Sell Your Business
Are you thinking more about selling your business than building it? If so, it's past time to act. Most people do not get the chance to sell their business on their terms. Fate intervenes before they are prepared. The result - little to no return on all your hard work.In this book you will learn how to get ahead of the curve. To take the right steps, in the right order, to achieve a successful exit, on your terms. This book is also intended for accountants, lawyers, financiers, and other advisers who are supporting their clients to achieve a great sale.From your first tentative step, all the way to your first sip of champagne. Let's sell your business!
Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
Free your inner nonfiction writer as you learn to write fast and well.Do you want to write nonfiction better and faster? But when you try to write, you feel stuck, or you don't like what you wrote, or you're not sure why anyone would want to read your words. You can enjoy writing, especially when you integrate thinking and learning as you write. And, when you wait to edit until the end, you can write faster. Learn how to educate, influence, and entertain people with your writing. You'll learn how to: Separate writing, which includes thinking and learning, from editing.Focus on your readers, so you write what they need to know.Face your writing fears.Find your author voice, so you sound like you.Be ready to write, so you never have to face a blank page. Empathize with your readers to write about what matters to them.How to edit just enough.Evolve your writing system. And more. Buy this book and learn how to write nonfiction to educate, influence, and entertain.
Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
Free your inner nonfiction writer as you learn to write fast and well.Do you want to write nonfiction better and faster? But when you try to write, you feel stuck, or you don't like what you wrote, or you're not sure why anyone would want to read your words. You can enjoy writing, especially when you integrate thinking and learning as you write. And, when you wait to edit until the end, you can write faster. Learn how to educate, influence, and entertain people with your writing. You'll learn how to: Separate writing, which includes thinking and learning, from editing.Focus on your readers, so you write what they need to know.Face your writing fears.Find your author voice, so you sound like you.Be ready to write, so you never have to face a blank page. Empathize with your readers to write about what matters to them.How to edit just enough.Evolve your writing system. And more. Buy this book and learn how to write nonfiction to educate, influence, and entertain.
How Government Fails Us
Government, in theory, is supposed to provide services that the population is not able to easily supply for themselves. Unfortunately what has happened is that politicians have become so corrupted by the purse strings of corporate America that they are no longer able or willing to serve the people to any great degree. Laws tend to favor the few and ignore the many. This state of affairs has come about because Congresspersons have their own Prime Directive to follow... and that is getting reelected. Fortunately for them, there are so few voters who are paying attention.
Enhanced Enterprise Risk Management
The performance and survival of a business in a global economy depends on understanding and managing the risks-external and those embedded within its operations.It is vital to identify and prioritize significant risks and detect the weakest points. Adding other elements to an essential ERM program, such as PESTEL and Porter's 5 forces, treatment plans, scorecards, the three lines of defense (3LoD) components, and process improvements (six sigma, 8D, etc.) significantly increases the ERM success rate.The authors outline a comprehensive strategy to designing and implementing a robust and successful ERM program - and not just successful in implementation but also yielding enormous returns for the organizations that implemented this enhanced ERM program.
F*ck Nailing It
Are you fed up with your work/life balance? Do you feel burnt out and uninspired? Are you stuck in a job you hate and desperate for change but don't know where to start? Then you need this refreshingly honest book that will change your relationship with work for good.We're constantly told we should be doing work that is 100% fulfilling and makes us feel authentic and bursting with happiness at every moment.But the perfect job doesn't exist. What if there was another way?From running a multi-million-pound company to becoming a freelancer and everything in between, Anniki Sommerville has learnt some valuable life lessons about what work means to her. She's figured out that 'nailing it' is a one-way ticket to burnout and disillusionment, and instead found a more joyful path to contentment. In this essential guide to getting your work life back on track, F*ck Nailing It will show you how to: 1. Spot the early signs of burnout2 Embrace trying new things and overcome fear of failure3 Navigate your way through work anxieties4. Create boundaries with your work and home life5. Benefit from slowing down and looking after yourself6. Build your confidence up after a career break7. Enjoy your job!Packed with real and practice advice, fans of Arianna Huffington, Everything is Figureoutable, Roxie Nafousi's Manifest and Caitlin Moran will love F*ck Nailing It.Read what everyone is saying about Anniki Sommerville: 'I loved this book. Full of wit and wisdom, Anniki tells it like it is.' Clover Stroud'I LOVED this book... I couldn't put down... so refreshingly honest...The language used made the book feel like I was talking to a friend...really helpful and full of useful advice...such a brilliant read!' NetGalley reviewer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Essential Prosperity
The ultimate collection of books for life-changing success It's time to stop living your life on the margins and claim the financial success you deserve. Essential Prosperity is a treasury of wisdom that will empower you to move from a life of want--defined by debt, fear, and missed possibilities--to one of true success. You have the power and potential to create the life of abundance you've always imagined and Essential Prosperity will show you how. Essential Prosperity includes fourteen life changing books from the thought leaders and teachers whose work has changed the world, including: - The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen - Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles - The Game of Life by Florence Scovel Shinn - The Golden Key by Emmet Fox - The Go-Getter by Peter B. Kyne - How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett - Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell - Creative Mind and Success by Ernest Holmes - The Secret of Success by William Walker Atkinson - The Life Power and How to Use It by Elizabeth Towne - Prosperity by Annie Rix Militz These experts speak from every background--from self-help and spirituality to finance and business--each of them sharing the secrets to building life changing wealth and prosperity.
