Corporate Career

Of the world's 200 largest economies, more than half are corporations. They have more influence on our lives than any other institution, but while boards of directors are supposed to police CEOs and provide independent leadership, they have become enabling lapdogs rather than trustworthy watchdogs.

Bloodsport is the story of the creation of America's deal culture and the battle for control of America's corporations. Told through the fascinating, complex, and often flawed characters who created a new era, it begins as the '60s are ending, with the rise of the conglomerates, those vast assemblages of corporate assets. It rolls through the crisis-wracked '70s and the birth of the hostile deal then careens into the '80s, when the deal culture of mergers and acquisitions is truly unleashed.

Today's business environment poses unprecedented perils for the average American as for the first time ever, more than half of Americans now own stock. Identifying the problems of the past, Skeel offers a strikingly new diagnosis of the fundamental flaws in corporate America today, and of what can be done to fix them.

¿Estás buscando ideas para ir construyendo tu propio emprendimiento? Este libro es el que necesitas. Josh Dreken ha desarrollado un método que te permite ir construyendo un emprendimiento que si te funcione y poco a poco convertirte en tu propio jefe. Conoce los principios que van a ayudarte a ser un emprendedor de éxito. Podrás construir tu camino hacia la libertad financiera. No tienes que dejar tu trabajo al instante, dando pasos progresivos podrás sacar provecho a tu estatus actual al mismo tiempo que evolucionas. Este libro va a cambiar tu vida.

Do you crave success in your life? Think differently, grow rich, develop better personal relationships, move up the corporate ladder, sleep better, and fight mediocrity. Yes. This audiobook has everything you need in order to become a stable, successful human. You won't walk away from this audiobook without increasing your knowledge on a variety of topics and fueling your success that you crave. Listen to it and improve your life today. Not tomorrow, today.

Let’s be honest; the majority of the corporations we’re working for weren’t founded with us in mind. It is no secret how stressful, challenging, and difficult working in corporate America can be, especially for women of color. But guess what, Sis? You made it, and most of us had to fight really hard to get here. We’ve worked long hours, continued our education, moved across the country, and made countless sacrifices.

Accomplished leadership advisor Jenna Fisher reveals how the world faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity to close the gender gap at the top of organizations today. You'll discover how traits often held by women—including compassion, empathy, communication, mentorship, and collaboration—are now in high demand. And why, in this time of volatility and disruption, women are standing on the most solid foundation for success than ever before.

After years of business school education there were unimaginable lessons waiting for me in Corporate America. Here are 205 of them.

The Friendship Advantage provides practical ways to strengthen bonds that will improve employee productivity, happiness and well-being, as well as boost the bottom line through higher retention rates and a richer company culture.

Today, over half of the largest economies in the world are global businesses, controlled by few and impacting many. Business clearly has the power to change the world. But what if we, as individuals, had the power to change the world of business? For over a decade, Gib Bulloch led a corporate “guerrilla movement” within one of the world’s largest global consulting organizations. Against the odds, he created a not-for-profit inside one of the most profit-driven corporations in the world. Plaudits, prizes, and promotions followed.

Innovating Innovation! answers the trillion-dollar question, “What can large companies do to innovate as easily as their disruptive startup competitors?” Corporate executives will learn how they can catch up and unlock the same quick-to-market innovations startups use to rapidly disrupt whole industries.

The Purpose Upgrade provides a unique methodology to repurpose enterprises and revitalise the activities they engage in. It shows how by leaning into society's most pressing priorities, businesses can create more compelling benefits for customers, build more meaningful livelihoods for colleagues, and unlock superior returns for investors, putting all the stakeholders that an enterprise needs back on the same team.

Serving to Lead, is a brilliant "oeuvre" and provides leadership lessons relevant for every profession. It delivers a compelling personal narrative underpinned by tales of tenacity during adversity and resilience garnered from the battlefield, his time playing professional football, and the corporate world.

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.

Today’s professional women are tired of feeling pressured to lean in and have it all. Mainstream messages have turned our choice to pursue professional achievement into a directive. As a result, many of us are chasing after careers and accomplishments that we may not truly want, at the cost of our families, health, and happiness.

Marketing, at its core, is simply about storytelling. It's the ability to take consumers on an emotional journey that can relate to their needs and wants while, at the same time, establishing trust in the products and services that are being provided. Trust is an emotional response, and storytelling is the most essential element in establishing it. The JD methodology is about the ability to control the conversation with aligning brand and storytelling, which, in turn, establishes an emotional connection to all senses, whether the audience realizes it or not.

How to Sell in the 21st Century is for small business owner and entrepreneurs who would like to understand how to up date their marketing efforts to 21st century standards. Learn how to get more customers, make more sales, and, or build a brand understanding the new digital platform of social media. This audiobook can be your guide to teach you how to use and maximize these platforms to profit your business and be a contributor to social media and not just another consumer of social media.

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.

Authored by a 28-year-old corporate America veteran and entrepreneur, Bob Wallace, MBA, this newly published book delivers meaningful and useful tools to break out of what can feel like a hopeless cycle of dependence on our employers, all in an entertaining writing style and delivery. It is never too late to break out of the velvet handcuffs!

1976. A 22-year-old Japanese American woman enters the management ranks of a major corporation and encounters...just what you'd expect. Sexism. Misogyny. Racial bias. And she breaks barriers anyway. From the moment Elaine Koyama was hired as a management trainee at agri-business giant Cargill, Inc., she found herself entangled in the endless fight to wedge herself through the doors the women's movement opened.