Corporate Business

Turn creativity from a hit-or-miss proposition into something you can count on with this highly-praised program. Its co-authors, Alan G. Robinson and Sam Stern, are top thinkers in the field of corporate creativity and together they have advised dozens of major organizations in the United States and abroad.

Board-Seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Boardroom is the first practical guide written specifically to help board-ready leaders and executives gain the knowledge, resources, and confidence to shape their personal “onboarding” program. Assess your experience that makes you valuable to a board–there’s more than you think. Shape this into a powerful outreach portfolio, such as board resume, online image, and personal pitch. Gain the targeted network and mentors you’ll need, especially your boss! Learn step by step how board searches really happen and how to master each stage.

Whether you're a top-shelf corporate escapee, a fed-up middle manager or a young entrepreneur the e-ttraction method can help you set up a business to achieve your life goals. The 12-step process is separated into three sections to Understand who you are and what you want to achieve, to Build the strategy and assets for your new business, and finally to Leverage your unique assets into a realistic and manageable business model.

In Take the Leap, author Heather Hakes tells how she left the monotonous routine of the corporate world to create her dream life of living on her own terms. She shares a series of short stories about life experiences, overcoming obstacles, and the importance of perseverance. She offers real-life advice and tools and techniques to unblock your limiting beliefs, bust out of your comfort zone, and live the life you dream about. A guide for those stuck in monotony, Take the Leap helps you shed the mundane for an enjoyable and fulfilling life.

This audiobook explore storytelling for business managers and consultants presenting in the boardroom; what are stories, why are they so powerful, and how you can sprinkle some of that storytelling magic into your boardroom PowerPoint presentations.

A hidden fortune behind a painting. A daughter's search for truth. A mother's dangerous game of cat and mouse. Fresh from college and determined to make her mark, marketing executive Ivy Rowe launches her own agency in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. But when she discovers $25,000 in cash hidden behind her late aunt's Thomas Kinkade painting, she realizes some family secrets are worth killing to protect. As Ivy investigates her aunt's suspicious death, her mother vanishes without a trace from her HR position at John Crane Inc. Meanwhile, Detective Marshall Long, newly returned to ...

I will never forget the day I learned that we were unicorns. In finance parlance, that meant that we had taken a brand from a zero dollar valuation to a brand worth more than one billion dollars. As an executive who had given nearly ten years of my life to the company I began to reflect on leadership, how this incredible result was achieved, and the fact that even in our happiest moments, leadership agreed that the bigger question was why we were not a 3 or 5 billion dollar brand? Much has been written about business leadership. Much has been written about millennials, but in my research I ...

A career is such a valuable thing in our society. It represents the difference between people who live pay check to pay check, doing the same level of work for their entire life, and those who manage to start in the same dead-end jobs, but rise to lives of great fortune. A carefully designed career can launch you into extremely high levels of income, even showing you the path into entrepreneurship while providing the resources to get you started.

If you want to rise to the top of any organization you must learn the skills necessary to be recognized as a top performer. The key isn’t just to work hard; you have to be noticed. This program will teach you what you need to know to stand out from the crowd by changing the way you communicate and providing you with a more powerful presence. But to receive attention, authority, and respect in organizations, you must manage your own career.

Get ready to dive into the electrifying world of Corporate Overdose! This is the voice from the middle of your org chart. What are they saying when their words aren’t filtered? Author Jon Law throws political correctness out the window and drops unbiased truth bombs about the 7 deadly sins lurking inside your organization right now.

Jim Rogers and his fiancie, began their "Millennium Adventure" on January 1, 1999. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, and Angola. They saw the real world from the ground up - the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood - economically, politically, and socially and have saw the world and understood it as it really is.

In April 2011, Frishberg & Partners held a round table entitled “M&A in Ukraine Today: Building Business on Shifting Sands,” where Alexander Savchenko (former deputy head of National Bank of Ukraine), Brian Best (Dragon Capital), Mark Iwashko (Horizon Capital) and Jon Queen (Jaspen Capital) shared their opinions about the current market trends.

Are you struggling to succeed in business or have a nine-to-five job and would like to achieve financial independence and growing wealth? If so, I’d like to share with you the winning habits of the world’s most successful self-made multi-billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Arianna Huffington....

Published earlier in a different, shorter version titled "Captured by the Captain". The new short and steamy sports romance novella by the #1 Bestselling author of the short story Caught by the Bowler and the #1 bestselling Bowled by the Bride! The Alphahole billionaire you despise makes an incredible offer to buy out your IPL Cricket team with one condition: You are part of the deal. Nirupama My dad warned me about Skandan Scindia. Star cricketers at the height of their career have their pick of hot girls. He would only break my heart and ruin my reputation. Dad was right: that’s exactly...

Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major US firms and their workers is higher than ever before - depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a relatively recent phenomenon, but despite all the outrage, few detractors truly understand the numerous factors that have contributed to the dizzying upward spiral in CEO compensation.

Companies need to grow, innovate, and adapt to changing needs. But stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile, chaos rarely produces agility or speed, and it’s hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent to turnover and quiet quitting. This is how change stymies the very progress that it seeks. Drawing on decades spent leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of human performance and offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that defines corporate life.

All too often we are presented stories about extremely wealthy people who are held up as role models for a successful life. The truth is that wealth rarely guarantees happiness. This book looks to successful small and medium-sized companies contributing to communities, and the far-sighted corporate executives we never hear about who, while successful, are also happy. These are the true-life examples of corporate social responsibility that this book relies on to make its point. Peter Milewski tells you why and how you, personally, can feel good and do well by doing good too.

In Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Dr. Shameen Prashantham delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, Dr. Prashantham explains the "why," "how," and "where" of corporate-startup partnering.

Ian is a chief information officer (CIO) who is about to go on a journey of change - whether he likes it or not. He will be expected to explore, challenge and radically recast the complex, often hostile relationships that can exist between a business and the people in its Information Technology (IT) department. On the way, Ian, his chief executive officer, chief financial officer and other key stakeholders, experience a transformation in how a business needs to think about the value of its IT people and the work that they do.

Whether you are in marketing or internal communications, it's crucial to tell your company's story in a digital media world that can't get enough video content. But what video content actually creates a connection and an impact with your audience?