Sustainable Business

How did the 360-year-old scissor company, Fiskars, double its profit in key markets just by realizing its customers had already formed a community of avid scrapbookers? How is Best Buy planning to dominate the musical-instruments market? By understanding the "Brains on Fire" model of tapping movements and stepping away from the old-school marketing "campaign" mentality.

Imagine a world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and better livelihoods in the developing world. Now, stop imagining - that world is already emerging.

#BossLiving: A Practical Guide to Starting Your Sustainable, Small Business guides the budding business owner through the steps of small business ownership. This audiobook helps people with #BossLiving dreams refine and execute their small business ideas with realistic, actionable steps.

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.

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.

Business has a bad name for many people. It is easy to point to unethical and damaging behavior by companies. And it may seem straightforward to blame either individuals or, more generally, ruthless markets and amoral commercial society. In Honorable Business, James R. Otteson argues that business activity can be valuable in itself. Done correctly, honorable business can enable flourishing for individuals and prosperity for society.

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

Workforce disruptions, new technologies, and tight budgets place enormous pressure on professional association continuing education teams. Old learning formats and pricing models are failing. The risk of irrelevance is imminent as competitors step into the market creating targeted learning programs faster and cheaper. Tracy King is in the trenches with you, working with dozens of associations like yours, concerned about meeting the needs of their evolving industry while remaining the content authority. And she now shares the Enterprise framework she developed for her clients.

Research and experience spanning three decades have gone into authoring this book for accountants in practice. This audiobook offers a proven seven-step methodology described in detail and supported with real- life examples throughout from accountants who have implemented the concepts within.

Die meisten Start-up-Stories handeln entweder von grenzenlosem Erfolg oder aber von spektakulären Pleiten. Vor allem aber handeln die meisten von Männern. Dass es aber auch erfolgreiche, von Frauen gegründete Unternehmen abseits der Klischee-Start-up-Szene gibt, zeigt diese Gründungsgeschichte. Für lange Zeit schien es unmöglich, nachhaltige Periodenprodukte zu finden.

Transformative Markets is a book about a better, healthier, more prosperous future for all. Its premise is that the markets we use every day must become powerhouses for driving innovative and sustainable goods and services. Perhaps no time in history have we faced a reckoning like we face today. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of the global markets and the razor’s edge of basic survival far too many people live on every day.

Best-selling author and wellness guide Grace Danielle Meek leverages her two decades of holistic business experience and marketing expertise to help entrepreneurs to get their holistic healing business started with inspiration and ease.

Inspired by Jannik Sinner’s example—calm under pressure, respectful in victory—this field manual shows how humility, discipline, and intelligent practice compound into sustainable wins in sport, business, and everyday life. No gossip. No hero worship. Just verifiable lessons mapped to performance psychology so you can execute with clarity when it counts. Built for listening on the go, each chapter ends with a micro exercise and a simple metric—tight, practical, and usable the same day—plus a 30-day challenge to lock in momentum.

Tired of being caught between the desire to achieve a successful career and the need to maintain your personal well-being? What if you could do both? Many have found themselves sprinting up the corporate ladder, only to realize they're racing toward burnout instead of fulfillment. If you’re one of the many ambitious professionals who have lived that reality—drowning in a sea of deadlines and expectations while neglecting their well-being—take a moment to reflect on a new path forward. The truth is that you can achieve greatness without sacrificing your mental health and happiness.

The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Scale: Scale to Summit introduces another set of requirements and considerations across all eight elements of every holistic business to hit the accelerator competently and confidently to ScaleUp your business.

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.

Renowned AI strategist and pioneer Mark Minevich delivers an exciting and practical discussion of how to implement groundbreaking artificial intelligence technologies at every level of your organization. You'll learn to create sustainable, effective competitive advantage by introducing previously unheard-of levels of adaptability, resilience, and innovation into your company.

In Honor Thy Label, Dr. Bronner’s head of Special Operations, Gero Leson, reveals the inside story of how a little-known family-run soap company grew from countercultural roots to create a revolutionary fair trade and organic supply chain from the ground up - and rode the waves of popular demand without losing sight of the process. Through stories of harrowing setbacks and hard-won triumphs in projects that spanned the globe, in Sri Lanka, Ghana, India, and beyond, Leson demystifies the process of building and scaling ethical production.

In The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, businessman Andre Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham describe how companies should change their ways to have continued success, and why the current modus operandi is not working. They present a template for creating "sustainable prosperity", and case-studies of companies that survived and thrived by opting for change. In doing so, they provide a way out of long-standing dilemmas, such as how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stakeholders, and short-term vs. long-term profits.

Regardless of the sector your organization operates within or its size, increasing employee performance, building customer loyalty, and growing revenue are likely your top priorities. How can you continually improve your employees' morale and performance in a sustainable way? How can you stay ahead of your customers' ever-changing needs without spending a fortune on technology? In The Unstoppable Organization, Shawn Casemore will show you how to master the trilogy of success for unsurpassed performance as he shares insights, examples, and proven practices.