Building Business

Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it...

New York Times best-selling author Dr. John C. Maxwell has a message for you, and for today's corporate culture fixated on talent above all else: TALENT IS NEVER ENOUGH. People everywhere are proving him right. Read the headlines, watch the highlights, or just step out your front door: Some...

In The Advisor Breakthrough, financial marketing expert Shawn Sparks shares the step-by-step principles for developing the ultimate financial advisory practice. Based on the lessons Shawn has learned from working with the country's top financial advisors over the past 10 years, you will discover many of the most important top one-percent advisor lessons. The Advisor Breakthrough delivers a comprehensive plan for creating marketing, sales, and operations tactics that will help any financial advisor turn a successful, sustainable business.

Would you like to create habits that will permanently stick and finally make the changes you want in life? Imagine if you could build powerful habits that you'll consistently stick to for the rest of your life. What if you could finally break the shackles of procrastination and stay on track with your most important habits day after day? How much more do you think you could achieve in the next five years? Twenty years?

Aaker on Branding distills the most essential branding principles from David Aaker’s extensive works, offering a comprehensive guide to building a strong, enduring brand. This compact resource provides businesses with actionable insights on brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand management, addressing key branding challenges and offering a road map to prioritize and apply Aaker’s concepts effectively.

Mastering the Cube skillfully lays out proven organization design principles. Comparing today's complex organizations to a Rubik's Cube, the authors explain how focusing improvement efforts on just one or two facets of the organization is akin to concentrating on just one side of the cube. Doing so is bound to affect - and more likely jumble - the other areas needed to generate a healthy and sustainable organization. They advocate stepping back and taking a systems-wide, comprehensive view of change and bringing all elements into alignment with strategy.

Authors William Baker and Michael O’Malley teach you that--far from popular media portrayals of corporate callousness--kindness has a very distinct and essential place in the office. Without presenting a naive idea of kindness, this eye-opening book identifies the surprising attributes...

In How to Launch Your Pressure Washing Business, VentureNest Books provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide tailored for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to establish a successful pressure washing service. This book addresses common challenges such as drafting a solid business plan, ensuring operational profitability, and navigating the complexities of the cleaning industry.

"How to Start a Landscaping Business" by VentureNest Books is a comprehensive guide for aspiring entrepreneurs eager to transform their passion for nature into a successful landscaping venture. The book addresses common challenges, such as knowing where to begin, pricing services, understanding legal requirements, and effectively marketing the business. It provides a structured approach to launching, managing, and growing a landscaping company with step-by-step instructions.

Caring for Tomorrow by Sage Ellison addresses the pressing challenges faced by caregivers in America and highlights the potential for community-driven solutions to create a sustainable caregiving economy. As the population ages and the need for care increases, individuals often struggle to balance their caregiving responsibilities with personal and professional lives, feeling overwhelmed by inadequate support systems. This book offers a meaningful pathway for enhancing caregiver support through practical insights and strategies.

In It’s Not Just Who You Know, Tommy Spaulding—the former CEO of Up With People—has written the new How to Win Friends and Influence People for the twenty-fist century. Success—in business and in life—is all about relationships. In this powerful guide to reaching out to others...

In this expanded third edition of the bestselling The Introverted Leader, Jennifer Kahnweiler equips introverted executives with essential tools for success in an extrovert-centric business world. With over 120,000 copies sold across multiple languages, this timely update addresses the evolving needs of introverted leaders, including navigating remote and hybrid work environments.

A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy. Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love’s lingerie designed...

Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt propose a radical new theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. They argue that free market thinking fails to consider the impact of human nature on the innovation process. This ambitious work challenges the basic assumptions that economists have held for over a century.

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing you how new ideas are merely the combination of existing ideas.

Have you ever wished your website could do more than show visitors information about your company and its products or services? Or, do you have a great idea for a startup, but don't know how to turn your concept into a great website? In Building a Successful Web App, entrepreneur and veteran web developer Paul J. Scott walks you step-by-step through the process of coming up with a great web app concept, choosing the right programming team, and turning your vision into a reality.

Have you ever dreamed of turning your love for dogs into a thriving business? Starting a dog walking business can be a fulfilling and profitable endeavor, but navigating the path from passion to profit isn't always straightforward. Many aspiring entrepreneurs face challenges such as understanding local regulations, attracting clients, pricing services competitively, and managing day-to-day operations. This book offers a comprehensive guide for dog lovers who are eager to start their own successful dog walking business.

Soon, there will be a global race to build autonomous operations. Businesses and organizations without autonomous operations simply will not be able to compete with those that do because autonomy is the ultimate competitive advantage. Crypto is the mechanism that will accrue value from being the infrastructure for the next digital financial revolution. Crypto Asset Investing in the Age of Autonomy lays out a case that we've begun a new technological revolution similar to the Internet Age of the 1990s.

First published in 2012, Startup Communities became a blueprint for what it takes to build a supportive entrepreneurial community. Now regarded as a classic, the "Boulder Thesis" created and popularized by Feld within the book generated enormous media attention nearly a decade ago.

As a leader, a coach is the most significant role you can play. Discover how coaching makes developing people a high-payoff activity where you can equip tomorrow’s leaders, today. As a coach to some of the country’s highest-profile executives, Daniel Harkavy has witnessed the transformation...