Small Business Management

Imagine a time where you don’t need to set the alarm clock. A future where you set out what is to be done and when. This audiobook will be your blueprint to a whole new exciting future - a future where you hold the keys to your own destiny. Do not let procrastination kill your dreams.

Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.

Learn the 25 keys to improving your management and leadership skills, including effective communication, efficient implementation, and strong team building. This program is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series. The series also includes a valuable program on Sales and Marketing.

In Amplifiers, entrepreneur and expert management and technology consultant Tom Finegan delivers an insightful new way to think about human behavior in the execution of corporate transformations. Through an exploration of the career journeys of several leaders and analyses of "True Amplifiers" in action, the book demonstrates how to deliver strategic and transformative change by relying on the efforts of key, exemplary followers. This important book:

Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave.

Don't Bring It to Work explores what happens when patterns originally created to cope with family conflicts are unleashed in the workplace? This groundbreaking book draws on the success of Sylvia Lafair's PatternAware program Total Leadership Connections. Throughout the book she shows how to break the cycle of pattern repetition and offers the tools that can turn unhealthy family baggage into creative energy that will foster better workplace associations and career success.

Are you an entrepreneur overwhelmed by endless tasks, feeling there's never enough time in the day? Imagine unlocking the secret to doubling your productivity and living your best life. Introducing "Time Hacking for Entrepreneurs: QuickStart Guide to Double Your Productivity and Enjoy a Balanced Life with Proven Time Management Strategies," your ultimate guide to transforming time management skills and achieving success.

For the past 10 years, Rohit Bhargava’s signature annual Non-Obvious Trend Report has helped over a million readers discover more than 100 trends changing our culture. Now for the first time, Rohit and his team of Non-Obvious trend curators reveal 10 revolutionary new megatrends that are transforming how we work, play, and live.

Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce their compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world.

Jay Steinfeld, founder and CEO of Blinds.com (acquired by Home Depot), never planned to create the biggest online window blinds retailer in the world. Against all odds to succeed, Steinfeld's journey in business included failed acquisitions, partnerships gone wrong, perpetual self-doubt, deaths in his family, corporate buy-outs, brutal market competition, and a complete disruption of industry leaders, including Amazon and big-box retailers. To build something meaningful like Steinfeld, you need to do more than dream about it. You need to Lead from the Core.

Todos tienen que enfrentarse todos los días a dilemas importantes: ¿Dónde hay que poner las prioridades y por dónde hay que empezar? Ahora ya disponemos de un método seguro para responder: el Sprint. El diseñador Jake Knapp creó este proceso de cinco días en Google, donde los sprints se empleaban para todo tipo de proyectos, desde el Google Search hastaGoogle X. En Google Ventures empezó a trabajar con Braden Kowitz y John Zeratsky y los tres han conducido más de cien sprints con empresas del sector de la telefonía móvil, del comercio electrónico, la sanidad, las finanzas y otros.

Miriam Wohlfarth hat geschafft, was in der Fintech-Branche nur ganz Wenigen gelingt: Sie ist eine der ersten Fintech-Gründerinnen in Deutschland, und eine sehr erfolgreiche noch dazu. Gemeinsam mit Ratepay CEO Nina Pütz hat sie ein sehr persönliches Buch geschrieben, wie Unternehmensführung und -gründung heute funktioniert, welche Unternehmer-Skills dafür benötigt werden und was das für das Recruiting und den Teamaufbau bedeutet. Dabei gewähren beide Einblicke in ihre eigenen Erfahrungen - mit all ihren Höhen und Tiefen - und ergänzen ihre Learnings durch zahlreiche Anekdoten.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

26 verblüffende Lektionen für Gründer. Wie haben sie das nur geschafft?! Um erfolgreiche Gründer und ihre Unternehmen ranken sich mehr Mythen als es Start-ups gibt. Aber Guy Raz hatte sie alle auf dem Interview-Stuhl und sie haben ihm ihre Geheimnisse verraten: Von James Dyson, dem Designer, der Erfinder wurde, bis hin zu Stacy Brown, einer geschiedenen Hausfrau und Mutter, die aus der Not heraus selbstgemachten Geflügelsalat verkaufte und heute die Restaurantkette Chicken Salad Chick mit 139 Filialen in den USA führt.

Imagine a system that allowed you to make money almost effortlessly, so that you could spend your time with friends and family, follow your dreams, or pursue other goals without worrying about where your next paycheck is coming from. Now imagine if all you needed to make that happen were a computer and an Internet connection. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it - with Your Portable Empire.

In Startup Life, Brad Feld - a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist - shares his own personal experiences with his wife, Amy, offering a series of rich insights into successfully leading a balanced life as a human being who wants to play as hard as he works and who wants to be as fulfilled in life and in work. With this book, Feld distills his 20 years of experience in this field to addresses how the village of startup people can put aside their workaholic ways and lead rewarding lives in all respects.

Many business audiobooks fuel unrealistic notions about what a good idea looks like, how fast a founder should attract investment, and how quickly growth will take off. The problem with this mythology is that it can sometimes end with entrepreneurs abandoning their dreams too soon if they don't see immediate results. In The Hockey Stick Principles, author Bobby Martin shifts his focus away from all the hype about rapid growth and the pursuit of funding and instead takes a look at the real process behind getting a good idea off the ground.

This book is dedicated to all the awesome inventors and innovation strategists. The mavericks that embrace innovation. Those that embark on the journey of the unknown. Those that take the familiar and transcend it to something completely new. Those that seek to create something genuinely special for other people’s experience.

Genug vom Hamsterrad? Unternehmenserfolg mit System! Gewinnorientierte Unternehmensführung mit Ziel und Plan. So setzen Sie die richtigen Prioritäten und steigern Ihren Profit. Umsetzung pur – dafür steht Philip Semmelroth. Die traurige Wahrheit ist: Viele Unternehmer verdienen weniger als Angestellte mit vergleichbarer Qualifikation. Die meisten Solo-Selbstständigen schuften für weniger als 3000 Euro im Monat. Philip Semmelroth sagt: Das darf nicht sein! Unternehmerisches Risiko muss sich auszahlen. Wie das funktioniert, zeigt er in diesem Hörbuch.

Introducing Guardrailing, a nontraditional method for creatively and authentically guiding your vision, team, and company from concept to successful exit. Author Michael Bush draws from his experience as a consultant, strategic planning expert, and former CEO of Ganeden, a prominent player in the probiotics industry, to share his simple strategy for aligning your business with the values and spirit of the wellness revolution— to help you reach your ultimate destination while fostering a new era of conscious leadership.