Building Business

Conventional “wisdom” holds that the most successful entrepreneurs in the world are born with a genius for starting companies, experience one lightning-bolt moment of inspiration after another, follow a tried-and-true process to scale to a billion dollars, and attract deep-pocketed investors at every turn.

The Power to Thrive! draws on proven research to show how we all can reach beyond the superficial meaning of success to help us achieve a meaningful impact - in our homes, in our offices, and in everyday life. Kay provides the formula for achieving better results, fulfillment, and appreciation in everything we do.

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Your business should have a story to tell. From the moment you first launched, you began creating it. With every product or service you release, you mine an even more focused niche in your field. All this builds to one concept-brand identity. Does yours stand out? Leonard has unleashed the secret to building forward-looking brand identities and unique business stories. In Brand Identity, you will learn how to develop a powerful brand identity by mixing your personality and values with the functionality and purpose of your products, becoming an indispensable brand and company.

In The Culture Solution, business consultant and The New York Times best-selling author of The Dream Manager and Off Balance presents the six enduring principles of a dynamic culture, designed in a way that is both intensely practical and inspiring. If you want to grow your business; attract, grow, and retain top talent; learn the key to hiring in the 21st century; teach every person in your organization that they have a role to play in making the culture better today than it was yesterday, this book is for you and every person on your team.

This intelligent, breezy listen provides tools, exercises, and additional resources that offer real-world support to tackle your own engaging, competitive, and authentic brand identity. Entertaining examples from pop culture and politics round out this book that can truly take you from individual to empire.

As a coach to some of the country’s highest-profile executives, Daniel Harkavy has witnessed the transformation that comes when leaders utilize coaching to turn their paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures. Since founding his company in 1996, Harkavy and his team have coached thousands and shared their knowledge by certifying coaching leaders across the country. Now, in this strategic and thought-provoking guide, he shares his proven strategy for improving your team’s performance while raising quality of life inside and outside of the office.

Shifting demographics combined with the digitalization of all aspects of life are transforming the nature of work. This is forcing companies to rethink how they design jobs and recruit, develop, and engage employees. In Talent Tectonics, Dr. Steven Hunt explains how technology is changing the purpose of work and why creating effective employee experiences is critical to building organizations that can thrive in a world of accelerating change and growing skill shortages. You'll find insights from a person who has worked with thousands of companies around the globe.

What's possible with Synergistic Rhythm? Are you tired of constantly hitting a wall and not achieving a harmonious rhythm in business? Do you feel stuck and unsure about the next step to scale your business? This book offers powerful insights into growing leaders and your business. Do you struggle to find the right momentum, zone, lane, harmony, or sweet spot for your business, organization, or life? In this book, we will expand on and explore what is possible for growing your business, organization, and life through Synergistic Rhythm.

Leading for Organisational Change is an intelligent and practical guide to the human side of merger integration and other organizational change. Building a clear sense of common purpose and then reinforcing it through storytelling can underpin the success of an integration or significant change program. Pulling together the best thinking from neuroscience, psychology, business, and her rich personal experience in 20 years of leading change projects in professional services organizations and other people-centered businesses, author Jennifer Emery presents a framework for change.

When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. In this book, Kanter shows how people everywhere can unleash their creativity and entrepreneurial adroitness to mobilize partners across challenging cultural, social, and political situations and innovate for a brighter future.

Princess Shenette Zachary’s Reach Your Dreams Through Child Care is a powerful, well-thought-out, and insightful guide on ‘making it’ in the child care industry. It x-rayed, in depth, the conscious steps to building a child care empire.Without blandishment or compromise, she has unraveled the key to reaching your dreams through child care. Thanks to her firsthand experience, she meticulously broke each stage into sizable bits that can be easily comprehended by all - both beginners and professionals alike.

So you have an idea but don't know how to go about starting your business yet. You need guidance or just a bit of clarity. This audiobook can help you sort some of those potential fears away. Get comfortable, but not too comfortable, get focused and listen/read because you and your business have the potential to grow.

In a tight market, your most powerful growth engine - and your best protection from competitive inroads - is this: Put everything you can into cultivating true customer loyalty. Loyal customers are less sensitive to price competition, more forgiving of small glitches, and, ultimately, become "walking billboards" who will happily promote your brand.

In Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit, insiders Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon reveal the secrets of providing online and offline customer service so superior it nearly guarantees loyalty.

Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the intentional vs. the habitual mind.

Delivering a fresh perspective, Yohn's What Great Brands Do teaches an innovative brand-as-business strategy that enhances brand identity while boosting profit margins, improving company culture, and creating stronger stakeholder relationships. Drawing from 25 years of consulting work with such top brands as Frito-Lay, Sony, Nautica, and Burger King, Yohn explains key principles of her brand-as-business strategy.

Free yourself with the Green Beret’s A-Team methods of syncing mind, body, and spirit to become all you want to be. War has a way of shooting holes in your best-laid plans. Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Stube (Ret.) suffered life-changing wounds during the battle of Operation Medusa in Afghanistan in 2006, but using the Green Beret methods he learned in the Special Forces, Stube knew he could conquer anything. Conquer Anything is a special forces book, but even more than that it is a leadership book designed to help each of us achieve the highest goals possible.

In The Trifecta of Trust, psychometrics and leadership expert Joseph R. Folkman has collected a mountain of compelling data to make the irrefutable case for the value of trust in leadership. Folkman’s life mission has been to provide accurate assessments for leaders to help them understand their effectiveness, impact on outcomes, and specific insights on what they can do to improve. Now you can discover the tools for increasing trust based on quantifiable results and have greater impact and effectiveness as a leader.

Unlock the magic of effortless conversation with "The Art of Small Talk: Mastering Conversation Skills, Building Relationships, and Networking with Ease." This ultimate guide is your secret weapon to transforming small talk from awkward to awesome. Dive into real-life scenarios and practical tips that make you a networking pro, whether you're at a party, a coffee shop, or a high-stakes business meeting.

As a professional realtor, it's easy to forget that you're not just selling real estate, you're running a business. Chances are, the training you've received has been focused on regulations and legal issues, but did nothing to increase your sales, marketing, and financial savvy. This book will change all that. It's time to start thinking like an entrepreneur. In Blueprint, Garry Creath and Chris Scott show you how to develop a solid business plan, set long- and short-term goals, research a potential market and structure, track your finances, and much more.