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• Clear introduction to Lean and Continuous Improvement
• Data-driven decision-making made practical
• Leadership principles to guide real-world change
• Essential CI tools and frameworks
• Culture, sustainability, and real-world stories

Learn how high-performing organizations think and create real, lasting improvement.

Continuous Improvement Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (Continuous Improvement Essentials) is a practical, experience-based guide to building better processes, stronger teams, and a culture of ongoing improvement. Instead of drowning you in jargon, author, distinguished industrial engineer, and Continuous Improvement (CI) consultant, Amine Nefzi, shows how CI and Lean thinking really look in day-to-day operations on the manufacturing floor, in project meetings, service environments, and growing businesses.

The book begins by clarifying what CI is and how it connects to Lean, value, and excellence. You’ll explore foundational concepts such as waste, process flow, and value creation before diving into data-driven decision-making. Through clear explanations of data types, input vs output data, sampling, Measurement System Analysis, and Gage R&R, you’ll learn how to trust the numbers you use.

A dedicated chapter on leadership outlines eight key characteristics of effective leaders, the importance of respect, and how to run great meetings that move improvement forward. From there, the book walks you through essential CI tools and frameworks: Voice of the Customer, value stream mapping, SIPOC, brainstorming, PDCA, DMAIC, Kaizen, and Six Sigma concepts related to variation and capability.

Later chapters focus on sustaining gains, developing Lean culture, understanding the Toyota Production System, and dealing with resistance to change. Real-world stories comprising of both successes and failures, bring concepts to life and help you see what works, what doesn’t, and why culture matters more than tools.

Written in an interactive and inspirational tone, Continuous Improvement Essentials is ideal for engineers, supervisors, managers, professionals, and leaders in manufacturing, services, technology, and operations. It is both a guide and a toolbox for anyone who wants to turn recurring problems into opportunities for long-term improvement.

• Identify key stakeholders in a project
• Understand the fundamentals of managing stakeholders 
• Discover helpful approaches and strategies to engage stakeholders
• Learn how to build a Stakeholder Engagement plan 
• Respond to stakeholder scenarios with the eye of a Project Manager

Stakeholder Engagement is the lifeblood of project management because stakeholders can make or break a project.

In Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know, you will explore how to balance the tenets of project management with the uncertainties of human behavior. This book provides foundational essentials of Stakeholder Engagement along with practical techniques and tools to successfully navigate projects and your relationship with people in an organization. You can apply what you learn anytime you need to move a project, a conversation, or a partnership forward.

The book does not just state techniques to engage with stakeholders but makes learning fun and engaging with the help of case studies, activities, and tips that will tickle your brain and make your wear the hat of a Project Manager. You will gain a deeper understanding of project management and stakeholder engagement tools like Project Charters, Stakeholder Register, Power/Interest Matrix, etc.

Whether someone is a team lead, executive, or team member, it's essential to know how to anticipate, monitor, and engage people throughout the life cycle of a project and beyond.

By the end of Stakeholder Engagement Essentials, you will have a playbook for engaging stakeholders to achieve project success and deliver value to your organization.

This book is part of the Self-Learning Management Series designed to help students, managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons.

HR Interview Questions You’ll Most Likely Be Asked is a perfect companion to stand ahead above the rest in today's competitive job market. An Interview is the most crucial of all processes of recruitment as it concludes with either an offer letter or a good-bye handshake. This book is ideal for you if you are preparing for THE interview. It covers the basic to the most infamous interview questions along with proven answers and tricks to mold them in line with your professional career. HR questions likely to be asked by an interviewer are segregated into 15 pertinent categories namely Creativity, Leadership, Teamwork, Deadlines and Time Management, Dedication and Attitude, Personality, Decision making, Goals, Creative Questions, Customer Service, Background and Experience, Business Skills and Knowledge, Communication, Job Searching and Scheduling and Knowledge of the company. With all these you are all geared up for your next big Interview!

