Business Insights

If you’re an entrepreneur, run a small enterprise and want to experience rapid growth in your business, you’ll learn how to “get big fast” with this provocative, high-value audio from entrepreneur and author André Taylor. Based on his popular coaching program, you’ll learn some of what he’s taught others for years in his exclusive Fast Forward Your Business mentoring program on achieving accelerated growth, success, and profitability in business and how you can achieve the same.

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.

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.

For more than a decade, Jason T. Smith led the Back In Motion Health Group with a traditional organisational structure. For a while, it worked well. But then something changed. Jason set a new goal that couldn’t be achieved through the status quo. In this audiobook Jason shares how just two years later, after challenging their internal culture and work flow, they found the sweet spot between authentic collaboration and the holy grail of peer accountability. The result: an explosion of new business growth and the freedom for each team member to excel at what they love.

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.

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.

Mentorographer Molly Lavik has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs find their true potential and authentic purpose by providing guidance as they transformed their visions into reality. Now, she has taken her own vision to the next level, curating the lessons and insights of 101+ superachievers in this collection of life stories that you, too, can use - no matter what your goal or past experience may be - to pave your own path to success, happiness, and self-fulfillment. She calls the concept Going Supernova.

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.

In diesem Buch formuliere ich Gedanken, die vielleicht nicht immer politisch korrekt sind - und bestimmt ecke ich mit der einen oder anderen Person an. Aber so bin ich nun mal. Ich hoffe sehr, dass dieses Buch nicht nur Zuspruch erntet, sondern, dass es auch Widerspruch erzeugt. Weil: Widerspruch ist gut! Die Ozeane und Berge sind durch Reibung entstanden. Diamanten entstehen unter Druck, Trauben werden gepresst! Da gibt es keine Harmonie! Und diese Gedanken zu teilen, ist mir Lust und Aufgabe zugleich. Take it or leave it! Ulvi AYDIN.

As the oil industry navigates an era of relentless automation and technological advancement, 'Crude Communication' emerges as a steadfast ally. Refining one's soft skills—the crucial interpersonal abilities such as effective communication, understanding, and cooperation, that breeds a supportive and productive work environment—has evolved into an indispensable cornerstone for oilfield workers.

This book provides young leaders or future high-potentials the guidance needed for how to deal with the challenges of leading teams in modern organizations. Understanding the power of strengths-based leadership using clear two-way communication and, in particular, identifying with one’s own leadership philosophy are central themes in this book. It highlights the typical mistakes made by first-time leaders and offers theoretical and practical advice to deal with the difficulties of management.

Many executives overlook the single-most critical aspect of leadership. Have you? The most important driver of overall success is your own self-leadership. Without it, your career may stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential.

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.

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.

How, in challenging times, can corporate leaders protect profits and keep their plans for growth on track, while protecting the synergy between business and people-valuing goals? Corporate leaders need an edge - not just to survive, but to triumph over issues and come out on top, especially when staff resilience and engagement are being tested. In recent years psychology has spectacularly transformed our ability to improve business and personal resilience, individual performance, and corporate results.

Are you curious about AI but overwhelmed by tech jargon? Are you wondering how AI could revolutionize your daily life or business but unsure where to start? Are you intimidated by the rapid advancements in AI technology? You're in the right place. This guide is crafted for anyone eager to dive into AI, from complete novices to those with a tech background. It provides a clear, jargon-free introduction to Generative AI.

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.

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.

Attract interest, then nail the sale. With attention spans mercilessly short, you can't afford to approach customers with anything but the very strongest, most on-target pitch. Learn how to capture the interest of perfect prospects for your product, service or cause, then convince them to complete an order. This pithy, provocative book from a master of creative marketing offers both timeless principles of persuasion and insights from recent research and marketing trends. Real-life examples illustrate Marcia Yudkin's advice....