Business Insights

In Secrets of Fail: Stories, Insights, and Lessons from the Hidden Failures of Entrepreneurs, Matt delves into the uncharted terrains of entrepreneurship—not just the glitz of IPOs, funding rounds, and high-valued startups, but the gritty reality that precedes these celebrated moments. The book showcases a series of intimate interviews with entrepreneurs and CEOs whose collective business revenues exceed $10 billion and who courageously recount their paths full of pitfalls, detours, and heartbreaking disappointments.

How, in challenging times, can corporate leaders protect profits and keep their plans for growth on track, while protecting the synergy between business and people-valuing goals? Corporate leaders need an edge - not just to survive, but to triumph over issues and come out on top, especially when staff resilience and engagement are being tested. In recent years psychology has spectacularly transformed our ability to improve business and personal resilience, individual performance, and corporate results.

Can 18 of the most driven, energetic, and successful marketers online let you in on the secret of entrepreneurial success? If so, sit up and pay very close attention to what innovators like Glen Shelton, Craig Ballantyne, Mark Podolsky, and Paul Minors have to stay about mindset, productivity, building & scaling a business, and so much more.

Experienced sales professionals and those new to the game agree: selling can be tough. And today, it’s as challenging as ever. In recent years, there’s been an explosion in new products and services. Prospects and customers are inundated with offers, pitches, and proposals, and changes in the economy have made buyers more sophisticated, cautious, and deliberate in their purchases.

Arriving at a clear and powerful insight is harder than it seems. Our pattern-making brains are subject to many biases. We can’t see our blind spots and are often led down the wrong path by tunnel vision. As an industry we don’t think much about how we arrive at an insight; we just do some analysis and assume it’s the best it can be. But is it? Intelligence analysts, doctors, detectives, lawyers, psychologists, and other sense-makers have grappled with questions of cognitive bias and misperception and how these limitations affect their insights.

This book provides young leaders or future high-potentials the guidance needed for how to deal with the challenges of leading teams in modern organizations. Understanding the power of strengths-based leadership using clear two-way communication and, in particular, identifying with one’s own leadership philosophy are central themes in this book. It highlights the typical mistakes made by first-time leaders and offers theoretical and practical advice to deal with the difficulties of management.

Built for the boardroom. Proven in the classroom. Trusted by Fortune 50 leaders and top educators for over a decade. Now available to everyone — in print, ebook, and audio — for a fraction of the cost. Redefine leadership. Reimagine resilience. Rise above the IQ vs. EQ debate. The Resilient Leader: Embracing Resilience for Success offers a bold new approach to leadership in today’s complex world. Acclaimed leadership expert William R. Stanek takes you beyond the outdated IQ vs. EQ paradigm and introduces the power of holistic intelligence — a dynamic fusion of emotional, creative, ...

In an ever-evolving business landscape where young leaders seek guidance and clarity, this book emerges as a crucial navigator, blending timeless wisdom with practical self-assessment tools. Through a collection of truisms, each accompanied by deep explorations and reflective questions, it invites readers on a journey of self-discovery and leadership enhancement. It's not just a book; it's a workshop in print, meticulously designed to provoke thought, inspire action, and cultivate the skills necessary for effective and ethical leadership. Each chapter dives into a core principle of ...

The Five Insights of Enduring Leaders hits at the heart of leadership challenges in the new world. It is a must-listen for every corporate leader and all who aspire to be. More than a book, The Five Insights is a life-changing experience, a "how to", that includes inspiring personal examples and compelling best practices from the top leaders in business today. Straightforward and clear-cut, The Five Insights is a practical guide to developing the essential character traits or insights necessary to become a great, enduring leader.

These are true stories of winners and losers in the quest for superior service. Who wins? Who loses? It's up to you! Benchmark the best service innovations (Chapter 5: Generating New Ideas). Discover how to keep your customers happy, loyal, and buying more (Chapter 10: Building Up Your Business). Find out who makes the biggest mistakes in service and what you must avoid (Chapter 13: The Infinite Absurdity Awards).

Demystify the tools and methods for transforming your data into business and career success. Measure Smarter 2 Know More gives you a scalable method that can be applied across your business. It helps you understand how to use your data to pinpoint market opportunities, mitigate risks, reduce attrition and streamline operations in a practical, real-world and relevant way. Chantel Wilson Chase shares her 30 years of experience in an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach with clarity and affability.

Attract interest, then nail the sale. With attention spans mercilessly short, you can't afford to approach customers with anything but the very strongest, most on-target pitch. Learn how to capture the interest of perfect prospects for your product, service or cause, then convince them to complete an order. This pithy, provocative book from a master of creative marketing offers both timeless principles of persuasion and insights from recent research and marketing trends. Real-life examples illustrate Marcia Yudkin's advice....

The process of grieving is like walking through a murky swamp. In this audiobook, I want to talk with you about the way it feels. There's no way I can know exactly what you are going through, not even if we could sit and talk and you could tell me. I will tell you though that I have experienced grief and known many other dear ones who have.

50 Things to know When Becoming Successful, by Merylee Sevilla, offers an approach to uncovering and demystifying the life lessons and expectations we have grown up believing will set us on our path to greatness and success.

Your employees and teams may be quite capable of handling their specific areas of focus, but unless you get them to work together, your products, services, and profits will suffer. While progress has been made, maximizing collaboration is still a challenge for many companies. They need a new approach. Over the last quarter century, California's Silicon Valley has become synonymous with building complex, successful businesses. Companies and leaders there have succeeded because they did more than apply existing business models - they created a new model.

The purpose of this book is to give you a real insight into how to use Google Places to gain more exposure for own or your clients business. The information has been presented in a step-by-step process so even if you're completely new to online marketing you can easily follow along. Hopefully you're now seeing how powerful this information is? What's more you can guarantee most of your competition never heard of Google Places and what it can do to help grow their businesses.

If you are a beginner day trader, this book will equip you with an understanding of where to start, how to start, what to expect from day trading, and how you can develop your strategy. Intermediate day traders may benefit from this book’s overview of some of the classic strategies that majority of retail traders use effectively.

What do the Dyson vacuum cleaner, Starbucks, Instagram, GoPro, Facebook, and Lululemon yoga pants have in common? Every one of them was the result not of data-driven analytics or corporate brainstorming sessions but a hunch - the intuitive understanding of a deep unmet need. Anxiety over "being more innovative" leads entrepreneurs to create solutions in search of problems. But what if you could use your intuition to identify an existing problem that's begging for a solution?

Growth Without Limits: Actionable Insights for Small Business and Remote Success is a comprehensive guide designed to empower small business owners, entrepreneurs, and remote workers to navigate the modern business landscape confidently. From ideation to scaling, this e-book provides practical tools, strategies, and insights for achieving sustainable growth while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Written in an approachable, easy-to-understand style, Growth Without Limits: Actionable Insights for Small Business and Remote Success covers key topics for success in today’s fast-paced world.

Leadership Lessons from the Life of David: Biblical Strategies for Leading with Courage, Integrity, and Vision Find the immortal leadership secrets of quite possibly of the most venerated figure in the Bible — Lord David of Israel. In this significant investigation, Leadership Lessons from the Life of David digs profound into the leadership qualities and techniques that made David an exceptional yet blemished pioneer. Whether you're a business executive, a minister, or somebody trying to improve your leadership abilities, this book offers Biblical principles that will change the manner in...