Business Survival

Is your IT system an asset or a hindrance to your organization's success? More important, can you tell the difference? Unlike other well-recognized professions, information technology is still in its infancy. With this book you will gain an understanding of how IT systems and tools can offer your organization the best chance to succeed.

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 ...

Joe Doyle is Ireland's number one business mentor for Tradesmen and the construction industry. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Joe started off as a bricklayer before setting up his own construction business, which he ran for 10 years.

In a world that desperately needs solutions, The Fixer offers a rare deep-dive into one of the most misunderstood personality types: the fixer. This groundbreaking book explores the double-edged nature of those wired to resolve, correct, and repair—whether for good, or for more hidden, disruptive motives.

Whether you’re new to freelance life, thinking of taking the leap, or more experienced, the messiness and challenges of self-employment can trip you up if you’re not prepared. Survival Skills for Freelancers is your secret weapon to help you do what you love and love what you do.

Este audiolibro está pensado para las personas que trabajan en el mundo de los negocios y que desean maximizar su potencial para obtener resultados óptimos. Cada una de estas leyes es indispensable para que puedas realizar tu potencial. La transgresión de cualquiera de estas leyes puede costarte meses de frustración y poco rendimiento. Mientras escuchas, tómate unos momentos con cada ley y evalúa honestamente tu conducta y comportamiento. Sólo necesitas una idea nueva para cambiar la dirección de tu vida.

In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn what it takes to survive and win in the Legal System.

In this book, Kerstin shares her own stories with the honesty of your best friend. She explains what has worked for real, overwhelmed, under-supported women who are living through unbearable waits: unemployment, illness, infertility, death, even seasons of joylessness that seem to never end. You will learn how to manage all the little waits that come daily, the ones that make you feel like you're missing out on your life. Where's My Crown offers tangible advice and actionable steps for coping through each season.

Welcome to the corporate world, friend! A world where things aren’t fair, some people are mean, and if you want to succeed, your boss has to like you. In her new book Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties: A Guide to Help You Navigate the Business World, Kayla Buell, founder of the award-winning blog Lost GenY Girl, helps you face the corporate world post-college. Navigating a corporate working world filled with pitfalls and traps is not easy - there’s no app for that. Should you speak up in meetings? Should you stay quiet? Should you eat at your desk? What should you wear?

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.

Effective public speaking starts here. Learn how to create and deliver a dazzling speech for any occasion. In this self-paced audio series, two of the world’s top communicators share the powerful techniques they have developed in their experience speaking to millions of people. In addition to the basics of public speaking, you’ll learn how to think on your feet, play off your audience, and banish anxiety and stress.

"The Superstruct Manifesto" challenges common beliefs and encourages founders to create supportive environments that foster success. By avoiding the pitfalls of blindly following popular tech company trends, founders can cultivate the behaviors necessary for their organization's growth and progress.

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.

The post-apocalyptic survival adventure begins anew as Hobe sails for Florida in search of new opportunities after leaving the Trade Rendezvous. He has a plan that has not been revealed to his sailboats crew yet to hopefully put them into some new profitable adventures. Everything seems to be going well despite the hurricane that blew them off course and sent them towards an oyster fishing village in a far bay until pirates were spotted on the horizon. Follow our stalwart heroes as they brave the high seas five years after a Solar Storm has taken the electrical grid and economy down.

“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 ...

Regardless of company size or industry, leaders are always on the lookout for innovative ways to get work done quickly and efficiently. They need employees on whom they can rely and trust to protect the interests of the company - employees, like you, who will become tomorrow's leaders. To achieve success in the competitive corporate world, you must be willing to embrace these challenges and effectively navigate any organization.

Take That Leap recounts Nigel's unanticipated adventures as an entrepreneur, emerging philanthropist, and avid outdoorsman. Get inside his head as he negotiates deals with the big boys and wrestles with the myths surrounding work-life balance and being an entrepreneur. Be there with him through the crazy challenges of simultaneously launching a start-up and a family all the way through to the even zanier challenges of becoming a steward of Pachamama (Mother Nature).

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.

"Who cares about Public Servants? Brenda Viola does. Why? Because she’s walked in your shoes. As a Public Information Officer for a first-ring suburb of Philadelphia, she worked shoulder to shoulder with Municipal Clerks, Librarians, Teachers, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Building and Planning, Police, Firefighters, Administrators, and Elected Officials.

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.