Retirement Planning
You've been saving for retirement for years, and sometimes even decades, but have you ever stopped to wonder how you transition from earning a paycheck to living on your assets?The focus for many people is on accumulating money for their retirement in the distant future. However, when you reach retirement, the future becomes the present. When this time comes, you can no longer focus on accumulating money for the future. Your focus has to necessarily switch to how you will utilize the money you have to support your lifestyle for the rest of your life. In this book, I set out to share my thoughts on helping people with retirement planning, and to help them understand that it is okay to use their money. We realize people don't save money just to have money. They save money to use money. So, many of the designs and strategies with which we help clients are utilization strategies.
The Adventures of Women in Tech Workbook
THE WORKBOOK COMPANION TO THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, THE ADVENTURES OF WOMEN IN TECH: HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHY WE STAYNavigate your career with practical and life-tested wisdom. Based on the top-selling job advice and career book, The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay, explore specific steps you can take in your life and career. Pace yourself with short, easy-to-understand exercises designed to accelerate your personal progress and help you find your way during the toughest of moments.Focus on building your tool chest leveraging five key toolsResilience: building the grit and the power to withstand adversityMarketing 101: speaking up and promoting our talents and accomplishmentsAsk!: having the confidence to network, reach out, and ask for helpFinding Support: seeking out those who will help us navigate our careers and provide a sense of belongingOwning Your Awesome: Knowing you are enough and you are worthyWhether you're at the start of your career or building skills along the way, or whether you want to gain a new opportunity or build a current one, The Adventures of Women in Tech: The Workbook guides you through your thought processes and helps you build the tools you need to more than survive and thrive in tech.
Indigenous Business in Canada
Indigenous Business in Canada addresses contemporary concerns and issues in the doing of Indigenous business in Canada, reveals some of the challenges and diverse approaches to business in Indigenous contexts from coast to coast to coast, and demonstrates the direct impact that history and policy, past and present, have on business and business education.Students who study business in university are not likely to hear about or discuss examples of Indigenous business successes from across the country. Rarely would one see references to Indigenous communities, let alone examples of them growing multi-million dollar businesses and partnering to lead innovative economic development projects that positively impact the national economy. Resources are scarce and inadequate, an oversight that is to our detriment.Somewhere between a textbook and a book of collected essays, this collection is an effort to build on and share the research of Indigenous practitioners and scholars working in their respective fields. Where possible we share not only concepts, but also the voices of Aboriginal leaders, officials, Elders, and other members of Aboriginal communities.Keith G. Brown (PhD) is Vice President, International and Aboriginal Affairs and Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies at Cape Breton University. His professional and academic experience spans local, regional, and national First Nation issues and he is recognized as an international educator, author, and speaker on the subject of cultural tourism marketing.Mary Beth Doucette (MBA) is an industrial engineer with an MBA in community economic development, and is Executive Director of the Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies at CBU.Janice Esther Tulk's (PhD) research of the past five years has focussed on best practices in Aboriginal economic development, particularly in Unama'ki (Cape Breton). She is Senior Research Associate for the Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies.
