Growing Leadership

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company has not only survived but thrived making premium products right here in America. When everyone else was rushing for the exits, Bassett bet on the talent, dedication, and uncompromising quality of American workmanship.

Daring to Compete offers real-world strategies to accelerate the growth of your business and secure your place as a market leader. This expert guide is the result of years of comprehensive research and experience from global professional services organization EY, originator of the celebrated "Entrepreneur of the Year" program. Employing its worldwide reach and extensive network of successful entrepreneurs, EY has developed a model of sustainable business development - "The 7 Drivers of Growth."

In their effort to build the world's first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange learned a lot about building and sustaining a business while never losing sight of their mission: to serve their community by providing delicious organic food and changing the way people think about what they eat. But their story is about more than just farming. It serves as an inspirational and instructional guide for anyone looking to start a business that is successful while making a positive impact.

Trabajar en equipo es un desafío y puede ser muy alentador, ¡siempre y cuando el equipo funcione bien! Este libro, dirigido a personas que trabajan, han trabajado o esperan trabajar en equipos multiculturales, contiene vivencias de obreros latinoamericanos que han pasado por diversos malentendidos culturales. El lector podrá reconocer aspectos que pueden ocasionar problemas, divisiones e, incluso, el regreso del campo de misión.

Gupta and Wang explain how many MNCs view China and India solely from the lens of off-shoring and cost-reduction, and focusing their marketing strategies on only the top 5-10% of the population. This is a missed opportunity. China and India are the only two countries that constitute four realities that are strategically crucial for the global enterprise.

In the third book in the New York Times best-selling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, Derek's father keeps his promise to coach his son's youth baseball team. Derek is sure this will be the best season yet! He has it all planned: His dad will have him start at shortstop, and the team will cruise to a championship. But sometimes life doesn't go according to plan.

This audiobook explores this culture of psychological safety and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation. With the strategies, processes, and methods discussed in innovation prowess, leaders can build a tested and comprehensive strategy for driving organic growth year after year.

Ever wonder how you can pursue your passions while still being the best mom you can be? Debra Kasowski, entrepreneurial mom extraordinaire, shares the principles and practices, lessons and tools to growing a sustainable business that integrates relationships, family, and your authentic self. From knowing who you are and owning it, to growing and strengthening your position in the marketplace, this book helps you transform your passions into a business, and guides you in surviving the winds of change.

Growing Up Fast is a practical audiobook about how to implement an agile process in modern business to create the necessary collaboration between marketing and innovation for business success. The first half of the audiobook covers the philosophical underpinnings of complementary opposites in nature, human interaction, and the workplace.

Starting a business requires an abundance of patience, bravery, know-how, and risk, but if you have the right tools, systems, and mindset in place, the benefits outweigh the odds. Don’t let overwhelm and fear stop you. Learn how to deal with the unexpected and thrive with the step-by-step instructions and comprehensive information in The Entrepreneurial Guide today!

The challenges in operating a successful tax practice have been steadily increasing with stiff competition and new technology making it more difficult than ever to achieve profits and life balance. If you don't have today's knowledge to navigate the ever-changing tax preparation industry, you may be on the path to frustration and stagnation. Whether your dream is to make some extra money doing taxes seasonally, own a lifestyle business where your employees will run the show for you seamlessly, or to grow a multi-office tax business empire, this is the blueprint for success.

This book provides strategies and management practices tried and tested by the mob, allowing your company to thrive and beat your competition without even needing a baseball bat!

The key to being a successful CIO is making sure you have a good understanding of just exactly what a CIO does. This means you have to take a look at what CIOs do and then learn from them. In order to be a successful CIO, you may decide you need an MBA. There are a lot of different ways to go about getting this degree - which one is the right one for you?

Get Your Game F.A.C.E. On is here to help guide business owners, partners, colleagues, and suppliers to a clear understanding of how to have successful businesses and be happy at the same time. The author accomplished building many successful companies to achieve goals well beyond what she imagined, and she did it while having fun and enjoyment in watching others succeed. If you want to learn more about F.A.C.E., have a listen and feel free to reach out to the author to learn more about her company, We Guide, You Grow, LLC.

One step at a time... One week at a time... For busy leaders who don t have time. Today's leaders are busy. Yet, the most successful ones are taking a little time to think better, so they can take actions to lead better. Take the Bull by the Horns helps leaders think through a wide range of issues to help them accomplish their most important business and personal goals. It offers 52 weeks worth of leadership ideas, strategies, and insights for leaders who are motivated to grow themselves and others.

Have you ever started a business and did not sell as much or earn as much money as you wanted? Are you having a tough time getting someone to buy from you? Are you lost when it comes to figuring out what people want? Don't worry! I put together this quick, easy to understand guide about the art of marketing.

Learn the 25 keys in managing the growth of a business, including identifying your company's competitive advantage, implementing a total quality strategy, hiring a professional management team and creating a visionary growth-oriented corporate culture. Part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series.

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Starting a creative company needn't cost you everything. If you agree, then you'll find wit and wisdom in this book for creative entrepreneurs. Author, artist, and graphic designer Patricia Arnold presents her best tips for starting a handmade business with this initial volume in her Creative Entrepreneur series. After starting a decade-old business with a shoestring budget and then founding a second business six years later, Patricia Arnold has a lot to say about building creative businesses from scratch.

Have you ever thought there are many things that are not taught in schools, even though they are crucial to our children’s development? Have you wondered how to teach a mindset of abundance? A child that learns how to dream big and knows, that they are worthy of receiving the very best life has to offer, will grow up adopting an abundance mindset. What this attitude of mind will provide is the self-esteem, trust, and confidence that, as a person, you can ask for everything you wish for. Thus everything you ask for will be granted.

So just exactly what is innovation? It turns out that innovation is doing something new. It can be a new method, a new idea, or even a new product. In the world of IT, we have the ability to solve just about any problem. However, how we go about solving problems can become outdated quickly. What we need to do as CIOs is to find out how to bring the spirit of innovation into our IT departments.