Can Akdeniz

Do you feel as if your work life is not quite as productive as it could be? You go to work every day, but you feel like your business is absolutely not booming? Trust me, I know how that feels, and I know that this is the book that will change your career for the better! In this book, I talk about game theory for business, a proven strategic method that really works. You can use game theory to boost your work life permanently, and learn how to make good decisions that will benefit you—something that everyone should know how to do. In this book, you’ll learn: An introduction to the basic concepts of game theory A brief history of game theory Nash equilibrium for business strategies Competitive games Noncompetitive games Practical application of game theory And lots more! No more procrastinating. Read this book!

Game Theory and Strategy for Business Explained

In 1971, a small coffee bean seller in Seattle began a caffeinated journey towards this elite echelon that would eventually make them one of the most respected and successful brands in the world. This book explains how Starbucks made it from Corner Café to Coffee Kingpin with 23.000 locations around the globe.

The Secrets of Starbucks Success

More Than Coffee

The concepts that form the fundamental principles of Lean were initially developed by Taiichi Ohno in the creation of the venerated Toyota Production System (TPS). Ohno employed techniques such as jidoka (intelligent automation), Just-in-Time manufacturing, Kanban (visual ordering systems), kaizen (continuous improvement), and Heijunka (production balancing) to revolutionize production in Toyota’s vehicle manufacturing plants. In his book, The Machine that Changed the World, James Womack christened the TPS a ‘Lean’ system and the term has since been used to describe any manufacturing or operating system that utilizes a similar methodology. Lean helped Toyota race ahead of GM to take the top-spot in global vehicle manufacture, and it has since laid the foundation for phenomenal success in myriad companies and organizations. Lean is extremely versatile, as can be seen in the profound effect it has had on the success of organizations in wide-ranging sectors of business – from manufacture to government administration. This versatility does not end with the overhaul of company cultures and production systems in different industry sectors. Lean can be adapted and utilized on a much smaller scale: project management.

Lean Project Management Explained

Lean manufacturing methodology provides a standard for operational excellence. Lean strategy enables you to change for the better, ensuring your processes are as streamlined as possible and costs are kept to a minimum, while quality and speed of production are maintained. Lean Manufacturing Explained will consider how lean principles can be applied specifically in relation to the manufacturing industry. It is in manufacture that the lean methodology has its roots – with the central tenets first developed by automotive industry giants Toyota and Ford. Manufacture is also the arena of business in which lean methodologies are most widely incorporated and well established.

Lean Manufacturing Explained

Lean is not a new concept; in fact, since the turn of the 20th Century lean principles been instrumental in the growth and transformation of industries and economies across the globe. Although the specific term was not coined until much later, the first advances in the lean movement were made in the automotive manufacturing industry – with the innovative plant operations of Henry Ford and later the seminal restructuring of Toyota business operations by Taiichi Ohno. In recent decades, the principles of lean thinking have been extrapolated from their roots in manufacturing and applied to a number of other modern business structures, always with resounding success. This book will guide you through the core aspects of lean principles, allowing you to see how implementing this philosophy throughout your workforce could revolutionize your company, or even your entire industry. The key concept at the heart of lean thinking is striving to keep only what is valuable to the end customer. In the case of this book – the end customer is you: the reader. We have kept the material lean – shaving off any superfluous information – so the ideas you’ll find here can be easily digested, understood and implemented, with no time wasted on waffle.

Lean Principles Explained

Design is a growing and important field these days. Of course, in order excel as a designer, you need to be deeply in touch with your creativity. Being a designer involves looking at something a different way from how everyone else looks at it. But just how do you learn to do that? And what do you know when you're a creative person, but your creative juices just aren't flowing? That's where the advice of The Design Book: A Guide Book for Designers comes in. A Design Book is actually a two-volume collection including two very popular books on creativity and innovation by acclaimed business author Can Akdeniz. The set includes Go Nuts: The Art of Creativity and Innovation and Kill the Normal: The Secrets of Revolutionary Designs.

