Building Management

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers. To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals. Who do you hire, and how do you hire the people you need? How will you motivate these engineers and inspire their best work? In Raising Engineers, David Dettmer helps you create a culture that reflects your business, establish a working process to cultivate a strong team, and hire the right people to build impactful products.

Do you wish that you could focus your energy on creating amazing software rather than endlessly firefighting? Better Agile condenses years of experience into a short, practical guide, so that you can quickly make agile work for you. Perhaps you have already tried to adopt an agile method or technique, hoping it would fix these problems. But maybe you found that it didn't give you the benefits you were expecting, or solve the challenges you are facing. This book provides you with the solution.

Each of us would like to create the company of our dreams, and thus, over time, achieve professional success and financial freedom. The problem is identifying what you don't know. This unknown, this uncertainty, is what keeps so many from venturing out to create their own successful enterprises. That fear of failure, limited business knowledge or any myriad of excuses to keep you from reaching for your dreams. Now compound this for women.

All relationships take time and effort to make it work, but often and very understandably so, the daily demands and distractions of life make it tempting to simply look the other way (usually to the smartphone) and think “perhaps this is as good as it gets”. But, unresolved issues do take its toll, and with time, it becomes seemingly impossible to manage. But, it doesn’t have to be this way and the good news is, it all starts with you.

Good entrepreneurs choose to walk a path of positive change that’s bigger than money, or status, or success. After spending hundreds of hours in a prison visiting his father and the same amount flying in a private plane, entrepreneur Nick Kennedy started a search for meaning beyond the airline that he launched, grew, and sold. In The Good Entrepreneur, he charts the pathway to creating both a successful business and an intentional legacy.

Here’s how you can master the psychology of business and achieve financial freedom! Have you ever wondered why some businesses become instant success stories while others fail miserably? No, successful businessmen and businesswomen are not born with the “good-at-business” gene, and they don’t have the business Midas touch. What they do have is a very particular set of skills. That’s exactly what this business management book is here to do: help you develop those essential financial management chops that will bring you one step closer to your goal of financial freedom.

Hiring for Diversity: The Guide to Building an Inclusive and Equitable Organization brings together the most cutting-edge practices for implementing a diversity hiring strategy that leaves your organization with a comprehensive view and an actionable plan.

Drawing on their vast experience both in and out of sport, double Olympic medallists Helen and Kate tell the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how a team from the lower rankings forced its way to the top. They bring you into their team huddle to reflect and work through exercises to help improve your performance. Using their individual and collective stories, they demonstrate that successful teams are made up of people who are valued as human beings and supported to individually flourish.

Determine how much of your organization’s operations are dependent on IT. Consider how much your organization relies on information technology to conduct business and make it a part of your culture to plan for contingencies in the event of a cyber incident. Identify and prioritize your organization’s critical assets and the associated impacts to operations if an incident were to occur.

Is your relationship helping you grow as a person? Do you manage conflicts with your partner in a constructive ways? Many people do not know that the reason for the failure of their relationship is in the management of couple conflicts - they think a relationship can be totally peaceful without conflict. Conflicts in a relationship can be very frustrating, but they can be an opportunity for you and your partner to grow up together.

Starting a business requires an abundance of patience, bravery, know-how, and risk, but if you have the right tools, systems, and mindset in place, the benefits outweigh the odds. Don’t let overwhelm and fear stop you. Learn how to deal with the unexpected and thrive with the step-by-step instructions and comprehensive information in The Entrepreneurial Guide today! 

Pro Leadership helps aspiring leaders establish their credibility, build their following, and lead with impact. Pro Leadership includes 24 chapters, and each focusses on a pro-leadership principle required to be mastered if a leader desires to “go-pro”. The 24 principles were taken from the yellow legal pad Andrew Wyatt kept in the center drawer of his desk during the 24-year history following the founding of his company.

Join Jerry on this journey of truths about what it takes to be an eccentric entrepreneur. Discover how his own journey of 27+ years as an entrepreneur has provided important lessons to help you on your journey to living the life you want through the application of these important principles. Learn how the impact of your relationships with others will carry the business forward. In addition, there are many factors about your approach to managing your business that will be revealed.

Around 90 percent of small businesses fail every year. However, if you adopt this one simple mindset...you'll have a business built to thrive during the hardest times. A business built to survive anything life throws at you. A business people love to support, and in turn, a profitable business that supports you. 

Not so long ago, I had £7.60 in my bank account and was struggling to feed my children. Aged 39, I was bankrupt. The taxman had taken my house, my car, and my self-respect. In a matter of months, I had seen my life collapse. I went from owning a successful business and a football club, to claiming benefits to try and put food on the table.

The essential guide to creating an honest, ethical workplace culture in any industry.