Business Insights

Become the master of your business fate.With proper attention to marketing strategy, success is no accident. Time spent planning where you want your business to go and the customers you prefer to serve pays off. Discover also how to earn and keep trust, build a reputation, amplify sales and set your course for profit.Despite today's world of fierce economic, competitive and technical challenges, defining goals and maintaining your intended direction does not require an MBA or high-level number crunching.

In Transforming Teams through Personality Insights, Terry Sloan explores the profound impact that understanding personality dynamics can have on team success. Drawing from psychology, leadership studies, and real-world case studies, this book provides a practical framework for managers, team leaders, and professionals looking to enhance collaboration, communication, and performance. By leveraging the personality model DISC, readers will gain actionable strategies to navigate workplace conflicts, optimize team strengths, and foster a culture of inclusion and productivity. Whether you're ...

Are you striving for organizational excellence? Do you need to implement or revitalize your Quality Management System (QMS) to ensure consistent improvement and customer satisfaction? Look no further than "Quality First: Developing Effective Quality Systems," the definitive guide to mastering quality management in your organization.

With its vivid stories and conversational tone, Boards That Excel is like sitting down with an astute and experienced friend - one who's passionate about what corporate and nonprofit boards can do when they set high aspirations, are clear on purpose, and do the right things in the right way.

How do Amazon, Apple, Google, Nike, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and The Walt Disney Company grow better and faster than others in the same industry? In Upstream Marketing, authors Tim Koelzer and Kristin Kurth share best practices, research, case studies, and analysis informed by their more than twenty years of experience helping transform client brands and businesses through their work at EquiBrand Consulting, a top management consultancy. The result is a groundbreaking deep-dive into the fundamentals of upstream marketing.

Step into the shoes of luminaries such as Phil Knight, the visionary behind Nike; Jeff Bezos, the trailblazer who revolutionized e-commerce with Amazon; Elon Musk, the indomitable force behind Tesla; Bernie Marcus, the mastermind who shaped Home Depot; Warren Buffett, the revered investment guru; Charlie Munger, the sage of finance; Kirk Kirkorian, the real estate tycoon; Richard Branson, the bold entrepreneur, and countless others. Each billionaire's unique journey is analyzed and dissected to uncover the underlying principles that catapulted them to astronomical heights of success.

Here are the 101 insights Bobb Biehl has counted on and quoted the most often over the past 35 years! These principles, insights, definitions, and rules of thumb can help you in any walk of life and for the rest of your life!

Do you want to know how to find an insight for your brand, product or advertising campaign? This brief book unveils three simple steps to uncover the human insights and unlock universal truths that will give you a springboard for greater ideas. Leaders, strategists, consultants, comms planners, creatives and designers in any field can with this book have the advantage of having better insights to have better ideas. CONTENTS • Prologue • Introduction • A Brief History of Insights in Advertising • What is a TRUE Insight, Anyway? • The Insight Optic • Step One: Identify Your ...

An ordinary leader is someone who leads a small organization or team that is doing great things. They manage the majority of the world's workforce, but they don't lead large corporations or big government agencies. Ordinary leaders are rarely written about in books or quoted in magazines. They are, however, important. Maybe not globally, but in their own realm of influence, their leadership makes a difference.

Great leaders are always searching for new ideas and approaches to their work because they know they must continue to evolve in order to succeed in an ever-changing world. And, just like a gardener who knows not to blame their lettuce for failing to thrive, great leaders know that it’s the conditions of their workplace that affect how their people perform and grow. This book explores a variety of leadership topics that will help you meet challenges, respond to opportunities, and nurture a healthy workplace culture in new and innovative ways.

Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. Their time at Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa, and Amazon Web Services to life. Through their wealth of experience they offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated and proven to be repeatable, scalable and adaptable.

The Digital Transformation Playbook: Strategies for Modernizing Your Business" is a comprehensive guide that explores the strategies and frameworks essential for navigating the complex landscape of digital transformation. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, organizations must embrace digital technologies and innovative practices to remain competitive and meet the ever-changing needs of their customers. This playbook serves as a roadmap, providing practical insights and actionable strategies to help organizations successfully embark on their digital transformation journey. It ...

Dale Carnegie reveals how the level of enthusiasm you bring to your experiences shapes your entire outlook on life. This insightful and articulate guide helps listeners understand their own mindset, showing how to shift their "internal script" to respond to situations with optimism and energy.

In this engaging audio program, the spiritual insights and genius of Leonardo da Vinci make for a lively dialogue between Michael J. Gelb and Deepak Chopra. The two conclude that we all have access to the intuitive, creative, and visionary responses that da Vinci did, but there is no doubt, as Chopra says, that Leonardo was "an accelerated expression of the natural evolution of consciousness".

Jason Elmore shares practical action items and insightful concepts that have been compiled and tested during a sales career that spanned the globe, from B2B to Med Device, and resulted in the top performance and accolades. These tools and approaches were recognized as being so critical to success that Jason was awarded the opportunity to build and execute new hire sales training at one of the fastest growing divisions of the world’s largest healthcare company where he reduced average to time to hit quota for new hires 50%.

Unfiltered True Short Stories from the Modern Business Are you tired of wading through corporate self-help books filled with recycled advice and worn-out clichés? Cubicles, Coffee, and Corporate Candy shatters the mold, delivering an unapologetically raw look into the real stories that define today's corporate world.Step Behind the Cubicle Curtain Author Mohamad Chahine compiles a riveting collection of 90 authentic short stories, each one a window into the unfiltered realities of modern business life. These aren't hypothetical scenarios or overblown success tales—they're genuine ...

This audiobook is quite unlike any other. It applies ancient approaches to human types but draws them through to the present day in a vivid and surprisingly accurate way. Once you find yourself, it will become immediately apparent how different you are from other people, and what it is going to take to get along with them better in all walks of life. The Art of Reading People is nothing short of a cheat’s guide to getting on with humanity, and getting the best out of your time here on earth.

We live in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world that calls for a paradigm shift in the style of leadership. The new world needs leaders who are purposeful, agile, flexible, cooperative, humble and helpful. Leadership, therefore, is as much about soft skills as hard skills, and no leader can be successful without using the two in concert. In The Gym of Leadership, Anil Khandelwal, a proven transformational leader, advocates that building all-round leadership capabilities should be a high-priority agenda for those aspiring for growth.

Explore transformative wisdom in The Katana Mindset, a unique guide that links the ancient art of Japanese sword-making to personal growth and resilience. Based on years of experience in Japan's hospitals, dojos, and monasteries, this book illustrates how forging a katana mirrors our journey toward strength and purpose.

A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech megafirms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent - and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges? Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking on corporate inequality, help you understand what it will mean for your organization, and inspire your company to succeed in the winner-take-all economy.