- Table View
- List View
The 12 Week MBA: Essential Management Skills for Leaders
by Bjorn Billhardt Nathan KracklauerBased on The 12-Week MBA by Abilitie, a business leadership program taught to professionals at global Fortune 500 companies, The 12-Week MBA offers practical tips for managers and aspiring business leaders.A business school MBA takes time and money. Yet with a laser focus on what matters most, there is an alternative way for aspiring business leaders to learn business essentials and to take charge in organizations.The 12-Week MBA offers a practical Mini MBA curriculum that gives all business leaders, regardless of their industry, function, or level, the core knowledge, skills and attitudes to effectively manage and lead. By uniquely focusing the two critical areas of leadership - managing numbers and leading people - this practical and engaging guide will inspire you to apply critical business thinking and a dynamic approach to value creation, people skills and decision making.Transform your business and your career in 12 weeks, a pace that gives you time to absorb ideas and test them through exercises or simulations, yet is significantly less time and cost than a traditional two-year MBA.Authors Bjorn Billhardt and Nathan Kracklauer are leaders of Abilitie, a global leadership development provider that has served over 100,000 learners in fifty countries, and whose clients include some of the world's most recognizable brands. Now you can master the key lessons from their 12-Week MBA curriculum and get ahead in today's new world of work.www12weekmba.com
The 12 Week Year
by Brian P. Moran Michael LenningtonThe guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.Explains how to leverage the power of a 12 week year to drive improved results in any area of your lifeOffers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectivenessAuthors are leading experts on execution and implementationTurn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.
The 12 Week Year Field Guide: Get More Done In 12 Weeks Than Others Do In 12 Months
by Brian P. Moran Michael LenningtonUpdate your thinking and avoid complacency with the 12 week year Are you ready to change your life? This hands-on template for implementing advice from the game-changing book The 12 Week Year is a study guide that makes it easy for anyone to apply the 12 week year to their own lives. Instead of getting bogged down in annualized thinking that produces pitfalls and saps productivity, follow along with this guide to redefine your “year” to be just 12 weeks long. By doing so, you’ll avoid complacency, begin to focus on what matters most, create better clarity, and develop a sense of urgency so that “now” is always the right time to act. Applicable to business growth, career goals, and life in general, the 12 week plan will help you improve in any—or every—area. By closing the “knowing-doing gap,” you’ll discover how to execute on what you already know and greatly expand the boundaries of your capabilities. Learn to: Create your personal and business visions with step-by-step tips Develop your own 12 week plan by applying what you know to what you do Put over 10 years of field-tested content, exercises, and templates to work for you Build a 12 week commitment and apply the system to your own life and business Take back your life, improve your thinking, and advance your business or career by implementing real-world, hands-on methods in The 12 Week Year Study Guide.
The 12 Week Year for Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting Your Writing Done
by A. Trevor Thrall Brian P. Moran Michael LenningtonPraise for The 12 Week Year for Writers“We writers are a peculiar bunch, so I am impressed how Trevor manages to bridge high-performance practices into our creative world and make it feel natural. This book will help practitioners of The 12 Week Year for Writers method feel in charge of their writing projects and make continuous progress. That is a remarkable feat.”—CHRISTIAN TIETZE, writer, app developer, and Zettelkasten zealotA Note From the Creators of The 12 Week Year “We wrote the first version of our New York Times bestseller, The 12 Week Year, in just 12 weeks using our own system. Since then, we’ve helped people and companies all over the world to unlock their capabilities and accomplish more. With this new book The 12 Week Year has been adapted specifically for the challenges of writers. If you are a student, a professional, a full time author, or you just love to write, this book is for you. Get it, study it, apply it, and you will cut months, (maybe even years), off the time it takes to produce your best work.”—Brian Moran and Michael Lennington, authors of The 12 Week Year
The 123s of ABC in SAP: Using SAP R/3 to Support Activity-Based Costing (Wiley Cost Management Series #Vol. 6)
by Dawn J. Sedgley Christopher F. JackiwIncorporate the Benefits of Activity-Based Costing into the Efficiencies of Your SAP R/3 System Given SAP's dominance in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market, many companies and their managers encounter SAP AG applications in some form or another. Many of these organizations have recognized the value of utilizing Activity-Based Costing/Management concepts to perform more accurate cost assignments or drive performance initiatives. Managers are then faced with trying to determine how Activity-Based Costing can be incorporated into the SAP environment. The 123s of ABC in SAP is the first book of its kind designed to help business managers understand the capabilities of the SAP R/3 business application to support Activity-Based Costing, Management, and Budgeting. Divided into three parts-the conceptual foundation, the capabilities of SAP ABC, and integration with other tools-the book provides readers with the following: An explanation of how Activity-Based Costing can be used with SAP Helpful hints for implementing ABC into SAP Insights into the most common difficulties and potential solutions when implementing ABC into SAP Summary tables that highlight key decisions to be made, implementation hints, and organizational challenges Detailed descriptions of SAP software applications to support the Activity-Based Costing approach as well as the integration of SAP R/3 with Oros software Examples of the tandem usage of Resource Consumption Accounting with Activity-Based Costing
