Career Growth

Do you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your growth IQ. Trying to find the one right move that will improve your business's performance can feel overwhelming. But, as you'll discover in Growth IQ, there are just 10 simple - but easily misunderstood - paths to growth, and every successful growth strategy can be boiled down to picking the right combination and sequence of these paths for your current context.

In Growth Hacking: Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret, growth consultants Raymond Fong and Chad Riddersen deconstruct the phenomenon used by Silicon Valley's fast growing tech elite, growth hacking. Raymond and Chad's framework, the ASP™, is an easy to understand blueprint that empowers any business to apply growth hacking.

Are you held back by limiting beliefs, negative thought patterns, and a fear of failure? Dive deep into Gabrielle Townsend's transformative audiobook and journey from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. Let her soothing narration guide you through powerful insights, making each step tangible and actionable....

There was a time where skill alone was enough to get you the recognition and the opportunities you deserve, but now, something more is expected of you. Fewer job opportunities mean more and better choices for employers. Job hunters are required to put much more effort into a skill set beyond their specializations. According to Glassdoor, each corporate job offer attracts 250 resumes, on average. Of those candidates, four to six will get called for an interview, and only one will get the job.

There are 15 million businesses in the United States, and 13 million of them don't utilize a planning process. Yet having a planning process is the most reliable predictor of whether a business will grow. The One Hour Plan for Growth provides a proven system for any business to create a clear and compelling business growth plan that fits on a single sheet of paper in about one hour. This book is a quick listen, and you and your people stay energized and focused on your top priorities.

Awaken Your Inner Hero is a call to adventure, to get out of your comfort zone and take the kind of risks that will lead you to radically change the way you are living your life. Based on the hero's journey and on universal principles that have been used by poets, writers, and directors to create great stories, the author unveils seven steps that will help you make your deepest desires come true and develop a story worth telling. You will discover life has great things waiting for you if you are bold enough to go after them.

Do you own your business or does your business own you? After working with the country’s top financial advisors for decades, business development entrepreneur Shawn Sparks, has seen far too many financial advisors whose success has led to less freedom and joy overall. Raised on the idea that in financial services, production is the name of the game, these founders develop highly productive businesses but unfortunately, they are dependent on them. This leads to burnout, unhappiness, unfulfilled lives and unfulfilled missions.

Annie Hyman Pratt's family business, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, consisted of 7 domestic "mom and pop shops" when she took it over. In just 7 years' time she scaled it by more than 1x, turning it into an international brand of 7+ stores before leading the company through a highly successful sale. Two decades later, Annie Pratt is a top-tier business consultant whose client list of 5+ companies and entrepreneurs includes Hay House, Jeff Walker, Gabrielle Bernstein, Susan Peirce Thompson, Erico Rocha, and Christian Mickelsen.

The Tech Nerds’ Guide to Career Success: Seven proven lessons to unlock your growth in an IT service, shares a business parable that is searing, humorous, and filled with wise guidance. The hero Marty is like you: a very capable tech nerd, with a high work ethic and strong desire to contribute. But his career is stalled and he’s frustrated. By chance, Marty meets an industry veteran who agrees to guide him. The seven lessons allow Marty to remove career limiting mistakes—and turn them into advantages.

In this revolutionary management audiobook, Fred Reichheld reduces all business success into one question. "Would you recommend this business to a friend?" According to Reichheld, this measure of customer satisfaction should be at the heart of all strategic decisions made by every company. He presents compelling case studies to show how customer satisfaction is more important than any business criterion besides profits.

When I started my first martial art school, all I knew about growing a dojo was that I needed more students. So, I set about getting more students every way I knew how, and I kept adding more ways to do that as I went along.

Best-selling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace cultures to prevent everyone from falling behind. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners, and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build cultures that support constant innovation and growth.

Author and entrepreneur Bill McKendry is one of the leading authorities on nonprofit branding and marketing. In Do More Good, he provides incredible insights and tips from his over 35 years of helping nonprofit organizations expand their reach and become more effective in their communication. He shares dozens of examples and stories from his captivating career (including spending a day as a homeless man and shooting a commercial with Mother Teresa). With Bill's helpful advice and unique perspectives, you and your team will be inspired and equipped to do even more good.

All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. In order to burst through ceiling after ceiling and innovate with growth, a company must develop a reliable system that prompts leaders to be proactive and pivot when the need arises. Drawing on his experience as a successful serial entrepreneurial and speaker, author Patrick Thean demonstrates how to identify the signs of setbacks before they occur, track those signs, and make adjustments to keep your plan on track and accelerate growth.

Pork dorks. Craftsters. American Girl fans. Despite their different tastes, these eclectic diehards have a lot in common: they're obsessed about a specific brand, product, or category. They pursue their passions with fervor, and they're extremely knowledgeable about the things they love. They aren't average consumers - they're superconsumers. Although small in number, superconsumers can have an outsized impact on a company's bottom line.

Author and pastor Jared C. Wilson shows how to lead a culture shift in a church from a focus on numerical success to the metrics of grace. Leading a church culture to shift from numerical success to the metrics of grace can be costly, but leaders who have conviction, courage, and commitment can lead while avoiding some of the land mines that often destroy churches.

Durante casi tres décadas, John C. Maxwell ha estado entre las autoridades del éxito y liderazgo más solicitadas y respetadas. Este compendio de su best seller Your Roadmap for Success se enfoca en las tres cosas que crean una fórmula para el éxito. Pero existe algo que hay que ajustar: el modo en que vemos el éxito. Este no es un libro sobre personas exitosas; es un libro para personas exitosas, especialmente quienes no entiendan que ya están en el camino hacia el éxito.

Fit for Growth is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC's Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth.

When do we need vision? During times of growth, change or opportunity - so that we know we're headed in the right direction. Instead of focusing on "what's next," we need to refocus on "what's first." Getting back to the basics means knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey - having a vision. When work is meaningful and connected to what we truly desire, we tap into a productive and creative power stronger than we ever imagined.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.