What's Wrong with the Corporation?
The modern mind is beset with a number of cognitive errors that bear upon the purpose of this book. It is also beset by a philosophy which essentially prohibits a free flow of ideas and opinions. This is the philosophy of pragmatism. Yet, few people know they are living under the oppressive nature of pragmatism. Instead, they think they are free to do whatever they want to advance new ideas and challenge the status quo. More importantly, they don't know that their deepest held beliefs are destroying their knowledge of reality and fomenting social failure. This booklet is part of a wider study about the making of the modern mind. I propose that pragmatism, and its parents in Europe, have negatively impacted man's mind and have restricted human development. In order to understand this, we must understand pragmatism.
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
★比爾•蓋茲:這是我幾年來讀過的最好的商業書之一★ 羅伯特．艾格在二○○五年接任華特迪士尼公司執行長。那是個艱困的時期，競爭比以往激烈，技術變遷也比公司史上任何時間快速。艾格明白爭論過去徒勞無益。唯一重要的是未來，而他相信自己很清楚迪士尼該走的方向。 & In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including:&&Optimism、Courage and&Fairness. & 中文版由商業周刊出版《我生命中的一段歷險：迪士尼執行長羅伯特．艾格十五年學到的課題》
Becoming Super Woman
Do you feel daily pressure to keep pushing yourself even when you're stressed and exhausted? It's time to leave Superwoman in the movies, where she belongs, and say hello to being a Super Woman--the best, most productive and balanced version of the hero you already are. For years--maybe your entire life--you've been told that success means having it all and doing it all. But working more and harder is holding you back, not moving you forward. In Becoming Super Woman, New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin redefines what it means to be a woman who "has it all"--and shows you how to find lasting success by your own definition, on your own terms. Nicole candidly shares her own story of career burnout and an emergency hospitalization that prompted her to take her mental health seriously for the first time ever. Along the way, she discovered that not only was this priority shift not a defeat, it was the key to unlocking even greater achievements. In her third and most personal book yet, Nicole lays out an actionable, 12-step plan to guide you in taking control and becoming the hero of your own story, with the skills it takes to be a real Super Woman--skills we should (but often don't) learn growing up, from productivity hacks to boundary setting. She makes the case that the real secret to success doesn't hinge on the hustle or degrees you have but in "putting on your own oxygen mask before helping others." In fact, self-care is the biggest asset or liability in our careers--when it's on-point it can help us soar, and when it's neglected it can bring us down faster than anything else. Entertaining, honest, and life-changing, Becoming Super Woman shows you how to banish burnout, ward off a breakdown, and achieve true balance ... finally.
The Science of Entrepreneurship
Learn the skills of entrepreneurship, designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Brian Tracy is a bestselling author who has consulted for more than 1000 companies and addressed more than 5 million people throughout the world.
The Great First Impression Book Proposal
This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate--writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality. This slim book and thirty minutes will do it.Randy Eller, speaker and CEO of Eller Enterprises, says, "There is only one thing you need to learn from Carolyn Howard-Johnson to succeed...everything she says!" "Marketing is never easy... Well, it might be if you follow the easy steps CarolynHoward-Johnson offers up in The Great First Impression Book Proposal: EverythingYou Need to Know About Selling Your Book in Thirty Minutes or Less, 2nd Ed.. Howard-Johnson's bulleted lists are superior. They are easy to understand, easy to implement, and even easier to read. She means it when she says thirty minutes or less. I will recommend this book to all of our authors and potential authors." Georgia Jones, Editor in Chief, LadybugPress and NewVoices, Inc.This booklet is the result of multi award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson's extensive work with clients who hate writing book proposals and hate learning how to write them even more. She found herself coaching them through the process rather than doing it for them, for who could possibly recreate the passion an author feels for his or her own book better than the author? In doing so, she found she had written a booklet--not a tome--that took her clients only about thirty minutes to absorb. Voila! The Great First Impression Book Proposa, 2nd Edition was born.The HowToDoItFrugally Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHIstoryPress.com
Strangest Secret
An unabridged edition to include the text from both the audio and subsequent video version of Earl Nightingale's 'The Strangest Secret, ' considered one of the greatest motivational works ever compiled
Killer Copywriting, How to Write Copy That Sells
Why Every Business Owner Needs to Master CopywritingDo you want to boost your sales, save time and grow your business at a lightning speed? Good copywriting can do all that plus a whole lot more. And world class copywriting can transform your performance out of all recognition. I'm going to show you how.Whether you're aware of it or not, copywriting is one of the most essential elements of effective marketing. It's the art and science of strategically delivering words that get people to take action. In this book, you will learn how to write copy that connects and converts. You don't have to guess what to write. You can learn exactly what words will increase the level of your success ... Every. Single. Time.The right words can make the difference between your business fighting to keep the lights on vs. your business breaking sales records.From this book, you will discover: How to Tell a Compelling Story Formatting Tips That Make Your Copy a Joy to Read The Seven Saleable Emotions How to Write Headlines That Draw People In Writing Copy for Social Media Creating a Persona How to Write an Effective Call to Action (CTA) Conversations Lead to Conversions Emails that Make You Click And Much, Much More Start Reading Now, and Take Your Copywriting to The Next Level.
