Business Management

As a child, Peter J. Bissonnette heard these words and made it his mission to prove them wrong. In Count on Me, Peter shares his remarkable journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of Canada’s most respected business leaders. From an English boarding school to military service, from seminary life to the fashion world of Vancouver, Peter’s path was anything but conventional. But it was in the high-stakes world of telecommunications where his relentless determination, sharp instincts, and unwavering faith propelled him to the top.

In The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster you will learn the best strategies Darren has ever collected from the most successful people on the planet, covering the four essential skills necessary for entrepreneurial success: sales, recruiting, leadership, and productivity. This essential guidebook will prepare you for the wild ride of entrepreneurship. It will warn you, inoculate you, and guide you safely past the landmines that blow up and cause the failure of 66 percent of all new businesses.

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.

In the newly revised second edition of Business Secrets from the Bible, renowned keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and practical guide to achieving your financial goals by deploying timeless truths from the Bible. In the book, you'll explore the secrets of creating revenue using timeless spiritual strategies, as well as concrete guidance on developing your self-discipline, integrity, and moral strength.

Dr. Sam Adeyemi provides a step-by-step blueprint for leaders to create lasting positive change. Drawing from over thirty years of leadership coaching experience, Dr. Adeyemi teaches listeners the importance of personal development, cultural awareness, and leading effectively in a globalized world. This essential book introduces the SHIFTS framework, a unique methodology that guides leaders through six transformative steps.

Whether you’re a new CEO trying to navigate chaotic workdays or a veteran of the C-Suite trying to reignite your passion, focus is your most important asset. Many owners and CEOs think they have to be involved in every aspect of their business. They spend valuable brainpower on low-priority decisions. Before long, they’re overworked and burned out.

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is a comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you the answers you need now. You'll find cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of one of the field's leading experts, delivered in short, lively segments that address common management issues. Brief descriptions of important concepts, tips on real-world applications, and compact case studies illustrate the most sought-after skills and pitfalls you should watch out for.

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.

How did Apple rebound from a decade-long slump? By creating a product, the iPod, that transformed not just the company, but the entire music industry. How did Whole Foods turn itself into a supermarket empire? By challenging the sacred cows of the food business. And how did Dove differentiate its line of beauty products? By creating the concept of "real beauty". In Big Think Strategy, Bernd Schmitt shows you how to "think big" by sourcing and implementing bold ideas that change markets.

Robin Sharma es uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en liderazgo y desempeño. Desarrolló el concepto del Club de las 5 de la mañana hace más de veinte años a partir de los revolucionarios hábitos que han permitido a sus clientes incrementar su productividad, mejorar su salud y afrontar con serenidad la extremadamente compleja época en que vivimos.

Having leverage—in the form of intelligence, charm, beauty, money, status, or insider knowledge—often gives you an advantage in an interaction. When it doesn’t, or when you don’t have any, people often turn to tricks and schemes that run the risk of damaging personal relationships. In The Upper Hand human behavioral scientist and sought-after speaker, advisor, and coach Dr. Abbie Maroño shows you how to influence people and situations in your favor with skill and integrity—and without the need for leverage or coercion.

In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient - lessons directly applicable to your organization.

Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes: a direct report's anxious questions, your boss's last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills.

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business, and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology that he shares with his listeners. As an MIT alum with an engineering background, Roberge challenged the conventional methods of scaling sales utilizing the metrics-driven, process-oriented lens through which he was trained to see the world.

In 3 Top CEOs' Mantras for Success, India's finest CEOs and business leaders tell you what it takes to be successful. They take you to the heart of their enormous businesses and tell you how they built these corporations and grew them to their present standards of excellence. These icons of business will show you how to find the keys to greatness, unlock the secrets of their ability to innovate, break the conventions, overcome challenges and generate strategies.

It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. How can we break out of the cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives that we all seek? Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives.

In our hyper-competitive world, we've been conditioned to believe that raw intelligence, relentless optimization, and strategic manipulation are the keys to great leadership. But look around—from toxic tech CEOs to burned-out executives—this "smart" approach is leaving a trail of dysfunction, high turnover, and personal suffering.

Murphy's Law tells us that if something can go wrong, it will. Nonsense! says Al Casey, who maintains: If things can go right, they should. But you've got to make them go right, he adds, by hard work, focusing on key problems, and believing in the people around you. One of the most successful - and original - American businessmen of our time, Al Casey is a no-nonsense turnaround specialist who loves nothing more than the big challenges, whether in the private or the public sector.