Career Growth

The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that. The next challenge is growth - to achieve the financial returns and, more importantly, the impact they dreamed of when starting off on their adventure.

B2B decision-makers are more informed and more inundated with choices than ever before. To succeed in this environment, businesses need to break through the noise, engage prospects on their own terms, and add value every step of the way. Leveraging more than 15 years of marketing success with startups and Fortune 500 companies, Getting Started with Demand Generation provides the foundation for marketing and sales leaders to develop a high-performing, revenue-focused program that fills the marketing funnel and drives qualified sales opportunities.

Are you caught in the pursuit of achieving more? Does your mind keep you up at night, thinking about what’s next? Have you heard people say “surrender” and thought, "It’s just not possible when you're working in the real world"? When you’re busy accomplishing big goals, it’s easy to put off your inner peace for "someday.” But what if you could merge your business and personal growth into one journey that leads you to more success and fulfillment than you ever dreamed possible? Welcome to The 200% Life, your roadmap to finding inner peace without sacrificing your business success.

Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

Turn to Decide and Conquer to access the decision framework David Siegel used when he took over as CEO of Meetup, the world’s leading platform for making connections and finding your community. Let David’s success during one of the most tumultuous times in his company’s history help guide you on your own path. Decide and Conquer helps all leaders navigate the big decisions that will impact their future and make their organizations a success. David outlines the 44 challenges leaders face when starting a new position.

Jenn Lim has dedicated her career to helping organizations from name-brand industry leaders to innovative governments build workplace cultures that benefit both their employees and their bottom line, with less employee turnover, greater engagement, and higher profits. Her culture consultancy, Delivering Happiness, demonstrates the profound impact happiness can have on businesses' ability to thrive in our ever-changing times. In this book, she clearly and concretely shows the way the model works in a hyper-connected fast-paced world.

In The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Growth, renowned business adviser Stephen Dann sets out the methods, tools, and techniques to enable your business to develop, thrive, and grow so you can achieve your business and personal goals.

This book is a comprehensive guide for people, who want to cultivate ambition to achieve goals in their lives. It covers various aspects of ambition, including the differences between too much and too little ambition. It details how to manage workflow and how to solidify a strong vision. It talks about how to turn long-term goals into shorter achievable steps and how to assess your strengths, weaknesses, and progress. It also takes a deep dive into procrastination, what it really is, and how to deal with it.

Annie Brock and Heather Hundley take the core concept of employing the growth mindset (first popularized by Carol Dweck) and apply it to teaching in a practical, methodical, and easy to access manner in their audiobook, The Growth Mindset Coach. This FastReads summary and analysis offers supplementary material to The Growth Mindset Coach to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes.

Disruption by digital technologies? That's not a new story. But what is new is the "wise pivot", a replicable strategy for harnessing disruption to survive, grow, and be relevant to the future. It's a strategy for perpetual reinvention across the old, now, and new elements of any business. Rapid recent advances in technology are forcing leaders in every business to rethink long-held beliefs about how to adapt to emerging technologies and new markets. What has become abundantly clear: in the digital age, conventional wisdom about business transformation no longer works, if it ever did.

Why the best way to drive growth might be to focus rather than expand When Sanjay Khosla took charge of developing markets for Kraft Foods in 2007, the business was floundering. Six years later, annual sales had soared from $5 billion to $16 billion with significant improvement in profitability. The secret? Making fewer, bigger, and bolder bets and stopping a lot of small stuff. Kellogg School professor Mohanbir Sawhney discovered a similar formula for stellar results - focus and simplicity - in advising Fortune 500 companies.

Johnson provides an eminently practical framework for understanding how a business model actually works. Identifying its four fundamental building blocks, he lays out a structured and repeatable process for reinventing an existing business model or creating a new one and then incubating and scaling it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. In a new chapter on digital transformation, he shows how serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully.

Most ambitious people struggle in at least one of these areas, yet they feel they don’t have the tools to improve their situation. Return on Ambition is the culmination of an ambitious effort to harness insights from recent research in psychology and neuroscience to help people pursue their ambitions more fruitfully. The result is a radical and holistic approach to achievement, growth, and well-being.

Everyone has drive—a very strong energy and determination to achieve a goal or satisfy a need. But drive can remain dormant, and it alone isn't enough to create the kind of success in work and life you want. In What Drives You, former pro athlete, performance guide, and star podcaster Kevin Miller takes you on an enlightening journey to discover how this motivational force works and how to get yourself in the mindset you need to find your true inspiration and fulfillment.

Unconformed questions the whole "you need a college degree to succeed" mantra. It highlights the awesome value in tradespeople and artisans—real people who shape our world. This book focuses on the importance of lifelong learning and resilience rather than a diploma from a lofty institution. The best part? It will show you how to take advantage of real-world opportunities and get unstuck at any stage of life. Unconformed is your guide to becoming "unstuckable."

Are you tired of feeling like a fraud in your professional life? Do you struggle with self-doubt and imposter syndrome? If so, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Mastering Overcoming Self-Doubt and Achieving Professionalism and Leadership Through Confidence Building and Personal Growth is the book for you.

Are you ready to take your startup to the next level, but unsure where to begin? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the complexities of scaling your business? Are you struggling to identify the right strategies to expand your startup without burning through your limited resources? Maybe you’ve tried various approaches, only to find that they didn’t work as expected. I’ve been there, too, facing the same challenges and frustrations as you.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all of life’s demands and find yourself wishing that peace, calm, and clarity could be your natural state? Welcome to Ascension. It’s time to see what you’re really made of and experience the infinite possibilities that await when you choose to become the creator of your reality. When you learn to live authentically, you embody your power and magnetize what you are meant to receive. In I’m Ascending, Now What?, energy and embodiment expert Sydney Campos, author of The Empath Experience, guides you into a journey of self-discovery and remembrance.

Unlike other time management or anti-procrastination books, The Ultimate Procrastination Fix Handbook to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Self Growth will show you how you can take control of your time with a series of proven strategies and intuitive, science-backed methods to move yourself towards your goals on a daily basis so that you can achieve success in your life by making huge strides in your career, strengthen your relationships and improving your time management skills.

In 2016, Category Pirate Eddie Yoon wrote the seminal book on business growth, called Superconsumers. A Superconsumer is the kind of person who knows your category better than anyone else—and as a result, is willing to spend 30 percent to 70 percent more with you than other less enthusiastic customers. And in this “mini-book,” the pirates follow up with an equally groundbreaking discovery: A Super of one category is also a Super of nine others.