The Big Scale Back
Like so many, Stephanie Woodward learned young that success in business required major sacrifice. She skippedvacations, worked weekends, and put dating on the back burner all to climb the corporate ladder. But after years ofpromotions, responsibilities, and garnering a respected industry-wide reputation, her body rebelled from exhaustionand unhappiness.She decided she needed a transformation-a big scale back from being tethered to her smartphone and constantlyon call in her job as an executive-and declared what she really wanted and needed in life. By ripping apartpersonality patterns and things she'd been taught and believed to be true, Stephanie, now a whole life andleadership coach, created a series of steps to achieve the elusive work-life balance by finding joy in life and successin business.In The Big Scale Back, she shares the specific framework and processes that she followed and now shares with herclients, so you, too, can put them into action and find fulfillment, inner peace, happiness-and success-on yourown terms and by your own design.STEPHANIE WOODWARD is the founder of Agency II Change, where she helps clients thrive across all areas oftheir lives by developing custom coaching programs and exploring their work-life integration, their leadership style, their interpersonal skills, and deepening their self-awareness.Stephanie has her Master's of Science from Boston University's College of Communication and is a CertifiedProfessional Co-Active Coach and a Certified Personal Resilience Practitioner. She's also certified to administer TheLeadership Circle Profile 360 Assessment, as well as the iEQ9 Integrative Enneagram Solutions and CP Enneagramleadership profiles.www.agencytochange.com@agencytochange
Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation
This book develops a path to decarbonization through a process of Green Market Transformation. Matisoff and Noonan assess the scope and impact of the green building movement, which is working towards decarbonizing a sector that accounts for more than a third of global carbon emissions. They describe the role of the movement in addressing sustainability challenges within the building and construction sector, and suggest new ways of marshalling markets through the voluntary efforts of industry to shift society towards a better future. Matisoff and Noonan tell the success story of green industry, seen through the lens of green buildings and ecolabels. By combining case studies with recent interdisciplinary scholarship, the authors provide a compelling narrative of the opportunities and limitations of reliance on voluntary approaches to regulation.
Resisting Corporate Corruption
Resisting Corporate Corruption The frequently used textbook is now in its 4th edition and includes new case studies on Tesla, VW, Nikola, WeWork, and Theranos. Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-seven case studies and eight essays that cover a full range of business practices, controls, and ethics issues. The essays discuss the nature of sound financial controls, root causes of the Financial Crisis, contemporary ethics challenges like 'Fake it Till You Make It, ' and the evolving nature of whistleblower protections. The cases are framed to instruct students in early identification of ethics problems and how to work such issues within corporate organizations. They also provide would-be whistleblowers with instruction on the challenges they'd face, plus information on the legal protections, and outside supports available should they embark on that course. Some of the cases illustrate how 'The Young are the Most Vulnerable, ' i.e. short-service employees are most at risk of being sacrificed by an unethical firm. Other cases show the ethical dilemmas facing well-known CEOs and the alternatives they can employ to better combine ethical conduct and sound business strategy. Through these case studies, students should emerge with a practical toolkit that will help them to follow their moral compass. Finally, the cases provide an in-depth look at how a corporation becomes progressively corrupted (Enron), how the Financial Crisis was rooted in ethical decay at institutions as diverse as Countrywide, Goldman Sacks, Citigroup, and Moody's, and at the ethical challenges that have emerged in the post-crisis, post-Dodd-Frank environment at firms like TESLA, VW, Theranos and WeWork. Audience This text provides practical case study work for business and law students, and employees in the formative stages of their careers. It is intended to help prepare this audience to withstand pressures and adverse cultural influences as they progress along a career path.
Strategic Connections
Unveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, Strategic Connections provides practical advice anyone can use for building better, more productive business relationships.Smartphones, social media, and the Internet can only get a professional so far. At some point, the success of an organization will depend on face-to-face relationships, which means the isolated employees trying to do everything virtually will at some point have to fall back on the tried-and-true, essential skill of relationship building if they are going to survive in today's increasingly collaborative workforce.You will discover how to: Commit to a positive, proactive networking mindset Earn trustBoost their social acumen and increase their likeabilityMaster conversational skills and deepen interactionsEmploy storytelling to make communications memorableBusinesses don't have to look very far to find employees with a strong presence in the different social networks. If you want to stand out and make yourself invaluable to your organization, focus on making your presence known in the company's physical networks.
Interdisciplinary Public Finance, Business and Economics Studies-Volume V
This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers regardingEconomics, Public Finance and Business written by researchers from several differentuniversities. The studies include a wide range of topics from issues in Economics, Public Finance and Business. The book is aimed at educators, researchers, andstudents interested in Public Finance, Business and Economics.
Am I Doing This Right?
This book was written for everyone who has ever wondered, am I doing this right? when thinking about their lives and careers.Leveraging the collective experience of hundreds of professionals, this book is the ultimate early career desk reference! When readers finish reading, it is not the end, but the beginning of a successful career and a fulfilling life.Write in the margins, highlight key insights, answer questions, and come back to this book often as your career grows!
If You're So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid?