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon JohnsonEven after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks--Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley--which together control assets amounting, astonishingly, to more than 60 percent of the country's gross domestic product, these financial institutions (now more emphatically "too big to fail") continue to hold the global economy hostage, threatening yet another financial meltdown with their excessive risk-taking and toxic "business as usual" practices. How did this come to be--and what is to be done? These are the central concerns of 13 Bankers, a brilliant, historically informed account of our troubled political economy. In 13 Bankers, Simon Johnson--one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in America (former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT, and author of the controversial "The Quiet Coup" in The Atlantic)--and James Kwak give a wide-ranging, meticulous, and bracing account of recent U.S. financial history within the context of previous showdowns between American democracy and Big Finance: from Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson, from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They convincingly show why our future is imperiled by the ideology of finance (finance is good, unregulated finance is better, unfettered finance run amok is best) and by Wall Street's political control of government policy pertaining to it. As the authors insist, the choice that America faces is stark: whether Washington will accede to the vested interests of an unbridled financial sector that runs up profits in good years and dumps its losses on taxpayers in lean years, or reform through stringent regulation the banking system as first and foremost an engine of economic growth. To restore health and balance to our economy, Johnson and Kwak make a radical yet feasible and focused proposal: reconfigure the megabanks to be "small enough to fail." Lucid, authoritative, crucial for its timeliness, 13 Bankers is certain to be one of the most discussed and debated books of 2010.From the Hardcover edition.
13 Fatal Errors Managers Make: And How You Can Avoid Them
by W. Steven BrownAre you guilty of... Being a buddy, not a boss? Never admitting that you are accountable? Managing different people in the same way? Failing to set common business goals? Trying to control your people instead of influencing their thinking with enthusiasm? These are just a few of the 13 fatal errors managers make. Errors that waste valuable time, money, and talent. This book will show you how to recognize problems—and avoid them—before they happen. Author Steven Brown, a nationally recognized professional trainer and consultant, provides the essential guide for effective managers and shows you how to get the best from your workers, your company—and yourself.
The 13 Key Performance Indicators for Highly Effective Teams
by Allam Ahmed George Siantonas Nicholas SiantonasAn organisation's most important asset is its people. And critical to an organisation's success is the extent to which its people interact effectively – both with each other as team members and with the wider organisation. This is why managing teams has become a key area for a growing number of organisations around the world. While many organisations are world-class at managing their materials and machinery, they fall short in managing the human side of their activities.This book outlines the challenges faced by both team leaders and team members in 21st-century workplaces. It proposes 13 key performance or "team health" indicators for highly effective teams based on research data collected from a large range of industry sectors, team sizes and organisations in the UK. It contributes to the understanding of the nature and functioning of team cohesiveness by describing teamwork as a multi-component variable and identifying the factors that impact on teams and the implications of teamwork for organisations.The book sets out to aid organisations by introducing a Team Performance Diagnostic (TPD) tool. The TPD enables organisations to gain an accurate and detailed insight into the real-time performance of their teams, helps team managers to understand the underlying 'people' issues within the team and how to reach higher levels of team performance quickly. The TPD has been widely used in major multinationals and the UK public sector to pinpoint hard-to-find opportunities to achieve rapid improvements.The research suggests that the use of TPD contributes to more free-flowing feedback both within the team and in the organisation as a whole, and that successful teams are indicative of a healthy organisational culture.This book is an essential guide for senior managers and policy-makers dealing with team effectiveness, and will be highly useful for students of business and management.
