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We've combed through the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the relevant concepts driving business today. Discover new ideas and sample the latest thinking of our vast array of management experts. Revisit these topics now to make sure your organization is incorporating the best, most up-to-date practices, or keep this book as a reference so you can turn to these memorable pieces when you need them the most.

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!

You might be interested in starting your own non-medical home care agency, but you’re overwhelmed with where you should begin. How do you begin the process of getting licensed? When should you start hiring? What else do you need to take care of before you can open? If you want to learn the ins and outs of getting this business started, and then be successful once you do open, then this audiobook is for you. Even if you don’t have experience working in this field, it doesn’t matter, you can do it!

Let these 15 leadership skills help you overcome the challenges of today so that you can lead for a better tomorrow. Stepping into the shoes of a leadership or managerial role is never easy. It’s a challenge that constantly puts you face to face with conflicts, disagreements, decisions, and people – all of which need to be brought together to work like a well-oiled machine. But the biggest challenge is the thoughts in your own mind that bring you down, especially those of the confidence-busting, imposter syndrome variety.

Managing people is one of the most demanding yet career-enhancing and rewarding skills you can have. Skills for New Managers provides you with everything you need to excel as a manager from day one. From hiring productive employees to developing mentoring, leadership, and coaching skills, this fast-paced, easy-to-understand guide is your blueprint for managing your staff to success.

Got a million-dollar idea but unsure of the next steps? Stuck in your product development journey? Confused about patents or contemplating product licensing? Curious about how storytelling can win investments? "Valuepreneurs" is your go-to audiobook for navigating these challenges and more. This comprehensive guide presents the innovative Value-Driven Product Development (VDPD) process, offering a detailed roadmap from ideation to successful product launch. It's a fusion of practical strategies and real-world insights, tailored for navigating the complex terrain of product development.

Where can you find great prospects for your network marketing business? Who are the best prospects? Where can you find groups of these prospects? And how can you attract these prospects to you and your multilevel marketing business? In this book, 51 Ways and Places to Sponsor New Distributors, you will learn the best places to find motivated people to build your team and your customer base.

If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you’ve come to the right place. In Million Dollar Launch, bestselling author and superstar consultant Alan Weiss shows you how to get your business up and running—fast! Step by step, Weiss reveals how to create a revenue-producing practice quickly and successfully—while funds last and while support systems remain passionate. This is an indispensable guide to those critical first 90 days.

While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as solely profit-driven. In fact, humans have other drives and passions, including spiritual, social, and altruistic.

In this book, you'll learn how: data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights; blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy; drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools; 3-D printing is making new business models possible; augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing; smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing; and humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity.

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World: Thriving in the New VUCA Context is the thoughtful analysis of nine expert authors from around the globe who put VUCA under the microscope and take the listener on a journey that looks at VUCA from a number of different leadership perspectives. Through their research and writing these nine authors seek to provide sense-making and insights that are combined with practical tips and frameworks to help leadership embrace this new VUCA context and learn how to thrive within it.

No fighter pilot ever flies a mission solo, and neither should you. To reach your highest potential in business and life, you can't do it alone. Regardless if you are in the cockpit of an F-16 or at the office, the need for courage, commitment, and mutual support is more critical than ever. In Never Fly Solo, former combat-decorated fighter pilot and Hall of Fame speaker Lt. Col. Rob "Waldo" Waldman shares business critical concepts for success and delivers a very human message: We all have "missiles in life" to overcome, and we can't do it alone.

This audiobook presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an evermore volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

The Art of Possible is about embracing life professionally and personally - immediately. From her experience as an executive coach at global power players, including Google, Accenture, Rio Tinto, and Barclays, to interviews with the elite in sport, using the latest in neuroscience, Kate shares the deliberate actions that will enable you to realise your potential faster and more effectively.

Target Funding is a strategic guide to funding opportunities aimed at specific types of businesses and business owners. You'll learn about all the options available to you - including conventional, alternative, and diversity funding - and how to access them based on your needs and your demographic, industry, location, and other variables.

We are in the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions ever, and it's a brave new world indeed. Who better to guide us through it than Michael Lewis, whose subversive, trenchant humor is the perfect match to his subject matter. Here is an audiobook as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, and as entertaining as its best selling predecessors.

For many nonprofit organizations, volunteers have served a vital purpose in roles ranging from administrative to facility management. With an aging population and the reality of baby boomers entering the next phase of their lives, new ways of recruiting these mature, skilled individuals as volunteers are emerging. Through his research, Dr. Jesse Bolinger presents a compelling case for how their past work experience, educational background, and mental health can play a significant role and be a tool for retaining them in areas that best suit these three basic elements.

Start your own food truck business the easy way! Do you want to start an easy business in the food industry? Are you looking for the secret to starting your own food truck? Do you have a food truck, but you don’t know what to do next? This audiobook is your how-to guide to getting started with the food truck business. It shares tips and tricks on what you need to know to get your business off the ground - and how to grow it. This helpful guide also walks you through the best ways to achieve an online presence and branding and marketing techniques that work best in this industry.

Dive into entrepreneurship with Pete Srodoski's "The Small Business Playbook—The Ultimate Beginner's Guide: Practical Steps to Become a Profitable Business Owner," an essential audiobook for new and aspiring business owners. With Charlie Brogan's engaging narration, this guide offers practical steps, strategies, and insights from Srodoski's extensive experience as a successful CEO and COO.