Economic thinking belongs in every manager’s toolkit.

Managerial Economics shows how sound economic reasoning leads to better business decisions across operations, marketing, finance, and strategy. Far from being an abstract academic exercise, economics provides a practical framework—and a shared language—for understanding how firms operate and compete within their markets.

This concise text applies core principles of microeconomics to real-world business decisions. Using clear conceptual models, it explains the essential relationships among price, cost, revenue, output, and profit, while introducing key ideas from consumer demand, production, market structure, and competition. The book also explores why firms grow, how large organizations can be structured more effectively, and when market regulation is necessary.

The second edition updates classic managerial economics with timely examples and emerging issues such as stakeholder capitalism, disruptive technologies, and industrial policy. Written with minimal mathematics and maximum clarity, Managerial Economics equips readers with practical insight into how businesses and markets function—and how they can function better.

Most of us know we should be doing more with our money, but where do you start? Between jargon, myths, and conflicting advice, it’s no wonder so many people feel stuck or overwhelmed.

It’s time to take control of your own financial future.

With over 20 years of experience as a financial adviser, Andy Hart draws back the curtain on personal finance, giving you clear, practical strategies to make the most of your money.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

• Reframe the way you think about money so you can make smarter choices.
• Recognise how your own behaviour shapes your financial outcomes.
• Understand investments—why they’re not just for the wealthy.
• Gain confidence in planning, saving, and investing for the future.
• Strip away the myths and complexities that keep people from moving forward.

No Bullsh*t Money Advice isn’t just about money. It’s about you—understanding yourself, your habits, and your goals. Whatever your financial aims are, this book will empower you to simplify the complex and make decisions with confidence. And all without the noise that often comes with money advice.

No scare tactics. No gimmicks. Just straight answers.

Ever wondered if you’re missing out on new clients because you haven’t implemented a strategy that could cost almost nothing yet add thousands to your business each year? Referable.biz explains how to find new clients for your service-based business by using referrals as a low-cost alternative to many more expensive and increasingly ineffective marketing activities.

This practical guide is written specifically for owners, marketers, and sales managers who want to learn how to set up and manage a referral network that is designed to generate a continuous stream of qualified leads and clients. In addition to providing a step-by-step guide detailing how to build your referral business, Referable.biz also provides a snapshot of the current state of marketing, and explains how running your own referral system stacks up against both traditional and digital marketing and sales activities. The book also includes action points, quizzes, first-hand referral success stories, templates, a detailed troubleshooting guide and the author’s insights into future possibilities for referrals, including agentic AI.

Are you looking to create a positive change in the growth of your businesses through increased lead generation and client acquisition? Stop wondering whether your business could grow through referrals—read this book and make it happen!

Fear is pervasive in today’s organizations—and far more damaging than many leaders realize. Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear of speaking up. Fear of change. When fear becomes embedded in organizational cultures, it undermines decision-making, accountability, innovation, and trust.

In Fear in Organizations, David D. Van Fleet examines fear not simply as an individual emotion, but as a systemic organizational force that shapes behavior, leadership, and outcomes. Drawing on decades of research, teaching, and real-world experience, he explores how fear develops, how it escalates under conditions of control, uncertainty, and high-stakes objectives, and how it silently erodes workplace effectiveness.

More importantly, this book provides practical insights and tools to help leaders recognize fear-based dynamics and take meaningful action. Managers, executives, and HR professionals will gain guidance on fostering psychological safety, encouraging accountability, and building cultures where clarity, courage, and constructive behavior can thrive.

This innovative textbook provides a new comprehensive framework for understanding and applying contemporary practices in culinary, food service and hospitality operations, focusing on the cutting-edge concepts for Industry 5.0. Positioned as a complementary resource to established Food and Beverage Operations Management texts, this new volume brings a forward-thinking perspective. It highlights behavioural insights, operations management, robotics and other technological advancements, ethics, and CSR through the impacts of Industry 5.0. By engaging with the text, readers will: • Gain a solid understanding of the development and impact of Culinary and Food Service Operations Management for Industry 5.0. • Learn how Industry 5.0 can act as a guiding principle for concept development, growth and sustainable business practice. • Evaluate and apply various service concepts across a range of contemporary paradigms, preparing students for leadership roles in the evolving industry. • Challenge the orthodoxy of food and beverage operations management to bring new thinking and ideas. With a thorough structure and learning features each chapter includes: • International case studies • Student Learning activities • Weblinks to company websites/resources • Further reading and reference guide • Companion website with teaching resources for each chapter Designed for global educational courses, from Level 3 to Level 7, this resource is an essential companion for both students and practitioners aiming to navigate the ever-evolving culinary, food service and hospitality landscape as Industry 5.0 shifts the dial on operations management. David Graham is Associate Head and Hospitality Operations lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Ewen Crilley is Senior Lecturer, Global Business, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Peter Cox is former Senior Lecturer, School of Events, Tourism & Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University, UK with John Cousins Director of The Food and Beverage Training Company, London.

Beyond Networking is not another book about networking. It is a networking book in practice - one that will transform how you connect, forever. It explores how we connect as humans, and why meaningful connection changes everything.

In a world full of surface-level interactions and transactional advice, this book offers a more intentional, human-centered approach to building relationships that truly matter. It moves beyond tactics and quick wins, focusing on trust, purpose, and long-term impact.

Through stories of extraordinary connectors and real-life examples across industries and cultures, the book shows that networks do not just grow wide - they run deep. You will discover small shifts in mindset and behavior that turn brief encounters into lasting relationships.

This is not just a guide to better networking.It is a roadmap to creating opportunity, inspiring change, and leaving a lasting impact through the way you connect.

Creating truly inclusive workplaces requires more than policies, statements and good intentions — it demands action, awareness and shared responsibility. Allyship Actually: Why It’s ‘We’ and Not ‘Me’ blends storytelling with practical insight, encouraging readers to reflect on their own behaviours and assumptions, offering a relatable and thought-provoking guide to becoming a more effective ally.

It’s a powerful, story-driven exploration of inclusion, workplace culture and the role we all play in creating equitable environments. Drawing on real-life experiences, the book follows professionals across multiple industries as they navigate male-dominated and discriminatory workplaces, confronting the everyday realities of bias, exclusion, and inequality.

Through the journeys of its central characters, the narrative highlights how meaningful allyship goes beyond good intentions — it requires action, awareness and a willingness to challenge entrenched behaviours and systems. As relationships develop and perspectives shift, the book demonstrates how individuals can support one another to drive both personal growth and organisational change.

Following the journeys of professionals navigating complex, often male-dominated environments, the book uncovers the subtle and overt challenges individuals face — from unconscious bias and unequal opportunities to the impact of workplace behaviours on confidence, progression and performance. Through these experiences, it reveals what allyship really looks like in practice — and why it is critical to building stronger, more effective organisations.

Rather than presenting allyship as a theoretical concept, this book demonstrates how it is lived day to day. It shows how individuals at all levels — from peers and managers to senior leaders — can actively support others, challenge inappropriate behaviours and contribute to a culture where people feel valued, heard and empowered to succeed.

Blending engaging storytelling with practical insight, Allyship Actually encourages readers to reflect on their own behaviours and assumptions, offering clear, relatable examples of how small, consistent actions can drive meaningful change. It also highlights the wider organisational benefits of inclusive cultures, including improved collaboration, better decision-making, stronger performance and enhanced employee wellbeing.

Ideal for professionals, leaders, HR practitioners and anyone committed to fostering equality and inclusion, this book provides both inspiration and guidance. It reinforces a simple but powerful message: lasting progress happens when we move beyond individual intent and work collectively — because real allyship is not about “me”, but “we”.

