Career Building

After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains.

In this book, you'll discover the road map to financial salvation with proven steps to make your business more proficient, productive, and profitable. You'll learn how to unlock the proper mindset for success, practice compounding habits, and set authentic goals. You'll also gain insight into building a positive workplace culture, deciphering core values, and recruiting a team of high-achievers. Plus, you'll learn how to set up systems and processes for increased efficiency, establish consistent cash flow, and create a raving fan base.

Nearly half of working women in the United States are now their household's main breadwinner. And yet, the majority of women still aren't being brought up to think like breadwinners. In fact, they're actually discouraged - by institutional bias and subconscious beliefs - from building their own wealth, pursuing their full earning potential, and providing for themselves and others financially. In Think Like a Breadwinner, financial expert Jennifer Barrett reframes what it really means to be a breadwinner.

A team of expert innovation strategists delivers an exciting and insightful collection of strategies, techniques, and frameworks for scaling your next big, audacious idea into a concrete product or service. Each proven and tested strategy contained in the book has been categorized to make it easy to find and implement when you need it most. You’ll learn how and where to start, when to bet big, how to invest, when to play the long game, what to communicate, and much more.

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

The inability to set good strategy can sink a company - and a leader's career. A recent Wall Street Journal study revealed that the number one most sought after executive skill by organizations is strategic thinking, but few leaders have that skill set.

Nuts and Bolts helps you figure out the stuff that makes people tick. It provides the key to cracking the communication code. It’s rooted in straight talk, without losing a sense of humor. All of us are forced to deal with people who confound and annoy us; this book neutralizes that frustration. Hundreds of thousands have experienced these concepts. Now, it’s your turn. Anywhere there are people, there is behavior; anywhere there is behavior…this book can help.

In July of 2014, Dan, Eddie, and Govs sat at a bar talking shit about making beer. Two years later, they'd opened their own brewery on the Gold Coast in Australia called Black Hops. It's been an epic journey, from "the little situation" in China, to a collaboration with the biggest entertainment franchise on earth, and finally - launching a brewery. Operation Brewery tells their story and gives you every last detail on how to build your own brewery on a budget.

Confidence! Everyone wants it. But what do you need to achieve it? Throughout our lives, we hear the familiar expression, “You need to be more confident.” Yet, no one tells us, “Here's how you do it!” The problem remains: How do you become confident? Get Out of the Rabbit Hole answers that question and more. Dispelling the myth that people are born confident, the stories demonstrate how confidence can be developed and mastered just like any other skill.

Delivering a fresh perspective, Yohn's What Great Brands Do teaches an innovative brand-as-business strategy that enhances brand identity while boosting profit margins, improving company culture, and creating stronger stakeholder relationships. Drawing from 25 years of consulting work with such top brands as Frito-Lay, Sony, Nautica, and Burger King, Yohn explains key principles of her brand-as-business strategy.

In The Trifecta of Trust, psychometrics and leadership expert Joseph R. Folkman has collected a mountain of compelling data to make the irrefutable case for the value of trust in leadership. Folkman’s life mission has been to provide accurate assessments for leaders to help them understand their effectiveness, impact on outcomes, and specific insights on what they can do to improve. Now you can discover the tools for increasing trust based on quantifiable results and have greater impact and effectiveness as a leader.

Free yourself with the Green Beret’s A-Team methods of syncing mind, body, and spirit to become all you want to be. War has a way of shooting holes in your best-laid plans. Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Stube (Ret.) suffered life-changing wounds during the battle of Operation Medusa in Afghanistan in 2006, but using the Green Beret methods he learned in the Special Forces, Stube knew he could conquer anything. Conquer Anything is a special forces book, but even more than that it is a leadership book designed to help each of us achieve the highest goals possible.

The Authority Advantage gives you the step-by-step blueprint to build thought leadership focused on impact, not ego to accelerate trust.

You are about to discover step-by-step instructions on how to boost the profit potential of your website. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to implement what you learn in this book either. You will not learn about PageRank, on-page optimization, keywords, do-follow links, no-follow links, the Google Disavow Tool, or anything else like that. Instead, you are about to discover a proven, practical, innovative, and easy-as-ABC to follow system that will help you generate more revenue from your link building efforts.

It’s easy to think working less and making more is something available only to a blessed few. James has proven over and over again this is not the case. If you want to build a business that gives you financial peace of mind while allowing you to enjoy life now, not later...Work Less, Make More will get you on your way. It will help ensure the business you're building will work for you, not the other way around.

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence - knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more - drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?

Do you have a personal brand? Do you know what a personal brand is? Maybe you do know what the personal branding process entails but don’t know how to get started? This guide is about to teach you everything that you will need to know about the process to brand yourself in just seven easy steps! Branding will become one of the most important parts of your online journey, and the sooner that you do this, the better.

One of the world's premier branding experts, Gabor provides invaluable insights that will help your own enterprise build positive brand equity, good will, and the "irrational loyalty" that will support your brand long-term through the best and worst of times. This is your essential guide to building Irrational Loyalty.

From Wrenches to Riches: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Thriving HVAC Business is your indispensable guide to taking your HVAC business to unprecedented heights. Penned by the experts at Epic Network, this comprehensive and practical audiobook is designed to navigate the competitive landscape of the home services industry. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a newcomer, this 12-hour guide is replete with key strategies, step-by-step actions, and insider secrets propelling your business towards growth and success.

There are many different approaches you can take when building a personal brand, however, sometimes, you just need to stick to something and be consistent with that game plan and that one only. This is why Personal & Business Branding was created - so you can get the head start you deserve and blow up your brand.