Business Education

The Systems Thinker will help you to implement systems thinking at your workplace, human relations, and everyday thinking habits. Boost your observation and analytical skills to find the real triggers and influencing forces behind contemporary politics, economics, health, and education changes.

We’re all afraid of something: beginnings, endings, changing, getting stuck. Fear doesn’t have to hold you back from happiness or success. You can change your relationship with fear. Susan Jeffers teaches compassionate concepts and highly effective exercises that help you unravel the complexities and reverse the effects of fear. You’ll learn the five truths about fear. You’ll see how to weed negatives out of your words and thoughts. And you’ll be able to develop goals that helps extend your self-imposed limitations.

In this highly useful guide, international literary agent Jennifer Lyons leads more than 30 expert contributors in demystifying the business side of writing for aspiring authors.Whether you’re unclear on what to expect from your first book deal or just a little puzzled by your editor’s whims, The Business of Writing is the book for you. In it, Lyons empowers aspiring and experienced writers with everything they need to know about the business of selling books, from publicity to the legal and financial aspects of the trade.

Passing the CPA exam can change your life. It changed mine. This short guide provides you with the strategies and tactics, tips and techniques that I myself used to pass the CPA exam. I hope you find the ideas useful as you prepare to sit for, and pass, the exam.

Here is a practical, useful, and easily understood exploration of the dynamic of choice and how the choices we make affect our everyday lives, for better or worse. Learning the relationship between the choices we make and the experiences we encounter is central to freeing ourselves from the illusion that we are victims of our circumstances. The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice is essential for all of us who wish to take charge of our lives.

Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance—a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher—start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic.

With her own life lessons and struggles, as well as stories from clients and friends, Gabrielle Bernstein teaches the listener to trade fear for love. Through a general view of a personal higher being, she leads with love without stepping on religious ground. Connection to the higher power through love, the greater good, and the individual's pursuit of enlightenment are her goals with this book. Much time is spent on how humans process emotions and default to fear.

Six little hormones pretty much determine your mood at every moment of your life. If one is out of balance, it can not only cause you to be depressed, it could also cause mayhem for the rest of your health. Learn what you can do about it.

Courses relying on the OMCP Digital Marketing Certification standards attract over 70,000 students at 900 universities around the world each year. This challenging curriculum requires strong command of content marketing, conversion rate optimization, and other digital marketing competencies in high market demand. In Digital Marketing Fundamentals, veteran digital media and marketing experts Greg Jarboe, Michael Stebbins, and Matt Bailey deliver an essential and accessible roadmap to completing the highly sought-after OMCP Digital Marketing Certification.

Conscious Living is a practical guide for the individual that brings new insights into a fundamental truth of daily life. Five simple lessons of "conscious living", rooted in the ancient traditions of Stoicism and Taoism, help us overcome obstacles and fears and awaken our own creativity.

The ability to write well is a key part of your professional success. From reports and presentations to e-mails and Facebook posts, whether you're a marketer, customer service rep, or manager, being able to write clearly and for the right audience is critical to moving your business forward. The techniques covered in this book will arm you with the skills you need to write better business communications. Inside you'll find: planning each communication; editing and fine-tuning your copy; building your personal brand with communications; writing bids, proposals, and reports; and more.

For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles—a newspaper read by millions of people every day to stay informed about events that have taken place across the globe. In The Times, Adam Nagourney, who’s worked at The New York Times since 1996, examines four decades of the newspaper’s history, from the final years of Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger’s reign as publisher to the election of Donald Trump in November 2016.

We all know what is healthy to think and what is not, much like we know that eating an apple is better than gorging on donuts. But once we start thinking anxious thoughts, it is tough to move from disaster to reality. Our brain can ruin our day. The road map to happiness can be found in Freeing Yourself from Anxiety. Unlike most guides, Dr. Tamar Chansky’s book explains that the solution is not positive thinking but possible thinking. Armed with her strategies, listeners can achieve accurate perceptions of their lives that can liberate them from fear and perfectionism.

Packed with interviews from best-selling authors, leading book editors from Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Hachette, and more, Get Signed is the indispensable roadmap you need right now to get noticed and become a published author.

The author argues that in an extremely cluttered marketplace, traditional differentiation is no longer enough—today companies need “radical differentiation” to create lasting value for their shareholders and customers.

Our summary distills the wisdom of this transformative book into what we call Imaginal Ideas—encapsulated nuggets of spiritual wisdom designed to be easy to grasp so you can get all of the wisdom in a fraction of the time.

Based on more than 25 years of experience, best-selling author and facilitator Ernest Holm Svendsen takes you on the most important journey of your life. The journey from the prison of your mind to the vitality and aliveness of the present moment. In his down-to-earth style and using practical exercises and experiments, Ernest shows you exactly how to change your life by shutting down your autopilot and waking up to the spontaneous joy of being in the present moment.

A unique and significant guide to selling more books through personal appearances and online interviews, brimming with information and resources as well as tips and ideas from nearly two dozen author-speaker professionals.The most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books.

Yes, it’s possible to build a business around your expertise, ideas, message, and personality. But first you need to realize - you are the brand. It’s no secret that more people than ever before are building thriving businesses around their personal brands. But why do some create six- or even seven-figure businesses while so many others strive to make a consistent income? In You Are the Brand, Mike Kim shares his proven eight-step blueprint that has helped build the brands for some of today’s most influential thought leaders - as well as his own personal brand.

Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic best seller The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education - faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more.