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success
by Amy Morin"Kick bad mental habits and toughen yourself up."—Inc.Master your mental strength—revolutionary new strategies that work for everyone from homemakers to soldiers and teachers to CEOs.Everyone knows that regular exercise and weight training lead to physical strength. But how do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we do when we face these challenges? Or as psychotherapist Amy Morin asks, what should we avoid when we encounter adversity? Through her years counseling others and her own experiences navigating personal loss, Morin realized it is often the habits we cannot break that are holding us back from true success and happiness. Indulging in self-pity, agonizing over things beyond our control, obsessing over past events, resenting the achievements of others, or expecting immediate positive results holds us back. This list of things mentally strong people don't do resonated so much with readers that when it was picked up by Forbes.com it received ten million views.Now, for the first time, Morin expands upon the thirteen things from her viral post and shares her tried-and-true practices for increasing mental strength. Morin writes with searing honesty, incorporating anecdotes from her work as a college psychology instructor and psychotherapist as well as personal stories about how she bolstered her own mental strength when tragedy threatened to consume her.Increasing your mental strength can change your entire attitude. It takes practice and hard work, but with Morin's specific tips, exercises, and troubleshooting advice, it is possible to not only fortify your mental muscle but also drastically improve the quality of your life.
13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do: Own Your Power, Channel Your Confidence, and Find Your Authentic Voice for a Life of Meaning and Joy
by Amy MorinIn the time of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, international bestselling author and leading global expert on mental strength Amy Morin turns her focus to feminism, explaining what it means—and what it takes—to be a mentally strong woman.The emergence of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have awakened society and encouraged women to find their voice and claim their power. But to do this, women must learn to improve their own mental strength. Contending with a host of difficult issues—from sexual assault on college campuses, to equal pay and pay gaps, to mastering different negotiation styles—demands psychological toughness. In this crucial book, prominent psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker Amy Morin gives women the techniques to build mental muscle—and just as important, she teaches them what not to do. What does it mean to be a mentally strong woman? Delving into critical issues like sexism, social media, social comparison, and social pressure, Amy addresses this question and offers thoughtful, intelligent advice, practical tips, and specific strategies and combines them with personal experiences, stories from former patients, and both well-known and untold examples from women from across industries and pop culture. Throughout, she explores the areas women—and society at large—must focus on to become (and remain) mentally strong. Amy reveals that healthy, mentally tough women don’t insist on perfection; they don’t compare themselves to other people; they don’t see vulnerability as a weakness; they don’t let self-doubt stop them from reaching their goals. Wise, grounded, and essential, 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do can help every woman flourish—and ultimately improve our society as well.
The $13 Trillion Question
by David WesselWhat is the best way for the U.S. Treasury to finance the federal government's huge debt?Everyone talks about the size of the national debt: now at $13 trillion and climbing. Few talk about how the Treasury does the borrowing, even though it is one of the world's largest borrowers. Yet everyone from bond traders to the home-buying public is affected by the Treasury's decisions about whether to borrow short or long term and what types of bonds to sell to investors.In The $13 Trillion Question, Harvard's Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, Joshua Rudolph, and Larry Summers argue that the Treasury could save taxpayers money and help the economy by borrowing more short term and less long term. They also argue that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve made a huge mistake in recent years by rowing in opposite directions: while the Fed was buying long-term bonds to push investors into other assets, the Treasury was doing the opposite--selling investors more long-term bonds. The Hoover Institution's John Cochrane joins the discussion by suggesting a series of new and innovative ways for Treasury to finance the debt.Each chapter of The $13 Trillion Question includes responses from a variety of public and private sector experts on how the Treasury does its borrowing. Larry Summers offers concluding comments with a call for the policy community to pay greater attention to debt management. "Debt management is too important to leave to the debt managers," he says.
The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages its Debt
by David WesselThe underexamined art and science of managing the federal government's huge debt. Everyone talks about the size of the U. S. national debt, now at $13 trillion and climbing, but few talk about how the U. S. Treasury does the borrowing-even though it is one of the world's largest borrowers. Everyone from bond traders to the home-buying public is affected by the Treasury's decisions about whether to borrow short or long term and what types of bonds to sell to investors. What is the best way for the Treasury to finance the government's huge debt? Harvard's Robin Greenwood, Sam Hanson, Joshua Rudolph, and Larry Summers argue that the Treasury could save taxpayers money and help the economy by borrowing more short term and less long term. They also argue that the Treasury and the Federal Reservemade a huge mistake in recent years by rowing in opposite directions: while the Fed was buying long-term bonds to push investors into other assets, the Treasury was doing the opposite-selling investors more long-term bonds. This book includes responses from a variety of public and private sector experts on how the Treasury does its borrowing, some of whom have criticized the way the Treasury has been managing its borrowing.
