Fast growth costs a lot of money. That is why many startups seek financial investment sooner or later. But where to start? In this book, Sjoerd Mol and Thomas Mensink cover the whole process end-toend, from getting investor-ready to fundraising, negotiating with investors, and finally: the exit.

They explain the business model of venture capital investors, how they assess startups, the best approach to fundraising, and how to arrive at an optimal term sheet. In short: everything you need to kn...

Summary This book is about achieving behavioral change in organizations. It provides a specific, practically applicable answer to the ‘how’ question of behavioral change, based on scientifically validated principles. This distinguishes this book from many other management books.

Organizational Behavior Management, or OBM for short, is the field that deals with behavioral change in organizations. Some prefer to speak of ‘targeted behavioral influence’.

OBM is not about changing people...

This courseware serves as the official teaching material of the ISM Foundation version 5.

The content of the ISM Foundation training is fully based on the content of the standard ISM method version 5. During this training you will learn, among other things, how to apply IT service management and how to abstract and nuance service issues.

In addition, you will learn how to use a process model in the context of control issues and how to gain insight into the application of the assets People, ...

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In today’s fast-paced and competitive business world, leadership often centers around metrics, strategies, and authority. ‘Lead from Love with Rumi’ offers a transformative alternative, presenting a leadership philosophy that harnesses the timeless wisdom of Rumi, the 13th-century mystic poet, to inspire leaders to lead from a place of love, empathy, and authenticity. This book takes you on a journey beyond traditional leadership paradigms, showing how leading with compassion can unlock...

The book that you are holding is the indispensable guide to cultural awareness.

Are you working in an international environment, with people from different countries? Working internationally requires specific competences and relationship skills. Getting to know other cultures can be fun and enlightening. Yet, at times, you might find communication challenging

and puzzling, sensing emotions and observing reactions that more often deal with the deeper level of culture. Despite our good intentio...

Engage! is the Lonely Planet for organizational change. This practical and accessible travel guide for change agents offers a unique mix of scientific and practical insights. After all, action without knowledge is reckless and knowledge without action is impactless. Engage! offers help and encouragement at every stage of the change adventure, centering on shared inspiration, co-creation, experimentation, and especially on how to quickly get down to ‘learning to learn’ together. The author...

Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart-when cooperationis so clearly in everyone's interest. With major new contributions from MichaelMinkov's analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account ofthe evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede.

Examine strategic management with the market-leading book that sets the standard as today's most intellectually rich, but practical analysis of strategic management. Written by award-winning instructors and prominent management scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson/Harrison's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, 14E incorporates cutting-edge research and examples from more than 600 companies. This edition combines a classic industrial organization model with a resource-based vi...