Process Management

Turning your great idea into reality always feels like the most difficult step in getting your start-up off the ground - until you realize that nobody beyond your family and close friends knows about your amazing product or service. This difficult lesson evades many aspiring entrepreneurs: The success of your startup is limited by the number of potential customers who know about it.

El Método Misión presenta un enfoque inédito que, de un modo muy práctico y sencillo, nos permitirá identificar los procesos de una empresa, definir los resultados esperados y evaluar su capacidad para alcanzarlos. Una obra na- rrada, con exposiciones teóricas y aplicaciones prácticas dentro de una histo- ria amena, compacta, y bien estructurada que no os dejará indiferente.

After revolutionizing the digital desk-log and then running some of the best performing dealerships in the country, Philip Cheatham returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your dealership and accelerate your path to a top-performing store. No matter your product, your dealership size, or how well you're operating, this book will provide the processes to help you achieve your sales goals more rapidly than you ever thought possible. 

Almost every major company today has made innovation its number one priority. Yet fewer than one in four executives believe their organizations are effective innovators. The pressure to innovate and the price paid for failure keeps rising while most companies haven't progressed at all. They are still using the same antiquated techniques pioneered decades ago. This is why some of the biggest corporations in the world manage to lose entire markets to start-ups they've never heard of.

If you're a business leader, you already know that Lean Six Sigma is one of the most popular and powerful business tools in the world today. You also probably know that implementing the process can be more than a little challenging. This step-by-step guide shows you how to customize and apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to your own organizational needs, giving you more options, strategies, and solutions than you'll find in any other book on the subject.

Discover four steps to permanently eliminate distractions and focus on your goals in the long-term. How do you feel about investing years of your life into achieving an important goal - your time, energy, money, blood, sweat, and tears - only to give up and throw it all away? If you constantly switch your attention from one thing to another, dabble in multiple projects, and give up on your goals whenever things get hard, you'll eventually fail - absolutely guaranteed!

An innovation expert illuminates why your power to make a difference is no longer bound by your status. In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world.

The Leadership Challenge, the most trusted source on becoming a better leader, has been thoroughly updated and revised for a new generation of leaders living and working in a global environment. Building on the knowledge base of the previous books, this fourth edition is grounded in research and presents extensive interviews with a diverse group of leaders at all levels in a wide variety of organizations from around the world. The authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are not a fad.

From the president of EMILY's List, a playbook for women changing the world in politics, business, or any arena, with a foreword from Vice Presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris. Run to Win is for all women who are looking to lead. Organized around the steps that EMILY's List coaches its candidates through (from deciding to run through celebrating victory), this book is full of essential lessons for any woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated field. Their arena is politics but their message is universal.

Whether you’re an assistant or a solo agent, the administrative side of real estate requires you to be a dozen different people all at once. In Admin, veteran coach and real estate consultant Brian Icenhower shares strategies, tools, and techniques that will help you master the many components of this demanding but rewarding role. Admin teaches you everything you need to do your job so agents are free to focus on their job - generating, nurturing, and converting leads.

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approach? Does Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetings? Is your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usual? The missing piece is the Agile mindset - the thinking that makes Agile processes work.

The extraordinary breakthrough management program - heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal - that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results. Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works.

In Thinking about Leadership, Nannerl Keohane draws on her experience as the first woman president of Duke University and former president of Wellesley College, as well as her expertise as a leading political theorist, to deepen our understanding of what leaders do, how and why they do it, and the pitfalls and challenges they face.

Worried about another looming slump? Employ the kaizen ideology today to establish a successful “continuous improvement” mechanism in your business to save it and see dramatic improvements! If you’ve always wanted to increase productivity in your business and maintain the quality of products and services through a sustainable, continuous improvement of processes and products involving the lean and agile startup team, this book is for you.

Do you want to be slim, healthy and fit? Are you over 40 and confused about what your exercise plan should look like? Are you discouraged and ready to give up? If so, Strength Training for Life is the perfect book for you! This book will teach you everything you need to know about weight lifting and muscle building for achieving your body's natural potential. It will show you exactly how often and at what pace to exercise and help you design a personalized fitness plan that will show real, visible results!

Predicting Success is a practical guide to finding the perfect member for your team. By applying the principles and tools of human analytics to the workplace, you'll avoid bad culture fits, mismatched skillsets, entitled workers, and other hiring missteps that drain the team of productivity and morale. This book provides guidance toward implementing tools like the Predictive Index®, behavior analytics, hiring assessments, and other practical resources to build your best team and achieve the best outcomes.

This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces.

Data science is the application of a combination of mathematical, statistical, analytical, and programming skills for the collection, organization, and interpretation of data to allow effective and proper management of the business whose data it is. It is a field where one should be trained and practiced. Without proper training and applicative skills, one cannot be as successful as a data scientist. There is a lot to learn about various data science tools and techniques. Getting certified will not only help you hone your skills but also will confirm your future as a data scientist.

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.

Negotiations may be complex; negotiating is not! Creating options and choosing which to pursue (and how to pursue them) is what distinguishes the skilled and effective negotiator from the less successful one. This book provides both the tools and the analytical framework to identify and pursue one’s options, achieve better results, and improve your negotiation skills.