Corporate Business

The New Employee Manual is not your dad's or mom's employee manual. It's the new playbook for corporate survival, fitting today's realities and the challenges facing employees who join or work in large, seemingly successful companies. Those companies already issued very specific and detailed employee manuals covering everything under the sun except how to compete well in our brave new world.

Two years ago, Dr. Ella F. Washington, organizational psychologist, Founder and CEO of DEI strategy consulting firm Ellavate Solutions, and Professor of Practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, shared her vision for a fairer, healthier, more productive “workplace utopia” with business leaders looking to make positive change in The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress on Equity and Inclusion. The book was a hit with the C-Suite, but left workers asking, What about me?

Former executive editor of The New York Times and one of our most eminent journalists Jill Abramson provides a “valuable and insightful” (The Boston Globe) report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade, as shown via two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post)...

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the...

Who Says It’s a Man’s World helps women navigate the rocky path from cubicle to executive suite. This ultra-practical guide offers an ideal “Success Profile” along with the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of five reputation-enhancing areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership.

Las finanzas suelen verse como una ciencia aterradora, llena de hojas de cálculo, gráficas inexplicables, fórmulas ininteligibles y términos que pocos pueden entender, pero cuya importancia nadie puede negar. Sin embargo, tantos datos suelen causar en los líderes una parálisis que obstaculiza la toma de decisiones. David Meckin descubrió que, independientemente de la empresa, el sector, sus objetivos, desempeño o etapa de desarrollo, en realidad todo se reduce a cuatro indicadores básicos.

Innovating Innovation! answers the trillion-dollar question, “What can large companies do to innovate as easily as their disruptive startup competitors?” Corporate executives will learn how they can catch up and unlock the same quick-to-market innovations startups use to rapidly disrupt whole industries.

Breakout author and alpha journalist Eddy Justice documents two years of life as a quantified corporate grunt servicing cellular networks. He parallels life on the job with the diminishing middle class, documenting the enforced processes and the subsequent breakdowns that enslave all of us both on the job and off - all while being told it will make your life easier and more profitable.

Bloodsport is the story of the creation of America's deal culture and the battle for control of America's corporations. Told through the fascinating, complex, and often flawed characters who created a new era, it begins as the '60s are ending, with the rise of the conglomerates, those vast assemblages of corporate assets. It rolls through the crisis-wracked '70s and the birth of the hostile deal then careens into the '80s, when the deal culture of mergers and acquisitions is truly unleashed.

Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and acting ethically are all accepted business aims, but their meaning and implementation in a global context is far less clear-cut. Global Business Ethics cuts through the confusion to provide a coherent basis for ethical decision-making within the complications of the international business landscape.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its performance improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Listeners will learn how to track their improvements in operations and financials - and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations - using Six Sigma. This much-needed second edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard delivers an innovative Execution Map allowing you to implement, reap, and quantify the many advantages of Six Sigma.

Taking the company into the 21st century was not going to be easy for Mr. Blue, Jr. His Chief of Staff, B.B. Queen, seemed to be getting with the program, while other sales executives were lagging behind. Faced with constant threats from those challenging his authority and the voice of Mr. Blue, Sr. echoing in his head, he and others find themselves involved in a series of games with plots and twists that keep them all on their toes, everyone vying for the prize. Who will advance? And who will be sent packing?

As companies mature, their underlying growth naturally slows-this is called the 'growth curse'. It's a pervasive problem that plagues companies, CEOs, and board members alike. In order to safeguard a company's future, a strategic form of governance in which the board plays a more active role on behalf of all stakeholders, must be activated.

How to Sell in the 21st Century is for small business owner and entrepreneurs who would like to understand how to up date their marketing efforts to 21st century standards. Learn how to get more customers, make more sales, and, or build a brand understanding the new digital platform of social media. This audiobook can be your guide to teach you how to use and maximize these platforms to profit your business and be a contributor to social media and not just another consumer of social media.

Peoplism is a revolution. It is radically altering the formation and functioning of business and society. This strategic management book analyzes the impact peoplism has on organizational success. It outlines the challenges facing business leaders in adjusting to the demands of a marketplace where commoditization and globalization continually erode margins.

Welcome to "The Executive Arena", where the secrets to corporate success are unveiled and the path to the top is illuminated. Ever wondered how some individuals effortlessly climb the ladder while others miss out on well-deserved promotions? This book delves into the enigmatic world of corporate politics, revealing the art of positive navigation that sets high achievers apart. From rapid risers to those who seem to have it all figured out, the book uncovers the strategies that shape triumphant careers.

Learning to Succeed insists that an integrated model for corporate education - one that links development programs with strategic goals - is critical to building agile and resilient learning organizations that will survive in our fast-evolving business landscape. Companies need to assess continually where they need to go in relation to where they are now - and use training to bridge the gap.

The audiobook titled Organizational Law - The A-Z of Indian Corporate Law is all about various business laws which regulate the interaction of various corporates with its shareholders and the stakeholders. Corporate law or business law is a body of law which governs the rights, relations, and behavior of different organizations toward its employees, customers, shareholders, investors and its supply chain like wholesaler, retailer, and distributors.

People are clueless and work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing because they simply don't know any better. Schools don't teach us how to succeed. They teach us how to be good at school. The Work isn't a prescriptive, repeatable algorithm taking you from A to B. It's a framework bridging many ideas, books, and experiences, but applied uniquely to whoever encounters it. You are your own person with your own life, so the way you implement these strategies is up to you.

1976. A 22-year-old Japanese American woman enters the management ranks of a major corporation and encounters...just what you'd expect. Sexism. Misogyny. Racial bias. And she breaks barriers anyway. From the moment Elaine Koyama was hired as a management trainee at agri-business giant Cargill, Inc., she found herself entangled in the endless fight to wedge herself through the doors the women's movement opened.