Career Planning

Event planning business start-up. Are your friends and family always looking for you to plan the perfect party? Are you detail-oriented? Do you thrive on knowing what’s going on and making it happen? Do you take pride in providing the best experience for your guests? You should become an event planner! You can start an event planning business from home with little startup funds. Yes, you really can! This audiobook shows you exactly how to do just that, step-by-step, even if you have little to no business experience.

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspan embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better.

The circularity principle is present in all aspects of life, from physics to food chains. With the pressing issue of climate change and environmental degradation, a circular economy presents a solution that can balance economic growth and sustainability by minimizing waste production and conserving finite resources.

The vast majority of real estate agents would list and sell more houses if they followed an effective real estate business plan. In this easy-to-follow audiobook, 30-year veteran real estate broker Matt Williams will show you how to harness your needs and wants and couple them with your skills and energy to produce better results. Step-by-step, you will learn how to quantify your needs and wants and then translate them into your individual production goals.

Discover the secrets to graduating from high school without taking on crushing student debt and launching into a flourishing career! In this information-packed guidebook, you'll learn how to access valuable training and practical experience without having to enter the working world in Major College Debt.

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Investing Mastery is a book primarily written to help you navigate your way through NFT investing. The book explores the basics of NFTs and how to make, buy, sell, trade, and invest in NFT crypto. Because of the complexity of crypto and qn NFT investment, this guide to Non-Fungible Token has been specifically designed to serve the investment needs of both beginners and pros. So, whichever category you fall into, you don’t have to sweat over it, as this book is well-simplified to lead you through your NFT investment journey.

In The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields - psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing executives - failed to register the power of narrative. Scientists thought stories were frivolous. Economists were knee-deep in theory. Marketers just wanted to cut to the sales pitch. Yet stories, not reasoning, are the key to persuasion.

In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, best-selling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt. Will this be an age of prosperity or of calamity?

Imagine if you could be a fly on the wall as a family enterprise becomes one of the most successful companies in the world. The Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today.

Are you a small-business owner, student, or a senior manager in another discipline who needs to brush up on financial concepts? If so, this audiobook will explain finance simply and with plenty of real-life examples that make it easy to see how to apply the concepts in practice. This audiobook is also concentrated on explaining what the financial figures mean and how to figure out the message they are sending, rather than on how to construct a balance sheet or do an audit.

For more than 25 years, Charles Schwab has been passionate about demystifying investing. In a user-friendly style, You're Fifty - Now What? offers a mix of clear and workable advice about how to accumulate and grow your money.

When the global pandemic hit, older workers fortunate enough to retain their jobs once again had to navigate enormous upheaval, virtually overnight. Working from home, often in isolation, over-fifties found themselves facing daunting technological and social challenges. If this scenario is all too familiar, In Control at 50+ shows how to make the new normal work for you. Kerry Hannon, a workplace futurist and renowned expert on business, careers, and personal finance, combines all her insights and skills to help you actively shape your work future into what you want it to be.

Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening future - eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. Wadhwa says that we need to ask three questions about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence?

You’re about to make an excellent choice! Geocosmic cycles don’t just affect individuals, they also affect nations, their politics, and stock markets. And that means understanding these cycles is the first step towards taking control of your wealth.

Are you trying to start a business, and not sure how to write a business plan? This audiobook will teach you how to create a winning business plan! So what are you waiting for? Get this audiobook now, and start creating a great business plan for your business today.

Business leaders are continually told they need to embrace digital disruption wholeheartedly to thrive in the 21st century. Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. False! Nothing in life or business is ever that simple.

With a combination of practical tips, inspiring stories, and interactive exercises, just sit back, enjoy the learning, and make a difference as you are inspired to do one action better based upon this program. Start planning today!

What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Drawing upon real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.

In this expanded second edition, The Zig Zag Principle continues to offer a proven strategy for achieving business goals through strategic flexibility and resourceful planning. Building on the original's foundational concepts—assessing resources, adapting to change, and leveraging multiple opportunities—this edition integrates contemporary insights and real-world examples, including a fresh look at the impact of artificial intelligence.

This guide is a comforting resource for you as a parent or grandparent, written primarily for the young adult for whom you will share this thought-provoking guide. By following the guide's approach, your young adult will better understand their interests, values, and skills, which will help them make more informed decisions about their education, career, and life planning.