Business Fiction

In Business Spotlight Audio 11/2024 können Sie Artikel, Dialoge und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch anhören. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Und Sie erfahren Interessantes über Entwicklungen in Politik, Kultur, Gesellschaft und der Geschäftswelt - in dieser Ausgabe etwa darüber, wie man ein gelungenes Meeting gestalten kann, die Vor- und Nachteile der Zeitumstellung und wie sich die individuellen Präferenzen des eigenen Arbeitsteams herausfinden lassen. Die Texte werden von Muttersprachlern vorgetragen.

Winning is not a some of the time activity it is an all of the time activity. Success in sales takes talent, skills, discipline, practice, and most importantly honesty with a genuine concern for the client. Experienced sales professional and entrepreneur, Nathan Jamail has developed a playbook of techniques and best practices, which have allowed hundreds of sales teams to find success. The Sales Leaders Playbook focuses on how to build and lead a winning team.

George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.

Are we living in an age where we are more boredom-prone? Or are other people boring us? Or could we be those boring people? In our current information age, we are constantly connected to technology and have so many varied ways to spend our leisure time that we should all surely never know what boredom feels like. Yet boredom appears to be on the rise; it seems that the more we have to stimulate us, the more stimulation we crave.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Company Business and experience the compelling world of Jerry McNeal.

A man cursed by insomnia. After sleepless nights, he takes to that same night to release boredom and finds adventure.

In Growth Hacking: Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret, growth consultants Raymond Fong and Chad Riddersen deconstruct the phenomenon used by Silicon Valley's fast growing tech elite, growth hacking. Raymond and Chad's framework, the ASP™, is an easy to understand blueprint that empowers any business to apply growth hacking.

We Are All Weird is a celebration of choice, of treating different people differently and of embracing the notion that everyone deserves the dignity and respect that comes from being heard. The book calls for end of "mass" and for the beginning of offering people more choices, more interests, and giving them more authority to operate in ways that reflect their own unique values.

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church. Financially transparent, internally democratic it wants to buy its own state in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley to the remote Himalayas.

Желая победить в дуэли, я не только призвала в наш мир того, кому запрещено здесь появляться, и умудрилась связать наши судьбы. Но Аресу и этого показалось мало, раз он сделал мне предложение руки и сердца. О, Вездесущий! Я таю! Не представляла как-то себя в роли счастливой невесты… Стоп! Лучше бы на время выбросить из головы все чувства и подумать об испытании во дворце. Император, блондинистая черноглазая зараза, очень сильный менталист. Что будет, если он раскусит преступницу?

The Leadership Test is an insightful and engaging story about the essence of leadership. Izzy Kroll, a brilliant eccentric teaches high school in a tough section of Chicago. The story unfolds as Izzy mentors his former student, Marcus, in the first lessons of leadership, helping him navigate through the real world of egoes, agendas, and ethical dilemmas. A call to action for all leaders, this book is a quick and powerful read that will motivate you to reflect on "the nature of your intent and the manner of your influence."

How to Get a Sales Job is a must-listen for anyone in search of a new sales job. It’s an affordable tool filled with best practices, real-life examples, and anecdotes that’ll prepare you for any situation you encounter along the way. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned sales rep, having a repeatable process in place will give you an edge over other candidates and increase your likelihood of finding the right sales job.

Der in sich abgeschlossene 1. Band der Science-Fiction-Trilogie »DoHa« von Erik Harlandt führt den Leser in eine vor Leben überschäumende Galaxis, die uns gefunden hat:Als Phil auf einem fernen Planeten aus dem Duplikatedrucker torkelt, muss er feststellen, dass sein Original und damit seine Existenz vernichtet sind. – Wahrscheinlich.

This one-of-a-kind sales guide shows you how to stop wasting your time calling people who don’t want to hear from you and boost your close rate to 80 or 90 percent! Send your commissions soaring, work less, and enjoy it more - all without ever making another cold call. Following Joanne Black’s proven, referral selling system, you’ll discover how to turn current customers and your myriad of contacts into rich sources of referrals - as you establish relationships that ace out the competition.

Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth grader that she is, launches her own party-planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady's birthday celebration. But things don't go as expected on the day of the big event. Fortunately for Piper, her friends and family come to her rescue!

In The Go-Getter, Bill Peck, a war veteran, persuades Cappy Ricks, the influential founder of the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself by selling skunk wood in odd lengths - a job that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck goes on to beat his quota, Rick hands Peck the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase.

Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Doonesbury, there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift.”

Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.

Einst war der Erzähler John ein gestresster Manager, heute führt er ein ausgeglichenes und glückliches Leben. Während einer Radtour auf Hawaii erinnert sich John an den Tag vor zehn Jahren, der sein Leben radikal verändert hat. Damals war er zufällig auf das Café am Rande der Welt gestoßen. Und obwohl er sich nun an einem völlig anderen Ort befindet, Tausende Kilometer entfernt, sieht er es plötzlich wieder.

Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come.