“An incredibly powerful book!” - Sophie Hussey, director at Lapis Consulting Services Ltd.

This outstanding contribution to market research focuses on the upfront activities and ideas for new product and service development. A central theme of this book is that there is, or should be, a constant struggle going on in every organization, business, and system between delivering feature-rich versions of products and services using extravagant engineering and delivering low-cost versions of products and services using frugal engineering.

A number of powerful concepts and tools are presented in the book to facilitate new product development. For example, three templates are featured that facilitate new product and service development. The FAD (features, attributes, and design) template is used to identify the features and attributes that can be used for product and service differentiation. The Ten–Ten planning process contains two templates: an Organizational and Industry Analysis template and the Business Plan Overview template. These two templates coupled with the FAD template can be used to develop a full-blown business plan.

Entrepreneurship, technology and product life cycles, product and service versioning, product line optimization, creativity, lock-in real options, business valuation, and project management topics are also covered.

For PowerPoint slides and other supplemental materials that accompany this book, please visit www.glsanders.wordpress.com.

Polymathic talent is the future. But without systems that understand and support them, even the brightest minds burn out. In Versatile: Human Intelligence in an Artificial Age, Dr. Angela C. Meyers presents a practical guidebook for the gatekeepers of talent—organizational leaders, HR professionals, coaches, business strategists, and career counselors.

Drawing on the emerging science of polymathy and her own groundbreaking doctoral research, Meyers offers an emotionally intelligent roadmap for recognizing, developing, and unleashing multidimensional brilliance in the workplace. As AI transforms every industry and individuals are asked to perform the work of entire teams, the need for versatile generalists—those with emotional depth, integrative thinking, and adaptive capacities—has never been greater.

More than a manifesto, Versatile is a toolkit for cultivating human range. With frameworks, training-ready chapters, and reflection prompts, it equips organizations to thrive amid accelerating change This book is both a wake-up call and an invitation—to redesign how we develop and deploy human potential, and to build cultures where creativity, complexity, and compassion become competitive advantages.

Service integration and management (SIAM) is a management methodology for creating value in an ecosystem where multiple service providers contribute to end-to-end services. It has evolved as organizations moved from single-supplier outsourcing to multi-sourced, increasingly digital, cloud-enabled delivery, where objectives, contracts, data and targets can become misaligned.

SIAM enables cross-functional, cross-process and cross-provider integration by establishing a service integrator capability that provides governance, management, integration, assurance and coordination at strategic, tactical and operational levels. It creates an ecosystem where all parties:

• Understand their role, responsibilities and context
• Are empowered to deliver within clear boundaries
• Are accountable for the outcomes they enable

This updated edition of SIAM Foundation provides a comprehensive introduction to SIAM and is the official guide for the EXIN SIAM™ Foundation certification. This publication helps candidates prepare for the Foundation exam and introduces SIAM concepts, roadmap stages, structures, roles, practices and cultural considerations for successful adoption. It will appeal to:

• Anyone seeking an introduction to SIAM and the SIAM™ Foundation certification
• Customer organizations and their staff managing multi-provider ecosystems
• Service integrators and their teams establishing end-to-end accountability
• Internal and external service providers wanting to work effectively in SIAM
• Consultants in service management supporting SIAM design and adoption

“SIAM Foundation brings together the real-world experience of practitioners from across the SIAM community to provide a clear, practical introduction to managing services in a multi-provider ecosystem. It will help you focus on outcomes, deliver maximum value, and manage end-to-end services across complex supply networks, a necessity in today’s digital, cloud-enabled environments. SIAM Foundation sets out the essential definitions, roles, structures and practices, and explores the common challenges you’ll face when adopting SIAM, making it valuable for practitioners at every level as well as those studying for the globally recognised SIAM Foundation certification.”

