Great Business

Are your employees getting the most productivity out of their workdays? Do they come in to work smiling, enthusiastic about the day ahead of them and willing to be there to help in any way they can? Are there often conflicts or tension between workers, or maybe, even between you and your employees? These are all reasonable questions to consider, since you might as well wave good-bye to your company if you’re experiencing management issues and aren’t seeing improvement in the methods you try.

This practical, How to Get It Done sequel takes us from joining The Great Workplace Revolution (Book One), the revolution where everybody wins, to a positive workplace transformation. A must-listen for all employees, and a learning tool for organizations that have been stalled in the "my-way-or-the-highway" management style of generations past.

Do you have a good career, a mediocre career, or a great career? How do you know? And just how do you create a great career? Whether you’re looking for a job or want to make the job you already have more meaningful, this audio is for you.

The undeniable principles provided in Champions’ Creed separate the good from the great. Writing from a deep been-there experience, author Marke Freeman takes you on a journey to discover your champion within. She provides unpopular and unknown actionable strategies to separate you from your counterparts and deliver the results you seek. With authentic examples and results-proven knowledge, Marke shares and unpacks the nine essential characteristics needed to achieve greatness.

CARE for Your Clients reveals a practical three-step system to help businesses deliver unforgettable client experiences and rise above the competition. Grounded in the author’s real-world leadership in marketing, sales, and client account management within a major engineering and construction firm, this guide introduces a transformative approach to client experience.

During lockdown, small businesses went under, people lost their livelihoods, and there were huge losses suffered by many. On the other side, there were even bigger winners.

Today's leaders need to engage, connect with, listen to, and include their employees and customers in the conversation surrounding the business. The Hero Factor discusses the importance of a strong company culture as the backbone of any successful business. Listeners will learn how to implement the traits that will help them become a hero entrepreneur, change their organization, live their values, and create a winning culture.

This book debunks the myth that leaders need to be creative like designers to apply design thinking. Applying design approaches and practices to organizational leadership is not just about its leaders becoming more creative. It is definitely not about the person at the top coming up with the grand answer. Design thinking starts with the 'pain point' related to the problem you are trying to solve. You get to the heart of the issue. It is a collaborative effort that neatly leads stakeholders and representatives affected by the problem to design novel leadership solutions that work.

Today's heads of big companies are as recognizable to us as the most popular entertainers or sports stars, but the heart and soul of every organization are those leaders below the CEO. Today's celebrity CEO has become either a figurehead or an egomaniac, and often too public a personality to get the real work done. That work is done instead by teams of leaders - exceptional deputies who forge great partnerships to maximize both organizational and personal success.

Business journalist Del Jones - not to be confused with Dow Jones - has interviewed hundreds of CEOs, athletes, coaches, and entertainers. He combs through volumes of his notes, trims out the puffery, and bullets the best leadership tips of 64 men and women, most of them recently retired.

This is a summary of Gary Vaynerchuk's book, Crushing It!, drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers, and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path, in favor of pursuing their dreams. In Crushing It!, Gary dissects every major social media platform, so that anyone, from a plumber to a professional ice skater, will know exactly how to amplify his or her personal brand on each. A state-of-the-art guide to building your own path to professional and financial success, this listening summary acts as an introduction, or companion to the original book.

The goal of this book is simple: to help others follow their dreams. Quotes for Achievement includes advice from Nobel Prize-winners, presidents, first ladies, several millionaires, inventors, prizefighters, film makers, military heroes, civil rights heroes, Olympic champions, and a few folks you may never have heard of before.

In Show and Tell Writing, Mike Ulmer is true to his word. He has written a great short business book about how to write a great short business book. Mike traces his own story and evolution as a writer to create the ultimate handbook for people who want to rejuvenate their businesses.

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

Out of nowhere, the storms of life hit us without warning. The loss of a loved one, a broken relationship, loss of a job and properties. A terrible accident, illness, or the failure of a business. These are tough challenges that people all over the world are being confronted with daily in their respective life. We don’t have the power to choose what happens to us; neither can we, as humans, choose the nature and severity of the problems and challenges that confronts us every day.

From technology to business, two (or more) heads often prove to be better than one - but only if those heads are cognitively diverse. Diverse perspectives are a powerful tool for maximizing productivity and enhancing collective performance. Now, in The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset, you can learn the strategies that make you a more diverse thinker and position you to break down institutional silos and build robust, effective teams.

There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a US or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and US housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and US financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the US market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents.

As a business grows, the greatest source of frustration for business owners around the world can be finding and keeping great staff. Putting their blood sweat and tears into their enterprise with the lifelong dream of freedom and choice too often turns into a nightmare for a large majority of small business owners around the world. What if there was a tried and tested series of simple steps that don't require you to spend a bunch of money on adverts or recruitment consultants and gives you a waiting list of your ideal employees, queuing up and wanting to work for you?

How to Overcome Feast or Famine and Attract Great Clients Like ClockworkDo you dream of consistent revenue, fulfilling work, and the freedom to thrive in your consulting practice? Many boutique consultants struggle to break out of the feast-or-famine cycle—uncertain where their next client will come from or how to scale their business sustainably. In The Niche Consulting Growth Playbook, Chris Spurvey, a seasoned Growth Strategist and consultant to boutique firm leaders, shares the proven path to creating predictable growth and impactful client relationships.

In F.O.R.G.E.D.: Six Practices of Great Leaders in Volatile Times, author Douglas Scherer highlights the lessons of presence he has shared with his students for decades. The stories of leadership will encourage and support you in finding a flexible mindset to respond to critical situations.