Freedom Formula
Building a successful company and career doesn't mean sacrificing your family, health, or life. You check email the moment you lift your head off the pillow in the morning. You bring work with you on vacation, sneak glances at your smart phone during family dinners, and take business calls and texts at your kid's sports games. It's as if you've been forced to make a choice between your company or your life, sacrificing time for yourself and family for the sake of career success. But it doesn't have to be that way. The most successful business leaders have learned to bust through the direct one-to-one relationship between hours worked and value created by refocusing their company, department, or team's best talent and attention on their highest value activities--generating hundreds, even thousands, of hours of value in the process. In The Freedom Formula, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful entrepreneur David Finkel will help you operationalize working smarter. No fluff, no theory, Finkel shares the detailed blueprint to create maximum value for your company without working nights, weekends, or while on "vacation." You'll learn: Why working longer and harder doesn't pay off (and what actually does) Why the 80-20 principle doesn't go far enough (and how to take it to its most productive extreme) How to escape the Time and Effort Economy How to structure your day and week so that you reclaim five or more hours each week in usable blocks of your best time How to leverage the five Freedom Accelerators to get your life back faster And much more! Whether you're a business owner, top executive, key manager--or aspire to be one--The Freedom Formula offers a radical new approach to structuring your time and priorities (and your team's) in order to reclaim hours of your day--and the freedom to live your life, not just your job.
Mid-Reach
Are you mid-reach? Not at the beginning of your career, but far from the end? Written by first-time author and highly-successful young professional Betsy Mack, Mid-Reach is a business memoir that feels more like a high-level conversation with a good friend over a glass of wine. Written for anybody in the messy middle of their career, this is a book that hopes to inspire, empower, and celebrate failing while in the midst of success.Mid-Reach highlights the importance of fostering relationships, owning your mistakes, and celebrating your successes (even the small ones). Mack offers strategic suggestions and concrete advice that is easily translatable for any situation, while keeping it relatable, witty, smart, fun, and 100% real. Grab a copy, a bottle of wine, (plus maybe a good friend or two), and be prepared to laugh, nod along, and reach ... just a little bit further.
Rado Biznesu - Joy of Business Polish
Co by się stalo, gdyby BIZNES byl RADOŚCIĄ i ZABAWĄ? Co by bylo, gdyby krylo się pod tym więcej niż kiedykolwiek sobie wyobrażaleś? Gdybyś kreowal biznes z pozycji cieszenia się nim - co byś wybral? Co byś w nim zmieni? Jakich dokonalbyś wybor籀w, gdybyś wiedzial, że nigdy nie możesz odnieść porażki? Biznes jest RADOŚCIĄ, jest kreacją, ma w sobie pierwiastek tw籀rczy. Może być PRZYGODĄ Twojego ISTNIENIA.Simone Milasas, pochodząca z Australii jest dynamiczną liderką biznesu, kt籀ra r籀żni się od innych. Jest międzynarodową koordynatorką Access Consciousness(R) (www.accessconsiousness.com), zalożycielką Dobrych Wibracji dla Ciebie i kreatywną iskierką, kt籀ra rozpalila Radość z Biznesu (www.accessjoyofbusiness.com) "Uwielbialam czytać tę książkę. Przyczynila się do zmiany wielu rzeczy. Widzę miejsca w biznesie, gdzie wlożylam tylko jeden palec w wodę, zamiast wybrać przygodę zanurzenia się w calości. Stalam się bardziej świadoma w jaki spos籀b komunikować się z ludźmi, kt籀rzy używają innego stylu komunikowania się niż m籀j. Kurczę blade, to dopiero przygoda! Simone, dziękuję za to, że przypomnialaś mi jak bardzo się r籀żni m籀j biznes i spos籀b w jaki go prowadzę i dziękuję za przypomnienie, że wszystko jest możliwe - i nie ważne co m籀wiliby inni" - Diva Diaz, Australia
Using UML Activities to model Business Processes
This Handbook is on the subject of using Activities and Activity Diagrams, as defined by the Unified Modelling Language (UML), to model Business Processes. As such it may be useful to architects, analysts and designers who are engaged in modelling enterprise processes for whatever reason.
