Management Systems

Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values, and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits, and identify new business opportunities.

Dreaming of a streamlined law practice that wins more clients and gives you your time back? This is your answer! Attorneys work some of the longest hours of any profession—especially if you run your own law firm. Whether you’re with a small team or going solo, chances are you’re on-call 24/7. You’re buried in day-to-day operations, legal work, and the emotional toll that comes with it—often at the expense of family life. You love your work and the difference you make. But what if you could regain balance and be fully present at work and at home?

If we just keep on going in a frenzied state of busyness, our nervous system eventually gets overwhelmed and we experience a trauma response. This changes how we think, feel and behave, making it difficult for us to carry out tasks or practise self-care strategies like boundary-setting and mindfulness. We lose motivation and interest in things we used to enjoy and become trapped in a state known as learned helplessness, unable to see solutions, sometimes unable to care. We still operate, but in autopilot mode, prone to making mistakes.

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.

It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start? How do you know where to look for information and evaluate its quality and bias? How can you feel confident that you are making a careful and thoroughly researched decision? Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing, or expanding your business, Problem Solved will show you how to use the AREA Method to make complex decisions.

Do you find yourself continually racing against time? Do you feel that you have so much to do that it’s difficult to get anything done? Managing time effectively is the key to managing your individual performance, but it’s much more complicated today than making a list and checking things off. This audio program will show you how to create a time management system that works for you.

Now, in the face of the "Great Resignation" and "botsourcing," thought leaders Sanders and Wood present a more positive and promising scenario, where an enterprise recognizes human resources as an asset class that possesses skills that cannot be replaced by automation. Enlightened business leaders will look to create synergy between technology and people, enabling the organization to maximize its capabilities by elevating the basis of decision making with closer-to-perfect information and rationality.

Tired of setting goals that fizzle faster than a New Year's resolution? Meet your new secret weapon. Goal Crushing: The Not-So-Serious Guide to Seriously Achieving Your Dreams is the refreshingly honest roadmap you've been waiting for. No more dry advice from perfect-looking gurus who "manifest" success while you're still trying to manifest the motivation to get off the couch. Inside this wickedly practical guide, you'll discover: Why most goals fail (hint: it's not lack of willpower) The crucial difference between dreams and goals (and why you need both) How to build a "never quit" mindset...

When Telling and Instructing fail...how can you move others? Learn with one of the most experienced and passionate executive coaches in America. The Master Coach Model will accelerate your understanding of how to Pull-not push, Explore - not explain, and Listen - not lecture, to the success of both the coach and the coachee. Dr. Jim Smith will move you with a proven model for coaching that connects both mind and heart of those you influence. Complete with real-time coaching discussions and tools, The Master Coach Model is a must-hear.

Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

Pre-mortem strategies are proactive strategies that assume a failure has occurred and then work backward to come up with reasons for that failure. All potential reasons are analyzed by a diverse team of organizational stakeholders who select those most likely to be the cause. A plan is then put in place to prevent the failure from happening in the future; thereby circumventing the need for a dreaded post-mortem strategy. This book examines pre-mortem strategies for information technology. First, it describes information technology and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. Next, it ...

Z-Health is the amazing new system that integrates many fields of science: from neuroscience to physical therapy to orthopedics. Z-Health improves physical performance and reduces or eliminates chronic pain.

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." — Warren Buffett. “The best investors do not target return; they focus first on risk and only then decide whether the projected return justifies taking each particular risk.” - Peter Bernstein. In investment, the risk is inevitable, but its severity and probability vary. The book empowers you to manage the risk to - 1) minimize the losses and 2) weigh the opportunity cost. Further, you can devise the framework and strategies to take on long-term investment success. The book is written to help you manage risk holistically. The risk could...

As a small business owner, you know your team is the most important asset to your company, but you are burdened with overcomplicated and unproductive recruitment. You need a strategy that will streamline the process and a set of tools to provide consistency and clarity for informed hiring decisions.

Achieve More in Less Time by Mastering the 5 Pillars of Time Management: Create More Hours in a Day, Free Up Plenty of Time to Spend With Family and Friends, and Accomplish Even More Than You Thought You Could! Ask yourself: Are you feeling overwhelmed with your day-to-day life? Do you feel like there’s just not enough time in the day to do everything that needs to get done? Are you a busy person who wishes there were more hours in the day? If so, then The 5 Pillars of Time Management for Busy People may be exactly what you need. It's hard to be productive when you don't have a plan or ...

Americans today face retirement with a mix of hope and trepidation. Hope—that their health will hold out long enough to let them do what they want for decades. And trepidation—that they might not have enough wealth to fund it. But creating a viable, sustainable retirement plan is easier than you think. In It’s All About the Income, award-winning financial planner and bestselling author Michael Lynch lays out a simple, straightforward system for determining when you really have enough money to call it quits.

Permaculture, a Portmanteau of "permanent" and "agriculture" is growing in popularity around the world and for a good reason too. First introduced to protect nature and humankind, permaculture is both a philosophy and a practical approach to sustainable development.

Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance is a life-altering guide that focuses on powerful beliefs and mind-sets that underpin free-flowing personal and monetary good fortune. With hand-picked exercises and their personally developed transformation process, these renowned specialists' insider knowledge will help you heal your relationship with cash and create positive habits for affluence.

Here’s what you don't know about stress management that’s going to save your life. Can you feel your mental health slowly slipping away from you? Do you want to take action and restore your energy to what it once was but don't know where to begin? The core of your being knows a truth beyond what you have yet discovered and, once you tap into it, you will be able to release the potential for something greater. All the stress and sleepless nights will fade away...only to be replaced with determination and focus!

In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate.