Career Planning

The third edition of the essential guide for college students and recent graduates to help you prepare for starting your career—now revised and updated for Gen Z to reflect the realities of the current job market How do you get a job without expe­rience and get experience without a job?...

Do you want to start a business? Do you want to be your own boss? Are you confused on how to make it happen? Want to make money online or from home or on the side? Then this book is for you. This beginner's guide to starting a business is the aspiring entrepreneur's first step to personal success and business ownership.

Transform your business into a High-Value Asset, ready for expansion or sale. Are you a business owner striving to grow your company or prepare it for a lucrative exit? This book is your comprehensive guide to achieving both goals with confidence and clarity.

Supercharged Supply Chains: Discover Unparalleled Business Planning and Execution Practices provides authoritative guidance on effective Supply Chain Management. Written by the experts at Oliver Wight, a leading global consultancy firm, the book provides listeners with a clear understanding of what is required to operate at a Class A Excellent level. The operating principles are supported by practical examples and cases that demonstrate why typical approaches fail, and why Unparalleled Business Planning and Execution Practices succeed.

This is an audiobook for people with ideas. Do you make plans that never get implemented? Are they overly complicated and fail because you simply can't stop planning until it's perfect? Or do you refuse to plan because you care only about getting things done, but end up failing and causing chaos for those closest to you (spouse, partners, teammates, etc.)? Do you end up reworking projects instead of accomplishing your goals?

This eBook will demystify predictive analytics and illustrate how AI-powered predictions can drive smarter business decisions. We’ll start with the fundamentals of predictive analytics and how it differs from traditional analysis. Then we’ll explore the pivotal role of AI and machine learning in enhancing predictive capabilities. Next, real-world use cases across industries—from retail and healthcare to manufacturing and finance—will showcase the tangible benefits of these techniques.

By developing strategies built on common sense, author Don Clark is able to guide you at every fork in the road when crafting your fool-proof financial independence plan. If you’re tired of crunching numbers in hopes that you can finally retire, this guide is your solution.

With an exclusive toolkit of forms and worksheets, this essential guide offers an entire roadmap to the business selling process, so you can plan your exit and sell when ready. Learn the entire process, from methods of business valuation and choosing the best exit option, to attracting buyer, protecting confidentiality, and finally negotiating a successful sale.

Facing organizational silos or resistance to change? Stakeholders pulling in different directions? Can’t align, get real buy-in, or jumpstart implementation? The problem is traditional planning no longer guarantees success. Rapid change, uncertainty, new technologies, and a flatter world call for a new approach. The award-winning Strategy-In-Action tells how companies ended the long-standing divorce between planners and implementers.

Fraternity parties can be legendary, talked about by students, parents, alumni, and brothers for years to come. But one wrong move - a band pulling a no-show, not having enough money to pay entertainers, or the cops showing up - can turn a once-in-a-lifetime experience into a memorable failure. As the social chair of your fraternity, it's on you to guarantee every event your chapter hosts is an overwhelming success.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan.

Learn how to: create and analyze personal financial statements; develop a sound spending plan; protect income and assets; select the right investment opportunities; and develop practical retirement and estate planning strategies. Now you can brush up on the latest ideas and get the tools you need to set and meet your financial goals.

The career management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Career Management. Includes how to: Assess your career goals Create and follow an exciting career plan Make yourself visible for your ideal job...

This audiobook provides a comprehensive exploration of the circular economy, a sustainable alternative to the traditional linear economic model. Listeners will learn key principles, strategies, and innovations driving circularity across industries. Through case studies, practical applications, and expert insights, learners will gain actionable knowledge on waste reduction, resource recovery, sustainable design, business models, and policy frameworks.

Why are some products and services so much better received than others? And how do some organisations manage to create these superior solutions time and time again? Because they ask not only what to make, but how to make it. Written for leaders, managers and creators, The Right How delves into the fundamental question of how to strategically design products, services and touchpoints that make a company stand out and achieve the highest levels of success.

This book is not just a theoretical exploration of financing concepts; it is a practical roadmap that empowers entrepreneurs and business owners to take control of their financial destinies. The authors have drawn from their extensive expertise and experience to deliver actionable strategies, case studies, and best practices that you can implement in your own business.

This book provides the road map business owners need to build massive value and start moving toward a successful transition.

This book will teach you the steps of the PB&J Business Strategy, and help your company organize around a cause and set up a plan in under a week. The benefits for your business include positive energy, free publicity, new opportunities, collaborations, implementations, innovations, and efficient execution of every component of the plan.

Brenda, Kevin, and the kids were stuck...Brenda had taken a 20 percent pay cut and was told by her boss she should feel "lucky to still have a job". But they were already living paycheck to paycheck. How were they going to get by with 20 percent less income? Move. Brenda was offered a great job six states away. They'd have to sell the house, though. But they didn't have much equity. The few offers they received were lower than what they owed. Can't sell a house if you can't pay off your loan.

Revenue Harvest: A Sales Leader's Almanac for Planning the Perfect Year draws on seven timeless farming principles to teach sales leaders how to improve sales team performance. Farming and selling are two of the oldest professions, and while technology has distinctly changed parts of both industries, the time tested principles remain true. The same seven principles that time after time yield the best crop are the same principles a sales leader can use to achieve their goals - regardless of how the market shifts.