Business Insights

Are you a driven executive seeking an edge in today's competitive business world? Look no further! The Executive's Edge: Key Takeaways from Leading Business Books is your all-in-one gateway to transformative leadership and organizational success. Inside this empowering compilation, we've carefully curated summaries of the most influential business books, tailored for time-constrained leaders like yourself. Discover the visionary wisdom of Eric Ries, Jim Collins, Peter Drucker, Carol S. Dweck, and other pioneering authors.

How do Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and The Walt Disney Company grow better and faster than others in the same industry? In Upstream Marketing, authors Tim Koelzer and Kristin Kurth share best practices, research, case studies, and analysis informed by their more than twenty years of experience helping transform client brands and businesses through their work at EquiBrand Consulting, a top management consultancy. The result is a groundbreaking deep-dive into the fundamentals of upstream marketing.

Everything in nature evolves by trial and error. We cannot avoid this fundamental method of natural evolution, but our human advantage is that we can think about and learn from the errors before trying again. Trial, Error, and Success helps boost that advantage with 10 insights into realistic knowledge, thinking, and emotional intelligence. The authors use real-life examples to show how successful thinking avoids overgeneralization traps - the key trick is to focus on the differences between a new circumstance and existing knowledge.

Backed by real-life case studies, expert insights, and interactive exercises, this audiobook helps you turn complex legal and operational challenges into manageable tasks. You’ll develop a solid business strategy, navigate risks, and create a sustainable path to success. With clear explanations and practical examples, you’ll gain the confidence to tackle everything from tax considerations to long-term planning.

Are you interested in a career in Public Relations? Do you believe you have what it takes to repair and manage reputations? Is Public Relations something you need to do for yourself? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you… 50 Things to Know About Public Relations by Sara Maya offers an insightful view into life in Public Relations … Most books on Public Relations tell you the textbook version of things.

Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear - work will no longer be the same. The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization.

Case history about the sale of a firm and the transitions that come next.

One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the automotive world, Robert “Bob” McKee writes about his incredible journey in What a Ride: From Boardwalk to Boardroom–A Hustler’s Insights into Business and Life.

This book draws from organizational change management principles to examine Teresa of Avila’s 16th-century reform of the Carmelite Order. During the last twenty years of her life, Teresa addressed the problems she saw in the Carmelite monasteries of her day, including ineffective administration, overcrowding, and laxity in spiritual practices. By returning to the original purpose and written Rule of the Carmelite founders, Teresa launched a reform of the Carmelite Order using principles similar to those used in change management and information technology (IT) adoption today.

Whether you’re a CEO, entrepreneur, businessperson, athlete, teacher, spouse, stay-at-home parent, community leader, or even if you’re still figuring out who you want to be, you’ll walk away from this audiobook feeling confident and empowered, ready to hack your life.

Are you a business owner, leader or entrepreneur... who finds managing people your biggest headache? Then this audiobook is the solution to your problems. Leaders in charge of a team, or building a team around them, often find that some people just don't behave as expected: some don't work well with others, some don't like the hours or where they sit, some consistently arrive late and miss deadlines, some cause more problems than they solve. The leader can get wrapped up in dealing with issues of morale and engagement. They begin to wonder why they bother employing people at all.

And over 950 more insightful quotes about life, society, human nature, and the art of living one's life to the fullest. These quotes will be useful, insightful, entertaining and a joy to share with others. Get this audiobook now to inspire yourself to live your best life!

Truth is men and women with a reflective, more inward style have hidden strengths that are often lost in our noisy world. Beth Buelow is on a mission to change that. Known around the globe as "the introvert entrepreneur", Beth is an author, a speaker, and a professional coach dedicated to helping introverts understand and embrace their unique gifts. In this book she weaves personal stories with wit and wisdom to explore the unique energy that comes along with introversion.

Research shows that the human mind is prone to making thinking errors. These errors leave us vulnerable to making decisions based on false beliefs, leading to disastrous consequences for our personal lives, relationships, careers, civic and political engagement, and for our society as a whole. Fortunately, cognitive and behavioral scientists have uncovered many useful strategies for overcoming our mental flaws. This book presents a variety of research-based tools for ensuring that our beliefs are aligned with reality.

Life’s challenges can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to define us. Probably The Most Important 111 Pages You’ll Ever Read offers a powerful, concise guide to navigating the ups and downs of life. Inside, you’ll discover actionable insights that cover a wide range of topics while still being concise and not overwhelming.

If you are a beginner day trader, this book will equip you with an understanding of where to start, how to start, what to expect from day trading, and how you can develop your strategy. Intermediate day traders may benefit from this book’s overview of some of the classic strategies that majority of retail traders use effectively.

Many executives overlook the single-most critical aspect of leadership. Have you? The most important driver of overall success is your own self-leadership. Without it, your career may stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential.

With twenty years of experience in frontier markets, including a decade working in Africa, author Jonathan Berman engages with top business leaders on the vast opportunities and challenges of the continent. Success in Africa pushes past the headlines on Africa's growth to answer the questions often asked by companies and investors: Who do I work with there and what drives them? How do I deal with government? What about war, disease, and poverty? What about China? How do I win?

Arriving at a clear and powerful insight is harder than it seems. Our pattern-making brains are subject to many biases. We can’t see our blind spots and are often led down the wrong path by tunnel vision. As an industry we don’t think much about how we arrive at an insight; we just do some analysis and assume it’s the best it can be. But is it? Intelligence analysts, doctors, detectives, lawyers, psychologists, and other sense-makers have grappled with questions of cognitive bias and misperception and how these limitations affect their insights.

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the tangled interdependencies and complexities and develop strategies that allow your company to be good stewards, collecting, using, and storing customer data responsibly.