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Straight-shooting author Joe Mathews delivers a practical and hands-on "how-to" guide for aspiring franchisees seeking to start their own businesses. In the book, you'll explore real-life stories from the franchising trenches that illustrate how to effectively look past the obvious and dig deep into the bones of a franchise to establish fit, predict success, and mitigate risk. You'll discover the personality types most likely to experience success and failure at franchising and identify the entrepreneurial traits that can expose you to additional risk.

The idea of starting a company has never been more popular in India. A new breed of entrepreneurs is rising in the country, inspired by home-grown heroes, driven to pursue extraordinary outcomes and supported by an ecosystem that is willing to back audacious ideas. Startup Compass offers advice on starting and growing a company, shared in a lecture series at IIM Ahmedabad and over extensive interviews by fifteen iconic Indian entrepreneurs.

Opting out of this race entirely, many are choosing to go a different route. Owning a franchise is a great option for professionals who are finally ready to stop making a living and start designing a life. Franchise ownership provides a path to create a life of financial security without the lifestyle that traditional jobs demand.

Having the ‘wrong’ staff can make your life hell. The Right Staff offers straightforward and practical steps to reduce the headaches and hardships that can be associated with hiring personnel. From the solo entrepreneur about to hire their first employee, to owners and managers of small to medium enterprises, this book is a must-listen.

Despite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today - and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions - many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights. This book introduces a model that taps the collective judgment of an organization so that the right decisions are made, and the entire organization profits.

With the Power of Love Leadership®, you can build a highly motivated team that’s fearless and motivated to collaborate, create, inspire and innovate. You’ll think more clearly, make better decisions, push morale and productivity to unimaginable levels and navigate success with compassion, confidence and care.

Wilber Winkle was called a "national treasure" by no less than TV's Larry King, and his book was dubbed the funniest in decades by American Bookseller. What does Mr. Winkle do? Without fear, he writes letters to the massive corporations responsible for popular consumer products, demanding satisfaction and complaining about even the most minor of flaws. And miraculously, the corporations answer.

If work feels like a relentless race, you’re following a route map to success that is fundamentally flawed. But there is another way—a kinder, more humane way—one that can help you achieve and contribute as much, if not more. Get There, Love Here! is your alternative route map to success.

学会找人、学会说话、学会做事，是引爆销售的三大本领，缺一不可。要做对事先要找对人，而说对话是找对人和做对事的关键……學會找人、學會說話、學會做事，是引爆銷售的三大本領，缺一不可。要做對事先要找對人，而說對話是找對人和做對事的關鍵……

In the New York Times best seller Becoming China’s Bitch, Peter Kiernan presents an unflinching manifesto in which he explores five factors that have sustained our national paralysis, then uncovers the 10 challenges that pose the greatest threat to the future of America. Presented from a fresh yet informative Centrist perspective, these ten impending catastrophes include our semi-conscious dependency on China, our lack of a centrally coordinated intelligence effort, and more.

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this. Every day, we make over 35,000 decisions in our personal and professional lives. How many of those decisions do you get right?

Based on the many thousands of loyalty solutions that TCC has designed for its partners over the course of three decades as well as the company’s extensive research into shopper behavior, this book is an invaluable, in-depth resource for retail professionals at any level who are seeking to understand the past, present and future of loyalty

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.

In this uniquely honest and ground-breaking book, entrepreneur Andrew Thornton and coach Eudora Pascall propose a better way of being in business—one that enables everyone to truly be themselves, harnesses people’s strengths and individuality, and puts people and planet first—whilst trusting that profit will still follow.

It’s a popular belief that the world of leadership is some mysterious arena where only the strong, fearless, and gifted can survive. But this isn’t necessarily true, and it’s certainly not been the experience of Organisational Psychologists Karen Meager and John McLachlan.

It doesn't matter if you're an entrepreneur, CEO, politician, campaigner, or a combination of all these things. If you're planning to listen to this book, then I'm going to call you a "media wannabe". You want results. You want PR. You want to be in the newspapers, magazines, online, basically everywhere - and fast. But PR agencies suck. They trade on fear. They tell you that you can't do it yourself. That it's too complicated. But that's all bollocks - and it's precisely why you only get to see the PR agency's MD once, right at the start.

Building a culture of purpose is one of the greatest challenges facing modern leaders, as today's best minds are looking for meaning, not just jobs. More than any other single factor, cultures of purpose power winning organizations, attracting the smartest, most creative, most passionate talent. For leaders building cultures of purpose, the commercial pursuit of sustainability provides the most reliable blueprint. While sustainability has been commonly misconstrued as a description of a set of problems, Christoph Lueneburger shows that it is really a solution to problems.

Whether it’s your first job in Japan or a plan for career transition, working in the recruitment industry can be extremely rewarding, fun, and lucrative. This guide will walk you through the ins and outs of the Japanese recruitment landscape, provide actionable tips, and set you up for success throughout the entire interview process.

Small Business, Big Vision provides inspiration and practical advice on everything from creating a one-page business plan to setting up an advisory board and also delivers a call to social entrepreneurship and sustainable business practices.

The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's attempts to create a successful business. By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his numerous entrepreneurial activities - including operating discotheques in drive-in movie theaters, working with the 1960s musical teen sensations the Cowsills, and opening an ice cream parlor on the Venice Beach boardwalk - had landed him $150,000 in debt. Raising Eyebrows tells the story of how he finally succeeded. After years of failures and living pennilessly, LaMagna finally succeed with tweezers. He started Tweezerman, one of the world's most respected, innovative and successful beauty tool manufacturers with only $500. Not only was Tweezerman a financial success but is became a model of how to operate a company responsibly.