Small Business Development

Unlock the secrets to sustainable business growth with "The Momentum Framework". This groundbreaking blueprint provides a step-by-step roadmap for entrepreneurs and business leaders who want to dominate their markets, even in challenging economic times. Built on Wayne's decades of real-world experience turning around and rapidly scaling companies across diverse industries, this book distils proven strategies into an actionable framework. You'll learn how to construct a rock-solid foundation for your business, enabling rapid yet sustainable growth without the risks of overexpansion.

Good communication with colleagues and clients is an important aspect of doing business successfully. But if you're only talking to your associates, you're missing out on half the story and leaving money on the table. Start with Hello reveals how the most successful businesspeople and leaders share an overlooked and underappreciated talent - the ability to engage and communicate with strangers in productive, creative ways.

As a father of two and serial entrepreneur, Jeff Lopes has mastered the art of work-life balance. In Entrepreneur Dad, he lays out how to achieve this balance with time-tested methods for prioritization, strategizing, scheduling, and making memories along the way.

Through the various examples highlighted in this book, Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Mashelkar emphasize that searching for growth opportunities within an offering's existing industry usually results in incremental improvement, whereas exponential improvement can be achieved by drawing parallels from outside of the current context. This book will inspire leaders to look outward and find parallels, keeping in mind that 'obvious' comparisons can, at best, lead to improvement, whereas 'unexpected' ones can lead to exponential improvement and perpetuate a legacy of innovation.

Frank Altman, a legendary figure in the Community Development Finance industry, offers a systematic argument for why and how American capitalism can be extended to people from every walk of life, including those from low-income census tracks. He explores the history and cultural realities that have created an unequal financial playing field, particularly for BIPOC communities and how innovative approaches can create sound investment devices and exponential growth in minority and women-owned businesses and increase levels of home ownership.

★私たちが“群れ”で働く意味は、どこにあるんだろう──？【各氏大絶賛!!】◎入山章栄氏（早稲田大学大学院教授）「すばらしい！日本中の経営者が読むべきだ。

Como inovar? Por onde começar? Como montar uma boa equipe? Que forma terá uma ideia quando for colocada em prática? São muitas as perguntas que martelam na cabeça de quem precisa tirar ideias do papel, mas já existe um caminho infalível para responder a todas elas rapidamente: o sprint. Método criado pelo designer Jake Knapp no período em que ele trabalhava no Google, era usado para tudo na empresa, do aperfeiçoamento do mecanismo de buscas ao Google Hangouts, com o foco em desenvolver e testar ideias em apenas cinco dias.

Magic Eight Activity Flipper is full of boredom-busting activities and business ideas. This book can be used as a tool to combat boredom. It's like having a fun giant Magic Eight Ball at your finger tips. If you run into something you've already done, simply flip listen to the audio, and try again.

Your brand is the stories people share about you when you're not in the room, and it's these brand stories that determine if people buy from you, employ you, work for you, or invest in you. When the stakes are that high, wouldn't you want to take control of it? In Magnetic Stories, business storytelling expert Gabrielle Dolan reveals how you, too, can create and share stories that stick.

En los últimos años, la sensación de crisis permanente ha potenciado la atención en la salud mental dentro de las organizaciones. Fenómenos como renunciar a los puestos de trabajo (la gran dimisión), trabajar solo lo necesario (quiet quitting), desaparecer en el trabajo (ghosting laboral) o el absentismo sabático solo se pueden explicar por factores psico-lógicos. Por tanto, es esencial que los empresarios y directivos tomen conciencia de esta situación.

670万部の「学習」「科学」を失った学研は、いかにして危機を克服したのか。M&Aを活かした事業創造の最高の教科書。

In Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Business Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World, a team of Silicon Valley thought leaders delivers a groundbreaking discussion of how to find the right opportunities in this fast-moving universe.

The Bridge to Excellence is not just a means of getting your organization from the beginning to the end of a particular journey. It is the organization and every organization has a Bridge, whether utilized or not. Does your Bridge take your organization across the roiling rivers of competition, technological change, evolving customer preferences, workforce changes, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, regulation, and more? Does it carry you over all of this to the goal of Sustainable Excellence, or does it take you somewhere else?

元ＮＥＣの伝説的な技術者であり開発・製造の第一人者がまとめた、半導体産業の入門書。複雑な産業構造と関連企業を半導体の製造工程にそって網羅的に解説。

For the ambitious mother who dreams of starting her own business while juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life, this book was written for you. Marisa Volpe Lonic, mom of four and former corporate executive turned entrepreneur, shares practical tips and advice on turning your side hustle into your main hustle, vulnerable stories of the entrepreneurial journey, and the undeniable chaos of what it’s like to birth businesses and babies simultaneously.

Change happens when people with a collaborative and ecosystem mindset are plugged into the right networks. This book discusses seven mindset principles enabling the listener to thrive in the startup and multi-stakeholder economy by building and growing networks of ideas and knowledge, networks of resources such as capital and infrastructure, and networks of people to join your mission.

Purpose, Passion, and Pajamas is the story of Genevieve Piturro’s triumphant leap off the corporate ladder to find her life’s true calling. What started with a simple question from a little girl led Genevieve to conceive and build the nonprofit Pajama Program in 2001, resulting in a featured appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show and an awe-inspiring display of compassion throughout the US and beyond. Today, Pajama Program has distributed over seven million pairs of pajamas, opened 63 chapters across the US, and established reading centers for children.

Cansada de se dividir entre o trabalho e a família, Romi Neustadt abandonou sua carreira e decidiu investir no marketing de rede. Em menos de três anos, conquistou a liberdade que desejava para organizar sua vida, além de uma remuneração bem maior do que esperava. Neste livro, ela ensina como adotar uma mentalidade positiva, deixando para trás as crenças limitantes e as desculpas que atrapalham nosso desenvolvimento.

Two facts to consider. There are over 500,000 brands in 2,000 categories worldwide. And nearly fifty million Americans left their jobs in 2021 alone. Realizing all this underscores how challenging, critical, and rare a brand is to be valued and loved by not only its customers but its employees as well. According to Barry LaBov, it comes down to just one word: Differentiation. LaBov, author of dozens of books including The Power of Differentiation, is founder of LABOV Marketing, Communications and Training.

If you’re like most women, you're still climbing out of a hole created by the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. If that's not enough angst to deal with, your boss wants it yesterday, your kids want it today, and your spouse wants it tonight. We also face an onslaught of time-sucking distractions: the Internet, email following you everywhere, Facebook, Twitter, texting, and virtual relationships - all competing with our ability to accomplish Big Things in our lives.