Building Business

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces. For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen...

Reach your financial freedom with a recession-proof business that will allow you to collect ready-to-pick cash from your vending machines!

"Launching an Interior Design Business" by VentureNest Books is a comprehensive guide designed for aspiring interior designers eager to transform their creative passion into a thriving business. This essential resource addresses common challenges faced by individuals at the beginning of their entrepreneurial journey, particularly those lacking the necessary business know-how.

The 2020 Porchlight Marketing & Sales Book of the Year The cofounder and chief branding officer of Red Antler, the branding and marketing company for startups and new ventures, explains how hot new brands like Casper, Allbirds, Sweetgreen, and Everlane build devoted fan followings right out of...

Negotiation is a skill that can bring you vast success in all aspects of your life. When you're a skilled negotiator, you can get the best possible price on everything you purchase or sell, and you can deal with salespeople or clients.

Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. The tactical information it puts forward—including guidance on crafting foundational documents, strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, and feedback and performance mechanisms—can be applied to companies of any size, in any industry.

AI for Marketing and Product Innovation offers creatives and marketing professionals a non-tech guide to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) - twin technologies that stand poised to revolutionize the way we sell. This book helps you lean into the curve and take advantage of AI's unparalleled and rapidly expanding power. More than a simple primer on the technology, this book goes beyond the "what" to reveal the "how".

Overthinking Books for Women is an enlightening trilogy meticulously designed to guide women through the complex maze of overthinking towards the serene landscapes of self-awareness, enriched relationships, and emotional resilience. This comprehensive series serves as a beacon for those seeking to dismantle the barriers of over-analysis that hinder personal and relational growth, employing a compassionate and empowering narrative to foster a transformative journey of introspection and connection.

Ever wonder if you could invest like Warren Buffett, buying both private and public companies for your portfolio, even if you don’t have much money to start? Most people’s first reaction is doubt or skepticism. But instead of spending that money on your next cup of coffee, give this book a chance to show you what’s truly possible. You can use Buffett’s strategies not just for stocks, but to buy and own online businesses that bring in consistent cash flow month after month.

Beyond Fan Followers: The Journey from Social Influence to Lasting Impact In a world where social media followers are often equated with success, Beyond Fan Followers offers a powerful roadmap for transforming fleeting digital attention into authentic, meaningful influence. This book challenges the traditional concept of fame and gives listeners the tools they need to cultivate true connection and impact that goes far beyond the surface level of likes and shares.

You can achieve your business dream. Beat the odds as you learn from the best - including Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates - and turn your idea into an amazing and profitable enterprise. The Business Book helps you overcome the hurdles facing every new business, such as finding a gap in...

Employees that don't take ownership of their work. Friction between departments. Inconsistent results. These are the top challenges that face most businesses today. These common issues create high turnover and force managers into crisis mode where they're consumed putting out daily fires. Over time, the very nature of the business changes and a new culture emerges; one shaped by the lowest level of acceptable behavior.

Starting a creative company needn't cost you everything. If you agree, then you'll find wit and wisdom in this book for creative entrepreneurs. Author, artist, and graphic designer Patricia Arnold presents her best tips for starting a handmade business with this initial volume in her Creative Entrepreneur series. After starting a decade-old business with a shoestring budget and then founding a second business six years later, Patricia Arnold has a lot to say about building creative businesses from scratch.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

FINALLY! Build an affiliate business that’s so lasting, simple, & profitable you could sell it for millions… This book contains the simple systems and secrets that took me from living in my parents' basement to building lasting affiliate businesses that make me $10,000,000+ per year. Want to know the secret sauce? Pay-per call.

Building a Book of Business for Travel Advisors is a book for travel advisors looking to increase their income by growing their list of clients and securing high-commission bookings.

There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting - except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings - in person or online - without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by

The updated Thin Book of Trust offers a framework that supports trust building as a workplace competency. It is based on the idea that building trust is a competency, a set of skills that can be learned, improved, and practiced. It will help you continuously improve your ability to build and maintain trust with others. It can also help you create and contribute to a high-trust culture at work.

This audiobook is your complete guide to modern Agile product and project management—designed for leaders, practitioners, and students who want to master how products are conceived, built, and scaled in the era of AI. Drawing on real-world case studies from startups to Silicon Valley tech giants, it explains not only what Agile is, but how it drives business value, accelerates delivery, and enables innovation powered by generative AI and intelligent agents.

In the world of strength and conditioning, learning how to move others not just physically, but also psychologically and emotionally is paramount to getting the most out of them. People are the ultimate performance variable, and understanding how to effectively blend knowledge of proper training with the nuances of human behavior is integral to helping athletes achieve their ultimate goals. Unfortunately, while much attention has been given to the science of physical training, little attention has been given to the science of communication.