Career Planning

In Middle-Class Mindset Escape Plan: Six Proven Steps to Break Free of Faulty Beliefs, Conquer Your Fears, and Reach Financial Success, J.D. shares what he learned through his own personal journey from middle class to millionaire so that you, too, can recover from loss, make a mindset shift, and break through to financial freedom.

Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occur. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadive forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business performance, a new approach he calls Predictive Business: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively.

Jugar para ganar describe el enfoque estratégico que A. G. Lafley, en estrecha colaboración con el asesor Roger L. Martin, empleó para duplicar las ventas de Procter & Gamble, cuadruplicar sus ganancias y aumentar su valor de mercado en más de cien mil millones de dólares entre 2000 y 2009. Los líderes de cualquier tipo de organización pueden encontrar aquí una guía eficaz sobre cómo orientar las acciones cotidianas hacia objetivos estratégicos, construidos alrededor de los elementos esenciales, que determinan el éxito de todo negocio: dónde jugar y cómo ganar.

Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every day, living with a purpose or mission in mind? Too many of us are doing the former - and our lives are slipping away one day at a time. But what if we treated life like the gift that it is? What if we lived each day as though it was part of a bigger picture, a plan?

A breakthrough solution is exposed when some unexpected events force Caroline and Paul, a married couple working for their family's retail business, to make a few small changes in the way things are done. A solution that propels the family's regional chain of stores into a very profitable, rapidly growing, international enterprise. If there is a hint of Jonah, from The Goal, reappearing in this novel, it is Henry, the soon-to-retire president and majority owner of the company who logically states that, "if you do not deal directly with the core problem, don't expect significant improvement."

With the principles outlined in Millionaire by Thirty, recent graduates will be earning enough interest on their savings to meet their basic living expenses by the time they're 30. And by the time they're 35, their investments will be earning more money than they are, guaranteeing them a happy, wealthy future.

Start Late, Finish Rich applies David Bach's financial wisdom to all those who forgot to save (or just plain procrastinated) and are worried that it is too late to achieve financial freedom. For those who worry that they'll never be able to retire on their current savings, hope and help have arrived. David's message is that it is never too late to finish rich.

La guía definitiva para cualquiera que desee iniciar una empresa de transportes. En este libro se cubrirá todo, desde la industria en sí misma y por qué es tan rentable en este momento, hasta la ampliación de su negocio y la contratación de personal. También se hablará de los precios, de la competencia y de lo que se necesita para empezar en esta apasionante industria.

Para crear un negocio exitoso tienes que dejar de hacer acciones aleatorias de marketing y seguir un plan riguroso que garantice el rápido crecimiento de tu empresa. Tradicionalmente, crear un buen plan de marketing ha sido un proceso complejo que consume mucho tiempo, razón por la cual muchos deciden no hacerlo. En El Plan de Marketing de 1-Página, el emprendedor en serie y mercadólogo rebelde Allan Dib revela un nuevo enfoque en la implementación del marketing que facilita y simplifica la creación de un plan.

In The Purposeful Planning Method, Matt East, one of the world's leading experts on productivity and high performance, reveals how to spend more time on the projects, activities, and relationships that are most important and meaningful to you. If you've struggled with planning your day in the past, the problem isn't you. It's your system for planning.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution provides a simple, proven formula for achieving the goals that every individual or organization needs to reach. From Marriott to the U.S. Navy, Covey and his team have worked with more than 200,000 people in hundreds of organizations to improve performance, identifying and honing four secrets of perfect execution: Focus on the Wildly Important; Act on the Lead Measures; Keep a Compelling Scoreboard; and Create a Cadence of Accountability.

Getting a new job or a big promotion is like building a house: You need to get the foundation right for both. With a job, the quick-drying cement is how well you do in your first hundred days, since they establish the foundation for long-term momentum and great performance.

Resilience isn’t superhuman internal strength. True resilience is letting go of the “old way of doing things” and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you’re going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility.

Until recently Tess Vigeland was a longtime host of public radio's Marketplace. It was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it - but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she'd been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked away from her dream job and into a vast unknown. Suddenly she was no longer " Marketplace's Tess Vigeland"; she was just Tess Vigeland.

If you're like most Americans, your most valuable asset is your retirement fund. We diligently save money for years, yet most of us don't know how to avoid the costly mistakes that cause a good chunk of those savings to be lost to needless and excessive taxation. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis, there is more need than ever to protect your assets. The Retirement Savings Time Bomb, by renowned tax advisor Ed Slott, shows you in clear-cut layman's terms how to take control over your retirement savings plan.

When Cus D'Amato first saw 13-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.

Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders worldwide to minimize distractions and maximize accomplishments. Drawing on their 40 years of leadership research, this book offers three powerful habits that the top 10 percent of leaders use to do what matters most.

In their book Abundance, best-selling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the best-selling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next 10 years of rapid technological disruption.

What happens when you stop being nice — and start being honest? Maggie Ford thought she was just leaving a job. Instead, she walked away from a version of herself: agreeable, bendable, useful — and quietly breaking. This Wasn’t the Plan is a fierce, unsentimental portrait of what happens when women refuse to disappear. In tightly drawn entries, sharp, spare, and darkly funny. Maggie unpacks workplace burnout, quiet rage, unexpected friendship, and the slow reclamation of a self she barely recognised. She doesn’t crash. She doesn’t triumph. She just leaves — and keeps going. For ...

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.