Future Business

As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance industry. Man of the Futures, his definitive memoir, recounts Melamed’s journey from Holocaust survivor and accidental runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), to one of the most prominent leaders in the world of finance.

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.

The Future of Translation Services: Integrating ISO 17100 for Competitive Advantage Achieving Business Growth and Translation Excellence Through ISO 17100 Position your translation business for long-term success by leveraging ISO 17100, the global standard for translation services. The Future of Translation Services explores how adopting ISO 17100 can elevate quality, enhance credibility, and give your business a measurable edge in the global market. Designed for translation professionals at all levels, this guide offers a practical and strategic approach to meeting client expectations and ...

El liderazgo no tiene nada que ver con todo lo que te han contado hasta ahora. ¿Y si te cuento que todas las teorías del liderazgo se pueden resumir en cuatro elementos comunes? ¿Y si te demuestro que, además, el liderazgo no tiene tanto que ver con la persona, sino más bien con la causa que esa persona representa? El propósito de este libro es invitarte a reflexionar acerca de las muchas y trasnochadas teorías, viejos paradigmas y falsos mitos sobre líderes casi divinos que, en lugar de permitirnos entender mejor en qué consiste liderar, nos generan una imagen distorsionada y frustrante de la realidad.

The big idea of this book is to help you write your own book on the future of technology, finance, management, or business in under 30 days to build your profile as a leader and visionary. If you want to be taken seriously as a thought leader and expert, you need to have a book. And I know so many people who talk about “the book” they want to write. But years go by and it never happens. This book is my attempt to help would-be authors everywhere tell their stories and share their visions with the world.

The name Drucker is synonymous with management. His many works stand as classics in management literature. Today, more than ever, Peter Drucker is being looked to and listened to by business leaders and economic scholars grappling with the challenge of change. This major work brings together his stimulating and enlightening views on the new world order for business and on management imperatives for the future.

THE WAI SHOWER™ METHOD Master AI. Execute Faster. Lead the Future. READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO STAY RELEVANT. If you think AI is just another passing trend, this book isn’t for you. If you believe experience alone will future-proof your career, you’re already behind. If you’re waiting for AI to “settle in” before you act—you’re betting against history. But—if you feel the shift… if you sense the tremors of change… if you refuse to be one of those left scrambling when AI reshapes the world—this book is your lifeline. BLACKBERRY LAUGHED AT THE IPHONE. VOLKSWAGEN IGNORED ...

Las evidencias sobre el futuro se acumulan: para responder a la emergencia climática, debemos poner fin al uso de tecnologías y sistemas de producción obsoletos, dar paso a otras más eficientes y limpias, y rediseñar la economía. El problema es tecnológico. Las tecnologías que nos hicieron más sanos, ricos y longevos deben ser sustituidas necesariamente por otras, ya disponibles y centradas en la sostenibilidad.

The metaverse isn’t just hype—it’s your next platform for business growth. Metaverse Explained breaks down what the metaverse is, how it works, and how entrepreneurs and creators can build early authority inside it. Whether you’re a total beginner or curious innovator, this guide gives you the knowledge you need to prepare for Web3. What the metaverse is (and isn’t)—and why it matters for small business How AR/VR, blockchain, and AI connect in the new digital economy Practical applications for retail, real estate, coaching, and education Best platforms (Decentraland, Meta ...

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20 percent cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning.

A manifesto on the state of the non-profit arts sector and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity leaders have to redefine the business as an investment in our shared humanity.

What is strategic thinking exactly? Are we born with it, or can we nurture it? As a distinct and important capability in leaders, strategic thinking is a remarkably poorly defined, little understood concept, confined to management courses and board meetings. But in The Art of Strategic Thinking, world-renowned expert Michael Watkins shows leaders how they can benefit from it, as long as they have the tools to nurture it.

With emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it’s more important than ever to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. In The Customer of the Future, customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines 10 easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective.

Sometimes the events that seem pivotal are just blips, while the more meaningful cultural shifts are hiding in plain sight. Marian Salzman’s job is to uncover those hidden shifts. So what’s in store for the next two decades? In this acutely observed guide, Salzman, whose past predictions have been heralded for coming uncannily close to the way we live now, unpacks the course of human life from the bumpy turn of the millennium through the pandemic era.

One of the strongest drivers propelling corporate expansion in contemporary society is innovation. It is the capacity to develop, and execute fresh ideas, products, technologies, and strategies that boost customer experiences, increase competitiveness in the market, and preserve a competitive edge using which efficiency is enhanced. Companies that give innovation top priority are more likely to be long-term successful, change with the times, and seize new prospects.

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root—one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it the Mesh and reveals why it will dominate the future of business.

Gigatrends offers a roadmap for navigating six of the most disruptive trends shaping the future. Humanity stands at the precipice of a remarkable new era in global history filled with both immense opportunities and daunting challenges. Gigatrends examines how six disruptive trends can be harnessed to create new social, economic, and organizational solutions that will usher in the promise of a human-centered future for billions of people.

The changes that Charles Handy foresaw in The Age of Unreason are happening. Endless growth can make for a candy-floss economy, and capitalism must be its own sternest critic. Charles Handy reaches here for a philosophy beyond the mechanics of business organisations, beyond material choices, to try and establish an alternative universe where the work ethic can contain a natural sense of continuity, connections, and a sense of direction.