A Guide Book for Designers

The Design Book

Game Theory has evolved since its inception, but at its root, it is the modeling of strategic interactions between two or more players where there is a set of rules and outcomes! This basic definition gets to the heart of what Game Theory is. And this can be applied to almost any situation in your life and your business. Regardless of your status, as an entrepreneur or a part of the employed, this theory can serve you well. It can help you develop strategic approaches to real life situations, where you predict, with remarkable accuracy, the best possible route towards the best possible outcomes. If you wanted to have a crystal ball, one that helps you predict the future, then Game Theory would be as close to that crystal ball as you can get, in real-life! Game Theory and Strategy go hand in hand. In fact, they are like the big brother and the little brother of social interaction. Where Game Theory is the big brother, used to guide you along the way, Strategy is the little brother, needing guidance, and who cannot exist successfully in the absence of ‘big brother’! They, therefore, have a tandem and reciprocal relationship.

Game Theory and Strategy Explained

Tesla Motors is undeniably one of the most exciting, innovative, and in-the-moment companies in the automotive industry, but the company's reach will continue expanding much wider in the coming years. From its disruptive reputation to its forward-thinking leader Elon Musk, Tesla Motors has the potential to change the world as we know it. The question is, how have they done so much so quickly, and what is their secret to success? From business professionals looking for guidance to the everyday reader who wants a sneak preview of the future, this book highlights the intricate brilliance behind one of the most fascinating companies of the moment.

How Tesla and Elon Musk Did it - The Disruption of the Auto Industry

Driving into the Future

The organizations from time to time get into agreements and contracts with other organizations and individuals. The knowledge and skill to create and legally form these agreements and contracts are required by them so that they do not get into any complications later. The crash course of business agreement and the contract is thus a great source created for students who would want to specialize in the area. This course will require students to learn about the laws that govern the organizations and will enable them to format these letters which will legally bind the parties. At the end of the course the students will be in a better position to create these letter and complete the paperwork along with listing the terms and conditions on them. Business cannot operate on its own and thus they get into collaboration with other very often, it is then when the skill to create these documents arise which should be done with precision as they in most cases are legally binding.

Crash Course Business Agreements and Contracts

When people ask, “How did Steve Jobs do it?”, they expect a straightforward answer, but as with the enigmatic man himself and the products he launched to the world, the answer to that question can be both complex and beautifully simple. What we can offer is something in the middle, the most important features of Jobs’ business and life strategy that formed the fundamental creed of Apple, Inc. This book will reveal the secrets that helped this titan of technology show the world how to “think differently”.

Things You Should Learn from Steve Jobs, The Titan of Technology

Steve Jobs Book

One of our goals in life, and it’s probably one of the most important, is to build a career, to become financially independent and to have the satisfaction that we are doing what we have set for ourselves. Getting to the top depends on a lot of things – dedication, hard work, coming up with viable strategy plans, building the mindset of a winner and a lot more, as you’ll see further on. In this book we’re going to talk about each of the steps that are to be taken by you, as the leader of your company, as a CEO.

What Makes a Great CEO

Executive MBA

Do you find it hard to resist checking your smartphone more than it’s actually necessary? Do you know the real costs of this “relationship” you have developed with your mobile device? Yes, connectivity is good and does keep you in touch with others and updated with events in the world, but does it come only with advantages? If you’re an avid smartphone user then these questions should concern you. Unless you want more from life than immediate gratification through constant Facebook interaction, playing games, reading stuff online, taking selfies, and keeping yourself entertained thorough gadgetry you have no reason to read this book.

