Career Family

Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, draw on extensive global research to reveal the secrets of enterprising families, using examples of both firms that flourished and those that failed. They describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those practices.

I've written this book with hope to make your day to day life even better. This is my vision: for you to elevate success and happiness in your daily life and in your life's endeavors. My mission is to awaken, educate, and inspire you to see that routine is the work of success and a source of happiness in your journey toward achieving your big dreams or making your way through your daily life.

It has been said that life is 10 percent about what happens to you and 90 percent about how you react to it. Brenda Fontaine is a living example of that. She tells us the story in her new book, The Limitless Real Estate Leader. Raised by an alcoholic mother and an overachieving father, Fontaine was able to extract important lessons from her upbringing. She has applied them both to her business career and to her personal life. The Limitless Real Estate Leader is a heartwarming motivational business book.

Striking the right balance between career and motherhood is one of the most stressful, heart-wrenching tasks facing women today. In Torn, 46 women examine the conflict between the need to nurture and the need to work, and reveal creative solutions for having the best of both worlds. The stories in the collection offer hope and inspiration, but they also reveal the messy realities of modern motherhood and life's inevitable crises, both small and large.

This book is dedicated to those who want to transform their health and wellbeing. In Imagine a Healthy You, the authors explore the power of the mind, how it can heal the body, and how you can use your own power to improve your physical performance and wellbeing. With this new focus, you'll be able to complete daily tasks and all your activities with greater ease.

When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a magazine during the economic downturn of 2008, she needed to cut her budget way, way back, and that meant home cooking. Her mother suggested, “Why don’t you look in Nana’s recipe folder?” In the basement, Suzan found the tattered treasure, full of handwritten and meticulously typed recipes, peppered with her grandmother Matilda’s commentary in the margins. Reading it, Suzan realized she had found something more than a collection of recipes—she had found the key to her family’s survival through hard times.

Steve Loveland, the owner of a software firm, has hit bottom. He's about to lose his company and family, and he's desperate to turn things around. Jennifer Silverstone, a finance-savvy consultant, helps him implement the six essential dashboards every business needs. This transition to running a business with numbers, which every entrepreneur must eventually make, gives him the clarity required to save his business.

In this inspirational audiobook drawn from the hugely popular Twitter account, the Man Who Has It All helps men to nurture opinions of their own, make time to smile and choose between a career and a baby. From Frazzled to Fabulous includes words of wisdom on everything from how to spend your 'me time' and get a grip on guilt to dressing in your wow colours and speaking in the right tone of voice at work. It's a must-have audiobook for frazzled dads and high-flying men who are struggling to stay hydrated and get to the bottom of the ironing pile.

As their businesses begin and then mature, entrepreneurs face increasingly complex emotional challenges that they must navigate as they take their businesses from an idea to the maturation period of growth and expansion, to succession planning and divestiture, to the day they step aside. John Waldron has leveraged his own entrepreneurial experience and that of the hundreds of business owners he has counseled to build an essential framework that addresses the important balance between the tangible and intangible complexities of each stage of The Entrepreneurial Journey.

Vous vous apprêtez à commencer votre carrière ou vous souhaitez vous réorienter? Vous aimeriez disposer de l’autonomie d’un(e) entrepreneur(e) sans partir de zéro? Et si vous considériez l’entreprise familiale comme option de carrière? Travailler en famille vise à vous apporter le soutien nécessaire dans votre long processus de réflexion. Cet ouvrage vous permettra d’en apprendre davantage sur les particularités d’une entreprise familiale en explorant les 3 sphères qui la composent : l’entreprise, la propriété et la famille.

You could be the proud parent of the next big child star. Naturally, you’d want to support their dreams and help them put their acting prowess to work. But first, a reality check: Even if your kid has plenty of talent, finding success in the entertainment industry can be quite challenging.

Life is short for all of us. I know this because I have been in the funeral industry for almost 20 years. My career has provided me with insight into what truly matters. For me, it is simply all of the small moments in life with my friends and family. However altruistic, I only wish to remind everyone of this simple message. That is the ultimate goal of this book: capture your moments.

If the wealth built by an entrepreneur isn’t empowering the life they want, they’re doing it wrong. True happiness is about spending time with the people who matter most, doing work they find to be meaningful, and being part of things bigger than themselves. Things that being an entrepreneur allows them to pursue better than anyone else, all while building enduring personal wealth for their family. Money can help them buy back their time and enable the life they want but monetary wealth alone isn’t enough.

Whether you’re a dad or a mom, whether you’re rocking the "parent" part of your life and feel your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you’re a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price…this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life.

Love Your Body, Revised Edition: Your Path to Transformation, Health, and Healing provides a holistic understanding of the life-sustaining systems that support well-being in your body, mind, and spirit. Updated with new content during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Taylor writes about the importance of staying connected with one another, being in communication, and the crucial value of community, among other topics. The audiobook begins by looking at the individual physical systems within the body that maintain and contribute to optimal health.

Despite the fact that 70 percent of family business owners want to pass their business on to the next generation, research suggests only three percent will operate beyond the fourth generation. The miniscule chances of long-term success are largely due to the issues unique to family businesses, which are often wrapped in a tightly woven knot of unspoken plans. In Disruptive Successor, business coach Jonathan Goldhill offers a proven framework and playbook for unwinding this knot, scaling up your business, or planning your exit.

Find the courage to go after your dreams with the assurance that god is cheering you on. Have you ever had a little spark, an idea come screaming into your mind that left you feeling excited, encouraged, full of hope, and a love for life? But then, before you ever have a chance to entertain it, you talk yourself out of it, losing your hope before you even get started. You’re not alone. Hope lives here in this audiobook. You will soak in these Christian stories of faith and resilience by Katie Evans.

What happens when you consciously chart a course for your life, a course guided by your ethics and values? What happens when you truly recognize and embrace community? So often business books tell us about how to earn more, how to make our businesses more remunerative, and how to become more influential. Seldom do they address the small business and its impact on the life of its owners and those they employ. There are almost 30 million small businesses in the United States, employing over 56 million people or 57 percent of people who work in the private sector.

The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And learn far more than the correct pronunciation of “Wingardium Leviosa.” With Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me, you’ll discover how the universal themes and lessons of the series apply to your Muggle life, including drawing strength from friends, learning from mentors and heroes, challenging conventional ideas, overcoming obstacles and setbacks, and trusting yourself when others don’t.

Esta frase—'Mulheres não são chatas, mulheres estão exaustas'—vem sendo uma companheira diária que me faz refletir sobre os papéis que desempenhamos. Por que estamos tão cansadas? Por que sentimos que o mundo está pendurado nos nossos ombros? Por que ainda temos tantos medos e tantas dúvidas, mesmo nos assuntos mais básicos? Só de pensar nisso tudo já dá para ficar exausta. E não teria como não ficar. Mas pode ser mais leve se a gente abandonar alguns penduricalhos que realmente não precisam estar ali. Vamos tentar, juntas, nos libertar deles.