2026 | English | B0GFBJHSFM | MP3 192 kbps | 4 hours and 29 minutes | More than 250,000 sold In his bestselling book The Power of Positive Leadership, eighteen-time bestselling author Jon Gordon teaches listeners that we are not positive because life is easy; we are positive because life can be hard! Leaders are bound to face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests, and there will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you―which is why positive leadership is essential. In the revised and updated Second Edition, Gordon reminds listeners that the research is clear: being a positive leader is not just a nice way to lead. It's the only way to lead if you want to build a great culture, unite your organization in the face of adversity, develop a connected and committed team, and achieve excellence and superior results. This book teaches listeners to Use love as the greatest leadership principle on the planet Pursue excellence by being humble and hungry Develop grit, embrace failure, ignore the critics, and do the work The Power of Positive Leadership is a must-listen for all leaders in business and beyond seeking to get the best out of themselves and others.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1041137834 | 322 pages | True PDF,EPUB | This timely volume provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of platform-based tourism, integrating economic, technological, ethical, and policy perspectives. Specifically in the current context of shifting social dynamics, this book explores how digital platforms, such as Airbnb, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor, have changed how travellers plan, book, and experience their holidays as well as the significant challenges for traditional tourism providers, communities, and governments, including regulation, equity, digital responsibility, and sustainability issues. In addition, this book unpacks and explores contemporary platform economy-driven trends such as digital nomadism, solo travelling, and travel content creation. This is supported throughout with international examples and case studies. International in scope, this engaging volume will be of pivotal interest to industry experts as well as researchers and tourism, hospitality, economics, and technology students.

English | 2011 | ISBN: 0801450187 | EPUB | pages: 216 | A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti–money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high costs, which fall especially heavily on poor countries. Sharman tests the effectiveness of AML laws by soliciting offers for just the kind of untraceable shell companies that are expressly forbidden by global standards. In practice these are readily available, and the author had no difficulty in buying the services of such companies. After dealing with providers in countries ranging from the Seychelles and Somalia to the United States and Britain, Sharman demonstrates that it is easier to form untraceable companies in large rich states than in small poor ones; the United States is the worst offender.

English | ISBN: 0230238475 | 2010 | 270 pages | PDF | MacIntyre's narrative based virtue ethics have for the first time in this book been applied to an organization undergoing change driven by market forces and a society that wants more for less with scant regard for the means by which that is achieved. The practical potential of these insights is explored in the case study that runs through the book.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032199468 | 290 Pages | PDF This conference proceedings focuses on how marketing continues to evolve in response to technological innovation, sustainability imperatives, and shifting consumer expectations. Featuring full papers presented at the 2025 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress held in Dijon, France, this book features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of marketing’s transformative role in a rapidly changing business environment. Featuring topics such as AI and marketing, consumer behavior and sustainability, brand communication and crisis management, and digital marketing, this book is a useful reference for marketing researchers, scholars, students, and policymakers.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1265132534 | 849 pages | PDF | Dating back to Jerry McCarthy's 4Ps of Marketing, Cannon/Perreault, Essentials of Marketing prioritizes marketing strategy planning and ensures currency through:• Active Learning: SmartBook, Video Cases, and Application-Based Activities foster critical thinking in real-world scenarios.• Purpose Orientation: Emphasizes an organization's broader value creation beyond profit, benefiting stakeholders.• Visual Enhancement: Hundreds of additional images and exhibits integrated into Connect Interactive exercises and PowerPoint slides for enriched learning.

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032208203 | 436 pages | Epub PDF Technological and scientific innovation does not simply emerge; it is designed. From organizational systems and data infrastructures to platforms, policies, and everyday tools, design choices shape how power operates, whose knowledge counts, and who benefits from innovation. Technology, Management, and Design for Social Justice brings together global scholars and practitioners to critically examine how design, management, and technological systems reproduce inequality, and how they can be intentionally reimagined to advance equity, dignity, and planetary wellbeing.

