How People Change Organizations: Transforming Systems through Presence, Practice, and Projects is a timely guide for leaders navigating the human complexity of organizational change.

In an era where transformation is often reduced to strategy decks, software rollouts, or restructuring plans, this book offers a deeper view: that real, lasting transformation begins with how leaders show up, in conversation, in reflection, and in relationship. Whether you’re leading from the C-suite, a project team, or a change management office, you’ll find tools, insights, and language to lead with greater empathy, alignment, and presence.

Grounded in systems thinking (Senge, Hamilton, and Kania 2015), adult development theory, and real-world leadership practice, this book introduces a powerful integration model across project, change, and executive leadership roles. Through the ongoing narrative of the WynnTech case study, you’ll explore how inclusive delivery, narrative sensemaking, and cultural modeling can transform not only outcomes, but the people and systems behind them. Ideal for project leaders, change agents, and executives alike, this book helps you lead transformation from the inside out, by centering people in everything you do.

Ce livre est un véritable outil d’acquisition des connaissances pour préparer l'épreuve. Les auteurs y ont mis l’expérience qu’ils ont de l’examen pour permettre aux lecteurs :

• d'acquérir toutes les connaissances qui figurent au programme, de les revoir facilement à tout moment et de les mémoriser ;
• de savoir bien utiliser les connaissances acquises pour réussir l'épreuve.

Points forts

• Seul ouvrage sur le marché, pas de concurrence sur le diplôme du DEC
• Un cours entièrement rédigé et conforme au programme
• 11 fiches présentant l'expertise comptable (accès, obligation, cessations des fonctions)
• 11 fiches présentant le commissariat aux comptes (nomination, mandat, cession...)
• Intègre les dernières dispositions réglementant la profession

Chaos to Clarity: Making Sense of Complex Business Transformation is an essential guide for leaders who must navigate the intersection of strategy, people, process, and technology change.

Written in clear, executive-level language, this book demystifies complex business transformation as a holistic reinvention of how an organization creates value, engages customers, and operates in today’s volatile and fast-moving business environment.

Through practical frameworks that the author has applied in real-world situations, readers explore the key dimensions of transformation- process redesign, technology modernization, organizational structure, and cultural evolution- while addressing common challenges such as workforce readiness, change resistance, governance, and risk.

This book is intended for executives and senior leaders, to help them understand the “why,” “what,” and “how” of complex business transformation. It provides advice on preparing for implementation success and establishing governance to promote accountability and strategic alignment.

Finally, this book enables leaders to lead with clarity and confidence to reshape their businesses not just for today’s competitive pressures, but for a sustainable and resilient future.

Master OpenShift 4 with hands-on guidance from industry experts. Install, configure, deploy, and manage containerized applications at scale with real-world examples and best practices for enterprise production environments.

Key Features

• Learn OpenShift 4 fundamentals and advanced concepts, including architecture, deployment, and operations
• Build, secure, and manage scalable containerized applications for enterprise environments
• Apply skills through expert-led tutorials, real-world projects, and hands-on labs for observability and more

Book Description

What you will learn

• Understand the key differences between Kubernetes and OpenShift 4
• Set up OpenShift clusters on cloud, on-prem, and virtualized platforms
• Secure and manage apps with projects, quotas, network policies, and SCCs
• Implement GitOps workflows and build applications
• Monitor and trace services with Service Mesh and observability tools
• Deploy advanced services such as Data Foundation and Windows Containers
• Extend OpenShift with custom Operators, upgrade clusters, and troubleshoot issues

Who this book is for

This book is for DevOps engineers, architects, SREs, and sysadmins with a foundational understanding of Linux and Kubernetes who want to master OpenShift 4 in enterprise environments. Whether you're migrating from OpenShift 3 or starting from scratch, you’ll gain practical skills for real-world production deployments.

As the EAC regional bloc is soon celebrating 20 years since its inception, is it any closer to being fully integrated? Is the regional financial integration still feasible? How can it work for every member State and every East African? How can other RECs learn from the EAC experience? What should be further considered to optimise the business sense in the entire financial integration drive? In an analysis of more than 70 financial and other institutions the author addresses the levels of financial inclusion, financial system development, and regional integration to assess the feasibility of a financially integrated EAC and provides benchmarks which inform policy. The author explores not only conventional finance and banking but also introduces one area that is usually not captured in most writings and books in this areas i.e. Islamic Finance. While Islamic Finance is slowly becoming a mainstream area of finance, there has been limited research, works and writing in the area.

