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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

International Case Studies and Practice

Edited by Ken Banks ...

Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often ... Read more

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Social innovation and social entrepreneurship look for creative and affordable solutions to specific societal problems. Fuelled by the spread of the internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones, there are more people working to solve pressing social and environmental problems in the world today than ever before. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents the journeys of pioneering - and often
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking

by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, Peter Klein ...

The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization’s DNA to drive sustainable growthIn today’s ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization’s DNA to drive sustainable growthIn today’s ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of “the elite few” and into the company culture
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Influence and Persuasion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Nick Morgan, Robert B. Cialdini, Linda A. Hill, Nancy Duarte ...

Series series HBR Emotional Intelligence Series
Changing hearts is an important part of changing minds.Research shows that appealing to human emotion can help you make your case and build your authority as a leader.This book highlights that research and shows you how to act on it, presenting both comprehensive frameworks for developing influence and small, simple tactics you can use to convince others every day.This volume includes the work of ... Read more

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Changing hearts is an important part of changing minds.Research shows that appealing to human emotion can help you make your case and build your authority as a leader.This book highlights that research and shows you how to act on it, presenting both comprehensive frameworks for developing influence and small, simple tactics you can use to convince others every day.This volume includes the work of
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Building High Performance Government Through Lean Six Sigma: A Leader's Guide to Creating Speed, Agility, and Efficiency

by Mark Price,Walter Mores,Hundley M. Elliotte ...

Your handbook to successful LSS deployment in federal services Implementing Lean Six Sigma in a federal agency can be a vastly different process than applying it in the private sector; with government comes a host of unique challenges and complexities. Written by an author team that ranks among the few recognized LSS leaders who have worked directly with its deployment in the federal sector, Lean ... Read more

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Your handbook to successful LSS deployment in federal services Implementing Lean Six Sigma in a federal agency can be a vastly different process than applying it in the private sector; with government comes a host of unique challenges and complexities. Written by an author team that ranks among the few recognized LSS leaders who have worked directly with its deployment in the federal sector, Lean
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Business Driven PMO Success Stories

Across Industries and Around the World

by Mark Price Perry ...

Business Driven PMO Success Stories was written by and with over two dozen contributing authors from the worldwide project management and project management office (PMO) community. It offers executives, managers, and all those involved in the projects of the organization, an understanding of the value a PMO can provide, the knowledge they need to determine the purpose of their PMO, and how to ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Business Driven PMO Success Stories was written by and with over two dozen contributing authors from the worldwide project management and project management office (PMO) community. It offers executives, managers, and all those involved in the projects of the organization, an understanding of the value a PMO can provide, the knowledge they need to determine the purpose of their PMO, and how to
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Strategy in Poker, Business & War

by John McDonald ...

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers.John McDonald looks at the elusive thread of opposition and conflict that runs through human interrelationships, from the striking of a bargain to the clash of war. He discusses ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers.John McDonald looks at the elusive thread of opposition and conflict that runs through human interrelationships, from the striking of a bargain to the clash of war. He discusses
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How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World

by Lorien Pratt ...

Why aren't the most powerful new technologies being used to solve the world's most important problems: hunger, poverty, conflict, inequality, employment, disease? What's missing?From a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning comes a thought-provoking book that answers these questions. In Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World, Dr. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Why aren't the most powerful new technologies being used to solve the world's most important problems: hunger, poverty, conflict, inequality, employment, disease? What's missing?From a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning comes a thought-provoking book that answers these questions. In Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World, Dr.
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The Difference

How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times

by Jean Chatzky ...

Can you really start from nothing and become truly secure financially?What’s the difference between you and Warren Buffett? Between you and your boss? Or between you and your successful neighbor? What do the financially comfortable have that you don’t?It’s not that those people were born into money, caught a lucky break, or have an Ivy League education. It’s not even that they are smarter than you ... Read more

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Can you really start from nothing and become truly secure financially?What’s the difference between you and Warren Buffett? Between you and your boss? Or between you and your successful neighbor? What do the financially comfortable have that you don’t?It’s not that those people were born into money, caught a lucky break, or have an Ivy League education. It’s not even that they are smarter than you
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Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies

by Martin Cohen ...

Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgmentsThe ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and ... Read more

$12.00 USD

Learn how to argue points effectively, analyze information, and make sound judgmentsThe ability to think clearly and critically is a lifelong benefit that you can apply in any situation that calls for reflection, analysis, and planning. Being able to think systematically and solve problems is also a great career asset. Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies helps you hone your thinking abilities and
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Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management

by F. Robert Jacobs, William Berry, D. Clay Whybark, Thomas Vollmann ...

The definitive guide to manufacturing planning and control--FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE CPIM EXAMImprove supply chain effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability with help from this authoritative resource. Completely up-to-date, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: APICS/CPIM Certification Edition offers comprehensive preparation for the ... Read more

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The definitive guide to manufacturing planning and control--FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE CPIM EXAMImprove supply chain effectiveness, productivity, customer satisfaction, and profitability with help from this authoritative resource. Completely up-to-date, Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: APICS/CPIM Certification Edition offers comprehensive preparation for the
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金錢陷阱：軟銀集團前總裁以扣人心弦的商業傳奇，揭露科技泡沫的真實與幻象

The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble

by 阿洛．薩瑪, Alok Sama ...

Translated by 張嘉倫 ...

ARM、NVIDIA、TikTok⋯⋯唯一揭露巨額投資現場的紀實－✮ 史上最大「願景基金」核心交易推動者的第一手視角✮ 從科技與金融的最前線揭示市場真相✮ 破除獨角獸神話與誇大炒作的迷思✮ 新創團隊、投資人、企業經營者的冷靜教科書✮特別收錄：寫給台灣讀者的作者序《金錢陷阱》絕非是頌揚財富或生意場上的風光或神話，而是指出那看似光鮮的追逐，往往終究是一場虛無。所幸，這樣的訊息，永遠不會過時。──阿洛．薩瑪 Alok Sama本書作者詳實描寫了在摩根士丹利的職涯，以及在軟銀與孫正義一同參與全球最知名科技公司的投資與併購，包括：安謀、雅虎、輝達、TikTok、Uber、T-Mobile、阿里巴巴和WeWork。▍在科技領域流動的龐大資金，真能為我們帶來更美好的繁榮願景？以成功與失敗為主軸，為讀者展現豐富的業... ... Read more

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ARM、NVIDIA、TikTok⋯⋯唯一揭露巨額投資現場的紀實－✮ 史上最大「願景基金」核心交易推動者的第一手視角✮ 從科技與金融的最前線揭示市場真相✮ 破除獨角獸神話與誇大炒作的迷思✮ 新創團隊、投資人、企業經營者的冷靜教科書✮特別收錄：寫給台灣讀者的作者序《金錢陷阱》絕非是頌揚財富或生意場上的風光或神話，而是指出那看似光鮮的追逐，往往終究是一場虛無。所幸，這樣的訊息，永遠不會過時。──阿洛．薩瑪 Alok Sama本書作者詳實描寫了在摩根士丹利的職涯，以及在軟銀與孫正義一同參與全球最知名科技公司的投資與併購，包括：安謀、雅虎、輝達、TikTok、Uber、T-Mobile、阿里巴巴和WeWork。▍在科技領域流動的龐大資金，真能為我們帶來更美好的繁榮願景？以成功與失敗為主軸，為讀者展現豐富的業...
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The Innovator's Method

Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization

by Nathan Furr, Jeff Dyer ...

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you
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Train Your Brain For Success

Read Smarter, Remember More, and Break Your Own Records

by Roger Seip ...