Claire Agutter

Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Agile Coaches, and Delivery Leaders: You're probably tired of being questioned, undervalued, dismissed. You know you're making a difference, but you're struggling to prove it to the people signing your paycheck. Layoff rumors aren't just whispers anymore - you're watching friends and colleagues lose their jobs while facing an increasingly brutal job market.

And despite all this turmoil, one thing remains unchanged: You are an experienced professional who knows your stuff.

The complaints your leaders grumble about–"Agile was supposed to fix this mess" or "Everyone looks busy, but nothing is getting done"–aren't isolated. They're persistent grievances pointing to the same underlying issue: sweeping dysfunction that no amount of team improvement can fix.

So, what’s happening?

Let me be blunt: You've been solving the wrong problems. See, if most of your energy goes into team-level work while organizational chaos above undermines everything you do, you'll keep banging your head against the same four walls. Over and over again. This is both exhausting and bad for your head.

But here's the silver lining: beneath each frustration lies an opportunity in disguise. The delivery professionals who become truly indispensable - the ones who get promoted, funded, and trusted with exciting challenges - are the ones who solve system issues, not just team issues.

Are you ready to join them? This book shows you how.

Humanizing Digital Experience explores how technology-driven business environments can be designed around human cognition, behavior, and values to enhance customer engagement and marketing performance. Grounded in a customer-centric philosophy, the book examines how organizations can motivate consumers and co-create value through human–computer interaction, interpersonal experience, cognitive reasoning, and interactive communication.

Bringing together insights from digital experience design, cognitive ergonomics, and consumer psychology, the author addresses the growing need for human-centered digital design in modern marketing systems. It analyzes how technologies—including artificial intelligence—shape consumer behavior across virtual and cyber-physical environments.

This book presents contemporary perspectives on collective engagement in virtual business settings and demonstrates how firms can improve digital and platform-based marketing performance. Structured into two thematic parts and five chapters, each chapter includes real-world case studies, introductory overviews, and concluding summaries to support learning and practical application.

Designed for academics, researchers, and marketing practitioners, Humanizing Digital Experience offers a rigorous yet accessible framework for understanding the convergence of technology, psychology, and marketing in today’s digital economy.

Master creative thinking in the AI age with practical tools that blend imagination and discipline for better innovation in this updated, award-winning business bestseller.

Now updated with 20 percent new content, this Porchlight Business Book of the Year returns with all-new case studies and a groundbreaking chapter on creative partnerships with AI and emerging technologies. Natalie Nixon demonstrates that humans are hardwired for creativity—a competency anyone can develop by balancing wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail).

Drawing on interviews with professionals across diverse industries—from farming to medicine to technology—Nixon reveals how inquiry, improvisation, and intuition enhance creative capacity in every kind of work. This second edition features fresh success stories from resourceful businesses that have mastered the delicate dance between human imagination and artificial intelligence in a rapidly changing world.

Combining practical creativity tools with illuminating stories of innovative people and organizations, this book serves as a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity within each of us. Nixon offers a dynamic approach to adaptation and innovation that allows the freedom to access our full human potential—even as technology continues to reshape how we work. This essential guide helps anyone cultivate the creative thinking needed to thrive in today's complex business landscape.

The exciting news is that leadership has become measurable in the brain. This opens a new perspective on the biology of leadership—and on how trust, motivation, and performance actually emerge in people and teams.

Have you ever wondered what happens inside the box on top of your head when you lead? Are you aware that by reading this book, you will change your brain—because the brain is an eternal construction site? And did you know that leadership is shaped not only by the brain in your head, but also by neural networks in the heart and the gut?

Build Better Brains is neither a traditional leadership book nor a neuroscience textbook. It brings together the best of both worlds to support a new generation of leaders. Grounded in science yet written for real-life leadership practice, the book introduces the GMC Model—a practical framework for brain-friendly, authentic leadership that helps create clarity, build trust, and enable sustainable performance across generations.

Clear, practical, and scientifically sound, Build Better Brains equips leaders to work with the brain, not against it.