How to Successfully Complete Your DBA? (Doctorate of Business Administration) is written for managers who wish to step back from day-to-day practice, develop a thesis grounded in their managerial experience, and contribute to knowledge creation. This new edition draws on the experience of more than 500 managers who have undertaken the DBA programme at the Business Science Institute since its creation, and reflects the growing role of AI (artificial intelligence) tools in thesis preparation. What is a DBA? What are the differences between a DBA and a PhD? How can you plan your DBA within an agreed timeframe? How should you choose a DBA programme? Should you opt for face-to-face or distance delivery? How do you select a DBA thesis topic? How do you choose your thesis supervisor? How do you get started? Which methodology(ies) should you adopt? What structure should your DBA thesis follow? And finally: how can you disseminate and promote your DBA? Drawing on his extensive experience in leading DBA programmes, the author provides clear and pragmatic answers to all these questions and guides readers through three key steps: 1. Choosing a DBA 2. Choosing a DBA thesis topic 3. Managing the DBA journey

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 school is theory…until you must make payroll.

Both authors have made payroll in various businesses. Thus, this text removes the details and is focused on an executive overview of the key aspects of Global Supply Chains that every businessperson needs to know to continually succeed in their business and make payroll.

Because I Was Inverted: Building a Strong Servant Leader Culture is a fresh, story-driven guide that flips traditional leadership on its head. This book is perfect for business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to inspire trust, build strong teams, and create a workplace culture where people and performance thrive.

Blending timeless leadership principles with memorable pop culture references from Bob Ross and Monsters, Inc. to Batman and even Ludacris, this book makes the mindset and tools of servant leadership both practical and engaging. Readers will discover useful strategies to foster clarity, strengthen resilience, and connect more authentically with their teams.

Through honest lessons in empathy, vulnerability, and emotional intelligence, the authors clearly demonstrate that leadership is not about power or status, but about service. This book is for anyone who wants to lead with authenticity, courage, and heart; whether you’re managing a small team or guiding an entire organization.

If you’re looking for a refreshing and practical take on leadership that entertains as much as it equips, Because I Was Inverted is the perfect addition to your library.

What if better questions could change everything?

The questions you ask yourself shape every decision, relationship, and result. This international bestseller—over 500,000 copies sold—gives leaders, coaches, and professionals a proven system called Question Thinking to shift from reactive, stuck thinking to curiosity, clarity, and breakthrough outcomes.

Through an engaging business fable, Dr. Marilee Adams shows exactly how—and why—it works.

The landmark fifth edition includes the following:

• 14 Question Thinking tools, including 2 brand-new tools built from reader feedback
• The Choice Map, a visual framework for recognizing where your thinking is headed
• Q-Storming, a collaborative approach that generates better questions, not just answers
• New chapter on thriving through AI and technological change
• Step-by-step practices for leadership, coaching, team development, and personal growth

This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic macroeconomics. Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences.

At its heart, economics is the science of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life, our work environment, or at the national or international level.

This second volume, Policies and Perspectives, delivers clear statements of essential economic principles, supported by real-world examples and uncluttered by extraneous material; the goal is to provide a concise readable primer that covers the substance of macroeconomic theory and policy. The author uses a single unifying tool-aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis-to probe differing perspectives on macroeconomic policies.

This book discusses:

• fiscal policy and short-run stabilization;
• the financial sector and monetary policy;
• the international sector;
• and the sources of economic growth.

This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic macroeconomics. Economics, far from being the dismal science, offers us valuable lessons that can be applied to our everyday experiences.

At its heart, economics is the science of choice and a study of economic principles allows us to achieve a more informed understanding of how we make our choices; whether these choices occur in our everyday life, our work environment, or at the national or international level.

This two-volume text represents a common sense approach to basic macroeconomics. Volume one, Elements and Principles, delivers clear statements of essential economic principles, supported by easy to understand examples, and uncluttered by extraneous material; the goal is to provide a concise readable primer that covers the substance of macroeconomic theory.

This book covers

• opportunity cost;
• the rationale for trade and exchange rates;
• the economist’s basic demand and supply model;
• the efficient operation of competitive markets;
• important tools used to measure the macroeconomy;
• and the causes and effects of inflation and unemployment.

The Human Resource Professional's Guide to Change Management provides HR professionals with key concepts and practical techniques to successfully launch, support, and sustain change management initiatives within their organizations.

The ability to help an organization effectively deal with change is a key competency that all human resource (HR) professionals must possess. However, many people in the HR function have not received any formal training or instruction on how to fulfill this important role.