In the past 30 years, senior executive pay has increased dramatically in the UK, US and other developed countries, causing much debate and, at times, public outrage. In this book, Alexander ('Sandy') Pepper argues that this soaring inflation in high pay is the result of a market failure, leading to inefficient pay practices that are replicated across industries. Individual company's renumeration committees face a prisoner's dilemma, and so recommend over-the-odds payments in the vain hope of obtaining superior talent. For institutional investors, these developments have created a collective action problem, with many historically unwilling or unable to intervene to curtail excessive corporate pay. But are executives themselves really the greedy, self-interested, fat cats of popular culture? Based on a thought experiment and survey of beliefs of over a thousand senior executives from around the world, Pepper and his colleagues found that business executives in fact tend not to justify their pay levels as if they were ethical egoists entitled to act entirely in their own self-interest. Instead, they expressed support for a range of ethical beliefs on inequality and distributive justice. They can be categorised as either welfare liberals, relational egalitarians, meritocrats or free marketeers. Many believe that in a civilised society everyone has the right to an income that is sufficient for a dignified life, and that companies, not just governments, have responsibilities in this respect. So, Pepper argues, it is the market failure in executive pay that has created such wage inflation at the top, and this ultimately requires an ethical response from investors, companies and executives. This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business's role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way.
Business Fables Adopted From Aesop For Humans Who Work for a Living
To laugh is proper for man --RabelaisToday, all humans who work for a living are in business in one way or another. They are the participants, cheerleaders, anti-heroes, first responders, or economically injured people in a national and global game.The media tend to divide the public into consumers and investors. This is no longer clever or useful..Humans are far more than that. Most of them do the essential work that keep things going during turbulent times. They show up despite extreme weather events and deal with dysfunctional incidents, daily challenges, and multiplying uncertainties. They are also involved in the Great Resignation and seek relief from stressful living.Of course once in a while it is necessary - even for the most enduring creatures -to stand back and take a deep breath. That's where the collection of Business Fables come in. They tell concice stories that can make one's day and bring on a smile. They are satirical, sarcastic, wise and funny. Enjoy!
Be Weird
Do you dream of doing something great in life or business, but think you must choose between success and fulfillment? What if you could do both, simply by being YOU?Have you always known you didn't quite fit into everyone else's definition of normal? Good news: Greatness is not normal. It is, by definition, extra-ordinary. You could even say, it's weird! Be Weird is not about changing YOU. It's about discovering how you can best fill the hole in the universe only you can fill--if you have the courage to kick normal to the curb. People who leave a legacy of greatness learn to embrace everything that makes them not normal and live out their uniqueness with unrelenting passion.Greg Cagle guides you through his proven Be Weird process--grounded on behavioral science and applied through powerful stories and real-world experiences. You'll discover how to: Know who YOU truly are at the core, Leverage the power of YOU to increase your influence, and Enjoy the deeply-fulfilling and satisfying life you've always felt was possible. Warning! If you're OK with living someone else's dream or trying to cram yourself into everyone else's expectations, this book is not for you. But if you want to position yourself for greatness in life and business, start reading right now!
Studies on Interdisciplinary Economics and Business - Volume V
This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers regardingEconomics, Public Finance and Business written by researchers from several differentuniversities. The studies include a wide range of topics from issues in Economicsand Business. The book is aimed at educators, researchers, and students interestedin Business and Economics.
Climate Activism
What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and B繹hm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and B繹hm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.
Living in the Light of Day
On a global scale, the disruptive, competitive, and challenging way of life most of us are experiencing, has resulted in many adults rethinking what's important to them ... what really matters in their life.Are you tired of chasing other people's expectations of who you should be, what you should own, how much you should earn, and what you need to do to be successful? If so, you might have been caught in the Success Trap.This book is an evidence-based blueprint to help you approach success across all areas of your life through a less complex, more practical, and accessible way.With proven tips and strategies to help you strive to be at your best, even in tough times, you will discover why and how your intentions impact almost every measure of success in your life and how forming trust-based relationships is the foundation to living a more balanced, meaningful, flourishing, and prosperous life.
OECD Skills Studies Innovative and Entrepreneurial Universities in Latin America
The review examines how higher education institutions are supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in their surrounding communities. The study focuses on eleven universities located in six countries in Latin America: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The study finds that selected institutions are actively supporting entrepreneurs (university students, but also local entrepreneurs) through courses, incubation and acceleration activities. It also shows that universities are actively engaging with external stakeholders in their surrounding communities, to spur innovation through joint-research, organisation of events (such as festivals, competition). It finds that that while COVID-19 pandemic brought about some challenges, universities managed to stay afloat and keep a steady stream of support to entrepreneurs and partners. The review also illustrates the challenges that universities face when developing these activities (lack of funding, unclear regulation for intellectual property development, etc.) and highlights some opportunities that universities should leverage, particularly in the current context.
