First Business

First, Hide The Poison Arrows: A new three-point strategy to drive sales and leadership effectiveness in our post-recession economy. The one, primitive desire of every human being? Remove Unwanted Tension. Did you know that over 75% of sales and management professionals have not received or pursued updated sales training since the recession hit? Dr. Russell Riendeau, award-winning executive-search professional and recognized expert in business development strategies, delivers three dynamic hours of real world tools, humorous stories and behind-the-scenes insights on how to increase sales and leadership effectiveness.

The face of America’s workforce is changing rapidly. Freelancing, or side hustles, have become the new labor force driving the economic wheel. Nearly 40 percent of the workforce in the United States is made up of freelancers. Wouldn’t you love to join them? In this book, I will share with you my personal experiences while navigating the world of freelancing. I will give you practical, real-world advice about how to start your own business as a freelancer in your chosen field.

Life is a long game played on a big field. It's also a mixed game of skill and chance. Playing well means practicing with intention and having the resilience to play strong to the end. First Rule: Have Fun is not about frivolous fun. It’s about the serious fun of enjoying life, creating meaning and better well being. First Rule: Have Fun connects some important dots between physical training, mental strength, and spirit.

Taking listeners on a street-smart journey through life, mentors, and business, Cliff proposes a radical shift in global education and career training. He also provides thought-provoking stories on The 4 Essentials (mindset, strategies, values, purpose) that dispel myths on how we define and create success.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

The global coronavirus pandemic has thrown into stark relief how "business as usual" is no longer serving us. The economic, business, and environmental models of the past do not reflect our current realities. And for our economy - for us - to survive, we need nothing less than a seismic shift in the way we do business.

This book employs scientific evidence to examine why humans tend to make poor investment choices. Most investors continue to see their investment results harmed by the book’s two main themes: fear and greed. Fear and greed are human emotions that are as old as history, even prehistory. The bible also cites fear, greed, envy, and desire as destructive influences, so this has been going on for a long time.

Editors H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz, and their coauthors examine PE and provide important insights about topics such as major types of PE (venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine capital, and distressed debt investments), how PE works, performance and measurement, uses and structure, and trends in the market. Listeners can gain an in-depth understanding about PE from academics and practitioners from around the world.

In 2003, Cindy Monroe founded Thirty-One Gifts in the basement of her home in Chattanooga, TN, with one goal: to help women by giving them the opportunity to run their own successful businesses. Today, she continues to lead Thirty-One Gifts and build relationships with her consultants all over the country.

It's time to elevate your dreams, orchestrate life, and unleash your potential. By creating awareness around the vital aspect of life harmony, you'll understand that true growth and fulfillment require first tending to your inner state. Get ready to bloom as you embark on this joyous adventure together. It's time to nurture your dreams and well-being and find the motivation to fuel your personal growth. Stop trying to balance it all, put your life first, and prepare to experience the transformative power of orchestrating life-work harmony and unlock your full potential.

Do you have a brilliant idea to create a business but you have no idea where to start? Is the number one reason for not growing your business that you don´t have enough money to invest? There are many reasons why people don´t succeed with their business, but there are at least as many proven strategies to succeed. In Profit First you´ll discover: How anyone from newbie to business pros can create more profit in their online business, the 8 step blueprint to set up an online business even if you have no previous knowledge, and much more!

Want your life back? Seventy percent of all doctor’s visits are linked to workplace stress. Too many people are overworked and overstressed. They want something more from life, but they’re not sure how to stop working long enough to make it a reality.

Un empresario fundador y socio con mas de 9 empresas y con mas de 13 años en construccion ademas una experiencia en el ramo de vivienda construyendo mas de 1300 viviendas, diversos desarrollos , obra publica y privada , fundador de franquicias de bares , franquicias de restaurantes, seguridad privada , comercializadora de productos , empresa de pergolados, empresa de limpieza y otros mas

Driving to distant cities to meet with people she didn't know and pitching fashion-based ad campaigns is old hat to Marny Sands, but from the very beginning this particular trip was different. For one thing, what kind of a fashion company held a business conference in a remote place like Butte, Montana? She dutifully went to the meeting, but the man she found there definitely was like no other she'd ever seen. Tall, sexy, Italian, his very presence fired her up to fever pitch.

Advertising veterans Mike Sullivan and Michael Tuggle unpack the poorly understood and grossly underleveraged connection between brand and culture. Filled with fascinating case studies, entertaining stories, and engaging insights, the book examines the true essence of what makes a company a challenger brand, unveils how successful challengers of all sizes use culture to create extraordinary brand distinction, and finishes with a detailed blueprint for building your own transcendent culture.

> First Job Lessons emerged from a LinkedIn conversation with over 2,200 comments, one of the most popular ever on the site. People contributed their thoughts about first-job lessons and hiring managers commented on those. Interestingly, hiring managers found that people’s comments were right on point, but they did not find that employees walked that talk. In fact, they thought people required more of themselves than they had to do.

How much time have you spent reflecting on the fact that revenues are generated by actual customers—the people who pull out their wallets and pay for your products and services? In The Customer-Base Audit: The First Step on the Journey to Customer Centricity, experts Peter Fader, Bruce Hardie, and Michael Ross start you on the path toward really getting to understand your customers' buying behavior as well as the health of your overall customer base.

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance is a simple affirmation that successful organizational change involves - requires, in fact - the active, willful participation of the people affected by the change. In the change approach prescribed here, the friendly factor is not just a play on words; it is the very foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts, and hopes.

One professional transition that stands out and is vital to your career is shifting from playing the role of an individual contributor to becoming a manager. There are a lot of things that new managers need to learn apart from leading others. You need to work on yourself, win your team members' trust and respect, become a motivator for them, and find the right balance between the delegation of responsibilities and maintaining control. Becoming a manager is the first step in this process. You work hard, dedicate long hours, and give up your weekends to earn a promotion.

Project management is about amplifying the output of others and being the best version of yourself, as both a project manager and a human being. The knowledge contained in this guide provides information designed to transform old methodologies, introduce new ones, and rejuvenate proven practices for successful people management.