LEAD Your Best LIFE NOW!
LEAD Your Best Life Now! At Work In Life With Heart is a practical and inspiring guide to leadership from the inside out. It begins with self-awareness-understanding your strengths, patterns, and purpose-and expands into the everyday practices that help leaders show up with clarity, courage, and care. Blending research, reflection, and real-world stories from education, healthcare, business, and mission-driven organizations, this book offers a grounded roadmap for leading with intention in complex, fast-paced environments. Readers will explore how to cultivate personal strengths and energy, build trust, and strengthen relationships through clear, actionable frameworks. Each chapter combines insight with practice, helping leaders turn ideas into habits that shape team dynamics, improve communication, and create cultures where people feel valued and supported. At its core, LEAD Your Best Life Now! reframes leadership as a daily practice-built through steady choices, meaningful conversations, and behaviors that model integrity and respect. Through stories and guided reflection, readers learn how to navigate difficult moments, engage in conversations that matter, influence systems with purpose, and create conditions where individuals and teams can thrive. This book is a reminder that leadership is not about position or perfection-it's about presence. When we lead ourselves well, we lead others better. And when we act with intention, we create ripple effects that extend far beyond the workplace-into our relationships, our communities, and our lives.
The Failing Logic of Money
There is a viable alternate to our money based economy and only now, with the technology and knowledge we have, we can sweep away the terrible problems of the world, by dealing with the cause.
Breakthrough
The research system has changed. Will you change with it?For decades, researchers have been shaped by a research system built on hierarchy, grant cycles and slow, incremental progress. Publish papers, secure funding and move steadily up the academic ladder. For a long time that system worked well enough.Today the landscape is shifting. Researchers everywhere are feeling the pressure. Opportunities are shrinking, funding feels more competitive, institutions are struggling to keep pace and industrial philanthropy and global investors are increasingly shaping the direction of discovery. Many researchers are beginning to sense that the rules they were trained to follow no longer match the world they now work in.That feeling isn't imagined.Breakthrough reveals what's really happening beneath the surface of the research economy. It explains why so many talented researchers feel stuck, under-funded and unable to gain traction with their work. Drawing on stories and experiences of real researchers, and his own experience across medical research, venture capital, philanthropy and innovation ecosystems, Dougal introduces readers to another system - one that's shaped not only by discovery, but also by translation, collaboration and real-world impact.Through powerful stories of researchers navigating this changing environment, Breakthrough shows researchers how they can move their work beyond the laboratory and into the world, by connecting their project to real needs and building momentum beyond traditional academic and institutional structures. It's a guide to working differently so your work can create finally create the impact you're striving for.Inside Breakthrough you'll discover: Why the research system you were trained for no longer matches the world you work inHow to recognise the signals of systemic change and position yourself ahead of themPractical frameworks to design pathways to collaboration, uptake and impactHow to move from surviving within outdated structures to shaping the future research landscapeNo matter where you are in your career as a researcher, Breakthrough gives the pathway and the permission to chart your own course towards real traction and impact.The future of research is already here. Now it's time to learn how to thrive in it.
What to Say
You know you should be asking for major gifts. You believe in the mission. You've done the cultivation. And then you get to the moment that matters and you freeze.What to Say gives you the exact words.Written by major gift expert Mary Petersen who has closed gifts up to nine figures and coached hundreds of fundraisers to do the same this book hands you 12 proven ask scripts for the most important, most feared moments in major gift fundraising. Not theory. Not frameworks. The actual sentences.Inside, you'll find language for: Making your first major gift ask with confidenceAsking for a specific, ambitious amount without apologizing for itNavigating hesitation, silence, and "I need to think about it"Re-engaging a lapsed donor who has gone quietAsking for a planned gift, a multi-year commitment, and moreWhether you're a seasoned fundraiser who freezes at the ask or a new development director trying to find your footing, What to Say will change the way you walk into donor meetings forever.The words are right here. Now go use them.
Organization Culture Killers, Deadly Expectations 1
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results. We have fallen into a pattern where we repeat the mistakes others made in the past, but have we asked ourselves, why are we making the same mistakes? The answer is lack of leadership development.Much like a strong foundation is critical to the stability of any physical structure, organizations must build foundations capable of bearing the weight of growth and pressure of change. Cultures can quickly become toxic, killing an organization's ability to succeed, when leaders build Deadly Expectations into their Foundation for Success.Millennials and future leaders no longer have to make the mistakes of yesterday in order to learn valuable lessons tomorrow; they can have the answers they need today! Laser brilliantly combines her expertise in risk reduction, human behavior and strategy with existing 'better' practices and learnings from others, in this entertaining, easy to read, solution-packed beginner's guide to leadership essentials.T.A. Laser, an insider with nearly three decades of experience in leading, educating and advising Fortune 500 companies, governments and communities around the globe, reveals how the lack of leadership development opportunities and ignorance of Deadly Practices lie at the root of many problems currently plaguing organizations.Laser believes that everyone has the ability to impact positive change and invites you to join her on the journey towards building better paths to success!