AML Compliance Fundamentals
In this book M.L. Humphrey draws upon twenty years of experience with regulatory compliance, and AML compliance in particular, as both a regulator of broker-dealers and a consultant to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, to give an overview of the main AML compliance requirements, with a particular focus on customer identification and suspicious activity monitoring and reporting. This book is meant to be a high-level overview of AML compliance requirements, which means it focuses on the general concepts behind the regulations as opposed to any specific industry- or country-level regulations or any specific suspicious activity fact patterns. But the book should give a strong foundation for understanding those industry- or country-level requirements.
The Gift of Failure
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."-Napoleon HillIf you haven't failed, then you aren't trying hard enough.Not just the little failures either-the big ones.The failures that push you to the edge of insanity and potentially put your entire career in jeopardy. The failures that knock you to the ground and won't let you back up without fighting for your life. The failures that force you to ask better questions, to learn from your mistakes, and to commit to becoming a better person.These are the failures that plant the seeds of greatness.Everything Ari Rastegar has achieved was forged through failure. From delivering pizzas at DoubleDave's to his rise as real estate's "Oracle of Austin" (Forbes)-and every step (and misstep) in between-Ari owes his success not to what he did right but to what he did wrong.In The Gift of Failure, Ari pulls back the curtain on his darkest moments-revealing the hard-earned lessons from his struggles, showing why prosperity in any enterprise is linked to prosperity in life. Full of Ari's trademark wit, energy, compassion, and candor, this book will help you see failure in an entirely new way.
Contemporary Management Education
"Why are we so important?"; "What value do we add?"; and "What good do we create?" These are the opening questions posed to management educators in this book. This is followed by uncomfortable questions about colonization (Who is in the centre and whose knowledge counts?) and inequality (Whom do we exclude?). After questioning the easy adoption of technology (What are we embracing?) and the challenge posed by global warming (Can management education help stop climate change?), the author ends by sketching some leadership lessons required for the future: "What lessons can we learn in a black swan event?" Mixing philosophical analyses with anecdotes from experience, the author does not shy away from discussing controversial views to give direction to current debates. Tracing eight such crucial questions and providing well-researched perspectives, this book is an engaging read for anyone interested in the future direction of business schools in particular and management education in general. "There are many books and articles on business education, but few as deep and insightful as Contemporary Management Education. I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who seeks to understand and improve the training of business leaders." Peter Tufano, Sa簿d Business School, University of Oxford "An amazing read. Piet Naude is eclectic and sparkling. He applies his talents to the wicked maze of management education in society. No issue is more important for global business. No writer is better qualified." Thomas Donaldson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania "A powerful, persuasive, and superbly compelling book. Contemporary Management Education serves as an invaluable and informative reference to the essential issues that are shaping the future." Sherif Kamel, Dean, School of Business, The American University in Cairo
Hands-On Data Science for Librarians
Librarians understand the need to store, use and analyze data related to their collection, patrons and institution, and there has been consistent interest over the last 10 years to improve data management, analysis, and visualization skills within the profession. However, librarians find it difficult to move from out-of-the-box proprietary software applications to the skills necessary to perform the range of data science actions in code. This book will focus on teaching R through relevant examples and skills that librarians need in their day-to-day lives that includes visualizations but goes much further to include web scraping, working with maps, creating interactive reports, machine learning, and others. While there's a place for theory, ethics, and statistical methods, librarians need a tool to help them acquire enough facility with R to utilize data science skills in their daily work, no matter what type of library they work at (academic, public or special). By walking through each skill and its application to library work before walking the reader through each line of code, this book will support librarians who want to apply data science in their daily work. Hands-On Data Science for Librarians is intended for librarians (and other information professionals) in any library type (public, academic or special) as well as graduate students in library and information science (LIS).Key Features: Only data science book available geared toward librarians that includes step-by-step code examples Examples include all library types (public, academic, special) Relevant datasets Accessible to non-technical professionals Focused on job skills and their applications
Learning and Teaching Business
Businesses constantly look for ways to achieve better performance, and business schools play an important role through their curricula by teaching such methods and helping budding and experienced managers find innovative paths. The author of this book, Prof. Peter Lorange, a well-accomplished expert at business and academic leadership, draws on a set of reflections from his vast experience in both fields to offer core messages which help in improving business education. The author believes that experience-based reflections tend to be both more interesting and more useful than mere chronological, biographical ones, or conceptual reviews of management dimensions without links to practice. The book helps academics, business school management, and even advanced students understand how to bring a practical focus to learning and teaching business via a holistic curriculum. The book also features a special focus on how to integrate family business perspectives to the curriculum.
Women With Influence
There are more women than ever with high levels of corporate experience looking for greater flexibility and fulfilment. We've found those who've done it. Be inspired by interviews with 12 leading women who have built their consulting practices to work with large leading organisations with world-changing impact. Alison Crabb - Leadership ExpertJessica Giles - Finance ExpertEmma McQueen - Business CoachBelinda Brosnan - Leadership ExpertAlena Bennet - CFO CoachJoanne Love - High Performance ExpertRenee Giarrusso - Leadership Communication ExpertAlly Nitschke - Courageous Leadership ExpertCheryle Walker - Connected Leadership ExpertMichelle Bihary - Corporate Wellness ExpertSharon Francisco - Bookkeeping Coach Each of them share how they have become a woman with influence, taking their practice from 5 to 6 and some 7 figures... and how you can too.
Everybody Writes
A hands-on field guide to consistently creating page-turning content that your audience loves. (And that delivers real results.) In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes, marketer and author Ann Handley improves on her Wall Street Journal bestselling book that's helped hundreds of thousands become better, more confident writers. In this brand-new edition, she delivers all the practical, how-to advice and insight you need for the process and strategy of content creation, production, and publishing. This new edition also includes: All-new examples, tools, resources Updated step-by-step writing framework Added and expanded chapters that reflect the evolution of content marketing (and evolution of Ann's thinking about what works today) The same witty and practical how-to approach How to attract and retain customers with stellar online communication How to choose your words well, sparingly, and with honest empathy for your customers Best practices and ideas for crafting credible, trustworthy content "Things Marketers Write" The fundamentals of 19 specific kinds of content that marketers like you write Inspiration. Confidence. Fun.In this book, you'll discover: Content marketing has evolved. Yet writing matters more than ever. In this new edition of Everybody Writes, you'll find the strategies, techniques, tips, and tools you'll need to refine, upgrade, and (most of all) inspire your own best content marketing.
The Lawyer's Guide to Business Ethics
Legal practice is both a profession and, increasingly, a business. Lawyers are routinely confronted with a complex set of ethical questions due to the adversarial nature of legal practice and justice, and at the same time handle relationships with different stakeholders within their own practice, including clients, partners, and managers. This presents a unique set of challenges that are not experienced in other professions. This book provides a framework to guide the practicing lawyer through these various levels of ethical complexity. Written in a highly accessible style, The Lawyer's Guide to Business Ethics transforms business ethics theory for the practice of law, identifying the unique applications and ways in which lawyers can utilize the theory and principles to enhance their decision making and case management techniques. The book examines the social, ethical, personal, and economic forces influencing lawyers' work, explains the rules of professional conduct, and presents real-life ethical dilemmas to enhance learning and to assist in finding appropriate outcomes. This book will be an invaluable resource for legal practitioners, law students and business students, and anyone interested in maintaining ethical behavior in the practice of law.
Research Methods and Data Analysis for Business Decisions
Preface.- Part 1: Designing the Study.- Chapter 1: Research Methods and Philosophy of Science.- Chapter 2: The Research Process and Problem Formulation.- Chapter 3: Research Design.- Part 2: Data Collection.- Chapter 4: Secondary Data and Observation.- Chapter 5: Qualitative Methods.- Chapter 6: Questionnaire Surveys.- Chapter 7: Sampling.- Part 3: Quantitative Data Analysis.- Chapter 8: Simple Analysis Techniques.- Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing.- Chapter10: Regression Analysis.- Chapter 11: Cluster Analysis and Segmentation.- Chapter 12: Factor Analysis.- Part 4: Reporting.- Chapter 13: Reporting Findings.- Index.
Investigative Interviewing in the Workplace
Based on extensive interdisciplinary research and the author's over 30 years of experience in the field, this book provides best practice skills for auditors and investigators in any type of investigation and adapts them to ensure they are relevant to a corporate environment where the powers available to police are absent. In addition to providing technical skills and practical advice on investigative interviewing, former police investigator Kevin Sweeney explains how to analyze information to assist in the investigation and to identify emerging trends to provide opportunities to prevent problems before they occur. Readers will come to understand legal concepts such as the chain of evidence, the psychological factors involved in questioning, and the sociological factors that can help to build a macro understanding of the organization and the event in question. This book will become an essential resource for professionals involved in auditing or investigation work of any type in the corporate or public sectors, in contexts including human resources, employee relation investigations, auditing, or where criminal activity is suspected.
