Corporate Business

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.

Wachstum ist der Motor unserer Wirtschaft, der die Gesellschaft vorantreibt und den Weg in die Zu­kunft bereitet. Umso wichtiger ist es, diesen Motor stetig zu warten und mit Treibstoff zu versorgen. Mit dem geplanten Wachstumschancengesetz schafft die Regierung einen neuen Antrieb. Ein Instrument, von dem vor allem kleine und mittelständische Betriebe profitieren können. Vereinfachungen des Steuersystems, Investitionsprämien und eine Ausweitung der Abschreibungsmethoden set­zen wichtige Impulse und erhöhen die Wettbewerbsfähig­keit deutscher Unternehmen.

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.

The book, Introduction to Corporate IT Security, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the complex and ever-evolving field of information security. The book is divided into eight chapters that cover various aspects of IT security and provide practical guidance on how to secure your organization's data and systems.

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.

Today’s companies have fewer hierarchical layers. The nature of work is also more virtual, collaborative, and transparent than at any previous time. Information flows move every which way, shifting from top-down to all-in. And the workforce is forever altered, too. Sweeping changes in expectations across backgrounds, experiences, generations, and gender are challenging long-held, inflexible beliefs about the relationship between work and life—and the very meaning of success.

In Corporate Ovations, Russ Peterson Jr. and Kevin Karschnik share with listeners the tools and techniques they've learned through their years of successful professional speaking experience. The book provides a roadmap that helps readers eliminate fear, anxiety and bad habits to become truly great, captivating speakers. It is an essential guide for any professional who wants to hone this essential communication skill. Listen to it, implement what you've learned and experience Corporate Ovations!

Many of us strive to be the best version of ourselves and realize our full potential. However, due to varying circumstances, we end up settling for a job that earns enough money to be comfortable, but doesn't fulfill our aspirations. In his book Side Adventure, Artin Nazarian draws on almost two decades of experience raising over four million dollars for startup ventures while simultaneously climbing the corporate ladder at Walt Disney Studios, becoming an executive before the age of 30.

Joan Kuhl helps women create a clear vision of what their career path deserves to be and make a convincing business case for equality to their managers and senior leadership. You'll learn strategies for overcoming sexist cultural attitudes about gender and leadership as well as for dealing with self-limiting behaviors like imposter's syndrome (the feeling that you're never good enough despite a track record of success) and the myth of meritocracy (the idea that just doing good work is the only way to advance).

Breakout author and alpha journalist Eddy Justice documents two years of life as a quantified corporate grunt servicing cellular networks. He parallels life on the job with the diminishing middle class, documenting the enforced processes and the subsequent breakdowns that enslave all of us both on the job and off - all while being told it will make your life easier and more profitable.

JACK CRIVALLE takes us on a matter-of-fact, step-by-step, emotional ride as to what takes place during a hostile corporate takeover. This one is personal, a Southwest Chicagoland thriving community newspaper, is ripped from his father’s control.

Learn the 25 keys to understanding how financial reporting and cash flow are essential tools to determining success or failure by evaluating strategic cost management, inventory control, pricing and product mix analysis, and cash management. Tracking & Controlling Costs is part of the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons.

In How Did You Get That Job?, 30-year corporate veteran Orlando Ashford explores the “tools and rules” one can use to help maximize their career journey. Drawing from his depth of experience and illustrating concepts with personal stories, Ashford walks the listener through the key elements of building a successful career, including: creating a career vision, taking calculated risks, delivering results, building a career community, a culture or one’s personal brand.

Mteto Nyati knew years ago as a schoolboy in Mthatha, working behind the counter at his mother’s trading store, that he wanted to fix and build things. After completing his studies in Mechanical Engineering at Natal University, he turned down a Rhodes scholarship and headed for Johannesburg to take up a position at Afrox. He was the only black engineer and the sole advice he received from his superiors was ‘don’t mess up’. He didn’t. Today Nyati is one of South Africa’s top CEOs, having steered Microsoft South Africa and MTN South Africa out of troubled times.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form and raked in millions at his office in downtown Boston. Ponzi’s Scheme is the amazing true story of the irresistible scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history–and uttered the first roar of the Roaring Twenties.

Peoplism is a revolution. It is radically altering the formation and functioning of business and society. This strategic management book analyzes the impact peoplism has on organizational success. It outlines the challenges facing business leaders in adjusting to the demands of a marketplace where commoditization and globalization continually erode margins.

Learning to Succeed insists that an integrated model for corporate education - one that links development programs with strategic goals - is critical to building agile and resilient learning organizations that will survive in our fast-evolving business landscape. Companies need to assess continually where they need to go in relation to where they are now - and use training to bridge the gap.

Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial analysts, brokers, and fund managers, making it hard to tell financial fantasy from reality, salesmanship from honest advice. In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt—former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission—shows how you can take matters into your own hands.