Turn Words Into Wealth
Large Print Edition. Be the authority AI quotes. Not the expert it replaces.This is your playbook for turning your expertise into your media empire. Books build authority, video creates trust, podcasts expand reach-and AI amplifies it all. But only if you master the strategic architecture first.You win by being irreplaceable-leveraging your four human superpowers: stories, presence, style, and leadership. Turn your words into wealth.You will learn: How to escape the collapsing middleHow to create a bestseller without writing it aloneThe risks-and rewards-of the AI revolutionWhy cinematic video is no longer optionalThe Showrunner Strategy for content creationWhy your brand is your most valuable assetHow to turn your expertise into authority assets AI can't ignore"Turn Words Into Wealth is a playbook for experts who want to turn their ideas into a seven-figure thought-leadership business in the age of AI.... The steady stream of big success stories gives the book a really upbeat and aspirational feel, with a strong focus on seven-figure outcomes, deal flow, and media empires that will really appeal to readers who are excited by bold positioning and high-ticket offers." - Literary Titan, 5-star review"Completely depending on AI can be dangerous. Conversely, shunning it altogether will make us redundant. To succeed, one needs to tread a delicate line. Aurora Winter's Turn Words Into Wealth: 7 Ways to Make 7 Figures As A Thought Leader helps us tread that line and excel in today's ever-growing digital world." - Chrysalis BREW, 4.83-star editorial review Aurora Winter, MBA, is a serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, and TV writer-producer. She is the founder of SamePagePublishing.com, a media and publishing company that helps leaders build legacy-level brands. Your media empire starts here. Order your copy today!
Transform Your Culture Through Empowerment
Transform Your Culture Through Empowerment is written for those seeking to learn how to develop a transformation system that helps organizations reach their full potential.This book teaches employees how to transform their work systems and to organize and lead their organizations through the transformation process. Examples, tools, and techniques are shared.The story of the struggling Salvarcar plant serves as a case study, starting with the hiring of a new executive tasked with transforming the organization's operations and culture, or else shuttering the plant and relocating it.Real-world examples, issues, innovative solutions, and results are provided to illustrate how the facility was transformed into one of the best in its class, ultimately saving it.
From Stuck to Unstoppable
"From Stuck to Unstoppable" is a roadmap that provides small business owners with the essential knowledge, mindset, and practical exercises needed to transform their business.This isn't just a how-to guide covering the basics of business; it's focused on developing the entrepreneurial mindset. It aims to equip them to face setbacks with resilience, think creatively in the face of challenges, and remain focused on their vision as they grow their business.I've developed the S.W.E.A.T. principles to guide small business owners in their growth journey. S.W.E.A.T. stands for Strength, Weakness, Energy, Action, and Taking Control. These principles are crucial not only for business development but also for personal growth. A business can only reach its full potential when its owner does. Business success follows when the owner grows and implements effective strategies.By the end of this enlightening book, readers will discover that true business growth starts when owners focus on steering their business, rather than just getting caught up in the daily tasks.
