Career Planning

In today’s fast-paced environment, the speed at which communication travels and the resounding calls for police accountability demonstrate a need for purposeful communications embedded in a strategic mindset. When done right, strategic communication can increase transparency, build trust, and encourage active community participation. Chief Cook has distilled over thirty years of experience into timely lessons filled with practical solutions you can begin implementing right away.

Tom Howard’s book is a step-by-step explanation of how you close the deal. Tell people how great your company is, not how big your ego is, about making the tough decisions. He chose going into the blue collar trades as a way to make his millions. You have everything to gain by learning from a master. He explains his mistakes as well as his successes, the critical importance of sales plans, empowering your employees, branding

Most people are blown off-course by unexpected events. Top performers, by contrast, know how to navigate our unpredictable world. Not just that: they know how to thrive in it. You can acquire this essential skill, too. In Mastering Uncertainty, investor and serial entrepreneur Csaba Konkoly and award-winning business author Matt Watkinson reveal the shortcomings of conventional business thinking and the advantages of developing a "probabilistic" mindset that turns uncertainty from a source of fear into an incredible and exciting advantage.

International finance coach Ann Wilson is known as the Wealth Chef because of her ability to help people cook up monetary success. In this audiobook, Ann has laid out a step-by-step guide to creating financial freedom, providing five recipes for wealth that helped her go from having nothing to...

Robert Prechter proposes a new science called socionomics. It's the study of how humans interact and how that interaction determines the course of the economy, culture, and history.

A revolutionary financial and career path to break free from corporate America's grasp, make peace with your finances, and build wealth on your own terms When it comes to our finances, we’re told to follow the same script as our white colleagues: work hard, make money, save, and invest. Yet...

If you listen to nothing else on AI, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you make sense of the shifting landscape, anticipate opportunities and threats, and develop a strategy that keeps pace with AI. This book will inspire you to capture the potential of gen AI and agentic AI; help people and machines work together better; manage regulation and risk; understand the real value of your organization's data; prepare for skills, jobs, and industries to be transformed; and embed AI at the core of your business.

I Wish I Knew This Years Ago by small business entrepreneur Nick Warren teaches you what the wealthy know that the little guys don’t that has the potential to slice and dice your tax liabilities. This step-by-step process has the extreme benefit of passive income creation that is most owner’s day dreams and can become your dream come true, granting you and your family unshakeable confidence in the future.

Bestselling author and financial expert Suze Orman helped millions of Americans turn toward their money and embark on a true path to wealth with her #1 bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and her national bestseller You've Earned It, Don't Lose It. Now she returns, with a book that goes...

In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now.

Since the release of Doug Stephens’ first book, The Retail Revival, change in the global retail sector has accelerated beyond even the boldest forecasts. As predicted, online giants like Amazon and Alibaba.com are growing at a dizzying pace. Hundreds of well-known brick-and-mortar retailers have closed their doors, and brands and retailers across categories are struggling to understand the shifting needs and expectations of a new consumer.

Most Americans have not inherited wealth or a successful business that can set them up for life. That means most Americans are destined to live with financial worries and concerns for the rest of their lives, right? Wrong! With his entertaining and informative style, New York Times best-selling author, actor, and financial pundit Ben Stein refutes the current notion that the corporate system is rigged against ordinary citizens and explains how corporate stock ownership is the best system ever devised.

A beautiful, full-color guide to living with money, not for money, packed with fun, tangible advice from the women behind The Financial Diet. “Beyond Getting By will make you feel better, not worse, about your money and your life.”—Tiffany “the Budgetnista” Aliche, New York Times...

In his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth bomb: ‘Three relationships determine our life's course - time, money, and ourselves.’Now, in his third book, Make Epic Money, he dives deep into the complex world of money to provide you with the ultimate personal-finance...

The world changes continuously and rapidly. It's foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process that's divorced from today's reality. That's why plans sit on the shelf and why smart executives are always seeking workarounds in between planning periods. The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution offers a nimble and powerful alternative. In this groundbreaking book, strategy expert David La Piana introduces "Real-Time Strategic Planning."

New York Times bestseller! Legendary investment guru Ric Edelman offers a prescient personal finance guide on how technology and science is reshaping the way we save, invest, and plan for the future. In The Truth About Your Future, award-winning financial advisor Ric Edelman reveals how...

A practical plan for the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, Elizabeth White shows how to get past any blame or shame, overcome denial, and find a path to a new normal. Elizabeth White has...

This slim primer distills Sharma's decades of experience into 10 rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, 10 Rules is full of pioneering insights on signs of political, economic, and social change. Sharma explains, for example, why autocrats are bad for the economy; robots are a blessing, not a curse; and consumer prices don’t tell you all you need to know about inflation.

It's not easy being an IT manager. There are constant staffing issue, budget issues, project issues, and the challenge of keeping your management informed about what is going on. The one thing that too many of us end up overlooking as we try to accomplish all of these things is that we have one more management job to do: Manage our careers.

You have a great product. You have top-notch talent. You have a process that’s been carefully mapped out. So, what’s missing? Executive, speaker, and leadership authority Billy Ray Taylor points to a lack of clarity on strategy that makes it impossible for your employees to understand how their activities fit within the company’s overall vision and to take true ownership of their careers. In this groundbreaking guide, Taylor reveals how his proprietary LinkedX Process can help your organization cultivate extreme ownership at every level, from top management to front-line employees.