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The World Famous Pike Place Fish Market is renowned worldwide as a model company. In this revealing business advice book, its owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business and encouraged his employees to live a powerful, unified vision of the market. When...

“A deeply felt meditation on the vital role of passion in good teaching”—with useful samples, interviews, and advice (Anthony Rotundo, The Washington Post) Every teacher can be a passionate teacher—one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas—if teaching is...

Are you a personal trainer? Are you looking to grow your business, but are not sure how to get started? Then this short book is for you. 14 Ways To Get More Personal Training Clients helps you understand what you need to do in order to scale up by recognizing the type of business that you have and then choosing the right strategy. It helps you navigate through the complexities of promoting yourself in this digital age, and provides step-by-step instructions for social media marketing.

This book covers the essential changes organisations need to make in terms of marketing to reach and win the trust of the millennial consumersAre you tired of struggling to connect with the largest and most influential generation of consumers? Do you want to learn how to capture the attention of...

Do you feel confident at work? Are there times when you lack confidence but can’t show it? The role of confidence in successful leadership is both significant and undisputed and yet organizations are full of leaders and teams who don’t have as much as they want and, even worse, are not doing anything about it. Attempts to develop confidence are usually confined to empty affirmations and vanilla-flavored self-help books. In contrast, this book provides an evidence-based code that outlines the steps we can all take to positively shift our confidence and that of our teams.

This book makes publicly available for the first time the same inclusive design process used at Google to create user-centric award-winning and profitable products. Author and Head of Product Inclusion Annie Jean-Baptiste outlines what those practices look like in industries beyond tech with fascinating case studies. Listeners will learn the key strategies and step-by-step processes for inclusive product design that limits risk and increases profitability.

Wealth by Design: 14 Proven Keys to Success and Abundant Living is your no-fluff blueprint to creating a life of unstoppable growth, financial freedom, and purpose-driven power. Whether you’re a dreamer, a doer, or a visionary stuck in the grind, this game-changing guide helps you rewire your subconscious, conquer fear, attract opportunity, and develop the wealth-oriented habits of high achievers. Packed with clarity, strategy, and soul, each chapter delivers practical tools and mindset shifts that unlock the abundance already within you.

لطالما أحببت لغة التصميم؛ الفن والإبداع والابتكار والاهتمام بالتفاصيل. التصميم هو إحدى اللغات العالمية القليلة القادرة على استحضار مجموعة كاملة من المشاعر دون استخدام كلمة واحدة. التصميم الجيد هو أيضًا عمل جيد. يمكن للتصميم مساعدتنا في العثور على طرق جديدة وأكثر قوة لجعل المؤسسات أكثر ديناميكية، وإشراك الأشخاص والشركاء، وإثارة خيالهم. الشركة التي يقودها التصميم هي بحكم تعريفها شركة ابتكارية تركز على الإنسان.

India's start-up revolution began in 1998, when the first venture capitalists (VCs) arrived from the US and backed early businesses in IT services for global corporates. The second wave came in 2006 when home-grown VCs raised large amounts of capital and funded products and services companies...

Want to flourish in a creative industry such as entertainment, marketing, advertising, PR, design, photography, media, or the arts? Would you love to score your dream job or start a business doing something you love and be earning a great income - but you aren't sure how to make that happen?...

Everyday struggles grow heavier: navigating endless specification options, ensuring fire safety compliance without overdoing it, or harmonising structures and services while staying true to your design vision. And then there’s the unrelenting pressure to innovate while keeping projects on budget and clients happy. This book is your shortcut to clarity and confidence in a complex world.

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap in to, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities.

In this book, you'll learn how to put the thinking-based framework popularized by the Stanford d.school into practice so you can take on challenges in your organization and reach insightful solutions.

The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a Legend In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, pushed out of the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his...

Fremtiden kommer, så design dit eget liv, inden nogen gør det for dig! "Design din fremtid" giver dig et unikt indblik i fremtiden og de trends, der præger udviklingen i form af blandt andet globalisering, automatisering og kunstig intelligens, og de konsekvenser det vil få for den måde, vi lever og arbejder på i fremtiden. Ved at forstå den nye dagsorden og finde ud af, hvilke kompetencer du skal udvikle for at blive klar til fremtiden, vil du både blive bedre til at designe dit eget liv og være i stand til at spotte eller skabe dit drømmejob.

Dieses Hörbuch wird Sie mit der Einführung von Design Thinking in Ihr Unternehmen vertraut machen sowie einige der wichtigsten eingesetzten Methoden erläutern. Es zeigt, was Design Thinking bewirkt und wie es in Unternehmen eingesetzt werden kann. Design Thinker gibt es nicht nur in der Kreativwirtschaft oder im Design. Diese Methode wird von erfolgreichen Unternehmen weltweit eingesetzt, um die Qualität ihrer Prozesse und Dienstleistungen durch Überprüfung der vorhandenen Lösungen zu erhöhen.

When you have an idea for a new product, it’s a pivotal moment. This device of yours will enhance the lives of the people who use it, earn you extra money, and have a significant impact on the world. However, there’s much more to a successful product than the quality of the original idea. Why do some products fly off the shelves and others not even reach the market? That’s what this book will explain.

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

Unternehmen richtig aufstellen für die digitale Zukunft. Bislang sprechen wir über Digitalisierung im Kontext von Menschen und Führungsaufgaben, aber nie in Bezug auf Organisationen. Es müssen aber auch die strukturellen Voraussetzungen gegeben sein, wenn ein Unternehmen seine Kultur ändern soll. Das Team um Isabell Welpe hat in einem mehrjährigen Forschungsprojekt Unternehmen im Digitalisierungsprozess begleitet und analysiert. In diesem Buch präsentieren die Autorinnen erstmals die fünf Erfolgsfaktoren für den Switch zur digitalen Organisation. Zusätzlich zu den Big Five geben sie Führungskräften einen Selbstdiagnose-Check sowie einen 10-Punkte-Plan für die Praxis mit auf den Weg.

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over twenty total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.