Includes:

• 225 HR Interview Questions, Answers and proven strategies for getting hired

• Dozens of examples to respond to interview questions.

•Includes most popular Real Life Scenario Questions

Organizational Development Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (2nd Edition) is a practical, accessible guide to building expertise in organizational development and change management. It combines core OD principles with modern practices, including AI-enabled insights, evolving workplace dynamics, and a focus on measurable impact.

Key Features Include:

• Complete coverage of OD fundamentals, frameworks, and planned change models, including systems thinking and action research
• Practical guidance across all 5 stages of OD interventions: Entry, Diagnosis, Implementation, Evaluation, and Institutionalization
• Updated content on using AI in data analysis and diagnosis, along with emerging organizational challenges
• Ready-to-use templates, trackers, and tools for real-world OD practice

Whether you are leading a transformation initiative or developing your OD capabilities, this book focuses on application over theory. The 2nd edition expands on the first with enhanced diagnostic approaches, deeper coverage of data collection and analysis, and practical ways to incorporate AI into OD workflows.

Authored by Ankur Mithal and Michael Kientz—practitioners with a combined 45+ years of experience across banking, BPO, non-profit, and global organizations—this book brings clarity and practical depth to every chapter.

Part of Vibrant Publishers’ Self-Learning Management Series, it serves as both a primer for beginners and a reliable reference for experienced professionals. By the end, you will be able to:

• Diagnose issues with data and AI
• Design targeted interventions
• Measure outcomes effectively
• Sustain long-term change

Organizational Development Essentials is not just a conceptual guide—it’s a practical field guide for building organizations that are effective, adaptive, and human at their core.

Corporate Finance Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

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• Comprehensive coverage of corporate finance 
• Ideal for aspiring finance managers, entrepreneurs, curious non-finance professionals, and management students
• Real-world examples, solved numerical problems, and case activities for practical application
• Chapter summaries and quizzes for reinforced learning

If you have ever wondered how companies decide where to invest their money, how they raise capital, or why financial mismanagement leads to business failure, Corporate Finance Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is your definitive guide. Authored by Makarand Bhopatkar, a finance educator with over 25 years of experience, this book is crafted for aspiring corporate finance managers, entrepreneurs, curious non-finance professionals, and management students seeking a practical structured introduction to corporate finance.

The book covers the full spectrum of corporate finance decisions; from understanding different business structures and corporate governance to analyzing financing decisions, investment appraisal techniques, working capital management, dividend policy, and financial forecasting. A dedicated appendix on financial mathematics and financial statement analysis provides additional support for readers who need foundational grounding.

Unlike dense academic textbooks, this book presents concepts in simple language supported by illustrative examples and real-world company examples, making it accessible without sacrificing depth. Each chapter ends with a summary and quiz, while selected chapters include case activities to reinforce practical application.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

• Understand corporate structures and the various sources of capital 
• Evaluate financing options and decode optimal capital structure
• Learn capital budgeting and working capital management 
• Analyze dividend distribution and forecast financial statements 
• Navigate international corporate finance

Part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning Management Series, Corporate Finance Essentials You Always Wanted to Know serves as a valuable resource for developing financial acumen that complements your existing expertise and advances your professional career.

Personal Finance Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is a guide that will help you understand money and manage it like a pro.

Do you break out into a sweat at the mention of the word ‘financial planning?’  Do you often struggle with meeting your expenses? Do you worry about the future and ensuring your financial stability? And is the time for filing tax returns stressful for you?

Countless others go through the same experience, but it need not be this way. 

This book answers all your pressing questions about finance and many more. It makes an effort to remove the fear that is often associated with the subject of finance by offering all the essentials in a conversational manner to engage the readers. Packed with fun facts and quizzes, it tackles subjects that constitute the world of personal finance which everyone has to deal with, whether we like it or not. With the help of this book, you will:

• Learn how to budget, save, and invest for your future.
• Get an overview of home ownership, taxation, insurance, and retirement planning.
• Calculate your income, expenses, and budget using practical templates.
• Become better at managing your finances.

