Business Systems Managements

Everything you’ve been taught about leadership is backward, beginning with the costly mistake that causes you to sacrifice money, time, and human capital day after day. It’s not a calculation error or a problem with management style—it’s repeatedly choosing revenue and results over connection and team.

This book guides listeners through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from lead designers at Shopify, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start? How do you know where to look for information and evaluate its quality and bias? How can you feel confident that you are making a careful and thoroughly researched decision? Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing, or expanding your business, Problem Solved will show you how to use the AREA Method to make complex decisions.

Managing projects effectively and on time can be tough. But how would you like a system to manage several projects at once, and bring in all of them on time and on budget? What if you could clearly identify your priorities and consistently meet your deadlines? What if factoring in your hard-won wisdom and keenest insights suddenly became systematic for you? How would you like to have more work/life balance, and even be able to go home on time? It's no pipe dream - now you can!

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

In The Ecosystem Economy, two McKinsey & Company senior partners offer an incisive and eye-opening look at the emerging ecosystem economy and what it means for companies used to familiar sector siloes. In the book, you'll explore how the most successful companies in the new economy aren't the ones that have applied old-school best practices but, instead, have adopted entirely new mindsets and approaches for a fundamentally transforming market.

Do you want to discover the must-have project management hacks to achieve more success and master every area of your life? If you’ve ever experienced project failure at home, work or even with your hobbies, you’re not alone. The truth is, project management isn’t easy. And it’s important to remember that this is not your fault! But becoming a successful project manager doesn’t happen by luck...you have to take action. And that’s how Project Management for Beginners will empower you.

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows listeners how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards, including increased adaptability, shorter delivery schedules, reduced development cost, increased quality, and higher transparency into delivery.

Vous en avez marre de rater vos objectifs ? Vous souhaitez enfin aller au bout des projets que vous lancez ? Oubliez les bonnes résolutions, il vous faut une stratégie. Vous avez des rêves et des ambitions mais cela ne suffit pas. Il vous manque un système pour définir, planifier et réaliser vos objectifs. Ingénieur de formation et entrepreneur par passion, Hermann HEHOMEY a passé des années à étudier les personnes à succès et leur système de productivité. Il partage avec vous ses découvertes dans cet ouvrage.

Finding great talent is crucial for the success of any business. Scrolling through countless job boards, reading endless resumes, and conducting interview after interview consumes precious time and often leads to bad hires. It’s a system in need of an overhaul. Excellent hiring doesn’t have to be an impossible task. Employers can improve their recruiting practices with simple steps that highlight their company’s values and attract quality candidates every time.

Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, reveals, how natural patterns underlie data patterns that may dictate life or death, success, or failure. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond.

In his book Driving Eureka!, best-selling business author Doug Hall presents the System Driven Innovation scientific method for enabling innovation by everyone, everywhere, every day. It’s the essential resource you need to enable yourself - and your team - to innovate, succeed, and do amazing things that matter, on a daily basis.

Innovate Like Edison presents Edison's world-changing innovation methods as a cohesive, practical, and immediately applicable system. Based on three years of research, Innovate Like Edison offers listeners an in-depth view of Edison's comprehensive innovation approach - an analysis which has never previously been documented.

What makes a great leader? What beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours are linked to being a top performing and influential leader, especially in these uncertain times? What impact does culture, industry, and business context have? And do formal training and education make a difference? This audiobook is for any business manager or executive, or indeed anyone involved in leading a team in their company, who wants to learn the secrets of successful leadership.

Every day major headlines tell the story of a new and better American marketplace. Established corporations have begun reevaluating the quality of their products, the ethics of their supply chains, and how they can give back by donating portions of their profits to meaningful causes. Meanwhile millions of entrepreneurs who want a more responsible and compassionate marketplace have launched a new breed of socially focused business models.

Succeed the Sandler Way features 14 compelling success stories from real people who have used the Sandler Selling System to create major personal and professional breakthroughs. Each chapter is an in-depth profile of an actual Sandler client. As each case study proves, the guiding principle for creating a breakthrough is deceptively simple-sounding: Be candid with yourself. Taking a good, hard look at yourself is a prerequisite of any breakthrough.

Target Funding is a strategic guide to funding opportunities aimed at specific types of businesses and business owners. You'll learn about all the options available to you - including conventional, alternative, and diversity funding - and how to access them based on your needs and your demographic, industry, location, and other variables.

Every manager knows a business is a system, yet very few have studied systems thinking or system dynamics. This is a critical oversight, one that Simple_Complexity remedies. Simple_Complexity reveals the fundamental system archetype at work in your enterprise and prescribes new and exciting ways to reinvigorate your management thinking.

GUTS: Greatness Under Tremendous Stress is more than a motivation guide. It's a complete life-changing program full of powerful, transformational strategies straight from the Navy SEAL playbook. It's like a personal boot camp for retraining the brain, breaking bad habits and thought patterns, taking risks, and turning apathy into action.

Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization—resources that are too often squandered.