Business Systems

What would happen if you took a 2-week no-strings-attached vacation away from your business right now? Would it pretty much stop without you? Struggle, and ultimately slow down? Or would it still run, grow, and THRIVE without you? If the answer frightens you, 'The 2-Week Vacation Test' is your wake-up call and your blueprint to freedom. For 6- and 7-figure entrepreneurs stuck in the chaos of day-to-day operations, the idea of taking a vacation might seem like a distant dream or a recipe for disaster. But what if it was the key to unlock your business' full potential?

Over the past 25 years, more than 100 companies that were failing, not making enough money, or simply struggling to achieve their true potential, turned to David Lord to learn how to make their businesses work better, make more money, and generate additional cash. David showed them how to transform their businesses’ systems of work into visual ones, resulting in improved employee involvement, quality, productivity, and profitability. Now, David’s audiobook shows exactly what he does to change struggling businesses into thriving ones, by employing the "Visual System of Work".

Extraordinary times call for exceptional leaders. The Leaders Ecosystem provides nine critical essays and insights that allow a contemporary leader to meet the challenges of our time, including: Building confidence and motivation to lead through uncertainty.

Love Your People centers on entrepreneurial leadership's core goal: delivering exceptional results. This groundbreaking book champions a love-based approach as a catalyst for not only enhancing workplace dynamics, but also driving superior performance.

This book is the clear road map you need to successfully implement conversion-focused podcasting into your business, and is the consolidation of more than a decade working in the podcast industry serving customers, clients, and patients from all walks of life and backgrounds. If you're looking for a book contains everything you need to stay on track so you get your podcast up and running quickly so you can make more sales more often, then Welcome to the Show 1.0 is for you.

Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

Creating a business is hard, but once it’s done, the idea of marketing it can be daunting. Having a road map can make all the difference. Paul Brodie, 20-time best-selling author and CEO of Brodie Consulting Group, knows what to teach you because he’s done it all before. From building your business to keeping your audience engaged, you’ll develop the confidence to create the brand and income that will change your life. You’ll love this collection of ideas, because once you know the secrets to building your own business, you’ll be able to grow your business with confidence.

Drawing on BizSmart’s own research and experiences of working with hundreds of owner-managers, Kevin Brent explores the key reasons why most organizations do not scale and how the challenges change as they reach different milestones on the scaleup journey. He then details a practical step-by-step guide to successfully navigate between the milestones in the form of ESUS—a proven system for entrepreneurs to scale up.

In 1982, MIT professor Kenan Sahin took $1,000 from his savings and used it to undertake the most extraordinary entrepreneurial journey, culminating with a $1.54 billion rich exit just 17 years later. This is the story of Kenan's turning his academic theories into axiomatic principles for building a Lean Startup into a Lean Company followed by a Rich Exit.

Maxed Out exposes the recent history and culture of debt for all of its absurdities and contradictions. The world's largest financial institutions are trolling for customers - from the nouveau riche to the poorest members of society, who counter-intuitively make for the largest profits. By turns hilarious, fascinating, and deeply disturbing, Maxed Out is ultimately one observer's answer to the question, "Why can't we get out of debt?"

Feeling drained and compromised at work? Struggling to maintain your well-being amidst professional adversity? Are you a Black woman leader navigating unique workplace hurdles? If yes, I invite you to explore empowering insights into overcoming challenges and fostering success.

When illegally crossing the American border from Mexico there are three things you must understand: Watch for headlights in the woods, follow the power lines and wind pumps, and learn to swim before crossing the river. When he was a child, author Victor Maya’s mother paid smugglers to reunite her with her children in Houston, Texas. Two coyotes, two siblings, and Victor, a little boy who couldn’t swim.

A few years ago, blogging was highly sought after as a preferred method of building a brand online and being able to generate passive income from multiple income streams. Whether you wanted to make money as an affiliate, through email marketing, through having a membership area, selling an online course, selling adverting space or through selling software and other digital products, blogging was seen as the master key to all these income streams.

The following indispensable guide, filled with actionable steps and exercises, provides time-tested methods to establish international, billion-dollar brands. No matter your business size or industry, Ken’s marketing secrets are proven to boost your sales and enhance your revenue.

Are you a business leader frustrated by the fact that too much of your time is devoted to management tasks rather than actual leadership? Perhaps you are finding it difficult to establish which is more important to the success of your business, because your days are too hectic to consider strategic and visionary duties. Moreover, do you sense anxiety creeping in, as the organization begins to lose direction? With so much to do, and when there may be a strong temptation to play it safe and not put your neck on the line, how can you steer the corporate ship in the way required? Chris Collier's 23 years of experience as a Senior Officer in the US Army Special Operations and a leader in corporate retail, forced him to ask these very same questions that face leaders today. The answers he found have become a Four-Step System, forged in the field through his current role as Senior Expert Advisor to NATO and US Military Leadership.

Do you have the feeling that you are not resilient enough, and that self-doubt is a regular companion? Maybe you think you're treading water, focused on the wrong things, or your inner bully is getting the best of you. Whatever challenge you now seek or have to face, you will only be able to achieve your objectives if you build mental power. This isn't a one-dimensional figure, but rather a potent mix of several personal qualities. This book teaches you how to cultivate these traits and combine them in a way that offers you strength in both your professional and personal life.

Financial advisor expert Seth Greene describes how to make you invaluable to clients, leverage your expertise, market to acquire them, expand your clients through marketing, gifting for purpose, enriching their children, and more.

While this book may not handle every single possible scenario you may run across, I do have my finger on the pulse of the legal industry and what lawyers are challenged by every day. Take what you can from what I’ve learned and perfected on legal business development, marketing and networking to make it your own. My greatest hope is to hear from you someday that you did take action and that this book made the difference for you in your legal career. So enjoy the book, take lots of notes and most importantly, be that lawyer!

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.

Stop what you’re doing right now and listen up - your commercial driving or trucking business is doomed, unless you change your mindset immediately. It’s all about knowing your business, knowing your client, and showing them why you’re better than everyone else - and you don’t need a ton of money or a university degree to accomplish just that. A little bit of business sense and some guidance is all you need to help you take the right steps.