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Since the year 2000, banks have been fined almost a third of a trillion dollars. Yet, every year billions more are imposed. Why? This book explains why banks break the law (it's not just the money), explains the challenges facing Compliance functions, considers that the majority of financiers don't want to do wrong, and puts forth a proposal to stop banks from harming customers.The lessons in this book are applicable to any business where profit motives can conflict with customer benefit-in short, every business. (And if you're interested in cryptocurrency, this book's for you too!)

This book will provide a concise and in-depth introduction to the structure, practices and market forces that impact the toy industry.

This book is designed to help small businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive world.People are one of the few remaining, reliable sources of sustainable, competitive advantage. Competitors will copy marketing strategies, and technology and process advantages will fade over time, but having the best people for your organization will turn customers into raving fans, allowing you to have a more enjoyable ride as you achieve your goals.Most business owners give lip service to the mantra that people are our greatest assets, but how many really grasp the deeper implications of this? After all, people are listed on income statements as an expense (payroll) but are nowhere to be found under assets on our balance sheets.This book provides the keys to unlock the fundamental elements of an organization that serve as the foundation for small businesses to perpetually attract and retain top talent-those who fit with the organization's culture and core values and who contribute to achieving the organization's goals.

Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur describes Harvey Morton's inspirational journey from being bullied at school, told by teachers that he would never succeed, to winning his first business award when he was fourteen years old. Later, becoming an Ambassador for Youth Employment UK, and going on to work with a long list of well-known brands including Sheffield Hallam University, Santander, and the BBC.The importance of being passionate about the career you choose and giving back when you can, to make a difference to others' lives, is highlighted. While continuing to work hard towards achieving your goals-irrespective of how many times you fail or become discouraged by negativity. Similarly, the necessity of assessing every risk you take, learning how to do what you need to, and not ignoring self-development. So that you can take advantage of opportunities, and eventually create your own.Until you truly are... an entrepreneur.The lessons in life and business which Harvey Morton shares in Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur are an essential first step on the path to success.

Listen, observe, test-these three words lie at the heart of a powerful method for businesses' transformation.Behind this method is a deceptively simple idea: managers and management scholars must first take the pulse of a real business, get its case history, diagnose its problems, and only then solve them. Invented by the scholars who launched Harvard Business School, this medical model will still cure companies today.Damningly, during the last thirty years business schools embraced the presumptions of economists, game theorists, and other calculators of abstraction. The solving of real-world, real-time problems has atrophied and stagnated. In this book, renowned scholar and emeritus professor Jay W. Lorsch marshals evidence, history, and insights from his more than fifty-year career at Harvard Business School to make the case for a return to the medical model-the practices of listening, observing, and testing in which the fields of human relations and organizational behavior are rooted.By telling the history of the development of his field, Lorsch demonstrates how the medical model emerged in the years before World War II and for decades helped managers, management scholars, and consultants diagnose and solve the problems besetting companies large and small. Explaining the case studies that define the practice, he discusses how the model has been refined and reapplied by later generations and how it can continue to address issues such as diversity, leadership, competition, and optimal corporate board structures.

Unleash your sales potential with The Sales Momentum Mindset. This transformative guide is the key to unlocking sustainable sales force motivation by doing something radical: ignoring motivation. Crafted for sales professionals and managers alike, it offers a fresh perspective on sales performance, designed to ignite production and guide teams towards unprecedented growth.Discover the power that comes from focusing on momentum instead of motivation, understand its impact on sales culture, and learn how to convert it into significant, lasting results. Gain insights into a new language and framework around momentum, presented in a down-to-earth narrative that will resonate with every level of sales experience.Authored by a seasoned sales veteran, the book's authentic stories and enlightening visuals reveal an innovative approach to sales performance management. Find what's achievable when you step away from obsolete motivational approaches, and instead cultivate a Momentum Mindset.No matter what you sell or your level of experience, The Sales Momentum Mindset is set to revolutionize your perception of sales and sales force management. Step into a new era of sales success. This is your manual for momentum-based sales transformation.

This book empowers individuals with practical knowledge to manage their financial wealth from their first job until retirement and beyond.The first main theme is investments and covers security types, investment strategies, and asset allocations for individual investors. The foundation for this theme is the magical behavior of investment returns across securities and time, and the concept of market efficiency.Next, the author details tax minimization, beginning with an understanding of how taxes deplete investment value. He then illuminates various tax loopholes and strategies that individuals can exploit, including: the use of tax-favored investment accounts, opportunistic trading, picking ETFs over mutual funds, gifting to bypass estate taxes.Lie also covers the many pitfalls in the world of wealth management. Several stem from investors' ignorance or irrational behavior, while others are concocted by financial institutions to fleece individual investors. Either way, the readers learn to avoid them.Other topics also discussed include: What types of insurance should individuals purchase?When should a mortgage be refinanced?And how can individuals avoid costly probate court for the estate?This book is useful for university courses on wealth management and for all individuals who want to secure their financial future. This includes you.

