Great Business

This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate - writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now, there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality.

Congratulations on deciding to start a business! Everything is going great. You're motivated, you've got an idea (or maybe not!), you've seen and read enough people starting their own small businesses, and you know you can do it, too. But there's one small problem: You've never actually started a small business before! Don't worry. It's not as difficult as it seems once you know the steps you need to take.

In a volatile and complex world roiled by a climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies like AI, hyper-individualized leadership models no longer make sense. To seize emerging opportunities and achieve sustainable growth, leaders must recognize that a team’s success flows from the intelligence, achievements, and growth of the entire collective. In Safe to Great, Skip Bowman proposes a leadership sea change that puts purpose before profit, and the team before the individual.

Here are 14 new cases by repeat customers written by award-winning author Lyn McConchie, in which the famous duo deals with blackmail, a kidnapped child, a lost gem of immense value, a missing girl, and other heinous crimes, including murder most foul - and know that for every crime investigated, there will be a Holmesian solution, of far better than seven percent!

What many people strive for today is a healthy life balance, the ability to both excel in their careers and enjoy their personal life. They seek to manage the personal experiences that can negatively impact their professional life, as well as minimize work stress that can bear down on their personal lives.

Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry.

Running workshops can be a lot of fun, bring in heaps of new leads and make for a great way to help important information sink in for clients. If you've never thought about running workshops or if you have, but come up with 100 reasons why not to, then take a spin through part one of Broni's workshop series and find out why they are such a game changer. Not sure you have the confidence or the skills to pull workshops off? Never fear, you don't need either!

Four-time New York Times best-selling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands...In this lively, practical, and inspiring audiobook, Gary dissects every current major social media platform so that anyone, from a plumber to a professional ice skater, will know exactly how to amplify his or her personal brand on each.

This is a quintessentially American story of one man's journey through his career and life. Wall Street veteran Ben Carpenter chronicles the people he met, the experiences he had, the mistakes he made, and what he learned along the way. Listeners will encounter a colorful cast of real-life characters which include Big Hank, Hoops, Sweater Girl, The Zombies, Mr. Nuts, The Cheese, Deep Throat, and The RAT.

As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. Now in Lead to Succeed, Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he discovered and has cultivated in himself, and shows listeners how they, too, can become leaders.

Are you ready to be your best self? This book contains 365 of the most motivational, influential, and inspiring quotes from the greatest minds our world has ever seen. Use the teachings of the world's most influential people to learn and improve! Take the teachings of Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Marcus Aurelius, and apply them in your own life! Take the suggestions of other greats like George Washington, Vince Lombardi, and Steve Jobs to grow. However you choose to use this book, be great!

There are many books on the subject of productivity full of hacks to help you squeeze more into the time you have. That is not the purpose of this book. Instead of relying on tricks and hacks that may or may not last. Daily Momentum will show you how to almost effortlessly weave a few simple yet powerful activities into your morning and evening that will transform your personal and professional life and help you create the space to shift from good to great.

Baruch Spinoza was one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the 17th century. He rejected both the mind-body dualism of Descartes and traditional religious views, which got him violently attacked for atheism while he was actually seeking to redefine God as the whole of the laws of Nature. His metaphysics are a brilliant attempt to reconcile human freedom with a belief in scientific explanation, and his Theological-Political Treatise, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking.

Are you struggling to create a sales pitch that really resonates with your audience? Look no further than "Top Ten Things to Consider for a Great Sales Pitch"! This ultimate guide will take you through the ten most important steps to creating a sales pitch that will grab your target audience's attention and convince them to buy your book.

Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, Jim Collins posits that most American entities (from the federal government and multinational corporations all the way down to individuals) are hindered by being good, and thus not rising to being great.

Becoming a great leader is about serving others. This book captures the essence of developing the modern leadership qualities that matter the most as you influence others to reach their highest potential. Find your path to a lifetime of influence and success by becoming a great leader.

Si eres un gran vendedor, si tienes experiencia en ventas, si nunca has vendido, si te encanta vender o incluso si no te gusta, este libro es para ti, porque lo práctico y lo fácil es para todos. En este libro encontrarás las 50 preguntas o problemas más comunes de las ventas, esas que a todos los vendedores les pasa en algún momento de su carrera por el mundo de los negocios. Las respuestas que ofrecen a los problemas son soluciones que quizá jamás te hubieras imaginado, sin embargo, te retan a que las pongas en práctica y compruebes sus resultados por ti mismo.

My Great Aunt Edna is a leadership platform that stands for "excellence, doing things the right way, no shortcuts, and accountability." Mac McNeil discusses metaphorical and anecdotal stories from his own leadership and life journey, with organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Synchrony, and The Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, as well as the inclusion of wisdom nugget contributions from several other top leaders!

Social media is growing at an exponential rate and is quickly becoming the best and cheapest way for businesses to advertise on. Reaching potential customers through social media sites is fairly straightforward, and you don’t need a marketing degree to learn how. As of 2018, there are an estimated 2.46 billion social media users around the world distributed across sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and even YouTube. With such a wide potential market, it would be foolish not to tap into this new segment!

If you lead, manage or influence a B2B sales organization of any kind, let this be a long overdue wake-up call: the time to grow and develop women and underrepresented sales professionals is now. The question is, will your organization be ahead of the curve or get left behind? For well over three decades, Lori Richardson has been selling, running a sales strategy firm, speaking, watching sales trends, and now helping to influence them.