you step-by-step, from the initial decision to pursue an internship through pitching a full-time job, to make your leap into the working world easier and less stressful.This book gives you a competitive advantage and tells you what employers expect including how to meet those expectations. Make Your Internship Count's easy-to-read format offers prompts, exercises, worksheets, and "This Really Happened" stories to: Find internship opportunities that fit your skills and interests.Set and deliver on an internship goal.Interview with style.Make a great first impression.Navigate remote and hybrid internships.And so much more!With input from HR pros, executives and former interns, Make Your Internship Count gives you what you need to find your path and launch your career.

Applied Leadership: Developing Stages for Creating Exceptional Leaders, is a comprehensive, self-development practical leadership book. Designed to be a complete self-training guide for individuals in all stages of leadership, from entry level to advance stages.For years, organizations and individuals have struggled with ineffective leadership training. It neither served to strengthen the current leaders in the organization, nor created future leaders for that organization, until NOW. Because great leadership is an evolutionary process, this publication will offer the reader a journey to become an exceptional leader. Individuals will be able to develop the practical skills necessary to be excellent leaders for any organization.No longer will organizations outsource costly training sessions that last for weeks or months for their staff, rather, this book will provide those necessary steps, skills, and knowledge needed at their own pace.

In Their Own Compelling WordsA Seat at the C-Suite Table is an insightful look at the leadership journeys of 30 African American male C-Suite executives.In their own compelling words, executives describe earning and maintaining a seat at the C-Suite table. They speak candidly about how the lack of mentors, coaches, and role models impacted - but did not stop them. They talk openly about navigating corporate settings designed years ago by White men. They speak freely about their commitment to supporting the next generation of leaders.This book was inspired by data suggesting that there is racial/ethnic underrepresentation in corporate leadership roles in the United States. This underrepresentation ranges from the presidency of colleges and universities to the U.S. Senate to corporate boardrooms.This book provides advice, hope, and inspiration for others. It also includes a road map for all leaders who desire to become better mentors, coaches, sponsors, and allies for current and future underrepresented leaders.

A quiet revolution is taking place within the computer ecosystem; one that will change the way we do business on the internet.It's called blockchain, and it promises to disrupt the way people interact with one another online, whether its messaging, banking, keeping up with medical records, land records, booking a vacation, socializing, or voting. Programs are also being developed to use blockchain to serve as one's identity "papers."Blockchain technology is based on the idea that all online transactions should be between two people without the need for public or private third-party oversight. Blockchain technology developers believe thoughts and ideas should be shared, not quashed. It's a world where web platforms are governed by their members, not a board of directors; privacy comes first, and one's personal information is kept private, not for third parties to take and sell as they, please.Blockchain technology offers everyone opportunities to take part. Anyone can participate in the fast-growing world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where works of art, music, literature, and poetry can be tokenized and sold or traded on a blockchain.These components comprise the next generation of the world wide web, which is referred to as Web 3.0. Billions of dollars are being spent to create infrastructure to create a viable framework to mainstream blockchain.This book offers a peek into this new world with examples of how this technology is being used today as well as the hurdles, including legal challenges, it must overcome to be viable.So, if you're ready, let's meet blockchain.

A book for all true salespeople who want to tackle the new global changes and enhance greater sales with less stress.Selling today has gone through profound changes in the past 3 years, culminating in new changes in methods and company employee arrangements. This book brings together the changes to selling post pandemic and lays out the new approaches to selling under what have been difficult circumstances for all sales professionals.

Organizations face increasing cybersecurity attacks that threaten their sensitive data, systems, and existence; but there are solutions. Experts recommend cybersecurity training and general awareness learning experiences as strategic necessities; however, organizations lack cybersecurity training planning, implementation, and optimization guidance. Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness addresses the demand to provide cybersecurity training aligned with the normal flow of IT project delivery and technology operations.Cybersecurity Training combines best practices found in standards and frameworks like ITIL technology management, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO risk, quality and information security management systems, and the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Trainers will appreciate the approach that builds on the ADDIE model of instructional design, Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Thought, and Kirkpatrick's Model of Evaluation, a trilogy of training best practices.Readers learn to apply this proven project-oriented training approach to improve the probability of successful cybersecurity awareness and role-based training experiences. The reader is guided to initiate, plan, design, develop, pilot, implement and evaluate training and learning, followed by continual improvement sprints and projects.Cybersecurity Training prepares trainers, project managers, and IT security professionals to deliver and optimize cybersecurity training so that organizations and its people are ready to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity threats leading to more resilient organizations.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to marketing for leaders of small and midsized businesses, empowering them to expand and evolve their enterprises.It offers a framework to create a fundamental marketing plan that helps business leaders understand and thrive in a competitive environment. The framework offers a step-by-step process to build a plan that will enable readers to acquire new customers, maintain existing clientele, anticipate competitors' moves, showcase product uniqueness, grasp pricing strategies, refine branding messages, and select appropriate metrics to evaluate progress.By adhering to our straightforward approach, readers will learn how to develop a marketing strategy that will help generate sales, profit, and customer satisfaction.

Since the year 2000, banks have been fined almost a third of a trillion dollars. Yet, every year billions more are imposed. Why? This book explains why banks break the law (it's not just the money), explains the challenges facing Compliance functions, considers that the majority of financiers don't want to do wrong, and puts forth a proposal to stop banks from harming customers.The lessons in this book are applicable to any business where profit motives can conflict with customer benefit-in short, every business. (And if you're interested in cryptocurrency, this book's for you too!)

