High Management

Conquer the ASE L3 Exam: Your Guide to Light-Duty Hybrid and Electric Vehicles is an in-depth study guide designed to prepare automotive technicians for the ASE L3 certification. This guide covers essential topics, from high-voltage battery diagnostics to the inner workings of power electronics, including inverters and DC/DC converters. Each chapter explores key systems within hybrid and electric vehicles, such as regenerative braking, motor-generators, and thermal management. Additionally, the book addresses advanced diagnostics, including CAN bus communication and insulation testing, and ...

In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous best sellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level.

Battered by waves of downsizing since the 1980s, talented men and women no longer seek job security from one company. This is the true hallmark of the new economy—not fleeting dot-coms and IPOs, but a fast-moving, free-agent workforce with the flexibility to jolt productivity. Managers, meanwhile, must grab hold of this shifting group of talent and squeeze more work out of them than ever before, particularly in a tight economy. The trouble is, their traditional source of power over employees—the corporate ladder—is dead and gone.

This simple-to-understand, practical guide to construction management was written for seasoned construction managers as well as anyone trying to break into construction management. Each chapter represents a core skill set for managing construction projects. This is a no-nonsense guide to help you quickly understand the dynamics of construction management.

The Kaizen Method: Proven Lean Strategies to Boost Productivity, Eliminate Waste, and Create a High-Performance Culture is your essential guide to building a culture of continuous improvement—one small, strategic step at a time. Perfect for business leaders, entrepreneurs, team managers, and anyone committed to long-term success, this audiobook delivers practical insights and powerful strategies for transforming your organization from the inside out.

As a leader, is it possible to be both successful and humble? Studies show that today's emerging leaders not only prioritize achievement over humility but also see the two as mutually exclusive. Does this signal an existential crisis for healthcare - an industry that, at its essence, is supposed to embody humility and compassion? Thankfully, no, according to Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders, which demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.

Any group of people expected to work synergistically needs a system that structures their interactions. That system is “governance.” The Pragmatist’s Guide to Governance takes a first principles approach to exploring the ways governance structures affect the humans living under them (and vice versa), with a special focus on how human psychology interacts with the structures that facilitate our interaction with other people.

Diabetes is a stressful disease and only adds stress to our busy lives. Prolonged stress can cause serious and extensive harm to our hearts, kidneys, eyes, nerves, and mental well-being. Learning to manage stress well will help you manage not only your blood glucose levels but also your life. Stress-Free Diabetes offers a creative, imaginative, and practical approach to stress management.

All endeavors are going to fall short of your hopes until you understand your biggest enemy: your ego. Most people have no idea that the ego is actually a massive collection of self-sabotaging programming with a goal of keeping everything basically the same. And the ego is brilliant at what it does. Sid Walker presents a formula for bringing any vision into reality by focusing more on your intuitive instincts and less on the conventional wisdom created by the ego.

Financial freedom is everybody’s end goal. But unfortunately, not everyone gets to achieve it because of the wrong information, wrong habits, or both. Whether you’re born into poverty or with a silver spoon, financial independence is within your reach if you practice the right money habits.

As we grow older, we naturally start losing muscle mass every year. Even if you don’t feel anything now, eventually you’ll wake up one day and be surprised that you’re struggling just to get up from your chair or are simply not as strong as you used to be. Over time, problems with your physical health can take a toll on your mental well-being and discourage you entirely from taking necessary steps toward a healthier and more youthful lifestyle.

Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and nobody knows more about leading rocket scientists to unlikely breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the phase lead and development manager for EDL (entry, descent, and landing) of the Curiosity rover to Mars, Steltzner spearheaded the creation of one of engineering's wackiest kluges - the sky crane, which allowed the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration to land on Mars unscathed.

How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and which cannot be readily replicated by competitors.

We’ve all worked with one - a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He’s an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable? There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team - asking the question: How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong? Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams.

Sometimes managing a sales team feels like trying to manage chaos, and in a way it is—there are so many unpredictable influences at work in sales. In Nuts and Bolts of Sales Management, John Treace, mining decades of executive sales experience gained from successful business turnarounds, provides managers with proven strategies to build a high-performing sales team that will consistently produce desired results.

If you work in healthcare ... here's the workplace guide you need! Are Staboteurs in Your Midst? Are there bulliew in your workplace? Do you have to deal with pit bulls with lipstick? Has anyone intentionally undermined you? Does your workplace keep the disrupters? Have you ever thought about quitting? Every workplace has them ... the pit bulls that hide behind lipstick and designer clothes; snakes who flick their abrasive tongues and voice at any, and all; the scorpions who sting with a slap of their heavy backhand; the shrinks that seem innocent until you get in their space; and the slugs...

Thousands of books have been written about leadership and workplace culture, but many rely too much on abstract philosophy and head-scratching jargon. In Jumpstart Your Workplace Culture, Eric Stone breaks through the noise to give listeners a practical road map for fostering a culture that yields results year in and year out. Influenced by his quarter-century of experience with one of America's most beloved brands, the book is loaded with interviews from senior corporate executives as well as real-life examples and anecdotes.

This isn’t just another leadership audiobook. Packed with real-world stories, actionable strategies, and fresh perspectives, it offers a roadmap for building strong team cultures, achieving operational excellence, and navigating the complexities of modern leadership with confidence and empathy.

Do you know your medicines might make you ill? This book tells how you can reduce your dependence on medicines. The sooner you adopt, the healthier you live. Go disease-free! Over the years, we have been repeating the same eating mistakes that our parents made. This is the reason why the prevalence of diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and arthritis is increasing in the population over time. In Eat to Prevent and Control Disease, research scientist and registered state pharmacist La Fonceur will tell you how foods that work with the same mechanism as medicines can naturally ...

Recent trends suggest that we are moving out of a recession - fairly labeled The Great Recession - into a recovery phase characterized by high unemployment with growth. As such, the business road ahead will be challenging. Growth will be harder to achieve and business failure will be more prevalent. But the best of America's growth businesses will pass through this cycle to experience renewed and hopeful growth in contrast to the high failure rate of those who fail to grow. The numbers are proving this to be the extreme case - a higher upside with a greater failure rate.