Best Companies For Operations Management - April 2024

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0739PYQSS
• ASIN: B0739PYQSS
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 2,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do.In Traction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key comp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936661837
• UPC: 783324916904
• ASIN: 1936661837
• ISBN: 1936661837
• Brand: Benbella Books
• Manufacturer: BenBella Books

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Five years after this sleeper hit took on the world of IT and flipped it on its head, the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Phoenix Project continues to guide IT in the DevOps revolution. In this newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Phoenix Project, co-author Gene Kim includes a new afterword and a deeper delve into the Three Ways as described in The DevOps Handbook. Bill, an IT manager at Parts Unlimited, has been tasked with taking on a project critical to the future of the business, code named Phoenix Project. But the project is massively over budget and behind schedule. T... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078Y98RG8
• ASIN: B078Y98RG8
• Manufacturer: IT Revolution Press

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1449373321
• ASIN: 1449373321
• ISBN: 1449373321
• Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

30th Anniversary Edition. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days - Jonah - to h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B002LHRM2O
• ASIN: B002LHRM2O
• Manufacturer: North River Press

The DevOps Handbook:: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices.More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01M9ASFQ3
• ASIN: B01M9ASFQ3
• Manufacturer: IT Revolution Press

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical workVoted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0887307280
• UPC: 099455020992
• ASIN: 0887307280
• ISBN: 9780887307287
• Brand: HarperBusiness
• Manufacturer: HarperBusiness

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

The global phenomenon that has sold 3.6 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents—now updated and expanded with new contentIn this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00O4CRR7Y
• ASIN: B00O4CRR7Y
• Brand: Harvard Business Review Press
• Manufacturer: Harvard Business Review Press

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• ASIN: B00NEJS7ZO
• ASIN: B00NEJS7ZO
• Brand: M.E.N. Media Entertainment Networks GmbH
• Manufacturer: M.E.N. Media Entertainment Networks GmbH

Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations

Lack of Agility is the kiss of death. Position your company to succeed in world of change.To edge out the competition in today’s disruptive environment, you need to ensure that your company is agile―that it can respond to change instantly and effectively. Because fast and furious change is the only thing you can count on in business today.Network expert Michael Arena helped enable GM’s legendary turnaround. In these pages, he explains how you can transform your own company through the concept of adaptive space. Based on hundreds of interviews and the author’s own groundbreaking study ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1260118029
• ASIN: 1260118029
• ISBN: 9781260118025
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00A2DIW3C
• ASIN: B00A2DIW3C
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Be Our Guest: Revised and Updated Edition: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service (The Disney Institute Leadership Series)

Exceeding expectations rather than simply satisfying them is the cornerstone of the Disney approach to customer service. Be Our Guest specializes in helping professionals see new possibilities through concepts not found in the typical workplace, revealing even more of the business behind the magic of quality service.

• ASIN: B006N47ZPK
• ASIN: B006N47ZPK
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Disney Editions

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Stop Procrastinating Get More of the Important Things Done—Today! There just isn’t enough time for everything on our to-do list—and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs. There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one... [Read More]

• ASIN: 162656941X
• ASIN: 162656941X
• ISBN: 162656941X
• Brand: BERRETT KOEHLER
• Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself

Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive? What if instead your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit? It's possible. And it's easier than you think.If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your business so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078GDX7BP
• ASIN: B078GDX7BP
• Manufacturer: Portfolio

High Output Management

In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. Born of Grove’s experiences at one of America’s leading technology companies, High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers, as well as CEOs and startup founders. Grove covers techniques for creating highly product... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679762884
• ASIN: 0679762884
• ISBN: 9780679762881
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Operations Manager's Toolbox : Using the Best Project Management Techniques to Improve Processes and Maximize Efficiency

9780133064681

• UPC: 21103568
• Rating: 2.0

In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

A new edition of the critically acclaimed and landmark business handbook provides an incisive look at the successful management techniques of IBM, Texas Instruments, 3M, and other profitable American businesses.

• UPC: 2368119
• Rating: 4.5

Think Big, Act Small : How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive

The bestselling author of "Less Is More" reveals how great companies blend the ambitions of a giant with the humility and focus of a

• UPC: 16724471

The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques : Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change It

A much-anticipated update to the classic personal road map, full of strategies to understand, manage, and conquer your

• UPC: 56176599

The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, 2nd Edition Two-Book Set

Updated editions of the best-selling books on how to understand, manage, and conquer your

• UPC: 242225885

The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook

The newly updated workbook companion for putting the top anxiety management techniques into

• UPC: 56176598

The Goal : A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Aniversary Edition

The business book disguised as a novel that became an underground bestseller—and is still used today by thousands of companies and business

• UPC: 33215828
• Rating: 3.765

Customer-Driven Operations Management: Aligning Business Processes and Quality Tools to Create Operational Effectiveness in Your Company - eBook

The global economy is witnessing previously unseen levels of competitiveness, forcing business leaders to contend with unprecedented challenges. No longer can companies seize and hold a customer base by operating adequately. In order to enjoy

• UPC: 872073089

The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques : Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It

A strategy-filled handbook to understand, manage, and conquer your depression, modeled after its best-selling counterpart on

• UPC: 13010648

How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things : Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers that Plague Even the Best Businesses

A corporate manifesto that helps companies break down the barriers that prevent their

• UPC: 21184907
• Rating: 3.764