Management & Strategy

Designing for the Circular Economy highlights and explores 'state of the art' research and industrial practice, highlighting CE as a source of: new business opportunities; radical business change; disruptive innovation; social change; and new consumer attitudes.

Maximize performance with better dataDeveloping a successful workforce requires more than a gut check. Data can help guide your decisions on everything from where to seat a team to optimizing production processes to engaging with your employees in ways that ring true to them.People analytics is the study of your number one business asset--your people--and this book shows you how to collect data, analyze that data, and then apply your findings to create a happier and more engaged workforce.* Start a people analytics project* Work with qualitative data* Collect data via communications* Find the right tools and approach for analyzing dataIf your organization is ready to better understand why high performers leave, why one department has more personnel issues than another, and why employees violate, People Analytics For Dummies makes it easier.

Head First PMP teaches you the latest principles and certification objectives in The PMBOK (R) Guide in a unique and inspiring way. This updated fourth edition takes you beyond specific questions and answers with a unique visual format that helps you grasp the big picture of project management.

PRAISE FOR THE STORYTELLING EDGE > --JAY BAER, founder of Convince & Convert and author of Hug Your Haters > --BRIAN SOLIS, experience architect, digital anthropologist, best-selling author > --ANN HYNEK, VP of Global Content Marketing at Morgan Stanley Content strategists Joe Lazauskas and Shane Snow offer an insider's guide to transforming your business--and all the relationships that matter to it--through the art and science of telling great stories. Smart businesses know that they need to use stories to connect to the people they care about. But few know how to do it well. In The Storytelling Edge, the content strategy minds behind Contently, the world renowned content marketing technology company, reveal their secrets that have helped award-winning brands to build relationships with millions of advocates and customers. Join as they dive into the neuroscience of storytelling, the elements of powerful stories, and methodologies to grow businesses through engaging and accountable content. With The Storytelling Edge, you will discover how leaders and workers can craft the powerful stories that not only build brands and engage customers, but also build relationships and make people care--in work and in life.

The Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners provides a clear and extensive guide to the theory, research and practice of coaching psychology.

Get an overview of retail supply chain and the differences within the different retail sectors, supported by tools and bona fide cases.

This book is a "scientific" introduction to management consulting that covers elementary and more advanced concepts, such as strategy and client-relationship.

International bestselling author and Stanford University professor Tina Seelig adapts her wildly popular creativity course to a practical guide on how to put your best ideas into action.For the past fifteen years, Professor Tina Seelig has taught her Stanford students how to creatively unleash their unique entrepreneurial spirits. In Creativity Rules, she shares this wisdom, offering inspiration and guidance to transform ideas into reality. Readers will learn how to work through the four steps of The Invention Cycle: Imagination (envisioning things that do not yet exist), Creativity (applying your imagination to address a challenge), Innovation (applying creativity to generate unique solutions), and Entrepreneurship (applying innovation, to bring ideas to fruition, where our ideas then gain the power to inspire the imaginations of others). Using each step to build upon the last, you can create something much complex, interesting, and powerful.Creativity Rules provides the essential knowledge to take a compelling idea and transform it into something extraordinary.

Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profitsOrganizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways:* Well-being leads to health and high performance* Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs* Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior* Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health* Leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeingIn addition to proving highly effective, these approaches represent a fraction of the cost sunk into traditional wellness and engagement programs. The book explains how to create a workplace that is good for people, releases them to what they do best and enjoy most, and produces great and profitable work.* Find actionable strategies and tactics you can put into use today* Retain happy, productive talent* Cut unnecessary spending and boost your bottom line* Benefit from real-world research and proven practice If you're a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you'll want to have on hand.

Reinvent best practices that have become bad habitsWithout meaning to, and often with the best of intentions, most organizations continually waste precious time and money on processes and activities that don't create value and no longer make sense in today's business environment. Until now, the relatively slow speed of marketplace evolution has allowed wasteful habits to continue without consequence. This reality is ending.Detonate explains how organizations built up bad habits, identifies which ones masquerade as "best practices," and suggests alternatives that can contribute to winning in the marketplace. With a focus on optimism and empowerment, it focuses on an approach and mindset which are critical to successfully compete in an era characterized by profound technological advances and uncertainty.* Core themes challenge how you think about and approach problems* Case studies illustrate the challenges you face and how to overcome them* Recommendations are pragmatic and steer clear of suggesting a brand-new, complicated wiring diagram* Actionable advice provides the first steps down an evolutionary pathIf you want to compete differently in today's marketplace and to challenge the things your company does which you have a nagging feeling are actually just a waste of time - and maybe value-destroying - Detonate gives you what you need to ignite change.

Modern projects are confronted with complexity and ambiguity. To provide a holistic framework, this book presents a new project management model that is used to identify the nature of a project and develop appropriate project solutions. It also allows a circular planning process, leading to coherence across the project's elements.

This bookprovides clear information and guidance on how to do scenario planning to support strategy and public policy. The book describes the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach (OSPA), an intellectually rigorous and practical methodolgy.

In The Pricing Journey, Stephan M. Liozu provides an integrated guide to the organizational, social, and behavioral dimensions of pricing. He equips readers with the practical roadmap that they need to transform their pricing culture, drive firm performance, and achieve pricing excellence.

The ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually making sustainability work for organizations. An updated edition of a landmark book at a time when a growing number of corporate leaders are asking for urgent help in "getting this done".

Rule the Room is the product of Jason Teteak’s twenty-year experience as a trainer and coach. His thoroughly tested advice covers every presenter’s concerns, from hooking the audience immediately to entertaining them, and from overcoming your fears to handling questions. He covers every base—content creation, delivery, audience management— with an overview plus step-by-step instructions, review exercises, and scores of specific and practical tips. Whether you want to persuade, motivate, teach, or inspire, Rule the Room can be your guide.

Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the PM interview questions (estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important "pitch").

WORLD CLASS PRICING is the indispensable roadmap to take your pricing organization from its' current class to World Class.It is built upon the 5 Levels of World Class Pricing - what has become the industry standard for tackling pricing improvement amongst pricing professionals. The approach to pricing improvement shared in this book has been successfully applied by many of the worlds' leading companies including Exxon Mobil, GE, Michelin and J&J, among a host of others.It provides a positive vision of each step that needs to be taken on the journey to pricing improvement. Whether stuck firefighting at Level 1, cost-based pricing at Level 2, utilizing value-based pricing at Level 3, applying optimization at Level 4, or on the brink of achieving World Class at Level 5, this book has something for you.