Effective Copywriting Strategy-for Money & Sales
If you want to learn how to write words, that make people buy stuff, then this book is for you. Have you tried to sell something online (or in print), but struggled to get sales? Do you have trouble finding the right words--to convince people to buy your products? Do you own a website or email list, and wish your readers were more receptive to your pitch? The truth is: Getting people to see the value in any product, is difficult. People are busy. And writing words that get attention is not easy. The solution is to apply the formula that professional copywriters use--to write persuasive text for your target audience. Writers have been developing the art and science of copywriting for centuries. But, you'd only know their tricks, if you worked in an advertising agency, or spent long hours--testing various marketing ploys. Fortunately, we've scaled this process down into just one book! THIS BOOK WILL TEACH YOU THE FORMULA THAT TURNS WORDS INTO CASH. You will learn: A complete introduction to copywriting--featuring all the foundational principles that contemporary copywriters use--to persuade the masses. The easy way to get your writing work Done. Done. Done. (Even if you hate writing.) How to use your own inspirational story (in your own voice), to get those sales. Hint: Your own personal story is often the best marketing tool in your toolbox! The clever Copywriting Shortcut developed by the famous Internet Marketer Frank Kern, that makes writing effective copy easy. The ten best headlines that practically guarantee a sale. How to compose your email, so that you can avoid the Junk Mail folder. A huge chapter on Keyword Research and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) teaching how to write your web text so that it attracts Google visitors. A chapter on User Interface Design--where we teach you why the arrangement of buttons and links on a webpage, might be more important than the words themselves. How to write PPC (Pay-Per-Click) ads for Google AdWords or Bing Ads. And, we'll learn about the secrets tools that copywriters forged many years ago--via their experience in traditional media, like: print advertising, direct mail, and even press releases. When you learn to spot the innate triggers, that turn readers into buyers, then the chore of copywriting will actually become easy, and fun! Even if you've never published a single word before, you can still be a great copywriter! Because great copywriting is not about art or poetry. It's about speaking the customer's language, and knowing which words to use and which triggers make him want to buy. Maybe you're a blogger or web-designer. Maybe you do email marketing or social media (like Facebook, Instagram, & LinkedIn). Perhaps you write for magazines or traditional print media. Whatever medium you choose, this book will work for you--because the rules of copywriting are timeless. If you've ever signed up to a website, downloaded an eBook, or bought a gadget online, then you've been subject to the enchantment of a copywriter. In fact, the skillset is in more in-demand now, than ever before! Because, in this information age, everybody is a writer! (Of one form or another...) So, you might as well learn to be a good one. One that knows how to write words that sell! Ready to learn more? If you want to know how to write persuasive words that sell, then get the book now!
Start Here
NEVER before has entrepreneurship been delivered in an UNFILTERED, real and raw way...until now. This book is NOT for people that want a politically correct and silver-lined happy-go-lucky view of entrepreneurship. That's crap. Supported by case studies and testimonials from entrepreneurs that have grown their businesses all over the planet using these best practice systems, former US Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year Clay Clark shares the specific action steps for successful business systems, hilarious stories from situations that every entrepreneur faces, and entrepreneurship factoids that are guaranteed to blow your mind.
Increase Your Impact and Influence
INCREASE YOUR IMPACT AND INFLUENCE features different ways to share your message in multiple formats in order to reach your intended audience in the ways they prefer to get that message. This message is whatever content or communication you want to convey, and you can repackage and repurpose your message in various ways to break through the clutter in today's supercharged information age. Doing so can help others hear and respond to your message, and you can share it for different purposes: to build your business and make more money; to promote a cause; to teach, inspire, and motivate others; or to get more leads for whatever you are doing. The book describes the different formats you might use and how to best create and share your content on each format. These different formats include: - blogs and articles - social media copy - books - press releases and press kits - website copy - brochures and flyers - PowerPoint presentations - videos - speeches - workshops, seminars, webinars, and teleseminars - radio shows and podcasts - online classes and courses - coaching and consulting - newsletters - scripts - advertising and promotional copy The book concludes by discussing packaging and presenting your material and delegating and outsourcing your work.GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, Ph.D., J.D., is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar leader, specializing in business and work relationships, professional and personal development, social trends, and popular culture. She has published 50 books with major publishers and over 150 through her company Changemakers Publishing. She has worked with dozens of clients on memoirs, self-help, popular business books, and film scripts.
Additional Ways to Earn More They Don't Teach
I am not a financial adviser. I'm a single father of two with passive income solution. As any parent knows, having kids will teach you lessons in finances that no economics course ever could (although I do have a business degree). When my wife and I divorced in 2018, it was like a bomb went off. I had no more help with childcare, no more partner to stay up at night with a sick baby. I knew I had to get my finances in better shape in order to provide for myself and my family. I knew I wanted to provide for my children and their future, needing such things as college fund, a home where they had more space, and their own rooms. I interacted with the individuals whose finances trumped mine. I began to see patterns on how to make money and what makes someone successful and applied them to my own life. The idea of ways to make money, leveraging my income, and making my money work for me instead me working for it triggered, and it became my goal to build passive income. Especially now, I realize how expensive it is to raise children, be single, and pay for day care. Even though as of writing this book we share the kids fifty-fifty, I still have to take them to day care so I can work. Not all the passive income ideas and tips mentioned in this book will work for you. Personally, I've implemented a few of the tips written. Each tip is different for each individual, and you have to do what you feel is best for you. What works for me may not necessarily work for you, and vice versa. I hope something in this book will ignite that fire in you to run with it in your life. Whether it's to build wealth, add to your retirement, or just put a few more bucks in your pocket, I am sure there's something in here for you. And, oh yes, I would like to thank our Lord and Savior because without Him, none of this would be possible.
My Plan For Living To 156
You have a number--we all do. Once your brain locks onto your imagined lifespan, your body accepts it as fact. You create your number based upon family history, genetics, or averages. This number shapes the way you view the world: relationships, finances, retirement--everything. But what if you could extend your number? The result would be astounding. Everything could change.The idea in this book has revolutionized the lives of tens of thousands of people. You might even say it has added years to their lives--literally. Although it could sound a bold claim, in their own words, here are just 10 quick benefits readers often experience when they apply this content. They...1. Stop feeling nostalgic about the past 2. Start feeling excited about the future 3. Increase their awareness about being healthy and fit 4. Experience milestones they've only dreamed of 5. Improve the quality of their relationships 6. Expand their earning potential 7. Reshape their thinking and mindset 8. Improve their energy levels 9. Feel less stress and pressure 10. Gain a new appreciation and optimism for lifeWhat you believe shapes how you live--or, in this case, how long you live. Isn't it time you extended your life? Give yourself that gift, starting today!
Strategic Preparation
We're convinced that most people don't prepare to the level they could, so they don't often end up with the results they'd like to have. We believe preparation is a giant overlooked factor in achieving success and getting better and faster results. How well do you prepare? Do you think there is another level for you? If so, please read on. Preparation pays! It involves thinking, which is one of the powerful secrets we share with our clients so they get much more favorable results. One particularly critical aspect of thinking we teach to our clients is preparing for the future with a balance of "doing it now" (including Production Before Perfection-see No. 25) and the discipline of delayed gratification (see No. 24). Delayed gratification is such an effective concept because it encompasses so many angles-such as long-term thinking, putting in effort up front, doing Favors in Advance (see No. 41), and nourishing relationships-that yield amazing results down the line. It's certainly a win to live in the present, and I do. Yet this book is about winning, winning more, and winning bigger in the future. That's why you'll want to not just read it; you'll want to study it and put it in the hands of every team member and every young person in your life.
Millennials’ Guide to Work
How can Millennials Succeed at Work?In our 20s and 30s, we all struggle with starting our first job, navigating new workplaces, and being successful at work. At the same time, we're striving to identify who we are, what we want, and how to get it.Millennials' Guide to Work helps readers identify what is important to them, how to clarify their values, and how to navigate complex workplaces. Clinical psychologist Jennifer P. Wisdom believes we all need to work together to help the youngest members of the workforce be successful. This guide is for Millennials who want to achieve and find success, satisfaction and respect in their professional lives.This Practical Guide Includes: -- Advice on overcoming 60 everyday challenges-- Strategies for dealing with problematic colleagues-- Tips for working with challenging bosses-- A guide to clarifying your values and goals
The Comprehensive Guide for PMP(R) Certification
Kailash (Kal) Jayaswal, PMP, and Archana Jayaswal, PMP, CSM, wrote The Comprehensive Guide for PMP(R) Certification to make it easier and quicker for those who are preparing for the PMP (Project Management Professional) Exam.This guide is different from others that are now in the market because it is written in a conversational style with a visually-rich layout. It has numerous illustrations, diagrams, exercises, and solved examples that makes it quicker to understand and remember PMBOK concepts. The Comprehensive Guide for PMP(R) Certification also includes more than 200 figures and tables, more than 400 practice questions, and a full-length 200-question test that provides an actual exam experience.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
At a time when women have more tools than ever before to help them break through the glass ceiling, including the government's Glass Ceiling Initiative and the 1991 Civil Rights Act, far too many remain trapped beneath it. Based on the ground-breaking three-year study of female executives that brought the glass ceiling to national attention, this book examines the factors that determine success or derailment in the corporate environment, reveals how the executive environment is different for women, and looks at the new obstacles along the road to the top.Vital reading for every woman in business and for every employer and manager now responsible for the removal of advancement barriers for women, Breaking the Glass Ceiling explodes the long-held myths and provides practical advice on how to smash the glass ceiling.
Words at Work
Today's business prose has to be done yesterday. And it has to cut through gigabytes of other information. Can your memos and marketing material compete? do you spend so much time agonizing over words that you have no time for other work?With Words at Work you can make your writing faster, more foreceful, and more fun. Susan Benjamin's six-step process can turn your next business documnet into the best you've ever written. Learn to: Raise a "writing umbrella" to make your message memorable; exorcise the demons of past criticism and bad advice; strengthen your style at a glance with "no-read" editing.Words at Work gives you quick-and-easy recipes for the most important letters, reports, and proposals. It steers you around the potholes of punctuation, usage, and grammar. Soon all your business documents, from press releases to e-mail, will reflect your best work--and leave you enough time to do that work!
