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Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (37464 pages)
Language
English
Description
Exploit the power and potential of Big Data to revolutionize business outcomes Big Data Revolution is a guide to improving performance, making better decisions, and transforming business through the effective use of Big Data. In this collaborative work by an IBM Vice President of Big Data Products and an Oxford Research Fellow, this book presents inside stories that demonstrate the power and potential of Big Data within the business realm. Listeners...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (22545 pages)
Language
English
Description
Managing a high-growth organization requires both strategy and adaptability. Unfortunately, start-up founders and executives seeking to scale up to the next level find all too frequently that growth turns into chaos. Rather than laying the groundwork for the future, organizations get stuck by covering up complex problems with unsustainable band-aids and duct-tape fixes, implementing anecdote-based solutions from the latest tech-industry unicorns or...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (23120 pages)
Language
English
Description
Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace envisions a world where companies are fully equipped to exceed the challenges posed by the new global marketplace. Berta Aldrich argues if companies want to achieve future success, they must redesign their talent strategy using three important steps proven to increase revenues, engage teams and leaders, and set companies on the path to industry leadership. Winning...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (28726 pages)
Language
English
Description
People Operations: Automate HR, Design a Great Employee Experience, and Unleash Your Workforce explains how leaders at small- and medium-sized businesses can stop spending time on HR administration-"paperwork"-and start focusing on the "peoplework" that truly fuels employee growth and productivity. Authors Jay Fulcher, Kevin Marasco, and Tracy Cote provide listeners with a playbook for creating a massive competitive advantage by eliminating antiquated...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21825 pages)
Language
English
Description
Developing and coaching the sales team by sitting in on their sales calls is one of the best ROI opportunities open to any organization, large or small. This book shows managers how to use these "ride-along" sessions-whether in-person or digital-to make the sales team more efficient and productive.
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (35336 pages)
Language
English
Description
In his work consulting to major corporations for more than thirty years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60-70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results. Filled with useful anecdotes and lively case studies, this book will help you increase your wisdom about colleagues, direct...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (41358 pages)
Language
English
Description
In today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, a new approach to trading-automated high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the world....
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (17112 pages)
Language
English
Description
You're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality--all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a managerto do. You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You've sought customer and employee feedback. You've tried everything. Now, try something that works. Profit from the Positive is a practical, groundbreaking guide for business leaders, managers, executive coaches, and human resource...
Author
Publisher
IT Governance Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (sound files.)
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her extensive experience, Jamie proposes a new role for Agile projects: The Agile business analyst. She details 30 achievable ways that such a role will increase relevance, quality and overall business value, and provide business users with crucial support.
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21354 pages)
Language
English
Description
Optimize your career development by focusing on what your job requires and what your colleagues need Doing the right job the right way is critical to your professional success. Influence and Impact provides an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach to building influence at any level of an organization. Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt offer a fresh perspective on evaluating what values, strengths, and capabilities...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (44308 pages)
Language
English
Description
Marc Andreesen once said that "markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are." Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry, or an entrepreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest risk is building something nobody wants. Lean Analytics can help. By measuring and analyzing as you grow, you can validate whether a problem is real, find the right customers, and decide what to build, how to monetize it, and how...
Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (27001 pages)
Language
English
Description
Former Wall Street executive Marisa Santoro spent years navigating trading floors in an abrasive male-dominated industry and field, where she learned from experience that the key to leadership success is self-trust. Now, in Own Your Authority, she shares her hard-won secrets to being a resilient leader. Santoro lays out a step-by-step blueprint for building the confidence you need at any stage of your career, whether you are an executive, a mid-career...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21443 pages)
Language
English
Description
With a Foreword by Jim Cora, former Chairman of Disneyland International "A leadership blueprint, applicable in any organization." -- Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, U.S. Navy (Ret.), and author of It's Your Ship "When I first arrived at The Walt Disney Company, I was surprised to find I had to go back to school--at Disney University! There, I learned the fundamentals of guest service that consistently gave Disney a tremendous advantage in the marketplace....
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (29170 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Washington Post and New York Times Business Bestseller "Everyone in the workforce today should read this book!" -HORACE B. DEETS, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AARP "Want excellent insights on retirement planning from a professional who's actually experienced retirement himself? You'll get just that from Stan Hinden's book." -STEVE VERNON, COLUMNIST, CBSMONEYWATCH.COM "Provides the most important information you'll need before and during your retirement."...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (34894 pages)
Language
English
Description
What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America: be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians has infiltrated not only the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the FDIC, the Treasury, and other regulatory agencies. This explosive new book from...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (20778 pages)
Language
English
Description
This audio book is for Product Managers of all levels (including the VP level) who understand that if companies want to remain innovative in today's market, they have to adopt a culture of learning and customer-centric practices that are focused on outcomes over outputs. This audio book provides Product Managers with a practical process and a toolbox of product management principles that can be applied to any company, big or small, and will help them...
58) Robot Rules
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (44015 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them. It argues that AI is unlike any other previous technology, owing to its ability to take decisions independently and unpredictably. This gives rise to three issues: responsibility-who is liable if AI causes harm; rights-the disputed moral and pragmatic grounds for granting AI legal personality; and the ethics surrounding the decision-making...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (19639 pages)
Language
English
Description
Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition.
60) Unfiltered
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (34028 pages)
Language
English
Description
Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media is for anyone who needs to be reminded that we're all a work in progress, no matter what judgments we make when measuring our lives against what others share online. In her debut book, award-winning journalist and sought-after speaker Jessica Abo addresses the relationship between our psychology and technology and how we can take back our happiness IRL (in real life) without falling into the...
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