My Boss Is Insane
You've had the boss. The one who screamed at you in front of the whole office. The one who promised you a commission and then explained why it didn't apply. The one who made your life miserable every day while HR told you to focus on improving your attitude.You are not alone, you are not crazy, and you are not powerless.Richard Lowe spent thirty-three years in corporate America working for, around, and occasionally surviving some of the most dysfunctional managers in the business. The micromanager who required written justification for a $75 software manual. The racist executive who nearly used a slur in front of witnesses. The boss who showed his entire team a framed certificate from a psychiatrist confirming he was legally insane, and explained that it made him very difficult to fire. The HR VP who made unwanted advances on a subordinate who was alone in the building at 9 pm, then called him an idiot for saying no. The startup owner who pocketed an employee's $85,000 commission by ruling it was earned on company time.Every story in this book actually happened. The names have been changed. The dysfunction has not been exaggerated.This is not a book written by a consultant or a business school professor. Lowe is not going to tell you about management theory or the importance of growth mindset. He is going to tell you what it is actually like when your boss is broken, what you can actually do about it, and why the systems supposedly designed to protect you mostly won't.The book covers the full range of workplace nightmares: the racist boss, the religious harasser, the pathological liar, the manager who mentally retired twelve months before his actual retirement date, the unethical boss who needs you to bury expenses in the wrong budget, the micromanager who wants to review every email you send, the genuinely unstable executive, the screamer, the sexual predator. Each chapter is built around a real story, followed by hard-won advice on how to handle it.But the book does not stop at survival. The second half covers the strategic infrastructure that determines whether you are trapped or free: how to document everything in a way that will actually hold up, why HR is not your friend and never was, how to manage up when your boss is incompetent but untouchable, how to build an escape fund that gives you the power to walk away from any toxic situation, how to develop skills that are portable across industries so no single employer can hold you hostage, and how to recognize when you are dealing with workplace trauma rather than ordinary job stress.The chapter on HR alone is worth the price of the book. After three decades of watching good employees get fired for complaining and bad managers get protected, Lowe lays out exactly how HR investigations actually work and why filing a complaint often makes things worse. It is not cynicism. It is the pattern he has watched play out dozens of times.Your career belongs to you. Your mental health belongs to you. No paycheck is worth sacrificing either one for a manager who has made it clear they cannot be trusted with either.This book will not fix your boss. Nothing will fix your boss. What it will do is show you how to protect yourself, build your options, and make sure that the next time you find yourself sitting in your car in the parking lot trying to gather the courage to walk inside, you have a plan and a path out.You have more power than you think.
Organization Culture Killers, Deadly Expectations 1
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results. We have fallen into a pattern where we repeat the mistakes others made in the past, but have we asked ourselves, why are we making the same mistakes? The answer is lack of leadership development. Much like a strong foundation is critical to the stability of any physical structure, organizations must build foundations capable of bearing the weight of growth and pressure of change. Cultures can quickly become toxic, killing an organization's ability to succeed, when leaders build Deadly Expectations into their Foundation for Success.Millennials and future leaders no longer have to make the mistakes of yesterday in order to learn valuable lessons tomorrow; they can have the answers they need today! Laser brilliantly combines her expertise in risk reduction, human behavior and strategy with existing 'better' practices and learnings from others, in this entertaining, easy to read, solution-packed beginner's guide to leadership essentials.T.A. Laser, an insider with nearly three decades of experience in leading, educating and advising Fortune 500 companies, governments and communities around the globe, reveals how the lack of leadership development opportunities and ignorance of Deadly Practices lie at the root of many problems currently plaguing organizations.Laser believes that everyone has the ability to impact positive change and invites you to join her on the journey towards building better paths to success!
EXECUTE - Stop hiring. Start building. The Fastest Startups Don't Hire.
EXECUTE: Stop hiring. Start building. The Fastest Startups Don't Hire is a field manual for founders and investors who understand that runway should be measured in milestones, not months. When a funding round closes, most startups follow the same script: open roles, brief recruiters, interview for months - and watch burn accelerate while product velocity stalls. EXECUTE exposes the true cost of that script and offers a different operating system.Drawing on hard numbers from labor markets, venture benchmarks and real case studies, Dr. Raphael Nagel dissects what a "senior hire" really costs once you include employer overhead, headhunter fees and the invisible tax of your best engineers interviewing instead of building. He quantifies the cost of delay when product launches slip by a quarter, shows how six months of hiring drag reshapes your Series B narrative, and explains why traditional recruiting economics were designed for enterprises, not venture-backed startups.At the core of the book is Execution Infrastructure: a pre-built system that lets venture-backed companies add senior engineering, AI, security, finance and leadership capacity in days, not months, without creating new headcount, HR infrastructure or cap-table friction. Nagel explains the model in detail - the invoice structure, the 14-day deployment timeline, the legal and IP framework, the three-layer talent assessment engine and the remote-first architecture that turns European time zones into eight hours of additional execution before the Bay Area wakes up.Founders will learn how to convert fixed payroll into flexible deployment cost, extend runway by hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, and protect valuation by aligning every dollar of burn with concrete milestones. Investors will gain a lens to distinguish between adding FTEs and adding execution, and to evaluate whether portfolio companies are truly deploying capital or merely building payroll.Structured across six parts - from "The Execution Gap" and "Execution Infrastructure" to "The Financial Case," "By Stage" and "Activate" - EXECUTE provides stage-specific playbooks for Seed, Series A and Series B companies, plus practical activation steps, case studies and the thirteen questions founders ask on every first call. The message is uncompromising: after a raise, every decision is an execution decision. Execution must outpace burn. Everything else is commentary.