Trend Tracking
Trend Trracking ... will enable you to turn today's information explosion into personal profit. In this invaluable book, pioneer trends analyst Gerald Celente provides you with a powerful tool--the Globalnomic system--previously available only to clients of the prestigious Socio-Economic Research Institute. Celente's easy-to-follow techniques will teach you to monitor current events that form future trends, make connections between seemingly unrelated fields...and gain by your findings. Book jacket.
The Ethical Imperative
Ethics are becoming the defining business issue of our time, affecting corporate profits and credibility, as well as personal security and the sustainability of a global economy. From price-fixing to bribery to toxic-waste dumping, companies around the world are engaging in unethical practices and chalking them up to the cost of doing business. but in an increasingly transparent global economy, where companies are being scrutinized by the media, private watch groups, government, competitors and their own employees, it is just such unethical practices that deplete profits, jeopardize reputations and, in cases like Barings Bank, risk the entire business. By the most conservative estimate, yearly losses due to unethical behavior equal more than the profits of the top forty corporations in North America. Such economic waste and moral loss require more than a PR Band-Aid.But how does a company and its managers and employees begin to encode an ethical construct into its bottom-line strategies and daily practices? In the Ethical Imperative, John Dalla Costa outlines the process for incorporating, teaching and reinforcing ethical principles to the direct benefit of customers, shareholders, employees and profits. Drawing from the fields of management, theology and the behavioral sciences, Dalla Costa makes clear why corporate ethics must be a fundamental component of any business. He provides a working practical model that business people can use to establish their own "Ethical Orientation" and outlines a new, forward-thinking "global ethic for the global economy" based on respect, honesty, fairness, justice and environmental responsibility. Case examples from a wide variety of industries are used to illustrate the workings of this ethical framework and help managers customize the model to serve the needs and priorities of their own business.As managers and consumers, many people are concerned about such issues as sweatshops, global warming and discrimination in the workplace, and are struggling to integrate their beliefs into their jobs, companies and purchases. The Ethical Imperative links these personal values to business performance. It is a compelling and useful "must-read" for executives and managers, employees and policy-makers, environmentalists, consumers and anyone who possesses an interest and concern over current ethical issues.
The Workplace Law Advisor
In today's competitive and ever-changing business environment it's no wonder that the workplace can become highly charged, especially when managers and employees alike are unaware of their legal rights and responsibilities. In The Workplace Law Advisor, veteran labor and employment attorney Anne Covey offers a comprehensive and accessible resource for managers and executives, entrepreneurs and small business owners, employees and human resource professionals in all industries. Illustrating every principle through real-life examples, the author provides practical guidance on how to interpret and apply employment law in order to forge more productive relationships in the workplace. The Workplace Law Advisor answers the most frequently asked questions about the employment relationship, covering such issues as: The top ten reasons why employees sue their employers and how to avoid these lawsuits; The crucial role of effective communication in the workplace; The Americans with Disabilities Act and who qualifies for its benefits; Protecting your organization and yourself from the costly effects of sexual harassment; The Family and Medical Leave Act
When Money Isn’t Enough
Women in the '70s and '80s who broke through the corporate glass ceiling have discovered that sitting in the corner office and "having it all" has not made them happy. The traditional definitions of success -- money, a fast-track career, etc. -- are coming up empty for many "successful" women. This book presents profiles and interviews with women across the country who have found success on their own terms and offers these empowered people as updated role models. In addition, it has a detailed resource section to help women formulate plans specifically tailored to their situation, making this book not only an intellectual and emotional booster shot, but a practical workbook as well.
The Male Mind at Work
Knowledge is a powerful tool. The Male Mind at Work answers the troublesome and intriguing questions about how men think, feel, and behave on the job. This thought-provoking book shatters myths about what really goes on in the male mind while confirming for women the realities about gender differences that have always existed. With a focus on how to bypass difficulties smoothly, it offers clear strategies for women who feel frustrated because male colleagues speak a different language or play by different rules.
Trends 2000
In this remarkable guide, the author identifies today's hidden, influential trends and reveals how they'll shape the events of the coming century.
Eveolution
190 million female consumers . . . $4.4 trillion in buying power . . . one book--the national bestseller now in paperback and newly revised--that tells you how to reach them. She knows business. She knows women. And she definitely knows better than anyone on Madison Avenue how to bring them together. Faith Popcorn, America's leading trend forecaster, shows that no one can succeed in business or successfully start one without understanding how to market to women.
