Future Business

What if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want - and then invent it? Well, we can. Think of the wealth of technological resources already available to us. The computing power in that smartphone in your pocket could have guided 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the Moon and back. A gigabyte of memory cost $300,000 in the 1980s - today, it costs a fraction of a penny. Now, try to imagine 2050, when your computing devices will be a million times more powerful or available at one-millionth of today's prices.

The metaverse isn’t just hype—it’s your next platform for business growth. Metaverse Explained breaks down what the metaverse is, how it works, and how entrepreneurs and creators can build early authority inside it. Whether you’re a total beginner or curious innovator, this guide gives you the knowledge you need to prepare for Web3. What the metaverse is (and isn’t)—and why it matters for small business How AR/VR, blockchain, and AI connect in the new digital economy Practical applications for retail, real estate, coaching, and education Best platforms (Decentraland, Meta ...

In this book, enterprise architecting experts Deborah Nightingale and Donna Rhodes offer a framework for enterprise transformation. Successful transformation, they believe, starts with a holistic approach, taking into consideration all facets of the enterprise and its environment rather than focusing solely on one factor-information technology, for example, or organizational structure. This is architecting the future enterprise: creating a blueprint for what the enterprise will look like after the transformation.

In today's fast-paced business landscape, true collaboration isn't just desirable—it's essential for survival and success. Collaboration Is the New Competition offers a digestible approach to problem-solving and decision-making that empowers professionals to thrive in their careers, drive business growth, and make a meaningful impact in their communities. This transformative book demystifies the process of collaboration and provides practical strategies for choosing the right people, leveraging networks, and amplifying wins.

Every amazing destiny is initiated and maintained by enduring and overcoming processes of emotional and mental growth. Many of us have blindly chosen to partner with a false understanding of how real strength should be demonstrated, because we've given the college of hard knocks permission to educate us. This book is power-packed with true stories to bring women into a place of inner reflection. Join Simone on this journey and movement of strong women who are driven to radiate the blessing of true restoration and happiness within their families, workplaces, and communities.

Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrow’s mind set and competitive advantage.

Character is something intrinsic to us all; it forms and reveals who we are. Unbeknownst to many, character is foundational to our judgment, behavior, and leadership. As we tackle the grand challenges of our time, strength of character guides us to make better decisions, creates greater well-being, and contributes to human flourishing. For those who lead—whether in the public, private, not for profit, or education sectors—a greater understanding of character will challenge your thinking, inspire new ideas, and elevate your personal and professional performance.

A game-changing audiobook that outlines the ways in which technology has transformed how brands and businesses innovate and connect with consumers. The DNA of business has changed. Forever. You can blame technology, smartphones, social media, online shopping, and everything else, but nothing changes this reality: We are in a moment of business purgatory. Mitch Joel, one of the world's leading experts in new media, warns that the time has come to "Ctrl Alt Delete". To reboot and to start re-building your business model.

After 26 years as a Procter & Gamble technology executive and five years as an independent board director and strategic advisor, I’ve learned there is no epiphany more powerful than realizing that many leaders are completely trapped! In Waiting Is Not an Action, I share incredible teaching moments, insights on flourishing in a Fortune 500 enterprise, and the inside story on transitioning into a thriving plural career—board seats, strategic advisory roles, speaking, writing, and the associated multiple benefits.

Success is a choice. It’s a choice to make a sacrifice to change what is wrong and turn it into right. The sacrifice is letting go of past behaviors and to not miss them while embracing new behaviors designed for success. It’s a choice. A methodology to create success comes from systematically developing the models of excellence to achieve and awareness of dangers that attack the core of success. To embrace the methodology requires embracing the model and discerning the dangers.

As their businesses begin and then mature, entrepreneurs face increasingly complex emotional challenges that they must navigate as they take their businesses from an idea to the maturation period of growth and expansion, to succession planning and divestiture, to the day they step aside. John Waldron has leveraged his own entrepreneurial experience and that of the hundreds of business owners he has counseled to build an essential framework that addresses the important balance between the tangible and intangible complexities of each stage of The Entrepreneurial Journey.

Do you want to boost your success and well-being, while finding greater fulfillment and purpose in your life and work? Do you want to increase your influence and connection with people, and enjoy a more meaningful life? You can achieve this, and so much more, through the power of Lift. In Lift Your Impact, Richard Newman shares the groundbreaking communication techniques that can help you gain the results and respect you deserve.

Seventy-seven percent of the US population is active on social media. Over three billion social media users worldwide. Social media is exponentially more effective and accurate and has much better ROI than traditional advertising and media. Social media marketing is not an option anymore. Your customers - no matter who they are - expect you to reach them the way they communicate. The vast majority of companies have inadequate social media marketing strategies. Most companies are playing catch-up with current digital marketing trends, and their strategies will be outdated by the time the company has mastered them.

Miko Marsh's Stop Surviving and Live! is helping people to transform their lives. Journey with the author as she walks you through the process she used to transition from poverty to provision, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Use her process to consider how you can empower and revitalize yourself. Discover a simple but life-changing method known to many minimalists and organizers, as well as why it is important to be thorough in the chapter on scaling down.

Leadership is evolving. Have you future-proofed your career? AI isn’t coming—it's already here, reshaping leadership, decision-making, and success. The leaders who embrace AI-first strategies will thrive. The ones who don’t? They’ll be left behind. In The Leadership Playbook, Revisited, award-winning executive strategist Keryn Gold, PhD, MBA, delivers an actionable, high-impact, no-nonsense guide for executives and professionals ready to lead smarter, faster, and more effectively in the AI era. You’ll learn: How AI is transforming leadership—and what great AI-first leaders do differently.

Following his first two ground-breaking books, What’s Your Moonshot? and Magnetiize, John Sanei turns his endless curiosity to the perspectives, perceptions and prejudices that prepare us for our illogical future. He breaks down the four types of seeing - HINDsight, PLAINsight, INsight and FOREsight - we humans use to guide us through the world and into the future. Then, with 20 shots of vivid, eye-opening FOREsight, he gives listeners the opportunity to peer into what that future could be and ask the types of questions that will allow us to embrace it with optimism.

With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas.

The big idea of this book is to help you write your own book on the future of technology, finance, management, or business in under 30 days to build your profile as a leader and visionary. If you want to be taken seriously as a thought leader and expert, you need to have a book. And I know so many people who talk about “the book” they want to write. But years go by and it never happens. This book is my attempt to help would-be authors everywhere tell their stories and share their visions with the world.

Are you fed up running your construction company? Sick of not being paid what you are worth? Stressed out with poor cashflow and low profits? Would you like to have a proven strategy to give you more time, freedom and money? Building Your Future is a practical business guide designed specifically for business owners in the construction and service industry who want to grow a highly successful and profitable business while reclaiming more time and freedom.

Our world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, hunger and a global pandemic mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever; but economics can help! From parenting to organ donation, housing to anti-social behaviour, economics provides the tools we need to fix the biggest issues of today. Far from being a means to predict the stock market or enrich the elite, economics provides a lens through which we can better understand how things work.