Industrial Management

Ron Shaich is a business visionary who has been part of building three iconic restaurant brands: Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread, and now Cava. Along the way, he developed "fast casual," a $100 billion-plus segment of the industry. Now he reveals what he learned about entrepreneurship, running large enterprises, business transformation, and life itself. He illustrates these lessons with his experiences turning a small cookie store into 2,400 restaurants with $5 billion in revenue, delivering annual investor returns of 25% over two decades, and outperforming both Starbucks and Chipotle.

"Mastering Management: A Guide to Effective Leadership" is a comprehensive guide to becoming an effective and successful manager. The book covers a range of topics that are crucial to leadership and management, including understanding your leadership style, building trust with your team, motivating and inspiring your team, delegating responsibilities, developing team members, managing conflict resolution, time management, setting and achieving goals, building a positive work culture, performance management, and feedback, navigating change and adaptability, managing remote teams, and staying...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to repairing one's credit. The book covers a range of topics, including understanding the impact of credit utilization, dealing with debt and creditors, rebuilding credit, protecting against identity theft and credit fraud, and staying motivated throughout the credit repair process. The book provides practical strategies for reducing credit card debt, establishing new lines of credit, and building a positive payment history. It also covers the rights individuals have under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the benefits of having good credit. In ...

Transform the power of a safer, healthier workplace with this comprehensive guide to ISO 45001—the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Written by Dr. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap for organizations to implement ISO 45001, ensuring a robust safety culture, legal compliance, and the protection of your most valuable asset—your employees. Whether you're just starting your journey toward ISO 45001 certification or looking to improve an existing safety management system, this guide covers all the essential ...

A 'textbook with passion', Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence. In this book, author Quint Studer, founder of Studer Group, draws on his personal experience as a former hospital executive who led two organizations to the top 1% in patient satisfaction and his experience coaching hundreds of healthcare organizations since.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? With over 46 years of experience in the construction industry working on every type of project imaginable, Joel Anderson shares the nuts and bolts for building a successful business. From hiring and managing employees to operations, marketing, and keeping clients to financing projects, Joel shows you the secrets for running your business smoothly, avoiding costly mistakes, and growing at a sustainable rate. Step-by-step, he’ll also show you how to get and stay organized while you regain your sanity, so you can run your business and it...

Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. Meanwhile, the drugmaker’s owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin.

"How do I get an agent?" is the most asked question in Hollywood. Are you ready to SELL yourself as a screenwriter? Then you need an agent...or a manager...or both. This is the comprehensive, step-by-step guide that will reveal the truth about: The difference between a screenwriting agent and a screenwriting manager. Why you need an agent...or manager...or both. How to choose the right agent or manager for you. When and how to reach out and make that first contact. When and how to sign your first agency or management contract. How to be the client agents and managers want to work for. This ...

Take control of your trucking business finances in just 21 days! Are you a truck owner-operator, small fleet manager, or aspiring logistics entrepreneur struggling to manage your business finances? 21 Days to Organizing Your Trucking Business Finances is your ultimate guide to mastering the financial side of your trucking business. In this step-by-step, day-by-day guide, you’ll learn how to: Set realistic financial goals for your business. Create a simple and effective budgeting system. Track your revenue and expenses to maximize profitability. Identify cost-saving opportunities and ...

Step into the world of reinsurance with 'Reinsurance Simplified: A Beginner's Guide to the Backbone of Insurance,' the book I wished I had when starting my journey in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Authored from personal experience, this guide is tailored for those new to the field, offering clear, concise explanations of complex topics. It’s packed with real-world insights and practical knowledge, making it the perfect starting point for anyone looking to build a solid foundation in reinsurance. Transform your understanding and approach to risk management with this essential ...

Dr. Zeev Neuwirth wrote Reframing Healthcare for leaders and organizations interested in understanding what the disrupters in healthcare are doing and, more to the point, for those who want to be the disrupters rather than the disrupted. This audiobook is a step-by-step guide for leadership teams that are intent on improving healthcare at an accelerated pace. It’s written for healthcare organizations that wish to thrive in a customer-centric, community-oriented, value-based healthcare system.

Are you thinking about opening a restaurant, bar or nightclub? This is a complex business with a big learning curve. You can either learn by trial and error spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or you can lean from those that have already done it successfully. Chris Seferyn has survived and thrived for 20+ years in the hospitality business. He has literally seen it all when it comes to serving people food and beverages. This book is the distillation of everything he has learned by making all the mistakes that you would make. How do you pick a concept? How do you choose a location? How ...

Emotions matter. Whether negotiating with an angry boss or an outraged teenager, emotions can derail you. Properly treated, however, they can help you achieve the results you want. This book shows you how.

Book endorsed by the Professional Beauty Association (PBA) and Modern Salon Magazine. "With the launch of the Ready, Set, Go! Book series,Jeff Grissler has finally created a new benchmark publication geared to helping Salon Owners build and run a profitable salon. Yes, at L'Oreal we want salons to be on the cutting edge with styles and color but more importanly we want them to make money. RSG books series will now give them the tools to get their salons to the next level. Successful salon ownership,happy employees, wonderful families and friends and of all things a healthy retirement! This ...

Are you looking to enter the thriving world of heavy equipment operation? Look no further than the Heavy Equipment Operator Handbook! This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of the heavy equipment industry, from the basics of heavy equipment operation to the challenges faced by operators in the field. With 20 chapters filled with valuable information, this eBook is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to begin a career in this exciting industry. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the heavy equipment industry, while Chapter 2 dives into the different types of heavy equipment and ...

The Service Culture Handbook is a step-by-step guide to help you develop a customer-focused culture in your company, department, or location. Whether you're just beginning your journey, or have been working on culture for years, this handbook will prepare you to take the next step. You'll receive actionable advice, straightforward exercises, and proven tools you can utilize immediately.

No business concept was more important to America's economic revival in the 1990s than reengineering, introduced to the world in Michael Hammer and James Champy's Reengineering the Corporation. Already a classic, this international best seller describes how the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture can achieve a quantum leap in performance.

In their book Abundance, best-selling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the best-selling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next 10 years of rapid technological disruption.

Unsliced is the resource for elevating your pizzeria - from managing staff to mindset, marketing, and everything in between. Industry leader Mike Bausch explains how to make your restaurant unique and in demand based on his 20 years of experience. You’ll learn how to build systems that will help you boost your sales and keep your sanity. And you’ll discover time-tested protocols that will protect you and your restaurant. It’s hard not to get discouraged in this business. But with the right perspective, smart systems, and hard work, your restaurant can thrive.

This audiobook is about the past, present, and future of hospitality. It presents a comprehensive study on the state of the industry by describing the challenges it has been dealing with, major disruptions in the recent years, effects of tech evolution, cloud computing, alternative accommodations and COVID-19, with a glimpse into what the future holds in the next 5-10 years and how we can get there faster and more efficiently.