Train your mind to achieve new levels of success!Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain ... Read more

Was $15.00 USD Now $12.00 USD

Train your mind to achieve new levels of success!Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain
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Speed Kills: Leveraging John Boyd's OODA Loop to Build Organizations That Win

by Alex Vohr ...

Most leaders don't struggle with making decisions. They struggle with making them fast enough to matter.In today's world of AI disruption, global competition, and relentless change, slow processes and overanalysis can cripple even the strongest teams. The cost of delay is real: decision paralysis, wasted effort, and the nagging sense that faster competitors are pulling ahead.Speed Kills introduces ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Most leaders don't struggle with making decisions. They struggle with making them fast enough to matter.In today's world of AI disruption, global competition, and relentless change, slow processes and overanalysis can cripple even the strongest teams. The cost of delay is real: decision paralysis, wasted effort, and the nagging sense that faster competitors are pulling ahead.Speed Kills introduces
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Rules of Management, The

by Richard Templar ...

A definitive code for managerial successSome people find management so easy. They appear to be natural leaders, painlessly negotiating the system, the politics, the people, and the targets.Is there something they know that the rest of us don’t? Is it something we can all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of Management.These rules are the guiding principles that show you ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A definitive code for managerial successSome people find management so easy. They appear to be natural leaders, painlessly negotiating the system, the politics, the people, and the targets.Is there something they know that the rest of us don’t? Is it something we can all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of Management.These rules are the guiding principles that show you
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Inside Jobs

Why Insider Risk Is the Biggest Cyber Threat You Can't Ignore

by Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, Mark Wojtasiak ...

From data security company Code42, Inside Jobs offers companies of all sizes a new way to secure today’s collaborative cultures—one that works without compromising sensitive company data or slowing business down. Authors Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, and Mark Wojtasiak, seasoned veterans in the cybersecurity space, provide a top-down and bottom-up picture of the rewards and perils involved in running ... Read more

$16.99 USD

From data security company Code42, Inside Jobs offers companies of all sizes a new way to secure today’s collaborative cultures—one that works without compromising sensitive company data or slowing business down. Authors Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, and Mark Wojtasiak, seasoned veterans in the cybersecurity space, provide a top-down and bottom-up picture of the rewards and perils involved in running
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Schaum's Outline of Operations Research

by Richard Bronson, Govindasami Naadimuthu ...

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get
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Six Sigma For Managers

by Greg Brue ...

Series series Briefcase Books Series
THE BRIEFCASE BOOKS SERIESNow translated into nine languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level.All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more ... Read more

$12.39 USD

THE BRIEFCASE BOOKS SERIESNow translated into nine languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level.All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more
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IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy

by Bruce Sinclair ...

Grab the top spot in your industry by seizing the power of IoTSmart products are everywhere. They’re in our companies, in our homes, in our pockets. People love these products. But what they love more is what these products do—and for anyone running a business today, outcomes are the key.The Internet of Things (IoT) is the point of connection between products and the results they deliver—it’s ... Read more

$26.69 USD

Grab the top spot in your industry by seizing the power of IoTSmart products are everywhere. They’re in our companies, in our homes, in our pockets. People love these products. But what they love more is what these products do—and for anyone running a business today, outcomes are the key.The Internet of Things (IoT) is the point of connection between products and the results they deliver—it’s
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Thinking Outside The Box: How to Think Creatively By Applying Critical Thinking and Lateral Thinking

by Bruce Walker ...

DISCOVER:: How to ACTIVE Your Creative MindWhat does it mean to be limited to inside the box as opposed to being outside?The key, according to experts on the subject, is to apply creative thinking to your daily life. Perhaps up until this time, you've never really thought of yourself as a creative person. Many of us go through life thinking that the only people capable of being creative are ... Read more

$11.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

DISCOVER:: How to ACTIVE Your Creative MindWhat does it mean to be limited to inside the box as opposed to being outside?The key, according to experts on the subject, is to apply creative thinking to your daily life. Perhaps up until this time, you've never really thought of yourself as a creative person. Many of us go through life thinking that the only people capable of being creative are
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矽谷簡報女王用數據說出好故事

DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story

by 南西．杜爾特 Nancy Duarte ...