Miller’s Bolt
Miller's Bolt is the fast-paced fictional story of a top-notch manager who is in danger of being fired. For although Jim Manion does his job well, his relationships with his coworkers have become increasingly antagonistic. Given just three months to turn himself around, Jim consults his friend Peter Miller, a personal performance coach, and together the two of them work to save Jim's career.We watch Jim as he learns new interpersonal skills, manages change, and improves his performance. Thomas Stirr guides us through the techniques and conceptual tools that Jim uses, including Miller's Bolt--a simple and logical tool that reminds us that our performance is never static. We are either getting a little better and moving up the threads on our bolt, or a little worse and moving downward--every day.Realistic characters and situations bring the story alive as Jim faces the challenges of a tense board meeting, a climate of lagging sales, and his personal nemesis, a manipulative coworker who tests Jim's newfound skills. Each of these dramatic turning points further crystallizes the main message of the book: If we want our lives to be different in the future we have to make different decisions today. By taking responsibility for our perceptions, our relationships, and our performance, we gain the ability to learn and grow.As we read about Jim's success and failures, we learn along with him the practical skills that we all need to thrive in today's business world. Miller's Bolt is a new kind of business book: It's a page-turner.
The Sponsor Effect
Are you investing in the right people?Many people know the benefit of finding a sponsor--someone who goes beyond traditional mentorship to partner with a junior-level employee to help build their skills, advocate for them when opportunities arise, and open doors. But few realize that being a sponsor is just as important to career growth as finding one.According to new research from economist and thought leader Sylvia Ann Hewlett, senior executives who sponsor rising talent are 53 percent more likely to be promoted than those who don't. Similarly, middle-level managers who have proteges are 167 percent more likely to be given stretch assignments. Well-chosen proteges contribute stellar performance, steadfast loyalty, and capabilities that you, the sponsor, may lack, thus increasing how fast and how far you can go.But how do you find standout proteges, let alone develop them so that they're able to come through for you and your organization?This book has the answers you need. Combining powerful new data and rich examples drawn from in-depth interviews with leaders from companies such as Unilever, Aetna, Blizzard Entertainment, and EY, The Sponsor Effect provides a seven-step playbook for how you can become a successful sponsor. You'll learn to: Identify the right mix of protegesInclude those with differing perspectivesInspire your proteges and ignite their ambitionInstruct them to develop key skill setsInspect your picks for performance and loyaltyInstigate a deal, detailing the terms of a relationshipInvest three ways and reap the rewardsAlong the way, you'll discover the enormous benefits of investing in these valuable relationships.
Lead the Field
The only official print edition endorsed by Nightingale Conant. This beautifully packaged collector's edition will make a great addition to your library. Hundreds of thousands of business leaders and aspiring professionals have profited from the wisdom and savvy of Lead the Field! Now you can too. Lead the Field has often been referred to as the "Program of Presidents" because so many top executives and business leaders have incorporated Earl Nightingale's insight and guidance into their management philosophies. This landmark book is a practical guide on how to think and act like a success. The timeless stories Nightingale uses to make his points are as profound as they are accessible. In this classic program, you will learn to: Double your mental capabilityRecognize and easily overcome the biggest stumbling block to high achievement in business and in life.Dramatically improve your life by changing one simple thingEnjoy more success with an easy 3-minute-a-day exerciseAssess your potential worth and start increasing it now You'll also discover uplifting and insightful information like the importance of forgiveness, how "intelligent objectivity" can improve your professional life, and the usefulness of constructive discontent. As Nightingale will show you, the magic word in life is ATTITUDE. It determines your actions, as well as the actions of others. It tells the world what you expect from it. When you accept responsibility for your attitude, you accept responsibility for your entire life. Remember, if the grass is greener on the other side... ...it's probably getting better care. Success in business and life is not a matter of luck or circumstance. It's not a matter of fate or the breaks you get or who you know. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of commonsense principles that anyone can master. Now it's your turn to bring positive changes to your own life--changes that will allow you to lead the field yourself!
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
The first book by the creator of COURSERA(R)'s most popular online course in 2015, "A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment" Could the same traits that drive your career success also be keeping you from being happier? Fifteen years after getting his MBA, Raj Raghunathan spent some time with his old classmates. He noticed that though they'd all done well, there didn't appear to be much correlation between their academic success and career success. What Raj found even more curious was the even smaller correlation between career success and what he calls life success. The greater the career success, the more unhappy, out of shape, harried and distracted his friends were. If intelligence helps with decision-making, smart people should naturally make better life choices. So why are so many of the smartest, brightest, most successful people profoundly unhappy? Raj set out to find an answer to this problem, and extensively researched happiness not just of students and business people, but also stay-at-home-parents, lawyers, and artists, among others. If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? takes readers on a fun and meaningful tour of the best research available on how some of the very determinants of success may also come to deflate happiness. Raghunathan explores the seven most common inclinations that successful people need to overcome, and the seven habits they should adopt instead. Among his surprising findings... -The correlation between wealth and happiness is much smaller than you'd expect it to be-Generosity is not only a key to happiness, but a determining factor of long term success-Appreciating uncertainty, rather than seeking full control of outcomes, is necessary for happiness If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? will give you a powerful new perspective on your work, personal goals and relationships, whether you're already successful or just starting out.
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (Random House Large Print)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."--The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy--who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn't my mountain after all. There's another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment. In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose. In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it's also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extreme--and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.
