Business Process

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your production system. This...

Thinking of using rapid prototyping for your next design project but don’t know where to start? Or have you tried rapid prototyping and been disappointed with the results? “Eight Common Mistakes in Rapid Prototyping” can dispel your misconceptions by explaining what to expect when using this additive manufacturing technique. While “one and done” is what fabricators hope for when using rapid prototyping to develop new gadgets or parts, the first result produced using this method often does not provide the desired solution. What is most likely to go wrong when using rapid ...

Planet Hurt, Volume One: The Idea & the Process is a revolutionary psychological eye opener and guidebook of sorts for those who wish to improve their relationships (be it personal or professional), face and conquer their deficiencies, and lead more fulfilled lives.

It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action by a senior U.S. politician, describing how Americans of all age groups, persuasions, and occupations can defy convention, chart new pathways for their communities, schools, at work and in life. US Senator Ron Wyden is widely praised for coming up with sensible-sounding ideas no one else had thought of and making the counter-intuitive political alliances that prove helpful in passing bills. In It Takes Chutzpah, he offers a progressive leader’s manifesto for being a courageous warrior during turbulent times.

If revenue will solve all of your business problems, then revenue isn’t the issue. It’s overhead expenses. But there’s a catch, lower overhead needs better systems and processes to maintain the quality of your work. The goal is to find the perfect mix of scalability and maintain that equilibrium. It’s a balancing act, but once you have achieved scalability, you can grow your business more profitably and with less stress. Scalability means that as revenue grows, your profit as a percentage of revenue will also increase. If you want to un-complicate your business, do good work more ...

In 2014's The Accidental Superpower, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan made the case that geographic, demographic, and energy trends were unravelling the global system. Zeihan takes the story a step further in The Absent Superpower, mapping out the threats and opportunities as the world descends into disorder.

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data.

What is the best structure for a corporate management system? How to organize and advance, in a fluid way, a continuous business improvement? Are we just going to copy existing solutions or are we going to innovate our practice? In this book, I bring together new perspectives on the integration of Strategy, Tactics and Operations! Much more than just explaining OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)... Much more than theorizing process management (BPM, "Business Process Management"). Here is a real proposal to unite the best of two worlds: the strategic ...

Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

Digital transformation of the business landscape is well underway, and businesses are being reshaped faster than ever before. Agility and adaptability are now critical components of these businesses' survival. But building these traits requires a holistic approach with an unrelenting focus on automation. How does one go about developing that focus? Vijay Tella, Scott Brinker, and Massimo Pezzini deliver a guide to implementing automation in the real world, avoiding jargon and vague bromides in favor of concrete examples.

A political newcomer, Henry Bouchot, shocked the political establishment in Richard Nixon’s hometown of Whittier, California, defeating a nine-term incumbent to become the youngest member in the history of the Whittier City Council in 2018. In A Millennial’s Guide, Henry shows how he harnessed his business education and experience in the Marines to create an unbeatable campaign. He goes beyond just the nuts and bolts of campaigning and describes how to make running both an unforgettable experience and an unstoppable one.

For decades, business leaders have been handed the same dusty rulebook—outdated management theories rooted in control, incentives, and micromanagement. In the system _, Derrick Mains tears it all down and rebuilds it for the modern world.

In this breakthrough program, you will join the founder and director of the Agape International Spiritual Center to learn the same powerful practice that he has taught to thousands throughout the past 30 years....

In the last twenty-five years, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell has grown from equipping a handful of leaders in one organization to developing millions of business, government, and nonprofit leaders in every country around the world. In this book, Maxwell takes the listener step-by-step through the process of identifying, attracting, empowering, and positioning leaders to create a culture capable of then reproducing and compounding the value of its leaders.

Stop Wasting Money on Business Coaches Who Can't Deliver Results Have you ever hired a business coach who promised amazing growth but left your bank account lighter and your problems unchanged? You're not alone. The coaching industry is filled with well-meaning people who simply don't know how to create the measurable business improvements that actually matter to owners like you. This Book Changes That Forever The Smart Business Owner's Guide to Hiring a Coach Who Actually Delivers Results provides a systematic process for finding, evaluating, and working with coaches who can prove they'll ...

Selling to homeowners is different - and challenging. To succeed in this environment, you need the Sandler Selling System. Selling to Homeowners the Sandler Way shows how the Sandler Selling System delivers career-changing results for salespeople who close deals in the buyer's personal, private domestic space. This kind of selling applies to dozens of industries, from remodeling to insurance.

Dr. Gay Hendricks broke new ground with his best-selling classic, The Big Leap, which has become an essential resource for coaches, entrepreneurs, executives, and health practitioners around the world. Originally published as The Joy of Genius, The Genius Zone has been updated and expanded throughout, making it the essential next step beyond The Big Leap.

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For 15 years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser.

Trump Revealed offers the most thorough and wide-ranging examination of Donald Trump's public and private lives to date, from his upbringing in Queens and formative years at the New York Military Academy to his turbulent careers in real estate and entertainment to his astonishing rise as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. The book is based on the investigative reporting of more than two dozen Washington Post reporters and researchers.

Leadership tends to be thought of as an art, not a science. Imagine the benefits of having an algorithm—a repeatable process based on decades of research on what motivates employees—that any leader could follow to consistently inspire greatness in others. From sought-after speaker and consultant Matt Tenney, Inspire Greatness outlines a simple, scalable, four-step process that enables leaders to routinely bring out the best in team members and improve performance