Career Planning

Accomplished entrepreneur and AI strategist Vineet Vashishta delivers an engaging and insightful new take on making the most of data, artificial intelligence, and technology at your company. You'll learn to change the culture, strategy, structure, and operational framework of your company to take full advantage of disruptive advances in tech. The author explores fascinating work being undertaken by firms in the real world, as well as high-value use cases and innovative projects and products made possible by realigning organizational frameworks using the capabilities of new technologies.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you combat new competitors and define the best strategy for your company. With insights from leading experts including Michael E. Porter, A. G. Lafley, and Clayton M. Christensen, this book will inspire you to: choose a strategy that meets the demands of your competitive environment; identify the signals of disruption and take steps to avoid it; understand lean methodology and how it is changing business; and more.

Companies like Dropbox, Zoom, Slack, Atlassian, and DocuSign grew into multibillion-dollar companies using the three-step "Freemium" product strategy: (1) instead of hiring an expensive sales force, give away software for free; (2) let happy users tell others; (3) offer a premium subscription version, producing a recurring revenue stream. Over the last three decades, Freemium strategy has evolved into a practice known to tech industry insiders as "product-led growth."

Most credit books promise quick fixes and easy solutions to bad credit, but the truth is there is no quick fix when it comes to credit. Your best strategy as a smart consumer is to understand your credit inside and out. Credit expert John Ulzheimer can give you all the tools you need to master the world of credit, before or after you get into trouble, and take the power back into your own hands.

In "The Career Woman’s Guide," Arianna Blakely guides modern women through a transformative journey to success. Addressing challenges faced by women, she emphasizes executive presence and debunks misconceptions about assertiveness. Through case studies, including trailblazers like Eleanor Baum, she showcases the empowering impact of assertiveness.

Practical Career Planning for Ambitious Teens gives you and your teen a clear, actionable path forward with an 8-step roadmap, 30 interactive exercises, 17 future-proof career paths, 10 job-landing hacks, and 6 networking moves.

The supply chain is not a new concept for economists. The idea of the supply chain is a basic one that has permeated economic systems since the earliest days of trade and commerce. It is simply a term referring to the collection of businesses or individuals responsible for transforming raw materials into products and then getting those products into the hands of consumers.

Tired of hearing “just pick something” when it comes to your future? This interactive guide helps teens and young adults explore who they are, what they care about, and how to build a career around it. Packed with real stories, self-discovery tools, and practical tips—from exploring dream jobs to understanding modern education paths—Future Ready shows you how to align your passions with purpose. You’ll learn how to build career confidence, gain experience, and avoid the trap of working in a job you dread.

In this audiobook, we'll talk about the construction project management life cycle. We'll also cover contracting and contract management, the participants involved in a construction job, and the critical success factors in every contracting job. This audiobook is produced for both project managers and for homeowners who wish to build residential properties; the concepts discussed herein are general, but are important when it comes to approaching the construction process.

In this book, you will learn how to put on a successful event series that can generate revenue, and become either your main business, or generate leads and exposure to your main business. The book covers event planning and management fundamentals and explains how you can grow attendance and revenue significantly. Recently updated, the book now includes strategies for boosting event attendance, building buzz around the event as it occurs, and ensuring that your attendees are pleased following the event.

An introduction for everyone. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, this book - now in its revised and updated edition - serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. In this rich, fascinating, and surprisingly accessible introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics works and how it affects everyone every day.

More than 20 years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the balanced scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the balanced scorecard into action.

Knowing the concepts of management accounting can have a very positive impact on your business. Through management accounting, you can create forecasts for the future, make smart buying decisions, analyze the rate of return on an investment and much more. Management accountants do a lot when it comes to the management aspect of running a business. Perhaps you are a management accountant, thinking of becoming one, or will be hiring someone who is proficient in the field. If so, this book is for you.

Radical uncertainty changes the way we should think about decision-making. For over half a century economics has assumed that people behave rationally by optimizing among well-defined choices. Behavioral economics questioned how far people are rational, pointing to the cognitive biases that seem to describe actual behavior.

As AI rapidly reshapes the enterprise landscape, the real challenge isn’t adopting it—it’s adopting it responsibly. Data privacy. Regulatory pressure. Ethical deployment. The stakes have never been higher. Building Your Private AI is a strategic, non-technical guide tailored for business executives ready to scale AI while safeguarding trust, compliance, and performance. With real-world insights from UPS, Tesla, Mayo Clinic, and Siemens, author Daniel J. Jacobs offers a proven roadmap to secure, enterprise-ready AI transformation.

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. Strategy is simple, but simple is complex.

The Essentials of Career Planning for Teens will help you explore your choices, develop job skills, and turn your strengths into a successful future. Some students know exactly what they want to do from a young age. Others start college without knowing what they want to do with their lives. If you need help figuring out the right path for you and want to feel confident that you made the right choice for your life, then now is the time to start getting it all figured out.

Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations.

We are at the threshold of the new roaring twenties—a resurgent era of technology-driven advancement with greater financial equality and economic expansion. Not unlike the famed decade of the previous century, our next ten years will be filled with striking cultural shifts, new challenges, and, ultimately, abundant financial opportunities. Paul Zane Pilzer sees a better world on the horizon. In The New Roaring Twenties, he imparts inspiration and a new template for escaping the shadow of a global pandemic, with all its fallout, and stepping into the resplendent possibilities of the future.

Are you sick of barely scraping by as a creative? How long have you been trying to build your career? How many hours have you spent banging your head against a wall? How much money have you sunk into ads and marketing that just don't work? This audiobook can't guarantee you a successful career, but it can give you all the fundamental knowledge you need to set you up for success because it was written by a creative for a creative.