Focus on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has a billion members. Most of them are doing it wrong.They copied their resume into their profile, added a headshot from three years ago, and called it done. They post sporadically, connect randomly, and wonder why nothing happens. Then they conclude LinkedIn doesn't work and go back to whatever they were doing before.LinkedIn works. The problem is that almost nobody uses it strategically.Focus on LinkedIn is the comprehensive guide to using LinkedIn the right way - from building a profile that actually generates leads to understanding why your account got restricted and how to get it back. Written by Richard Lowe, a former Senior LinkedIn Branding Expert who optimized hundreds of executive profiles and has built his own ghostwriting business almost entirely through the platform, this book covers the territory most LinkedIn guides skip entirely.You'll learn how LinkedIn's algorithm actually works and why posting every day is working against you. You'll understand why commenting beats posting, why your profile is more powerful than any content you'll ever create, and why a network of 500 targeted connections is worth more than 5,000 random ones. You'll get the honest truth about Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Live, hashtags, and newsletters - what works, what doesn't, and what the platform wants you to believe.The book also covers the territory other LinkedIn books won't touch: sophisticated scams targeting professionals, platform enforcement actions and how to survive them, crisis management when your reputation takes a hit, and a full chapter on what it's actually like to use LinkedIn with a neurodivergent brain.Whether you're job hunting, building a business, establishing thought leadership, or just trying to stop being invisible on the platform, Focus on LinkedIn gives you the strategy, the tactics, and the honest perspective you need to make it work.This is the updated and substantially expanded edition of the 2016 bestseller that sold 15,000 copies in three days and reached #43 in all Kindle rankings.
Uneven Rewards
'Uneven Rewards' brings together major studies of workplace relations and behaviour from the distinguished labour economist Alison L Booth. Over more than three decades, Booth has forged a distinctive intellectual path combining a strong interest in the role of gender and culture on labour markets with acute expertise in data collection, and cognate social science fields and methods.With her co-authors, Booth examines the effects on men and women of evolving industrial relations' rules and contexts. She studies the changing gendered and culturally-specific nature of labour markets, and analyses the findings of a set of data-rich social experiments to reveal insights about women's and men's behaviour in labour, educational and wider social settings.Finally, Booth shares new conclusions arising from this extensive body of research. She shows how culture and nurture associated with the upbringing of boys and girls can have profound implications for educational and labour market performance and relative outcomes by gender.
Building Intelligent Boards
Across world the public feel that their organisations are not well governed. They feel that those charged with being ultimately accountable for delivering total organisational effectiveness, the directors, are not competent. They are usually correct. Our organisations are the apex of human development. Directors are accountable for both giving them direction to achieve their purpose; and simultaneously ensuring their prudent control. So, it is a paradox that directorship, the most important job needed to sustain and develop our human organisations, is often given to those with the least training to fulfil the related duties. This book explores the challenging world of 'corporate governance'. Often a mystery to the public and treated as a 'have to do' rather than a 'want to do' by many directors and boards. Rather than accept corporate governance as the legal framework for their key role in an organisation most view it simply as an irritating minor additional task - nice to do if only we had time. This book argues that by so doing they are avoiding their legal and professional duties; to steer the organisation through complex and difficult times and keep it under prudent control. To do this they need adopt a radically new and holistic perspective of their organisation's external and internal worlds. However, most registered directors have a fear of finding out their legal duties. This book seeks to dispel those fears.
Success Engineering in a World of Disruption
A powerful, practical step-by-step guide designed for driven professionals ready to take control of their future. In an era defined by complexity, rapid change, and uncertainty, this book provides a clear, actionable framework to turn disruption into a springboard for lasting success. Deliberately engineer the life and success you aspire to have. Consistently reach your goals with resilient power. You will discover how to: Redefine your story and expand what is possible for your life and careerDevelop mental agility and emotional strength to navigate complexityAccelerate growth and opportunityBuild a personal legacyLead yourself intentionally to unlock your highest potential - starting right where you are at todayFor ambitious professionals committed to moving beyond reaction into focused action.Create your best possible outcome.
Build Trust. Become the Brand.
Every entrepreneur has made a decision they knew was wrong the moment they made it. The data said yes. The advisors said yes. The room said yes. But something said no.That something was right.In Build Trust. Become the Brand., Sunil Godse, engineer, entrepreneur, and creator of the Intuitive Branding Process, reveals why the most expensive business decisions are not the ones that look wrong on paper. They are the ones that felt wrong before the paper was signed.After helping over 200 entrepreneurs unlock $500 million in growth, Godse identified four distinct intuitive signal types that every entrepreneur operates with simultaneously: Experiential, Relational, Situational, and Creative. When all four are read accurately, decisions compound trust. When even one is ignored, the cost compounds quietly until the damage becomes impossible to explain away.Through real case studies spanning Nike, Theranos, Airbnb, Blockbuster, and dozens of individual entrepreneurs, Build Trust. Become the Brand. shows exactly what ignored signals cost, and what becomes possible when leaders learn to trust the signal before the data catches up.This is not a book about branding. It is a book about decision-making: the system your brain has been running all along, and the framework that finally makes it precise.For entrepreneurs doing $1 million or more who know something is off but cannot locate it, this book is the signal that was already there.
