Fish Business

Imagine losing your high-paying job as an executive after almost thirty years at a multibillion-dollar company. How would you react? When it happened to author James Brian Kerr, the answer was simple: Walk more than twenty miles home. In The Long Walk Home: How I Lost My Job as a Corporate Remora Fish and Rediscovered My Life’s Purpose, Kerr invites us to join him on his strange journey from impending unemployment to self-discovery, and reminds us that the only true journey is the journey within.

In this revealing business advice audiobook, the magic of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market proves a dynamic example of what a group of people can create when they are aligned and living a powerful vision. Here for the first time, owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business into a workplace that is renowned worldwide.

The Monkey and the Fish decodes profound shifts and events taking place in the world today due to globalism, multiculturalism and technology, and introduces an original approach to ministry, church, and leadership known as The Third Culture. The book title refers to an Eastern parable that will challenge you to reexamine fundamental assumptions of the evangelical movement, including erroneous interpretations that have made the church increasingly irrelevant in North America and the global village.

In I Wanted Fries with That, Amy Fish encourages listeners to stand up for themselves by complaining effectively. In her career as a university ombudsman, Fish has dealt with thousands of complaints - some trivial, some serious - and gained actionable insights about what works and what doesn't. Her suggestions will appeal to anyone who wants to speak up and isn't sure where to start, including managers navigating workplace disputes, couples who argue about the same things over and over, and even someone with a friend with bad breath.

La nuova epoca, caratterizzata dal cambiamento continuo come unica costante, ci chiama a un nuovo esercizio della leadership. L'autore ci propone il nuovo paradigma della leadership attraverso una potente metafora basata sulle attitudini di alcuni animali marini: il delfino ama il cambiamento, lo squalo ama la stabilità, la medusa si affida alla corrente. Questa potente metafora suggerisce al lettore i nuovi comportamenti da agire nei confronti del team che si gestisce e, in generale, di chi ci sta intorno.

The sales profession has been around roughly since the Stone Age. Archaeologists have traced hunters trading for the best flint weapons and tools. In Who Says A Fish Can’t Sell?, veteran salesman Jim Cornbleet shares what qualities shape a great salesperson through stories about memorable catches and the ones that got away.

Learning to Fish in the Twenty-First Century is a state-of-the-art “how-to,” an instructional blueprint, providing what is needed to know, apply, and learn to become competitive, proficient and network your personal brand to land a top-flight job. If you are serious about being “in the game,” you must be prepared. Coordinating the reading of job ads, building your network, writing that cover letter, creating the resume to fit the particular job, and influencing the recruiters to bring you in for the interview are explained in ways to teach you how to achieve success.

How to Be Dangerous in Sales over a Weekend is your fast-track guide to mastering enterprise sales in record time. Whether you're a beginner stepping into the world of sales, a consultant aiming to sharpen your skills, or an entrepreneur looking to sell to big businesses, this book will arm you with the essential tools to become truly dangerous in sales.

Think of someone you admire, someone who you wish to emulate. What makes them successful? What enabled that person to overcome their fear and go after their dream? Quite simply: the willingness to assume a risk.

It comes as no real surprise that so many people find retirement planning a daunting process. If you’re one of those people, this audiobook is for you. It doesn’t matter if you are 18 or 35; the time to start retirement planning (and saving) is now. If you think you’re too late, you’ll be even later if you let it wait a moment a longer. If you believe you are too early, you’re absolutely wrong. Life has a way of sweeping by, and before you know it, you will be looking around for a financial support system that simply isn’t there, if you fail to plan, that is.

Selling the Fundamentals is a set of tools aimed at the first-time enterprise salesperson just entering this world of long-term selling, as a pursuit can take months or years to complete. It's also aimed at the business consultant fresh from university who will be asked to sell before they consult, and finally the entrepreneur who has a specific product and needs to sell to large businesses. Selling the Fundamentals is a set of tools to demystify this world and give the listener a starting point from which to build their successful selling career.