Building Business

Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from Toronto to Taipei, Baltimore to Bangalore, or San Francisco to Shanghai. Drawing from her extensive experience and global connections, author Sharon Schweitzer suggests that irrespective of their industry, everyone is essentially in the relationship business. Within Asia, building trust and inspiring respect are vital steps in developing business relationships that transcend basic contractual obligations.

Smart executives who want to reach virtually any business goal - from raising capital to finding sales leads to finding the perfect job - know that networking is the key to their success. But traditional networking approaches - meet as many people as possible, amass huge numbers of "connections" and "friends" in your LinkedIn and Facebook networks - rarely produce more than a handful of relationships that pay off.

A landmark in the New Thought movement that spawned much of the 20th century's self-help writing, this 1899 classic inspires us to create the healthy habits we need to develop the effective character we want.

Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create - and execute upon - their social media for business road map.

Are you ready to "make a dent in the universe"? As a creative, you no longer have to take a backseat. In fact, stepping up and embracing entrepreneurship is the fastest route to impact. But where do you start? And what sets the businesses that succeed apart? To find out, we asked the bright minds behind companies like Google X, Warby Parker, Facebook, O’Reilly Media, and more to share their startup wisdom.

We all know the importance of having a good reputation. We all know just how critical it is for people to look at us in a favorable light. But, the unfortunate truth about today's world and its hyper-fast communications across mobile and Web platforms, is that word spreads fast. And, when mistakes are made, people certainly know how to call others out on it. Whether or not you've had issues with your reputation in the past, this audiobook will open your eyes to just how to build, protect, and repair a reputation.

Organizational culture has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century - and with it, the requirements of leadership. In Building the Best, LearnLoft CEO John Eades takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of cutting-edge leader today's workplace so urgently needs.

Create loyal, engaged, and results-focused teams and organizations using a practical five-part servant leadership formula. Think of a world where people go to work completely engaged, are inspired to do more than they ever thought possible, remain 100% loyal to the teams and organizations they belong to, are achieving mind-blowing results, and gladly and even passionately follow their leader's direction. Is that a world you want to be a part of? The reality is, you really can!

Do you want to start and grow your own six-seven figure per year e-commerce brand? Do you want to launch products that thousands of people love and purchase over and over again? Here's a preview of what you'll discover: A realistic behind-the-scenes look at starting and growing a seven-figure e-commerce brand, why differentiation is the key to scaling your brand, and how you can differentiate using the "Core Four" of product differentiation (explained with examples), and discover why customer service is one of the main keys to creating a seven-figure brand in this day and age.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step.

Throughout his career, Raphael Collazo has helped business owners identify, analyze, and ultimately purchase commercial real estate for their business operations. However, after guiding many through the process, he realized how little his clients knew about acquiring commercial real estate.

If you’re in restoration, you know what I mean — hustle worked, until it didn’t. One day, you were drying carpets, and the next you were running a restoration company. Now, you’re looking around for the resources: the business acumen, the cashflow answers, or the simple organizational tools to scale a thriving company. And my guess is, you’ve looked, but those tools have been hard to find, because no one’s ever provided a resource like that, specifically for restorers. That is, until now!

Got a million-dollar idea but unsure of the next steps? Stuck in your product development journey? Confused about patents or contemplating product licensing? Curious about how storytelling can win investments? "Valuepreneurs" is your go-to audiobook for navigating these challenges and more. This comprehensive guide presents the innovative Value-Driven Product Development (VDPD) process, offering a detailed roadmap from ideation to successful product launch. It's a fusion of practical strategies and real-world insights, tailored for navigating the complex terrain of product development.

In Follow the Feeling, strategy advisor Kai D. Wright answers a critical question plaguing entrepreneurs, brand strategists, marketers, and leaders: How do you grow your brand in a noisy world? Analyzing 1,500 fast-growing companies from Alibaba to Zara, the Columbia University lecturer and Ogilvy global consulting partner unpacks five branding secrets. Starting with behavioral economic principles and ending with a new systems-based approach to brand building, Wright offers listeners one metric that trumps the hundreds entangling brand value, feelings.

Experiencing conflict in relationships is an unavoidable fact of life. When our relationships are messed up, our lives feel messed up. Likewise, our hearts and minds hurt—the two are intricately linked. Drawing on over 25 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families, psychotherapist Anita Astley will walk you through practical steps to unf*ck yourself from the inside out in order to establish healthy relationships.

FairWays to Leadership teaches both advanced and novice golfers how to navigate a round of golf using six key leadership traits—curiosity, adaptability, empowerment, integrity, mindfulness, and strategy—at various leadership moments on the golf course. Listeners learn how to play the game and how to develop leadership skills and expand business networks through the interaction that golf provides.

A full seminar in 10 parts, with bonus questions and answers for reflection, by award-winning educator, Dr. Ed Frierson. Learn how to build learning communities in the school classroom that enrich, empower, energize, embrace, encourage, enable, enhance, enlighten, and ennoble students with enduring impact for kids of all ages and abilities. A wonderful educator, Dr. Frierson, shares out-of-the-box ideas to change the world one classroom at a time.

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.

There are many different approaches you can take when building a personal brand, however, sometimes, you just need to stick to something and be consistent with that game plan and that one only. This is why Personal & Business Branding was created - so you can get the head start you deserve and blow up your brand.

Leading in a Non-Linear World leads listeners through a groundbreaking set of science-based strategies to help them face rising demand, uncertainty and change posed by disruptive technologies and seismic shifts in globalization. The book shows how our mindset, more than our knowledge and expertise, has the potential to be our greatest asset in facing the future. Jean Gomes reviews the latest brain research revealing that our mindset is the interplay of feeling, thinking, and seeing, and how we can build it to significantly increase our wellbeing and performance.