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Since the year 2000, banks have been fined almost a third of a trillion dollars. Yet, every year billions more are imposed. Why? This book explains why banks break the law (it's not just the money), explains the challenges facing Compliance functions, considers that the majority of financiers don't want to do wrong, and puts forth a proposal to stop banks from harming customers.The lessons in this book are applicable to any business where prof...

The toy industry is one of the most consistently misunderstood sectors of American business, comprising a wide range of businesses under one banner-entertainment, commodities, fashion, and licensing-that each behave differently. Unlike other industries, more than 40 percent of products are new every year, and success often depends on the whims of a child.Currently about $22 billion per year at wholesale for traditional toys, the United States ...

This book is designed to help small businesses thrive in an increasingly competitive world.People are one of the few remaining, reliable sources of sustainable, competitive advantage. Competitors will copy marketing strategies, and technology and process advantages will fade over time, but having the best people for your organization will turn customers into raving fans, allowing you to have a more enjoyable ride as you achieve your goals.Most...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to marketing for leaders of small and midsized businesses, empowering them to expand and evolve their enterprises.It offers a framework to create a fundamental marketing plan that helps business leaders understand and thrive in a competitive environment. The framework offers a step-by-step process to build a plan that will enable readers to acquire new customers, maintain existing clientele, anticipate ...

This book proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts. It offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes of talent disruption.Talent Disruption provides a detailed roadmap and tools for building a talent engine powered by AI, big data, and analytics. The results are a growing talent pipeline, greater productivity, and higher p...

How To Benefit From Emerging TechnologiesFrom the daggers and axes of the cavemen societies to today's spacecraft, self-driving cars, metaverses, and AI-filled societies, technology has significantly emerged and brought about a massive transformation to our lives. The pace of this innovation has been particularly colossal in this industrial era, continuously disrupting our lives. Where will this imminent tech take us in the future?This book wi...

Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China's unavoidable impact on their livelihoods often ignore the most important voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country's swarming cities, recent economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent internet, confusing cult...

It is well known that high-tech startups need to innovate to survive, yet the failure rate for innovation is shockingly high. Nearly three out of four new products or services, i.e., their startups, miss their revenue and profit goals-or fail entirely.It's a misconception that high-tech startups fail only because of the failing products or finances. The failures could also be because of erroneous choice of technology platforms, development tea...

Succeeding as a Young Entrepreneur describes Harvey Morton's inspirational journey from being bullied at school, told by teachers that he would never succeed, to winning his first business award when he was fourteen years old. Later, becoming an Ambassador for Youth Employment UK, and going on to work with a long list of well-known brands including Sheffield Hallam University, Santander, and the BBC.The importance of being passionate about the...

Listen, observe, test-these three words lie at the heart of a powerful method for businesses' transformation.Behind this method is a deceptively simple idea: managers and management scholars must first take the pulse of a real business, get its case history, diagnose its problems, and only then solve them. Invented by the scholars who launched Harvard Business School, this medical model will still cure companies today.Damningly, during the las...

This book empowers individuals with practical knowledge to manage their financial wealth from their first job until retirement and beyond.The first main theme is investments and covers security types, investment strategies, and asset allocations for individual investors. The foundation for this theme is the magical behavior of investment returns across securities and time, and the concept of market efficiency.Next, the author details tax minim...

This book is useful for those seeking to learn about the history of market crises and individuals that want to learn about protection against downside risks for an investment portfolio.The purpose of this book is not to convince the reader to attempt to anticipate the timing of the next market crash, but rather for the reader to be able to draw parallels (and some contrasts) between the different crises in history. The book reviews case studie...

Unleash your sales potential with The Sales Momentum Mindset. This transformative guide is the key to unlocking sustainable sales force motivation by doing something radical: ignoring motivation. Crafted for sales professionals and managers alike, it offers a fresh perspective on sales performance, designed to ignite production and guide teams towards unprecedented growth.Discover the power that comes from focusing on momentum instead of motiv...

The problems during COVID made everyone aware that today's global business environment relies on supply chains 24/7.Although most managers and executives are not chain experts, they must know and understand the key aspects of supply chain management to make the best daily decisions for their business. Many textbooks cover numerous details and theories about supply chains. However, it has been said that everything that is taught in business sch...

Don't let artificial intelligence and robots steal your job!Still Room for Humans is the only survival guide you need in order to stay employable in the future. This book will teach you how to: make yourself indispensable to your company, develop soft skills that robots and AI cannot match, collaborate with robots, retool your skills without going back to school.You will also learn which traditionally safe careers and entire industries will no...

The Metaverse will be the next technological revolution. This book helps business executives to understand its foundations and reveals the new opportunities it will bring.The accessible language used to explain the complex technologies involved is key to understanding the business opportunities that the Metaverse will bring. The book follows a smooth but thorough journey along all aspects associated with the Metaverse, from augmented reality, ...

What does platform thinking mean? It is the ability to put platform-based mechanisms at the core of digital business transformations in business.Digital platforms like Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Booking.com, and many others completely re-shaped the daily life of millions of users. However, many innovation leaders struggle to conceive the significance of their impact. Platform-based business models are not just the real of geeks' startups, digital ...

What do Disney Imagineering and nonprofit organizations have in common? More than you think!Although nonprofits are rarely known as creative powerhouses, we'll explore how to use the same principles that make Disney Imagineering the gold standard of imaginative thinking to transform your organization into an equally inventive and creative environment.The Nonprofit Imagineers explores how more innovation can happen at nonprofits, no matter how ...

Do you want to start your own company?This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author's academic and business career.This book discusses: What are the successful characteristics of an inventor, entrepreneur, and a CEO?Understanding the vocabulary of the entrepreneur's ecosystem.What are the evaluation criteria for the team, product, business model...

Learn to Escape, Avoid or Sidestep Your Descent into the QuicksandStuck Entrepreneurs provides inventive strategies for the quicksand-mired businessperson who asks, what am I doing wrong? or how can I break this inertia and move my business forward?The author delivers advice that is steeped in real-world experience gleaned from his own variety of business ventures and consulting practice, and packed with his entertaining business stories. Some...