Global Business

A powerful book that shows the step-by-step evolution of a new kind of global technology powerhouse, The Lenovo Way is an indispensable guide for leaders and managers who deal with strategy, innovation, branding, and HR at any kind of company. It also tells the remarkable story of how two women from very different backgrounds rose to become leaders in Lenovo's journey to the top.

Africa's Business Revolution provides the inside story on business in Africa and its future growth prospects and helps executives understand and seize the opportunities for building profitable, sustainable enterprises.

Change Management and Process Improvement are considered two separate disciplines. Change Management initiatives often originate in the human resources department, whereas Process Improvement plans may come from the quality engineering or the project management departments. These departments' agendas, knowledge, mindset, and resource competency differ. However, Change Management approaches and Process Improvement models have much in common.

Target your future. Choose your path. Set your terms. Choice Destinations is your definitive guide to transitioning from a high-achieving corporate life to the liberating world of entrepreneurship. Designed specifically for Leading Managers and Top Performing Executives, this book addresses the common hurdles and confusion faced when contemplating entrepreneurial freedom. If the pull towards starting your own venture feels overwhelming, this blueprint provides the clarity and empowerment needed to navigate your journey successfully.

Frugal Value contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called "sustainable business" practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does and how it does it. This book explores what business responsibility looks like today and how it could be put into practice through far-reaching changes to companies, ranging from new approaches to product design and business models to reconfiguration of operations and innovative ownership structures.

Michael E. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, takes listeners on an international adventure. From Cleveland, Ohio, to transitioning economies in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Goldberg tells the stories of students who took his hugely popular Beyond Silicon Valley massive open online course (MOOC). The students start businesses, mentor entrepreneurs, grow entrepreneurial advocacy organizations, and energize the start-up ecosystems in their communities.

While working together at a Los Angeles boutique, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor became fast and furious friends over the impossibility of finding the perfect T-shirt. Following their vision of comfortable, fitted T-shirts, they set up shop in Gela’s one-bedroom Hollywood apartment with $200 and one rule: Whatever they did, they both had to be obsessed by it. Pam and Gela eventually sold their company to Liz Claiborne for $50 million, but not before they created a whole new genre of casual clothing that came to define California cool.

Gustavo Cisneros, uno de los principales empresarios globales, forma parte de una dinastía de empresarios iniciada por su padre, Diego Cisneros, en la segunda generación no sólo mantiene si no supera los logros de la primera. Gustavo Cisneros consigue convertir un importante y saneado negocio venezolano en un jugador dentro del mercado global, propio de la época que le ha tocado vivir.

In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.

Ich erzähle von 4 deutsche Unternehmen, die es vom kleinen 1-Mann Betrieb Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts geschafft haben zum Global Leader zu werden. Trotz aller Widrigkeiten, wie zwei Weltkriege, die große Rezession oder die Enteignung haben es Harald Riegel sen., Robert Bosch oder die Dassler Brüder geschafft globale Leader in ihren jeweilige Industrien aufzubauen. Ihr hört von Pele´s Schuhtrick im Weltmeister Finale 1970 oder wie Harald Riegel auf die weltbekannte Gold Bären Form für seine Naschereien kam. Was ist auch heute noch der Renner, der meist verkaufte Schuh bei Birkenstock ?

A Personal Brand Story follows Steve Guest on his journey from a successful, unassuming, and procedure-led recruitment consultant to a global business influencer. In this audiobook, Steve talks about nervously posting his first social media video, becoming a best-selling author in over 40 countries, and seeing his acclaimed The Guest List Podcast with Steve Guest listed in the world's top 80 business podcasts.

In Sovereign Soldiers, Grant Madsen tells the story of how this cast of characters assumed an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role. Seeking to avoid the harsh punishments meted out after World War I, military leaders believed they had to rebuild and rehabilitate their former enemies; if they failed they might cause an even deadlier World War III.

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens—and even, someday, by Washington.

If you've ever wondered how ordinary people just like you start thriving online businesses and become rich without investing anything...the answer is dropshipping. It's a unique business model that lets you build a scaleable online business with nothing but a laptop. Dropshipping is not a "get-rich-quick" scam. It's a perfectly legal business model that has helped countless people achieve their financial goals. Simply follow the steps outlined in the book, and enjoy your success!

The hiring market is more difficult than ever to navigate, especially for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It feels impossible to stay competitive when large companies can offer 24/7 services with ease. But this is not the end of the road for SMBs. In fact, it’s an opportunity. You are no longer limited by your geography in terms of the talent you can hire—the world is your talent pool. It is only a matter of leveraging that talent effectively to allow your business to start operating at a higher level.

फूड इंडस्ट्री हा भरभराटीची सदैव संधी असलेला उद्योग आहे. आपलं वेगळेपण आणि गुणवत्ता यांच्या जोरावर यातला कुठलाही उद्योग कितीही मोठा होऊ शकतो, टेस्टी बाईट ग्लोबलचं उदाहरण तर याबाबतीत समर्पक आहे.

In Mind Set!, John Naisbitt reveals how to develop and experience the power of 11 cognitive tools that will allow readers to understand the trends transforming their daily lives and the world around them, so they can anticipate and act on the future.

The Four Pillars of Business Success is a business audiobook made to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, and managers learn to develop the strong foundation every business needs to be the best in its class. The audiobook’s author, Alan Yong, utilizes the insights he has gained over the course of four decades in business to offer today’s entrepreneurs a road map to success.

As a master negotiator for more than three decades, Herb Cohen is "the guy the pros go to." Here with wit and wisdom, Herb reveals his conceptual canopy—a step-by-step approach for establishing and maintaining mutually satisfying long-term relationships. Emphasizing the importance of style (manner and means) over substance (terms and conditions), and using recognizable anecdotes and examples, you will learn how to transform an opponent into a genuine partner.

Are you new to a global team and need information on how to work for them? Do you work in a global team and have problems interacting with people from other countries and latitudes? This audiobook reviews the communication challenges that global virtual teams face in their lifetime. Although global virtual teams help organizations be flexible by providing experts from around the world who cross barriers of time, space, and culture at low cost using technology like email, collaboration sites, and video conferences; these types of teams come up with new challenges.