Corporate Business

Regardless of company size or industry, leaders are always on the lookout for innovative ways to get work done quickly and efficiently. They need employees on whom they can rely and trust to protect the interests of the company - employees, like you, who will become tomorrow's leaders. To achieve success in the competitive corporate world, you must be willing to embrace these challenges and effectively navigate any organization.

As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner's landmark best seller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures reveals exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible. You will also learn how to renew cultures as part of change and how to integrate cultures successfully following mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Taking the company into the 21st century was not going to be easy for Mr. Blue, Jr. His Chief of Staff, B.B. Queen, seemed to be getting with the program, while other sales executives were lagging behind. Faced with constant threats from those challenging his authority and the voice of Mr. Blue, Sr. echoing in his head, he and others find themselves involved in a series of games with plots and twists that keep them all on their toes, everyone vying for the prize. Who will advance? And who will be sent packing?

A corporate executive loses his voice and discovers a new pathway to organizational excellence, built on the premise of dispersed power and shared leadership.

In this book, more than 30 successful entrepreneurs and career experts life the veil on what it takes to rise the ranks in your company, build a successful side gig, and set up your business for success. Divided into four parts and packed with game-changing insights, real-world stories, and spot-on advice, Entrepreneur Voices on Careers is the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure guide.

This book is for the girl who has the talent, the knowledge but somehow can't get the job, the promotion, the raise or the visibility she deserves. I have been that girl way too many times and this book is a practical guide to get out of this situation. Learn from my mistakes. No BS, no vague concepts, just a bestie telling you the cold hard truth so you don't have to finish last every time.

Economist and award-winning author Sylvia Ann Hewlett blends vivid stories with powerful new data in assessing the impact of the #MeToo movement in corporate America and provides concrete action to help executives and companies create more inclusive and safe work environments for women, people of color, and LGBTQ employees. While the #MeToo movement has exposed the enormous harm done by sexual misconduct in the workplace, the movement’s full promise has not been fulfilled, Sylvia Ann Hewlett argues.

At a time 79 percent of employees quit their jobs because they don't feel appreciated at their workplace, Building Corporate Soul sets out to transform the performance and value of organizations - and to make soulless companies a thing of the past.

Learn what accountants know, what they claim they know, and what they don’t know but claim they know. I have taught this to over 1,600 accountants and attorneys during more than 60 seminars and in my business fraud course at UCLA Business Extension.

Listen to and enjoy Hilary's secrets, but don't tell anyone else about this book. Don't consult it openly; keep it locked away in your desk drawer. Then you can look forward to a long and fruitful career, at the expense of others. Hilary believes in the traditional definition of success: power and money. Every other definition has simply been invented by those who have money and power to try and convince you that you don't want what they have already got. That's less competition for them. Don't fall for it.

People are clueless and work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing because they simply don't know any better. Schools don't teach us how to succeed. They teach us how to be good at school. The Work isn't a prescriptive, repeatable algorithm taking you from A to B. It's a framework bridging many ideas, books, and experiences, but applied uniquely to whoever encounters it. You are your own person with your own life, so the way you implement these strategies is up to you.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its performance improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Listeners will learn how to track their improvements in operations and financials - and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations - using Six Sigma. This much-needed second edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard delivers an innovative Execution Map allowing you to implement, reap, and quantify the many advantages of Six Sigma.

No-Nonsense Leadership is the most useable, hard-hitting field manual on managing and leading people available. It is broken down into short, direct, applicable sections filled with strategies like these: seven steps to recruiting and hiring a team of eagles; how to leverage the power of momentum; are you more manager than leader; 11 steps for leading change; a fish rots at the head; five causes and cures for corporate cancer; and more.

Whether you're looking at the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, Career GPS has what every woman needs to achieve her career goals. An authority on career development, Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, PhD, offers valuable guidelines and essential tips for maximizing a review, networking in a relevant way, and much more.

From restricting single-use plastic to eradicating palm oil from products, Richard Walker's quest is to find purpose with profit for his business. In this intimate, challenging, and encouraging audiobook, he explains how you, too, can make genuine progress on sustainable initiatives while being realistic about profit margins, and obligations to customers and employees. The Green Grocer offers clear-sighted experience and inspiration for any business, whether a large corporation, a kitchen-table start-up, or a sole trader, to make a difference.

You tick all the right boxes; school, university, corporate career. You have a sensible profession, a fancy job title, proud parents, decent salary, pricey holidays - but there's a nagging feeling that something isn't quite right. You want a different life - no spreadsheets, no commute, no late nights at the office. But if not that - then what? That is exactly what Escape the City is here to do: show you what other options are open to you.

Cyber Intelligence-Driven Risk provides a solution to one of the most pressing issues that executives and risk managers face: How can we weave information security into our business decisions to minimize overall business risk?

In Competition Is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few. Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion- and trillion-dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment.

Instead of striving to have it all, it’s time to have just what we want.

Who Says It’s a Man’s World helps women navigate the rocky path from cubicle to executive suite. This ultra-practical guide offers an ideal “Success Profile” along with the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of five reputation-enhancing areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership.