Business Forecasting

This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession and the larger financial community by predicting the current crisis well in advance of anyone else.

Leveraging more than two decades of experience organizing innovation tournaments in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, from Buenos Aires to Kuwait City, Shanghai to Moscow, and with many Fortune 500 companies, two renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, and the foremost experts on innovation tournaments offer a template that you can use to generate winning ideas that will drive great outcomes―whatever your challenges, whatever your business.

Muchos se preguntan quiénes están detrás del éxito de los creadores de contenido más populares de los últimos tiempos, como Calle & Poché, Sebastián Villalobos, Juan Pablo Jaramillo, Mario Ruiz y Xime Ponch. Uno de ellos es Lina Cáceres, cofundadora del departamento digital de la agencia de representación de talentos más importante de la región, LatinWE, quien ha convertido a sus creadores digitales en celebridades multiplataforma.

There is no CEO task more significant than leading change in an organization whose old business model needs updating. Large-scale change involves rethinking how to engage customers, partners, and suppliers with new technology and hard decisions about how to reorganize internal operations—plus the challenges of executing the transformation. Too many things can go wrong, from natural organizational resistance and inertia, to lack of strategic focus, to execution problems. And yet, organizations today must be more dynamic than ever before.

The Chaos-Free Contractor is your blueprint for transforming your business from a stressful, reactionary mess into a streamlined, profitable, and self-sustaining operation. Scott Beebe, founder of Business on Purpose, has spent years coaching contractors to escape the cycle of exhaustion and unpredictability.

As the new property manager of the failing eight-hundred-unit Mesquite Ridge Apartments, Eliza Hawkins must quickly increase occupancy and meet budgeted revenue goals if she wants to keep her job. What she doesn’t understand until her first day is that she’s stepped into a toxic team culture.

Blockchain technology has taken over the world, well...partially. This audiobook shares various viewpoints by taking a look at the particular tools you can utilize, such as blockchain and charting tools, to mine and purchase bitcoin, and make money with it, at the correct time! This guide will show you what you can learn about blockchain technology.

Bina Venkataraman sees the way forward. A journalist and former adviser in the Obama White House, she helped communities and businesses prepare for climate change, and she learned firsthand why people don’t think ahead - and what can be done to change that. In The Optimist’s Telescope, she draws from stories she has reported around the world and new research in biology, psychology, and economics to explain how we can make decisions that benefit us over time.

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.

After a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down.

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better.

Drawing on a wide array of people and places, Uncharted traces long-term projects that shrewdly evolved over generations to meet the unpredictable challenges of every new age. Heffernan also looks at radical exercises and experiments that redefined standard practices by embracing different perspectives and testing fresh approaches. Preparing to confront a variable future provides the antidote to passivity and prediction.

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

Sales is the oxygen of every organization, whether it be a company, charity or not-for-profit. So it logically follows that "Why should I choose you?" is the single most important question an organization must answer in order to survive and thrive. This book describes a process over 400 leaders have used to define the ONE thing, at their core, that makes them uniquely remarkable–in 7 words or less. This short expression of your organization's root value does a number of critical things for you:

What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Drawing upon real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.

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.

Elevate your problem-solving skills with the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle, featuring two transformative audiobooks: Learn To Think in Systems and Systems Thinking Made Simple. Together, the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle provides a comprehensive exploration of systems thinking, enabling you to develop a holistic perspective that enhances your analytical capabilities.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you learn the most important ideas in leadership and management, feel confident in your business classes, and be ready to thrive in any role you take on. This book will inspire you to: succeed by playing to your strengths; learn to be more persuasive; give killer presentations; perfect your business-writing skills; find your authentic voice and leadership style; and build a purposeful career.

The financial shelves are filled with books that explain how popular carry trading has become in recent years. But none has revealed just how significant a role it plays in the global economy - until now. A groundbreaking book sure to leave its mark in the canon of investing literature, The Rise of Carry explains how carry trading has virtually shaped the global economic picture - one of decaying economic growth, recurring crises, wealth disparity, and, in too many places, social and political upheaval.

Pivoting as a Way of Life: Stop Chasing Unicorns and Product-Market Fit by Joseph Hanna is a game-changing guide for entrepreneurs, product managers, and innovators who want to thrive in today's fast-paced business environment. This book challenges the conventional wisdom of product-market fit as a static, one-time milestone. It introduces a dynamic new framework—the Pivoting Life Operating Model (PLOM)—emphasizing continuous innovation and adaptability.