Management & Strategy

Time is a scarce resource that is often overlooked in business and personal life. Despite its limited availability, time can be effectively managed through careful planning and prioritization. By understanding the importance of time management, individuals and especially organizations can improve their productivity, efficiency, and overall success. Based on the author's direct experience of creating and building what is now a 20,000-employee company, this book examines the crucial role time management plays for companies to achieve their goals and maintain competitiveness and customer satisfaction. It's through effective time management that companies gain better team coordination, leading to improved productivity and project completion. Additionally, time management can enable companies to allocate resources more effectively, ensuring that they are used to their full potential. Full of insightful cases and examples, this book demonstrates how time is a major factor in organizational performance and how it can be managed for greater success.

Humans are born with a circadian rhythm - a sleep-wake rhythm. Variations in human genes cause us to sleep and wake at different times of the day. Your circadian rhythm is therefore not something you choose. You are genetically predisposed to be either a morning person or an evening person. If we need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, we are not only disrupting our sleep - we are living out of sync with our internal biological clocks. Living out of sync with our biological clocks makes us more vulnerable to infections, cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. And at work, it makes us less productive and effective.  This book shows you how you can use the knowledge of chronobiology to create healthier, more sustainable and more productive rhythms in the workplace. Knowledge-based societies requires an inclusion of different circadian rhythms, and there is much to be gained for individuals, for companies, and for society if we let go of prejudices and create social acceptance and respect for our diversity in circadian rhythms. Chronoleadership is a new framework for creating attractive (and productive) workplaces for both morning persons and evening persons.

This book is perfect for corporate leaders, marketing communication practitioners, and students who want to gain a deep understanding of effective relationship management.It draws on research from business, organizational psychology, and communication whose insights it applies to practice through clear and practical examples. The chapters discuss the process of building and maintaining relationships via the consistent implementation of corporate values to ensure the stakeholders' identification with the company.The reader will explore relationship management with employees and consumers in local and international environments, in offline and online interactions, and in times of crises. Finally, the chapters represent a journey into the role that leadership styles, internal cultures, and social media play in relationship management.

Every organization will experience a crisis. Some will be mild; others will be severe. All will experience the unexpected. Few will experience the TOTALLY UNEXPECTED NEGATIVE EVENTS-the BULL SHARK events. These events can only be dreamed of - in a nightmare. They arise out of some deep part of an organization that believes it has things under control, much as Bull Sharks arise out of completely unexpected freshwater river to thrash and kill its prey.Too many organizations never plan for any kind of crisis. They don't identify their vulnerabilities, typically obvious ones. A Bull Shark event is different, it's insidious. It lies deep beneath the surface, defying imagination and totally unexpected, causing chaos and havoc, threatening the life of the organization that it attacks.However, even a Bull Shark event can be imagined. But it takes a commitment to freeing people's imaginations and then planning for these totally unlikely events. This handbook offers the insights that will help organizations go beyond the obvious to the events that make no sense when they happen and disrupt organizations to the core, the Bull Shark events. It does this with examples of Bull Shark events, techniques to unearth your potential Bull Sharks, and techniques to deal with them when they arise. Read this book so you will know how to handle even the worst crises.

Transform the way you work by getting the habits that make your brain work at its best. Enhance your efficiency, productivity and effectiveness by applying the latest insights from neuroscience, presented in a no-nonsense, practical, entertaining format.

This volume provides insights to the principle of digital transformation and the key technologies which enable businesses to put the principle into practice. It is an ideal resource for postgraduate students on management courses, professionals on executive education courses, researchers and lecturers.

This volume provides insights to the principle of digital transformation and the key technologies which enable businesses to put the principle into practice. It is an ideal resource for postgraduate students on management courses, professionals on executive education courses, researchers and lecturers.

The aim of this book is to inspire and encourage project practitioners, executives, and beginners in the project management field to develop passion, persistence, and patience. The author tells his personal stories and experiences managing projects in organizations by practicing his three Ps - passion, persistence, and patience.

Using image and film advertisements, interviews, social media and public and private archives, Luxury Fashion and Media Communication offers an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the value of the luxury object. Regular reports on consumption in media and frequent advertising on social media have allowed people all over the world to share in the issues and development of luxury; but how is it communicated, and how has it affected the consumer?An international range of scholars explore the material and immaterial value and meaning of luxury, how it is materialized and how it is communicated between the luxury industry and the consumer. Investigating French, Italian and Spanish luxury brands and their communication strategies on the global market, and including two chapters focusing specifically on the Chinese and American markets, they examine the ambiguity of the luxury commodity. This volume shows particularly the conflicting narratives between the idea of exclusivity and human skills and their mass marketing.In exploring theoretical perspectives alongside the practicalities of how luxury is communicated, Luxury Fashion and Media Communication reveals the value of the luxury object and the consumer's behaviour in relation to that value. It offers an innovative and important intervention in the inter-related fields of luxury fashion, media and communication, and key reading for scholars, students and practitioners wishing to explore the material and immaterial value of luxury.

First published in 1983, Recapitalizing America (now with a new preface by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) identifies, criticizes and offers alternatives to accepted wisdoms of recapitalization, whose variants include not only Reaganomics and Thatcherism but also less rigid neo-liberal and liberal policy proposals likely to supplant them.

Technological breakthroughs obliterate established methods and change entire industries. This book explores the significant makeover introduced by disruptive HRM technologies in the area of HRM. Combining theory with practice, it will be of value to scholars and upper-level students across HRM, and technology and innovation management.

The safety, maintainability, and maintenance of systems have become more important than ever before. Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly safe and easily maintainable engineering systems.

The book covers the life cycle of pipeline valves, the largest and most essential valve in offshore pipeline engineering. Discussing the design process, testing, production, transportation, installation, and maintenance, the book also covers the risk analysis required to assess the reliability of the valves.

The book intends to discuss the basic ideas, underlying principles, mathematical formulations, analysis and applications of the different combinatorial problems under uncertainty and attempts to provide solution/s for the same.

The book offers comprehensive coverage of the essential topics, including machine Learning and Deep Learning for cybersecurity, blockchain for cybersecurity and privacy, security engineering for Cyber-physical systems, AI and Data Analytics techniques for cybersecurity in smart systems, trust in digital systems.

Port Systems in Global Competition is an answer to the strong and urgent need for reviewing the relevant theories, concepts, methods, and sources that can be mobilized for the analysis of port systems.

The monograph aims to comprehensively describe Artificial Intelligence technology in three aspects: organizational, psychological, and technological in the context of increasingly bold use of this technology in management.

Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is a method used by maintenance and reliability industry professionals as one of the key tools to drive improvement. This book provides a quick guide to the applications involved in performing a successful RCFA.

This book is intended to help the incoming administration and members of critical infrastructure communities to prioritize cybersecurity, combat emerging threats, craft meaningful policy, and consider modernization and nascent technologies. The book is divided into seventeen chapters that are focused on the critical infrastructure sectors.