Business Knowledge

For thought-leading CEOs, executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs, the true test of your personal brand comes down to one simple question: When you speak, do people listen? Nationally acclaimed marketing expert and host of The Speaking Show Podcast David Newman teaches you how to build a thriving speaking career. Regardless of the speaking venue: in-person events, virtual appearances, conference stages, and any other place where you are being paid to share your expertise with an audience, the powerful articulation of your value, relevance, and impact is what makes experts stand out.

Being a student of Economics and Business, I always seek to refresh my knowledge of key common terms in these areas. Economics, Business and Politics overlap a great deal in both academic and real-world applications. Artificial Intelligence will hopefully add for the better, the fields of Business, Politics and Economics. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way business operates and contribute to global economic activity.

It's the 21st century, yet most companies maintain a 20th-century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future of business is virtual, and it's going to take more than technology upgrades for you to upgrade your workplace environment.

A lot of business owners and managers get many things right, but there are also things they can do better. Take communication skills for example: Are you really effective enough at communicating? Are you good at delegating responsibilities? Aside from this, we’ll touch on the topic of project management. People who work in projects typically achieve more if they have been executed effectively. Real leaders get things done fast and proficiently. Are you that leader yet?

Selling the Intangible will introduce you to these core components in the form of bite-sized strategies and pro tips so that you have a plan for success before you even start.

This groundbreaking book is the first to both identify the wide range of political risks that global firms face and show investors how to effectively manage them. Written by two of the world's leading figures in political risk management, it reveals that, while the world remains exceedingly risky for businesses, it is by no means incomprehensible. The authors provide a wealth of unique methods, tools, and concepts to help understand political risk, showing when and how political risk analysis works - and when it does not.

Innovation influences the market and its operators, especially about competition conditions. One of the most significant technological advances relates to the possibility of capturing a huge amount of information and processing them rapidly: two of the main features that make up the phenomenon known as big data. This not only entails the emergence of specialized operators in these activities, but also makes a "data economy" possible.

Why do employers judge candidates on the first impression they make, even though they know it’s wrong and often misleading? Why do people smoke, drink to excess, and eat things they know are bad for them? How do normally intelligent people wind up believing fake news stories? To find out, let’s take a trip back in time to Victorian England. A famous story from the Victorian days is that women had to wear corsets. It’s debated how commonplace corsets actually were, but they squeezed a woman’s body like a snake - making the waist look smaller.

If you want to sell a meal, you've got to spend some time in the kitchen. Ryan Serhant shares tips on how to build a strong pitch and story around your product that will enable you to increase sales and earn more.

Transformative leadership is vital in maintaining sustainable long-term success, high morale, and good employee retention in any business. But only 18 percent of organizations feel their leaders meet organization goals, meaning there is a massive gap in competent-driven leadership.

Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option, survival in today's world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.

Deepa Patel, Salesforce MVP and founder of the Salesforce Certification Study Group, offers CRM admins a practical guide to expand their skills and boost their chances for long-term success. Her book bridges the gap between knowing technology and applying it to a company's business processes. As technology has evolved, so has the need for CRM admins who understand how to apply business analysis methodology to their day-to-day work. This is the number one skill requested by prospective employers today.

The Jump Start 90-Day Course Creation Program will walk you through a step-by-step process on how to create, launch, and sell your course as quickly as possible. Discover how to earn passive income with online courses, even if you’re struggling with understanding how to create an online course.

Healthcare has changed immensely over the past few generations - house calls from a local family doctor are a thing of the past, and the deeply personal relationships and bonds between provider and patient are eroding with the demands of for-profit insurance. As a family practitioner focused on cradle-to-grave care, author Barb Regis has a valuable perspective on how patients can experience better outcomes.

Want to learn a skill, but don't know how to get started? Struggle to find time for a side project? Ever quit in frustration after beginning something new? The truth is: You can learn anything...without spending lots of money...without dedicating thousands of hours to the process...and often without leaving the comfort of your home.

This book explores the problem of the loss of corporate expertise. It explains how to meet the challenge of capturing hard-to-replicate knowledge, skills, and attitudes from legacy employees and packaging it in a way to reach new generations of workers.

In Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp explores competition problems in a wide range of high-tech firms—from those that sell purely digital products, such as video streaming, search, software, or email services, to others that sell more traditional "tactile" products, such as hardware, clothing, groceries, or rides. He offers a realistic look at the powers and limitations of antitrust law in tech markets with an assessment that is as comprehensive as it is accessible.

The 7 Gates of Phi is a journey of self-discovery and progressive transformation. Anyone with the conviction and desire to change can apply the principles in this audiobook to help them bring out their best potential. Each gate represents an important milestone in the listener's journey. It starts with basic self-awareness concepts and moves through each gate until the final module prepares the listener to enter the phase of change - where they face the challenge of self-mastery.

Explosion of the economic relevance of data is related to: first, technological progress that has drastically reduced the costs of collecting and storing data; second, the advances in analytic techniques that have allowed for more advanced processing to extract greater value from available data. So, more value is extracted from exhausted data. Information generated for one purpose can and should be reused for another one, which means that data moves from primary to secondary uses. Data are more valuable over time.

Share looks at how new business models are being created based on the disruptive idea of ‘sharing’. Uber, Airbnb, Skype, Alibaba, Google, Netflix and WeChat (China’s answer to Whatsapp) are all based on the sharing of information, assets and human capital, and a new and dynamic economy is already emerging. Traditional consumer and industrial models of Western capitalism are having to adapt to the ‘sharing’ concept, but few traditional organisations seem to understand the implications of the ‘share’ mindset for how they operate and compete.