Lean tools and techniques are helping companies across the globe to address competitiveness within their businesses, building the capability of their people to identify issues and improve their operations. Lean is shorthand for focusing on effectiveness and efficiency across all areas of a business. This NuBook provides the basics of Lean to help you on your journey to achieve world-class levels of competitiveness. It uses the basics of benchmarking to help you understand your true competitive position as you take the first steps on the Lean journey.ABOUT THE AUTHORKeegan Richard is an author and specialist in management and business performance improvement. He is particularly interested in Lean methodologies, process optimization, and the development of organizational competitiveness. Through his work, he offers practical and accessible approaches to help companies enhance their operational efficiency and strengthen the skills of their teams.His work follows a pedagogical approach aimed at making management and operational excellence concepts both understandable and applicable for managers and employees alike. He places particular emphasis on continuous improvement, benchmarking, and value creation within organizations.

Pre-negotiation is a heightened, or (arguably) more aggressive, form of research that may be carried out by either party to a negotiation, in advance of that negotiation. Its success is largely based on the negotiator turning the traditional buyer / seller relationship on its head. By using the pre-negotiation strategy, you give the other party to the negotiation the opportunity to work together with you to achieve a deal - and everybody wins!ABOUT THE AUTHORCarol Tallon is an Irish executive and expert in the real estate sector. With a background in law and business, she has focused her career on supporting property buyers in their real estate projects.In 2006, she became Managing Director of Buyers Broker Ltd., considered Ireland's only franchise dedicated exclusively to representing property buyers. In this role, she plays a key part in developing services focused on buyers' interests, bringing transparency and expertise to what is often a complex market.Recognized for her commitment to improving understanding of the property market, Carol Tallon regularly contributes to the media and participates in initiatives aimed at enhancing industry practices in Ireland.

Many senior business leaders who fail to achieve the portfolio careers that they desire - and which their careers to date might lead them to expect - do so because unconsciously they commit the Seven Deadly Sins of Nascent NEDs. In this ebook, behavioural change expert Ciaran Fenton explains these "sins" and shows how they can be avoided using the seven principles of The Fenton ModelTM, which he developed to help business leaders to lead and manage themselves and their teams better at work and particularly to help them to have fulfilling and financially rewarding careers. The Seven Deadly Sins of Nascent NEDs concludes with a template NED Business Plan to document a more successful approach to finding the right NED role.ABOUT THE AUTHORCiarán Fenton is a leadership and behavioural change consultant who, for more than a decade, has helped CEOs and professionals - particularly lawyers - improve their leadership performance and working relationships and to accelerate business and behavioural change.