Personal Finance Essentials is a ready reckoner for individuals who would like to know more but do not know where to start. It could be you and me, or students beginning a course in Finance, or youngsters exploring different lines of education and career. It could also be an organization attempting to help employees understand money management. This book has something for everyone. 

It is a part of the Self-Learning Management Series designed to help students, managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons.

Learn the fundamentals of becoming a skillful and successful entrepreneur


The book covers the fundamental areas that you should know about like:

• Identifying business opportunities and leveraging them
• Developing a product/service that solves a genuine problem
• Setting up a company and registering it
• Creating a business plan for your business
• Segmenting markets and customers according to your business requirements
• Marketing your product and tackling competitors

Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or an experienced business owner, Entrepreneurship Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is full of many entrepreneurial insights that you can tap from. It entails all the necessary steps you can take to become successful in your pursuits to build and maintain a flourishing business.

Dipping your legs in the sea of competitive businesses and experienced business owners can look daunting. But, if you build a strong foundation for your business and yourself, you can also become a successful entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship Essentials is a primer for people looking to try their hands at entrepreneurship. It talks about what it takes to be a successful business owner and the challenges that arise in the path and provides all the necessary answers to the questions you may have about how to create, manage, and direct a business to profitability.

This book does not just state the theories of entrepreneurship but makes learning a fun process with interesting facts, discussion questions, and real-world examples. This self-learning book is also ideal for business students who want to learn about entrepreneurship as it is written in an easy-to-grasp language and comes with online resources to enhance the learning process.

Some notable features of this book are:

• Coverage of general laws such as contract laws to very specific laws such as securities laws
• Coverage of laws that are recently developing, such as laws relating to data protection
• Explanation of the rationale behind the laws and features of laws in simple, jargon-free language
• Questions at the end of each chapter to test your understanding of the chapter rather than your memory.
• Explanations against the backdrop of real-world scenarios and examples

Business Law Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is a simple yet comprehensive introduction to the laws that impact businesses in the US.

It is not advisable for a business founder or owner to be completely unaware of the implications of the legislation on their business and depend totally upon a lawyer to advise and guide them. Business owners must have a working knowledge of the law in their own country so that they can avoid trouble and adhere to the laws.

Business Law Essentials is a compact but handy guide for learning about business laws in the US. Whether you are a student on the verge of beginning your career, a new business owner, or an employee, this book will provide you with a deep understanding of the legal limits within which an organization should function and how an organization interacts with the regulators for the specific business sector.

This book will give you a headstart into the field of business law and an ability to know where exactly to look, in the event an in-depth understanding of the laws is required.

• Explore comprehensive coverage of key sustainability frameworks
• Learn from real-world global case studies and cross-functional integration examples
• Apply your knowledge with downloadable templates, ESG toolkits, and quizzes

Gain the expertise needed to lead responsible and sustainable business transformation.

Business Sustainability Essentials You Always Wanted to Know provides a clear and practical guide to integrating environmental and social responsibility into modern business strategy. Designed for business leaders, sustainability professionals, and aspiring ESG experts, the book traces the evolution of sustainability—from its theoretical foundations to its real-world application across finance, marketing, operations, human resources, and governance.

Authored by Dr. Ritika Mahajan — faculty at MNIT Jaipur, UN Environment Programme contributor, and architect of sustainability management curricula across top Indian and global institutions — this book distills decades of academic research and real-world consulting into a reader-friendly, actionable resource. Readers also gain access to exclusive online resources, including ready-to-use templates and toolkits for CSR proposals, GRI-based reporting, stakeholder engagement, ESG training, and materiality matrices.

The book further includes chapter summaries, activities, and quizzes to reinforce key concepts and support applied learning.

