Business Insights

Remarkable is a rare book that exclusively focuses on providing a comprehensive understanding of unique, pragmatic, and infallible insights that can be put to use on day one to advance your career. More important, Remarkable teaches the art of insightfulness - how to apply higher levels of creative and analytical thinking, using specific methodologies and techniques that result in superior analyses and decision making, a highly cherished skill in the business world.

You have spent some time learning all the skills it takes to be a good cop, deputy, agent, or civilian member of a law enforcement agency. You have proven yourself on the front lines. You relied on tools such as protective instruments, defensive tactics, handcuffs, firearms, and your experience. In short, you've been a superhero. To successfully transition from superhero to supervisor requires a new set of tools and skills: soft skills.

If you are an executive who has worked long hours, risen to every challenge, and built a strong reputation for yourself, then why haven't you reached the highest levels of leadership? Here's a reality check: Your business achievements and functional skills alone aren't enough to help you get where you want to go. What's likely missing is a skill that the world's best corporate leaders have developed - mastery of the people side of the equation.You must become a leader that others want to work for. How do you do that? Let go of being an expert. Become a leader of experts.

Bob Danzig, the former CEO of Hearst Newspapers, has tapped into the source of leadership by nailing down nine powers of leadership inherent in every person. In this masterful book, Bob presents 34 inspiring profiles of successful leaders who, together, define leadership. Profiles include: Itzhak Perlman, Beverly Stills, Ted Turner, Katharine Graham, Wayne Huizenga, Lee Iacocca, Al Neuharth and Jack Welch.

The world's most successful brand names inspire loyalty and trust. You rely on them again and again for their quality, innovation, and performance. What would it mean for your career, your job satisfaction, and your income potential if your boss, colleagues, and customers felt the same about YOU? How YOU Are Like Shampoo guides you step-by-step through proven corporate branding techniques never before adapted to personal use.

Change management is a myth. What worked for leaders in the past can't guide us into the future, and adapting at today's rapid pace of change can't be achieved with traditional business methods. Just "going faster" is no longer enough. What if you had the secret to unleashing greater potential, productivity, and profits that flow with change instead of chasing it?

It's not easy to establish a digital presence that grabs and holds consumers, but in The Digital Experience Company, Alfonso de la Nuez calls on his well-established expertise to show you how to go about it. The key is early, regular, focused user experience research, which enables you to actually know your users' needs and wants and learn how to satisfy them.

You've battled through all the changes in the automotive industry. You've done the right things at the right times. You've seen the good times come and go, but you know that the right ideas at the right times make all the difference. You're ready for what's next. Let's get there faster than the competition, you say! Just up ahead there are signposts for more change. How will you handle digital retailing and all that it means to you?

Prosperity is something we aspire to achieve. However, it often seems just out of reach. Perhaps you've tried so many ways to improve your life and even had halting limited success, which has made you feel even more frustrated. The deep, lasting prosperity we desire eludes us because we have let others define it for us, because we've searched for it in the wrong places, and because we haven't had the tools to attain it. This inspiring, practical book provides the framework that you can use to define prosperity on your own terms.

Success in business demands the effective management of people. James C. Morgan, who for nearly three decades led the high-tech powerhouse Applied Materials to both financial success and to the designation as one of America's most admired companies and best places to work, provides a simple, straightforward set of principles and tips that he says can help anyone be a better manager. Rich in stories and practical examples, it's a must-listen for those seeking a timeless and proven management manual.

Since the start of the advertising industry in the 19th century, it has been about telling. Now, thanks to the social media and digital revolution, everyone has a voice. Welcome to the decade of do - a new era for marketing and communications. It’s a time when people, brands, and organizations are taking on the world’s problems and trying to solve them. This book looks at why this is happening, the pioneers who are driving it forward, and what this means for the rest of us.

In Secrets of Fail: Stories, Insights, and Lessons from the Hidden Failures of Entrepreneurs, Matt delves into the uncharted terrains of entrepreneurship—not just the glitz of IPOs, funding rounds, and high-valued startups, but the gritty reality that precedes these celebrated moments. The book showcases a series of intimate interviews with entrepreneurs and CEOs whose collective business revenues exceed $10 billion and who courageously recount their paths full of pitfalls, detours, and heartbreaking disappointments.

With 700 life-changing affirmations, written for Humanity, this book will help you manifest the changes you want to see in your life. So if you're battling with a lack of self-confidence, or you're striving to become financially free, these daily affirmations will help get you there.

André Taylor is an accomplished, award-winning business leader and one of today’s dynamic voices on personal and professional success. From Wall Street to Main Street he’s led and built successful companies for decades, and advises high-potential individuals, entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders around the world. If you want a comprehensive discussion of success principles and how to apply these principles in multiple areas, you’ll enjoy this extraordinary collection.

Experienced sales professionals and those new to the game agree: selling can be tough. And today, it’s as challenging as ever. In recent years, there’s been an explosion in new products and services. Prospects and customers are inundated with offers, pitches, and proposals, and changes in the economy have made buyers more sophisticated, cautious, and deliberate in their purchases.

Your employees and teams may be quite capable of handling their specific areas of focus, but unless you get them to work together, your products, services, and profits will suffer. While progress has been made, maximizing collaboration is still a challenge for many companies. They need a new approach. Over the last quarter century, California's Silicon Valley has become synonymous with building complex, successful businesses. Companies and leaders there have succeeded because they did more than apply existing business models - they created a new model.

In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica.

With twenty years of experience in frontier markets, including a decade working in Africa, author Jonathan Berman engages with top business leaders on the vast opportunities and challenges of the continent. Success in Africa pushes past the headlines on Africa's growth to answer the questions often asked by companies and investors: Who do I work with there and what drives them? How do I deal with government? What about war, disease, and poverty? What about China? How do I win?

How do Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and The Walt Disney Company grow better and faster than others in the same industry? In Upstream Marketing, authors Tim Koelzer and Kristin Kurth share best practices, research, case studies, and analysis informed by their more than twenty years of experience helping transform client brands and businesses through their work at EquiBrand Consulting, a top management consultancy. The result is a groundbreaking deep-dive into the fundamentals of upstream marketing.

Everything in nature evolves by trial and error. We cannot avoid this fundamental method of natural evolution, but our human advantage is that we can think about and learn from the errors before trying again. Trial, Error, and Success helps boost that advantage with 10 insights into realistic knowledge, thinking, and emotional intelligence. The authors use real-life examples to show how successful thinking avoids overgeneralization traps - the key trick is to focus on the differences between a new circumstance and existing knowledge.