Build Better Brains offers:

• Practical, science-based tools for leadership in a VUCA world
• Neuroscience as a foundation for motivation, trust, and performance
• Clear concepts without oversimplifying scientific facts
• A realistic, engaging style that reflects the realities of leadership

Leadership is born in the brain.

Design powerful financial reports in Power BI by building models, measures, and dashboards tailored for real-world accounting and analytics

Key Features

• Build a complete financial data model from ledgers, journals, and budgets
• Master DAX for income statements, KPIs, and performance analysis
• Learn Power BI Paginated and AI tools for printable and predictive reporting
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

What you will learn

• Build core financial models from ledgers and accounts
• Create Trial Balance and Income Statements using DAX
• Optimize Power BI with Power Query and data transformation
• Add budgets, targets, and KPIs to performance dashboards
• Integrate inventory data for nuanced stock reporting
• Produce printable reports using Power BI Paginated
• Apply AI for report generation and predictive analytics
• Test, tune, and evolve reports for secure, scalable use

Who this book is for

This book is for finance professionals, accountants, financial analysts, and BI developers who want to leverage Power BI to improve, automate, and future-proof their financial reporting. Whether consolidating data from ERPs, building reports across entities, or exploring advanced Power BI features, this book equips readers with practical skills and strategic insight.

Mistakes in business are inevitable, sometimes by circumstances beyond our control, and more often by our own making. The astute entrepreneur uses mistakes as steppingstones, turning blunders and gaffes into business opportunities, and becoming a sharper entrepreneur in the process.

Mistakes Are Your Capital: Turn Entrepreneurial Errors into Business Opportunities explores how to recognize lapses in the making, from simple miscues to more serious failures; their impact, how to avoid them, and how to capitalize on situations that can otherwise potentially harm you.

This book explores business mistakes, identifies them and offers up creative solutions across every business sector, from strategic planning, team building and marketing, to decision-making.

Turning errors into business opportunities separates the successful entrepreneur from one who might be more prone to knee-jerk reactions or wishing problems away.

As a Business Consultant with several decades of experience working with a multitude of businesspeople, managers, planners, dreamers and schemers, Jay Silverberg delivers hands-on counsel across every sector of business. The result is a keen knowledge of business mistakes, and an even keener toolbox of counsel, advice and fixes. As well, Jay Silverberg ‘practices what he preaches’, having founded and spearheaded a number of ventures, all with their share of real-world problematic hiccups as normally experienced by entrepreneurs.

Stories and case studies offered up in this book, including those gleaned from his own entrepreneurial adventures, are an integral part of the process by which readers can learn by example.

This book is intended for a wide audience, including students and professionals who wish to understand and analyze the role of financial markets. Comprehensive yet concise, this book covers the functioning and use of all financial markets : Forex, Futures Contracts,Stocks, Bonds, Indices, and Cryptocurrencies. It provides a basic understanding of the life of a profitable trader, necessary to navigate various types of financial markets. It also explains in detail the main techniques for taking positions, managing risks, and managing portfolios of financial assets. By providing the keys and secrets of the most successful financial markets, this book aims to make you a profitable trader in the long term. Jerry Ismaël FONTSA, a professional trader, financial auditor, and CEO of JF Wallet Company S.A., along with leading international traders, have sought to leverage their experience in professional trading by illustrating theoretical concepts and practical strategies to simplify the process of navigating financial markets.Traders can validate and strengthen their knowledge through regular practice of the trading strategies proposed in this book. However, it is important to understand that it is your reasoning skills and disciplined nature that will ultimately make you a successful professional trader.

A kinder, more inclusive world starts with understanding.

Neurodivergence affects us all, whether we are neurodivergent ourselves or in relationships with those who are: as a parent, sibling, friend, partner, colleague or team leader.

