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Drawing on examples from over 100 foundations and non-profits, Money Well Spent gives listeners the framework they need to design a smart strategy. This is a book for everyone who wants to get the most from a philanthropic dollar: donors, foundations, and non-profits.

Unleash the power of artificial intelligence and embark on a transformative journey to financial freedom with "Smart Money: Leveraging AI for Financial Freedom." In this groundbreaking guide, discover the key strategies and insights that will redefine your approach to wealth creation in the digital age.

Researchers have shown studies indicating the type of leadership needed to foster an intrapreneurial environment for success. However, no book until now has been focused on the making of an intrapreneur, not creating just the environment for growth but the actual skills needed and how to develop them in the individual. This book goes beyond the superficial and explores the currently accepted identifiable skills than have been observed through peer-reviewed data.

Whether you’re a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don’t need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training videos. All you really need is a learning strategy, a good production plan, and a smartphone camera. Informed by his 30-year career in training and media, including his time as learning executive with the BBC, author Jonathan Halls is committed to best practices in video production that will actually help your learners to learn, and without a giant strain on your resources.

Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful. In Fail Better, Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn show how to create the conditions, culture, and habits to systematically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works in three steps.

The Art of a Happy Exit helps entrepreneurs get prepared for all that selling their business entails. The book covers not just the Outside game-positioning, prospecting, finding professional partners, negotiating, structuring, and executing, but the critical Inside game-the mental and emotional preparation needed even while retaining customers, employees, and the business.

In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn't either human or machine. It's both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era.

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.

Profitable Hotels and Motels audiobook equips you with the knowledge and strategies to not only boost profits in your small or mid-sized tourism accommodation business, but also achieve greater freedom and flexibility in your lifestyle. Packed with street-smart, actionable tips, the book covers the essential aspects of running a successful tourism business

You don't need to buy stocks or found a start-up in order to build up enough wealth to sustain you through a crisis like COVID-19. You may not even need a promotion. All you need to do is develop great spending habits. With jobs disappearing overnight and an economic downturn lying in wait, there has never been a better time for us to start taking saving seriously. Which is why now is the moment for champion saver (professional Scrooge, if you will) R.A. Dalkey to share an essential truth: Sensible saving isn't just good for your bank balance, it’s good for the planet too.

Authors Imran Rashid and Soren Kenner have sparked an international debate by revealing the "mind hacks" Facebook, Apple, Google, and Instagram use to get you and your children hooked on their products. In Offline, they deliver an eye-opening, research-based journey into the world of tech giants, smartphones, social engineering, and subconscious manipulation. This provocative work reveals how digital devices change individuals and communities for better and worse.

In today's economy everyone seems to be focused on survival and talking about scarcity. But the answer to our problems never existed in the world around us. The solutions reside within ourselves. And in the case of our individual economic futures, it depends upon self-honesty and the ability to cultivate our own unique abilities.

Neal Burgess, a semi-retired, middle-aged computer analyst from California, had just cashed in from a start-up company he helped bring to life. He bought the sailboat of his dreams and was enjoying his new liveaboard lifestyle in a small marina in southern Alabama, intending to just kick back, relax, do some writing, and focus on his zen practice. Life there was idyllic and blissfully uneventful until the day he met Cap'n Billy, a prototypical, down-home good ol' boy who operated a small shrimping trawler along the inland waterways that lined the Gulf.

"Neil Young's Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a success." -- Phil Baker, COO, Pono "Owning The...

Picture this: you're at your desk early in the morning, coffee in hand, ready to tackle the day's challenges. But instead of diving into your work, you're wrestling with a sluggish computer system that crashes frequently. Or imagine you're launching a new product, but your website can’t handle the traffic spike and goes down. Perhaps you’re trying to understand your customers' behaviour, but the data from different sources just won't sync up.

Get ready to question everything you've been told about charity and to find out how you can truly succeed at making the world a better place.

This book is truly a summary of a few episodes of my podcast show. You may ask why would I publish it as a book, well after writing the first book How to Start, Run and Grow a Gas Station Business Successfully and starting my podcast, I have realized some people want fast and quick answers to six very common questions, they don't want to listen to a book that includes everything under the sun about the gas station business.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are fascinating, and if someone is able to do their own solving of the algorithmic puzzles and mining of the Bitcoin, there is even money to be made. However, as interesting as the idea of cryptocurrencies are, the ways Blockchain technology will immeasurably alter the methods in which the world shares information is incredible. Within the next decade, I am sure that cryptocurrency and the Blockchain technologies will become an integral part of our lives.

Are you an aspiring author? Look before You Leap: The Smart Author's Guide to Avoiding the Money Pit and Achieving Financial Success in Publishing is based on heartwarming and heartbreaking stories from over 100 interviews and surveys with published authors across traditional, self, and hybrid publishing. The author's own experience as an author advocate and four-time, award-winning and best-selling author provides an engaging, often hilarious, backdrop for this guide on book publishing.

Transform your rideshare side hustle into a money-making machine with The Ultimate Uber & Lyft Hustle: Earn Big, Drive Smart! Whether you’re a new driver, a part-time hustler, or a seasoned pro, this audiobook is your ultimate guide to maximizing earnings, driving smarter, and building a brighter future. Packed with insider tips, proven strategies, and real-life success stories, this audiobook covers everything from mastering peak hours and surge pricing to scaling your hustle into a thriving business.