Small Business Leadership

It's a competitive world out there, and running your own small business is far more difficult than most people think. Pocket Guide to Small Business Success is aimed at anyone thinking of starting their own company, those who have recently started one, and the owners of established businesses that have stagnated and are feeling stuck in a rut.

If you want to cook a delicious soup, you start with the best ingredients. The pot you cook the soup in won’t affect the outcome very much. Many coaches hope that things like a Facebook group, YouTube channel, or Funnel are the answer to growing their businesses when, in fact, these are the equivalent of a pot in a kitchen. They are helpful tools, but they don’t work on their own. You must combine them with the best ingredients. Nail Your Niche is about finding your ingredients, so you can use them with your tool of choice to build a successful online coaching business.

No matter what you want to achieve in life, the secret to doing it is passion. For people to be happy, they need to find meaning in what they do and in the roles they play in their lives, careers, and communities. But it's not always easy to find our passions. Author Keith Abraham tells you how to ignite the passion in your life, as well as in the lives of your colleagues, employees, and associates. He includes in-depth research, easy-to-understand concepts, and inspirational stories to teach you how to find out what's meaningful to you and pursue it with passion and energy.

In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.

Do you remember the class in high school where they taught you how to find, interview, and hire great employees? Or was it in college? What class was it again? Oh yeah, no one teaches you how to hire. On top of that, the only books on hiring I could find were written for large businesses with thousands of employees about hiring executives. This audiobook is for 90 percent of small business owners out there wanting to hire 1-20 employees. You can hire high achievers and let your competitors have low achievers.

If you have finally had enough of the constant cash flow struggle and you are ready to make a change, Profit First for Tradies will guide you. Katie Crismale- Marshall has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First method and customised it to meet the specific needs of Australian tradies.

Raegan Moya-Jones never thought of herself as an entrepreneur. She was full-time corporate cog in her 30s, with a family to help support. Sick of her micromanaging boss, she quietly started a company in the wee hours of the morning while her daughters were asleep - and once that side business, aden + anais, hit the $1 million mark in revenue, she quit to work on it full-time, which now generates over $100 million a year in revenue.

Kevin Harrington, one of the original "sharks" of the TV hit Shark Tank, and serial entrepreneur Mark Timm take you on a journey that radically redefines what it means to truly succeed - at work, at home, and in every area of life.

Companies stumble when they imagine that innovation is mostly about ideas. The reality is that ideas are only beginnings. Indeed, even a company with the world’s best idea still faces a devilish challenge: it must build the business of tomorrow without endangering the business of today. Beyond the Idea is an essential book for any business that recognizes that innovation always has been, and always will be, the key to long term growth and vitality.

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that is responsible for driving the success of several organizations not just in Japan, but across the world. It explores simple, actionable, yet highly effective ideas that have the power to transform the destiny of your start-up. If you want to use the Japanese philosophy that is powering the results of several organizations all over the world, click on the “Buy Now” button to get your copy today!

The entrepreneurial path is full of excitement and risk. The stakes are high, and while it may seem like the sky is the limit, there are no guarantees. Businesses are prone to steep financial and tax challenges. Failure to address these issues could lead to drained accounts, mountains of debt, and doors closing. Mitigating these risks and maximizing services that lead to smart business decisions have the potential to do more than help an entrepreneur sleep at night; they can lay out a solid direction for both the company and the entrepreneur.

Today, driving innovation from within an organization is the single most important factor for a company's success. In Disrupt-It-Yourself, Simone Ahuja delivers a clear and practical playbook for harnessing and cultivating this essential practice of "intrapreneurship". Based on hundreds of interviews as well as on her consulting work in Fortune 500 companies, Ahuja describes the competencies of successful intrapreneurs and how they must be supported - before they leave.

Lean Six Sigma is a technique for process improvement designed to eliminate challenges, remove waste and inefficiency, and improve working conditions to better respond to customer needs. It integrates the Lean and Six Sigma techniques, processes, and concepts into one popular and powerful approach to improve the operations of your company.

Despite being more connected than ever before, many are also more isolated. The tools and technology available today have pushed business owners, entrepreneurs, and motivated professionals toward shallow, surface-level engagement, robbing them of connections, opportunities, profits, and fulfillment. In Save Your Asks, best-selling author Chris Tuff shares his transformative approach to building genuine, productive business relationships.

According to Steve Jobs, "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." The rise of digital technology in business has made this statement truer now more than ever. Today, businesses can be created, marketed, and ready to interact with customers in the blink of an eye, with nothing more than an internet connection! This accelerated pace of business is wreaking havoc on companies that are "too big to fail", sometimes in a matter of months.

Almost every major company today has made innovation its number one priority. Yet fewer than one in four executives believe their organizations are effective innovators. The pressure to innovate and the price paid for failure keeps rising while most companies haven't progressed at all. They are still using the same antiquated techniques pioneered decades ago. This is why some of the biggest corporations in the world manage to lose entire markets to start-ups they've never heard of.

Why do some companies consistently win in the consumer and capital markets while others struggle from crisis to crisis?The answer, says Noel Tichy, is that winning companies possess a "Leadership Engine" - a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level. To get ahead and stay ahead, a company needs agile, flexible, innovative leaders who can anticipate change and turn on a dime. Fortunately, says Tichy, just as everyone has untapped athletic potential, everyone has untapped leadership potential that can be developed.

Small business and legal expert Cliff Ennico has followed the equity crowdfunding story since its inception. Now, in The Crowdfunding Handbook, he explains the JOBS Act and translates the regulations into a clear set of do's and don'ts for entrepreneurs and small-business owners looking to get in early - and do things right.

Jay Steinfeld, founder and CEO of Blinds.com (acquired by Home Depot), never planned to create the biggest online window blinds retailer in the world. Against all odds to succeed, Steinfeld's journey in business included failed acquisitions, partnerships gone wrong, perpetual self-doubt, deaths in his family, corporate buy-outs, brutal market competition, and a complete disruption of industry leaders, including Amazon and big-box retailers. To build something meaningful like Steinfeld, you need to do more than dream about it. You need to Lead from the Core.

Six Disciplines Leadership Centers are dedicated to helping small businesses achieve and sustain success. Six Disciplines for Excellence provides six fundamental business principles that are specifically designed to help small businesses move beyond momentary success to attain enduring excellence. This audiobook is not for those who are looking for a quick fix. Six Disciplines for Excellence is a long-term fitness program, not a fad diet.