Consulting Career

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true. One does not just suddenly become a great speaker. Rather, what happens is that we start to give speeches and gradually over time we get better at doing it. However, we'll never get any better at speaking in public if we don't know how to change.

A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins’ most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups. The key to business success is not a single innovation...

Land the deals you want and develop your instincts with million-dollar negotiation techniques. After selling over $3 billion in real estate, including the most expensive one-bedroom house in history, Josh Altman, costar of the hit show Million-Dollar Listing Los Angeles, wants to teach you the real estate sales and negotiation tactics that have made him one of America's top agents. Buying or selling a house, whether for a client or yourself, is one of the most important and stressful deals anyone can make, demanding emotional intelligence and a solid set of negotiating skills.

Dive into Inquiry beautifully marries the voice and choice of inquiry with the structure and support required for students and get the results educators desire. With Dive into Inquiry, you'll gain an understanding of how to best support your learners as they shift from a traditional learning model into the inquiry classroom where student agency is fostered and celebrated each and every day. This audiobook strikes a perfect balance of meaningful pedagogy, touching narrative, helpful processes, original student examples, and rich how-to lesson plans.

We humans crave security. Yet, continual change and adaptation are the lifeblood of a company. Keeping an organization competitive and relevant means regular change, thus shattering the sense of security people have with their jobs and their livelihoods. It’s no wonder people resist change. No matter a global corporation or small business, change is often "done" to a voiceless workforce.

Scaling with Purpose provides an indispensable guide for taking advantage of opportunities in the ever-evolving IT landscape. As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, managed service providers (MSP) hold the key to unlocking their potential through expert guidance and support. This book offers a comprehensive blueprint for purposeful growth, presenting insights, best practices, and strategies that ensure the long-term success and prosperity of your MSP.

Discover the techniques that will make your real estate business grow exponentially. This easy-to-comprehend guide will teach how to navigate the roadmap of social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and many more. An easy-to-comprehend manual that will guide you from beginning to end on what has to be done to succeed in today’s digital marketing arena.

Everything you need to know about revenue management practice in simple language, with clear and easy-to-understand examples. From the originator of the ARPAR performance index (#ARPAR), this book brings a fresh view on revenue management and describes the tools that are relevant and effective today. After you start applying these strategies—you’ll start noticing the difference in less than a month, guaranteed.

The Business of Expertise, David’s previous book, set the stage by suggesting a narrow focus and then capitalizing on the patterns that emerge from repeated application of your expertise. This book builds on that work by suggesting how to craft a consulting practice with those insights.

Casey Stanton is here to change your life—and revolutionize how you serve companies as a marketer. Based on over a decade of trial and error and Stanton’s experience working inside over 100 companies as a marketing strategist and fractional chief marketing officer, The Fractional CMO Method cracks the code on what it takes to attract, convert, and serve great companies as a fractional CMO. With clear action steps, engaging stories, and access to swipe-and-deploy worksheets, you’ll be well on your way to winning and serving great clients in no time!

Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, author Roman Pichler explains how to create effective strategies and actionable roadmaps to help you maximize your chances of creating successful products. Written in an engaging and no-nonsense style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products.

Everyone wants to make more money. But many feel that to do so, they must sacrifice their lifestyle and work at a job they don't particularly like. In fact, if you're like most people, your life is likely filled with activities, obligations, and commitments that have nothing to do with your goals or your dreams, your life's mission, or the things that you love. But it doesn't have to be that way.

When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to best-selling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own original path to success. In Million Dollar Maverick, he explains that entrepreneurs don't take advice; they create value and then monetize it. They do what they love and are great at and find a way to sell it to people.

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for business owners, HR professionals, and others who are responsible for the human resource function within their organizations. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, The Golden Rules of Human Resource Management is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

Navigate 2.0 presents a unique combination of empowering insights into how the human mind works, practical advice for understanding your natural selling style with a heavy dose of understanding the psychology of how people like to buy, and how to adapt your natural selling style to their buying style.

Pirates are on a constant quest for riches, but pirate leaders seek even greater rewards: Amazing schools, engaged students, and empowered educators who know they are making a difference. In Lead Like a Pirate, education leaders Shelley Burgess and Beth Houf map out the character traits necessary to captain a school or district. You'll learn where to find the treasure that's already in your classrooms and schools - and how to bring out the very best in your educators.

Drawing on his experience as a senior partner at a multi-billion dollar consulting firm and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas MBA program, Jeff Kavanaugh is ready to share the tools of the trade for young professionals to quickly scale the consulting learning curve. Pulling together the best content from his own experience, as well as other world-class consulting leaders and industry professionals he has worked with, Kavanaugh has distilled the lessons into the key skills that separate the best from the rest.

You have a great course idea…because you know how to get results. There’s just one problem. You don’t know how to price your course. Setting a course price feels risky. Pricing too low harms your bank balance and people might think it’s not valuable. Conversely, pricing too high may hurt sales. Asking your friends isn’t the answer. You need Dr. Lucas C. Marino, PMP, who is a serial entrepreneur in training businesses and co-founder of the Empire Builders Masterclass. Lucas helps entrepreneurs and authors launch and sustain online training products.

In recent years, professional services providers have had to rethink their sales methods and adapt to profound changes in the way clients buy services. In response, Winning the Professional Services Sale argues for fundamental changes in the seller's mindset and sales strategies. Rather than pressing the sale, salespeople must help clients buy - the way that works best for each client. This new approach gives buyers what they now want in a services seller: a consultative problem solver, change agent, and solution integrator, all rolled into one.

Avoiding the Continuous Appearance Trap: 12 Questions to Understand What’s Truly Underneath Your Culture is a transformational book that weaves together the stories of two companies that, on the surface, appear to be quite similar. Underneath, however, they couldn’t be more different.