Our Next 250 Years
Economic outcomes are shaped by incentives, not intentions. Public policy establishes the rules that govern economic activity, and those rules define how capital is allocated, how businesses operate, and how work is organized. Over time, these structures determine not only what is produced, but who benefits, how stable employment is, and how opportunity is distributed across society. In Our Next 250 Years: Incentives and Jobs, Charles Patton examines the full chain from policy to outcomes. Taxes, regulation, education, trade, and technological change all create the incentives that guide economic decisions. Those incentives influence where capital flows, what businesses prioritize, and how jobs are created, structured, and sustained. Employment is not an isolated result. It is the product of a system shaped by deliberate choices. When incentives are aligned with long-term growth, investment supports innovation, productivity, and expanding opportunity. Businesses compete, workers gain access to more stable and rewarding employment, and the system adapts to changing conditions. When incentives are misaligned, capital shifts toward less productive uses, short-term outcomes are prioritized over long-term stability, and employment becomes more uncertain. These outcomes are not accidental. They follow directly from the structure of the system. This book explores how incentive design affects not only economic performance, but also resilience, adaptability, and the distribution of risk and reward. It examines how policies can unintentionally weaken the very outcomes they aim to improve, and how different approaches to regulation, taxation, and investment shape the long-term trajectory of an economy. By tracing these relationships, the book provides a framework for understanding why some systems sustain growth and opportunity while others struggle to do so. Drawing on economic history, institutional analysis, and practical examples, Incentives and Jobs explains how incentives operate across sectors and over time. It emphasizes the importance of clarity in policy design, the role of tradeoffs, and the need to evaluate outcomes based on how systems function in practice rather than how they are intended to work. Incentives and Jobs is the third volume in the Our Next 250 Years series, which examines how policy, power, and incentives interact to shape economic outcomes and define the long-term direction of a nation.
Branding Africa
Africa is one of the most culturally influential and resource-rich regions in the world, yet many countries continue to face challenges related to fragmented global narratives, limited diaspora engagement, and underdeveloped national branding strategies. In today's interconnected world, perception plays a critical role in shaping tourism, investment, diplomacy, and relationships with the global diaspora. Branding Africa presents a practical framework for African nations, cities, and institutions to strengthen their global image, engage diaspora communities, and unlock economic opportunities through strategic country branding. Drawing from global place-branding practices and African case studies, the guide explores how governments can define clear national narratives, align tourism and cultural strategies, implement diaspora-friendly policies, and leverage cities, culture, and media to enhance international perception. Designed for policymakers, tourism boards, and public institutions, Branding Africa offers strategic insights and practical recommendations to help countries strengthen their identity and build deeper connections with the global African diaspora.
The Nehemiah Principle - The Art of Creating Transformational Change
Great leaders build. Exceptional leaders build systems that endure.In The Nehemiah Principle, Dr. Jonathan K. Jefferson explores how the ancient story of Jerusalem's restoration reveals a powerful leadership blueprint for today's organizations, ministries, and institutions.Through the lens of Nehemiah's leadership journey, this book explores how transformational leaders move from: Burden to visionVision to mobilizationMobilization to governanceGovernance to enduring institutional strengthEach chapter examines the biblical narrative and translates it into modern leadership practice-revealing how leaders build structures that outlast personality, resist drift, and sustain mission across generations.Blending biblical insight with contemporary organizational strategy, The Nehemiah Principle offers leaders a practical framework for building systems that endure beyond their presence.Because leadership is not complete when the wall stands.Leadership is complete when the structure still holds after the builder steps away.