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032140811 | 509 pages | Epub PDF Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt. The tourist is increasingly interested in the region as a source of material culture and nature and demands tailor-made holidays that match their specific expectations. Tourists moreover are increasingly well informed and aware of how they approach participation and what their social and ethical responsibilities are. Satisfaction must therefore be understood holistically, and that depends on the ability to offer alternatives in terms of greater enjoyability, pleasure and expectations.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 1041158513 | 187 pages | True PDF,EPUB | Written with clarity and warmth, this book is a transformative guide for professionals determined to create learning-rich, trust-filled environments where people and organizations not only grow―but thrive together. As group coaching rises as a leading and cost-effective tool for leadership development, organizational learning, and personal growth, many practitioners remain unsure how to distinguish it from team coaching or facilitation―or how to deploy its full power. Erek Ostrowski, blending original research and two decades of real-world expertise, offers a groundbreaking capabilities-based model that moves beyond checklist competencies and rote interventions. With an emphasis on flexibility, responsiveness, and adaptability, coaches will find practical guidance for working with complex, ever-changing client systems and fostering authentic human connection, learning, and transformation. Practical frameworks, vivid vignettes, and accessible theory anchor the book’s approach for facilitating psychologically safe, reflective, and accountable group experiences. Readers will discover the five key group factors―exchange, vicarious learning, belonging, role flexibility, and peer accountability―that enable deep insight and sustained change. Whether you are a leadership or executive coach, OD practitioner, educator, or supervisor, this book equips you with a research-informed, real-world toolkit for designing, facilitating, and teaching effective group coaching. Ultimately, Ostrowski’s work invites coaches and organizations to embrace the complexity, relational depth, and unique human potential that only group coaching can unlock.

English | June 9th, 2026 | ISBN: 1637635206 | 272 pages | PDF Stupider People Have Done It is a bold, hilarious, and truth-telling manifesto from marketing rebel Jay Schwedelson that shreds outdated advice, torches best practices, and hands you the unapologetic permission to succeed by doing things your own way. If you're looking for another safe, feel-good business advice and marketing book filled with recycled tips and corporate fluff, this ain't it. In Stupider People Have Done It, Jay Schwedelson—CEO of Outcome Media, founder of SubjectLine.com, host of the #1 US marketing podcast, and full-time rule-breaker—delivers a no-holds-barred takedown of the conventional wisdom holding you back. This book is not a list of hints and hacks. It's a permission slip to stop following advice that was never meant for you. From bogus marketing playbooks to the nonsense we're told about careers, success, and how to "do life right," Jay exposes why so much of what we blindly follow is just . . . garbage. You'll get perspective shifts, uncomfortable truths, and the occasional absurdity—because when you stop pretending there's a one-size-fits-all formula, that's when the good stuff starts to happen. It's part marketing, part life, all calling BS on the rules that were never working in the first place. Jay doesn't offer perfect answers—just the push you need to question everything and figure out what actually works for YOU. All profits from this book will be donated to The V Foundation for Cancer Research — let's kick cancer's butt!

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032248345 | 161 pages| Epub PDF Managing healthcare operations is hard. Under increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve patient access and service quality, managers need the know how to leverage data to make optimal decisions. This book bridges the gap between business education and the realities of modern healthcare delivery, giving students a grounded, practical look at the operational challenges that define clinical environments: scheduling, patient flow, and capacity management. Based on the author’s firsthand research experience in clinics and hospitals, the material goes beyond theory. Real cases drawn from actual healthcare settings — complete with data sets, analytical tools, and instructor resources — put students in the decision-maker's seat from day one. No prior knowledge of the healthcare system is required. The book is designed for advanced undergraduates in business, science, or engineering, and adapts equally well to professional master's programs. A modular structure gives instructors the flexibility to tailor content to their audience, adjusting technical depth to match students' quantitative backgrounds. This course text combines management principles, mathematical models, practical exercises, and case work that students will use and remember.

