Sustainable Business Growth

The most important sales question isn't whether you are winning or losing — it's whether you are learning on every opportunity and getting smarter. This is your guide to creating the most precious and valuable thing you can have in growing any business: an unbreakable feedback loop. It is a very serious book, but some of the insights and cartoons will make you laugh out loud.

It's easy for scale-ups, giddy from early startup success, to get ahead of themselves and stumble. It's even easier to be slowed down by the many forces of resistance working against them: drag, inertia, friction, and waste. Drawing on a mastery of lean-based methods for achieving maximum effect with minimum means, private equity operators Matthew E. May and Pablo Dominguez provide listeners with a powerful framework of universally applicable principles that enable any company to effectively accelerate its ability to scale and grow.

This comprehensive audiobook is your step-by-step guide to building a lean, profitable business in just 90 days. Created by successful entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this practical framework eliminates guesswork and focuses exclusively on what truly matters. You'll learn how to validate your ideas rapidly by testing market demand before you invest. Discover strategies to launch with momentum, building buzz and securing those crucial early sales. Master established tactics to scale your business toward seven-figure revenue.

Written by Shingo Prize winner Jacob Stoller, Productivity Reimagined shows how most companies are constrained by deeply engrained myths that prevent employees from reaching their full productive potential, causing frustration, poor decisions, and disappointing results. Evidence is drawn from Toyota and dozens of other companies that have countered these myths to build strong collaborative cultures and achieve sustainable growth.

Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs' 14 years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and as special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and a clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

For hardworking and dedicated professional service providers, Make Them Smile offers a way out of the grind of living hour to billable hour, providing a road map for how to build a scalable, standardized brand that provides a consistent, repeatable, and high-quality customer experience.

If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long, and remembering your reusable coffee cup feels like a Herculean task, then this is the book for you. Covering every aspect of our lives from the stuff we buy and the food we eat, to how we travel, work, and celebrate. This audiobook provides stacks of practical ideas to slot into your daily life, alongside a gentle kick up the butt to put your newfound knowledge into action.

In Go-to-Market Uncovered: How to Successfully Launch a Product and Drive Sustainable, Long-Term Revenue Growth, celebrated entrepreneur and go-to-market strategist Paul Sullivan delivers a hands-on discussion of the ARISE framework for bringing B2B SaaS, fintech, and tech-enabled businesses to market. The author shows you how to fully implement this framework in just 30 days. It offers a proven blueprint for long-term success you can apply to your own organization immediately, whether you work in a startup, a scale-up, or a large enterprise.

This audiobook was created based on Michael Porter's landmark book Competitive Strategy. This was Mr. Porter's synopsis of his book for the Harvard Business Review.

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead—whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors—a greater understanding of character will challenge your thinking, inspire new ideas, and elevate your personal and professional performance.

Discover how to unlock financial freedom through network marketing, even if you've failed before! Do you dream of achieving financial independence and escaping the confines of traditional work models? Are you eager to expand your entrepreneurial skills but feel daunted by the complexities of network marketing? Perhaps you're searching for practical solutions to common industry challenges. You’re not alone. Many ambitious professionals just like you like crave autonomy, yet often feel overwhelmed by rejection, inconsistent income, and the struggles of building an effective personal brand.

Profit or Wealth? gives business owners the easiest ways to avoid business failure. By following the 10 rules of profit and 10 rules of wealth explained within Profit or Wealth?, business owners can live the life of their dreams. Many business owners just worry about profits and ignore business wealth-building, but a business needs both. Without building wealth, the business can still go bankrupt.

The green-building movement has produced hundreds of "how-to" books and websites that are filled with tips about green building and what homeowners should do to go green. While helpful and informative, when it comes to making actual purchasing and installation decisions, these books do not make it any easier for a homeowner to prioritize against a budget. Here, Melisssa Rappaport Schifman shares her knowledge and experience for others to use in their journey toward a greener way of living.

Scaling with Purpose provides an indispensable guide for taking advantage of opportunities in the ever-evolving IT landscape. As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, managed service providers (MSP) hold the key to unlocking their potential through expert guidance and support. This book offers a comprehensive blueprint for purposeful growth, presenting insights, best practices, and strategies that ensure the long-term success and prosperity of your MSP.

Simply "making the numbers" is no longer enough to remain competitive. In today's high-pressure environment, organizations need to overachieve. That level of success requires a clear and objective view of the business - because even the most courageous leader can't steer a ship in the dark. Is the enterprise Agile? Resilient? Vulnerable? Or Lagging? The Scorecard Solution provides the answer. The audiobook introduces a data-centric tool - the Organizational Prowess Scorecard™.

One of the key themes of the audiobook is showcasing how "effective" leadership resulted in billions earned and how "ineffective" leadership resulted in missed opportunities and disaster. In Secret Stories of Leadership, Growth, and Innovation, entrepreneur David Radlo follows up the 11 principles of leadership, growth, and innovation found in his first book, The Principles of Cartel Disruption, and adds a 12th secret and hidden key principle.

Every day, a new silver bullet comes out, promising to grow your business, increase your profit margins, and make your life as a business owner easier. Unfortunately, most of them don't work, wasting your time and money. Plus, they take your attention away from other more worthwhile opportunities. The ones that do work for others just never seem to work for you. Blanket prescriptions are like that - never quite hitting the mark for all but the few with the exact symptoms.

Today's business environment looks dramatically different than it did even a decade ago, and it continues to evolve at an increasing rate; macroeconomic shifts, consumer trends, technological advances, and changing competitive dynamics are accelerating the pace of change. A handbook for how to succeed in the age of big data, Optimizing Growth provides insightful guidance, real-world success stories, and practical tools to achieve growth in this new era, utilizing big data to achieve a deeper understanding of demand, customers, competitors, and opportunity.

Pork dorks. Craftsters. American Girl fans. Despite their different tastes, these eclectic diehards have a lot in common: they're obsessed about a specific brand, product, or category. They pursue their passions with fervor, and they're extremely knowledgeable about the things they love. They aren't average consumers - they're superconsumers. Although small in number, superconsumers can have an outsized impact on a company's bottom line.

Evergreen Talent will show you how to attract, find, and keep employees for the long-term. What many organization leaders fail to understand is that you can't simply transplant a competitor's talent strategy and achieve the same results - just as you can't take plants suited to a warm climate and expect them to thrive in chillier locales. The conditions are too different. But a company that takes the time to examine its own environment, select talent accordingly, and nurture its people will stand tall, regardless of economic conditions.