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Produkt vom BFSG ausgenommen: Hersteller ist Kleinstunternehmen

Miguel Agulló

Management & Innovation Pocket-book

Sustainable business is no longer optional--it's the strategy that will determine who leads and who gets left behind.Climate change is not just a future threat--it's a current reality, reshaping markets, supply chains, and entire industries. Rising temperatures, resource scarcity, and mounting waste are driving regulatory pressure, investor scrutiny, and consumer demand for sustainable practices. For business leaders, this isn't just an operational challenge--it's a strategic disruption. Companies that fail to adapt risk being swept aside by forces they can no longer ignore.In The Ultimate Disruption: Rethinking Business in a World Transformed by Climate Change, INSEAD professors Atalay Atasu and Luk Van Wassenhove provide an essential road map for thriving in this new era. Drawing on decades of research and real-world case studies, they show why sustainability must be treated as a core business imperative, not a compliance exercise or marketing slogan. The authors introduce a framework for rethinking strategy, redefining value propositions, and reinventing business models to integrate environmental value alongside customer utility and profit.Through compelling examples--from Polygreen's zero-waste transformation on a Greek island to Schneider Electric's global decarbonization initiatives--the book illustrates how companies are turning environmental constraints into opportunities for innovation and growth. Each chapter tackles critical steps: building the business case for sustainability; revisiting value potential; overcoming operational and scaling challenges; and leveraging partnerships, tech, and new business models to deliver shared value and profitability.Sustainability is no longer a cost--it's a competitive advantage. The Ultimate Disruption equips leaders with the strategies and tools to navigate the climate-driven transformation of business ecosystems and emerge stronger than ever.

Rethinking Business in a World Transformed by Climate Change

The Ultimate Disruption

Management und Organisationsberatung

Klar kommunizieren, wirksam handeln 

 Zwischen Tempo und Sorgfalt, Deutlichkeit und Wertschätzung: Führungskräfte stecken täglich in Zwickmühlen - Situationen ohne eindeutig "richtige" Lösung. Das Buch macht diese Dilemmata sichtbar und handhabbar. Seine zentrale These: Wer Dilemmata klar benennen kann, bleibt auch ohne finale Gewissheit handlungsfähig - gegenüber Mitarbeitenden wie Vorgesetzten.
 

 Anhand von 11 typischen Führungsdilemmata aus ihrer Beratungspraxis zeigen die Autor:innen unter anderem, wie man in Konfliktsituationen klar kritisiert und zugleich Beziehung sichert, wie man zwischen situativem Führen und werteorientierter Führung balanciert. Daneben werden Sprach- und Handlungsstrategien für Führungskräfte und Beratende vermittelt, die sich sofort in der täglichen Praxis einsetzen lassen.
 

 Jedes Kapitel bietet Ausgangssituationen, Fallbeispiele, Situationsanalysen, ein Wertequadrat sowie konkrete Formulierungen für schwierige Gespräche. Sie helfen, Erwartungen zu managen, Kommunikation im Führungsalltag zu schärfen und Führungskompetenz wirksam weiterzuentwickeln.
 Die Autor:innen: Katrin Baum,
 Dipl.-Psych.; Systemische Beraterin und Therapeutin (ISS, SG), Kommunikationspsychologin, Referentin für Personalentwicklung und Lehrbeauftragte;
 

 Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Coaching, Training, Teamentwicklung.
 Regine Heiland,
 Dipl.-Psych.; Gestalttherapeutin, Kommunikationspsychologin; Fortbildungen zur Gesprächs-, Körper- und Familientherapie; Kommunikationstrainerin und Beraterin im Wirtschafts-, Bildungs- und Gesundheitsbereich; Co-Geschäftsführerin von elbdialog GbR.
 Lisa Schnauer,
 Erziehungs- und Bildungswissenschaftlerin (M. A.) mit Schwerpunkt Erwachsenenbildung; Kommunikationspsychologin und Lehrbeauftragte; Trainerin, Teamentwicklerin und Coach für Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen; Co-Geschäftsführerin von elbdialog GbR.
 Eberhard Stahl,
 Dipl.-Psych., Psychologischer Psychotherapeut; Co-Geschäftsführer von elbdialog GbR; als Dozent, Mediator und Teamentwickler für Unternehmen und öffentliche Institutionen tätig.

