Author : Robert Kress
Publisher : IT Governance Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849283575
With clear strategies, helpful diagrams and real-life examples, this book will give you the keys to unlocking your IT function’s hidden potential.
Author : David Van Adelsberg
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1605096393
Many of today's business leaders champion learning as essential to business success, backing their belief with massive investments in Training and Development (T&D). In fact, T&D investments reach $56 billion per year in the U.S. alone. In this era of unprecedented opportunity, the time is right for T&D to become a full-fledged "player" in the world of business. At issue, the authors contend, is T&D's inability to seize this opportunity and deliver unmistakable value to its most influential customers-the exectuvies who pay for trainiing services but are unable to see clear business value being returned on their companies' training investments. The authors also contend that T&D must alter the traditional precepts that keep it "separate form the business" and "out of the loop" strategically. Van Adelsberg and Trolley suggest that the key to delivering unmistakable business value lies in transforming T&D-in spirit and in practice-from a funciton to a business. The authors draw on their experiences working inside Moore Corporation, DuPont, Mellon Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Texas Instruments, and other top businesses to illustrate how "Running Training Like a Business": 1. Eliminates the many hidden costs of training; 2. Re-focuses T&D from delivering training content to addressing business issues; 3. Makes T&D a full stategic partner in business decision making; 4. Ensures that training measurement is "baked in, not bolted on"; 5. Improves the effectiveness and efficiency of internal and/or external T&D organizations. Trolley and van Adelsberg lead the reader through a proven four-step process for transforming traditional training organizations into training enterprises capable of delivering unmistakable value, quarter after quarter and year after year.
Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119564816
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Author : Lucy Werner
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178860122X
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 SHORTLISTED TITLE*** Hype Yourself is an invaluable toolkit for getting you and your business featured in the media: newspapers, magazines, radio and TV. Crammed full of insider advice, from the building blocks of your PR strategy to the execution of creative campaigns, it includes expert tips from journalists and industry specialists and is supported by a stack of online resources. Lucy Werner is founder of The Wern, a PR & branding consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands. She is also a writer, speaker, blogger, teacher and podcaster on all things brand building for small businesses. For more information follow @wernchat or visit www.thewern.com
Author : Stephen Bruyant-Langer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118744136
Plan for success No one would embark on a business venture without a thorough and coherent plan. So why are so many of us happy to stagger through life with no real plan – just going with the flow, seeing what happens? It’s time we gave our lives the same importance we give to our business exploits. The Personal Business Plan offers a practical, field-tested method for effectively planning out what you want from life and exactly how to achieve it. It will change the way you look at yourself, your job and your career. This is an essential toolkit for all ambitious career professionals who want to know how to thrive in their job and simultaneously become a happier and more effective person. Creating your own personal business plan will help you to define your purpose, plan your actions, break through limiting beliefs and reinvent yourself. Written by a top executive coach and head-hunter with the world’s leading Talent Management and Executive Search firm who has changed the lives of thousands of people A field-tested methodology for identifying your mission, setting your critical success criteria, defining your agenda, keeping to the point and become more fulfilled and happier A complete life view – how to excel in your chosen career and simultaneously enjoy a happy personal life
Author : Tommy Bartshukoff
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781543900989
Build that business! Take chances! Run. But run slowly!In an increasingly volatile business environment, managers must balance the need for speedy response to market opportunities with the need for a cool head and a steady hand. Not an easy task. Running a business is fraught with danger and expensive pitfalls, especially when operating in the full glare of social media.Today's - and tomorrow's - talented employees are adopting much more of a consumer mindset when targeting potential employers. The game has changed. Now, it is companies that must qualify to meet the needs of their employees, who expect the workplace to be a life-enhancing 'experience' rather than just the place they go to do a job. No doubt about it: the war for talent is about to ramp up to a fierce level. Are you ready to fight for your very survival?In light of the acceleration of change brought about by economic imperatives, populist-fueled expectations and the rise of the robots, there is an increasing need for those heading businesses to demonstrate clear leadership, develop a worthwhile purpose, communicate corporate strategy clearly and deploy resources fairly and appropriately to inspire - and challenge - employees. And they must do all this while steering the organization towards success.This book offers invaluable guidance on how to make this happen.In a clear and straightforward manner, it provides structure and direction to help managers achieve success in running an organization. The author shares his global experience in a highly visual manner, using well-crafted summaries and anecdotes to help managers navigate the increasingly choppy waters of running a business. Chock-full of good advice, it is full of wisdom and practical recommendations for anyone in a management position, to create focus and alignment within the team and most importantly, to foster engagement. It gets to the point quickly, with concrete suggestions to create a safety net and to accelerate successful execution.Overall, it takes the reader on a journey through all the vital areas of a typical organization and shares well-proven ways to handle many of the key situations managers will likely encounter along the way. It is particularly relevant today, when more and more people are starting their own businesses and have very little margin for error. With more than 30 years of experience as CEO in global companies across cultures, as well as an owner of SMEs, the author is direct and frank, although distinctly empathetic. Why make the same mistakes others have already made for you? Buy the book. Read it! And set yourself apart from the crowd.