This book is useful for those seeking to learn about the history of market crises and individuals that want to learn about protection against downside risks for an investment portfolio.The purpose of this book is not to convince the reader to attempt to anticipate the timing of the next market crash, but rather for the reader to be able to draw parallels (and some contrasts) between the different crises in history. The book reviews case studies related to specific macroeconomic event triggers ranging from COVID-19 to hyperinflation.Readers will come away with extensive knowledge of different market crisis events spread across countries and timelines. The reader will be well versed on important macroeconomic topics such as the history of currencies. Perhaps most importantly, readers will feel better prepared to handle the next market catastrophe. Audiences such as business school students and those that are a part of organizations such as the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute will find this book of interest.

Leading from the Top is a journey through 90 years of American presidential history to glean lessons in issues management from those who dealt with the most complex issues, on the biggest stage and under the most intense scrutiny.Reading the book, you will learn why asking permission, reframing the issue, and knowing the length of your runway are all important components in successful issues management.This book uses history to build on common knowledge to accelerate recall of the concepts presented. It looks at fifteen presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden, and examines one issue each managed. Each chapter ends by assessing success or failure through the lens of issues management consulting and providing succinct lessons that readers can draw from and apply to conflict resolution, problem-solving and crisis management.Leading from the Top is written for both aspiring and seasoned leaders to learn about or refine their issues management approaches as well as the reader who is interested in a different way to assess our presidents. This said, the book is not written to be prescriptive on any of the issues presented, but simply to provide perspective and tools to use to do your own assessments going forward.

A massive paradigm shift in the world of work and the way we manage people. What's changing - everything!All of this has been brought about by several converging factors. The impact of COVID on how we work; causing a shift from where work is done. Recent significant changes in Artificial intelligence, Chat GPT and robotics will impact on every area of work worldwide - it's happening now.Predictably, fewer people are now required in the world of work; those with a potentially amazing career will be talented people who will be paid on what they do rather than what they know - a huge change.A new type of management. Inspirational leaders with a special skillset will be in high demand. Managers of the past are unlikely to have the skills or personality to get the best from the new breed of super employees.In this book we will look at all these issues and provide readers with the current facts, case studies form the world's leading companies, worked examples and most importantly practical advice on how to do it.

Here's how to make purposeful system change happen!The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through: Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.Three processes-connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!

The Essential Starting Point for Values-Driven InvestorsYou are passionate about the important issues facing our world: Climate change. Racial justice. Gender equality. And you do things to reflect those passions - volunteering, donating, voting, recycling. But there's an even more powerful way to advocate for what matters to you: Changing your investments.This book is perfect for individuals looking to make their first investments in "ESG" funds, which consider the Environmental, Social, and Governance aspects of the companies they invest in, as well as their financials. It contains useful and practical guidance on how to understand your choices in the rapidly expanding world of sustainable investing, and it offers concrete steps to invest in funds and companies that reflect your values.

What if you could adapt rapidly to change, design your destiny, plot your own North, systematically design the roads you wish to travel and go the distance-improving your health, your work, and your life?Change means that you will have to create habits, and as both individuals and organizations have found, this is an extremely challenging venture. You may feel that procedures and methods, allied with inspiration, willpower, and motivation will be enough, but the up and down nature of the latter qualities can lead to repeated failed attempts.For individuals, leaders, managers, or anyone who wishes to build or change habits and behaviors and acquire new competencies, the answer lies in Warp Speed Habits, a revolutionary brain-based strategic-tactical approach to creating habits and changing behaviors.Intersecting neuroscience and psychology, this guide leverages business management lessons at an individual level, promotes the development of a "habit mindset" and reshapes environmental contexts. In this quest, as you learn to design, build, and implement sustainable habits, you will travel to worlds and dimensions in different realms.Ready? Begin your first voyage, but make no mistake, as you execute missions in your travels to different worlds, do not illude yourself by biographies of overnight success-these are myths that blur the mindset of energy and resilience you will require.But with the Warp Speed Habits practical and pragmatical roadmap, you will overcome brain traps and obstacles along the way, and ultimately contribute to thriving behaviors that deliver results!