Worte finden, die Klarheit schaffen

Dilemmata der Führung

In a world where 82 percent of managers struggle to lead effectively, this international bestseller reveals the one secret that separates great leaders from the rest. “What do I need to do to be a great leader?” Every person in authority wonders this question sooner or later. Ken Blanchard, whose books have sold over 25 million copies, and Mark Miller, who rose from line worker to Chick-fil-A vice president, uncover the secret great leaders already know in this international bestseller. &nbsp;Using a classic business fable, newly promoted executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the crucial question: “What is the secret of great leaders?” His reply—“Great leaders serve”—confuses her, but he reveals five fundamental ways leaders succeed through service. Debbie discovers why great leaders focus on the future, how teams determine success or failure, what three arenas need continuous improvement, why leadership success has two essential components, and how to strengthen—or destroy—credibility. &nbsp;This fourth edition includes the proven SERVE model plus breakthrough content on leadership’s most critical element—a leader’s heart. Discover these new features: <ul><li>Revised chapters</li><li>New chapter with five HEART habits that form the foundation for great leadership</li><li>Comprehensive facilitator’s guide for groups and teams</li><li>Expanded resources for teams and organizations</li></ul> Translated into twenty-nine languages with over 700,000 copies sold, The Secret delivers proven wisdom in an unforgettable story that anyone can understand and apply immediately.

In a world where 82 percent of managers struggle to lead effectively, this international bestseller reveals the one secret that separates great leaders from the rest. “What do I need to do to be a great leader?” Every person in authority wonders this question sooner or later. Ken Blanchard, whose books have sold over 25 million copies, and Mark Miller, who rose from line worker to Chick-fil-A vice president, uncover the secret great leaders already know in this international bestseller. &nbsp;Using a classic business fable, newly promoted executive Debbie Brewster asks her mentor the crucial question: “What is the secret of great leaders?” His reply—“Great leaders serve”—confuses her, but he reveals five fundamental ways leaders succeed through service. Debbie discovers why great leaders focus on the future, how teams determine success or failure, what three arenas need continuous improvement, why leadership success has two essential components, and how to strengthen—or destroy—credibility. &nbsp;This fourth edition includes the proven SERVE model plus breakthrough content on leadership’s most critical element—a leader’s heart. Discover these new features: <ul><li>Revised chapters</li><li>New chapter with five HEART habits that form the foundation for great leadership</li><li>Comprehensive facilitator’s guide for groups and teams</li><li>Expanded resources for teams and organizations</li></ul> Translated into twenty-nine languages with over 700,000 copies sold, The Secret delivers proven wisdom in an unforgettable story that anyone can understand and apply immediately.

What Great Leaders Know and Do

The Secret, 4th Edition, Revised and Expanded

Project Stakeholder Engagement provides concepts and frameworks that can help the reader gain insights into a project's stakeholders, and how to engage them. It also gives suggestions for how to identify and understand stakeholders, and how to create an engagement plan with communication and other activities.Readers will gain essential skills to drive project success by learning to systematically analyse stakeholders and develop targeted engagement strategies. The book delivers these benefits through research-based frameworks illustrated with real-world examples, mini-cases highlighting key concepts, and comprehensive case studies bridging theory and practice. Written primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students in project management and business administration, this book is equally valuable for practising project managers, consultants, and executives seeking to enhance their stakeholder engagement skills. It's particularly relevant for courses in project management, project stakeholder engagement, and value creation.Supporting materials include PowerPoint slides summarizing key frameworks and an instructor's manual with teaching notes for case studies, facilitating effective classroom discussion and application of the book's principles.

Analysis, Involvement, and Communication

Project Stakeholder Engagement

Most innovation advice breaks down when technology leads the market.
For decades, we've been taught that innovation starts with customer validation, empathy maps, and rapid feedback loops. That approach works when problems are well understood and solutions are incremental. But it quietly fails when feedback loops are slow, expensive, or nonexistent, when the technology itself must exist before customers can even imagine what is possible.
Build First, Market Later is a contrarian but practical book for engineers, technical founders, and system builders working at the edge of what is possible. It explains why breakthrough innovation rarely starts with market demand, why customers often cannot articulate needs for capabilities that do not yet exist, and why the most important innovations emerge from building first, then engaging the market when it is ready.
This book is not a rejection of Lean Startup or design thinking. It is an explanation of their limits, and a guide to when different innovation methods actually apply.
Drawing on examples ranging from lasers and semiconductors to software platforms, AI systems, medical technology, and open-source infrastructure, Farhad Abtahi shows how innovation fails not because of bad ideas, but because of misordered steps. Validation without physics. Stories without systems. Markets consulted before capabilities exist.
Build First, Market Later does not offer a recipe. It offers something more useful: a way to reason about innovation when the usual playbooks stop working.
If you are optimizing features, this book is not for you.
If you are building something that has never existed before, it is.

