Great Business

Dr. Hans Finzel knows from personal experience the key success factors in every effective leader's journey. This is the sequel to his popular book, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make. That book is about what to avoid. This is about what to master. In this book, he outlines the 10 essential traits and skills every new leader should master.

For over 15 years, New York Times best-selling author Harry S. Dent, Jr. has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three previous works, Dent predicted the financial recession of the early 90s, the economic expansion of the mid-90s, and the financial free-for-all of 1998-2000.

Most companies around the globe clearly believe that people should have the opportunity to achieve as much as their initiative and native talent can justify, but too many managers still lack the wherewithal to effectively groom junior employees who have the potential to climb the corporate ladder. The support of a mentor is an integral part of any effort to maximize someone's full potential.

Here are tools, tips, and proven techniques to lift your service higher. Lift your service up, increase service value, and add more to your customers and your bottom line (Chapter two unlocks the value). Explore spectacular service and discover what's beyond the extra mile (Chapter four reveals the secrets). Build your service culture and attract great customers and staff (Study chapter six to keep them). Find loyalty, passion, and profits (Every chapter has the clues).

Let America's foremost authority on management prepare you for the 21st century. Peter F. Drucker's wide-ranging guide explores such topics as the new cost savings revolution in retailing, the urgent requirement for each company to have a "theory of the business," and the need for executives to seek new kinds of information through new technology.

In The Locker Room, bestselling author Damon West and player development coach Stephen Mackey team up to explore difficult conversations about eliminating both discrimination and cancel culture, as well as overcoming adversity. The book tells the story of four characters: two high school football coaches and two players, each of whom must deal with the fallout of an offensive comment that severely disrupts the unity and cohesion of their locker room and threatens to destroy their team.

All of us know that users of the web do not read advertisements on the websites we visit, yet the online communities are emerging as the next great media rely solely on this method to produce revenue. In The Social Network Business Plan, social network expert, David Silver presents and explains 18 cutting-edge methods to create revenue for social network websites - none of which are advertising.

Don't be put off by the title; it’s NOT a book that you should give to a bad boss you once worked for! It’s a fantastic companion and guidebook for anyone who wants to be a great boss. It will highlight the bad-boss tendencies that lurk inside of all of us, point out the traps that we can fall into, and guide us on the path to being a brilliant manager.

In My Forty Years with Ford, Charles Sorensen-sometimes known as "Henry Ford's man," sometimes as "Cast-iron Charlie"-tells his own story, and it is as challenging as it is historic. He emerges as a man who was not only one of the great production geniuses of the world but also a man who called the plays as he saw them. He was the only man who was able to stay with Ford for almost the full history of his empire, yet he never hesitated to go against Ford when he felt the interests of the company demanded...

Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the public knows they even exist; and for those who are aware of them, as well as even those who seek grants from them, their internal workings remain a complete mystery

Tips and advice to become more organized, productive, active and focused.

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.

Meet Robert Paolini, an award-winning, top-selling real estate salesperson, who has decoded the essential communication skills of top producers. His breakthrough GOOD T.A.L.K. system dispels the myths of old-fashioned selling techniques and instead shows you how to genuinely connect with people and help solve their problems with integrity.

His humble beginnings are found in Alloa and 18th-century Scotland, where a highwayman would be better off robbing himself. Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion is just around the corner, and so too is the Industrial Revolution. Volcanos, gin wars, and large-scale bankruptcies also play their part in the fortunes of a canny man. But John Jameson's marriage to Peggie Haig, an Alloa tobacconist's daughter, holds the key to his success.

High performance has always required shrewd strategy and superb execution. But Rich Karlgaard - Forbes publisher, entrepreneur, investor, and board director - takes a surprising turn and argues that there is now a third element that's required for competitive advantage - your company's values. Karlgaard examined a variety of enduring companies and found that they have one thing in common; all have leveraged their deepest values alongside strategy and execution, allowing them to fuel growth as well as weather hard times.

When Peter Drucker wrote Concept of the Corporation in 1946, he revealed what made the large American corporation tick. Similarly, The Art of Japanese Management by Richard Pascale in 1981 explained the unique practices developed by the Japanese to bring that country's economy out of the ashes. The emerging Chinese juggernauts - the Alibabas, Lenovos, and Haiers - need similar revelation since they are a different breed in their own right.

Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence" become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers' conversations are generally transactional and centered on the task at hand, leaders must focus on people, asking great questions and aligning them with the vision for the future.

Do you feel like most business owners and marketers who are always stifled or confused on how to create good marketing campaigns or write good marketing copy for your own business, products or services? This is usually caused by the fact that you are told you have to look at the "client avatar" that details everything from what is actually relevant to your business to what someone dreamed about last night...which might not be relevant to you at all.

In Get Hired Now!, ZipRecruiter founder and CEO Ian Siegel tells you exactly how to find a new job fast. With an insider's view of how over a million employers really make hires, Ian pulls insights from the data to give you step-by-step instructions for writing a resume that works, finding the right jobs to apply to, acing a job interview, and negotiating a job offer.

The chronic stress of modern life often interferes with enjoying the happiness that comes with peace of mind. Joy is needlessly missing from too many lives and from too many relationships. Serenity provides many tools to help listeners discover innate feelings of joy, compassion, gratitude, wisdom, and love, so they can live more fully every day.