COVID-19 and Islamic Social Finance
It is said that the COVID-19 pandemic has turned back the poverty clock. As such, there is a need to have social mechanisms put in place to provide relief to those who are affected in this regard. Islamic social finance consists of tools and institutions that could be used to alleviate poverty. This book explores the impact of COVID-19 on Islamic finance to better understand the effectiveness of Islamic social finance in helping those who have been affected by poverty overnight due to the halt in all major economic activities in the context of the pandemic.Since the struggle against poverty in each country will be different, the book attempts to shed light on the experiences of different countries by presenting successful models of Islamic social finance. The book first looks at poverty and COVID-19 before delving into the role of Islamic social financial institutions and how they have risen against COVID-19. The book concludes by examining the impact of COVID-19 on Islamic microfinance.This book is the first of its kind on the subject of COVID-19, and it intends to bridge the gap in the literature.
Stop the Monkey Business
In Cleveland's Primer to become a great leader, he makes it clear that WTF doesn't stand for Win The future.Compelling cases are made for why: Execution eats Strategy for Breakfast. There is a reason there are thousands of successful companies that can't even spell strategy.The Truth Will Set You Free, especially when it comes to dealing with problem employees.No one should have the authority to disappoint a customer, ever!Succession Planning without first building the right Organization is like building a home without a plan. Hey! You're not running a kool-aid stand.Setting Core Values that don't focus on your customer's needs and wants is a waste of time.Quit looking for the Holy Grail of Leadership. There is no one right way but four basic styles that you need to learn now.With a "been there and done that" approach, Cleveland makes this topic fun and informative for the new Manager and the Old Pro who needs to sharpen his or her skills. "Dave Cleveland writes in a funny, straightforward if irreverent, style that is easy to read and direct in its approach to the real-world issues facing managers today. This book is a MUST READ for all managers, whether in big companies or small, and should be kept as a "pocket guide" reference on everyone's desk."- Kent Harrell, Small Business Owner "I have worked with this sassy, down-to-earth, and vocal leader for over 30 years. In a humorous way, it reflects simple and important learnings on how to conduct your life and do business successfully."- Andre Siegenthaler, retired Senior VP of Human Resources with Hilti International and Hilti North America "...This book is exceptional in its straight-talk style, clarity, and execution, thus making it a powerful tool for all leaders and managers. The eight 'WTFs' are not only about how to 'Win The Future, ' but also, 'What To Fix!'."- Kristine A. Sexter, Consultant and Author of "Rolling Out the Recognition, Employee Retention Strategies for Manufacturers"
How To Be Wildly Wealthy FAST
Combining ancient wisdom and modern-day neuroscience, this life-changing book allows you to finally blast through your blocks and manifest more money now! "Sandy's book has completely changed my life. Within a few months of reading, I won 6 months all expenses paid travel. I now have a multiple 6-figure business [now 7 figure] and re-read whenever I want to take my income to the next level." Denise Duffield-Thomas, Author, Lucky Bitch. If you're passionate about mastering the Law of Attraction and re-wiring your mind for success so you attract wealth rather than chase it, this is your answer. Whether you're just starting out or want to take your prosperity beyond the million-dollar mark, inside each short but powerful chapter you'll discover ancient secrets and cutting-edge processes so you can attract even greater abundance in your life, fast! Sandy Forster shares her exact process that took her from welfare to millionaire, from being a single mum with $100,000 of debt and constant money struggles, to travelling the world, buying her divine home on a tropical oasis, living the life of her dreams and transforming women's lives around the world. Like Isabelle: "When I first read your book I was shocked to realize I had a poverty consciousness. I was bankrupt and a long way from realizing my dreams. I lived in financial struggle every day. But I did what you told me to do... and today I sat thinking of your work and how it has impacted my life. I live in a beautiful house, work when I choose in my own successful business. I walk on the beach whenever I want. I am sitting by the pool you helped me visualize. I am living the life I dreamed that you helped me create. Thank you Sandy for sharing what you know. It changed my stars xx" This powerful life-changing message is a must read for anyone who is ready to experience more prosperity now.
Female Firebrands
"Reading Female Firebrands is like getting to listen to a private conversation among powerful, smart women sharing their war stories about the challenges of being a woman in the workplace."-Julie Pham, Founder of 7 Forms of RespectTM and CEO of CuriosityBasedWomen of all generations will nod in recognition at the stories of thirteen professional women from diverse backgrounds and industries as they recount the career challenges they've faced and how they have overcome bias, sexism, and the power imbalance. Full of practical examples and valuable insights and techniques, Female Firebrands is an honest, modern, and solutions-oriented guide for dealing with situations working women know all too well: sexual harassment, not being taken seriously, and being talked over, passed over, underpaid, and underappreciated. Female Firebrands provides the wisdom and advice that will help you-- Develop tools and techniques to stand and speak up on behalf of yourself and others when it's both difficult and necessary- Get better at recognizing "little indignities" you don't have to tolerate- Understand what it means to be an informed, empowered advocate for women- Increase awareness of your own blind spots and biases so you can learn from them- Recognize the role of privilege at work and how it can be used for positive changeMikaela Kiner is a certified leadership coach and people operations consultant. In 2015 Mikaela founded Reverb, a company that helps growing companies create healthy, inclusive cultures that scale.