English | ISBN: 1265074658 | 684 pages | PDF | 2022 | Foundations of Financial Management has built a loyal following due to its strong real-world emphasis, clear writing style, and step-by-step explanations that simplify difficult concepts. As the field of finance has become much more analytical, the text focuses on the "nuts and bolts" of finance with a clear and thorough treatment of concepts and applications. The authors emphasize decision-oriented approaches rather than the old, descriptive approach. They have also stayed with their basic mission of making sure students can follow their discussions throughout the text. Block, Hirt, and Danielsen have always been devoted to producing a high-quality text by writing the entire book and all the problems themselves. The authors know what works and what doesn't work for students, and they have consistently maintained a product that is responsive to the demands of the marketplace.

English | 2011 | pages: 159 | ISBN: 0983559503 | PDF | As much as we say through business books and keynote speeches that we want to expect the unexpected, provide early warning, think outside of the box and create the future – we don’t. Not usually. Bureaucracies are designed to maintain their current structure, not to evolve to meet future challenges. Is this the result of fifty years of futurism, of thousands of executive retreats, of millions of pages of trend analysis? With decades of advanced intellectual techniques in foresight, why do we seem to keep stumbling into housing bubbles, financial collapse, disruptive technologies and wildcard events and then declare, “Nobody could see it coming!” In this world of superconnected economies and increasingly fragile institutions, we must restore our ability to imagine the future, based on critical thinking instead of fear. In How to Predict the Future…and WIN!!! Eric Garland illustrates how bureaucracies avoid actual discussions of their futures and recommends how we can turn our organizations around to become truly future-focused. His narrator in this intellectual journey is P. Hughes Egon, the world’s “premier futurological predictologist” for the past forty years who doesn’t realize how 1988 his visions of the future really are. In the book, Garland exposes Egon’s twenty-five “tips” on foresight so that our organizations can achieve actual vision of what’s next.

2025 | English | 1541706188 | True EPUB | 400 pages | In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a “rich and humane” (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually live Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children from poor families attend school but fail to learn anything? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two Nobel Prize–winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Together, they investigate what the lives and choices of the poor tell us about how to fight global poverty, from why microfinance is useful without being the miracle some hoped it would be to why the poor don’t want health insurance. Throughout, they reveal that even as many magic bullets of yesterday have ended up as today’s failed ideas, there is a path forward through this challenge. Updated with significant new material based on insights from the last decade of research, Poor Economics is a radical and hopeful rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of the life of the poor around the world.

English | September 28, 2018 | ISBN: 1948489937 | 608 pages | PDF In this bundle we take a deep dive into the lives, successes, and failures of some of the most successful (and wealthy) men on the planet. What makes them different? What is it about them that makes them super-achievers? You will discover all of that and more. What is it about Jeff Bezos that allows him to change the way the entire world shops (and become the richest man on the planet in doing so)? How does Elon Musk go from working in the fires of a toxic furnace to leading the charge in space travel? How Steve Jobs created and led what would later become the world’s first trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) company. Did Bill Gates (the richest man on earth for nearly two decades) really steal technology? How Jack Ma was denied a job working at Kentucky Fried Chicken (and was the only one of 24 applicants not to get hired) and then went on to found the company that would later set the record for the largest IPO in the history of the New York Stock Exchange . We will even show you how Richard Branson might not be as rich as people think. He is, in fact, richer. All of these questions answered. All of these myths debunked or truths verified.

English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 981956414X | 3004 pages| Epub PDF This book is a curated compilation of works from the Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economy in an Era of Uncertainty 2025 (EEEU-25). The book explores the critical role of entrepreneurship in the digital age, emphasizing the necessity of innovation for businesses to navigate global crises such as pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and economic disruptions. It illuminates the transformative impact of digital innovation on fostering entrepreneurial ventures while underscoring the significance of adept organizational management in nurturing and sustaining successful businesses. The relationships between entrepreneurship, housing, and property markets in the global economy, and the implications of globalization on local real estate dynamics is also explored, investigating how macroeconomic factors such as interest rates, inflation, and foreign exchange rates influence entrepreneurial opportunities in the housing and property sectors, as well as their connection to broader economic trends.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 9791281627741 | 358 pages | True PDF | In an era where sustainability and digital disruption redefine the rules of business, how do companies create lasting value while navigating complexity and fierce competition?The book offers a comprehensive roadmap for mastering modern marketing's most critical challenge: placing customers at the heart of strategy. This authoritative textbook bridges theory and practice, exploring how firms can leverage big data, AI, and omnichannel engagement to understand customer needs, build trust, and foster loyalty that drives sustainable profitability.From measuring customer lifetime value and designing effective loyalty programs to harnessing digital platforms for co-creation and personalized experiences, the authors integrate financial rigor with behavioral insights. Rich with real-world examples— from Nike's AI-driven innovation to Amazon's predictive analytics— this book equips readers with frameworks to transform marketing from a cost center into a strategic engine of growth, balancing shareholder returns with environmental and social responsibility in today's dynamic marketplace.