After reading this book, you will be able to:

• Navigate global ESG standards and reporting frameworks
• Integrate sustainability across core business functions
• Lead organizations with ethical, sustainability-focused leadership

Part of Vibrant Publishers’ Self-Learning Management Series, this book equips readers with the knowledge needed to build impactful sustainability strategies in today’s evolving business landscape.

• Understand the different types of organizational structures
• Uncover the myriad roles of a manager
• Know the difference between leaders and managers
• Learn to manage employees and maintain customer relationships
  
  A pragmatic guidebook for ushering into the role of a manager
  

In the 3rd edition of Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know, you will uncover the myriad functions of a manager and prepare yourself to take on a managerial role. This new edition has an additional chapter on International Business and Management and multiple-choice quizzes at the end of each chapter.

The book will show you what good managers and leaders look like along with their roles and functions. As a manager, you will learn to become a leader with smart decision-making, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills. Along with getting a working knowledge of quality management, operations, and organizational culture after reading this book, you will also be introduced to the world of business and management outside the borders of your own country in the new chapter on International Business and Management.

The book deals with a yet more important skill that you should have as a manager - people management. Whether it is managing or motivating employees, dealing with vendors, or maintaining good customer relationships, all the key functions of a manager are addressed in the book.

This book will be a useful guide for new managers, undergraduates, entrepreneurs, as well as working professionals for learning the principles of management.

Principles of Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is part of the Self-Learning Management series that helps working professionals move into management roles.

• Understand why people buy and how to drive decisions.
• Discover strategic advertising models used by top agencies.
• Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaking up the industry.
• Discover effective social media and influencer marketing tactics.
• Optimize your campaign’s performance using advertising math.

From foundational concepts to future-facing tactics, this book is more than a guide—it’s a toolkit for creating advertising that captivates, converts, and delivers real results.

Modern Advertising Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (Modern Advertising Essentials) begins with the evolution of advertising and explores how the shift from traditional media to AI-powered campaigns is redefining the way brands connect with audiences. Further, it explains the psychology of consumer decisions, including the subconscious cues, cognitive biases, and emotional triggers that drive why people buy.

This book breaks down advertising’s biggest wins and failures, using practical examples and case studies. It is an easy-to-use resource on the art and science of modern advertising for entrepreneurs, leaders, and professionals. It helps you learn what Nike, Apple, and Spotify discovered about storytelling to win hearts, and how missteps have cost other brands millions of dollars.

Whether developing your first campaign or optimizing high-profile marketing campaigns, Modern Advertising Essentials provides actionable solutions to help you build brand influence, engage with your audience, and drive quantifiable results. The book also comes with ready-to-use downloadable templates and online resources for professionals in the field. Modern Advertising Essentials is part of the Self-Learning Management Series, designed to help you learn essential management lessons.

• Do you want to know about various sales promotion tools to maximize sales revenue in your organization?
• Are you looking for ways to handle conflict situations in sales management?
• Do you want to know why sales force management is so important?

Sales Management Essentials is a ready reckoner on sales management fundamentals and their practical applications!

Sales Management Essentials contains everything you need to know about Sales Management! In this book, you will learn why (and how) sales and marketing are different and the wide range of sales channels you can use to sell your products. If you’ve been focused on only selling your product and not your product concept, this book will teach you how. (Yes, there’s a difference!) Or perhaps you want to conduct sales promotions and require effective sales promotion techniques that will help you succeed.

This book will help you to:

• Understand all aspects of sales management functions
• Learn how to manage the sales channels and sales-force
• Discover the relationship between sales and marketing
• Study various selling tools, sales techniques, and sales strategies
• Explore various sales promotion activities to increase sales
• Learn channel conflict management and resolution skills

The book is an ideal pick for young managers, entrepreneurs, and graduate students who wish to acquaint themselves with all the aspects of sales management. It is also an excellent teaching aid for the academic fraternity and industry professionals who teach sales and marketing management courses.