Suck on a MINT
Stop sugarcoating reality. Hard decisions taste like shit-but they're the only way through.Leadership isn't a comfort zone. It's a combat zone. When the pressure hits, your brain has a biological "panic button" that screams for you to choose the easy path. Most leaders listen to it. They hesitate. They compromise. And in doing so, they lose the respect of their team and the integrity of their mission.In Suck on a MINT, crisis command expert Neil Dubord strips away the corporate fluff to reveal the brutal truth: Real leadership is born in the moments that taste like shit.Drawing from high-stakes crisis management, corporate disasters, and the front lines of hard-call decision-making, Dubord introduces the MINT System-a battle-tested framework designed to help you face reality when every instinct tells you to run.Inside this playbook, you will discover: The Biological Trap: Why your brain is wired to resist discomfort and how that hesitation is actively damaging your team.The MINT Method: A four-step tactical system to stay focused when chaos hits: M - Mission: Defining the objective when the fog of war is thickest.I - Impact: Measuring the real-world consequences of your choices.N - Necessary: Stripping away the "nice-to-haves" to find what must be done.T - Trust & Take Action: Communicating with clarity to build a team that will follow you through hell.Courage vs. Comfort: How to stop seeking consensus and start seeking the truth.The Integrity Shield: How uncompromising honesty creates a culture of radical trust and high performance.This isn't a book about "managing" people from a climate-controlled office. This is a guide for the Reality-Facers. It's for the leaders who are tired of the "soft" approach and are ready to own the hard calls, lead with uncompromising integrity, and build a team that is forged in the fire of difficult decisions.The mission is clear. The stakes are high. It's time to face the truth.Are you ready to lead? Or are you just looking for a sugar cube?Scroll up and grab your copy of Suck on a MINT today.
21-Day Unthinkable Challenge
DAILY UNTHINKABLE ACTIONS, MEASURABLE OUTCOMESMost people wait for motivation.This book teaches you to build momentum instead.This is not a feel-good read.It is a system - a repeatable operating method for change.You will choose one meaningful focus, design a simple dailyaction, and show up for it every day for 21 days - throughdiscomfort, resistance and real-life complexity, and without excuses.Because transformation isn't what you learn. It's whatyou do.What You Will LearnHow to define one unthinkable focus that matters to youHow to design a 30-minute daily practice that drives progressHow to turn consistency into flow - even when it's hardHow to stay in the game when resistance peaksHow to move from linear effort to exponential growthHow to stack 21-Day Unthinkable Challenges into an unthinkablelifeThe Core IdeaYou don't need years to change your life.You need clarity. You need structure. You need to show up daily.This book gives you the framework.The 21-Day Unthinkable Challenge is your practice.Inside is everything required to create real change - not someday, but starting now.
Success Engineering in a World of Disruption
A powerful, practical step-by-step guide designed for driven professionals ready to take control of their future. In an era defined by complexity, rapid change, and uncertainty, this book provides a clear, actionable framework to turn disruption into a springboard for lasting success. Deliberately engineer the life and success you aspire to have. Consistently reach your goals with resilient power. You will discover how to: Redefine your story and expand what is possible for your life and careerDevelop mental agility and emotional strength to navigate complexityAccelerate growth and opportunityBuild a personal legacyLead yourself intentionally to unlock your highest potential - starting right where you are at todayFor ambitious professionals committed to moving beyond reaction into focused action.Create your best possible outcome.
Writing Effective Audit Reports (ASQ Pocket Guide series)
Your Audit Report Matters as Much as the Findings. An audit report is more than a recap of conversations-it's the formal record that establishes what was verified and validated, what must be corrected, and what can be improved. When audit reports are weak, unclear, or incomplete, leaders tend to argue rather than act-and auditors lose credibility. Writing Effective Audit Reports demonstrates how disciplined reporting transforms audit activity into defensible conclusions that protect the organization and drive meaningful change. This book will show you how effective audit reports: Define nonconformities vs. improvement opportunities Protect privacy and confidential information Demonstrate verification and validation Support objective, defensible management decisions This book also includes examples and templates to help you draft an effective audit report. If you want audits that withstand scrutiny and result in real improvement, this book explains why the report isn't optional; it's a must.
Fanocracy
From the author of New Rules of Marketing & PR, a bold guide to converting customer passion into marketing power. How do some brands attract word-of-mouth buzz and radical devotion around products as everyday as car insurance, b2b software, and underwear? They embody the most powerful marketing force in the world: die-hard fans. In the second edition of this essential book, leading business growth strategist David Meerman Scott and fandom expert Reiko Scott explore the neuroscience of fandom and interview young entrepreneurs, veteran business owners, startup founders, nonprofits, and companies big and small to pinpoint which practices separate organizations that flourish from those stuck in stagnation. They lay out a road map for converting customers' ardor into buying power, pulling one-of-a-kind examples from a wide range of organizations, including: MeUndies, the subscription company that's revolutionizing underwear HeadCount, the nonprofit that registers voters at music concerts Grain Surfboards, the board-building studio that willingly reveals its trade secrets with customers Hagerty, the classic-car insurance provider with over 600,000 premier club members HubSpot, the software company that draws 25,000 attendees to its annual conference For anyone who seeks to harness the force of fandom to revolutionize his or her business, Fanocracy shows the way.
