Craft Business

It is commonly believed that the work of a waiter consists of taking orders and carrying dishes properly. However, this book aims to give new meaning to the profession and show that the true value of a waiter lies in their ability to help us have a nice time while we recharge our energies.

By the time Jerry Stadtmiller was nine years old he knew what he would do for the rest of his life: rebuild old airplanes. Born a preemie in 1936, Jerry overcame the odds only to face an ongoing series of medical problems that nearly ended his career many times over.

In Negotiation, Gavin Presman shares his ethical and mutually-beneficial approach, showing you how to prepare for and engage in every negotiation to achieve better results for yourself and others - whether you're drawing up a contract with a new client, buying a house or, often the trickiest of all, settling family disagreements.

Wordbuilders: the convenient and entertaining way to build a more powerful vocabulary. Each sixty-minute audiobook volume within this series features forty words used in everyday conversation, or in the media and books, but which many people skip, finding these words difficult or even...

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — how to be in...

WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical...

A mob boss in therapy. An experimental, violent prison unit. The death of an American city, as seen through a complex police investigation. A lawless frontier town trying to talk its way into the United States. A corrupt cop who rules his precinct like a warlord. The survivors of a plane crash...

Passing Notes to Strangers pulls the best advice from business, writing, advertising, entrepreneurship, psychology, and pop culture. Clarify your communication, upgrade your methods, and improve your outcomes.

Based on extensive archival research as well as interviews with the movement's key players going back to the 1960s, this acclaimed book is the most comprehensive chronicle yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative culinary trends in the US since World War II. Acitelli weaves the story of the rise of American craft beer into the tales of trends like Slow Food and the rebirth of America's urban areas, and paints an unforgettable portrait of plucky entrepreneurial triumph.

The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues—a critical first step in creating social change Writers are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper...

Discovering the New York Craft Spirits Boom chronicles the lives of 30 craft distillers throughout New York State, from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes - distillers that distill spirits such as whiskey, bourbon, gin, vodka, and much more! Each story is as varied and unique as the brands that they create. It's an intimate look into their struggles and triumphs and their decisions to embark upon this spirited journey...

How your board members, investors, customers, partners and employees perceive, react and think under differing situations will either unlock the exponential financial value harbored within your company – or, block it. Managing these deeper codes is a craft which eludes too many CEOs and senior executives. As a result, they misplay the most critical inflection points where real financial value can be created – including enterprise sales, M&A transactions, financings, exits, reorganizations and negotiations.

Beyond the Craft: What You Need to Know to Make a Living Creatively! is a revolutionary, current insider’s guide to doing what you need to do to make a living creatively. This bottom-line volume offers a unique strategy, philosophy, and even vocabulary for the enormous worldwide audience of aspiring, working, and successful creative professionals and students.

When was the last time you did something just for the joy of it? The Creative Soul Within invites you on a 52-week journey to embrace the creative soul within you to help you grow in your relationship with God, yourself, and those around you. With each entry, you're invited to unplug...

Discover the key to all your future success and achievement, and learn that what makes you different, makes you great. According to science, 99 percent of our DNA sequence is the same as other humans. Pastor Keith Craft believes that the one percent difference in each of us is a type of glory that God has given us. Within this motivational and inspirational self-help book, Your Divine Fingerprint: The Force that Makes You Unstoppable, are the tools to help you discover a unique fingerprint that you have been given.

In Kind by Michael G. Neece offers valuable insights for those seeking to achieve career success and create a better future, both at work and in the world.

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In his new book, Sell - the first book on the subject by an Indian practitioner of business - best-selling author and inspiration to generations of entrepreneurs Subroto Bagchi presents the concepts of selling and salesmanship from his unique perspective. Elaborating on the essential skills required to be a successful seller - whether of a product, a service, an idea, an organization or even personal skills - Bagchi crystallizes his on-the-ground knowledge about salesmanship through stories and anecdotes from his vast repertoire of experience.

The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication is a professional development guidebook of sorts, and a personal growth tour. In these pages you’ll find a buffet of small, strategic, and actionable ways to improve your communication and interpersonal (soft) skills. Along the way, you'll find a multitude of examples of real people implementing those skills and the positive impact it had on their lives.

Many people seem tugged along through life by forces they can't seem to completely understand or control and have difficulty rising above. Would it be okay to have more choices about your emotions and direction? Would you like to be in control of your life, to understand why things don't always go as planned, to have more help in finding those elusive butterflies of happiness and success, to look at why you are here, to see if you can overcome your fears? Is there light at the end of this tunnel? If any of these thoughts or feelings resonate, this book is for you.