Business Management

Just because you don’t have cash doesn’t mean you don’t want and need things. According to authors and business gurus Karen Hoffman and Shera Dalin, it’s time to get a little creative. Most people have a skill they can use—it’s just a matter of figuring out what that is and how to use it to get something else. From piano lessons in exchange for haircuts to an engine tune-up in exchange for house painting, The Art of Barter offers step-by-step instructions.

Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high profile world was not his idea of success. In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can find the right pathway to do the same, including planning how to set up your shop, determining your desired revenues, dealing with unexpected crises, keeping your key clients happy, and of course, doing all of this on your own. Company of One is a refreshingly new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size business.

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work.

In this path-breaking audiobook, Chanakya’s 7 Secrets of Leadership, author Radhakrishnan Pillai delves into Chanakya’s Saptanga with the real-life example of D. Sivanandhan. Former Director General of Police, Maharashtra, and the archetype of an able administrator, Sivanandhan shares his guidelines for effective management, highlighting those that make him a dynamic leader.

Leadership can be learned: New evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage with and motivate others. This book provides leaders and managers with an accessible guide to practical, effective actions, based on neuroscience.

The step-by-step guide for gym owners to learn how to get more clients, how to make more per client, and how to keep them for life. This is the culmination of lessons learned while helping over 2500 gyms find massive success in a crowded and commoditized industry. Straight from the most profitable gym owners (over seven figures a year), the insights collected here are straight to the point, with no fluff.

Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the listener deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive. Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure, including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the internet.

In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances - one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same - without drama or defensiveness. Filled with dynamic examples and innovative tools, this book shows you how to become a reality-based leader.

Mistakes That Made Me A Millionaire isn't just Kim's third book—it's her manifesto to success. Packed with never-before-revealed stories, this treasure trove of advice, secrets, and wisdom is truly worth its weight in gold. Learn what most entrepreneurs will never tell you. Avoid the mistakes that cost Kim millions to learn, but will only cost you the price of this book.

Jay Abraham, a trusted advisor to many top corporations, brings together more than two hundred brilliant business-career ideas in this, his first major audiobook. Abraham reveals numerous new profit and personal advancement opportunities “hidden in plain sight” in and around every business organization today. He also demonstrates how all of us can maximize our careers and our incomes by applying fresh ways of looking at our many options in the vast new opportunity society that’s around us.

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? Most people think it's because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.

We're now living in the project economy. As the number of projects initiated in both the public and private sectors skyrockets, project management skills have become essential for all leaders and managers. But despite this project boom, the failure rate remains extremely high. Why? Leaders have too many projects and too little visibility into them, and they lack the project implementation competencies necessary to deliver their projects successfully.

We are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard. As a leader, you will face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you and your vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality. That's why positive leadership is essential! Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff that makes great leaders great.

In this collection of Jeff Bezos' writings - his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas - you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.

Édition anniversaire du best-seller du New York Times et de l'un des meilleurs livres sur le leadership de tous les temps ! Découvrez le livre audio "Les 21 lois irréfutables du leadership : Édition 25ème Anniversaire" de John C. Maxwell ! Depuis un quart de siècle, cet ouvrage emblématique a guidé des millions de personnes vers le sommet de leur potentiel de leadership. John C. Maxwell, auteur et expert mondialement reconnu en leadership a passé en revue chaque mot de ce livre et l'a mis à jour pour la prochaine génération de leaders.

Guide #1 pour tous les entrepreneurs débutants ! Vous avez toujours voulu bâtir votre propre affaire mais vous ne savez pas par où commencer ? Voici l'occasion de votre vie ! Le monde dans lequel nous vivons aujourd'hui favorise l'entrepreneur. Comment devenir l'un d'eux ? Comment s'y prend-on ? Ce livre audio est exactement ce dont vous avez besoin car il y a toutes les réponses !

يساعدك هذا العمل الفذُّ عن القيادة على اكتشاف وجهتك الحقيقية، تلك الوجهة التي تمثِّل بوصلتك الداخلية التي توجِّهك بنجاح طيلة حياتك. وعندما تتَّبع وجهتك الحقيقية، ستتمكَّن من إماطة اللثام عن إمكاناتك الكاملة قائداً وإنساناً. ويقدِّم لك هذا الكتاب دليلاً ملموساً وشاملاً كي تصبح قائداً حقيقياً، ويكشف لك كيف يمكنك رسم دربك إلى النجاح. وإذ تنطلق في رحلتك، ستطَّلع على قصص عملية لـ 101 قائد من شتى أنحاء العالم، وستعرف كيف اكتشفوا وجهتهم الحقيقية. ومن بينها القصص المُؤثِّرَة والكاشفة لكلٍّ من وارِن بافت، وهوارد شولتز، وبول بولمان، وإندرا نويي، وأريانا هافينغتون، وجاك ما، ومايكل بلومبرغ، ومارك زوكربيرغ، إضافةً إلى قصص بعض الذين ضلُّوا طريقهم، أمثال راجات غوبتا ولانس آرمسترونغ. وفور أن تكتشف الهدف من قيادتك، ستجد القائد الحقيقي بداخلك، وستراه يساعدك على إلهام الآخرين وتمكينهم كي يصبحوا قادة حقيقيين. ويساعدك هذا الكتاب على أن تظلَّ ثابتاً على الدرب نحو وجهتك الحقيقية في عالم اليوم الحافل بالتعقيدات، وذلك عن طريق: l تعزيز الوعي بالذات. l تحديد قيمك. l العثور على Çالبقاع المثاليةÈ لقدراتك المُحفَّزة. l تشكيل فريق دعمك وعيشِ حياةٍ مُتكاملة. l الانتقـال مـن الفرديـة إلـى الجماعية بصفتك قائداً يُمكِّن الآخرين. l التحوُّل إلى قائد عالميّ. وعندما تكتشف وجهتك الحقيقية، ستُحْدِث اختلافاً في العالم وستترك إرثاً باقياً.

Alors que les longues carrières dans une seule entreprise (ou même deux ou trois) appartiennent de plus en plus au passé, les leaders vivent de nombreuses transitions. Ce sont des périodes clés de la vie professionnelle, en effet pour tout manager qui entre en fonction, faire ses preuves rapidement est un impératif.

Practice management is often misunderstood. The Advisor Playbook will take the mystery away. Practice management is how you build an organized toolbox of all your processes - branding, marketing, service activities, core functions - and constantly tune and keep that toolbox efficient and effortless. It's a network of interrelated skills, processes and strategies that build value in a business while making it manageable, scalable, and ensuring the owner runs the business and not the other way around.