LLC Wealth Blueprint
Master Your Finances. Protect Your Assets. Build Lasting Wealth.In today's fast-moving business landscape, the difference between an LLC that merely survives and one that truly thrives often comes down to a single factor: financial intelligence. The LLC Wealth Blueprint is the definitive roadmap for entrepreneurs and small business owners who are ready to stop guessing and start building - with precision, purpose, and confidence.Whether you're launching your first LLC or scaling an established operation, this guide strips away the complexity of business finance and replaces it with clear, actionable strategies designed specifically for the LLC structure. No corporate jargon. No one-size-fits-all advice. Just proven frameworks that work for the realities of small business ownership.BUILD A FINANCIAL FOUNDATION THAT LASTS Most LLCs fail not because of bad ideas, but because of poor financial structure. Learn how to separate personal and business finances, establish credit, and create the infrastructure that supports sustainable growth from day one.SET GOALS THAT DRIVE REAL RESULTS This book walks you through a goal-setting methodology tailored to LLC owners - helping you define short-term milestones and long-term wealth targets that keep your business moving in the right direction, even when markets shift.BUDGET LIKE A CFO WITHOUT HIRING ONE Discover how to implement effective budgeting systems that give you full visibility into your numbers. Understand where your money is going, where it should be going, and how to course-correct before small leaks become financial floods.MASTER CASH FLOW WITH CONFIDENCE Learn how to forecast revenue cycles, manage seasonal fluctuations, handle late-paying clients, and ensure there's always enough runway to seize new opportunities - without relying on emergency credit.NAVIGATE THE TAX LANDSCAPE LIKE A PRO From pass-through taxation and self-employment obligations to deductible expenses and entity election decisions, The LLC Wealth Blueprint demystifies your tax responsibilities and shows you how to keep more of what you earn, legally and ethically.INVEST FOR GROWTH, NOT JUST SURVIVAL Explore investment planning techniques that balance risk and return, including when to reinvest in operations, when to diversify, and how to evaluate opportunities that align with your LLC's long-term vision.PROTECT WHAT YOU'VE BUILT Learn how to identify your LLC's most significant financial vulnerabilities and implement mitigation strategies that shield your assets, your income, and your future from the unexpected.WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR Written for the entrepreneur wearing multiple hats - the founder who is also the accountant, the strategist, and the decision-maker. It's for anyone who formed an LLC and wants to make absolutely certain that structure works as hard for them as they work for it.Your LLC is more than a legal structure. It's the vehicle for your financial freedom. It's time to drive it like you mean it.The LLC Wealth Blueprint - because building wealth isn't an accident. It's a plan.
The Agentic Organisation
European businesses are dangerously underprepared for the largest paradigm shift since the industrial revolution. AI is no longer a technology question. It is a leadership question.The Agentic Organisation gives CEOs, boards, and management teams a practical framework for navigating this transformation. Built around five core elements: products, people, process, technology, and data, the book shows how organisations can integrate human and AI agents to operate at a scale previously unimaginable.Drawing on 25 years of digital transformation experience grounded in the European business context, the book addresses what other AI guides ignore: regulation as competitive advantage, the role of works councils, GDPR as a trust asset, and the pragmatic approach that distinguishes European leadership from Silicon Valley hype.This is not a book about AI tools. It is a guide to becoming an organisation that is fundamentally built for the agentic era.For leaders who want to act, not just understand.
Velocity, Momentum & Distribution
Most advice tells you what growth is. This book shows you how it actually works - not by hacks or hidden secrets, but the interaction of three interconnected forces: Velocity: speed of execution (learning and iteration)Momentum: sustained and compounding progress over timeDistribution: ability to scale and reach the right customersYou'll learn how to: build growth systems that compoundavoid common startup growth trapsconnect product, marketing, and distributionscale with clarity, not guessworkDrawing on scaling companies like Fireflies.ai, Boomplay, Alerzo, and Maplerad, this book challenges the idea that growth is luck and shows how it is engineered, with real-life case studies from Stripe, Monzo, and Notion.This book includes a practical toolkit designed to help you: Apply the framework directly within your companyDiagnose where your growth is breaking downMake better product, growth, and distribution decisions in real timeTestimonialsA powerful guide for leaders building institutions that last - Achille Cossi, CEO Bujeti (YC '23)In a world obsessed with overnight success, this book is a refreshing reminder that real growth comes from consistency and systems - Peace Itimi, CEO Rivva
The Decision Stack
Your teams don't have an execution problem. They have a clarity problem.Most organisations have smart people, good intentions, and no shared context. The result? Teams that work hard but pull in different directions - and leaders who can't figure out why everything feels so slow. The Decision Stack fixes that.The frustration is real. You've hired talented people. You've set ambitious goals. But somewhere between your vision and the daily decisions your teams make, the signal gets lost. Strategy lives in a slide deck from last quarter. Objectives don't connect to anything above them. And your teams - far from being empowered - are left guessing what "good" looks like, then waiting for permission to act.This isn't an execution failure. It's an alignment failure. And in a world where AI is accelerating the pace of everything, the cost of that misalignment is compounding faster than ever. Your teams need strategic context to move quickly - and so do the AI tools you're giving them. Without clarity from vision through to action, neither your people nor your technology can deliver what they're capable of.The Decision Stack is a practical framework for connecting the dots - from vision to strategy, strategy to objectives, objectives to the decisions your teams make every day. It's not another layer of process. It's fewer, better, and more connected ways of creating direction - so that everyone at every level makes better decisions, faster, without waiting for permission. That's how you turn strategic clarity into real momentum.
