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Operations management is a critical skill for all current and aspiring business leaders. Now, Operations Management for Dummies takes the guesswork out of this often-intimidating subject. Whether you are a professional just promoted into your first operations management job who needs to learn operations fast or your aim is to score your highest in an undergraduate or MBA operations management class, the plain-English, step-by-step information in Operations Management for Dummies gives you the critical toolkit for operations success. 

In this revised and updated edition of Leading Successful Change, Shea and Solomon share success stories from a host of companies including Twitter, Viacom, and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, offering a tested method for leading successful change, which they have developed over a combined fifty years of helping organizations do just that.

The Chief Strategy Officer Podcast brings you conversations with global executives who lead strategy to share their unique experiences in tackling complex challenges, navigating disruptive technologies, and driving impactful growth. The Chief Strategy Officer role can be lonely and misunderstood. In today's interconnected world, no single leader has all the answers. To learn more about how Outthinker's network of leading chief strategy officers can offer you time-saving solutions, trend insights, and invaluable peer connections - visit outthinkernetwork.com.

Granville N. Toogood is a top executive communications expert, as well as an established speaker, trainer, and writer. Before starting his own company in 1982, Mr. Toogood was a television reporter and network news producer for NBC and ABC. Today, he works with a long list of blue-chip clients and has served as a consultant to 38 of the Fortune 500 CEOs, as well as thousands of senior-level executives, elected officials, and diplomats throughout the world. This book is based on his acclaimed corporate workshops in executive communications. 

J. J. Sutherland has the solution. In his international best seller Scrum, he introduced a simple, revolutionary tool to turbo-charge the output of every team. Based on decades of research and road-tested at the headquarters of Google and Amazon, the Scrum method transformed how a generation of leaders work - first in Silicon Valley, and then in boardrooms around the world.

Master corporate governance and ethical leadership to navigate boardroom power dynamics and build accountable companies. Perfect for your morning commute, this clear-cut business guide empowers early-career professionals and startup founders alike to step into any meeting with total confidence...

When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer experiences without running these experiments? They fly blind. That's what Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows in this rigorously researched and eye-opening book. 

Thomas Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." This show interviews hard-working construction company owners and executives who share their wisdom, perspectives, and lessons learned from decades of experience bidding, planning, and building profitable projects. Topics include leadership, strategic planning, conflict resolution, niche identification, succession planning, talent management, business development, and business growth. Industry expert, Eric Anderton also shares his insights about how construction company owners can increase project profit by improving ...

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are just a few of...

This program includes a preface read by the authors. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives. Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards, these two...

Strong leadership begins with the ability to lead yourself. Disciplined to Lead shows managers, rising professionals, and ambitious men how leadership and self discipline work together to create credibility, confidence, and lasting influence. Instead of relying on motivation or personality alone...

What if Monday wasn't something to dread-but something to look forward to?In TGIM: Thank God It's Monday, co-authors Missy Forlani, M.S., and Melisa Soydinc, M.S. invite you to rediscover purpose, passion, and joy in your work and your life. Through real stories, practical insights, and...

You closed the deal, somebody rang the bell in Slack, and the whole company moved on to the next one. Now the customer is yours, and so is the renewal, the expansion and the number your CEO is going to ask about.After the Close is the customer revenue podcast for the operators running post-sale teams. I’m Kristi Faltorusso, and I’ve led customer revenue at five companies, so I’ll tell you what I’ve seen work and what I got wrong. Every week, in about 20 minutes, you’ll walk away with one move you can use this week and the words to explain it to your CEO, CRO or board. Some weeks it...

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In The Difference Maker, author Bjorn Thorvaldson draws on decades of real-world experience to offer readers simple frameworks for decision-making, communication, leadership, and navigating uncertainty. The Difference Maker is an influential work on developing and sustaining leadership and...

Were living in a technological era of endless disruption and fierce competition. For B2B tech companies, the line between relevance and obscurity is razor-thin. But a clear pattern has emerged: the businesses growing the fastest arent the ones with the flashiest tech or the largest teamstheyre...

Procurement discovery and proposal automation, from both sides of the table. Finding the right opportunities, qualifying out early and without regret, building a reusable answer library, pricing decisions, and the operational discipline that turns responses from heroics into a repeatable process. Each episode takes one part of the cycle — a bid/no-bid call, a compliance matrix, a debrief worth requesting — and works it through practically. Written for capture managers, proposal teams and the small companies competing against much larger ones. Five or six minutes an episode. Topics include ...

Who on Your Team Has Yet to Hear You Call Their Name? Are you a people leader whose payroll holds more names than your memory holds? Whose longest-tenured employees exit as strangers? Who honestly cant remember the last thank you you wrote to an employee? Your team thanks whom you thank. Your...

Law school taught you how to win cases. Now learn how to run a business. You know you're the best attorney in the room. You've always known it. So why is the guy down the street, the one you'd never hire, the one your clients would never choose if they knew better… Why is he the one with the...

SENT is an intergenerational and intercultural church with a central mission of equipping and sending its members in every sphere of their lives as God’s missionary force (Ephesians 4:11-13) SENT Global Worship Service 10:30 AM on Sundays Youth Room@Calvary Community Church 1000 S. Springinsguth Road. Schaumburg, IL 60193 SENT International Church partners with Calvary Community Church in Schaumburg (calvaryschaumburg.org) and is affiliated with Converge MidAmerica (converge.org), formerly known as the Baptist General Conference