HBR 10 Must Reads for CEOs
As CEO, you set the vision, the strategy, and the tone of your organization.You establish priorities, anticipate and address challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, and manage risk. Though you may have a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, the success of your organization depends on your leadership.If you read nothing else on being an effective chief executive, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you toggle between long- and short-term views, manage risk and innovation, and cultivate productive relationships with your staff and your board. This book will inspire you to: Navigate the changing global business environmentCustomize your company's strategy to the environment you're working inAttract, engage, and retain the best talentAnticipate and address legislative and regulatory issuesSharpen your awareness of the tactical and soft skills you need to leadAdopt a founder's mindset and build new offerings, move into new markets, and create next-generation solutionsManage and build relationships with your board--and your shareholdersThis collection of articles includes "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy," by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns; "Managing Your Innovation Portfolio," by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff; "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "Strategic Intent," by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad; "When Growth Stalls," by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry; "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers; "The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman; "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; and "How CEOs Can Work with an Active Board," by Ken Banta and Stephen D. Garrow.
From the Streets to a Millionaire
From the Streets to a Millionaire is simply a story with inspiration and tools an everyday person can easily use no matter where you are in life right now to face your adversity and achieve massive success. We all have a story of heart break, death, illness, tragedy, bankruptcy, financial struggles, relationship issues and adversity. This book simply offers a step-by-step guide to face that adversity and turn it into whatever you truly desire in this life and achieve success. Jason Grossman shares with you his wins and more importantly his losses and mistakes he has made since dropping out of high school, being kicked out of home, living on the streets and overdosing on heroin. To creating financial freedom, living a dream lifestyle that allows him to travel the world, and most importantly create a charity organization and businesses that contribute to making a difference worldwide. This book is filled with inspiring stories, mistakes and learnings along Jason's journey and a step-by-step guide of how he turned his adversity into massive success. In the hopes to inspire you to truly believe that it is possible for you to live the life of your dreams and begin to unleash your untapped infinite reservoir of pure potential. Within this book you will discover specific strategies on how to create financial freedom, align your psychology for success, live a happier healthier life, travel the world, and truly live the life of your dreams. Life can be hard, it can be tough even ruthless at times, but it is possible, no matter where you are right now you can be happy, no matter what you've been through or adversity you have faced it truly is possible for you to be massively successful. Many people will read this back cover and not take action or read this entire book, many people will coast through life not living up to their true potential and transform their dreams into reality. Will you? Dream it, Believe it, Do it!
Sleight of Hand
Sleight of Hand - An Entrepreneurs Bag of Tricks gives you the real definition of entrepreneurship and shares a truthful look into business. Not everyone was meant to be an entrepreneur. While playing the role as the CEO, Janitor, Director of Sales, Product Engineer, Packaging Engineer, Shipping Manager, Pre Press Manager, Press Helper and so much more, Riess became whatever was needed. He was whatever was needed at any given minute, day or night, for the growing brand. Like a magician, he convinced everyone that the vision he had was real enough to believe and, in time, it became a reality. This book will open your eyes to the truth about being an entrepreneur and motivate or demotivate you to pursue the journey of building something successful.
Business Data Science
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Use machine learning to understand your customers, frame decisions, and drive value The business analytics world has changed, and Data Scientists are taking over. Business Data Science takes you through the steps of using machine learning to implement best-in-class business data science. Whether you are a business leader with a desire to go deep on data, or an engineer who wants to learn how to apply Machine Learning to business problems, you'll find the information, insight, and tools you need to flourish in today's data-driven economy. You'll learn how to: - Use the key building blocks of Machine Learning: sparse regularization, out-of-sample validation, and latent factor and topic modeling - Understand how use ML tools in real world business problems, where causation matters more that correlation - Solve data science programs by scripting in the R programming language Today's business landscape is driven by data and constantly shifting. Companies live and die on their ability to make and implement the right decisions quickly and effectively. Business Data Science is about doing data science right. It's about the exciting things being done around Big Data to run a flourishing business. It's about the precepts, principals, and best practices that you need know for best-in-class business data science.
The Visual MBA
Jason Barron spent 516 hours in class, completed mountains of homework and shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to complete his MBA at the BYU Marriott School of Business. Along the way, rather than taking boring notes that he would never read (nor use) again, Jason created sketch notes for each class--visually capturing the essential points of his business education--and providing an engaging and invaluable resource.Once finished with his MBA, Jason launched a widely successful Kickstarter campaign distilling these same notes into a self-published book to help aspiring business leaders of all backgrounds and income levels understand the critical business leadership concepts one learns in business school.Whether you are thinking about applying to business school, are currently in college studying business, or have always wondered what is taught in an MBA program, this highly entertaining and visual guide to business is for you.This innovative book breaks down essential MBA principles into easy-to-understand visual notes on key topics: Management and Leadership: Learn the frameworks for motivating teams and building an effective organization, turning theory into practice.Marketing Essentials: Understand how to define a target customer and create a powerful marketing mix, all captured in memorable sketch notes.Entrepreneurship Basics: From validating your business idea to raising capital, discover the key steps of the startup journey.Corporate Finance Explained: Grasp the core concepts of finance without the dense textbooks, from financial statements to company valuation.
