Business Practice

Artificial intelligence touches nearly every part of your day. While you may initially assume that technology such as smart speakers and digital assistants are the extent of it, AI has in fact rapidly become a general-purpose technology, reverberating across industries including transportation, healthcare, financial services, and many more. In our modern era, an understanding of AI and its possibilities for your organization is essential for growth and success. Artificial Intelligence Basics has arrived to equip you with a fundamental, timely grasp of AI and its impact.

"Risk Assessment Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide for Individuals and Businesses in the UK" Are you looking to ensure safety, protect people, and comply with UK regulations? Whether you're a small business owner, an HR manager, or an event organizer, conducting a thorough risk assessment is essential. This guide demystifies the process, offering you practical tools, insights, and step-by-step instructions to confidently assess risks in any environment. In Risk Assessment Made Simple, you'll discover: Comprehensive Guidance: Understand the principles of risk assessment, from identifying ...

Holistic business owners often prioritize getting and keeping clients over their own well-being and the value system they built their business on. But what if there was a better way? Needing vs. Leading is an award-winning book offering invaluable insights and lessons on eliminating approval-seeking, communicating effectively, and upholding your boundaries with clients. It will guide you through effectively engaging your fears and addressing your inner change work to improve your business practices and client outcomes. With practical exercises that can be engaged with daily, you'll unlock ...

The financier, Georgetown University professor, and former White House advisor teaches you how to find meaning, balance, and purpose throughout your career while reaching the highest levels of professional achievement - how to do well without losing yourself. Throughout his illustrious career, J. Douglas Holladay has taught generations of executives, as well as students in his popular MBA course at Georgetown, how to use a holistic approach to defining and reaching success in life and business.

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?"

Both an emerging term and a developing concept, business as mission (BAM) has drawn much fascination in both mission and business circles, with the concept of strategically using business to accomplish missional purposes. Though the term is ubiquitous in mission circles, there is great disparity in what it means. There has been much talk about BAM in theory, but far less research done on how it works out in reality.

Everything you need to ace the ITIL ® Foundation Exam The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) exam is the ultimate certification test for IT management professionals. If you are among the nearly quarter-million IT managers worldwide who will sit for the exam this year, the ITIL Foundation Exam Study Guide is one resource you don’t want to be without. It provides you with all the background information, expert in-depth reviews, learning aids and practice, practice, practice you need to pass the test with flying colors. Completely up-to-date and organized around the ...

Email marketing is a powerful tool for small businesses looking to reach and engage with their target audience in a cost-effective way. In this subchapter, we will explore the importance of email marketing for small businesses and how it can help you grow your brand and drive sales. By understanding the key strategies and best practices for email marketing, you can unlock the full potential of this marketing channel and see tangible results for your business.

Most orthodontists would like more new patients. They may have a goal for production, but they have no idea how to get there. They just wish they could grow faster and easier. The “Ultimate Treatment Coordinator” is Book #2 in The Orthodontic Practice Growth Series. In it, you’ll discover how to implement the 5 Growth Hacks below to get your practice on track to hit your production goal quickly.

In The Advisor Breakthrough, financial marketing expert Shawn Sparks shares the step-by-step principles for developing the ultimate financial advisory practice. Based on the lessons Shawn has learned from working with the country's top financial advisors over the past 10 years, you will discover many of the most important top one-percent advisor lessons. The Advisor Breakthrough delivers a comprehensive plan for creating marketing, sales, and operations tactics that will help any financial advisor turn a successful, sustainable business.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

All you wanted to do is help people, but you realize there’s a lot more to running a business. Maybe you got a holistic certification, then an LLC, and then you tried to create some buzz to help people and make money, but only to find out later that your business is still trudging along on life support. If you’re like most holistic practitioners, you probably thought that your passion for helping people would equate to owning a profitable business. Sadly, it doesn’t. If you are a practitioner who has a service you want to provide to the public as a first-time local business owner, and...

Fred Joyal, the expert in dental consumer marketing, reveals how every single thing you say and do in your practice communicates a message to your patients. Everything is Marketing takes you step by step through your business, showing how little changes can have a big impact. Want to attract new patients? Convert more calls into appointments? Increase your case acceptance? Marketing can make it happen.

Discover the missing piece of the manifestation puzzle that explains why positive thinking alone often fails to deliver results. While the Law of Attraction has captured worldwide attention, this groundbreaking book reveals its essential companion principle—the Law of Compensation—that determines not just what opportunities appear but what abundance actually manifests in your life. Unlock the powerful truth behind why some people effortlessly attract prosperity while others struggle despite using identical manifestation techniques. Learn how universal principles work together as an ...

The Freelance Way is THE business audiobook for independent professionals. It presents the best available and fully up-to-date freelance know-how, compiled from hundreds of quality sources, including surveys, the latest market data, advice from world-class experts, as well as real-life experiences and stories from hundreds of professionals in different fields and countries, which makes the book highly relevant to freelancers worldwide.

The five practices of values-based leadership have transformed hundreds of organizations across every sector. Now, learn how to use these same practices to transform your team, your relationships, and your life through InnerWill. Leadership is a choice, and it begins with you. Become a better, stronger leader today, regardless of your official title or position. By learning how to understand yourself and others on a deep, authentic level, you’ll unlock the power to make a positive difference, overcoming challenges and resolving conflicts that once felt insurmountable.

How many times did your inner critic pop up and talk you down today? Or, tell you someone else wasn't good enough? Is your inner critic running rampant, thwarting your advancement as a leader? You may have never called your inner critic out or confronted its harsh ramblings until now, but it's time! Mastering Your Inner Critic offers firsthand hard-won advice for scaling the hurdles that prevent you from controlling that little voice. It's time to counter those nagging questions that torment you - with positive solutions that empower you.

Self-help fads come and go but the timeless Jewish practice of mussar, a strategy for ethical and spiritual character refinement, has been helping perceptive and purposeful people live fulfilling and happy lives for generations. After years of teaching mussar classes and workshops and marveling at the dramatic changes in participants’ lives, Ruchi Koval provides a roadmap for people of all faiths, filled with clear explanations and illustrative anecdotes guiding listeners through eight practical and powerful steps to a better version of themselves.

"The Accountability Equation" offers a revolutionary guide for mental health group practice owners facing the chaos of unmanaged systems and staff burnout. This book exposes the harsh realities of low morale and high turnover, presenting a dynamic system designed to cultivate true accountability and sustainable growth.

A digital wave of change is sweeping through the global economy. IT (information technology) has become the very fabric of every large organisation. ITSM teams, processes, and tools are under enormous pressure as expectations of performance escalate higher and higher and as new technologies and providers appear on the scene almost by the minute.