Building Management

While few of us enjoy "networking", we all crave authentic conversations with peers, clients, and key stakeholders. The pace of change is accelerating, and we need peer networks more than ever to understand what others are thinking and doing. Building Bridges describes the characteristics of the most valuable peer networks, where executives meet regularly for conversations they can't have anywhere else. It offers a set of design principles for those who want to create and sustain these vital professional resources, because, in a transactional world, we all need to belong.

If you’re like many future retirees in their 50s, you’re facing a milestone in the next decade that can feel like an overwhelming deadline: retirement. If you’re also a business owner or corporate executive, the pressure is greater because people outside your family depend on you. Are you prepared?

The Zero in Formula, Dennis Geelen's latest book, challenges business owners, CEO's, and leaders to think differently about their company. The stats don't lie. A large percentage of businesses do not make it past the first few years. Of the ones that do, only a small percentage end up surviving past 15 years. Many of those that survive have now plateaued or are in decline. You will learn what it means to be customer centric, with strategies and tools you can apply to your business. You will be guided through the recipe step-by-step to build your successful foundation.

Leadership is never easy. Almost all leaders deal with both triumph and tragedy, oftentimes in equal measure. The fact of the matter is that leadership insists on constant rejection of the status quo. True leaders demand continuous reflection and improvement of those around them, and even more importantly, of themselves. True leaders are Changemakers.

Companies emerge from smart people with clever ideas. However, vision alone is not enough, as only one out of three companies lasts 10 years. It takes a systematic approach to make a company sustainably successful. In Your Company Is Your Castle, Sandeep Chennakeshu, a business transformation veteran, compares building a company to that of a medieval castle that has withstood the test of time, having weathered nature's elements and hordes of invaders.

If you're in a stepfamily, you may not be able to pause this book. It tracks the experiences of several real step-couples as they navigate the multiple issues and relationships in a stepfamily. Research validated strategies are clearly offered that, when incorporated, greatly reduce stepfamily conflicts.

Good entrepreneurs choose to walk a path of positive change that’s bigger than money, or status, or success. After spending hundreds of hours in a prison visiting his father and the same amount flying in a private plane, entrepreneur Nick Kennedy started a search for meaning beyond the airline that he launched, grew, and sold. In The Good Entrepreneur, he charts the pathway to creating both a successful business and an intentional legacy.

If this resonates with you, you're not alone. Anxious attachment is a common struggle, but it doesn’t have to define your love life. Whether you’re single, dating, or in a long-term relationship, this book is designed to meet you where you are and guide you toward greater emotional security.

Not so long ago, I had £7.60 in my bank account and was struggling to feed my children. Aged 39, I was bankrupt. The taxman had taken my house, my car, and my self-respect. In a matter of months, I had seen my life collapse. I went from owning a successful business and a football club, to claiming benefits to try and put food on the table.

At age 26, Joanne P. McCallie, a.k.a. Coach P, began her career at Maine, where in the span of eight years, she elevated the women's basketball program to a very competitive team that outdrew the men's crowds, a rarity in college sports. Over her tenure, she created the Choice Not Chance (CNC) philosophy, training kids how to think and focus on making the correct choices in life. She imparted her passionate philosophy to all of her players and now brings it to her efforts as head coach at Duke. Choice Not Chance highlights McCallie's lessons for building a fierce competitor.

Smart Parenting is all about making the difficult and often frustrating job of parenting a little bit easier and much more fun.

Your mental model is not rigid. At any point in life, you possess the ability to change your perspective. Have you found that success does not erase insecurity and self-doubt? Do you know what it feels like to long for a different life? Sleeping Giants provides practical insights into how ordinary people can choose to build lives that matter.

Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building - and then saving - a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill's Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes outlandish parts of international business.

Negotiating Success provides expert guidance on how to improve strategies and outcomes in negotiating anything in professional and personal life. With a constant focus on the mind, body, and spirit of the professional negotiator, this easy-to-digest text brings a holistic approach to the hard and soft skills needed for ethical negotiations. The result is a better understanding of how to negotiate successfully for mutual benefit by all parties.

The question is…how do you get to the treasure? With over thirty years of sales experience—from owning his own business to commission-only roles—Michael Hinkle shares the mindsets and practices he’s used to cultivate a multimillion-dollar sales career. With a refreshingly straightforward and simple perspective on how to build a thriving sales career, he lays out the common-sense strategies for how nurturing relationships and building wealth go hand-in-hand.

Patrick Jackson, a financial planning attorney turned digital entrepreneur, shares the story of his life’s struggle to overcome financial adversity and eventually build generational wealth.

The System is all around us and has been inhibiting our ability to create wealth for most of our lives. Hacking the System discusses critical elements of how the System reduces our ability to gain wealth. Creating wealth is something that can be taught and shared. This book goes beyond describing the issues. We provide practical ways to “hack” the System. Learn what is holding you back from enjoying your hard-earned money and how to move beyond it to a life of purposeful spending, wealth creation, and financial fulfillment.

The Square-Peg Leader Delusion navigates the intricate art of leadership, team-building and effective communication, emphasizing the difference between the role of a manager and the role of a leader. It takes readers through the different aspects of developing first our self-leadership, and subsequently the skill-set needed to lead others well; while building, optimizing and scaling a successful operation.

In The Third Decision, the second book in Randy H. Nelson’s bestselling Decision Series for Entrepreneurs®, Randy explores the concept of “entrepreneurial addiction” and how entrepreneurs can become more intentional about their everyday and future decisions. Being an intentional entrepreneur requires you to think ahead, asking yourself some tough questions about what you might, in the future, regret about today. The Third Decision will help you conduct a clear-eyed examination not just of what you’re doing now and why, but also how you might feel when you look back on it someday in the future.

If you want to discover how to take control of your money and get out of debt, then keep reading.... Do you want to be in total control of your expenses and the money you make? Have you tried writing your income and expenses down...but nothing seems to work for more than a few weeks? Do you finally want to say goodbye to worry surrounding money and discover something which works for you? If so, then you've come to the right place. You see, improving your financial situation doesn’t necessarily have to be difficult.