This book will help you to :

• Understand the Extended Services Marketing Mix which includes Product, Place, Price, Promotion, People, Process, and Physical Evidence
• Learn the different models of service quality
• Gauge consumer wants and perceptions to meet their expectations
• Improve your service design to make it efficient
• Create a pricing strategy according to your service business type

Services Marketing Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is a practical, concise, and straightforward guide on the essential aspects of services marketing.

Vishal Desai, a seasoned business professional with specialization and expertise in sales and marketing, has authored this book keeping in mind the novice professionals as well as the already experienced ones. The book covers the essential topics of services marketing and is a blend of theoretical explanations and practical demonstrations of the services marketing concepts.

The book is a must-read for young managers, B-school students, and entrepreneurs who wish to enhance their understanding and knowledge of services marketing. It is also a good fit for the teaching fraternity and industry professionals who teach sales and marketing courses at business schools as it includes several case studies, quizzes, and activities to liven up the subject and demonstrate the practical implications of it in real life.

Services Marketing Essentials You Always Wanted To Know prepares the readers to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities in today’s dynamic marketplace, especially when the service industry is growing exponentially worldwide.

This book is part of Vibrant Publishers’ Self-Learning Management series that aims to equip working professionals and students with essential knowledge of management subjects through compact and beginner-friendly books.

• Transform your organization by mastering inclusive leadership.
• Explore various leadership styles and improve communication skills.
• Embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles within organizational strategies to cultivate a culture that values every voice.
• Enhance your organization’s capacity for innovation and collaboration by harnessing the power of cultural intelligence.

Inclusive Leadership Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is your essential guide to building a workplace where every voice matters. This practical book helps leaders embed DEI into the fabric of their organization, helping you lead with empathy, communicate effectively, and unlock the full potential of diverse teams.

This guide provides a detailed exploration of various leadership styles, empowering leaders to adeptly adjust and implement them according to the distinct needs of a diverse workforce. Beyond leadership styles, the book prioritizes the enhancement of cultural intelligence—a crucial skill for leaders aiming to build trust and minimize misunderstandings.

With this book, you will learn how to:

• Integrate DEI principles into core leadership strategies
• Build trust and minimize misunderstandings through cultural intelligence
• Adapt leadership styles to fit the needs of diverse teams
• Strengthen communication to foster respect and collaboration
• Lead with empathy and confidence in a complex, evolving business environment

A job interview can be very scary and extremely exciting at the same time; candidates are always looking for new ways to put their best foot forward during an interview. Interviews and the hiring process have changed in the last few years, interviewees need to change along with the new methods and processes.

Leadership Interview Questions You’ll Most Likely Be Asked is a great resource that includes a variety of interview questions- the ones which are most commonly asked and some out-of-the-box questions to thoroughly prepare for interviews. With focused questions and answers spanning the following topics, this book is a great resource for job aspirants aiming to ace their leadership interview.

• Competency
• Behavioral
• Opinion
• Situational
• Credential Verification
• Experience Verification
• Strategic Thinking
• Management Style
• Character and Ethics

With all these topics in your arsenal, you will be fully equipped for your next big Interview!

The book contains:

• 250 Leadership Interview Questions, Answers and proven strategies for getting hired
• Dozens of example responses to interview questions
• Most popular Real-Life Scenario Questions
• 2 Free Aptitude Tests- download from www.vibrantpublishers.com

At the foot of his dying wife’s hospital bed, Jamie Turner received what he calls the "most difficult gift" of his life: the realization that, despite his professional success as an author and CNN contributor, he had spent twenty-three years of marriage physically there but never truly present. This devastating moment of clarity became the catalyst for a radical personal transformation and the blueprint for this book.

In Better: A Guidebook to a New and Improved You, Turner moves beyond generic self-help to provide a science-based manual for upgrading your personal and professional "operating system." 

