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Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave.

Funding falls apart. A similar product is unveiled by a more established company. A key employee jumps ship to work for a competitor. These are the unexpected obstacles that derail even the most promising new ventures. Entrepreneurs determined to keep up with today's constantly changing business environment need to stay nimble enough to shift their strategies, products, and services on a dime. Yet many fail to master this essential new mind-set: agility.

Smartphones have opened up a new world of money-making opportunities. One of them is the on-demand food delivery driver. This book explains how to quickly get started in this fun and profitable business and provides helpful tips for success.

We cover my top nine rules for becoming an affiliate marketer, plus the three crucial tools every affiliate marketer should have in their toolbox. I'll also dispel some affiliate myths and pass along some words of wisdom for folks just getting started with affiliate programs.

In today's economy everyone seems to be focused on survival and talking about scarcity. But the answer to our problems never existed in the world around us. The solutions reside within ourselves. And in the case of our individual economic futures, it depends upon self-honesty and the ability to cultivate our own unique abilities.

Are you tired of listening and reading the same old self-help and motivation books that only provide exaggerated claims? Don’t you think it is ideal to get the information you need in one sitting through a compact listening on practical advice, facing failures, overcoming roadblocks, and real world success stories? Then Course Correct: Lessons, Principles & Strategies from Smart People Like You Who Transformed Failure into Success has exactly what you need to realize your greatest breakthroughs and most triumphant successes.

Neal Burgess, a semi-retired, middle-aged computer analyst from California, had just cashed in from a start-up company he helped bring to life. He bought the sailboat of his dreams and was enjoying his new liveaboard lifestyle in a small marina in southern Alabama, intending to just kick back, relax, do some writing, and focus on his zen practice. Life there was idyllic and blissfully uneventful until the day he met Cap'n Billy, a prototypical, down-home good ol' boy who operated a small shrimping trawler along the inland waterways that lined the Gulf.

Before you start your business, before you spend a dime on marketing or hire another brand strategist, you need to consider something: You don’t have a brand. Everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to seasoned business titans believes in the power of branding. But the truth is, most businesses, nonprofits, charities, and social movements aren’t brands. They are tattoos. Unlike market-driven brands, tattoos are mission-driven. And if you have a tattoo, approaching marketing from a brand mindset will prove–inevitably–unsuccessful.

The Art of a Happy Exit helps entrepreneurs get prepared for all that selling their business entails. The book covers not just the Outside game-positioning, prospecting, finding professional partners, negotiating, structuring, and executing, but the critical Inside game-the mental and emotional preparation needed even while retaining customers, employees, and the business.

The guidelines and ideas in this audiobook are a result of my extensive project management experience. I have successfully managed, implemented, and delivered countless projects, including complex global infrastructure-based projects. I am proud to say that I have been at the coalface of project management, and now I want to impart my wealth of knowledge to you, the listener of this audiobook, looking to seek useful and practical help in the realm of project management.

Have you been looking for a way to start a successful online business? Do you dream of leaving your nine-to-five job so you can be your own boss? Would you like to have a position that can give you the financial freedom you've dreamed of? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program may be what you're looking for. In this book, you'll find out all the basic questions you have about using this unique program.

Researchers have shown studies indicating the type of leadership needed to foster an intrapreneurial environment for success. However, no book until now has been focused on the making of an intrapreneur, not creating just the environment for growth but the actual skills needed and how to develop them in the individual. This book goes beyond the superficial and explores the currently accepted identifiable skills than have been observed through peer-reviewed data.