The Engineers Argument for Breakthrough Innovation

Build First, Market Later

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy? The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the framework underpinning today’s economic statistics is so outdated that it functions as a distorting lens, or even a set of blinkers. When policymakers rely on such an antiquated conceptual tool, how can they measure, understand, and respond with any precision to what is happening in today’s digital economy? Coyle makes the case for a new framework, one that takes into consideration current economic realities. Coyle explains why economic statistics matter. They are essential for guiding better economic policies; they involve questions of freedom, justice, life, and death. Governments use statistics that affect people’s lives in ways large and small. The metrics for economic growth were developed when a lack of physical rather than natural capital was the binding constraint on growth, intangible value was less important, and the pressing economic policy challenge was managing demand rather than supply. Today’s challenges are different. Growth in living standards in rich economies has slowed, despite remarkable innovation, particularly in digital technologies. As a result, politics is contentious and democracy strained. Coyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail. Only with a new approach to measurement will we be able to achieve the right kind of growth for the benefit of all.

Counting What Really Matters

The Measure of Progress

It's Not too Late to Build Toward a Better Future!Rick Caruso has earned a reputation for being a problem solver--somebody who's not afraid of facing big challenges. From his appointment to Water Commissioner and later Police Commissioner in Los Angeles to his bold real estate ventures, Caruso made the decisions he felt were right, even in the face of staunch adversity. In Its Not Too Late, Caruso shares the lessons he learned from his experiences while offering us all a path forward to a better future. At a time when more importance is placed on choosing sides than actually getting things done (let alone done right), Caruso offers refreshing perspective and will teach you how to let go of false divisions, and instead to embrace the search for actual answers and solutions.Togetherness, brotherhood, sisterhood, faith in each other, respect for each other, the ideals preached in almost every faith on Earth are the way forward, no matter how difficult the climb in front of us may seem. And ultimately, the only way we will get back on that path is for each of us to step up, with integrity, in whatever small way we can: for our kids, for our communities, for our country, and for each other.

It’s Not too Late to Build Toward a Better Future!

The Power of Finding Steadfast Solutions

It's Not Too Late

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of fake leadership&nbsp;within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), revealing its&nbsp;detrimental&nbsp;impact on&nbsp;organization,&nbsp;job performance and brand commitment among employees. It shows the role of intra-organizational trust, job-related attitudes, and the unique vulnerabilities of HEIs in those processes.&nbsp;Crucially,&nbsp;the book also outlines defensive strategies, which can mitigate these negative effects, emphasizing the importance of transparency, ethical conduct, and collective action within HEIs.
Drawing on empirical research involving&nbsp;over 500 employees of European HEIs, the authors identify specific organizational and individual strategies, which have the potential to combat and mitigate organizational destruction caused by fake leadership within HEIs.&nbsp;
It is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers committed to safeguarding the future of higher education.

Investigating Destructive Leadership Styles and their Impact in HE Institutions

Fake Leadership in Higher Education

How the Apple Store changed shopping forever - one customer at a time.In The Apple Store: A Retail Story, visionary retailer Ron Johnson reveals the untold story of how he and Steve Jobs created the Apple store. From the first store's opening to a global empire of over 500 locations, Johnson shares a behind-the-scenes look at iconic moments, including the opening of their first UK store on Regent Street and the restoration of the ancient Covent Garden store.Part business memoir, part insider account, the book uncovers Johnson's philosophy - 'Good Things Happen When People Come to the Store,' 'You Can't Automate Service' - and offers timeless lessons on leadership, innovation and customer experience. Filled with personal stories, hard-won wisdom and reflections on working with Steve Jobs, this is an inspiring read offering insights that readers can apply in their own work and lives.Co-written with Zander Nethercutt, this is the definitive account of how Apple's 'houses of worship' became a retail phenomenon that forever changed how we shop.

