Building Business

After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains.

Unlock the Power of Repeatable Startup Success: The *Startup Studio Playbook* gives entrepreneurs, innovators, and intrapreneurs a proven framework for launching multiple ventures faster and with greater confidence. This detailed guide turns the elusive art of entrepreneurship into a repeatable process. You’ll discover how to design and operate a venture studio — step by step — so you can build new businesses systematically instead of leaving success to chance. Step-by-Step Framework: Follow a clear blueprint for setting up a startup studio, from team structure and idea generation to ...

Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, his book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch and build a successful venture.

When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future.

When we disagree about fundamental issues, especially issues such as politics or religion, it can be incredibly difficult to maintain close interpersonal relationships. These differences have ended friendships and caused rifts in families. We need a tool to help us build more resilient relationships despite real and present differences. In Brave Talk, communications expert Melody Stanford Martin offers just such a tool: impasse. By learning to treat every conflict as if it's an impasse and temporarily suspend our desire to resolve differences, we make space....

Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real-estate world, and The Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and puts almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real-estate royalty. Listen in on the secret conversations, back-door deals, and blackmail that put Macklowe and his cronies on top - and set them up for an enormous fall.

With the latest stories from D'Alessandro's never-ending collection of corporate derring-do and new insight on the global battlefield, the nationally best-selling Career Warfare is more essential than ever when navigating your way to success.

The Passive Income Playbook: Unleashing the Power of Passive Income to Achieve Financial Freedom is your ultimate guide to building lasting wealth without trading time for money. Whether you're a complete beginner or already dabbling in side hustles, this playbook gives you the mindset, strategies, and proven systems to create multiple streams of income that work for you—day and night.

In this audiobook, we'll talk about the construction project management life cycle. We'll also cover contracting and contract management, the participants involved in a construction job, and the critical success factors in every contracting job. This audiobook is produced for both project managers and for homeowners who wish to build residential properties; the concepts discussed herein are general, but are important when it comes to approaching the construction process.

The book explains what it takes to build and manage partner channels in the software industry. The book uses the business model framework introduced by Alexander Osterwalder. It provides a practical guide for organizing the activities required to design productive partner programs as well as implement these programs for the recruitment and management of partners that will find, win, make, keep, and grow happy customers on our behalf.

Learn how these author-entrepreneur moms hit a wall, pivoted, built even stronger businesses, and now each has a million-dollar story making a difference and changing their children’s lives. Best of all, they’ll share with you secrets of building wildly successful businesses while raising entrepreneurial kids; businesses like real estate investing, buying and flipping real estate, network marketing, blogging, finance, ecommerce, Fulfillment by Amazon, and more!

There are few places more polished than a business school lecture hall. The theories are sharp. The charts are detailed. The models are sleek. But step outside the classroom, and you’ll find that business—the kind that actually gets done in the real world—is anything but polished. Real business is messy. It’s late nights and tough calls. It’s building trust, handling failure, negotiating without a script, and figuring things out in real time. It’s managing personalities, keeping promises, and staying grounded when the numbers look shaky or the market shifts unexpectedly. And ...

In the world of sales, YOUR WORDS MATTER. The way you communicate can either make or break a deal. It's not just about what you say, but how you say it. That's where "101 Things You Should Never Say in Sales (and What to Say Instead)" comes into play. This enlightening guide offers insights into the art and science of effective communication in sales. This is not just another sales book; it's a comprehensive manual that will help you refine your sales narrative, enhance your positioning, build positive engagement, and promote a customer-centric approach - all through the power of words. The...

Startup Boards draws on the authors' experience and includes stories from board members, startup founders, executives, and investors. Any CEO, board member, investor, or executive interested in creating an active, involved, and engaged board should listen to this audiobook—and keep it handy for reference.

Nearly half of working women in the United States are now their household's main breadwinner. And yet, the majority of women still aren't being brought up to think like breadwinners. In fact, they're actually discouraged - by institutional bias and subconscious beliefs - from building their own wealth, pursuing their full earning potential, and providing for themselves and others financially. In Think Like a Breadwinner, financial expert Jennifer Barrett reframes what it really means to be a breadwinner.

This book, along with The Smith: Part IV Normarch, are revised and expanded replacements for ‘The Smith 2: County.’ This book contains depictions that may not be suitable for those under the age of sixteen. After finally getting justice for his mother’s death well over a decade earlier, Chet returns home to his intended to find there is a growing problem with orcs. He soon finds out there is an impending major incursion by the orc nation, most of whom are held under a spirit thrall and won’t be attacking by choice. When his scouts find the tunnel the orcs dug to invade his Barony of...

How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders - the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders describe the kind of leader that undercuts the organization's capacity and capability to create its future? This book, based on groundbreaking research, shows how senior leaders describe and develop leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale.

The realm of Heaven contains for businesses, business leaders, and business owners a deep well of revelation regarding their activity on earth in the business of their trade. This book contains more revelation regarding the Heaven Down business paradigm and helps the reader understand more foundational building blocks for engaging Heaven’s release of how you conduct your business from Heaven Down. This book contains specific teaching for a business’s beginning and the interesting twist regarding retroactive capabilities of these beginning steps. Continue the journey of the Heaven Down ...

Tay Sweat knows money can’t buy you more time in life—but it can buy you more options for how to spend that time. F-U Money buys the freedom to spend time doing what you like, freedom to focus on your health and relationships, and freedom to be happy. Tay has spent years using multiple income streams to generate F-U Money to buy that freedom. Now, he’s doing what so few rich people are willing to—sharing the roadmap with you!

Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it's difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you're likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don't have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees.