Corporate Career

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.

This compelling first-hand account is not just a story; it's a glimpse into the transition from the structured corporate world to the realm of entrepreneurship. Bonnie's insights are drawn from a deeply personal perspective, offering listeners a unique blend of wisdom, challenges, and triumphs that come with making such a significant life change.

The extraordinary breakthrough management program - heralded by GE, Motorola, and AlliedSignal - that is sweeping corporate America with its unprecedented ability to achieve superior financial results. Six Sigma is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions, and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Street, it has become the mantra of Fortune 500 boardrooms around the world because it works.

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. Game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.

Chloe Davies built her fortress high. Driven by teenage humiliation, she forged a wildly successful career in the cutthroat world of London finance, armouring herself with ambition, expensive suits, and a ruthless efficiency that extended to her personal life – brief, transactional encounters offering physical release but zero connection. But when a shocking confession from her boss ignites a dangerous game, and the hollowness of her solitary success becomes undeniable, Chloe is forced to question the foundations of the life she fought so hard to build. Can she recalibrate her definition ...

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.

Transform your business or nonprofit organization. The Disney Difference is a must-listen for fans of Disney or for anyone who wants to apply the lessons and magic of Walt Disney to their organization. If you serve customers, charitable donors, or guests, this book will show you how you can give your best and give everyone a more magical experience.

On April 9, 2021, Chris wrote an email to his stakeholders, admitting having squandered millions of investor dollars as the CEO of Bellatorum Resources, a Texas-based energy fund. Part-memoir and part-manual, Burning Bellatorum is a brutally honest story written down in Chris’ own words as he reflects upon his journey, explains his decisions, and articulates exactly why and how he orchestrated the fraud. With Bellatorum’s story as the backdrop, he brings to light invaluable lessons for novice to intermediate investors, fund managers, and entrepreneurs.

This audiobook will address all the rules that a leader needs to address the changing world that led to ever changing corporate dynamics and put so much pressure on financial balance sheets, P&L, people, customers, technology pipeline, efficiency, talent development, and all what we took for granted for decades. The art of Turnaround (and disruption) are set of tested, validated and proved rules that leaders used over and over, some worked, and many others are lessons learned for what not to do.

The Business Case for Kindness introduces a new business model - grounded in kindness, respect, and trust (KRT). This new model has the ability to transform a business, a leader, and a team. It also has the ability to make our world a better place. In this book, you will be presented with data, history, and case studies to help you implement the KRT model. You will learn the must have leadership skills in order to thrive in today’s workplace and in the workplace of the future.

At a time 79 percent of employees quit their jobs because they don't feel appreciated at their workplace, Building Corporate Soul sets out to transform the performance and value of organizations - and to make soulless companies a thing of the past.

In Own Your Career, popular financial analyst and entrepreneur Michela Allocca delivers an exciting new discussion of how to break the corporate blueprint and forge your own path to a fulfilling and rewarding career. You'll learn to find happiness and purpose at work, whether you're interested in climbing the corporate ladder or embarking on a different path.

In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts.With many prosecutors, investigators, and participants speaking for the first time, Tangled Webs goes behind the scene of the trials of media and homemaking entrepreneur Martha Stewart; top White House political adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby; home-run king Barry Bonds; and Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff. Tangled Webs reaffirms the importance of truth.

Embark on an enlightening journey through the tumultuous terrain of job hunting with "Hire Me Not: A Field Guide to Navigate Red Flags and Sketchy Job Offers." In this uproarious handbook, author Morgan Carver offers readers an indispensable guide to avoiding the landmines of sketchy job offers. With a keen eye for and experience with the absurdities of the job market, Morgan Carver unveils cautionary tales, showcasing red flags encountered by job seekers. Armed with this field guide, aspiring professionals will learn to decode the subtle red flags, discerning the difference between genuine...

*Cake on Tuesday* unveils the intentional and unintentional aspects of Elizabeth Bieniek's entrepreneurial journey. From building a dream team within big tech to discovering her superpower of leading in ambiguity, she imparts insights into human dynamics, team synergy, and the significance of cultural care. The book distills leadership, innovation, and personal growth lessons, offering a narrative beyond technology to reveal the heart and stories behind groundbreaking advancements.

In Cash is King, working capital and cash strategist Peter W. Kingma delivers an insightful and practical discussion of why your company's cash position should be on an equal footing with sales, cost, and service, and how to make that happen. You'll learn why cash is the fuel in your corporate engine and discover the attributes of an organizational cash culture and how to adopt them within your own firm.

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.

At the start of this riveting memoir, Dan Conway is a brash young executive in a vast corporation, slogging his way up the ladder while struggling with depression and an addiction he thought he had defeated long ago. As he begins to realize that the mix of nightmarish bureaucracy and his unruly “flip side” have doomed any chance of success, Dan stumbles upon cryptocurrency, tumbling down the rabbit hole to discover a strange, anarchic, but captivating world. He decides to wager everything - his savings, his marriage, his family, his future - on the fledgling crypto, Ether.

Written in a charming, engaging style, this contemporary corporate fable tells the story of a peacock who struggles to be himself while surrounded by penguins. Can these seemingly opposite birds work together? This story echoes one that is unfolding each and every day in organizations all across the country - how to build a corporate culture of creativity and capture the talent, energy, and commitment of all employees.

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....