Your Professional Growth
Don't wait for someone else to manage your career.The days of HR-sponsored development plans are over. Managing your career--and the skills you need to be successful--is your responsibility. If you're looking to push yourself to the next level, it can be hard to determine where to start.The HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth will be your coach, transforming your abstract hopes and ideas into a concrete action plan. No matter where you are in your career, this guide will help you: Assess your current skills--and acquire new onesElicit feedback you can useSet meaningful--and achievable--goalsMake time for learningPlay to your strengthsIdentify your next challengeArm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
The Myth of the Nice Girl
An Amazon Best Business Book of 2018 Selected by Audible as the Best Business Book of 2018 Named "Best New Book" by People Magazine and Refinery29 Named a Most Anticipated Title of April 2018 by Bustle and Levo A Women@Forbes "Boss Moves Book Club" pick A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the processFran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. In this guide offering essential career advice for women, she tackles a common double-bind: If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but if they are tough, they are labeled a bitch.Hauser proves that women don't have to sacrifice their values or hide their authentic personalities to be successful. Sharing a wealth of personal anecdotes and time-tested strategies, she provides a roadmap for authentic leadership. She shows women how to reclaim "nice" and sidestep regressive stereotypes about what a strong leader looks like. Her accessible advice and hard-won wisdom detail how to improve workplace communication, balance being empathetic with being decisive, rise above the double standards that can box you in, and cultivate authentic confidence that projects throughout a room.THE MYTH OF THE NICE GIRL is a refreshing dose of forward-looking feminism that will resonate with smart, professional women who know what they want and are looking for a guide to professional development that takes their career to the next level without losing themselves in the process.How can ambitious women climb the ladder without sacrificing who they are?Develop Leadership Skills: Learn to be both empathetic and decisive, sidestepping the regressive stereotypes that can hold women back from the corner office.Speak Up Assertively: Find your voice and contribute with confidence in meetings, give feedback that gets results, and handle difficult conversations with grace.Negotiate with Confidence: Secure the salary, title, and opportunities you deserve by negotiating with a strategy rooted in both empathy and strength.Set Healthy Boundaries: Protect your time and energy to focus on what truly matters, learning how to say "no" kindly so you can say "yes" to your biggest career goals.
The Arsonist in the Office
The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues. If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement - to not just "create" a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal but fireproofing it - is just as important. This book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know how to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organization's arsonists Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organization or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!
Women Leaders
Women Leaders - The Power of Working Abroad will benefit those committed to broadening the ranks of leadership and women aspiring to fast track a career.Working and living abroad is the most powerful development approach to diversify talent pipelines to address the swelling talent shortage and leadership crisis. The authors combine their expertise with the advice of women in senior expatriate roles (WiSER) from all corners of the globe to empower women to overcome barriers slowing their career progression. This gives women an edge to succeed in international assignments by decreasing ramp-up time, enabling a smoother work transition, and promoting high performance quickly. This book makes the opportunity to accelerate women into leadership pipelines, by working and living abroad, accessible to all.
New Mindset, New Results
Your Mindset will help you build self-confidence and self-discipline. It will help you overcome any obstacle and any problem. All you need is a new Results Focused Mindset.
The Direct Mail Revolution
BOOST YOUR BUSINESS WITH DIRECT MAILThink direct-mail marketing is a thing of the past? Think again. In our digital world, it's easy to overlook the power of a snail mail marketing piece. You can in fact create a direct-mail marketing campaign that could earn you an ROI as high as 1,300 percent.In The Direct Mail Revolution, legendary copywriting pioneer and marketing expert Robert W. Bly shares direct mail strategies that will transform your business, win you more customers, and earn more profits. Whether you're new to direct mail or need to revamp a local or hyperlocal marketing strategy, this book is your clear, comprehensive blueprint to winning new and ongoing sales with direct mail.Learn how to: Keep your marketing pieces out of the trash with perfectly crafted letters, brochures, postcards, and moreIncrease response rates with the six characteristics of irresistible offersTrack and test the key ingredients of your direct-mail campaignSeamlessly integrate your print and digital marketing efforts for a multidimensional sales funnelGain leads and sales with the "magic words" of direct-response copyAvoid the most common "snail mail" mistakes that will get your marketing ignoredPlus, receive Bly's very own templates, samples, and checklists that have stood the test of time to ensure your direct-mail strategy earns you the success you've been hoping for.
Being the Boss
Are you the boss you need to be?You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers.You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey and instead just learn how to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses.This essential book, now with a new preface, explains how to avoid that fate by mastering three imperatives: Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about doing all the work on your own. It's about leading others to accomplish things with you as their guide.Manage your network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization, and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environmentManage your team: Create a high-performing "we" out of all the "I's" who report to you.Packed with compelling stories and practical advice, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide not only for first-time managers but for all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
