Is unabated inflation the new normal? Inflation is back and here to stay. For companies, this means that the world in which they do business has fundamentally changed. This book examines inflation from multiple perspectives and offers actions and strategies for companies to cope with and manage it to ensure their survival. For businesses and consumers, it is not a question of eliminating inflation, but how to cope with it in order to suffer as little damage as possible. This includes not just price management, but also sales, finance, purchasing, cost management along with digitalization and innovation activities in equal measure. It also requires corporate cultural change, which if managed fast and successfully, the prospects of defeating inflation and thus ensuring the survival of the company are good.
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Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains: Preparing for Uncertainty Using Scenarios
This book presents a strategic decision-making process (i.e., scenario planning) to help managers build supply chain infrastructures that can adapt to uncertain shifts in the business environment. The authors detail the process for developing and applying scenarios for strategic planning in organizations playing three different roles in supply chains. Using three cases in which the process was applied in association with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, this primer also explains how companies can monitor their business environments to decide when to take the necessary steps to adapt their supply chain strategies and assets. The lessons learned are applicable globally: in first-world free-market economies, emerging countries and poorer nations, as well as the states where the government plays a strong role in the economic activity. For companies looking to assess the numerous drivers shaping their supply chains and use that information to makeliving strategic plans, this book will teach you how to build adaptable and agile supply chains. It will explain how to approach long-term investments in your organization.
Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand
Why when companies come crashing down, do we hear of boards who have failed in their fiduciary duties? Or that they have been ignorant, complacent or downright complicit in these scandals and downfalls? Of course, corporate scandals are nothing new, nor are they limited to any one geography. They are a damning indictment of our systems of corporate governance around the world. And yet, despite this frequency, little or nothing changes. We shrug and move on, accepting they are an unavoidable part of the system that produces incredible wealth for economies and societies. But it should not be that way. Disaster in the Boardroom shows how boards can be better. Looking at why these scandals happen, authors Peterson and Brown present in-depth case studies of major global corporations – including recent contemporary scandals associated with companies such as BP, Facebook and Uber – using the optic of their unique, original and compelling ‘six dysfunctions of the board’ analysis to reveal their particularities but also how they can be overcome. In this book, Brown and Peterson explore common attributes of scandals such as lack of independence from management, missing key voices, cultural amplification, diffusion of responsibility, rule-bound cultures and groupthink. They also identify ways to strengthen boards, improve their culture and competence, and give directors and others the power to take action and ultimately prevent disasters from happening. Disaster in the Boardroom is essential reading for every executive in every boardroom, those aspiring to board positions as well as anyone interested in why boards fail. It has never been more important to pre-identify and eradicate these boardroom dysfunctions – not least so that their impacts upon society can better seen, understood, mitigated, and avoided.
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, from the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens (Unstoppable Us, 1)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks at the early history of humankind.
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
* This is history like you’ve never experienced it before! *
We humans aren’t strong like lions, we don’t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don’t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?
The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story . . .
Even though we’ll never outrun a hungry lion or outswim an angry shark, humans are pretty impressive—and we’re the most dominant species on the planet. So how exactly did we become “unstoppable”?
Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!). And this has made us very powerful . . . but very deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always want more.
From learning to make fire and using the stars as guides to cooking meals in microwaves and landing on the moon, prepare to uncover the secrets and superpowers of how we evolved from our first appearances on Earth millions of years ago. So get ready for the most amazing story there ever was – the incredible true tale of the Unstoppables.
Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari has expertly crafted an extraordinary story of how humans learned to not only survive but also thrive on Earth, complete with maps, a timeline, and full-color illustrations that bring his dynamic, unputdownable writing to life.
Time to Come Home: Sowing the Seeds of Self-Love for Lasting Happiness
Embark on a path of self-discovery and self-love . . .
Have you ever found yourself in a high-end luxury store, surrounded by opulent items that seemed beyond your reach? However, this feeling had nothing to do with affordability—it was deeper. It was about whether you truly deserved to embrace life’s finer things, including prioritising your happiness. Do you ever wonder if self-love is a luxury reserved for others, a desire that always remains just out of grasp?
Time to Come Home deals with the struggles many of us face in embracing self-love, exploring the root causes of our reluctance, and experiencing the transformative power of self-compassion. Through personal anecdotes and professional insights, the book highlights the common misconceptions and deep-seated beliefs that hinder us from nurturing a loving relationship with ourselves.
With clarity and empathy, this book guides readers towards understanding and practising self-love. This journey isn’t just about filling an emotional void; it’s about recognising our worth and reclaiming agency over our happiness. Whether you are seeking to overcome self-doubt or simply cultivate a deeper sense of self-acceptance, this book serves as a compassionate companion.
