Career Planning

At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow. Influential podcast host and thought leader Carey Nieuwhof understands the challenges of constant pressure. After a season of burnout almost took him out, he discovered how to get time, energy, and priorities working in his favor. This approach freed up more than one thousand productive hours a year for him and can do the same for you.

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. And if you believe people don’t change, then you would be right. In a world where instability is constant and exhausting, learning curves are endless, and transformation is the buzzword of the day, the challenge is actually this: people don’t like change. This groundbreaking book turns the dog in that demoralizing axiom on its head. When leaders step up to create an organizational culture that encourages positive shifts, and team members realize how beneficial change can be, people do change . . . and for the better.

55 Great Ways to Increase Your Income is a practical guide to getting paid more and earning extra cash on the side. It provides a comprehensive overview of the various strategies, both short-term and long-term, which can be utilized to increase your income. Each strategy is backed up with real-life examples, making this an ideal resource for anyone looking to make more money right now.

What does it take to have a truly happy retirement? Is it money? An active social life? A long-lasting marriage - or maybe a new one? Finance expert, author, and radio host Wes Moss asked more than 2,000 of the nation's happiest retirees to find out - and their answers may surprise you. Through a series of revealing surveys, Moss noticed a pattern of distinct, recognizable habits that the happiest retirees shared, from the simplest of lifestyle choices to the smartest of financial strategies.

Are you tired of feeling unfulfilled at work? Do you fear Monday mornings and count down the hours until Friday afternoon? Do you think your job as become a daily humiliation? If you said YES to any of the above, it's time to break free from the cycle of workplace misery and discover your own way to personal fulfillment and person. "Unlock Deep Essential Work” helps you craft a truly personalize approach to transforming your work life. This isn't just another self-help book—it's a roadmap to revolutionizing the way you think about and approach your career. Think about it, work takes up ...

In There’s No Plan B for Your A-Game, former pro athlete, playwright, and acclaimed leadership coach Bo Eason shows you exactly what it takes to be the best. His proven tools and training have worked for Olympic medalists, military leaders, best-selling authors, professional athletes, and business executives and their teams.

Looking for a step-by-step guide to creating business plans that both boost operational focus and raise serious moola? Searching for a no-nonsense crash-course in business-plan writing that’ll have you talking like an MBA grad (even if you never got past 10th-grade geometry)? Then look no further, intrepid entrepreneur! Because in How to Write a Business Plan That Doesn’t Suck, you’ll have a business planner Sherpa walking you through every step of the way.

When New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff got curious about tapping into his full potential, he launched a research study with Dr. Mike Peasley. They asked more than three thousand people if they felt they were living up to their full potential. Fifty percent of people reported that 50 percent of their full potential is untapped. That means half of us are walking around with half-lives. No wonder Twitter is so grumpy.

Paradigmatic shifts in the business landscape, known as inflection points, can either create new, entrepreneurial opportunities or they can lead to devastating consequences. Rita McGrath contends that inflection points, though they may seem sudden, are not random. Every seemingly overnight shift is the final stage of a process that has been subtly building for some time. Armed with the right strategies and tools, smart businesses can see these inflection points coming and use them to gain a competitive advantage.

There's a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization's strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they're misused by most organizations. For example, executives buy and implement a tool without first asking, "What problem are we trying to solve?"

From Curious Beginner to Six-Figure Expert – Your 2025 Guide to Certifications and Career SuccessAre you ready to break into one of the most in-demand industries in the world—but don't know where to start? Cybersecurity Roadmap is the no-fluff, real-world guide designed to take you from complete beginner to certified pro, fast. Whether you're a student, a career-changer, or an IT professional looking to specialize, this is your strategic path to mastering the certifications, skills, and mindset that today’s top employers demand. What You'll Learn Inside: ✅ Which certifications ...

From Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, Clockwork, and The Pumpkin Plan, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur.... The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent—but there's no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things.

Despite the overwhelming amount of resources for time management and work-life balance, the ability to cultivate the efficiency and equilibrium needed to manage all our worthy pursuits can often feel frustratingly out of reach. The reason for our struggle is that productivity and time-management systems focus on individual habits rather than more meaningful and lasting lifestyle changes. But as it turns out, there is a better way to reach our full potential.

Using the exact steps you’ll learn in this book, Donald Miller grew his small business from four employees working out of a basement to a 15 million dollar operation, increasing revenue sixfold in just six years. As Miller grew his own business from the ground up, he realized nobody had put together a simple, step-by-step playbook for growing a business. That book didn’t exist. Until now. In this book, you’ll learn the 6 steps to grow a successful small business and create a playbook to implement them—your Flight Plan.

Are you a parent, guardian, or educator worried about your teen’s future? Not sure where they’re headed? Or perhaps you're a young adult striving to carve out your future path? It’s never too early to start looking ahead to the future. Instead of waiting until the end of high school, imagine the advantage they could have by crafting a secure plan within the next 30 days!

The pension plans that previous generations relied upon for monthly retirement income are vanishing and being replaced by self-funding programs such as 401(k)s. Today's retirees are now responsible for creating their own stream of income from their investments—and this income may need to last for more than three decades. So, the singular question every retiree needs to ask is:

In Strategic, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath delivers an incisive roadmap to help leaders at all levels think, plan, and act strategically to navigate every business challenge they face. The book offers business leaders a proven framework—the Strategic Fitness System—containing dozens of tools, techniques, and checklists to confidently master every area of the business, from designing market-winning strategies to shaping the organization's culture.

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to get a bank loan, find investors, and make it to the top of your industry. Many business owners find themselves overwhelmed in their business planning process, or even worse, they outsource the planning to an unqualified professional.

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

Are you passionate about creating memorable experiences and eye-catching designs? Do you dream of turning your knack for organization and creativity into a successful business? 'Your Dream Career: Wedding Planning' is your essential guide to starting and thriving in the wedding planning industry. Starting a wedding planning business can seem overwhelming. From understanding the market and building a brand to mastering client relationships and managing events, there's a lot on your plate.