Future Career

In today’s unpredictable environment, supply chains need to do more than just react; they must foresee, adjust, and lead change. Future-Ready Supply Chain Management by Dennis V. Rozario offers a practical action plan for leaders navigating volatility, complexity, and rapid innovation. This book is essential for executives, educators, and innovators focused on building smarter, faster, and more resilient supply chains.

What if you created a business that provided amazing client experiences and set a new standard for what it’s like to work with a law firm? What if you slept great at night while traveling abroad for months at a time, knowing your team could run things without you with the help of thoughtful systems and optimized technology? Yes! It’s all possible. The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited will show you how to build something different—a law firm business that is people-centered, effectively managed, and ultimately more valuable.

Marketers are faced with a stark and challenging dilemma: Customers demand deep personalization, but they are increasingly leery of offering the type of personal data required to make it happen. As a solution to this problem, customer data platforms have come to the fore. CDPs are the hottest marketing technology around today, but are they worthy of the hype? Customer Data Platforms takes a deep dive into everything CDP, so you can learn how to steer your firm toward the future of personalization.

An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system. Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its...

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions - one in technology and the other in communications - joined, an explosive force was unleashed that changed the very nature of innovation. And with any change, we have seen many strategic blunders and extraordinary learning curves along the way.

Welcome to the future of internet coordination. By now you’ve heard the buzz about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and how they are going to redefine how we work and earn. But when you peel away the hype and tech jargon, what are they really? How do they operate, why do they...

The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by COVID-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies - and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion.

Acclaimed futurist, author, and digital strategist Bernard Marr delivers a compelling and engaging discussion of the technologies driving the impending—and ongoing—transformation of the internet, including blockchain, augmented reality (AR), and more. In the book, you'll explore the risks and opportunities presented by these game-changing techs and how they might impact you, your organization, and community.

Mind, Time and Power! describes the new psychology for the 21st century. How would you feel if you finally had the answer to how your life really works? This book will show you how to understand the power of your mind in an entirely new way. Science has recently discovered that the human mind is actually a kind of "time machine". What we call "memory" actually works in the future and the past equally, but most people are completely unaware of this 'hidden' aspect of consciousness.

Vincent Stanley, Patagonia's director of philosophy, with Yvon Chouinard, founder and former owner of Patagonia, draws on fifty years' experience to challenge all business owners and leaders to rethink their businesses in a time of cultural and climate chaos. The authors describe the current impact of manufacturing, commerce, and traditional capitalism on the planet's natural systems and human communities, and how that impact is forcing business to change its ways.

Imagine a world where companies can move successfully into the future, where these brittle solutions are replaced with a flexible, simple approach that also delivers enterprise-grade capabilities. This book introduces asset operations management (AOM), an operating principle founded on the belief that asset-intensive organizations have much to gain by adopting new approaches to data, collaboration, and communication—all supported by modern, consumer-grade technology experiences.

This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes offers a pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power and how it stifles workers around the world.

Today's organizations face two daunting challenges: how to create new sources of competitive advantage to sustain long-term growth, and how to engage leaders at every level of the organization so that they are more proactive and forward-looking in their area of responsibility. The Art of Strategic Leadership uses a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader.

Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You provides listeners with a detailed strategy on how to turn working from home into a powerful career choice. Author and Salesforce executive Karen Mangia teaches listeners how to: build the future of work in any kind of space: ideas for your home office that fit anywhere; create personalized time management routines designed specifically for remote productivity, impact, and balance - even while wearing your sweatpants; deal with Zoom fatigue; and more.

"Middle manager." The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast machine and bureaucracy ruled. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favorite target for the chopping block—underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization. Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, the future demands it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of what middle managers can and must be able to do.

Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology. Yet, much of the time, the influence of technology on our lives goes unchallenged by citizens and our elected representatives. Our embrace of novel technological pathways, Sheila Jasanoff shows, leads to a complex interplay among technology, ethics, and human rights.

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s your opportunity to build Version 2.0 of yourself. By the time we reach our forties, many of us feel caught between two realities. On the outside, we’ve built careers, raised families, and achieved stability. But on the inside, restlessness grows. The work that once felt exciting now feels stale. The ladder we’ve been climbing seems to be leaning against the wrong wall. And yet, starting over feels risky, even impossible. How to Build Your 2.0 in Your Forties is a guide for that exact moment.

The traditional car dealership is dying—but innovative F&I approaches are creating record profits for those willing to evolve. Today's car buyers want a 45-minute in-store process, transparent pricing, and digital options—and they'll go elsewhere if you can't deliver. In The Future of Automotive Finance & Insurance, industry veteran Joel Kansanback reveals how forward-thinking dealerships are meeting these demands while significantly increasing their F&I profits.

In their new book, Paul Leinwand and Mahadeva Matt Mani, both members of the PwC US partnership and the Strategy & Global team, help leaders navigate these profound and historical shifts and provide a road map for reshaping their companies. Building on major new body of research, along with case studies of companies on the vanguard of this major shift, the authors identify the seven imperatives that leaders must follow as the digital age continues to evolve

There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won't work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now?