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A breakthrough for business owners and entrepreneurs of small to large businesses and companies looking to achieve more success, Fire Someone Today is a book about what to do, what not to do, and why. Whether you are a young company that's just starting out or a mature business looking to grow, business entrepreneur Bob Pritchett gives hands-on advice and practical examples that are a must-listen for every manager, business owner, and entrepreneur.

Talent and intellect are undoubtedly valuable assets, and luck may have played a role as well. However, today's successful people have mastered the skill of creating and then attaining goals. The good news is that the capacity to behave intentionally and achieve your goals can be learned. Patrick Drechsler explains how in this book. In a method that has been tried and proven many times, he leads listeners on an exhilarating trip in four phases, at the conclusion of which they may finally fulfill their own goals.

Part of a series to cover the range of business functions in a typical MBA course, Total Quality Management: Strategic Planning teaches how to integrate strategic quality and business planning to create one tactical process for your entire business. Developed by two leading quality control experts, this well-researched, step-by-step guide helps your company successfully transition from traditional management to total quality management.

Are you ready to transform your business ideas into actionable results? Do you want to unlock the secrets of visionary leadership and drive your organization toward unprecedented success? In Turn Vision Into Reality, bestselling author and leadership expert Chris Moore presents a practical, step-by-step guide to aligning your vision with strategic execution, building high-performance teams, and achieving breakthrough results.

Gigatrends offers a roadmap for navigating six of the most disruptive trends shaping the future. Humanity stands at the precipice of a remarkable new era in global history filled with both immense opportunities and daunting challenges. Gigatrends examines how six disruptive trends can be harnessed to create new social, economic, and organizational solutions that will usher in the promise of a human-centered future for billions of people.

Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, reveals, how natural patterns underlie data patterns that may dictate life or death, success, or failure. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond.

Fun is something you have to earn, right? You work hard, and then maybe once a year you get to enjoy yourself on a vacation. And after a lifetime of this you retire and finally do what you want. Dynamic speaker and consultant Dave Crenshaw calls this the culture of WISH: you slave away and hope it will be Worth It Someday, Hopefully. And it's all wrong.

With this guide, you can produce your own professional business plan without hiring a consultant. This is a fast, quick, and proven method of creating a business plan that will allow you to (i) approach potential investors, or (ii) show to stakeholders of the business - employees, banks, shareholders, etc.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à choisir ses priorités et à gérer les deadlines. Votre travail vous submerge et vous ne savez plus où donner de la tête ? Même après une journée de huit heures, vous n'avez pas réussi à boucler vos dossiers et vous les ramenez chez vous pour être certain d'honorer les deadlines. Le week-end, vous ne pensez qu'à la pile de dossiers qui vous attend sur votre bureau. Si de telles situations peuvent sembler aujourd'hui banales, prêtez attention à ce phénomène sournois, car il puise sans retenue dans votre énergie et met à mal votre motivation.

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.

In a world where change is the only constant, leadership demands courage and clarity. Every organization faces pivotal moments that can either blur their vision or strengthen their resolve. Through insightful storytelling, engaging illustrations, and practical exercises, Bolsinger helps you cut through the noise to hone in on what truly matters—your mission. The Mission Always Wins isn't just about theory; it's packed with real-life case studies and actionable advice, so you can foster alignment and purpose within your team.

Our world is constantly buffeted by new and dramatic changes we can't fully grasp. No one is fully prepared for the challenges, crises, and risks that lie ahead. The Extreme Future is a blueprint for what's next and how to navigate these changes.

Strategy decision making and action used to be off limits to all but the select few at the very top of an organization. It was a largely cerebral activity focused on grand long-terms plans made at annual off-site retreats away from the daily challenges of the business. That is no longer the case. The current business environment does not wait for companies to slowly adjust in an annual meeting. The relentless pace of change renders today's long-term future tomorrow's history. Does this mean strategy is no longer useful, or even feasible? No. Good strategists are needed now more than ever.

This options trading book will help you learn how to take advantage of options and provide you with the technical knowledge required to become a trading expert. This is the best moment ever to start investing and if you're listening to this, you're probably interested in getting into stock trading, right? Well, probably you've seen all those videos with the so-called "stock market gurus" and spent countless hours looking for a credible source of high-probability trading strategies on the internet.

From the bestselling author of The Roaring 2000s and The Great Depression Ahead comes a work that looks forward, showing listeners how to weather the storm in this new economy that is going to get much worse in the years ahead.

In his most recent New York Times best-selling work, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent predicted the debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of the government’s failed stimulus plan. Dent’s investment advice sees no place to hide....

In 2017, when she was only twenty-two, Lauren Simmons became the youngest full-time female trader at the New York Stock Exchange, and the second African American woman in the Exchange's 228-year history to hold such a position. Driven by a passion for empowering women, Millennials, Gen Zs, and minorities to become more financially savvy, she now shares her experience and knowledge in this savvy financial guide. Simmons brings a fresh perspective to personal finance.

Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI’s pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patterns. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively.

The author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade’s leaders. The next 10 years will be a time of massive transition. In The Next Decade, George Friedman offers listeners a pro­vocative and endlessly fascinating prognosis for the immedi­ate future.

Two leaders in transformation and customer success deliver an inspiring and exciting new approach to succeeding in an increasingly decentralized and digital-first world. In the book, you'll learn how to demolish organizational silos once and for all, allowing resources to flow across networks, ecosystems, and communities. The authors explain the seven principles underlying their unique and effective "Boundless" paradigm: connection, integration, decentralization, mobility, continuity, autonomy, and shared success.