Small Leadership

Your brand is the stories people share about you when you're not in the room, and it's these brand stories that determine if people buy from you, employ you, work for you, or invest in you. When the stakes are that high, wouldn't you want to take control of it? In Magnetic Stories, business storytelling expert Gabrielle Dolan reveals how you, too, can create and share stories that stick.

Do you want to become more productive at your 9-5 day job or at your self-employed business? The Checklist Mindset shows you how to implement not only four daily tasks for increased productivity, but Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Sheets. You'll also plug into the power of a ZenDesk help desk to systematize and outsource your business, Calendly to handle appointment scheduling, and Zapier to handle task automation.

How to Close A Deal like Warren Buffett offers an original spin on Buffett’s near-mythic dealmaking prowess that will catch the attention of millions of Buffet fans worldwide. Here, Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries acknowledge leaders in sales and sales training and deconstruct the Buffett approach for dealmaking to give listeners a wealth of Warren wisdom to help close every deal.

In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate.

Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, draw on extensive global research to reveal the secrets of enterprising families, using examples of both firms that flourished and those that failed. They describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer detailed advice on how to develop and implement those practices.

Business owners today are constantly faced with difficult challenges and eight of 10 new businesses will not survive the first five years. Competition is difficult and building a sustainable, profitable business is arguably the most challenging sport in all of business today. In The Ultimate Business Tune Up, Rich Allen combines the experiences of his father’s own small business, his personal experiences running and growing a business, and his learning from advising hundreds of small business owners into a powerful, step-by-step guide for small business owners everywhere.

By choosing minimalism, one lives with fewer resources by choice to prevent wastefulness and overwhelm. Minimalism for Business Owners applies these concepts to the entrepreneurial lifestyle to bring the ultimate reward of peace and simplicity. Between every learning chapter there is the fictional story of Jennifer, and how she uses these concepts in her own business as a private music instructor.

Be Intentional: Culture Introduction by: Michelle Blevins Authors: Lisa Lavender, Andrew G McCabe, Jeremy Watkin, Dr. Leroy Nunery II, David Princeton, Luke Draeger, Jonathan L. Isaacson, Chris Stanley, and Elan Pasmanick Publisher: The DYOJO Editors: Jonathan L. Isaacson and Tiffany Acuff How do the small things that you do contribute to enhancing or undermining your culture? Featuring a poem on culture by Elan "Born to Repair" Pasmanick The second book from The DYOJO Publications will be a collaborative effort with leaders in various industries sharing their experiences developing ...

5% More presents a painless route to change, with results that can last a lifetime. Whether you want to boost your health, wealth, or wisdom, this book reveals a key technique that makes it stick. You may already know that breaking big goals into small chunks makes them easier to achieve, but the trick is in making those chunks large enough to be productive, yet small enough to be sustainable. This book shows you how to bring your goals within reach with only five percent more effort.

Going Global on a Shoestring is a handbook for the executives and business developers in small and medium-sized software companies that lay out the strategies for global expansion as well as perform the actual fieldwork with winning the first customers abroad. It is a book about how to get the first customers outside your domestic market. We could call it establishing the bridgehead for further growth.

Are your systems and team impeding your business from thriving and being profitable? Wrestling with building a profitable business? Struggling to find (and keep) great people to help your business grow? Exasperated by wanting to build systems that repeat business success without your continual involvement but never having the time? Frustrated that you are working harder, but there never seems to be any money left over for you? If you are ready to finally build a stable, thriving business based around solid systems with a great team and culture, this is the book for you.

Whether you're facing funding sharks or angel investors, we've got the keys to crafting that perfect pitch to help you secure the funds you need to launch your startup, build your business, and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams. In this new edition of the Entrepreneur Voices series, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and experts from both sides of the board room present the game-winning strategies and deal-closing tactics you need to succeed.

Startup Culture Mindset: A Primer to Building an Amazing Culture and Tribe was written for startup founders or executives who aspire to create an amazing team that buys into the mission. The key is to understand that the founder of a startup or leaders of a company determine the culture on purpose. And in order to do that well, you have to understand the key elements of a culture framework. Based on 20 years of company creation, leadership, and observation, Bernhard Schroeder shares with you the key elements of a culture framework:

Gary created The Growth Cube to share his six-dimensional proven approach to leading and growing businesses successfully. If you are a CEO, an executive leader, an entrepreneur, have a family-owned company, or are starting your own business, The Growth Cube provides a step-by-step guide with tips, charts and graphics that Gary has used in real business environments with real business associates.

Now a number one international best seller! Half of all new businesses in the US and UK fail within five years. They fail for various reasons, but the main issue is that business owners either don’t face up to their problems at all or when they do, it’s too late. Face It & Fix It is a must-listen audiobook for owners of struggling small businesses; those who don’t have a moment to lose before disaster strikes and their business is lost. It is a hard-hitting and easy-to-understand guidebook that explains how any small business can be transformed into a success.

Gaining the Systems Advantage explores how unsuspecting small-business owners get trapped in the daily chaos of feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and out of control while growing their business and provides strategies and solutions for escaping it.

At the heart of this comprehensive resource is a practical approach to innovation based on specific timetables, compensation structures, and financial investments. Respected thought leaders in lean startup methodologies, the authors cover successful enterprise development, development innovation labs, corporate venture arms, and acquisition and integration of startups.

Manchee explores the myriad of reasons why small businesses fail, provides practical advice on how to turn an ailing business around, and gives dozens of examples of entrepreneurs he has worked with in the past who have successfully reorganized their businesses.

New mindset. In The Best Team Wins, author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people.

Better Together is an illustration of applied methods designed to permit the listener to create their own inspired, inclusive, synergistic, and successful outcomes for their varied, small groups. These methods may be applied by coaches, teachers, employers, parents, and all of those who find themselves cast in a leadership role.