This book is designed to help small businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive world.People are one of the few remaining, reliable sources of sustainable, competitive advantage. Competitors will copy marketing strategies, and technology and process advantages will fade over time, but having the best people for your organization will turn customers into raving fans, allowing you to have a more enjoyable ride as you achieve your goals.Most business owners give lip service to the mantra that people are our greatest assets, but how many really grasp the deeper implications of this? After all, people are listed on income statements as an expense (payroll) but are nowhere to be found under assets on our balance sheets.This book provides the keys to unlock the fundamental elements of an organization that serve as the foundation for small businesses to perpetually attract and retain top talent-those who fit with the organization's culture and core values and who contribute to achieving the organization's goals.

Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur describes Harvey Morton's inspirational journey from being bullied at school, told by teachers that he would never succeed, to winning his first business award when he was fourteen years old. Later, becoming an Ambassador for Youth Employment UK, and going on to work with a long list of well-known brands including Sheffield Hallam University, Santander, and the BBC.The importance of being passionate about the career you choose and giving back when you can, to make a difference to others' lives, is highlighted. While continuing to work hard towards achieving your goals-irrespective of how many times you fail or become discouraged by negativity. Similarly, the necessity of assessing every risk you take, learning how to do what you need to, and not ignoring self-development. So that you can take advantage of opportunities, and eventually create your own.Until you truly are... an entrepreneur.The lessons in life and business which Harvey Morton shares in Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur are an essential first step on the path to success.

Listen, observe, test--these three words lie at the heart of a powerful method for businesses' transformation. Behind this method is a deceptively simple idea: managers and management scholars must first take the pulse of a real business, get its case history, diagnose its problems, and only then solve them. Invented by the scholars who launched Harvard Business School, this medical model will still cure companies today. Damningly, during the last thirty years business schools embraced the presumptions of economists, game theorists, and other calculators of abstraction. The solving of real-world, real-time problems has atrophied and stagnated. In this book, renowned scholar and emeritus professor Jay W. Lorsch marshals evidence, history, and insights from his more than fifty-year career at Harvard Business School to make the case for a return to the medical model-the practices of listening, observing, and testing in which the fields of human relations and organizational behavior are rooted. By telling the history of the development of his field, Lorsch demonstrates how the medical model emerged in the years before World War II and for decades helped managers, management scholars, and consultants diagnose and solve the problems besetting companies large and small. Explaining the case studies that define the practice, he discusses how the model has been refined and reapplied by later generations and how it can continue to address issues such as diversity, leadership, competition, and optimal corporate board structures.

Unleash your sales potential with The Sales Momentum Mindset. This transformative guide is the key to unlocking sustainable sales force motivation by doing something radical: ignoring motivation. Crafted for sales professionals and managers alike, it offers a fresh perspective on sales performance, designed to ignite production and guide teams towards unprecedented growth.Discover the power that comes from focusing on momentum instead of motivation, understand its impact on sales culture, and learn how to convert it into significant, lasting results. Gain insights into a new language and framework around momentum, presented in a down-to-earth narrative that will resonate with every level of sales experience.Authored by a seasoned sales veteran, the book's authentic stories and enlightening visuals reveal an innovative approach to sales performance management. Find what's achievable when you step away from obsolete motivational approaches, and instead cultivate a Momentum Mindset.No matter what you sell or your level of experience, The Sales Momentum Mindset is set to revolutionize your perception of sales and sales force management. Step into a new era of sales success. This is your manual for momentum-based sales transformation.

This book empowers individuals with practical knowledge to manage their financial wealth from their first job until retirement and beyond.The first main theme is investments and covers security types, investment strategies, and asset allocations for individual investors. The foundation for this theme is the magical behavior of investment returns across securities and time, and the concept of market efficiency.Next, the author details tax minimization, beginning with an understanding of how taxes deplete investment value. He then illuminates various tax loopholes and strategies that individuals can exploit, including: the use of tax-favored investment accounts, opportunistic trading, picking ETFs over mutual funds, gifting to bypass estate taxes.Lie also covers the many pitfalls in the world of wealth management. Several stem from investors' ignorance or irrational behavior, while others are concocted by financial institutions to fleece individual investors. Either way, the readers learn to avoid them.Other topics also discussed include: What types of insurance should individuals purchase?When should a mortgage be refinanced?And how can individuals avoid costly probate court for the estate?This book is useful for university courses on wealth management and for all individuals who want to secure their financial future. This includes you.

This book is useful for those seeking to learn about the history of market crises and individuals that want to learn about protection against downside risks for an investment portfolio.The purpose of this book is not to convince the reader to attempt to anticipate the timing of the next market crash, but rather for the reader to be able to draw parallels (and some contrasts) between the different crises in history. The book reviews case studies related to specific macroeconomic event triggers ranging from COVID-19 to hyperinflation.Readers will come away with extensive knowledge of different market crisis events spread across countries and timelines. The reader will be well versed on important macroeconomic topics such as the history of currencies. Perhaps most importantly, readers will feel better prepared to handle the next market catastrophe. Audiences such as business school students and those that are a part of organizations such as the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute will find this book of interest.

Leading from the Top is a journey through 90 years of American presidential history to glean lessons in issues management from those who dealt with the most complex issues, on the biggest stage and under the most intense scrutiny.Reading the book, you will learn why asking permission, reframing the issue, and knowing the length of your runway are all important components in successful issues management.This book uses history to build on common knowledge to accelerate recall of the concepts presented. It looks at fifteen presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden, and examines one issue each managed. Each chapter ends by assessing success or failure through the lens of issues management consulting and providing succinct lessons that readers can draw from and apply to conflict resolution, problem-solving and crisis management.Leading from the Top is written for both aspiring and seasoned leaders to learn about or refine their issues management approaches as well as the reader who is interested in a different way to assess our presidents. This said, the book is not written to be prescriptive on any of the issues presented, but simply to provide perspective and tools to use to do your own assessments going forward.

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!