English | May 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 140196995X | 256 pages | True EPUB | Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational teachings: Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains why achieving 10X growth is easier than going for 2X growth. Dan Sullivan, the world's leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. Most find this idea confusing at first because simply imagining 10X growth causes them to think they need to do 10X more work to achieve it. However, being a 10X entrepreneur is nothing like what most people think. 10X is not the outcome; it's a counterintuitive process you can apply every time you want exponential growth in your life and business. To make 10X possible, you must focus on expanding what Dan defines as your four most important freedoms—time, money, relationship, and purpose. As your time becomes 10X more valuable, you increasingly multiply the money you earn both in terms of amount and profitable satisfaction. As money becomes a tool you can increasingly access with greater ease, you will engage with a growing number of other freedom-motivated individuals. As both your professional and personal life fills up with 10X more unique and collaborative relationships, you will realize that your most powerful purposes in all areas become 10X more lasting and positive for everyone involved. You will be impressed by what your life has become, and the meaning and impact you're having. 10X is fundamentally about quality vs quantity, and the quality of your freedoms determines the results you achieve.

English | ISBN: 0230289207 | 2011 | PDF | 190 pages | The best-kept secret in corporate life is the vanishing act of women on their way to the top. Despite massive attention to the issue the number of women in top positions remains shockingly low. This book shows what women themselves can do to optimize their careers and how this can bring benefits to the companies and organizations they work for.

English | 2016 | ISBN: 3319339087 | 75 Pages | PDF | This book investigates the question as to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of work and, if so, what the consequences will be. The author addresses this question from the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and game theory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the end of work, but its utilization by the capitalist system. Technology allows us to minimize the costs of work and increase profits, while the system is worsening unemployment, socio-economic inequality and stratification – which could lead to the end of capitalism in a massive global revolution. As such, the book proposes an evolutionary reform based on a seemingly minor but in fact essential correction of the corporate income tax, which he proposes should decrease in accordance with the percentage of the enterprise’s revenues expended to pay employee salaries. In this way, entrepreneurs will be motivated to implement new professions and occupations, as well as new workplaces. Only in this way, the book argues, can reforms be used to prevent the end of work, which would have catastrophic consequences.

English | 2026 | ISBN: 3111705021 | 321 Pages | EPUB | In an era where sustainability is paramount, leaders in the field face significant challenges in implementing comprehensive organizational change. Maya Jaber’s ground-breaking new book addresses the gaps in current strategies, highlighting the fragmented approaches that hinder progress.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1667822624 | 239 Pages | EPUB (True) | Across the millennia, leaders have used Programs to achieve their objectives. Even today, Programs are the most common way that organizations make change happen. People are the most critical factor in the success of Programs, yet their support and participation are often taken for granted. Change Management is the art and science of having people prepared with the best tools and aligned to support the Program's success.

English | 2025 | ISBN: 1529230829 | 148 Pages | PDF | This timely book explores the emerging uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design. Analysing the deployment of e-commerce business models, this book makes a compelling case that the rise of ‘therapeutic Tinder’ allows would-be clients to sidestep the deep, uncomfortable work of therapy. UberTherapy offers a defence for the irreplaceable value of human therapists and a roadmap for preserving the legacies of real therapy in the digital world.

English | April 23rd, 2019 | ISBN: 1612197493 | 256 pages | EPUB | A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.