First Business

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.

Thing First details UX Consultant Joe Natoli's no-nonsense approach to creating successful products, powerful user experiences and very happy customers. He shares countless lessons learned from more than 30 years as a UX consultant to Fortune 500, 100, and US government organizations—including a few he's learned the hard way.

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.

The Start Up Starter Kit is a fast-moving, jargon-free guide to starting and building a company you’re proud of. It will teach you the essential skills you never realized you needed, blended with the right level of fear necessary to keep you from believing your own press releases. This is not an academic guide–these are real world successes and disasters to help you create a successful enterprise.

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.

The Man in the Arena offers the essence of John C. Bogle's thinking and the meaning of his life's work, which transformed individual investing to benefit tens of millions of investors. Through Bogle's own words - as well as the voices of others whose hearts and minds he touched - the book touches on topics he cares about most deeply: Vanguard, indexing, corporate governance, and a fiduciary society.

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.

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.

In the 21st century, many of the most successful companies focus on the development, success, and happiness of their own employees first. That's because they know engaged employees will enthusiastically take ownership of selling products and serving customers. Not surprisingly, they also know that in the end strong sales and profitability will follow. Are you ready to re-prioritize your people?

With shifting worker expectations and market upheaval, leaders and organizations everywhere are trying to catch their breath. As a result, a division in workplace culture has emerged with some companies clinging to obsolete corporate practices and others feeling lost and overwhelmed. As the CEO of WorldatWork and a self-proclaimed “work nerd,” author Scott Cawood introduces The New Work Exchange, a philosophy which redefines a successful workplace.

From the heart of Africa, a spellbinding true story of entrepreneurship, media, culture, and tradition all tastefully rolled into one! Absolute Radio is an authentic story of girls and boys who became women and men—and heroes—on the wings of a radio station. Running the course of 25 years, the story comes from the culturally stylish twin city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana with global footprints. It is the most tantalizing and groundbreaking body of work about Ghana’s private broadcasting industry.