How to Break 9 Bad Smartphone Habits

Addicted to Smartphone

7 ways to make money online offers you everything you need to get started on developing an extra source of income. It’s so clearly laid out that even if this is your first attempt at using the computer keyboards to make money, you will still fully benefit off of it. The information presented here includes internet marketing strategies, best ways to apply them, business wisdom and a lot of practical tips on how to make the most out of each of these possible sources of income. Succeeding in online ventures without understanding at least the fundamental aspects of Internet businesses is extremely hard if not impossible. That’s the first thing that the book takes into account when approaching this topic. The second thing is that with the right knowledge and some patience, anyone can earn money online, including you! Here’s a teaser of what 7 ways to make money online offers: # Making money with Fiverr # Making money with AdSense # Making money with Affiliate Marketing # Making money by Selling Stock Photos # Making money with EBay # Making money with Amazon Mechanical Turk # Making money by Writing Articles and Online Content After reading this book you will have 7 profit pulling proven methods of making money without having to endure the 9-5 ordeal that most people are subjected to each day. Whether any of these methods will only constitute a way to make an extra buck or a way to part for good from your daily job is up to you and how much of your energy, time and aspiration you are willing to invest.

All the Basics of the Most Popular and Feasible Ways to Generating Revenue on the Internet

7 Ways To Make Money Online

In our current age of big business, it seems that everyone is looking for ways to make more money, acquire more power, and be more successful. However, from start-up companies to corporate empires that stretch back centuries, the temptations of greed and power often lead to corruption, fraud, unfair business practices, loophole-hunting, and even murder. The often shocking nature of business culture and society's fascination with it puts corporate scandals in the spotlight every year around the world. We've gathered the stories from some of the most unbelievably bold, brilliant, and ultimately doomed corporate scandals in history, giving you a fast-paced ride through the dark side of big business.

Crime in the Age of Big Business

Corporate Scandals

The history of business is littered with forgotten companies who sparked, burned brightly, and eventually disappeared. Rarely does a company come back from the brink of disaster, let alone turn around dramatically enough to challenge the top-tier corporations who once edged it out of the industry. However, exceptions exist for every rule, and Yahoo, under the visionary guidance of CEO Marissa Mayer, has managed to do just that. This short book highlights the ambitious strategies and innovative techniques that Yahoo used to climb back into one of the most competitive industries in the world.

How Marissa Mayer Did It

The Return of Yahoo

Businesses keep progressing every single day which is the reason why more and more attention goes to the ethical part of the business. Journalists and activists are involved every minute of their lives to disclose and take action against the wrongful practices done by various businesses to provide relief and aware the customers about the same. This is the reason why it becomes essentially important to follow business ethics to make sure that all the businesses are doing the right things morally. Moral values are one of the strongest basis to make sure that customers nowadays base their buying and choice of products and services. Business ethics are very necessary for any business and customer relationships to flourish and grow to the best of their abilities.

Business Ethics

You already have various habits which pay off more on less in terms of what you want from life - how about replacing some of those habits or adding seven more and finally become that highly confident and successful person you can truly be? Confidence is what you get when you have cultivated the right habits. This book reveals them to you along with the tips on how to apply them.

A Revolutionary Book for Self-Improvement

7 Habits of Highly Self-Confident People

Alibaba is huge and its success has been astounding. Its revenues are well into the billions and its online sales exceed those of more established companies like Amazon and eBay. What is now a monster company dominating the Chinese e-commerce market began as an 18-person operation founded in one enterprising man’s apartment. How did the company become such a global presence from such humble beginnings? That is one of the questions this book seeks to answer.

An Analysis of Alibaba's Success

How Jack Ma Did It

We know how precious time is; we know how priceless life is and how painfully quickly it can slip through our fingers. We need to start doing something about it right now, before we drown in this flood of irrelevant data. There are successful people, all around us, that are still able to stay highly efficient and productive. Do you really think they would manage to do so if they had not created a method to deal with this information overload? If you want to learn how to stay safe and sane in a crazy age where the capacity to be overloaded does not create a problem in the workplace, and in our personal lives as well, then this book is for you.

We need to start doing something about it right now, before we drown in this flood of irrelevant data

Overcoming Information Overload

The risk when venturing into a new business from scratch is that you can easily get so absorbed by building your business that you forget to clearly establish where you want your business to go in the long-term. That is why you see very few people conscious enough to direct their attention not only on the entering aspect but also on the exiting one. You need to be aware of the advantages of planning the finish just as you’re starting up.

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