Can Akdeniz: 125 books

Business is one of the great social equalizers for our global society. Commerce, business, supply and demand, entrepreneurs, corporations, and other business-related ideas have become second nature to most areas of the planet. Given the collective interest in and significance of business, people naturally...

Being financially free is not about luck, an obsession with money, or sacrificing all the fun in life. Being financially free is, more than anything, about being conscious of your actions and knowledgeable about how the monetary system works so that you can always make the right financial decisions....

Have you been in a slump lately? Do you feel like your job is the same, day after day, with no improvement? Have you been having trouble—in either your personal or professional life—making well thought out decisions? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, it’s probably because you have...

In this book you will see how successful entrepreneurs have applied game theory in their business, and why this has worked. You can use these lessons in your own business, or create variations more suited to your enterprise. The key is that you will have an insight to game theory that shows you how...

Just as with raising children or as in nurturing one’s career, “success” with personal investing allows plenty of room for subjectivity. After exploring the common opinion of prominent economic actors, established entrepreneurs and financial advisors, I have come to define a successful investor...

Careful strategic planning is paramount for organizations seeking to establish themselves in our dynamic economy. Still, even the best thought-out strategic plan will falter if employee buy-in is not supported and a thoroughly considered implementation process is not put into effect. This book casts...

Not enough time to get things done? Not enough energy to do all the things you love doing, the things that are really, really important to you? Too much stress in your life and too little satisfaction? The reason for all this is less dramatic and more common than you think, and he cure is much simpler...

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...

When we think of management, our mind jumps to planning, directing, paperwork, organization and objectives. In other words, management can be defined as the means and resources necessary in order to achieve our objectives. You can find the basic principles of management in all sorts of organizations,...

Research states that almost half of all improvement initiatives fail due to lack of effective leadership. If this is the case, then as business owners the time has never been more prudent to consider how we are managing our businesses and what kind of leadership strategies we have in place. Given...

Agile Project Management takes the ideas from Agile software development and applies them to a more general idea of project management. Agile methods generally aim to promote a project management process that encourages stakeholder involvement, feedback, objective metrics and effective controls. With...

We all want to be more productive. When you sense you have increased your productivity you feel like you do have control over your workflow and life, you are an accomplisher, you feel organized and being on the right track. If there’s something that accompanies us all the time it’s our smartphone...

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...

In this book we’ll be looking more closely at the power of lean leadership and what it can do for you. You may want to move towards becoming a lean leader yourself, or have a desire to implement lean practices among your management team. Whatever the reason, this guide will help you get started....