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You don’t have to have an MBA to understand the basics of accounting and finance, although it helps. This short book is a primer that will give you and those in your organization some basic tools for making smarter business decisions. Like many of my senior team colleagues at the time, many people believe that finance is the responsibility of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and perhaps a few staff accountants. Over the years, I have learned that we all need to understand some of the principles of accounting and finance, as well as some best practices.

Do you want to know how to achieve your first million dollars 20 times faster? As a CEO and entrepreneur committed to accelerating your business to the million-dollar mark within 24 months - a quantified 20-year quantum leap - it starts with you truly understanding what it is you want.

Angel Olvera grew up on the harsh streets of Los Angeles, CA. Now a network marketing veteran, he knows what it takes to build a successful organization. In Your First 90 Days in Network Marketing, Mr. Olvera outlines the skills needed and shares the tips and tricks that will lead you to a successful career in network marketing. Whether you're just starting or restarting your business, this book will guide you to success in network marketing.

There are countless books taking on the subject of the Elevator Pitch, that address that one sentence method that wakes up the interest and make the customer want to know more and more. But, the experienced networker and entrepreneur Daniel Kern knows from personal experience: Even the best prepared Elevator Pitch interests a very small number of people. With his new approach "Elevator Pitch 2.0" success can be multiplied, while making less of an effort. In this guide, he gives an approach suitable for everyone to learn. As a successful networker Daniel Kern makes more than 90 percent of his sales through recommendations from his network. The Elevator Pitch 2.0 has already opened hundreds of doors for him.

It gets lonely on the road for a professional woman like Chloe, who's always going on business trips far away from her husband. And it's even harder when you're a woman like Chloe who can't stop thinking about, or craving, hot sex with as many men as possible! During a business trip to Florida, she wanted to get with a whole bunch of men at once, and she was pleasuring herself in her hotel room thinking about it. Then she decided to go out and do something about it. But when one group of men filling all her holes just wasn't going to be enough to satisfy Chloe, she was on the hunt for yet ...

Whether you’re a dad or a mom, whether you’re rocking the "parent" part of your life and feel your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you’re a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price…this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life.

The People First Effect is a business fable about CEO Dan Burton. Dan has successfully led his company out of the 2008 recession and sees his organization moving back toward sustainable growth - only to learn that his company has been sold to a foreign investor.

Advertising veterans Mike Sullivan and Michael Tuggle unpack the poorly understood and grossly underleveraged connection between brand and culture. Filled with fascinating case studies, entertaining stories, and engaging insights, the book examines the true essence of what makes a company a challenger brand, unveils how successful challengers of all sizes use culture to create extraordinary brand distinction, and finishes with a detailed blueprint for building your own transcendent culture.

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance is a simple affirmation that successful organizational change involves - requires, in fact - the active, willful participation of the people affected by the change. In the change approach prescribed here, the friendly factor is not just a play on words; it is the very foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts, and hopes.

Across a decade of her career as an entrepreneur, Danielle Tate learned how to transform good ideas into successful businesses. At age 25 she bootstrapped MissNowMrs and grew it into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. As a young female founder, she noticed that few business guides offered step-by-step advice to smart but inexperienced women. Elegant Entrepreneur draws on Tate's experience and on conversations with prominent entrepreneurs and top executives.

The Man in the Arena offers the essence of John C. Bogle's thinking and the meaning of his life's work, which transformed individual investing to benefit tens of millions of investors. Through Bogle's own words - as well as the voices of others whose hearts and minds he touched - the book touches on topics he cares about most deeply: Vanguard, indexing, corporate governance, and a fiduciary society.

Maximum Profits from Free Reports is your step-by-step guide to turning simple, no-cost reports into a powerful income stream. Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just starting out, this book shows you how to create and monetize free reports that not only build your audience but also drive consistent profits. Learn the secrets of leveraging free content to build trust, establish authority, and convert readers into loyal customers. If you're ready to tap into the hidden potential of free reports and transform your efforts into maximum profits, this is the book for you. Get started now ...

Embark on a life-changing journey with The Narrow Gate, where the powerful principles of dedication and faith come together. In this inspiring guide, author Robert M Donovan, MBA invites you to embrace a life of purpose and success by prioritizing hard work while keeping God at the center of your pursuits.

CONGRATULATIONS , you are finally going to write your book! You have moved from planning to write a book, to actually writing one. It’s your goal to write a short book with clear benefits to the reader. But this isn’t your first attempt, is it? Maybe you have written your book a hundred times before and never finished because somewhere along the way, you end up stuck or hating your work. In other words, you lose the initial momentum and excitement you had for writing the thing. How to author and self-publish a book are questions that burn in your soul. Burn, baby burn. People who know ...

As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was spared the hangman's noose and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the colony of New South Wales. With the odds stacked against her, Reibey went on to become Australia's first female business tycoon and the richest woman in the colony, founding the Bank of New South Wales, now one of the nation's biggest financial institutions.

Hiring Your First Employees and Contractors emphasizes the benefits of starting with contractors and only evolving to hiring employees when absolutely required. The entrepreneur and small firm manager is provided concrete benchmarks and approaches for hiring contractors and employees, with the emphasis always on how to extend the entrepreneur's reach so as to focus on improving core values and core competencies.

Technology has enabled us to be more interconnected today than ever before. So why do so many of us feel isolated and undervalued at work? How do we - you - develop the intuition, self-awareness, and interpersonal agility required to prosper? Here's what we've lost track of: organizations are run by people, and people run on emotions. In this life-changing guide, Dr. Melanie Katzman shows you an impactful approach to connect first as fellow humans, then as coworkers and colleagues, to forge the deep bonds that make a significant difference.

One professional transition that stands out and is vital to your career is shifting from playing the role of an individual contributor to becoming a manager. There are a lot of things that new managers need to learn apart from leading others. You need to work on yourself, win your team members' trust and respect, become a motivator for them, and find the right balance between the delegation of responsibilities and maintaining control. Becoming a manager is the first step in this process. You work hard, dedicate long hours, and give up your weekends to earn a promotion.

Gone are the days where you must rely on large financial institutions or big-name investors to bring a great idea to life. No more needing to explain why you deserve a business loan despite not having a Ph.D. from an Ivy League business school, twenty years experience in your industry, and a million dollars worth of assets as collateral. All of that is in the past, thanks to the Internet making crowdfunding accessible to just about anyone with a computer. One of the biggest names in crowdfunding makes it even easier to raise funds to bring a project to life.

With the advent of numerous job search websites, finding and applying for jobs might be easy. But when it is time to face the first interview, the thought will probably be scary. In this powerfully effective listen, entrepreneur and author T. Muralidharan shows how to be successful at that first interview.