Business Management

Discover the best agile and lean strategies for managing, developing and elevating your startup or business! A successful business has a solid system in place. This system deals with problems as they arise, minimizes wasted resources, and creates efficient working conditions in order to better cater to customers’ needs on time and within budget. Now, which business owner doesn’t want that?

Written by a successful serial entrepreneur, Twelve-Minute Risk Management teaches quick, actionable steps to protect your business from a range of risks, like cybersecurity, fraud, reputation risk (social media), and workplace violence.

You’d think that was self-evident, but usually, companies are unintentionally giving it away. If you’re like most of our clients, you’ve got enough worries on your plate when it comes to making sure everything in the business is running smoothly. You don’t have the bandwidth to take on another project, especially one this large—that has the probability of costing the company thousands of dollars in repairs, overages, gas...the list goes on.

Are your systems and team impeding your business from thriving and being profitable? Wrestling with building a profitable business? Struggling to find (and keep) great people to help your business grow? Exasperated by wanting to build systems that repeat business success without your continual involvement but never having the time? Frustrated that you are working harder, but there never seems to be any money left over for you? If you are ready to finally build a stable, thriving business based around solid systems with a great team and culture, this is the book for you.

La gestión de crisis consiste en la capacidad para reconocer y actuar frente a las señales que anticipan una situación perjudicial para la empresa. La aparente normalidad puede preceder a los tres grandes tipos de crisis organizacional: ataques a la empresa de parte de agentes externos o internos, accidentes que ponen en riesgo a los stakeholders y acciones dañinas por parte del personal de la empresa.

In "Business Spotlight Audio" 2/2018 für März/April gibt es zwei Schwerpunkte. Beim ersten geht es um Agilität bei der Arbeit, insbesondere um agiles Projektmanagement. Den zweiten Schwerpunkt bildet die Teilnahme an Teambesprechungen mit praktischen Beispielen, wie Sie auch als Nichtmuttersprachler zu Wort kommen können. Unsere Careers-Expertin gibt in einem Interview Ratschläge für den Umgang mit unangenehmen Kollegen.

This book is your ultimate guide to managing stress and transforming it into a powerful tool for resilience and growth. Specifically for entrepreneurs, this concise yet comprehensive resource combines evidence-based strategies, actionable methods, and inspiring examples to help you thrive in the face of chaos.

Discover the untold truths of leadership in "The Dirty Side of Leadership" by Ron Ward. This isn't your typical leadership book; it's a raw and honest exploration of the personal challenges that every manager, executive, and leader will face. The story begins with Ron Ward, newly appointed Director of a Federal Law Enforcement Academy, as he braces himself to terminate a tenured employee. This pivotal moment unveils his lack of preparation and sparks a journey to master the complexities of leadership.

"Streamlining Success: A Practical Guide to Automated Information Management for Small Businesses" provides small business owners with a clear, actionable roadmap to harness the power of automation. This concise guide covers the essentials of Automated Information Management (AIM), from understanding its core benefits to overcoming the challenges of manual processes.

In Business Spotlight Audio 4/2017 für Juli/August gibt es zwei Schwerpunkte. Beim ersten dreht sich alles um den richtigen Umgang mit Risiken. Der zweite Schwerpunkt befasst sich mit dem Lösen von Problemen am Arbeitsplatz. Wann man einen Satz mit "there's" und wann mit "it's" beginnt, üben Sie im Grammatik-Teil. Mit idiomatischen Wendungen zum Thema "E-Mails" erweitern Sie Ihren Wortschatz in diesem Bereich.

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that is responsible for driving the success of several organizations not just in Japan, but across the world. It explores simple, actionable, yet highly effective ideas that have the power to transform the destiny of your start-up. If you want to use the Japanese philosophy that is powering the results of several organizations all over the world, click on the “Buy Now” button to get your copy today!

Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey didn't become titans of their industries by accident. They mastered the art of time management, a skill that propelled them to extraordinary success. You can harness that same power. All you need are the right techniques to guide you. When you find yourself drowning in a sea of tasks and deadlines, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and lost. The struggle to integrate professional demands with personal life can seem impossible, leaving you wondering if you'll ever find harmony.

As a manager, you're shouldering more responsibilities—from maximizing your team's performance to increasing your company's market share to building profitable customer relationships. On top of all that, you need to orchestrate your own time and keep your career on track. The challenges are stacking up—but you've got less time to figure out how to tackle them. How are you supposed to resolve this dilemma? Happily, help is on the way: the new Management Tips from the Harvard Business Review.

The Social Media Management Handbook provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social media strategy. It is a comprehensive resource for bringing together such disparate areas as IT, customer service, sales, communications, and more to meet social media goals. Wollan and Smith and their Accenture team explain policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, metrics, strategies, incentives, and legal issues that may arise.

Whether you are retail employee or a budding entrepreneur, or really just someone looking to contribute to your place of work, you will surely encounter problems that require planning and analysis to address them. What you may not know is that, most of the time statistics, specifically probability and its concepts, will often give you an edge in identifying solutions and strategies to help you move forward with a great plan.

Anyone can be successful, but not everyone will be. It all depends on what you do. Are you wondering why you still haven’t achieved success after decades of working? You are asking yourself what others are doing right and what you’re doing wrong. What you do with your time matters more than you realize. It will bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be. But grinding and toiling for years will get you nowhere, not if your energies are focused on the wrong thing.

Many companies have attempted to implement popular methodologies (think Six Sigma, Agile, SCRUM, etc.) in a bid to enhance communication with remote workforces and technical vendor teams.

Ya sea que estés lanzando un cohete o planeando una fiesta de cumpleaños, las habilidades de gestión de proyectos son fundamentales para garantizar que todo salga a la perfección. Ahora más que nunca, las organizaciones buscan formas flexibles, rentables y eficientes de lograr sus objetivos, y la gestión de proyectos eficaz es la respuesta. No solo es una habilidad en demanda en casi todas las industrias, sino que también es una de las habilidades más transferibles que puedas adquirir.

From taxi rides, hotel stays, car driving, to communicating and paying, business as usual is a thing of the past. This revolutionary model is the secret to driving profitability and growth in today's transformed business landscape. Free and abundant information, 24/7 connectivity, and the empowerment of everyone has transformed every company into an open-source organization and you must adapt in order to succeed.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and presently Director at Casa Blanka India Consulting, Jayaram Easwaran's experience of the corporate world spans over three decades and includes stints in various leadership positions. In Inside the C-Suite, he puts together a collection of fictionalized accounts of incidents that have taken place over the course of his career. Drawn from real life and inspired by Easwaran's popular column for Business Line on Campus, Inside the C-Suite is a collection of tales of the Indian workplace.