Author : Jim Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0066620996
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
Author : Joanna Penn
Publisher : Curl Up Press via PublishDrive
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Are you ready to take the next step in your author journey? Art for the sake of art is important. Writing for the love of it, or to create something beautiful on the page, is absolutely worthwhile and critical to expand the sum of human expression. But I’m not here to talk about creativity or the craft of writing in this book. My aim is to take the result of your creativity into the realm of actually paying the bills. To take you from being an author to running a business as an author. I was a business consultant for 13 years before I gave up my job in September 2011 to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. I worked for large corporates and small businesses, implementing financial systems across Europe and Asia Pacific. I’ve also started a number of my own businesses ”" a scuba dive charter boat in New Zealand, a customized travel website, a property investment portfolio in Australia as well as my freelance consultancy. I’ve failed a lot and learned many lessons in my entrepreneurial life and I share them all in this book. In the last six years of being an author, through tempestuous changes in the publishing world, I've learned the business side of being a writer and I now earn a good living as an author-entrepreneur. I’m an author because it's my passion and my joy but also because it's a viable business in this age of global and digital opportunity. In the book, you will learn: Part 1: From Author To Entrepreneur The arc of the author’s journey, definition of an author-entrepreneur, deciding on your definition of success. Plus/ should you start a company? Part 2: Products and Services How you can turn one manuscript into multiple streams of income by exploiting all the different rights, various business models for authors and how to evaluate them, information on contracts, copyright and piracy. Plus/ putting together a production plan. Part 3: Employees, Suppliers and Contractors The team you need to run your business. Your role as author and what you’re committing to, as well as co-writing. Editors, agents and publishers, translators, book designers and formatters, audiobook narrators, book-keeping and accounting, virtual assistants. Plus/ how to manage your team. Part 4: Customers In-depth questions to help you understand who your customers are and what they want, as well as customer service options for authors. Part 5: Sales and Distribution How to sell through distributors and your options, plus all the information you need to sell direct. ISBNs and publishing imprints ”" do you need them? Plus/ your options for pricing. Part 6: Marketing Key overarching marketing concepts. Book-based marketing including cover, back copy and sales pages on the distributors. Author-based marketing around building your platform, and customer-based marketing around your niche audience and targeted media. Part 7: Financials Revenues of the author business and how to increase that revenue. Costs of the author business and funding your startup. Banking, PayPal, accounting, reporting, tax and estate planning. Part 8: Strategy and Planning Developing your strategy and business plan. Managing your time and developing professional habits. The long-term view and the process for becoming a full-time author. Plus/ looking after yourself. Part 9: Next Steps Questions from the book to help you work out everything to do with your business, plus encouragement for your next steps. Appendices, Workbook and Bonus Downloads including a workbook and business plan template. If you want to go from being an author to running a business as an author, download a sample or buy now.
Author : Jack Stack
Publisher : Broadway Business
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385475259
The Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement. The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn't dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, went down the tubes. What these workers created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years--an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream.
Author : Ken Mr Biz Wentworth
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781793940162
Are you a business owner that does "OK", but you're struggling to increase profits & carve out more personal time? Could you benefit from expert advice in the key areas for success in your business? "Pathway to Profits" provides no-nonsense guidance you can use to run your company more profitably & more efficiently, which means more time for you! For 20+ years, Speaker, Author and CFO, Ken "Mr. Biz" Wentworth, has worked with businesses of all sizes - from startups to Fortune 15 - to optimize their profitability. In his book, "Pathway to Profits", he will show you: * How to increase sales without "selling" more * How to achieve game-changing results from a budget without being a financial guru * Utilizing credit cards to create a huge cash flow advantage * How to hire the BEST . . . faster! * When not to DIY your business * A risk you might be ignoring that could doom your business * What to expect when you need financing * One simple action that will have vendors fighting to earn your business Bottom line - if you want a straight-forward pathway to more profits, this book is for you!
