Engineering Business

The Dynamic Fire Chief: Principles for Organizational Management seeks to bridge the gap between service delivery (management of street level operations) and the executive-level management needed by a five-bugle-wearing CEO. Whether you lead a paid or volunteer department, the management skills needed to lead a successful department are the same.

Some of the most successful people in the microgreen industry are people who just started with a little container of microgreens that they intended to use for themselves.

The NFT marketplace has become so popular that the average NFT now sells for $3,257, according to NonFungible.com. In fact, the most expensive NFT picked up $91.8 million in 2021. But it’s not only the ease of selling attracting artists to NFTs. Or even the total control they have over their earnings.

Right now in America, there are about two million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: We’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar energy is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the home of the future.

In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as Concorde's black box recorder from the comfort of their own homes. Shirley empowered a generation of women in technology, giving them unheard of freedom to choose their own hours and manage their own workloads. The business thrived, and Shirley gradually transferred ownership to her staff, creating 70 millionaires in the process.

An homage to society's innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for listeners of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice-one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.

Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.

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.

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a focus on profits over people and the environment, but this approach to capitalism is no longer viable. We are at an inflection point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces.

Imagine a world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the Earth and better livelihoods in the developing world. Now, stop imagining - that world is already emerging.

The Apples, Amazons and Googles of the next few decades will be biotech companies. The tech companies of the last few years have changed how we do things but the businesses driving the biotech revolution are about making life better. These companies will solve many of our most intractable problems: cancer, dementia, diabetes, elderly care, mental health challenges, even power generation and agricultural production. The audiobook explains what biotech is, what is coming next, and in a final section, how interested investors can profit from it.

The Maker Movement represents a dramatic shift in the democratization of design and manufacturing. Advancements in new technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting are putting powerful tools once only available to large institutions like NASA in the hands of millions of people worldwide. This rapid pace of change opens up new possibilities that were never before imaginable, placing strong emphasis on resourcefulness as the path to technical competence.

Great engineers don't necessarily make great leaders—at least, not without a lot of work. Finding your path to becoming a strong leader is often fraught with challenges. It's not easy to figure out how to be strategic, successful, and considerate while also being firm. Whether you're on the management or individual contributor track, you need to develop strong leadership skills. This practical book shows you how to become a well-rounded and resilient engineering leader.

Explore today how to use Excel 2013! This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a truly effective user of MS Excel 2013. Here’s an inescapable fact: you will need to learn how to use MS Excel, because no matter what job or profession that you do, MS Excel spreadsheets can provide useful benefits for you - from creating household budgets to monitoring the sales targets of your department.

Space exploration is as much a story of leadership and teamwork as it is a story of exploration and discovery. Leadership Moments from NASA delves into the organizational culture, leadership styles, and insights of NASA senior executives spanning five decades of human spaceflight, to share the lessons they learned from critical moments where they took on seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Welcome to the SEO University, an online series of courses that have been prepared to help you hone your skills as a search engine mastermind. SEO Fundamentals, the first course in the SEO University, brings together a culmination of information across the field that will help you to lay the foundational framework for a successful career as a Search Engine Marketer.

Make better decisions with this easy deconstructed guide to data analytics. Want to add data analytics to your skill stack? Having trouble finding where to start? Cell-by-cell, bit-by-bit, this audiobook teaches you the vocabulary, tools, and basic algorithms to think like a data scientist. Like putting together a complex Lego set, each section connects and adds individual blocks of knowledge to build your data literacy. This linear structure to unpacking data analytics takes you from zero to confidently analyzing and discussing data problems.

Our planet is suffering from serious environmental problems: coastal flooding due to severe storms caused in part by atmospheric pollution, diminishing natural resources such as clean water, and so on. But while these problems plague planet Earth, two-thirds of our globe is ocean. The seas can be home to pioneers, seasteaders, who are willing to homestead the Blue Frontier. Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations.

This book will shift your mindset from entrepreneur to EXITpreneur. After all, the majority of all the money you’ll ever make from your business comes on the day you sell—so it’s important to get the exit right. In The EXITpreneur’s Playbook, Joe Valley shares his experience in all facets of exiting an online business through direct experiences and real-life examples, with clear math and logic.

There are some times in life where it is fun to not plan ahead. For example, a random day hanging out with friends or a spontaneous holiday trip to some new place. Web design, though, is not one of those times! If you leave your web design journey to chance, expect to fail. What this book covers is what I wish I knew when I first started web design. It is the big lessons that make a big difference.