This book is for leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and all employees who desire to take their performance to a higher level.Do you have the Power Skillsneeded to achieve the level of success you desire? Power Skills are a top asset in today's ever-changing workplace. This book reveals Power Skills that promote accountability and how to think and act effectively for success.But this book does far more. It describes Power Skills that, if taught and nurtured to all employees of an organization or company, will result in the organization continuously and holistically evolving. Adopting these Power Skills can lead to exceptional performance both for individuals and for their organizations.Power Skills discussed include: break the rules occasionally, never avoid necessary confrontation, think for yourself, manage daily to your top three priorities, routinely practice boldness and courage, decide who you chose to be, be a good actor, and so much more.I welcome you to come along for a potentially transformative and game-changing ride in your personal pursuit of the adventure called life.

How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today's spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book will dissect how various aspects of our lives will be transformed in the years to come, with a particular focus on how to benefit from these emerging technologies. You will gain a 360 degree view by getting a historical perspective of technology because discussions about the future are seldom complete without history.The ongoing debate on whether technology will replace our jobs is causing great panic. However, failure to catch up to technology is guaranteed to be catastrophic. This book will provide a freight of the latest tech-driven trends to equip everyone to face the future, like a one-time software upgrade.Whether you are a student, a fresh graduate, a bewildered parent, or a tech enthusiast, this book offers everything you need to be ahead of the game. It will also help budding entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate professionals identify opportunities to incorporate the right tech into their businesses and be at the forefront of innovation.

Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China's unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country's swarming cities, recent economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent internet, confusing culture, and endless opportunities.This book is a rare insight into the way global firms select, relocate, manage, motivate, and reward top managers in the world's most populous market. CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior managers recall their careers since China's early 2000s reform period until a notable 2014 policy paper declared "the end of a golden age for foreign business in China", and beyond to the present day.Dragon Suit addresses crucial questions for international business: How did China become a key market for global firms?Why are most foreign managers unprepared for its challenges?Why did the country's near-million foreigners begin to leave in the mid-2010s, and who will replace them?Most importantly, how can managers, entrepreneurs, experts, and students prepare for an increasingly China-facing future in business?

Want happier, more successful project teams?Better-run meetings will help get you there. Project leaders are "get it done" people, so we often dislike, avoid, and/or fail to properly plan meetings. This practical guide to facilitating project meetings and building cohesive teams will enable you to make your sessions more productive!You'll learn: How improving traditional PM meetings and Agile events can greatly improve continuous team building, making you a better project leaderOvercoming challenges in managing conflict based on real-world stories from your fellow project leadersHow to deal with 'goblins' (e.g., Billy the Bully) who often derail your meetings.Aligned with PMI's PMBOK(R) Guide Seventh Edition, this book will help you deliver project success in today's hybrid work environment.

Living a Leadership Lifestyle is a different type of leadership book that approaches leadership from a unique perspective. Rather than focusing on specific leadership skills, this book argues that successful leadership begins by living leadership as a lifestyle and having leadership mindsets that guide decisions and behaviors daily.After describing his own leadership journey and personal leadership quest across continents and cultures, the author shares 13 key Insights for living a leadership lifestyle, including: Build and protect your personal leadership brand.Failure is opportunity in disguise.Be courageous and carve your own path.Living a Leadership Lifestyle is a pragmatic book demonstrating the characteristics of good leadership essential for aspiring leaders. By developing and harnessing the leadership mindsets shared, readers will self-administer a "tonic" for the challenges life brings nurturing the resilience, self-awareness, and courage required to help readers carve their own path to success.

At last: a concise, practical guide that shows managers how to create agility at the bargaining table through thoughtful planning and preparation in the weeks, months, and years before formal negotiations begin, and how to do that on top of your regular full-time job.Agility in labor agreement negotiations is the ability to recognize and respond in the moment to threats and opportunities, both anticipated and unexpected. Agility gives you the confidence to talk with a party you may or may not be able to trust and have a conversation the outcome of which will significantly impact your company and future collective bargaining agreements. Agility allows you to pivot.

Turbulence in recent years has become unprecedentedly wicked. Uncertainty has become a dense fog becoming for business leader's public enemy number one. This book uses scenario and other methods like systems thinking to see over the horizon and to time travel to the future. Written by an extremely experienced consultant who has in parallel been a strategy academic at leading business schools for over thirty years, this is a practical toolkit grounded in theory.The author provides exercises to try out and includes fascinating case studies to take the reader beyond "what happened and why?" to "how the process was managed and tips for applying it for yourself."This is a must-read for business leaders finding uncertainties giving them sleepless nights. For MBA students it will give them a different dimension for their thinking course work and projects - and a real edge over those trapped within a single view of the future.This is not just a journey but a new way of thinking.

