Career Planning

In this book with unique perspective, professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. A focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job...

Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more.

Are you ready to free your teen from the stress of college debt and open their eyes to endless opportunities? Grab this opportunity to give them the essential skills and tools they need right now Helping your teen find their direction early can make a BIG difference in their life ahead. But let's face it, the idea that success only comes from a pricey college degree can be pretty overwhelming.

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology to continuously create great customer experiences, lower unit costs, and generate value. It's the capabilities of the organization that win the race. McKinsey Digital's top leaders Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney W. Zemmel provide proven how-to details on what it takes in six comprehensive sections.

For business leaders navigating the AI era, this book is your executive guide to clarity, strategy, and real-world results. Artificial Intelligence is disrupting industries, but success doesn’t come from hype; it comes from readiness. From Data to Decisions offers insights from Chelle Meadows, a corporate operations leader and AI strategist helping executives drive real transformation through AI. This guide bridges the gap between innovation theory and practical execution.

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate, and quickly apply. Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy adviser, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher Hamilton Helmer develops from first principles a practical theory of strategy rooted in the notion of power, those conditions which create the potential for persistent differential returns. Using rich real-world examples, Helmer rigorously characterizes exactly what your business must achieve to create power.

In a world crying out for change, Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems is your guidebook for action. Adam Kahane, the bestselling author of Collaborating with the Enemy and a global authority on solving tough problems, delivers game-changing advice for anyone ready to make a difference. This is a manifesto for world-changers. Drawing on decades of work with leaders from national and organizational presidents to front-line managers and grass-roots activists, Kahane distills seven potent habits that enable ordinary citizens to become extraordinary agents of transformation.

In their eagerly awaited book, Kim and Spear bring to light a new theory of high-achieving organizations. They examine how companies solve the most important problems better, faster, and easier than their competitors by quickly and regularly closing the gap between aspirations and real-world success. This book teaches companies that are struggling to perform how to achieve the continual greatness seen in the best of the best.

Practical Career Planning for Ambitious Teens gives you and your teen a clear, actionable path forward with an 8-step roadmap, 30 interactive exercises, 17 future-proof career paths, 10 job-landing hacks, and 6 networking moves.

The Four Year Career is Richard Brooke's newly updated, essential guide to network marketing. This thought-provoking, quick read presents industry facts while dispelling many commonly accepted network marketing myths. It will provide you and your prospects with a thorough understanding of residual royalty income through network marketing - one of the most innovative, yet misunderstood business concepts in the world.

Money therapy that goes beyond the budget and gets to the root of your relationship with money from accredited financial counsellor and host of the popular More Money Podcast, Jessica Moorhouse Why is money the #1 stress in my life? How do I keep getting into debt after working so hard to get...

While most business thinkers focus on the endgame, Snider demonstrates that your successful exit is based on what you do now to unlock the value trapped in your business. His value acceleration methodology will give you the steps to accomplish the exit planning necessary to make you five to ten times wealthier.

Are you a parent, guardian, or educator worried about your teen’s future? Not sure where they’re headed? Or perhaps you're a young adult striving to carve out your future path? It’s never too early to start looking ahead to the future. Instead of waiting until the end of high school, imagine the advantage they could have by crafting a secure plan within the next 30 days!

This definitive guide to career success will transform your career planning toolkit and elevate your post-high-school or career change plans to new heights. Don't miss your chance to gain the knowledge and insights that will set you apart from the competition and propel you toward a successful future—free of student loan debt.

With more than 1 million copies in circulation, it remains the best-selling family business book of all time. Much of its success is owed to the deeply original message about the dangers of gifting an operating business to family. It offers business owners and their family a proven process for building wealth and protecting family relationships by exploring whether the business should be sold inside or outside the family. Every Family's Business includes 12 questions to help guide this emotional transition.

Taking a Career Break for Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we've been missing, and develop new skills.

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about - and solving - an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri's ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars.

With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-based systems, an effective enterprise architecture program is more critical than ever. In this practical book, author Tanu McCabe from Capital One provides proven frameworks and practices to define an effective enterprise architecture strategy—one that will enable software and enterprise architects to create and implement great architecture strategies.

Tired of hearing “just pick something” when it comes to your future? This interactive guide helps teens and young adults explore who they are, what they care about, and how to build a career around it. Packed with real stories, self-discovery tools, and practical tips—from exploring dream jobs to understanding modern education paths—Future Ready shows you how to align your passions with purpose. You’ll learn how to build career confidence, gain experience, and avoid the trap of working in a job you dread.