Ancient Practices for Mindful Living
In an era of increasing mental health concerns, this book offers a personalised approach to mindfulness, delving into its principles and dispelling misconceptions. Addressing the fast-paced lifestyles of millennials, the author presents practical techniques for incorporating awareness into daily routines and transforming mindfulness from a mere practice into a lifestyle.
This book equips individuals with a holistic approach to remaining authentic amidst challenges. It offers insights and resources for prioritising mental health with resilience and grit while giving suggestions to prioritise awareness of the vulnerabilities within us. From efficient cooking and clean eating to breathing exercises, money management, and relationship harmony, the book provides simple and practical tips that one can embrace in all facets of life.
In fine, Ancient Practices for Mindful Living highlights the potential of age-old tools to overcome modern challenges and foster well-being. This book will empower readers to slow down, focus on the small moments of joy, and cultivate a fulfilling existence.
Building Your Money Machine: How to Get Your Money to Work Harder for You Than You Did for It!
Make financial freedom real with the right mindset, right process, and right action steps
Does it feel like you’re missing out on life because you can’t get your finances in order? Are you seeking a life free of financial fear and full of meaning, purpose, and impact?
The key to building the life you desire and deserve is to build your Money Machine—a powerful system designed to generate income that’s no longer tied to your work or efforts. This step-by-step guide goes beyond the general idea of personal finance and wealth creation and reveals the holistic approach to transforming your relationship with money to allow you to enjoy financial freedom and peace of mind.
Part money philosophy, part money mindset, part strategy, and part tactical action, these powerful frameworks will show you how to:
• Demystify wealth creation through proven processes like The Wealth Priority Ladder™ and The Five Incomes™
• Build the three pillars of your Money Machine—Earn, Grow, and Protect
• Optimize your earnings, transform them into assets, and protect them from loss.
Whether you are a dreamer, doer, or believer—or all three!—your financial freedom is a birthright. Now is the time to embrace your financial potential with confidence and courage.
How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart
‘Meggan’s words have the power to make you feel seen, understood, and less alone. This book is the reminder you need that you are worthy of self-love and acceptance.’
– Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Think Like a Monk and host of the On Purpose podcast
Life can be a lot. How are you supposed to maintain healthy relationships, build a career, keep up with the constant life admin, and prioritize your well-being? It’s so easy to get distracted and lose sight of your path, until one day you realize you’re completely lost, trapped in a cycle of self-sabotage and people pleasing.
You are not alone.
Following her own personal experience of dealing with anxiety and depression, Meggan Roxanne has united a community of 30 million people by sharing ways to navigate everyday struggles. Now she’s using the lessons she’s learned along the way to help you to:
• overcome negative thought patterns
• move away from perfectionism and break free from expectations
• say ‘no’ to toxic people and situations and set boundaries
• stop keeping yourself small and step into your power
• build a life where self-love is non-negotiable
You’ll wish you’d read this book sooner.
Becoming Flawesome: The Key to Living an Imperfectly Authentic Life
Now in paperback! Overcome perfectionism and self-doubt by unapologetically embracing your fully awesome self—flaws and all—with the co-founder of Mindvalley, a global school delivering transformational education for all ages.
Perfectionism is the one thing that often stands between us and lasting, deep happiness and feelings of peace and fulfillment. As life happens, we fall in love with the idea of who we could be instead of who we actually are—leaving parts of ourselves behind and losing sight of what and who are truly important. How can we simultaneously live as ourselves without ourselves?
By sharing revelatory personal anecdotes and thoughtful reflection prompts, Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, co-founder of the global transformational school Mindvalley, guides you toward:
• Finding your own truth despite the external and internal critics
• Transforming ideas of the Perfect You into the embodiment of the Real You
• Embracing a life where no one needs fixing
Only by finding your way back to yourself and understanding who you really are—by accepting your dents and scratches, your quirky uniqueness, and your flaws—will you thrive in being unapologetically you, most flawesomely.
The Official Fast Like a Girl Journal: A 60-Day Guided Journey to Healing, Self-Trust, and Inner Wisdom through Fasting
Join Dr. Mindy Pelz as she makes fasting easy to do and easy to understand in this 60-day fasting journal!
Never before has keeping track of your fasting been this simple! Dr. Mindy Pelz’s new 60-day fasting journal is designed to make sure that you feel supported, encouraged, and inspired as you work your way through your fasting journey. Dr. Mindy does more than just tell you which foods to avoid, she breaks down which foods help or hinder your fasting, helps you track your sleep, your blood sugar levels, your energy, and much more.
Start the rest of your life today with this amazing journal!