Sports in the Pandemic Era chronicles the dramatic comeback of sports after the global pandemic forced lockdowns, border closures and quarantines.Following a near total shutdown in the spring of 2020, the sports industry rose to an exceptional challenge with discipline and innovation. This helped health experts understand how the rest of the world could adapt to the crisis.Sports in the Pandemic Era shares case studies of sports organizations that quickly implemented major changes to respond to pandemic challenges. The text also shows long-term changes that will impact the industry as the world recovers. It concludes with an inspiring look at the achievements of many athletes who overcame adversity and set impressive new records.

This book is an invitation to reflection, to critical thinking, to objectivity and to the liberty of accepting what is different.Ever since Homo Sapiens populated our world, our lives have been stories we tell to all those we are surrounded by every day as well as to unknown people through social media when we post the pictures of our vacations, pets, children and graduation or changes in our jobs. We buy brands that have a story we admire or those that are recommended by influencers because we are fascinated by their stories. This book is about you. It is the story of your past, your present and your future as you live in multicultural communities. Page after page, you see the story of humankind and of multiculturalism unfold and be explained through the lenses of science and storytelling.Multicultural Marketing is Your Story is thoroughly illustrated with real life examples. The ideas, theories and statements presented in this book will perhaps challenge some of your deepest beliefs or they might as well comfort you in your own opinions. Ultimately, this book is an invitation to reflection, to critical thinking, to objectivity and to the liberty of accepting what is different.

What do Disney Imagineering and nonprofit organizations have in common? More than you think!Although nonprofits are rarely known as creative powerhouses, we'll explore how to use the same principles that make Disney Imagineering the gold standard of imaginative thinking to transform your organization into an equally inventive and creative environment.The Nonprofit Imagineers explores how more innovation can happen at nonprofits, no matter how small the budget, how meager the staff, how tight the board oversight or how limited the time commitment. Using more than 100 real-life examples from theme parks, movies, and Walt Disney's life, you will come away inspired to experiment with Disney Imagineering principles such as blue-sky meetings, storytelling, creative intent, kinetics, plussing, and weenies. Yes, weenies.This book is perfect for employees, managers, board members and volunteers at schools, faith-based organizations, community centers and assorted other organizations of all sizes looking to use creativity to improve their programming, fundraising and relationship with their families, members, and donors.

In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity.This business development "guidebook" illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

What does platform thinking mean? It is the ability to put platform-based mechanisms at the core of digital business transformations in business.Digital platforms like Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Booking.com, and many others completely re-shaped the daily life of millions of users. However, many innovation leaders struggle to conceive the significance of their impact. Platform-based business models are not just the real of geeks' startups, digital services, and Unicorns.This book shows there that their potential in creating value is higher than suspected.Even though platform ecosystems are complex, readers will take on a journey to become platform thinkers. Their eyes will be trained to look beyond what's visible and start reading the platform world around them. Then, they will be guided into a step-by-step process and learn how to write a new platform model from scratch.This book is the result of a decade of research. It offers both a framework and practical instruments to champion digital transformation in any organization. It is specially intended for those who are interested in the glittering platform world and are still trying to figure it out.

The problems during COVID made everyone aware that today's global business environment relies on supply chains 24/7.Although most managers and executives are not chain experts, they must know and understand the key aspects of supply chain management to make the best daily decisions for their business. Many textbooks cover numerous details and theories about supply chains. However, it has been said that everything that is taught in business school is theory...until you must make payroll.Both authors have made payroll in various businesses. Thus, this text removes the details and is focused on an executive overview of the key aspects of Global Supply Chains that every businessperson needs to know to continually succeed in their business and make payroll.

Don't let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to: make yourself indispensable to your company, develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match, collaborate with robots, retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which traditionally safe careers and entire industries will no longer be safe in the future because of artificial intelligence. The author details why the changes caused by disruptive technology will be far greater and take place far faster than in previous industrial revolutions.This book offers several ways to cope with the introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to a company or organization as well as how to take advantage of the disruption likely to result from other new technologies including 3D printing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, green technologies, Big Data, blockchain, and nanotechnology.Still Room for Humans spells out the types of jobs long associated with well-paying careers that should be avoided because they are most likely to be eliminated by artificial intelligence. It lists several new jobs that don't exist yet but will be created shortly as new technologies become more prevalent.Schatt provides career planning information as well as specific advice for those readers already employed.

Do you want to start your own company?This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author's academic and business career.This book discusses: What are the successful characteristics of an inventor, entrepreneur, and a CEO?Understanding the vocabulary of the entrepreneur's ecosystem.What are the evaluation criteria for the team, product, business model & exit plan?Do consumers need or want your product?How to create the story that will fit the right investor for funding?Understanding the investor evaluation and screening process.Readers will learn how to ask the right questions to build a strong ecosystem with service providers, customers, and investors.If you want to be an entrepreneur, read this book. It is about the author's personal experiences as a scientist, an inventor, an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.