Career Planning

Selling a business is a once-in-a-lifetime event for many owners—and the tax bill can be staggering. The Business Owner’s Guide to Selling Your Business “Tax Smart” reveals how to legally reduce or even eliminate taxes when exiting your business.

Like the best advice from a therapist, career counselor, and savvy best friend, this practical resource details dozens of concrete ways to improve work life in any kind of job or entrepreneurial setting. As Minda Zetlin shows, basic self-care principles are the key, and they apply in both tranquil and turbulent times. Her prescriptions are action-ready and available to all.

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.

Retirement has changed, and Robin Ryan, America's most trusted career coach, is here to guide you through your retirement reinvention. In RETIREMENT REINVENTION, America's most trusted career coach shatters the myths that retirement is the end of work, that it is a time of decline, that new...

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.

Today's consumers demand more than products—they crave immersive, personalized experiences. As a result, traditional marketing and engagement strategies have lost their edge. The new frontier? Gaming, where over three billion people worldwide spend their time, attention, and money. In Press Play, Bastian Bergmann shows how visionary companies are capitalizing on gaming's unstoppable rise.

An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same title The Career Manifesto presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting a dream career...

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change. For those who can read beyond the raw figures, they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead. What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter supermarkets? Which states will have the most dynamic workforces? Will American manufacturing rebound as Asia's population declines? Upside puts this powerful yet little-understood science to work finding answers.

Success doesn’t happen by chance, it happens by design. This book gives you 100 powerful strategies to help you think ahead, outmaneuver challenges, and build lasting competitive advantages. Blending timeless strategic principles with insights from game theory, this high-impact guide delivers practical tools for winning in business, leadership, and life.

Attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler targets the leading tax and business issues among small business owners, across all stages of business, and delivers a practical guide to the fundamental tax and legal conflicts faced by new and established entrepreneurs. Coached by Kohler, business owners are armed to seek out the right professionals relevant to their concerns, confidently ask the right questions, and ultimately, save time, money, and in many cases, potential heartache.

As AI rapidly reshapes the enterprise landscape, the real challenge isn’t adopting it—it’s adopting it responsibly. Data privacy. Regulatory pressure. Ethical deployment. The stakes have never been higher. Building Your Private AI is a strategic, non-technical guide tailored for business executives ready to scale AI while safeguarding trust, compliance, and performance. With real-world insights from UPS, Tesla, Mayo Clinic, and Siemens, author Daniel J. Jacobs offers a proven roadmap to secure, enterprise-ready AI transformation.

People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They cannot solve their problems in their current context; the larger system within which they are operating is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They cannot transform this system on their own or by working only with their friends or colleagues; the system is too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector.

Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.

Get ready to know all there is to know about starting your own food truck business and, more importantly, keeping it successful! Starting a small business is a challenge, but the food truck industry is growing rapidly. Over the last five years, the food truck industry experienced a massive surge in growth due to increased demand for specific food options, such as plant-based and eco-friendly food, as well as diet-specific foods.

In The Attacker's Advantage, Charan reveals the upside of uncertainty for those leaders who are nimbly positioned to anticipate the catalysts of disruption and embrace change. He updates and adapts the principles of his previous best sellers to address the current turbulent business environment, cutting through the veil of complexity to concentrate on the new customer needs and expectations and providing the tools for corporate leaders to take their companies to a higher level.

Seeing What's Next is a framework for predicting industry winners and losers. Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data, and can lead to costly errors in judgment. Internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners, Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth, present this guide for predicting outcomes in the evolution of any industry.

In Design Any Disaster, certified emergency manager and master business continuity practitioner Patrick Hardy reveals the secrets of disaster preparedness that helped him build the largest and most successful small business and family disaster planning company in the world. He explains why: You should never, ever "remain calm" during a disaster, 99% of all disaster plans are a complete waste of time, and fancy disaster equipment and supplies actually leave you less prepared.

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...

The Accountability Equation® offers a revolutionary guide for mental health group practice owners facing the chaos of unmanaged systems and staff burnout. This book exposes the harsh realities of low morale and high turnover, presenting a dynamic system designed to cultivate true accountability and sustainable growth.

Sales is the oxygen of every organization, whether it be a company, charity or not-for-profit. So it logically follows that "Why should I choose you?" is the single most important question an organization must answer in order to survive and thrive. This book describes a process over 400 leaders have used to define the ONE thing, at their core, that makes them uniquely remarkable–in 7 words or less. This short expression of your organization's root value does a number of critical things for you: