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By learning from both the mistakes and achievements of those before us, we can better craft our own approach to success. Award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents listeners with a detailed guide to success through his interviews and analysis of billion-dollar entrepreneurs (those who built a venture from startup to more than one billion dollars in sales and valuation) and 100-million-dollar entrepreneurs (start-up to $100 million).

Whether you are just beginning your career or have been selling for many years at an advanced level, the Mastery of Selling demystifies the sales process to help you accomplish sales mastery. World-renowned new home sales coach Roland Nairnsey shares his proven techniques, honed from his decades of new home success and coaching.

Did you know that most financial advisors - in fact over 80 percent - have no written succession or continuity plan? It’s wild, but true, and The Zen of Business Acquisitions is the answer to a growing concern for more financial preparedness. As the financial advisors of the Baby Boomer generation edge closer to their own retirement, there has been an unprecedented wave of sales, mergers, and acquisitions. This increased surge in activity has created a great deal of valuable insight into the rules for success inside this industry, but it has also muddied the waters.

Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of "Makers" using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent.

The number-one international best-selling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding risk and how we can reexamine and reshape our relationship with uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives.

Sometimes the events that seem pivotal are just blips, while the more meaningful cultural shifts are hiding in plain sight. Marian Salzman’s job is to uncover those hidden shifts. So what’s in store for the next two decades? In this acutely observed guide, Salzman, whose past predictions have been heralded for coming uncannily close to the way we live now, unpacks the course of human life from the bumpy turn of the millennium through the pandemic era.

Are you ready to take your outbound sales game to the next level? Look no further than the Justin Michael Method 2.0. This advanced outbound system is your ticket to driving unparalleled growth in your sales pipeline.

What will it take to achieve gender equality in our lifetime? This is the question that kicks off a curious and winding learning journey in How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen Devine-Ahl explores inspiring stories, cautionary tales, and takeaway lessons from around the world on what it will take to build a more gender-balanced future, and in doing so, quickly learns that empowering women empowers humanity. How to Make the Matriarchy is more than a rallying cry; it is a hymn of hope.

Unlock the secrets to skyrocketing your business success with an unparalleled online presence! Are you a new entrepreneur eager to make a mark? Are you overwhelmed by the digital maze and unclear where to start? Look no further. "How To Build An Online Presence For Your New Business: The Quick & Easy Way" is your ultimate guide to navigating the intricate world of online branding and digital marketing efficiently and effectively.

What does it take to become successful? For Jay Parrish, it means having an uncompromising dream to do what he loves and make something of himself using the skills he’s crafted. His father is uncompromising, as well, believing that success comes from one specific path: go to college, get a degree, get a good job.

In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing human labor. It's not just factory jobs - automated technologies are handling people's investments, diagnosing illnesses, and analyzing written documents. If we humans are going to endure, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dose of humility. We need to be humble enough to let go of the idea that "smart" means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest mistakes. Smart machines will always be better than we are at those things.

Veteran venture capitalist Randy Komisar and finance executive Jantoon Reigersman share no-nonsense, counterintuitive guidelines to help anyone build a successful startup. Over the course of their careers, Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship. But, as Komisar and Reigersman show, you can beat the odds if you quickly learn what insiders know about what it takes to build a healthy foundation for a thriving venture.

In Wisdom Beyond What You Know: How to Shift from Being Driven by the Mind to Living from the Heart and Intuition, Ulrika Sullivan presents seven essential, realistic, and actionable inner shifts to connect you to the universal wisdom of your true self. She invites you to expand beyond the re-run patterns of the mind and shift into heart-centered living.

UnSelling is about everything but the sell. We put all of our focus on the individual purchase transaction, while putting the rest of our business actions second. We've become blind to customer service, support, branding, experiences, and even product quality. Sixty percent of a purchasing decision is made before a customer even contacts you. We have funnel vision, and it needs to stop. UnSelling is about the big picture: creating repeat customers, not one-time buyers. Create loyal clients that refer others, not faceless numbers.

Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.

Launch Your Life to the Next Level is a beacon of light for those who are keen to make a steady, sure and successful rise in life. Using efficient tools listed in the book, these life-goals can be achieved with ease.

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.

Our food system is undergoing a total transformation that impacts how we produce, get, and consume our food. Market researcher and bestselling author Paco Underhill—hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a Sherlock Holmes for retailers”—reveals where our eating and drinking lives are heading in his “delectable” (Michael Gross, New York Times bestselling author of 740 Park) book, How We Eat.

This audiobook presents a practical approach to help those in employment who are considering starting a business, along with the personal challenges they need to overcome and how to create a route to success. My goal is that as you listen to the content, it will spark the desire to build with the right foundation, so that the storms of life will not erode your dream of owning and running a successful enterprise!

This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.