In the workplace, neurodivergent people often work hard to understand the neurotypical perspective, while being made to feel they are somehow built wrong or unable to express themselves fully.

At the same time, teams are under pressure to deliver results, and it can be difficult to balance individual needs with group performance, especially without a clear understanding of the unique challenges that each person, neurotypical and neurodivergent alike, faces at work.

We all have needs that deserve to be met. But by listening with empathy and acting with compassion, we can create environments where everyone feels safe, seen and heard.

Through a cast of fictional characters, Dr Joan van den Brink illustrates a range of neurodivergent journeys and offers space for thoughtful reflection on the similarities and differences between neurodivergent and neurotypical experiences. As you read, you’ll be invited to:

• Reflect on how your beliefs and assumptions shape your relationships and expectations of others
• Be curious about the people in your life and how you can support them to thrive
• Explore practical ways to generate safe, supportive and inclusive environments

Creating neuroinclusive spaces at work and in life is an essential step toward a future that truly celebrates difference. This book will help you play your part.

Stop running toward someone else’s definition of success, and start intentionally shaping your own. This prequel to Aesop’s famous tortoise and hare fable shows exhausted professionals how to shift from chasing external validation to creating internal meaning and alignment.

Stop chasing visibility. Start creating meaning.

In today’s high-pressure workplace, professionals are depleted from constantly proving themselves to others—yet struggling to find genuine satisfaction in their work. What if the breakthrough isn’t working harder within the system but instead reimagining what success means to you?

Stop Chasing, Start Creating reveals the untold story of Tano the tortoise before his famous race with the hare. In this prequel to the beloved Aesop’s fable, we discover that Tano wasn’t always the steady, purposeful creature we know. He once chased visibility, approval, and validation just like the rest of us—until a moment of awakening changed everything.

Through Tano’s journey from external pressure to internal clarity, readers discover the crucial difference between chasing meaning and creating it. Grounded in motivation science, this framework shifts professionals from extrinsic motivation (external rewards, recognition, and belonging) to intrinsic motivation (purpose, contribution, and alignment).

Perfect for burned-out professionals in healthcare, education, nonprofit management, and other purpose-driven fields, this story-first approach offers the metaphor-rich reflection modern workers crave without feeling like another productivity manual.

Rethinking Business and Management offers a timely and critical examination of how business and management are being reshaped by digitalization, globalization, and deep socio-economic change. As contemporary capitalism becomes increasingly driven by intangible assets, data, digital platforms, and financial power, this book challenges conventional assumptions about how markets, organizations, and managerial authority operate.

Bringing together insights from political economy, organization studies, and marketing, the book explores the rise of the intangible and sharing economies, shifting patterns of work marked by flexibility and precarity, and the growing influence of moral and political discourses such as woke capitalism. It examines how multinational corporations adapt within a fragmented yet highly interconnected global system, and how platform-based organizations and data-driven personalization are redefining both management practices and consumer identities.

The book also addresses the intensifying entanglement between digital technologies and finance, showing how fintech, platforms, and digital infrastructures are transforming investment, payment systems, and the distribution of economic power. Throughout, it foregrounds the implications of these transformations for inequality, governance, and the future of capitalism itself.

Combining analytical rigor with a critical perspective, Rethinking Business and Management provides readers with a coherent framework for understanding the forces reshaping business today. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners seeking to navigate—and rethink—the contemporary business landscape.

Scotland does not have a ‘law of contract’, as most comparable jurisdictions do, but rather – due in large part to the intellectual innovations of Viscount Stair – possesses a unitary ‘law of voluntary obligations’, of which contracts form but a part. This fact is highly significant, but is frequently overlooked. Indeed, the significance of this has even been overlooked by the Scottish Law Commission, who have recently proposed to significantly reform the ‘law of contract’ in Scotland by urging the passing of a statute which, among other things, would abolish the so-called ‘postal acceptance rule’. This short book takes the view that the proposed reforms are wrongheaded and would be deleterious to the coherence of the Scottish legal framework. To that end, it examines the taxonomy of obligations pioneered by Stair, indicates that the application of that taxonomy to situations such as the process of contracting by distance suggests that there is in fact no ‘postal acceptance rule’ in this jurisdiction and suggests, in light of this, that reform of ‘contracts’ and the formation of, in Scotland, is better left to the courts and jurists than to the Scottish Parliament (or, for that matter, Westminster).