The book is structured around a unique, actionable framework called The Four Ms:

• Mindset: Learn to reframe limiting beliefs and rewire your neural networks to see challenges as opportunities for growth.
• Mentoring: Master science-based communication techniques to build deeper, more reciprocal connections and turn conflict into collaboration.
• Management: Discover practical strategies to manage your mental and physical well-being through a biological understanding of the "human energy field."
• Marketing: Develop a personal brand that authentically reflects your "better self" to the world.

Turner blends heart-wrenching experiences with rigorous scientific inquiry, exploring how our thoughts create neurotransmitters that shape our physical reality. From the electromagnetic fields generated by the heart to the "unspoken rules" of high-stakes leadership, Better provides a comprehensive guide for anyone who feels they are "climbing the next mountain" but missing the life right in front of them.

Engaging, vulnerable, and deeply practical, this book teaches you how to stop wallowing in the past and start using your history to build a future of presence, influence, and purpose. It’s time to stop dreaming about "what’s next" and start becoming the version of yourself the world and your loved ones deserve.

With this book, you will learn to:

•    Maximize time in the day and not lose or waste time 
•    Synchronize work and home tasks on the same day
•    Prepare for a scheduled event 
•    Master the skills to work remotely and juggle home tasks simultaneously 

Time management is an art that either comes naturally or needs to be learned. It is a greatly useful life skill that will help you manage multiple things with ease. Time Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know provides practical ways to control and keep track of time. With techniques like time blocking and the P.A.U.S.E method, you can efficiently divide your time for your job/business/school and household tasks simultaneously and complete your tasks without errors.

With the help of practical exercises, you can begin to immediately maximize your time in the day, find the lost time and gain it back, always be prepared for scheduled events, and juggle the many things in life such as work, school, and home without dropping the ball.

The reader will gain an understanding of the following from reading this book:

• How to successfully juggle many different things in life
• How to plan and prepare for a scheduled event without hiccups
• How to manage expectations so they don’t ruin your day or waste your time
• How to ensure and maintain high-quality work performance
• How to have long-lasting friendships and family relationships
• How to have the time it takes to start a business while employed
• How to always have time for work, school, family, and yourself every day

Strategic Marketing by Philip Kotler

Unlock the secrets to effective marketing with Philip Kotler’s Strategic Marketing. Renowned as a cornerstone in marketing literature, this book offers a deep dive into the principles and practices that drive successful marketing strategies. Kotler’s expertise illuminates the path to creating and executing strategies that stand out in today’s competitive marketplace.

In Strategic Marketing, you’ll explore:

-- Innovative Frameworks: Discover essential tools and models for developing robust marketing strategies.
-- Practical Case Studies: Gain insights from real-world examples that demonstrate the application of key marketing concepts.
-- Strategic Insights: Learn how to effectively analyze market dynamics and position your brand for success.
-- Comprehensive Guidance: From market research to strategy implementation, Kotler provides actionable advice for marketers at every level.

Perfect for marketing professionals, business leaders, and students alike, this book is your guide to mastering the art of strategic marketing and driving your business to new heights. Dive into Kotler’s timeless wisdom and transform your marketing approach today.

Legends in Marketing Legends in Consumer Behavior Legend in Marketing: The Social and Ethical Side of Marketing By Philip Kotler

Explore the transformative insights of marketing legend Philip Kotler in his latest book, Legend in Marketing: The Social and Ethical Side of Marketing. This essential read delves into the critical aspects of marketing that extend beyond traditional practices, focusing on the profound social and ethical responsibilities of marketers today.

Kotler, a leading voice in the marketing industry, challenges you to rethink your approach to marketing by highlighting its potential for positive social impact and ethical conduct. Through compelling case studies and actionable advice, this book offers a roadmap for integrating social responsibility and ethical principles into your marketing strategies.

Ideal for marketing professionals, business leaders, and students, this title equips you with the knowledge to harness the power of marketing for good, ensuring that your practices not only drive business success but also contribute to a better world. Join Philip Kotler in redefining the future of marketing with integrity and purpose.