Building Business

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

Get into the Navy SEAL mindset with this raw, brutally honest, in-your-face self-help guide that will teach you how to thrive on adversity. During the brutal crucible of Navy SEAL training, instructors often tell students to "embrace the suck." This phrase conveys the one lesson that is vital...

Unlock Your Emotional Potential and Forge Deeper Connections with Those Around You! Are you navigating life feeling overwhelmed by stress, strained relationships, or a lack of self-awareness? Do you struggle to manage your emotions effectively, leading to repeated challenges in personal and professional settings? Are you searching for a practical guide to cultivate emotional intelligence and foster meaningful connections in your life?

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.

Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a startup that would enable small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. The Innovation Stack is a thrilling business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square. It is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves and identify and fix unsolved problems - one crazy idea at a time.

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.

The most effective leaders know how to connect with people. It's not about power or popularity, but about making the people around you feel heard, comfortable, and understood. While it may seem like some folks are born with a commanding presence that draws people in, the fact is anyone can learn...

SOLD provides a much-needed look at how successful real estate agents build their business, close deals, and generate commissions. Best-selling author and expert real estate agent David Greene shares everything he wishes someone had shared with him - including the exact processes he used to become rookie of the year and top agent in his office.

Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it's difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you're likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don't have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees.

Learn how these author-entrepreneur moms hit a wall, pivoted, built even stronger businesses, and now each has a million-dollar story making a difference and changing their children’s lives. Best of all, they’ll share with you secrets of building wildly successful businesses while raising entrepreneurial kids; businesses like real estate investing, buying and flipping real estate, network marketing, blogging, finance, ecommerce, Fulfillment by Amazon, and more!

The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell takes a closer look at failure-and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone. He covers the top reasons people...

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.

From New York Times bestselling author of Rich AF and CEO and founder of Your Rich BFF, Vivian Tu, comes a guide to leveling up your finances to improve your life, relationships, and legacy. You’ve mastered the basics of becoming Rich AF. Your bills are paid, your loans are shrinking, and...

For ambitious entrepreneurs, the greatest threat isn’t market competition or funding—it’s the systemic inefficiency draining their growth potential. Discover the comprehensive framework that transforms overwhelmed business owners into strategic, high-functioning leaders with the capacity to scale.

How do you stand the f*ck out, like, for real? I became obsessed with this question. Everyone preaches standing out is critical, yet practical guidance is nowhere—not in business books, podcasts, or marketing courses. It's like being told to draw an owl without ever seeing one.

What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.

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.

Get everything you need to start your successful leadership journey through the 101 series compiled into one collection by John C. Maxwell. As the founder of EQUIP and the John Maxwell Company, bestselling author, speaker, and leadership expert John C. Maxwell is responsible for helping train...

Anyone that has been a service manager knows the job is incredibly stressful. I discovered that I could manage my stress level and generate amazing net profit by always keeping a finger on the pulse of the drive-through. You can turn your service lane into a profitable, minimally stressful environment you can be proud of, and "Gold Standard Service Advisors" are the key to it all.

Emily Heyward founded Red Antler, the Brooklyn-based brand and marketing company, to help entrepreneurs embed brand as a driver of business success from the beginning. In Obsessed, Heyward outlines the new principles of what it takes to build and launch a brand that has people queuing up to buy it on opening day.