Responsible Leadership for Sustainability in Uncertain Times
This book contains compilation of emerging discourses on responsible leadership for sustainability in uncertain times. Uncertainty is looming large at global level due to COVID, climatic disruptions and persisting social discriminations, especially since the pandemic, which have disrupted economies at both local and global levels. Technology was a boon to mitigate hardships emerging from such disruptions. The book documents the leadership roles, welfare issues, best practices and innovations that help organizations to sustain in a VUCA world. Economic, social and environmental concerns and their mitigation as documented in this book will be relevant for future planning and execution for sustainable existence. A blend of research by practitioners and academicians, capturing organizational experiences through case studies makes it attractive for a wide range of readership. Business leaders will find this book extremely helpful to understand the nuances and insights for responsible leadership and innovative strategies for stakeholder management and engagement for sustained businesses. Practitioners would get insights into responsible leadership for improving existing sustainable practices and speed up the transition which is necessitated due to disruptions. Prospective entrepreneurs may find that book helpful for creating responsible organizations which are sustainable due to responsible management of resources, employees and environment. Students and researchers can learn from the cases and documentation on responsible leadership, social and environmental concerns and sustainability in this book.
Navigating Your Next Career Move
In Navigating Your Next Career Move, Sonja Mustiful gives you a front row seat to her fifteen years as a Human Resources executive. As principal and founder of Essence of Coaching, she has developed a necessary blueprint to help leaders of the future take their career to the next level with actionable steps on how to build inclusive and collaborative cultures. This book is the culmination of Sonja's leadership journey and welcomes leaders who are ready to take their career to the next level.
Big Shoes To Fill
Betty Jewell Slater is an award-winning film producer, a coach, actor, author, and speaker, who helps individuals, organizations and actors identify and break through limiting systems, ideas, and beliefs so that they can be all they were created to be, become kingdom influencers in their niche and make an impact in the kingdom all over the world.You might say Betty Jewell has Big Shoes to Fill when she steps into character, and costume to speak as some of history's matriarchs however, she brings her own unique style and perspective to each woman's story all while staying true to the essence of their individual messages. She presents as Harriet Tubman, Mrs. Rosa Parks, Mrs. Corretta Scott King, Mary the Mother of Jesus, and Bessie Coleman. She infuses each woman's life-story with facts, and humor, which provides an inspirational, educational, and unique experience for the audience.In Big Shoes To Fill, How To Establish Your Own Brand When Following In The Footsteps Of An Icon, Betty will give you practical tips and tools to boldly integrate your unique brand into a role, while maintaining and enhancing the standard established by your predecessor.The book will: Provide the necessary tools to help readers identify their brand. Show readers how to become the well-known, well-liked, and well-respected individual.Ignite the passion in readers to raise the standard of excellence in their roles.
Exit Strategy
Is it time to exit your business? Half of business owners don't know how to successfully leave their company. Why? People usually focus on building companies, not leaving them. Succession planning is complicated, and after all the work you've put in, it can be challenging to see a way out. In Exit Strategy, senior wealth advisor Alex Carter unravels the complexities of succession and leaving a business, offering clear, straightforward solutions. Carter has not only bought and sold businesses but also developed a network of professionals capable of helping others do the same. His advice for developing a successful exit plan is informed by realistic and invaluable experience, preparing business owners to make informed, strategic departures.All good things must come to an end. If you need guidance navigating taxes, investments, estates, team building, post-sale planning, and more, read this book and exit your business without regrets.
Exit Strategy
Is it time to exit your business? Half of business owners don't know how to successfully leave their company. Why? People usually focus on building companies, not leaving them. Succession planning is complicated, and after all the work you've put in, it can be challenging to see a way out. In Exit Strategy, senior wealth advisor Alex Carter unravels the complexities of succession and leaving a business, offering clear, straightforward solutions. Carter has not only bought and sold businesses but also developed a network of professionals capable of helping others do the same. His advice for developing a successful exit plan is informed by realistic and invaluable experience, preparing business owners to make informed, strategic departures.All good things must come to an end. If you need guidance navigating taxes, investments, estates, team building, post-sale planning, and more, read this book and exit your business without regrets.