The Hero's Rope
Your "helpful" leadership is organizational cancer. And the $366 billion leadership development industry that taught you to be compassionate, empathetic, and supportive? They're profiting from your organization's slow death.You see it everywhere: The employee who can't complete a task without constant check-ins. The team member who manufactures crises to stay relevant. The manager who swoops in to "save" every struggling project. You call it dedication. You reward it as leadership. But here's what you're really building: A dependency culture where strength is punished and weakness is incentivized.Every time you rescue someone from discomfort, you're not helping, you're weakening. Every crisis you prevent teaches your team they can't survive without you. Every problem you solve for them is a lesson in incompetence. And the worst part? You think you're being a good leader.There's another way. Ancient martial arts masters knew it. Dr. Gary Helgeson taught it. The Hero's Rope reveals it: True leadership isn't about rescuing, it's about building capability. It's about teaching your team to climb their own rope, fight their own battles, solve their own problems. Organizations that embrace this approach don't just improve incrementally, they transform into anti-fragile cultures that thrive under pressure.Inside, you'll discover: The 20 Rescue Behaviors destroying your organization and how to stop them. Why your "open door policy" is creating organizational weakness. The martial arts principle that transforms dependency into capability. How to identify rescue addiction in yourself and your team. Why discomfort is the currency of growth and how to use it strategically. How to build anti-fragile teams that don't need you to survive.The rope was always there. You just needed the courage to use it.
Carpets and Rugs
This book is an invaluable resource for any creative with a great business idea. Starting your own business does not need to be a complicated and daunting process and serial entrepreneur, Dragon's Den investor and business educator Doug Richard, shows you how. He sets out a ten-point plan teaching creatives how to shape their startup business into a success. Written in plain English, without the dense text and technical jargon of other business books, and illustrated with visual cues to help the message stick, Doug's practical advice is accessible to all. Real-life case studies are interspersed throughout from successful creative startups that include, Tatty Devine, Paul Smith, Time Out and LoveFilm, which expand upon the theory and bring it to life. In 10 chapters, Doug asks the fundamental questions any aspiring creative entrepreneur must answer. By following the questions from start to finish, and working through the get your hands dirty activities, you will get the theory first and then apply that theory in a practical way to the real world and your own business. By the time you reach the last question, you will have the foundation of a very solid creative business. You will answer: What do we do or need that people need or want?Who is our customer?Who is our competition?What is our pricing model? And more! Doug walks you through the process for researching, answering and, ultimately, overcoming the challenges posed by these questions for your own business plan. Whether you are passionate about craft, design, advertising, antiques, film and video, music, performing arts, or any other creative field, this fantastic guide will help you start your business today
Impossible Freedom
What if the belief that business growth requires self-sacrifice is keeping you trapped?Your business is impressive. You're hitting goals, growing revenue, and checking the boxes. But your business is consuming your life. The personal cost is too high.You're in the Middle Zone--the plateau of success without freedom.You didn't get into business to end up here. Impossible Freedom is the proven path out.Drawing on over three decades coaching powerhouse leaders, Nadine and Derek Nicholson reveal their Impossible Freedom Equation--a transformative framework to reclaim your time, unite your team, and drive financial growth while living a deeply fulfilling life.You'll discover how to...Master your time so you're feeling fully lit up in both business and life--not just surviving your success.Build a United Team that drives your vision forward and frees you to lead strategically, not reactively.Access your inner Wild Wisdom to make Brave Decisions and have Courageous Conversations rooted in self-trust.Defy the "can'ts" keeping you stuck and step into the life you dream about.Read stories from seven-to nine-figure founders and CEOs who've broken free using practical tools you can adopt immediately.If you look successful on the outside but feel trapped on the inside, this book is for you.Your Impossible Freedom isn't someday. It's now.
