Business Survival

Everyone has dreams, but most people don't know how to achieve them. Goals help people achieve their dreams, but how do you know if you've set the right goals? In this book-length excerpt from the massive Freelancer's Survival Guide, international best-selling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch will help you set the right goals to achieve your dreams. She also has tips for staying positive and remaining patient while you're on the road to success.

No matter how smart and talented you are, you need the help of others to reach your true potential. Solid connections with the right people are just as important as being good at what you do. This fully revised edition of The Networking Survival Guide reveals tried-and-true networking tactics, as well as new ways to harness the extraordinary influence of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

This two-in-one bundle combines 100 Strong Residency Interview Questions, Answers, and Rationales with the content from Phone Interview Survival Tips to better prepare you for residency application and interview season.

We live in unpredictable and unstable times. We have lived through recessions, scandals, pandemics, and natural disasters. How, as business leaders, do you continue to operate and grow a successful company, surrounded by so much uncertainty? This book identifies the four essential habits in surviving a zombie apocalypse (or other unimaginable events) so you focus your habit-forming skills on the actions that will have an immediate impact on your business, no matter what is happening. By practicing these habits, you will be able to take action when the next situation approaches.

Four decades ago, when I started my own small business, I looked for a book that would explain all the nuts and bolts of day-to-day survival as a small business. There wasn’t one. And there still isn’t one. So, I wrote one.

After twenty-something years on Wall Street, I realized that all women face the same issues as we struggle to navigate a system that never took us into consideration. Lose the Gum is my own personal account of challenges that I endured throughout a long standing career and illustrates mistakes I made along the way and how I succeeded in spite of them. And YOU will too.

Have you ever inherited an IT position unexpectedly? Trial by fire can be brutal, and many aren't cut out for it. Using this guide you can answer the following questions: How do I manage all of this? What did the last guy even do all day? Why doesn't my boss notice me? When finished, you'll have a skeleton framework that can improve any IT environment and help you get your life back.

You May Never See Us Again is the only definitive story of David and Frederick Barclay - commonly known as the Barclay brothers. Born poor, these enigmatic twins built one of the biggest fortunes in Britain together from scratch and spent six decades at the epicentre of British business, media and politics. Journalist Jane Martinson unravels the fascinating story of these once inseparable billionaire brothers.

Dick Smith is a remarkable and proud Australian. He has been part of our national consciousness for over 50 years as an innovative and astute businessman, a groundbreaking adventurer, a generous philanthropist and a provocateur for the causes he feels deeply about. Yet, despite his great successes and achievements, Dick has remained down to earth and close to his roots.

An Unorthodox – but Effective! – Approach to Self-Help (and Achieving Your Dreams) Do you want to stop sucking at achieving your goals? Feel like no matter what you do, you can't get ahead? If you can't do the basic life skills discussed in these pages, you probably have a false sense of readiness interfering with your ability to get ahead and stay ahead financially. Sara Sidwell has held executive-level positions for over three decades, working as a top-tier analyst. As an entrepreneur, she served as the CFO for two thriving startup businesses in the transportation and construction ...

The Art of Victory is a manual for survival and prosperity in the midst of current social, technological, and environmental changes. Like Sun Tzu's Art of War, this book is a guide for business and social leaders, broad in scope but specific enough to apply to everyday life. Drawing on decades of experience working with and advising the highest levels of political and military leadership, Copley offers his 28 Maxims of Victory to understand how civilizations and societies naturally evolve.

People leaders everywhere are spinning their wheels trying to come up with new ways to attract and keep top talent only to be ghosted again by the best candidates or get hit with another superstar’s resignation notice. Join award-winning people leader Merrylue Martin, who has decades of experience in developing leaders. Merrylue’s humor, down-to-earth style, and master storytelling are but a few of the attributes that make her a sought-after leadership guru. Her firsthand practical knowledge can be put into action on day one!

This is a collection of 50 simple tips of advice that any student would like to know. The book offers practical timeless tips, including money management, your major and school, friends and socializing, and starting your career.

Over the years David Nash has taken thousands of hours of T4T (Training for Training) classes. He holds or has held certifications in Homeland Security terrorism response, active shooter response, radiological safety, firearms, chemical agent, baton, defensive tactics, taser, simunitions, basic corrections, emergency management, and armed security. He runs his own training company and still teaches privately. This book is the culmination of all those instructor courses and his own personal experience.

Tired of the current job? Love dogs? Do you want to turn a passion for pooches into a happy living, working from home? Four years ago, together with my sister, Mitch, we started our own home boarding, home day care, and dog walking business. Surprisingly, it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. Just when we thought we’d mastered it, the licensing regulations changed, the local authority became the licensing inspector, and forms, policies, check lists, documentation, and evidencing every last minutiae of detail became the new norm.

A major investor is on line one, CNN is on line two, and social media is exploding in anger. When you're a "leader under fire", the next few moments can be an incredible opportunity...or they can destroy your career. In the past, companies prepared for crisis with expensive, static crisis communications plans. The pace was slower. You had time to process and plan a response with your senior team and lawyers. But those old-school plans don't work anymore.

“Bam!” The robber hit my eyes hard with his gun. I am still not sure if it was a real gun or a fake one: All I can say is that it was a very heavy metallic object. As soon as I saw the gun, the first thing I thought of was that my wife was pregnant. She was right next to me at that moment, unfortunately. The robber asked me to open our cash register and dump the cash into his bag. I don’t think he knew that we barely had $160 cash for changes (possibly even less than that). I hesitated for a second and he hit my head. This story is about the true event which happened in a video game ...

Mokhtar Alkhanshali is 24 and working as a doorman when he becomes fascinated with the rich history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral home to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains. He collects samples and organizes farmers and is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs the country. Saudi bombs rain down, the US embassy closes, and Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen with only his hopes on his back.

Introducing The She CEO Survival Guide—a must-listen for all women in business who are determined to succeed. In this guide, author Nancy A Brown shares practical strategies and inspiring stories from successful women in business, providing valuable insights and guidance on how to overcome challenges and achieve success as a She CEO.

The Accidental Business Nomad is an unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a post-globalization world. Each story gives fascinating insights and lessons into the cultural realities and unexpected surprises of modern globalization.