Small Business Success

Unlock the power of Six Sigma with this essential guide to streamlining success! Have you ever struggled with inefficiencies in your business processes that lead to poor quality, wasted time, and decreased profits? Are you looking for a way to enhance your organization's performance and exceed customer expectations? If so, you're not alone, and you've come to the right place! Many businesses face these challenges every day. From inefficient processes to a lack of customer satisfaction, these issues can hinder a company's growth and success.

Gorilla in the Cockpit offers a revolutionary way to understand megaproject failures. It opens the black box to reveal the hidden drivers of project crashes. The root causes cannot be found in traditional project management books. They are neither technical nor financial. They are human.

Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las veces las grandes visiones se convierten en auténticas pesadillas: según las estadísticas, un asombroso 92 por ciento de los megaproyectos superan el presupuesto o el cronograma, o ambas cosas. Incluso los esfuerzos más modestos, como emprender un pequeño negocio, suelen fracasar.

How to Harness the Power of Positive Thinking in Business. Set your goals high and then learn how to exceed them. Tahar Ali is a self-made entrepreneur and a successful motivational speaker who is also an inventive businessman. From humble beginnings, he created a prosperous career for himself through sheer determination and hard work, and now he shares his vast insight with individuals who strive to achieve higher levels of both personal and professional success.

Whether you're launching your startup or looking to bolster your existing venture, let this be your essential playbook to navigate the financial complexities of running a small business and securing a prosperous future.

Discover the ultimate guide for aspiring entrepreneurs to launch a successful Etsy shop. This comprehensive handbook covers everything from identifying market trends and crafting quality products to mastering marketing and customer service excellence. Perfect for crafters, artists, and vintage sellers, 'How to Start an Etsy Shop Business' provides the tools and insights needed to thrive on the platform and achieve long-term success.

Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to enhance team productivity. Building on the concepts presented in Smart Work, which focuses on personal productivity, this audiobook shows you how to turn unproductive team behaviors that create friction into "superproductive" behaviors that promote flow. Productivity is, at its core, a leadership issue - and this audiobook provides practical guidelines that help you build a culture where productivity thrives.

Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some of the world's greatest contemporary art museums. By contrast, "reasonable" people come up with all the reasons something new and different can't be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way.

In 12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence, bestselling author and motivational expert Brian Tracy teams up with global learning expert Dr. Peter Chee to reveal simple, straightforward principles any business leader can use to make lasting positive changes in his or her organization.

Sarah’s Cleaning Empire: The Sparkling Touch is an inspiring and practical step-by-step guide for anyone looking to start a successful cleaning business. Told through the fictional story of Sarah, a determined single mother who builds a thriving cleaning empire from scratch, this audiobook blends engaging narrative with actionable advice to empower aspiring entrepreneurs.

You’ve spent enough time being “just” a designer, coach, copywriter, strategist, and… [fill in the blank]. The truth is, you’re sitting on a skill set that could build real wealth: real income, real independence, and real influence. If you learn how to position yourself the right way, that is. The Wealth Icon Model shows you how to stop selling your time and start selling your value. This book walks you through how to build a business around who you already are: your expertise, your voice, and your lived experience.

What happens when you consciously chart a course for your life, a course guided by your ethics and values? What happens when you truly recognize and embrace community? So often business books tell us about how to earn more, how to make our businesses more remunerative, and how to become more influential. Seldom do they address the small business and its impact on the life of its owners and those they employ. There are almost 30 million small businesses in the United States, employing over 56 million people or 57 percent of people who work in the private sector.

Debra Traverso tells you how to prepare for the surprises most likely to throw small businesses off course. She helps you anticipate both predictable hurdles and devastating ordeals, so that no crisis will catch you off guard. No need to waste emotions, time, and money when a crisis hits: you can get a good night's sleep!

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. Though the root cause is by no means malicious, we have begun to reward speed over quality, and the negative effects suffered in both our personal and professional lives are potentially catastrophic. Best-selling author and Chief Envisioner Dan Pontefract offers the solution to this predicament with what he coins "Open Thinking".

In this third and completely revised edition of his classic book, bestselling author and college educator Mark Schaefer explains why many marketers are "sleepwalking" through the social media world because they haven't kept up with new consumer trends. Schaefer untangles the world's least understood business practices in his easy-to-understand personal style.

How would you like to achieve unimaginable success, attain unspeakable wealth, and be successful in life and relationships? Listen to this digitally mastered collection and learn how you can enjoy the life that you want, experiencing all of the success and happiness that you envision, by controlling and managing your thoughts and actions.

Deciding to start a business can be one of the most exciting decisions you'll make in your lifetime. Being your own boss can be an extremely fulfilling experience, both professionally and personally. However, there's also plenty of work involved in creating a successful business enterprise. No matter what type of business you choose to start, the key is to always treat your fledgling enterprise as a professional business at all times.

Your friend's mother-in-law is visiting from Korea. When greeting her, do you bow, shake hands, or kiss her on both cheeks? The meeting with his international customers is going well for the corporate president - until he gives the thumbs-up sign. Why? Discover the answers in this incisive, award-winning guide to etiquette, now thoroughly revised to reflect today's truly multicultural society.

People are a company’s greatest asset, and the smaller the business, the more intimately connected employees are to the purpose. Yet small businesses are often ill-equipped at the process of hiring and training the new employees they need to function and grow. But with the right tools and information, hiring well is a skill you can learn. Laura Nelson breaks the hiring process down into clear, easy-to-follow steps that make finding and hiring talent a productive and enjoyable experience.

Today Mark Lewyn is one of the leading sellers of products on Amazon. In The $500 Start-Up on Amazon, Mark takes you on his journey of discovery on how he achieved success on Amazon. He shares with you everything he learned along the way so that you can profit from his successes and avoid his mistakes. This is the book for anyone who is curious about how a new generation of digital cowboys are cashing in, and how you can do it, too.