You launched your organization to solve real-world problems and drive meaningful change—not to spend 80% of your time trapped in a grueling, feast-or-famine fundraising cycle.Yet, without capital, even the most transformative missions stallFunding Social Impact is written directly for the pragmatic, mission-driven executive.It cuts through the noise of traditional nonprofit and startup advice to deliver a modern, holistic strategy for capitalizing your visi...

You Cannot Pour from an Empty Cup—Especially When the World Relies on You to Fix ItIf you are leading a nonprofit team, you already know the heavy hidden toll of mission-driven work.You are likely juggling endless crises, mediating values conflicts, and absorbing the emotional weight of both your team and the communities you serve.The mission is critical, but it is dangerously easy to let a noble cause weaponize your boundaries until you are left ru...

In a world where impact washing and superficial ESG metrics are increasingly scrutinized, organizations need more than good intentions—they need rigorous, defensible mathematics.Impact Measurement Playbook bridges the gap between qualitative storytelling and quantitative rigor.This comprehensive guide equips leaders, investors, and sustainability professionals with the technical tools to translate social and environmental outcomes into verifiable financial terms.

Are you ready to step up from being a top contributor to an influential, high-impact leader?The transition into leadership is often the hardest leap in any career. The technical skills that made you successful as an individual contributor are no longer enough to succeed as a manager. You need a new set of tools. Architecting Impact is your definitive, no-nonsense guide to mastering the human side of business and scaling your impact.Moving beyond va...

Are you ready to step up from being a top contributor to an influential, high-impact leader?The transition into leadership is often the hardest leap in any career. The technical skills that made you successful as an individual contributor are no longer enough to succeed as a manager. You need a new set of tools. Architecting Impact is your definitive, no-nonsense guide to mastering the human side of business and scaling your impact.Moving beyond vague theor...

This is the time to expand your career opportunities-and the knowledge in here can be the key.This third edition compresses the most significant skills and lessons of a two year MBA into one comprehensive guide. With clear, concise information, expert Tom Gorman includes recent developments in management, economics, marketing, leadership, information technology, and communications. Whether the reader is studying to achieve an advanced degree or needs the concrete, ...

This highly-visual full-color guide covers everything taught on an MBA course, perfect for MBA students or anyone who wants to become a more effective manager.Filled with flow diagrams, timelines, case studies and infographics, this accessible book presents information in an easy-to-digest way. It covers the curriculum taught in all the top business schools around the world, with real-life case studies to show the theory in practice. Discover what drives good busin...

Want to make it big on Broadway-as a techie? Or how about working in smaller regional theater? Careers in Technical Theater explains more than twenty different careers from the perspective of successful theater artists. Included are specialties that have been around for decades, as well as those still emerging in the field. Concise information is provided on job duties, estimated earnings, recommended training, examples of career paths, and the insights are given of working pros in managem...

In their first book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, the authors provided a better model for executing disruptive innovation. They laid out a three-part plan for launching high-risk/high-reward innovation efforts: (1) borrow assets from the existing firms, (2) unlearn and unload certain processes and systems that do not serve the new entity, and (3) learn and build all new capabilities and skills.In their study of the Ten Rules in action, Govindarajan and Trimble observed many ...

A survival guide for the FinTech era of bankingFinTech Innovation examines the rise of financial technology and its growing impact on the global banking industry. Wealth managers are standing at the epicenter of a tectonic shift, as the balance of power between offering and demand undergoes a dramatic upheaval. Regulators are pushing toward a 'constrained offering' norm while private clients and independent advisors demand a more proactive role; practition...

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller!The new secret to driving LOYALTY THAT PAYSOnce revolutionary, loyalty programs designed to differentiate products quickly became commoditized. And yet, billions of dollars are still spent every year on programs that are doomed to fail. These programs, it turns out, don't inspire long-term loyalty. Once a better deal comes along, customers will gladly defect. Can you blame them?

Manage the risk and maximize the reward!Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully.• The basic categories of business risk• How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular business• How to create practical ...