The Human Resource Professional's Guide to Change Management provides HR professionals with key concepts and practical techniques to successfully launch, support, and sustain change management initiatives within their organizations. Pragmatic tools and explanations will illuminate critical change management competencies and processes, thereby enabling HR professionals to take on strategic and active roles. As well, understanding of one’s own reactions to change will also be explored to assist HR professionals to effectively manage and guide change.

Questions posed at the end of each chapter allow for personal reflection and growth, thereby providing further development of skills relating to change management. This text is an excellent resource for HR students, those new to practicing HR and seasoned HR professionals alike.

More and more organizations around the globe are expecting that professionals will make data-driven decisions. Employees, team leaders, managers, and executives that can think quantitatively should be in high demand. The goal of this book is to increase ability to identify a problem, collect data, organize, and analyze data that will help aid in making more effective decisions. This book will provide you with a solid foundation for thinking quantitatively within your company. To help facilitate this objective, this book follows two fictitious companies that encounter a series of business problems, while demonstrating how managers would use the concepts in the book to solve these problems and determine the next course of action. This book is for beginners and does not require prior statistical training. All computations will be completed using Microsoft Excel.

The Globalization Trap exposes how decades of free trade, outsourcing, and economic dogma hollowed out the American middle class—and why the promised gains of globalization never arrived for millions of workers.

Economists once claimed that free trade would raise wages and living standards. Instead, globalization triggered a race to the bottom, forcing U.S. workers to compete with low-wage labor worldwide. The result: stagnant wages, shrinking opportunities, and a collapsing middle class—especially for workers without college degrees.

The book also dismantles the myth of the “post-industrial service economy.” Cheap imports and service-sector jobs were supposed to deliver prosperity. They didn’t. For most workers, lower prices and imports failed to offset rising living costs and flat pay, leaving economic insecurity in their wake.

But this is not just a diagnosis—it’s a blueprint. As globalization fractures and global trade blocs re-emerge, The Globalization Trap outlines a realistic path to renewed prosperity. The plan focuses on rebuilding U.S. manufacturing, reducing trade deficits, protecting critical technologies, and restoring wage growth through targeted tariffs, tax credits, quotas, and workforce training.

Clear-eyed, practical, and timely, this book offers a roadmap for reclaiming economic stability and a stronger middle class.

Asia’s role in the global sustainability transition is too big to ignore—and too complex to oversimplify.

Navigating Sustainability in Asia is a practical playbook for business leaders, investors and policymakers who want to understand how sustainability is reshaping Asia’s economies. Combining on-the-ground insight with practical tools, it shows how sustainability in Asia is not ideology but strategy—a driver of innovation, competitiveness and long-term value.

Whether you are a board member in Tokyo navigating governance reform, an executive in Singapore building climate-aligned supply chains or an investor assessing risks in India or Southeast Asia, the book translates lessons into decisions. Market analysis, case examples and end-of-chapter briefings help teams move from principle to practice.

By reframing sustainability as a source of advantage, the book offers a simple message: success belongs to those who combine persistence, cultural fluency and strategic adaptation. Navigating Sustainability in Asia is essential reading for corporates, executives, investors and the regulators shaping the environment in which they operate.

Most companies talk about digital transformation. Few actually transform.

Think Digital, Beyond Digital isn’t another book about technology, it’s a book about clarity, simplification, and change. Rui Pedro Silva reveals why 70% of transformations fail and what the best leaders and organizations do differently: they stop chasing trends and start thinking beyond digital while going digital.

After two decades leading global change in companies such as Puma, adidas, and A.P. Moller–Maersk, Rui Pedro Silva delivers a field-tested roadmap to make your business truly digital first, by thinking it from the outside in and building it from the inside out. He combines hard-won executive experience with peer-reviewed academic research to bring structure and simplicity to what often feels chaotic.

Through real stories, from small shops that went global to giants that lost their way, Rui Pedro Silva shows how to connect strategy with behavior and vision with execution using his signature frameworks: ASCEND, FRAME, SCRIPT, ENRICH, CORE5, and the 4-Floor Model. Each one turns complexity into clarity and change into measurable progress.

If you’re tired of buzzwords and want to truly lead transformation, not just manage it, this book is your blueprint. Whether you run a startup or a multinational, it will help you see your organization as it really is, understand your market and customers, align people around what matters most, and build momentum that lasts.

Because digital transformation isn’t about being the most technical.
It’s about being the most ready to change.

Ready to transform government from the inside out? It’s easy to complain about government bureaucracy and transportation in in large American cities, but what if you could actually improve them instead?

That’s exactly what the authors of New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies set out to do in the Office of Extraordinary Innovation at Los Angeles Metro, a transportation agency with a $9.5 billion annual budget in a county larger than 40 states. Now you can learn from their hard-earned successes, and valuable mistakes, as they provide helpful lessons learned for anyone looking to make change in public agencies.

