Business Survival

Starting a business isn't easy. In fact, it can be scary, exhausting and demoralising. When it finally takes off, even though you're fulfilling a lifelong dream, it can be a struggle to keep up with the rest of your life. How can you cope with the inevitable stresses and strains along the way? In The Business Survival Kit, serial entrepreneurs Byron Cole and Bianca Miller-Cole prepare you for the ride of your life.

What happens when a young woman’s spontaneous trip turns into a lifelong adventure in Japan? At just 24, Suzy left behind her familiar life in Israel, chasing the allure of the Far East. What began as a brief escape to Thailand—quickly turned into a bold leap into the unknown. There, she became a hostess in Tokyo, married a local businessman in a traditional Oriental marriage, and bravely adapted to Japanese culture, balancing stark contrasts between Israel and Japan. This autobiography offers more than a tourist’s view of Japan, revealing the real challenges of cultural adaptation, ...

Strategic Procrastination and Stealthwork Model (SPASM): Practitioner Course Handbook Master the Art of Workplace Survival While Doing the Bare Minimum Are you tired of watching others get ahead while you drown in actual work? Do you suspect that the most “productive” people in your office are simply better at looking busy than actually working? Welcome to the Strategic Procrastination and Stealthwork Model (SPASM): Practitioner Course Handbook—your definitive guide to mastering effort minimization, perception management, and career optimization. This practitioner-level handbook ...

Wim Hof has become a modern icon for his astounding achievements, breaking world records withstanding extreme temperatures and running barefoot marathons over deserts and ice fields. Most of all, he's shown us that these feats are not superhuman - but that all of us have the ability to be stronger, healthier and happier than we've ever imagined. In The Wim Hof Method, this trailblazer of human potential shares his simple three-pillar approach that anyone can use to improve health and performance - and see real results within just a few days.

This pathbreaking book will change the way managers do business and think about corporate opportunities. Management scholar R. Edward Freeman and his colleagues explain why the key to corporate success is to create value for all stakeholders, and they offer a set of concrete principles and techniques to ensure a firm’s survival, reputation, and success.

Corporate whistle-blowers save lives, prevent fraud, and preserve the environment. But these results come through a long, difficult, draining, and, often, frightening process that leads many unprepared would-be whistle-blowers to give up. Fortunately, they now have the support they need. This unprecedented and authoritative guide covers every step of the process - finding information to support your claims, determining whom to blow the whistle to, dealing with attacks from opponents, enlisting allies, understanding the law, and more.

As COVID has shown us, humans can spread viruses worldwide to billions of people in just a few weeks. While that’s alarming, here’s what even scarier: computers can spread viruses globally within minutes. In The Cyber Pandemic Survival Guide, cybersecurity expert Tom Kirkham explains how weak our governments and businesses—large and small—are in the face of the sort of cyber warfare we’re experiencing. He also demonstrates how woefully underprepared our society is for a large-scale, worldwide cyberattack, despite the fact that many security experts believe cyberattacks are an ...

Self-Employed Success Blueprint: Your Roadmap to Smart, Sustainable Growth Self-Employed Success Blueprint is your go-to guide for building a thriving solo business without sacrificing your sanity, energy, or passion. Whether you’re just starting out or have been self-employed for years, this empowering book is packed with practical, easy-to-implement strategies designed specifically for one-person businesses. Congratulations if you’ve chosen the path of self-employment, you’ve made a bold decision to take control of your future. But let’s be honest: while the freedom and ...

Work is bad enough, but what if things go really wrong? Learn how to sneak out of a meeting, survive a stockroom avalanche, extract a tie caught in the photocopier, and survive a workplace romance. Hands-on, step-by-step instructions guide you through these and other crises that can strike between 9 and 5, or on the swing shift. This is the one desk reference you can't live without.

The perfect companion for family caregivers—frank talk, wise words, real-life tools “We’re family caregivers, you and I” is how this remarkable book begins. Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this emotional survival guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. Today’s longer lives mean longer caregiving. If you’re caring for a parent, spouse, or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups ...

Do or Die is a wake-up call for an entire generation trapped in placidity, crippling anxiety, and inaction. Back by a methodical system that has already encouraged thousands to get up and find their true potential, Do or Die makes the case that our success can only stem from our ability to disregard our primal survival instincts designed to keep us from harm, failure, and, of course, death. Through well-crafted research, it provides you with the necessary tools to take action and control back from those who'd rather see you fail safely than succeed spectacularly. That means you, too.

Workflow and productivity tips for an organized life. Jessica Holsman, author of the bestselling High School Survival Guide, has helped thousands of her fans study smarter, improve their grades, and get the most out of their high school experience. Now, in Work Life Balance Survival Guide, Jess is showing her high achievers how to thrive and succeed as college students, successfully enter the working world, and/or navigate a career shift.

Considered to be one of the most financially successful people in the world when he was alive, Howard Hughes attracts attention even 40 years after his death. From being a business tycoon to an aerospace engineer and inventor to being a maverick filmmaker, Hughes seemed to have tried it all.

In "The Prepared Business Owner," author Nick Newland offers a comprehensive guide to help entrepreneurs thrive in times of crisis. Drawing from their extensive experience, the author presents practical strategies and valuable insights that enable business owners to navigate unforeseen challenges with confidence. By emphasizing the importance of proactive planning, this book empowers readers to build resilience, make informed decisions, and steer their businesses towards long-term success.

Making giant lifestyle changes is difficult. Author Kristine Hudson has more than a fleeting knowledge of this truth, having left her stable, comfortable nine-five suburban life behind to live in a van as a freelance writer. In fact, as she demonstrates in her books, the next worst thing to being completely unprepared is being partially prepared! Combining Ms. Hudson’s works, You Can Absolutely Do This ties together her narrative of a first time van lifer, a first time side hustler, and a first time work-from-home entrepreneur, all rolled into one.

A recession-proof framework that lays out strategies to not only survive but thrive, allowing you to skip the angst and get right to growing your business regardless of economic conditions. The book is broken into seven strategic sections—mindset, security, operations, offer, sales, and financials. At the end of each section, there are 100 tactical action items you can explore, experiment with, and immediately implement. With each tactical implementation, your business will be that much stronger and on the road to long term resiliency and success.

Discover the spellbinding new series that masterfully weaves together corporate intrigue and spiritual awakening in a thrilling tale of transformation. Two Worlds Collide In a world where power and ambition reign supreme, two extraordinary individuals find themselves at the crossroads of destiny. Follow Samantha Westbrook, a brilliant corporate strategist in Shanghai's cutthroat business world, and Kalen Doran, a tactical genius at the Central War Academy, as they navigate their parallel journeys from material success to spiritual enlightenment. A Journey of Transformation When mysterious ...

Your Self-Sabotage Survival Guide will help you refocus your energy and get back on track, first by helping you identify the elements of self-sabotage, then by providing sound advice for reinventing yourself and eliminating sabotage from your life. This essential guide will help you get rid of the "buts", banish the "if onlys", and break the cycle of playing it safe.

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.

Ignorance of technology is the new measure of illiteracy. Is it hurting you and your business? Are critical IT decisions being made by the right people in your organization? In many small to medium-sized companies, key business decisions are being made by the IT support folks (geeks), while technology decisions are being made by management. Too often signals get mixed and decisions with less than ideal judgment or clarity are made.