Smart Growth

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate listeners on one of the hottest trends in business development: "design thinking", or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Jeanne Liedtka's recent book, The Catalyst: How YOU Can Lead Extraordinary Growth, was named a Top Innovation and Design Thinking Book by Business Week. Tim Ogilvie has been hailed as a visionary for his pioneering contributions to service innovation, business model innovation, and customer experience design.

I’m now in my 15th year as an entrepreneur, and over those years my ideas around what an entrepreneur is, and how to build a business, have changed a lot. My university lessons in marketing didn’t serve me too well, but even as a business owner for many years, I continued this habit of looking for someone to give me the answer. Seeking permission. It didn’t work, but what did work was spending years piecing together a new way of marketing through trial, error, and some chance encounters with generous people.

This book documents and addresses the growing pains a company experiences as it evolves from the awkward early startup years into a mid-sized sustainable company with hundreds of coworkers. Calagione is candid in sharing his personal leadership challenges and success and calls on other seasoned vets inside and outside the company who inform and influence the journey of growth and creative expression Dogfish Head is on. This book is rich with practical information entrepreneurs and businesspeople can apply to their own professional journeys.

The innovative guide that reveals how eating more fat—the smart kind—is the key to health, longevity, and permanent weight loss. For years experts have told us that eating fat is bad. But by banning fat from our diets, we’ve deprived ourselves of considerable health benefits—and have...

Trust continues to be the most pivotal element needed in successful relationships—from the personal to the political to business. With compelling examples, convincing research, and penetrating insights, Covey and Link teach people how to develop optimal trust relationships by mastering Smart...

The entrepreneurial path is full of excitement and risk. The stakes are high, and while it may seem like the sky is the limit, there are no guarantees. Businesses are prone to steep financial and tax challenges. Failure to address these issues could lead to drained accounts, mountains of debt, and doors closing. Mitigating these risks and maximizing services that lead to smart business decisions have the potential to do more than help an entrepreneur sleep at night; they can lay out a solid direction for both the company and the entrepreneur.

What if your greatest leadership strength isn’t what you know—but how deeply you reflect? In Hansei Leadership Mindset Mastery, discover the transformative power of self-reflection rooted in the ancient Japanese principle of Hansei—a practice that has guided world-class leaders, innovative thinkers, and resilient organizations to lasting success. This audiobook takes you beyond theory and into practice, helping you harness failure, feedback, and emotional awareness as tools for breakthrough performance.

Do you wish you knew how to manage your team better, and get them to commit to your bold vision? The truth is...the majority of managers are simply not very good at goal-setting. (Because they were never taught how to do it properly.) Most corporate goals are never completed on time, and even your highly-educated employees are (usually) not working on essential tasks during the workday. This can be damaging to your career, and can destroy your productivity.

Unlock the secrets of buyer psychology and transform your online marketing with Sell Smart Online: Using Buyer Psychology to Drive Consistent Sales Growth. This comprehensive guide walks you step-by-step through proven strategies to capture attention, build trust, and convert prospects into loyal customers—all tailored for today’s competitive digital landscape.

You can have great tactics, strategies and information on how to create passive income - but to actually earn a passive income, having a winning, positive and empowering mindset is much more important to success. In this guide, we'll discuss some common traits and beliefs of successful passive income earners. We'll find out why they're so successful and how they overcome obstacles. We'll discuss some of the limiting beliefs and myths that many of us have about earning passive income.

Dumb things. We've all done them. And we wish we could go back to do things smarter. Be smarter in our relationship choices, our money decisions, our family situations, and our spiritual lives. Is there a way to do and be smarter? Absolutely there is!

Imagine if you knew the full contact information for every person who was in-market and actively pursuing a purchase of what you sell. If, as a skilled marketer, you had this information, could you convert them? In-Market Leads is an executive briefing that will serve as a fresh revelation and profound opportunity for marketing executives that heed its call.

Many of us can’t shake the feeling that we should try to understand God and figure out what we believe - but where do we start? Nicole Nelson shares her journey from skepticism to faith through stories and the answers to questions she had - and still has.

This beautiful paperback is the perfect gift book for anyone, young or old. This book discusses the nine aspects of the fruit of the Spirit (found in Galatians 5:22, 23) that proceed from that fountain, Christ, and which by his Spirit he works in his saints.