Ngøgð wa Thiong’o is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, and an award winning Kenyan author currently writing primarily in the Gðkøyø language. The author of many novels, plays, short stories, and essays, Ngøgð wa Thiong’o is founder and editor of the online Gðkøyø language journal, Møtiiri and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In this volume, Ngøgð wa Thiong’o summarises and develops a variety of issues he has grappled with in his work, which deploys a strategy of imagery, language, folklore, and character to ‘decolonize the mind’. Ngøgð confronts the politics of language in African writing; the problem of linguistic imperialism and literature’s ability to resist it; the difficult balance between orality, or ‘orature’, and the writing, or ‘literature’; the tension between national and world literature; and the role of the literary curriculum in both reaffirming and undermining the dominance of the Western canon. Throughout, he engages a range of philosophers and theorists writing on power and postcolonial creativity, including Hegel, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and Aimé Césaire. Yet his explorations remain grounded in his own experiences with literature and orature and reworks the difficult dialectics of theory into richly evocative prose.

In the past, computer programs have been used extensively to manage information technology (IT) projects. It has become almost mandatory for software development managers and students of information technology to learn how to use computer software to manage projects using computer software.

Computer Support for Successful Project Management: Using MS Project 2016 with Information Technology Projects will help IT management professionals and students who use the popular software MS-Project. Although there are many books on MS-Project, there are very few that cover the subject from the IT managers’ perspective. This book uses guided examples from the IT sector. Most of the relevant project management terminology, concepts, and key processes are discussed, based on the standards of the Project Management Institute. This book helps software development project managers to easily relate with the projects they execute in their day-to-day life.

The author includes advanced topics like earned value analysis and multiple project management and discusses agile methodology as well as how MS-Project facilitates agile project management. Readers will learn how a tool like MS-Project can be used for processes related to risk and quality, in addition to meeting project objectives like scope, time, and cost. This book helps you to transform yourself from an IT professional to an IT project manager.

Ancillary materials for instructors and students available upon request by contacting marketing@businessexpertpress.com

In the past, computer programs have been used extensively to manage construction projects. It has become almost mandatory for construction managers and civil engineering students to learn how to use computer software to manage projects using computer software. Computer Support for Successful Project Management: Using MS Project 2016 with Construction Projects is designed to help construction management professionals and civil engineering students in using popular software MS-Project.

Although there are many books on MS-Project, there are very few that cover the subject from the construction managers’ perspective.

This book uses guided examples from the construction sector. Most of the relevant project management terminology, concepts, and key processes are also discussed, based on the standards of the Project Management Institute. It will help construction project managers to easily relate with the projects they execute in their day-to-day life.

The author has included advanced topics like earned value analysis and multiple project management. Readers will also learn how a tool like MS-Project can be used for processes related to risk and quality, in addition to meeting project objectives like scope, time, and cost. This book will help readers transform from a construction professional to a construction project manager.

Ancillary materials available upon request for instructors and students. Please contact us at marketing@businessexpertpress.com to request the ancillary materials.