You’ll learn how to:

• Navigate internal resistance
• Build coalitions and fix processes
• Recognize impenetrable fiefdoms
• Pick your battles and win them

Using amusing behind-the-scenes stories, New Tricks presents a pragmatic playbook for those who want to deliver lasting government reform, and an outright nerd-fest for anyone working in public transportation!

Collaborative Clinical Supervision: Principles and Practices to Foster Development provides new and practicing supervisors with best-practice guidance on how to supervise effectively by orienting supervision to three priorities:

• Attending to the supervisory relationship,
• Using experiential learning methods, and
• Implementing a clear, organized approach to supervision.

A primary theme is on developing a positive, trusting, and collaborative supervisory relationship as a “safe base” for promoting supervisee growth and navigating the inevitable tensions in supervision.

The author succinctly shares how to:

• Define supervision and review its effectiveness.
• Describe professional competencies and their development in supervision.
• Navigate the key phases of supervision collaboratively.

Collaborative Clinical Supervision: Principles and Practices to Foster Development incorporates current supervision research findings and includes sections on broaching cultural differences, working with supervisees who require accommodations, and approaching difficult conversations with supervisees. Each chapter concludes with questions for reflection to help supervisors integrate their own experiences of supervision with the guidance presented.

Written in an inviting conversational tone, the book draws on the author’s experience to illustrate helpful ways to accomplish the goals of supervision and avoid pitfalls.

Projects do not fail because the plan was wrong. They fail because the people running the plan were not led with clarity, courage, and care. The Hidden Project Drivers shows why charts and status meetings are not enough in a world defined by speed and uncertainty, and it replaces control with leadership rooted in behavioral science and neuroscience.

You will learn how to create psychological safety so ideas surface early, convert compliance into ownership so teams move on their own energy, make cleaner decisions at higher velocity, and turn healthy tension into a crucible for innovation. Through vivid stories, practical exercises, and the Project Pulse highlights that anchor each chapter, you will shift your mental models, update your maps, and build environments where people think better together.

This is not a manual for administration. It is a field guide for leaders who want to deliver results while growing people. If you lead projects, portfolios, or transformations, this book will help you move faster, reduce waste, and unlock the human factors that actually drive success.

In a world where 82 percent of managers struggle to lead effectively, this international bestseller reveals the one secret that separates great leaders from the rest.

“What do I need to do to be a great leader?” Every person in authority wonders this question sooner or later. Ken Blanchard, whose books have sold over 25 million copies, and Mark Miller, who rose from line worker to Chick-fil-A vice president, uncover the secret great leaders already know in this international bestseller.

Using a classic business fable, newly promoted executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the crucial question: “What is the secret of great leaders?” His reply-“Great leaders serve”-confuses her, but he reveals five fundamental ways leaders succeed through service. Debbie discovers why great leaders focus on the future, how teams determine success or failure, what three arenas need continuous improvement, why leadership success has two essential components, and how to strengthen-or destroy-credibility.

This fourth edition includes the proven SERVE model plus breakthrough content on leadership's most critical element-a leader's heart. Discover these new features:

• Revised chapters
• New chapter with five HEART habits that form the foundation for great leadership
• Comprehensive facilitator's guide for groups and teams
• Expanded resources for teams and organizations

Translated into twenty-nine languages with over 700,000 copies sold, The Secret delivers proven wisdom in an unforgettable story that anyone can understand and apply immediately.

The Age of Global Change provides an in-depth examination of the major forces reshaping societies in the twenty-first century, by referring to themes of demography, globalization, cultural change, inequality, governance, health, and sustainability.

It highlights how rapid population growth, urbanization, migration, and shifts in religious and linguistic patterns are transforming the social fabric worldwide. At the same time, globalization has brought about profound cultural shifts, fostering individualism, gender equality, and diversity discourses, while also provoking nationalist and populist reactions.

This book discusses the emergence of a global culture defined by hyperconnectivity, symbolic consumption, and the post-truth condition, alongside the rise of contested phenomena such as wokeism that reflect deeper struggles over identity and values. In international affairs, the book situates these changes within a broader geopolitical realignment, where the decline of Western dominance is matched by the ascent of multipolar power centers, particularly in Asia. Economic inequality and corporate concentration of power are shown to exacerbate global divides, fueled by financialization, tax evasion, and crony capitalism. Health and sustainability are positioned as defining challenges of the century.

From pandemics to mental health crises, and from climate change to ecological degradation, these issues highlight the vulnerabilities and interdependencies of an interconnected world. The author argues that humanity is undergoing a paradoxical transformation, marked by both fragmentation and integration, the persistence of traditions amid modernization, and escalating risks accompanied by new possibilities. Ultimately, the century will be shaped not only by crises but also by opportunities for innovation, cultural synthesis, and collective action.

Why do so many billion-dollar megaprojects fail, and how can leaders prevent it?

Megaproject Development and Decision Making provides the answers. Drawing on decades of global leadership across energy, mining, refining, and infrastructure, Akin Oni reveals that the destiny of megaprojects is shaped not in execution, but long before, during development, evaluation, governance, and decision-making.

This book dismantles the myths that delays, cost overruns, and underperformance are inevitable. Instead, it shows how weak evaluations, poor risk discipline, and fragmented stakeholder alignment doom projects before approval. With clarity and conviction, Oni equips leaders with the tools and foresight to change the narrative.

Inside, readers will discover:

• How to evaluate megaprojects effectively and make disciplined investment choices.
• Strategic decision-making frameworks for capital projects.
• Proven risk management approaches to mitigate failure triggers, early.
• Best practices in project governance and accountability.
• How to embed ethics, sustainability, and long-term value into delivery.

Far more than a technical manual, this is a call to action. Megaprojects are not just technical or financial undertakings; they are ethical commitments, vehicles for long-term value, and legacies that shape economies and societies.

Whether you are a project manager, executive, or investor, this book challenges you to lead differently, anticipate wisely, decide boldly, and deliver results that endure.

Most entrepreneurship books promise quick wins and growth hacks. But lasting ventures aren’t built on shortcuts, they’re built on people. Entrepreneurial Learning at Work reframes entrepreneurship as a living system: dynamic, relational, and grounded in how founders learn, lead, and grow.

Drawing on real founder stories, practical frameworks, and a life-course lens, this book explores how businesses thrive when people do. Inside, you’ll discover how to:

• Turn everyday experiences into learning cycles that fuel innovation.
• Build cultures of trust, psychological safety, and inclusion.
• Grow talent from within while sustaining your vision.
• Navigate transitions, burnout, and reinvention through reflection.
• Make learning visible and scalable in hybrid and digital workplaces.

Whether you’re a purpose-driven founder, builder-coach, or entrepreneurial educator, this book offers a roadmap for designing growth that’s human-centered and sustainable. It’s not about chasing unicorn status, it’s about growing your business by growing yourself and your team.

Because your business isn’t just what you do, it’s how you choose to grow.

In a world defined by burnout, quiet quitting, and relentless change, traditional management is failing. But there is a better way.

Building a Coaching Culture: The Ripple Effect Raising Performance and Growth offers a human-centered alternative to leadership that not only boosts productivity but also transforms people. With decades of leadership experience, Kim Lee introduces "The Ripple Effect"—a research-backed framework that proves how a leader's targeted acts of coaching create cascading waves of positive change.

This isn't about management fads or getting a certification. It's about a leader's deepest work: seeing the unseen potential in others and helping them see it too. You'll learn how to activate talent through powerful conversations, deliver feedback that fuels, not frightens, and lead with empathy to drive real results.

This essential guide equips leaders at every level, from first-time managers to CEOs, with the practical tools to navigate today’s dynamic landscape, including the integration of AI. Because when you invest in people, you create a powerful defense against costly turnover and build a culture of lasting success.

This updated bestseller shows leaders how to transform fragmentation into authentic community with new workplace applications and proven strategies for today’s divided world.

With increasing violence, widening ideological divides, and growing economic inequality, a deeper sense of community is desperately needed. Yet typical ways of engaging people civically and organizationally remain unchanged. In Community, Peter Block explores how authentic community can emerge from fragmentation and offers practical steps to foster transformation.

This updated third edition draws on decades of implementing Block’s ideas and includes the following:

• New stories and examples demonstrating community building as a more powerful approach to social problems than traditional policies and programs
• Expanded resources and a discussion guide designed for classroom and training program use
• A new closing chapter covering broader implications of the book’s ideas for organizational transformation
• Fresh content exploring the creative economy’s relationship to belonging and social capital’s role in authentic engagement
• Updated examples showing how community principles apply to today’s workplace and virtual world challenges

From neighborhood councils transforming local engagement to organizations shifting from competitive to cooperative cultures, Block demonstrates how simple positive change can be once we decide it’s essential. Whether readers are community leaders, organizational consultants, or concerned citizens, this book provides the framework and tools to move from fragmentation to connection, from isolation to belonging.