A Retail Story

Shop Different

In the dynamic sphere of international business, the role of a global manager is more complex and vital than ever. This textbook crucially departs from the typical Western gaze on cross-cultural management, while offering a unique three way viewpoint taking into account the student, theoretical and practitioner perspectives on every issue. Each chapter explores a key area of cross-cultural management, and includes insights from leading practitioners, contemporary case studies and management theory. Beginning with the foundational aspects of culture, Cross-Cultural Management: Strategic Leadership Beyond Borders swiftly moves into practical management strategies for virtual, hybrid and in-country teams, addressing the nuances of culture shift and the dynamics of change management. The author uses an innovative Cultural Acuity framework to connect theory to application and help you develop the interpretive, reflective, and adaptive skills required to operate effectively in complex international environments. You will also gain insights into the intricacies of geopolitics and how global contexts shape managerial decisions, with a focus on strategic planning tailored to diverse cultural landscapes. The author dissects institutional behaviour to illuminate the impacts of varying procedures, laws and regulations; the chapter on collaboration offers a roadmap from basic teamwork to the creation of high-performing, culturally diverse teams. The textbook delves into the art of talent management in a globalized world, exploring best practices for recruitment, onboarding and retention in multicultural environments. Cross-Cultural Management: Strategic Leadership Beyond Borders is not just a collection of theories; it is enriched with case studies and real-world insights, ensuring that you can apply what you learn directly to your managerial role. It is the perfect resource for managers, researchers and students of International Business and Cross-Cultural Management who aim to lead with foresight, embracing both current cross-cultural realities and the future trends that will shape the global business landscape.

Strategic Leadership Beyond Borders

Cross-Cultural Management

Redesign the Future of Work with Neurodiversity in Mind Brainstorm: A Guide to Neurodivergent Talent and the Future of Work is a bold, practical guide to rebuilding work from the ground up. It shows that inclusion is more than the right thing to do, it is essential to business success. With raw honesty, sharp storytelling, and real-world tools, Brainstorm challenges tired corporate narratives and equips leaders, managers, and teams to unlock overlooked talent. Drawing on the voices of people across industries and ways of thinking, including trailblazers, business leaders, and academics, it highlights how work must be built for every kind of mind. Written by Dave Thompson, a pioneering self-advocate, educator, and innovator in the field of neurodiversity employment for over a decade, this book shows readers how to: <ul> <li>Build environments that empower people across every cognitive profile</li> <li>Rethink "accommodations" as Success Enablers that fuel performance and growth</li> <li>Foster psychological safety, allyship, and trust in teams of every size</li> <li>Rethink hiring, management, and retention practices to expand your talent pipeline</li> <li>Tackle real workplace obstacles like communication breakdowns, burnout, and bias</li> </ul> For employers of all sizes and industries, Brainstorm delivers an urgent call to action: stop forcing people to fit a system that was not designed for them. Instead, rewire the system itself and watch innovation, productivity, and engagement surge, and see everyone win.

A Guide to Neurodivergent Talent and the Future of Work

Brainstorm

How corporations can address legacies of historical oppression in ways that are good for them and good for others. Increasingly, corporate executives find themselves called upon to atone for their predecessors’ moral transgressions. While many are prepared to address inherited failed product lines or dysfunctional teams, few know how to handle demands that their enterprise address legacies of mass atrocity such as slavery, genocide, or colonialism. In Corporate Reckoning, Sarah Federman provides a corporate atonement model for corporate leaders and employees across industries around the world. When survivors and descendants demand reckoning, many corporate leaders initially shirk the responsibilities that follow from these requests. They may claim that history belongs to the historians, that their company’s activities were legal at the time, or that too much time has passed. If it comes to it, courts will rule in their favor, they reassure themselves. Others avoid these issues simply because they have no idea how to address them. Demands for reckoning ebb and flow, but these histories do not disappear. This book offers a way forward that serves companies and those affected by these historical harms. Taking responsibility for irreparable harm is not easy or comfortable. Despite the dilemmas and difficulties, the only way out is through.

How corporations can address legacies of historical oppression in ways that are good for them and good for others. Increasingly, corporate executives find themselves called upon to atone for their predecessors’ moral transgressions. While many are prepared to address inherited failed product lines or dysfunctional teams, few know how to handle demands that their enterprise address legacies of mass atrocity such as slavery, genocide, or colonialism. In Corporate Reckoning, Sarah Federman provides a corporate atonement model for corporate leaders and employees across industries around the world. When survivors and descendants demand reckoning, many corporate leaders initially shirk the responsibilities that follow from these requests. They may claim that history belongs to the historians, that their company’s activities were legal at the time, or that too much time has passed. If it comes to it, courts will rule in their favor, they reassure themselves. Others avoid these issues simply because they have no idea how to address them. Demands for reckoning ebb and flow, but these histories do not disappear. This book offers a way forward that serves companies and those affected by these historical harms. Taking responsibility for irreparable harm is not easy or comfortable. Despite the dilemmas and difficulties, the only way out is through.

How Businesses Can Address Historical Wrongs

Corporate Reckoning

Management & Innovation Pocket-book

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