Business Systems

On the 50th anniversary of Robert Pirsig’s classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, John Zdanowski, a six-time $100 million business builder, applies the Metaphysics of Quality to inspire and empower the entrepreneur in each of us to create something from nothing. Blending personal anecdotes, business case studies, simple diagrams, and philosophical poetry to convey the deep meaning of complicated subjects …so you get it.

Renegade entrepreneurs get a bad rap. They’re accused of being scattered, unpredictable, and notorious rule breakers. The world around them says, grow up, stick to the script, and follow the rules. This book will give you six reasons to ignore them and harness your unique, Renegade abilities to keep growing and multiplying your impact as a founder and business leader.

With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success.

Managing projects effectively and on time can be tough. But how would you like a system to manage several projects at once, and bring in all of them on time and on budget? What if you could clearly identify your priorities and consistently meet your deadlines? What if factoring in your hard-won wisdom and keenest insights suddenly became systematic for you? How would you like to have more work/life balance, and even be able to go home on time? It's no pipe dream - now you can!

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

Let's face it; leadership has its challenges. When you get knocked down, you need a reliable system you can easily access to help you regain your footing and your confidence. Within the minutes of Mastering Confidence, you will discover such a structure. In truth, you already have this tool; you just need to uncover it. In Mastering Confidence, you will learn to awaken your Inner Guidance System and boost your confidence, giving you the strength to get through challenging meetings and difficult conversations.

Every manager knows a business is a system, yet very few have studied systems thinking or system dynamics. This is a critical oversight, one that Simple_Complexity remedies. Simple_Complexity reveals the fundamental system archetype at work in your enterprise and prescribes new and exciting ways to reinvigorate your management thinking.

Self-discipline isn't just another trait - it's real game-changer. Learn how to build daily habits, develop systems, and create environment to empower you with iron-like self-discipline. This audiobook is sincere attempt to educate you about the psychology of self-discipline and why you succumb to your impulses. You will learn the practical and actionable techniques to build an iron-like self discipline.

Extensively revised and expanded, Future Search, the classic, definitive, best-selling book on one of the most powerful methods for changing and improving all types of organizations and communities, includes a host of new tools, and three new chapters. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, or any other major change in a participative, whole system way, this book is your guide.

We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity - at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term.

Mohan Subramaniam explains how firms can leverage both their traditional strengths and the modern-day power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy.

Loaded with straightforward advice, real-world examples, and lessons learned based on Brad’s 20 years of online entrepreneurial experience, Done gives you a simple, proven approach for building and managing an amazing team of remote super stars.

Mastering Productivity: The Five Ingredients of the Optimal Productivity System is a comprehensive audiobook that offers practical, science-backed strategies to help you reach your goals, manage your time effectively, and construct a personalized productivity system.

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.

Today's top business owners know that the only way to grow quickly and profitably is to leverage the power of online marketing. But breaking through to your target customers without breaking the bank requires a reliable system to take your business from the shadows to the top of the search results. Written specifically for service business owners, Grow! provides a three-part path that shows service companies how to get fast growth with fat profits, with a system that has been thoroughly tested and proven by hundreds of service companies.

In this book you will learn the five-step marketing optimization system to scale and grow your bottom line. This proven method is used to increase the percentage of visitors to your site that convert into customers. You will learn to gather intelligence through qualitative insight and quantitative data and then execute successful split testing to increase sales and leads. Small Business Big Money Online will give you direct, actionable advice and techniques that you can simply apply to your own process, developing your own system along the way.

Time is our most valuable, precious, and limited commodity - and the key to lasting happiness and success. The Time Cleanse is a proven system that shows you how to do more, get more, and be more by changing your relationship with time and get back 20 hours a week or more of your free time as a result. Learn how you can squeeze every drop of productivity out of each hour of your day so you can gain the freedom to do what you want when you want!

The Digital Sales Rep is a practical, step-by-step guide to prospecting and closing sales online. If you are in outside sales, inside sales, or managing a team of salespeople, you would want to listen to this audiobook. Selling in today’s world has changed. Salespeople need to be part-marketer, part-social media guru, part-digital expert, part-copywriter, part-graphic designer, and of course, part-salesperson. This audiobook will show how you can easily be amazing at all of those tactics.

What is the "Gap"? For financial professionals, it is the gap between their current income and their potential income - and it's profound. The fact is, most financial industry pros have a massive, untapped income potential. Most are "just getting by" when they could be living the life of their dreams. But how do they bridge the Gap in way best that serves both themselves and their clients? Jim Effner has the answer. If you're tired of staring into the Gap and ready to leap into the world of the top producer, buy this audiobook. Then hold on. It's going to be an exciting ride!