Management Consulting

1000 Tips and Tools for Small Business Success is a compact, informative guide for small business owners and managers. Written by an expert business consultant, this handy volume provides helpful advice for all areas of managing a business. If you need answers to your HR, marketing, and operation management needs, you will find them here.

Now a number one international best seller! Half of all new businesses in the US and UK fail within five years. They fail for various reasons, but the main issue is that business owners either don’t face up to their problems at all or when they do, it’s too late. Face It & Fix It is a must-listen audiobook for owners of struggling small businesses; those who don’t have a moment to lose before disaster strikes and their business is lost. It is a hard-hitting and easy-to-understand guidebook that explains how any small business can be transformed into a success.

John Brekke is one of the nation's most veteran executive coaches. He has worked with the top executives in some of the world's most prestigious companies including 3M, General Growth Properties, Pfizer, Wells Fargo, Cigna, and Honeywell. But this was not always so. John spent much of his youth working on a farm in Northern Minnesota plowing, seeding, and bailing hay. Under the tutelage of his Uncle George he learned about more than just farming, he learned about life.

If you are a professional expert - a consultant, adviser, coach, accountant, lawyer, medical practitioner, or in any other field where your income relies on your advice, your experience, and your expertise - you are about to learn how you could be approaching potential new clients as a published author and expert in your field in as little as 45 days.

This audiobook will provide you with advice, tools, and methods to best utilize your time and thereby live your life to the fullest extent! Don’t let your life pass you by only to catch you regretting the lost time in your winter years. Be the master of your time. This audiobook will help you increase productivity, save time, and organize your life so that you can do the things that you want to do instead of what other people want you to do!

The job of a product manager is made even more difficult by the simple fact that it really does not come with any clear instructions on how to do it correctly. As product managers we are constantly searching for ways to become better. One of the things that every product manager quickly realizes is that their career success is very closely tied to the financial success of their product.

"Change" is what has remained perpetual since the history of civilization. As arduous as it may sound, one cannot deny that change is inevitable. Sometimes, it takes the form of a boom, and sometimes chaos in disguise. This book will elevate your critical thinking by analyzing the challenges that a “change agent” deals with in bringing transformation in an organizational setup that is resistant to a fresh approach.

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for business owners, HR professionals, and others who are responsible for the human resource function within their organizations. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, The Golden Rules of Human Resource Management is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

日本の会社の99％以上を占める中小企業。その中でも小規模企業のIT化は遅れている。IT化の遅れの大きな要因としてIT投資不足と経営者のITへの認識不足がある。

Many people wonder through life without knowing their real purpose. They skip from job to job hoping to stumble into something they like, or can at least handle. There's no need to continue living like this. This book is here to help you learn how to do just that.

Ratgeberhörbücher zum Thema Projektmanagement gibt es viele - aber nicht das Wissen allein hilft uns weiter, sondern das Tun ist das Entscheidende! Dieses Hörbuch ist genau richtig für alle diejenigen, die praktische, umsetzbare Tipps und Ratschläge für ihren Alltag suchen. Dabei ist es völlig egal, ob es sich um ein privates Projekt handelt, oder ob man im Beruf an einem komplexen Projekt beteiligt ist und es eventuell gar leitet. Machen ist Macht benennt die Voraussetzungen für den Erfolg und zeigt gleichzeitig die Werkzeuge auf, die für ein erfolgreiches Projektmanagement unbedingt notwendig sind.

If your business is not earning profits you will soon be out of business. In The Profit Machine, author Larry Earnhart shows you what it takes to turn your business into a profit making machine. Find out how to put Profit as the goal of your business driving all other aspects of your operation. Learn how to transform your business into the business you always dreamed it could be.

Confidence is a significant life skill necessary to achieving any level of personal or professional success. Yet confidence is often an elusive characteristic. Most people believe that you are born with confidence - either you have it, or you don't. Lack of confidence holds many people back from even trying to reach their goals or achieve their dreams. What if there was a way for you to build your confidence? What if you could learn how to believe in yourself so you could leverage all your skills and talents? What if you could make a difference in your community or become a leader within your organization?

Influence and Lead is a surefire field guide for individuals and teams, genuine and proven! Do you know whom to address in an important presentation? Do you talk back at the people sitting in the last rows? I am sure you do! Is it a mistake? Listen to this audiobook and know the answer!

Las directrices e ideas de este libro son el resultado de mi amplia experiencia en la gestión de proyectos. He gestionado, implementado y entregado con éxito innumerables proyectos, incluyendo complejos proyectos globales basados en infraestructuras. Como gerente, he supervisado planes nuevos y de modificación utilizando recursos on-shore, offshore y de terceros.

The guidelines and ideas in this audiobook are a result of my extensive project management experience. I have successfully managed, implemented, and delivered countless projects, including complex global infrastructure-based projects. I am proud to say that I have been at the coalface of project management, and now I want to impart my wealth of knowledge to you, the listener of this audiobook, looking to seek useful and practical help in the realm of project management.

Simply put, leadership is about influence. In five practical steps, this book leverages proven leadership theory and personal accounts to unveil how you can become an everyday leader. Effective leadership begins with understanding that every leader is different, and every day is unique. Being a leader day in, day out requires embracing your personal leadership style and understanding the theory behind the practice.

Waterfall methodology is part of the linear, scope-driven lifecycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command-and-control organization, it is highly prescriptive. Almost all organizations using the methodology have a similar set of processes, mostly based on the PMBOK (more on that later).

Ever hire someone who seemed to be rock star in the interview only to find them substandard on the job? It happens frequently. Most managers have never received any formal training or instruction in how to structure an interview or how to select the best qualified candidate. This book introduces a four-step process, EPIC Interviewing, that provides hiring managers with a rock-solid roadmap making great selection decisions.

Over the past 25 years, more than 100 companies that were failing, not making enough money, or simply struggling to achieve their true potential, turned to David Lord to learn how to make their businesses work better, make more money, and generate additional cash. David showed them how to transform their businesses’ systems of work into visual ones, resulting in improved employee involvement, quality, productivity, and profitability. Now, David’s audiobook shows exactly what he does to change struggling businesses into thriving ones, by employing the "Visual System of Work".