Career Building

Our work-driven culture encourages us to take the entrepreneurial bait, but how can you know whether being an entrepreneur will end as a dream come true or a nightmare from which you cannot awake? Building on Bedrock will help answer that question. This book focuses on when you should take the leap and whether entrepreneurship is even the right thing for you. Based upon research, but told through the stories of American businessman and entrepreneur Sam Walton and others, this book discusses the who, what, when, where, how, how much, and why of successful entrepreneurs.

Dive into the world of entrepreneurship with 'How to Start a Print-On-Demand Business'. This guide offers aspiring business owners a comprehensive blueprint for launching a successful print-on-demand (POD) venture. Whether you're starting with limited funds or looking to expand an existing operation, learn how to capitalize on trends, build a brand, and reach your target audience with minimal risk. From idea generation and product selection to creating an online storefront and leveraging marketing strategies, this book provides actionable insights to help you thrive in the POD marketplace.

Use this guide to storytelling as a sturdy foundation to change how you use stories. You can build solid stories to support your goals in business and life. The provided examples are from some of the world's greatest speakers, storytellers, with advice from leading experts. From best-selling authors to generation-changing motivational speakers, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals of outstanding storytelling. It will help you deliver stories to audiences that will leave them personally affected and motivated.

This quick guide is straightforward and jam-packed with information. It contains the exact steps thousands of others have followed to achieve their goals. Become the passive millionaire you were born to be.

Traditional jewelers are struggling, more so now than ever before. The Internet has opened up a near-infinite supply of products, sending consumer spending far and wide. To thrive in this fast-changing world we find ourselves in today, you must now become a digital jeweler. It’s no longer acceptable to continue with the same strategies you’ve had from as little as 10 years ago. Simply put, the world has changed, and so should you.

A guide to building a successful service management career and delivering organizational success. IT is a business-critical function. It delivers experiences, stimulates strategic shifts, and protects organizations from theft, cyber attacks, and the related regulatory, reputational and financial impacts.

Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) have never been so important in organizations and yet many feel inadequately prepared. In this guide, the authors combine their expert knowledge to provide a practical approach to bridge this skills and knowledge gap for those delivering Internal Communications. Navigating DEI language can be difficult, but Building a Culture of Inclusivity will help Internal Communication professionals, HR and business leaders engage employees in driving culture change to ensure everyone feels valued and like they belong.

How to Outsmart Office Politics is your manual for turning office politics into a career advantage instead of a career hazard. Written in clear, direct language, this book strips away corporate clichés and gives you the real playbook for navigating workplace power dynamics. Through practical strategies, sharp observations, and real-world examples, How to Outsmart Office Politics teaches you to move with precision instead of reacting blindly. You’ll learn to stop seeing office politics as a dirty game and start seeing it as a survival skill—one you can master with discipline and integrity.

It’s easy to think working less and making more is something available only to a blessed few. James has proven over and over again this is not the case. If you want to build a business that gives you financial peace of mind while allowing you to enjoy life now, not later...Work Less, Make More will get you on your way. It will help ensure the business you're building will work for you, not the other way around.

Even if your business is well-funded and has no urgent financing needs, it’s still important that you build up good business credit. You never know when you might need it, and it’s always handy to have access to extra funds so you can readily seize opportunities and get ahead of the competition. Even companies as big and profitable as Walmart are taking advantage of business credit – so should you!

Trust is essential to all relationships, but knowing how to build and maintain it remains elusive. Drawing from three decades of research and consulting, trust experts Dennis and Michelle Reina provide a comprehensive roadmap for creating lasting trust in any relationship.

Are you fascinated by the world of AI and Chat GPT technology? Do you dream of creating your own Chat GPT business but don't know where to start? Dive into this comprehensive guide and learn the insider strategies, practical tips, and invaluable lessons to turn your vision into a successful digital empire.

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

In this book, Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in various industries, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways - respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution - for turning episodic interactions into continuous relationships. The authors show how each pathway creates a competitive advantage, then guide you through the critical decisions for creating and implementing your own connected strategies.

In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step.

Networking is often considered a necessary evil for all working professionals. With social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at our disposal, reaching potential investors or employers is much easier. Yet, these connections often feel transactional and agenda-driven, leaving professionals feeling burnt out and stressed out.

This book will show you how to build the skills you need to become a more successful professional, such as developing your skills and competencies, working and partnering with your employer, building strong organizational relationships and increasing your visibility, thriving in your organization's culture, and increasing and applying your business knowledge. It will enable you to achieve peak performance and success by understanding and capitalizing on your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.

Designed to Thrive: A Pathway to Building Resilient Systems is a compelling guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers looking to future-proof their organizations in an era defined by complexity and disruption. Blending decades of hands-on experience in public sector governance, manufacturing, and consulting, Dr. Alison Foster explores the essential principles of systems and systems thinking, and their practical applications in the real world.

A radical and timely new understanding of success: discover the simple mindset shift that not only allows you to achieve success, but to sustain it and be sustained by it.

Here’s the deal: You may love the idea of starting your own eyelash business, but you have no idea where to get started. Fortunately, this book will give you the blueprint you need to build an eyelash extension business that you will love. Just imagine what life would be like being your own boss, setting your own hours, and being in control of your income. Achieving these things can be easy with the proper knowledge. It doesn’t have to take years of learning from your own mistakes to be successful with this business.