First Business

Developed for business professionals, The First Two Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it. Using research on neuroscience, energy flow, and the body's natural rhythms, it divides the workday into manageable blocks and helps you determine when you are most resourceful, and therefore when you should complete your most demanding tasks.

Product management has become a critical function for modern organizations, from small startups to corporate enterprises. And yet, the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product managers are high-flying visionaries who build products that people love. In practice, they're hard-working facilitators who bring clarity and focus to their teams. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition, Matt LeMay provides real-world guidance for current and aspiring product managers.

Learn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this exciting audiobook, internationally renowned educator Todd Whitaker teams up with his daughters - Madeline, an elementary teacher, and Katherine, a secondary teacher - to share advice and inspiration. They offer step-by-step guidance to thriving in your new role and overcoming the challenges that many new teachers face.

Change Is Good, You Go First by Tom Feltenstien and Mac Anderson is not your typical business book on implementing change. The 21 stories will inspire you and your team to stop conducting business as usual! This creative audiobook will help you embrace change and realize change can be good!

Imagine if you had a direct connection with thousands of readers who loved reading your books. And imagine if those readers eagerly awaited the launch of your next book. In Your First 1000 Copies, seasoned book marketing expert Tim Grahl walks you through how successful authors are using the online marketing tools to build their platform, connect with readers and sell more books.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask is right here in this funny, candid guide by acclaimed author Courtney Maum. Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book has over 150 contributors from all walks of the industry, including internationally best-selling authors Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, Lisa Ko, R. O. Kwon, Rebecca Makkai, and Ottessa Moshfegh, alongside cult favorites Sarah Gerard, Melissa Febos, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Mira Jacob.

This updated 2025 2-in-1 audiobook bundle is your shortcut to real results—designed to cut years off your learning curve and help you start earning passive income in weeks, not decades.

This book is created for you, hard-working father who works at a corporate American job to pay the bills. You long to support your family composing music for film, TV, and video games. You get no joy or fulfillment from your work...this is a safe, “real” job. You complain to your wife every night about how you long for the day when you can support your family composing music for film, TV, and video games.

Fitness Professionals live paycheck to paycheck despite working a heroic amount of hours. This audiobook teaches a system that increases their cash flow so they can be home at dinner time and their gym can thrive. The system is simple to learn and implement.

How can effective project management transform not just outcomes but entire organizations? In a world of constant change, mastering project management is more crucial than ever. This guide explores key principles from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) to Agile methodologies, helping professionals lead projects with confidence. Covering core concepts like the triple constraint—scope, time, and cost—and the impact of stakeholder engagement, it reveals how communication and collaboration drive project success.

E.M. Gray once observed, "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." This is the essence of Habit 3. You'll learn a new mindset of examining how you spend your time, and you'll learn how to focus your efforts in ways that create greater success both professionally and personally.

As a manager, you are prepared to face any challenge when it comes to the work at hand, but you may not be ready to overcome a hostile work environment, a catastrophic disruption in workflow, or any other of a multitude to challenges that can arise, seemingly from nowhere.

This new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik, coauthor of The First-Time Manager, Fifth Edition, covers the basics of team building, giving novice managers all the activities and information they need to achieve team-building success. From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become.

Author Cyndi Thomason has taken the core concepts of the Profit First methodology, created by Mike Michalowicz, and customized them to address the specific needs of the ecommerce business. Profit First for Ecommerce Sellers addresses the four major struggles and provides clear and actionable guidance on how to overcome them, taking the online seller from simply getting by to becoming permanently profitable.

Written in John Kim’s unique “advice-in-a-shot glass” style, a month-long program that applies the tenets of his bestseller Single on Purpose, packed with daily tips for self-reflection, growth, and adventure. Whether you’ve embraced the advice in Single on Purpose or are just discovering Kim’s ideas, 31 Days of Single on Purpose can help you transform being single into a joyous, exciting period of personal growth filled with memories, deep work, play, forgiveness, and freedom.

Do you dream of holding that globally respected PMP certification, having doors of opportunity swing wide open, and commanding respect in the project management world? It's closer than you think. For 30 long years, we've crafted the perfect map, a guiding star, to scale this mountain. we present to you a study guide that's not just informative—it's transformative. Navigating the path to PMP certification can often seem like a Herculean endeavor.

Selling technology to businesses can be one of the most rewarding careers, but getting started can be hard. Most knowledge is gained through word of mouth, and it can take years to learn how to perform well and consistently hit your target. In this how-to guide, you'll be introduced to the "sales flywheel", where Charlie Cowan will share his 20 years of technology sales experience and walk you through the external and internal tasks that combine to deliver a successful sales process.

The First 90 Days: Setting Yourself Up for Success in Six Steps is a must-listen book for anyone starting a new role, seeking to maximize their impact and set themselves up for long-term success. This comprehensive guide provides a clear roadmap for navigating the critical first three months of any new position, offering practical advice and strategies for making a positive impact quickly and effectively.

Management consulting is a $250 billion industry and growing at a rate of over four percent annually. Many predict that more than 40 percent of the US workforce will soon be contingent, freelance, or consulting members of the workforce - making this book more relevant than ever. Individuals become independent consultants out of necessity or preference: necessity because they lost their job or the company offered an attractive exit package; preference because they want a career change, more control over their time, or an enriched, varied work situation.

Many of us focus on winning at work. Whether it is from our own fear or the expectations of others, we put pressure on ourselves to succeed. Then, with whatever time and energy is left, we give to our family and to ourselves. In the end, no one wins. Marriages suffer, kids are neglected, teams are not developed, and you are not fulfilled. There is a better way. You, your home, and your work can thrive.