With humble beginnings in a small, low income home in Pittsburgh to over 40 years of business experience including serving as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and member of several corporate boards of directors, being a corporate officer and running a $20 billion global operation for Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Operations, Worldwide, Rande Somma has seen some things in the context of leadership that deeply disturbed him.Somma brings an empathetic top-down perspective to the problem...

The book is about the leadership culture in America today where a leader choosing their self-interest over their stated duties and obligations has, over time, morphed from being the exception to today it being the norm.The author, Rande Somma, suggests that those individuals are not worthy of being called a leader of any kind. More appropriately they should be referred to as frauds.There are many good leadership “how to” books on the market today. However, through Rande’s p...

Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics and core business concepts taught at America’s top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With more than 400,000 copies sold around the world, this internationally acclaimed guide distills the lessons of the most popular business school courses taught at ...

A bold and revolutionary thinker’s legacy for how business can meet the greatest economic challenge in decades...It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies do things is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggest opportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world in which consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from the devastating combination of low-wage countries with high skills.For more than a decade, ...

There is much more to being a good manager than hiring and managing employees. Managers are often pulled in many directions at the same time and their ability to handle everything properly and efficiently is critical to their success.Managers must also learn to create the proper manager/employee relationship so that both the manager and employee function at their highest levels."How to Be a Good Manager" shows you simple yet extremely effective techniques designed to increa...

No matter how hard we try or how perfect we make our business, problems and troubles are bound to find us from time to time. So as important as it might be to reduce problem situation, we will never eliminate them. So it makes sense to learn how to effectively deal with conflict whenever it occurs."Conflict Resolution Skills" will give you the skills and ability to not only resolve most conflicts but to actually turn many conflicts and problems into opportunities! Being bale to tur...

The telephone can be your greatest friend or your worst enemy. It all depends on how you use it!You would be surprised at the number of times the telephone either makes or breaks the customer relationship. How it can make things so much better or make them so much worse. Often it is just one simple word or action that makes the whole difference!Communicating over the phone is so much different than face to face communications. There are different things we need to pay atten...

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at ...

Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning and its modern applications to education, work, and adult development.Experiential Learning, Second Edition builds on the intellectual origins of ex...

Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach, and invites us to fully participate in this process. The integral approach has been researched and framed over decades of in-dept...

Everybody has different sets of motivation and beliefs. Watching Millionaires do what they do, it ignites our self-proclamation and thirst to proof our capabilities. These 10 amazing tips will guide you on how to achieve your dreams in your own way.

Boardroom Secrets focuses on the, processes, and behaviours for a board of directors to ensure good governance. The book focuses on behavioral aspects of governance such as how to evaluate and process information provided to the board, how to critically question without de-motivating, and how to balance interests of different stakeholders.