Future Business

In this audiobook, Jonathan Wilson, a Generation X leader with substantial experience in both the public and private sectors, shares a new leadership model that leaders can start implementing right away to effectively counter the forces of the generations and technology.

The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you’re looking for job security, growth and acceleration in a radical new workforce, then Future Fit is the place to start. Award-winning author Andrea Clarke shares her experience, expertise and tactical advice on how to become truly future fit.

Wanted - A New Career is the definitive guide to help you leverage your skills from your current/previous job, and transition them to the new job or career of your dreams, even if you have never done the new job before.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays; rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare-state programs.

There is a deep instinct inside of people that many times is latent and undeveloped or has even gone dormant. Coach Micheal Burt calls this instinct PREY DRIVE. An animal has a prey drive, which is the animal's instinct to stalk, capture, and pursue its prey. Prey Drive in humans, as defined by Coach Burt is a person's instinctual ability to see something with the eyes or in the mind and to have the persistence and intensity to pursue it.

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

From the birth of modern industry, to winning WWII, to Japan’s Economic Miracle, W. Edwards Deming helped shape some of the most profound moments in modern history. Deming, an American engineer and statistician, is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of quality management. But his teachings go beyond quality management; they influence not only how we work today, but also how we can continue to succeed into the future.

Technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. By combining the latest insights from organizational science, sociology, and psychology, he illuminates four imperatives that all radically collaborative organizations must embrace in order to succeed: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency gratification, and candid vulnerability.

The Future of Work Now is more than a guide. It's a roadmap for understanding and navigating the changes sweeping across workplaces worldwide. It's an essential listen for business leaders, HR professionals, and employees who are navigating these changes, offering insights, case studies, and practical strategies for adapting to the evolving world of work. As we stand at the crossroads of a new work era, this book serves as a beacon, illuminating the path to a future where AI and hybrid models redefine what it means to work and succeed.

In Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws, renowned strategy consultants and best-selling authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach deliver an insightful exploration of how people tend to act tentatively in the face of uncertainty and provide the tools we need to do things differently.

Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You provides listeners with a detailed strategy on how to turn working from home into a powerful career choice. Author and Salesforce executive Karen Mangia teaches listeners how to: build the future of work in any kind of space: ideas for your home office that fit anywhere; create personalized time management routines designed specifically for remote productivity, impact, and balance - even while wearing your sweatpants; deal with Zoom fatigue; and more.

Over the past five years, organizations adopted Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams in droves. Think of COVID-19 as pouring gasoline on the fire. The pandemic didn't start a trend, as much as it accelerated an existing one. Unfortunately, far too many of us mistakenly view these applications as Email 2.0. As a result, we are missing out on extraordinary opportunities to create more collaborative work environments, increase organizational transparency, reduce manual work, make our work lives less stressful, simplify core business processes, and much more.

Today's firms need a social effort that is serous and impactful to be relevant. It's not enough to make a commitment to reduce energy or have an ad hoc unbranded budget for grants and volunteering the world needs their resources and agility to address existential threats in society, and their customers (and employees) demand it.

There’s not just one way to get there, and it’s also not only for those who get straight as in school. Your kid literally doesn’t need to have a certain background or skill set. No, it isn’t a dream - it’s today’s reality! Finally, over 47 ways to get started with making some extra cash at a very young age - watch your kid have fun and understand more about money management so that they’re ready for future success.

From a businessman who is extraordinarily humble yet is considered one of the world's most visionary, The First Billion Is the Hardest is both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global energy and natural-resource wars - of vital interest to anyone who has a stake in America's future.

Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.

In 2015, when Mohammad Alardhi became the executive chairman of Investcorp, a leading global manager of alternative investments, he arrived with a transformative mindset that would set the company on a path to unprecedented growth. Within three years of Alardhi taking control of the company, their wealth management grew from $10B to $25B, and three years after that, it had grown to a remarkable $42B. After seven years under Alardhi’s leadership, Investcorp was managing an astounding $50B in wealth. Alardhi speaks candidly about the big thinking needed to succeed at such a large scale.

Do you want to boost your success and well-being, while finding greater fulfillment and purpose in your life and work? Do you want to increase your influence and connection with people, and enjoy a more meaningful life? You can achieve this, and so much more, through the power of Lift. In Lift Your Impact, Richard Newman shares the groundbreaking communication techniques that can help you gain the results and respect you deserve.

Current global trends are bleak: weak economic growth, too much debt, declining incomes for the lower 99 percent, a dangerous addiction to fossil fuels, and ecological destruction - just to name a few. Many of us understandably feel resigned to an eroding standard of living in the years to come. At best. But what if we told you that there are specific attainable steps you can take today that can limit your vulnerability to these trends and help you be richer, healthier, and happier?