Globalization is a term that describes the contradictory economic, political, and cultural processes of world capitalist integration. Although capitalism has been of a global character since the 1400s, the current phase of globalization is manifest by emergent transnational institutions, changing relations between multinational corporations and assaulted paradise of sovereign nation-states and the development of a global monoculture of consumption among feuding class divides. This book examines the relationship between globalization and nation states, the dynamics, contradictions, and crisis of global capitalism, and the developing and maturing class struggles and the prospects for social change and transformation of global capitalism. It examines these class struggles within the context of the globalization of capital and draws out the political implications of this process for the future course of capitalist development on a world scale. In this book Tatah Mentan drives home the point that contemporary neoliberal globalization is in fact an advanced stage of capitalist hegemonism and that the contradictions of 21st century globalization are thus a projection of the contradictions of capitalism on a global scale, with all its inherent exploitative characteristics and militarized class conflicts that will lead to the revolutionary transformation of vulture capitalist society. He argues that dominant global processes are not an immutable feature of capitalism, but are contested by social class actors across these three dimensions.

The surge of motivational titles flooding bookstore shelves amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is evidence of our society’s growing obsession with self-improvement. Recently two areas of growing interest among academics have been positive organizational behavior and psychological capital. While books on these subjects have led to a new understanding of motivation, they have limited their focus to two ends of a continuum.

Mastering Self-Motivation pays heed to the extensive research and careful conclusions of academicians, and then crosses into the realm of self-help and mass market literature. It has nine chapters that blend topics being taught over two decades in the classroom and practiced in management consulting.

Each chapter invites you to learn both theoretical and practical concepts and encourages you to apply this knowledge to the workplace. This book thus seeks to mediate market-driven self-help dreams and academic literature, and provides theoretical concepts that can enhance individual motivation presented in a comprehensive and enjoyable manner.

This is the first motivational book that brings together the academic and popular literature to bridge the gap between common sense and theoretical concepts.

Visit the publisher's website to download worksheets to accompany the book.

Customer-Driven Budgeting comprehensive budgeting book emphasizes that the customer drives the business organization and processes and becomes the overriding purpose for a company’s existence and success. Inside, you’ll find crucial details that sum up a complete guide that covers every step in the budgeting cycle from the basics of organization, processes, and funding to budget execution and monitoring.

The author believes that the budget is the starting point and catalyst for gaining customers and that the budget prepares the company to supply the sales and marketing team reinforcements for giving a compelling reason for customers to buy from it.

This book can be used immediately in business budgeting that presents you with a modular format—starting at the beginning of the budget process and working through it entirely; or select a budget area most challenging to the business and work from there to other areas of priority.

Ancillary materials to accompany this book are available to download on the publisher's website.

Business Plan Project provides detailed instructions on how to write a comprehensive business plan for new ventures. The intended market segments are graduate or upper-level undergraduate students, entrepreneurs, consultants, and college instructors or corporate trainers. Business Plan Project can be used in executive development programs and over 10 college level courses.

Business Plan Project is designed to meet important needs of each segment:

1. The business plan serves as a means for college students to learn about the major functions of business and how they are interrelated,
2. Entrepreneurs need a business plan to provide direction in the organization and launch of a new business and secure initial capital from funding sources,
3. Consultants need a user-friendly business plan format to assist clients that have limited or no business experience, and
4. Instructors and trainers need a turn-key text with supplements that require no lecture and little prep time to teach students how to write a business plan.

Business Plan Project is a real-world, hands-on, step-by-step guide where students or entrepreneurs develop business plans for new ventures. The experience begins with brainstorming and deciding on a new business that meets the unique needs in the marketplace. It ends with writing a comprehensive business plan and conducting a PowerPoint presentation of the plan.

Further realism is achieved through the use of a continuing case study: AVID SPORTS, INC., a start-up company that plans to launch a high performance running shoe called “Propell.” All concepts in the text are explained using AVID as an example.

The instructor’s manual includes outcomes for the learning experience, assessment methods, lesson plans, teaching ideas, test bank, financial statement worksheets, and forms to grade the written plan and oral presentation of the plan. Since all information that students need to develop professional business plans is in the text, lectures, handouts, and other learning aids are optional. The instructor’s role can be that of a consultant to students. Contact marketing@businessexpertpress.com to request these ancillary materials.