130 Keywords Europa
by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbHVon Assoziierungsabkommen über EU-Krise bis zu Zollverein: Begriffe zum Thema Europa zeichnen sich durch unzählige Fachtermini und Abkürzungen aus. Das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk eignet sich für den ersten schnellen Überblick. In 130 übersichtlichen Schlüsselbegriffen werden unter anderem grundlegende Konzepte, Institutionen und Abkommen erläutert. Die Erklärungen sind kompakt und verständlich formuliert und bieten Basiswissen für alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg in das Thema Europa suchen, einzelne Begriffe nachschlagen oder ihr vorhandenes Wissen auffrischen möchten.
130 Keywords Europa
by Springer Fachmedien WiesbadenVon Assoziierungsabkommen über EU-Krise bis zu Zollverein: Begriffe zum Thema Europa zeichnen sich durch unzählige Fachtermini und Abkürzungen aus. Das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk eignet sich für den ersten schnellen Überblick. In 130 übersichtlichen Schlüsselbegriffen werden unter anderem grundlegende Konzepte, Institutionen und Abkommen erläutert. Die Erklärungen sind kompakt und verständlich formuliert und bieten Basiswissen für alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg in das Thema Europa suchen, einzelne Begriffe nachschlagen oder ihr vorhandenes Wissen auffrischen möchten.
132 Career Tips for Women
by Melody R Green<p>If it's been a while since you looked for a new job the chances are the job market has changed while you've been employed. <p>To keep ahead of the rest it's wise to have the best tips for the process at your finger tips and <i>132 Career Tips for Women<i> e-book gives you these. <p>No matter if you are a first time job hunter, looking to change industry sectors, re-entering the workforce, consolidating your career or enhancing your direction <i>132 Career Tips for Women</i> has been written with you in mind. <p>The better you understand what motivates a boss when hiring staff, or know the tips that help you engage better with time poor recruiters, the easier your job process will be. This knowledge will build your self-confidence by allowing you to appreciate what you have to offer a prospective employer. <p>Filled with practical tips and strategies let <i>132 Career Tips</i> for Women help you make your next career move and see the difference.</p>
1366 Technologies
by David Kiron Joseph B. Lassiter Ramana NandaJust months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming a successful equipment supplier. But, the latter was much less capital intensive and perhaps a less operationally risky approach. For van Mierlo and Sachs, the question - "What kind of company should 1366 become?" - was back on the table.
1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture
by David Kiron Evan Richardson Joseph B. Lassiter Ramana NandaFor some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market entry dramatically by partnering with the Asian manufacturers that had begun to dominate the world-wide solar industry. While accelerated growth was attractive to 1366 and its current investors, the company believed that it would face considerable risks if it were to expose its intellectual property to the "wrong" partners. 1366 had no intention of losing control of its technology, but given the pace of innovation and the active role of governments in the solar industry, van Mierlo and Sachs feared this might not be a race that could be won by the cautious.
1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture (B)
by Joseph B. Lassiter Ramana NandaSupplement to case 811076.
14 Ways to Overcome Burnout: A Portion from The Well-Balanced World Changer
by Sarah CunninghamWhen Sarah Cunningham was in her twenties, she was ready to change the world, full of energy, passionate about her work, and really, unstoppable. Or so she thought. But in trying to change the world, we all encounter opposition—people who don&’t understand our cause, problems that we can&’t solve, frustration we don&’t know how to handle. Eventually, the passion we once had starts to burn out. And so do we. Sarah, still trying to change the world in her thirties, has encountered the burnout that comes with great dreams. But she also knows that burnout can be overcome. As a friend and experienced advisor, Sarah talks through 14 truths (pulled from her book The Well-Balanced World Changer) that will help us get beyond burnout and back to a place where we can pursue our dreams in a healthy way. Moody Collective Portions are short pieces of content taken from our full-length books. Our goal is to introduce our readers to a complete idea in a brief, concise, and inexpensive format. Most portions will take about 20 minutes to read.
14 Ways to Overcome Burnout: A Portion from The Well-Balanced World Changer
by Sarah CunninghamWhen Sarah Cunningham was in her twenties, she was ready to change the world, full of energy, passionate about her work, and really, unstoppable. Or so she thought. But in trying to change the world, we all encounter opposition—people who don&’t understand our cause, problems that we can&’t solve, frustration we don&’t know how to handle. Eventually, the passion we once had starts to burn out. And so do we. Sarah, still trying to change the world in her thirties, has encountered the burnout that comes with great dreams. But she also knows that burnout can be overcome. As a friend and experienced advisor, Sarah talks through 14 truths (pulled from her book The Well-Balanced World Changer) that will help us get beyond burnout and back to a place where we can pursue our dreams in a healthy way. Moody Collective Portions are short pieces of content taken from our full-length books. Our goal is to introduce our readers to a complete idea in a brief, concise, and inexpensive format. Most portions will take about 20 minutes to read.