Translated by 顧淑馨 ...

想在數據當道的商業世界成功提案──你得讓數字開口「說故事」──★矽谷最有說服力的女人 : 南西．杜爾特★專為職場人士打造的必勝簡報密技大數據時代，所有決策離不開數據。但數據不會說話，多少次看到滿滿數字的簡報現場，你發呆放空、昏昏欲睡，聽完後還不確定提案者的訴求到底是什麼？「財星500強」簡報大師──南希·杜爾特，破天荒分析「跨行業、跨國界」頂尖數據簡報，總結「用數據說故事」創建過程與技巧，破解你「數據簡報≠視覺化簡報」的迷思，讓每次提案成功達陣、贏得商業先機！「數據」可以指引決策者，識別商業問題或機會。要知道，你從數據中洞察到的資訊，可以為他人、團隊、企業理解今天必須採取的行動，或逆轉、改善未來的軌跡。即使商業決策都依賴數據，但「良好的溝通」卻是使用數據者的「最高技能差距」。亦即，使用數據越厲害的人，通常溝通能力非常差。這正是本書誕生的原因。</... ... Read more

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想在數據當道的商業世界成功提案──你得讓數字開口「說故事」──★矽谷最有說服力的女人 : 南西．杜爾特★專為職場人士打造的必勝簡報密技大數據時代，所有決策離不開數據。但數據不會說話，多少次看到滿滿數字的簡報現場，你發呆放空、昏昏欲睡，聽完後還不確定提案者的訴求到底是什麼？「財星500強」簡報大師──南希·杜爾特，破天荒分析「跨行業、跨國界」頂尖數據簡報，總結「用數據說故事」創建過程與技巧，破解你「數據簡報≠視覺化簡報」的迷思，讓每次提案成功達陣、贏得商業先機！「數據」可以指引決策者，識別商業問題或機會。要知道，你從數據中洞察到的資訊，可以為他人、團隊、企業理解今天必須採取的行動，或逆轉、改善未來的軌跡。即使商業決策都依賴數據，但「良好的溝通」卻是使用數據者的「最高技能差距」。亦即，使用數據越厲害的人，通常溝通能力非常差。這正是本書誕生的原因。</...
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Strategic Continuous Process Improvement

by Gerhard J. Plenert ...

Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvementResolve "quality chaos" by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions. With a focus on building an integrated quality environment, Strategic Continuous Process Improvement: Which Quality Tools to Use and When to Use Them begins by discussing the different types of continuous process improvement (CPI) systems ... Read more

$37.99 USD

Proven methods for achieving continuous process improvementResolve "quality chaos" by creating a link between quality problems and their optimal solutions. With a focus on building an integrated quality environment, Strategic Continuous Process Improvement: Which Quality Tools to Use and When to Use Them begins by discussing the different types of continuous process improvement (CPI) systems
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Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers

by Ginger Levin DPA, PMP, PgMP ...

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Improve Your Interpersonal Skills to Achieve Greater Management Success!Any formula for management success must include a high level of interpersonal skills. The growing complexity of organizational portfolios, programs, and projects, as well as the increasing number and geographic dispersion of stakeholders and employees, makes a manager's interpersonal skills critical. The frequency and variety
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Startups and Downs

The Secrets of Resilient Entrepreneurs

by Mona Bijoor ...

Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and ... Read more

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Entrepreneurship is a cycle of failures and recoveries-hopefully with more successes than not. This national bestseller is about resilience and navigating the process. How do the best entrepreneurs think about failure-as it's happening and in hindsight-and ultimately win?Today’s media is replete with stories about major entrepreneurial successes, IPOs (initial public offerings), mergers, and
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