Business Systems

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.

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

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.

The Power of a System contains the technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial secrets to running a multi-million-dollar law firm. Tried-and-true methods for managing and growing the injury law firm of your dreams is available - precise methods that, when applied, will slowly but surely grow your law firm into an asset that serves your ideal lifestyle.

What would a social media revolt, based on a single mishandled customer exchange, cost your company? This book's 48 rules for strategic customer care give you the guidelines you need to make intelligent strategic investments in customer care, based on the world-famous Sandler Selling System. Customer Service: The Sandler Way helps you and create and sustain a working culture built on the belief that the customer not only matters, but is the only reason your organization exists.

Why do managers usually fail when it comes to motivating employees, in particular salespeople? What should they do instead? In answering those questions, author Mike Crandall recommends many innovative strategies inspired by the work of David Sandler, creator of the Sandler Selling System. To get the most from your organization, you need to understand why people show up for work and tie that reason to your company's mission. Crandall's book is about motivating yourself, your team, and your company at optimum levels.

The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high-performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!

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.

Do you want to reignite your passion for the local church and see your congregation live out the Great Commission by growing and making disciples? If so, implementing the revolutionary Intentional Growth Planning™ operating system will benefit you, your church, and your community! Just as laptops and smart phones have an operating system, the church needs a biblically based operating system where its various programs and activities can effectively plug in to.

What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital - and the potential opportunity - they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this probing and practical book, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide much-needed tools, self-assessments, motivating examples, and key financial analyses of where the profits will likely be made.

It's a sad fact that most projects fail - as many as 70%, according to one well-known study. Those failed projects cost billions of dollars. Perhaps they’ve even cost you or your company. You’ve hired certified project managers and implemented project management techniques, and yet you still don’t have the success you need. Bare Knuckled Project Management has the answer.

Once you get rid of those ineffective working habits, excuses for holding back, and annoying voices in your head, you’ll be free to achieve your biggest goals and projects in life fearlessly - faster than you ever thought possible. Today can be the day that everything changes for you. This audiobook is designed to get you results in your business and life by giving you the systems, tools, and mindset you need to bring your biggest ideas and most important projects to life in 21 days or less.

How well will current leadership practices work in the future? With, among other things, more people working remotely in these challenging times, previous leadership practices may be an ill-fated future endeavor. Organizations that do not resolve any current practices that encourage unsatisfactorily behaviors could encounter significant issues. To get through these difficult times, organizations need to do things better. But what leadership system is the best to pursue, and what could someone do to stimulate change? This audiobook answers this question.

In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate.

Are you thinking about your future and wonder if you will get to live with some financial stability? Does the stock market seem a bit scary and complicated to you right now? Don’t worry; everyone has been in your shoes when they first started out. The great thing is that you are getting out there at a very young age, and you can start investing from as little as the cost of a pizza! Many adults twice your age still don’t understand the stock market—here you are trying to live a financially independent life by giving yourself an advantage.

Avoid the headaches of managing your business finances by following this effortless approach. Not knowing if you’re running out of cash, or if your price covers all your costs, means that you don’t know whether you’re making money or not. If you don’t want your business to end up the same way, it’s essential that you’re able to get your finances in order. With a well-planned, organized, and clutter proof system, you’ll have your finances running like a well-oiled machine so you can focus on building your business.

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.

Imagine building your business vocabulary and having fun at the same time. Now you can! Verbalicious takes a fun, entertaining approach to language. With Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you'll expand your word base and develop verbal prowess for business situations almost effortlessly. Other vocabulary programs are boring, and often they just don't work. But Verbalicious is fun and engaging.

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.

For decades, immigrants have flocked to the United States of America, inspired by its spirit of freedom and equal opportunity. However, many fail to consider the barriers they may have to face when looking for entrepreneurial avenues. Financial Literacy for Immigrant Entrepreneurs is grounded in research, taking its roots from the state of financial literacy in immigrants of African descent in the United States. It lays out the financial system, which hurdles one might encounter, and possible resources that may aid immigrants during their quest for upward social mobility.