Career Building

Part narrative, part business book, Architect and Entrepreneur is filled with contemporary, relevant, fresh tips and advice from a seasoned professional architect building a new business. The guide advocates novel strategies and tools that merge entrepreneurship with the practices of architecture and interior design.

Learn how these author-entrepreneur moms hit a wall, pivoted, built even stronger businesses, and now each has a million-dollar story making a difference and changing their children’s lives. Best of all, they’ll share with you secrets of building wildly successful businesses while raising entrepreneurial kids; businesses like real estate investing, buying and flipping real estate, network marketing, blogging, finance, ecommerce, Fulfillment by Amazon, and more!

Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt propose a radical new theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems: human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. They argue that free market thinking fails to consider the impact of human nature on the innovation process. This ambitious work challenges the basic assumptions that economists have held for over a century.

There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting - except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings - in person or online - without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by

Cybersecurity is one of the world’s fastest growing, most exciting fields—but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to enter the industry and succeed. Now there’s a complete guide to creating a great cybersecurity career, whether you’re migrating to cybersecurity from another field or already a cybersecurity professional.

Stop waiting for the ‘perfect’ moment – your future starts now. Hesitation, overthinking, and fear keep us stuck, waiting to feel ready for change. But ready is an illusion. Growth doesn’t come from waiting for everything to fall into place; it comes from stepping into the unknown. In...

This book is your step-by-step guide to building something bigger—something durable. With 50 succinct, hard-hitting lessons, you’ll learn how to create a business that is valuable, profitable, investable, and able to grow well beyond your career. Unlike selling to a third party, succession planning is a gradual transition of ownership and leadership—often over 10 to 20 years. If done right, it can change not just your exit, but your entire approach to building and leading your firm.

Experiencing conflict in relationships is an unavoidable fact of life. When our relationships are messed up, our lives feel messed up. Likewise, our hearts and minds hurt—the two are intricately linked. Drawing on over 25 years of clinical experience with individuals, couples, and families, psychotherapist Anita Astley will walk you through practical steps to unf*ck yourself from the inside out in order to establish healthy relationships.

Aaker on Branding distills the most essential branding principles from David Aaker’s extensive works, offering a comprehensive guide to building a strong, enduring brand. This compact resource provides businesses with actionable insights on brand strategy, brand portfolios, and brand management, addressing key branding challenges and offering a road map to prioritize and apply Aaker’s concepts effectively.

Conversational Capacity provides the communication tools you need to ensure that your team remains on track even when dealing with its most troublesome issues, that it responds to tough challenges with agility and skill, and performs brilliantly in circumstances that would incapacitate less disciplined teams.

From the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community comes the story of their unconventional journey to business success and the hard lessons they learned along the way. “[Make No Small Plans] neatly crystallizes the teachings and takeaways—basic truths—from the past...

Expanding on the principles, insights and wisdom that made Getting to Yes a worldwide best seller, Roger Fisher and Scott Brown offer a straightforward approach to creating relationships that can deal with difficulties as they arise. Getting Together takes you step-by-step through initiating, negotiating, and sustaining enduring relationships - in business, in government, between friends and in the family.

A landmark in the New Thought movement that spawned much of the 20th century's self-help writing, this 1899 classic inspires us to create the healthy habits we need to develop the effective character we want.

Do you have a passion for real estate and the skills to manage properties? 'How to Start a Property Management Business' is your essential handbook for launching and growing a successful property management firm. Whether you're looking to manage a few properties on the side or build a large-scale operation, this guide provides detailed insights and expert advice. From understanding legal requirements and managing tenant relations to marketing your services and expanding your client base, every aspect of property management is covered to ensure your business thrives.

The indispensable guide to developing a personal brand, building an audience, and nurturing followers, by digital marketing thought-leader Cynthia Johnson. In the modern world, influence is everything and personal branding equals influence. Platform is the why-to, how-to handbook by top...

The Cofounder’s Handbook brings business partnerships into the spotlight where they belong. Most people don’t realize how much their partnership affects the strength of their business. The right cofounder multiplies your success. But the wrong partner divides your attention and effort, hinders your business’s progress, and potentially destroys it from within.

Selling is the cornerstone of our economy and our society. Everyone sells - some just do it better than others. The million-dollar sales pros know that to sell well requires a complex set of skills, as well as the willingness to perfect relations with the customer. There is no one in the sales arena better versed on the subject of the Big C - the customer - and the significance of service and satisfaction tactics, than Barry J. Farber.

Beth McCord, widely known as Your Enneagram Coach, takes women on a transformative journey through motherhood and parenting, blending Enneagram wisdom with practical insights to foster authentic and healthy family dynamics. This book helps moms not only paint a portrait of their family but...

Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the intentional vs. the habitual mind.

Do you have trouble keeping your team focused, motivated, and committed to the pursuit of their assigned goals? The truth is, the majority of bosses fail to inspire their employees to be engaged and productive at work. And they're often frustrated by their inability to incite their team to action.