Get the best out of your team with these thirty practical steps for successful people management. Building a strong team is among the most important requirements for any company, and anyone who has managed a great, high-performing team knows how enjoyable and rewarding it is for everyone involved. However, in his years of experience as a top business coach, as CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company and as president of a large charity, Andrew Laurie has seen many teams that are not achieving, and far more managers struggling to get the best from their team. Using thirty steps and activities that Andrew has cultivated over years leading successful teams ranging from a couple of people to thousands of staff, Thirty Essentials: Management is a practical tool that will help managers get better performance from members of their team. This book will also provide clear direction in identifying specific opportunities to develop their leadership and management abilities.

What makes Apple so valuable as a company? Why is Tesla worth so much? How did Dyson come up with such a great vacuum cleaner? The answer is, at the heart of these companies’ greatness (and, importantly, their enterprise value), is a very strong core asset – an element of strategy that any business, large or small, can create. Using a simple and effective thirty-step process, Thirty Essentials: Strategy will help you define and design the most valuable core asset possible to dramatically increase the value of your business. This successful framework is based on the extensive experience of Andrew Laurie, a top business coach and former-CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. It is based on the same principles he implemented to grow that company from sales of $50 million to $2 billion in under two years. Where many existing books on strategy tend to be theoretical and complicated, Thirty Essentials: Strategy presents a straightforward process to define a great core asset that can be implemented by everyone from small business owners to senior executives at large corporations.

Get the most out of owning a business with these thirty practical steps to attaining financial and personal freedom and business success. When your business depends on your management to survive, it often means compromising your lifestyle in favour of success. But what business owners don’t often realise is that this dependence not only limits their freedom, but it also limits the growth and development of the business itself. Top business coach and ex-CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, Andrew Laurie, explains how you can release yourself from day-to-day management, so as to reap the benefits of business ownership. A simple and effective guidebook, Thirty Essentials: Sustainable Success outlines the steps of handing over the management of a business and, crucially, guides you through the challenges that will inevitably arise. It also assists you in deciding how to spend your time after stepping back; both in appropriate continuing involvement in the business and in other activities external to it. Thirty Essentials: Sustainable Success is an invaluable guide to attaining the freedom that business ownership offers and to ensuring that your business can truly achieve its potential.

Each entry in this bestselling book introduces a technique, explains how it works, then shows with the aid of an entertaining case study, how it can be used to solve an actual problem. The 50 techniques, including some never before published, are grouped into 11 subject areas, ranging from strategy to learning.

Millions of people visit Whole30.com every month and share their stories of weight loss and lifestyle makeovers. Hundreds of thousands of them have read It Starts With Food, which explains the science behind the program. At last, The Whole30 provides the step-by-step, recipe-by-recipe guidebook that will allow millions of people to experience the transformation of their entire life in just one month.

Sustainable soil and water management practices play a crucial role in ensuring agricultural security by safeguarding natural resources while enhancing productivity and resilience against environmental challenges. As global populations rise and climate variability intensifies, the effective management of soil health and water resources becomes increasingly important. Practices such as conservation, crop rotation, integrated pest management, and precision irrigation promote sustainable farming while mitigating soil erosion, preserving water quality, and optimizing nutrient utilization. By adopting these practices, farmers can bolster food security, protect biodiversity, and contribute to the long-term sustainability of agricultural systems amidst evolving climate and environmental pressures. Sustainable Soil and Water Management Practices for Agricultural Security explores effective strategies for agricultural security through sustainable environmental practices. It covers factors contributing to improved plant cultivation and irrigation management while focused on sustainability and climate awareness. This book covers topics such as drainage systems, irrigation practices, and biotechnology, and is a useful resource for biologists, agriculture professionals, ecologists, scientists, government officials, researchers, and academicians.

The Third Edition of Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management enables readers to manage the design, development, and engineering of systems effectively and efficiently. The book both defines and describes the essentials of project and systems engineering management and, moreover, shows the critical relationship and interconnection between project management and systems engineering. The author's comprehensive presentation has proven successful in enabling both engineers and project managers to understand their roles, collaborate, and quickly grasp and apply all the basic principles. Readers familiar with the previous two critically acclaimed editions will find much new material in this latest edition, including: Multiple views of and approaches to architectures The systems engineer and software engineering The acquisition of systems Problems with systems, software, and requirements Group processes and decision making System complexity and integration Throughout the presentation, clear examples help readers understand how concepts have been put into practice in real-world situations. With its unique integration of project management and systems engineering, this book helps both engineers and project managers across a broad range of industries successfully develop and manage a project team that, in turn, builds successful systems. For engineering and management students in such disciplines as technology management, systems engineering, and industrial engineering, the book provides excellent preparation for moving from the classroom to industry.

Master the art of questioning to build your influence and succeed in the business world. Do you want to help people? Are you frustrated by others just not getting it? Are you struggling to get your messages across and to achieve the influence you need to succeed? Whether you’re the leader of a business, an ambitious employee, or somewhere in between, knowing how to ask the right questions is essential to building your understanding of the people around you, and getting them to respond to you in the way you intend. Drawing on his years of experience as the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, renowned Australian business coach Andrew Laurie will help you to develop your questioning habit. In this book, you’ll learn how to ask the right questions, in the right way; in order to: truly get people to hear you; lead others to understand your point of view and influence them to respond in ways that help you both. For anyone looking to boost their influence and succeed in business, The Question Code is an innovative, actionable guide to mastering the art of asking questions that will make you completely rethink the way you communicate.

Essentials of HRM combines a commentary on organizational behaviour with an explanation of human resource management techniques, and also acts as an introduction to industrial relations. It will prove an invaluable aid to those studying for professional qualifications, such as Membership of the Institute of Personnel Management or the Diploma in Management Studies, and for students on general business or social service courses. Equally, the practising manager will find this book a useful and practical guide.

Get the best out of your team with these thirty practical steps for successful people management. Building a strong team is among the most important requirements for any company, and anyone who has managed a great, high-performing team knows how enjoyable and rewarding it is for everyone involved. However, in his years of experience as a top business coach, as CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company and as president of a large charity, Andrew Laurie has seen many teams that are not achieving, and far more managers struggling to get the best from their team. Using thirty steps and activities that Andrew has cultivated over years leading successful teams ranging from a couple of people to thousands of staff, Thirty Essentials: Management is a practical tool that will help managers get better performance from members of their team. This book will also provide clear direction in identifying specific opportunities to develop their leadership and management abilities.