Business Strategy

This audiobook focuses on the business story of Walt Disney and the company he built. Combining a unique blend of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and a relentless drive to bring out the best in his teams, Walt Disney created one of the most successful ventures in business history. Outlining the specific processes of the company, Goldsby and Mathews provide the listener with the tools they need to embrace their own entrepreneurial leadership style, to lead effectively, to be more innovative, and to build a successful organization.

This audiobook will teach you to become aware of your thinking patterns and confront your restricting, unsupportive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors about becoming successful and wealthy.

What is our situation? What’s the Big Idea? Do we dare? Who is with us? What are we good at? What are we doing that’s different, and how will we take people with us? What steps must we take, and in what order? How do we get better as we go? How are things arranged? How will strategy change us? If you want to be a great athlete, train. If you want to be a great pianist, practise. If you want to be an effective strategist, hire forty­ five consultants, undertake a six-month review, and produce a two­-hundred and fifty-page document... ...or not. Strategy is becoming more complicated, ...

What does it take for a business owner to be happy after leaving the business? Multiple surveys show that a majority of owners have regrets a year after leaving their businesses. After the initial “vacation period” of travel and recreation, too often they find themselves adrift without their companies. They lack the activity, purpose and identity that their businesses provided. The Exit Planning Coach Handbook is a guide for advisors to business owners. We believe that entrepreneurs need to move forward towards exciting goals. That is what made them successful in the first place, and ...

Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were the weapons of choice at Wall Street investment bank Lazard Frères & Co. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built.

Looking to start your own business but tired of the same old options? Look no further than junk removal! In this comprehensive guide, The Sweaty Startup Guide to Starting Your Own Junk Removal Business, you’ll learn everything you need to know to start and grow your own profitable junk removal company. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to identify opportunities and avoid risks, create a memorable brand, navigate regulations and zoning laws, and fund your company startup. You’ll find out how to assemble the perfect team of employees, who will help you build and manage your crew, and how ...

Filled with real-world examples and actionable advice, this audiobook is perfect for newly minted startups or current entrepreneurs who wish to increase their customer base. Even if you have no marketing experience at all, you can still master the basics of cost-effective and profitable digital marketing. You simply need the right guide to lead you through the process.

Looking to start your own personal chef business, but not sure where to begin? Look no further than "The Home Chef" – the new eBook that will guide you every step of the way to becoming a successful home-based personal chef. In this comprehensive guide, you will learn the skills and qualifications you'll need, as well as how to find your niche in the market as a personal chef. You'll get advice on setting up your home-based kitchen and sourcing quality ingredients from suppliers. Plus, you'll find out how to price your services, promote your business and build a solid client base. This ...

The body of Christ has entered an era where the saints in Heaven and the saints upon the earth join forces to build true Kingdom business enterprises. Learning to engage the Business Complex of Heaven can dramatically change the way you build and grow your business. No longer do you need to scramble around trying to gain direction. Heaven already has the details worked out. This book introduces you to Heaven’s Business Complex and helps you navigate and maximize the various departments and resources of this aspect of the realms of Heaven. Never again do you have to stumble. You have all ...

Discover the wealth-building secrets that the ultra-rich have used for over 160 years! In this groundbreaking book, you'll learn: How to create your own banking system using dividend-paying whole life insurance policies, allowing you to finance your business growth, invest in lucrative opportunities, and build generational wealth - all tax-free and protected from market volatility. The proven strategies used by icons like Walt Disney, the Rockefellers, and top CEOs to grow their empires and Get Wealthy For Sure™. How to build a team of expert financial professionals, implement tax-...

GOLD WINNER - 2025 Heart & Hustle Book Awards Stop Dreaming About Making It as an Author and Start Building a Sustainable Business You Love Are you tired of earning meager royalties or Amazon deposits? Do you dream of turning your passion for writing into a thriving business? In The Profitable Author, publishing veteran Sharon Woodhouse reveals the insider secrets to creating a multi-faceted author career that goes beyond book sales.Drawing on over 25 years of experience as an indie publisher, Woodhouse provides a practical framework for building a sustainable and rewarding author life. ...

The Real Business of Blockchain is one of the first audiobooks on this transformative technology written for business leaders. Authors David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau - both of Gartner, the world-renowned research and advisory company - will help you: assess how blockchain will impact your business by cutting through the hype and finding the real story; explore the value proposition that blockchain technologies offer; make smart near- and mid-term investments in your blockchain strategy; and position you and your organization in a new competitive landscape in the future.

This innovative platform empowers local marketers, business consultants, and online entrepreneurs to create AI products tailored for local businesses in under ten minutes. With a simple interface and no technical skills required, you can craft unique solutions that local businesses will eagerly pay $499 a month for. Local Business Marketing provides step-by-step instructions and over 55 niche-specific ideas, ensuring your success from day one. These Custom GPTs automate tasks like appointment setting, customer inquiries, and more, revolutionizing local businesses’ operations and boosting ...

If you’re tired of building a business that looks good but feels exhausting, The Slow Hustle is your permission slip to do things differently. This is not another high-performance productivity manual. It’s a business book for the sensitive, the intentional, the boundary-aware, and the quietly ambitious. For the people who want to grow something meaningful — but don’t want to burn out doing it. Author Eliot Sage offers a steady, soul-deep reimagining of what it means to succeed — without selling your values, overextending your body, or pretending to be louder than you are. Inside, ...

Are you a small or medium-sized business owner, executive, or entrepreneur ready to take your company to the next level? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) might seem like a strategy reserved for large corporations, but in reality, they offer transformative growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes. In M&A for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Michael Hofer, Ph.D., an expert with years of M&A experience, unveils the secrets of harnessing M&A to accelerate growth, expand into new markets, gain valuable expertise, and secure a stronger competitive position—all tailored to the unique ...

A powerful truth lies at the heart of lasting business success: when relationships thrive, everyone wins. Rooted in empirical research and decades of experience working directly with elite-level business owners, Russ Alan Prince, a leading authority in the private wealth industry, and Frank V. Carone, Founder and Chairman of Oaktree Solutions and one of the foremost experts on negotiating, unveil the transformative Everyone Wins Process—a proven four-step methodology for building and optimizing relationships that foster ethical, practical, long-term success, and financial freedom. Why The...

The Simple Side of Strategic Management How to make managing strategy easy and exciting Learn to understand some of the more complex aspects of strategic management in a simpler context. If you are interested in understanding strategic management in greater detail, but you are just not in the mood for those stale academic written, hard to understand, boring textbooks, then this book is just for you. If you are simply looking for additional information and wish to supplement your existing knowledge on strategic management, well then this book is for you. For the sake of covering both angles,...

Are you ready for the changes in Consumer Behavior? Most customers today expect stores to provide easy shopping experience. In the past few years, customers have shifted their behavior not only within the physical store but also digitally. There is no online or offline marketing strategy anymore, but how both working together in a unique customer-centric manner. This is the Omnichannel Marketing. Your customer doesn’t think in terms of channels…physical stores, online stores, websites, mobile apps, social channels, …it’s all a big blur to them. Instead, customers see the company or ...

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

Is it truly possible to make a great living without a boss breathing down your neck? You can find the answers to this and more in the pages of this book. From basic terminology, to the bidding process, to getting your contracting business off the ground and truly thriving, I'll walk you step-by-step through the often overwhelming process of getting government work. In today's world, there's just no excuse to live your life paycheck-to-paycheck locked in a cubicle. I'll show you how to break out of that grayscale life and into a life with opportunity in the world of government contracting. ...