140 Characters
by Dom SagollaMake the most of your messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites The advent of Twitter and other social networking sites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form communication an everyday reality. But expressing yourself clearly in short bursts-particularly in the 140-character limit of Twitter-takes special writing skill. In 140 Characters, Twitter co-creator Dom Sagolla covers all the basics of great short-form writing, including the importance of communicating with simplicity, honesty, and humor. For marketers and business owners, social media is an increasingly important avenue for promoting a business-this is the first writing guide specifically dedicated to communicating with the succinctness and clarity that the Internet age demands. Covers basic grammar rules for short-form writing The equivalent of Strunk and White's Elements of Style for today's social media-driven marketing messages Helps you develop your own unique short-form writing style 140 Characters is a much-needed guide to the kind of communication that can make or break a reputation online.
1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?
by Anat Keinan Hannah H. Chang Sandrine CrenerCase
14th WCEAM Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
by Adolfo Crespo Márquez Dragan Komljenovic Joe Amadi-EchenduThis book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Singapore on 28–31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of Covid-19 on infrastructure systems.This book covers a wide range of topics in engineering asset management, including:asset management services provisioning;servitization;decision-making;asset management systems;industrial Internet of things; andvulnerability and resilience of infrastructure systems. The breadth and depth of these state-of-the-art, comprehensive proceedings make them an excellent resource for asset management practitioners, researchers and academics, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.
15 casos de éxito probado. Cómo la actitud de las empresas nos ayuda a superar los momentos de crisis.
by Giuseppe TringaliQuince estrategias de éxito en tiempos de crisis que te enseñarán a superarte y a descubrir al empresario que hay en ti. En un momento tan complicado como el actual, cuando el pesimismo parece ser la nota dominante, es vital tener una actitud positiva ante los grandes retos del mercado. Una visión positiva y realista a la vez puede infundirnos la motivación necesaria para lanzarnos a plantear nuevos objetivos, innovar y reinventarnos. Esa es la clave para reactivar nuestra economía. Es posible salir de la crisis y por ello es necesario que descubramos en estos 15 + 1 casos de éxito empresas que con ingenio, creatividad y motivación han sabido ver en la crisis una oportunidad y han salido beneficiadas y fortalecidas. Jazztel, Hyundai, Coca-Cola, Telepizza o McDonald's, entre otras, son algunas de las empresas que ante las incertidumbres marcadas por la bajada del consumo y los cambios financieros en los mercados han mirado con ojos nuevos la realidad y han sabido adaptarse a ella e innovar. Giuseppe Tringali, presidente de Publiespaña y consejero delegado de Mediaset España, ha entrevistado con el rigor y la propiedad de un periodista y con la visión de empresario a los directivos y a los emprendedores de mayor éxito -porque detrás de las empresas hay personas que sufren con las incertidumbres, que se superan a diario-, y gracias a un estilo divulgativo e inspiracional nos sumerge en el apasionante mundo de la actividad empresarial para ofrecernos un mensaje claro: podemos reinventar nuestro futuro. Sólo necesitamos tener iniciativa. Comentarios:«Conocí a Giuseppe Tringali hace tiempo, cuando acababa de llegar a España, pero nuestra relación se estrechó cuando me contó el proyecto que estaba poniendo en marcha: dar visibilidad al mundo de los empresarios, a su complejo y apasionante diario de problemas y de búsqueda de soluciones. Y no sólo eso sino que además les ponía ojos y boca, presentando a las personas que hay detrás de cada una de las empresas escogidas».Mónica de Oriol e Icaza presidenta de Secot y del Círculo de Empresarios «Nuestro modelo económico y social está experimentando una transformación de profundo alcance, y no es predecible cuáles de sus elementos experimentarán disyunción o continuidad ni tampoco cuándo las circunstancias volverán a un equilibrio relativo. No obstante, estas circunstancias de crisis y de mudanza son también las propicias para generar múltiples oportunidades de negocio, de emprendimiento, aunque las empresas peor preparadas y menos competitivas correrán el riesgo de menguar o desaparecer»Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño decano de IE Business School