Business Words

Faced with a software project of epic proportions? Tired of over-committing and under-delivering? Enter the dojo of the agile samurai, where agile expert Jonathan Rasmusson shows you how to kick-start, execute, and deliver your agile projects. Combining cutting-edge tools with classic agile practices, The Agile Samurai gives you everything you need to deliver something of value every week and make rolling your software into production a non-event.

The Irreverent Guide to Spectacular Communication is a professional development guidebook of sorts, and a personal growth tour. In these pages you’ll find a buffet of small, strategic, and actionable ways to improve your communication and interpersonal (soft) skills. Along the way, you'll find a multitude of examples of real people implementing those skills and the positive impact it had on their lives.

America knew George Zimmer for one of the most famous slogans in television advertising history: “I guarantee it.” Zimmer rode his promise to lead the Men’s Wearhouse to unimagined success as a retail giant. Now, years removed from his stunning dismissal as leader of the company he founded, I Guarantee It recounts the journey of Zimmer’s rise, the fall of the Men’s Wearhouse, and his personal renewal.

365 Days of Abundance is a truly inspirational daily devotional that will help you create abundance in every aspect of your life. Health, wealth, wisdom, and true happiness are all within your reach. Discover joy, inspiration, overwhelming gratitude, and overflowing abundance; discover your heart’s burning desire and translate that desire into real success.

What makes some people more successful? Is it their personality? Do they have a high IQ? Maybe it’s their strong work ethic? Long work hours? Is it above average physical characteristics? What really sets these successful people apart as leaders rather than followers? With my engineering background as a resource coupled with the number of successful people I met over the twenty years, I set out to document all aspects of their lives and actions.

Alister Esam was a frustrated CEO and founder who felt so passionately about his business, he worked 80 hours a week trying to make everything perfect. At the same time, he drove his demotivated employees up the wall, heaping yet more stress on himself. He found salvation in a surprising place - process. The Dirty Word looks at why process is so important and why people get it so wrong. As the world emerges into a new way of thinking, now is the time for a way of working which can change the whole culture of a business.

One of the more difficult things about working with native English speakers is their use of expressions, or idioms. What’s a “dog and pony show”? What does it mean to “leave someone in the lurch” or to “take a beating”? Unfortunately, you can’t stop English speakers from using these idioms, so you need to understand them yourself! Each of the more than 500 idioms in this book is presented, in alphabetical order, with its meaning and a business example. Recommended for intermediate to advanced English speakers.

One of the major breakout stars of the 21st century is positive affirmations, more popularly known as “manifestations”. For the longest time, people of color have been subjects of human rights violations, social injustices, and blatant discrimination just because they have a darker skin color than the rest of the world. Such an environment knocks out the fundamental drive of a person to seek and nurture personal adequacy. Social constructs, stereotypes, norms, tradition, culture, social class, and education are just some of the things that diminish the way we see ourselves.

"The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition and Retention" is the definitive resource for businesses looking to build and maintain strong,long-lasting relationships with their customers. This comprehensive guide covers everything from understanding your target market, to establishing a unique brand, to delivering exceptional customer service. In this book, you will learn the latest strategies for acquiring new customers and retaining existing ones, including best practices for digital marketing, word-of-mouth marketing, and customer rewards. You'll also discover how to measure and analyze ...

Nobody wants to fail, but failure is a fact of life. Most of us treat it as a regrettable, even shameful, event best overlooked. In truth, failure can be a game-changing strategic resource that can help you and your organization achieve the greater success you crave.

Your culture is your number-one competitive advantage. But here's the rub: Inspiring cultures don't happen by accident. You can't buy, borrow, or fake a great culture. You need to be deliberate about building a truly inspiring culture. That's where The Humor Advantage comes in.

In almost any career, you must know how to write - even if it's not part of your job description. But if you are a reluctant writer, producing even the simplest memo may be a struggle. Write Better Right Now is the springboard to get you ahead in any job, passion project, or situation that requires writing skills. No matter what you are called upon to do - blog posts, speeches, web content, press releases, or more - this step-by-step manual gives you the solid techniques you need to get the task done.

The front-line sales manager - field general celebrates the importance of FLSMs to the firm’s current and future health. More importantly, the book offers a roadmap for firms and their sales leaders to provide FLSMs with the will and the skill to get behind a customer-centric strategy, and embrace the multitude of organizational changes to make that happen. Furthermore, this book plows new ground in demonstrating and exploring one of the most under-researched, yet overly important, roles in business - not only in the salesforce, but in the entire firm.

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless", "Sassy", "Ambitious", "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives - to say nothing of our moods.

Do you own a blog or a website that can't get any traffic? Are you selling an online product which doesn't get any customers? Most people today give up on their online journey after some time because they do not see any results. No one visits their website and no conversation occurs on their written articles. This, in turn, demotivates them. Well, we all have been through that stage, I have been through that stage. But, instead of giving up, I looked for a solution.

In this second volume of this highly successful series, 21 Power Habits for a Winning Life, you will find many more empowering habits with affirmations to apply to your life. Each power habit will empower you to have a winning perspective and attitude so you can be your best! You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny.

This inspirational audiobook is designed to help you remember that which you know to be true but have chosen to forget. It asks you to challenge your beliefs; to open your soul, heart, and mind, and most importantly, to feel. This audiobook includes: Elucidations on topics such as energy, belief, and appreciation, personal affirmations for opportunity, purpose, and enlightenment, to name a few, and guided meditations that speak to love and worthiness. See, hear, feel, and live your truth. Your soul is waiting.

Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye will help all professionals find their individual BUT - whether it's a lack of skills, a distracting behavior, or a personality quirk that interferes with achieving success. Using road-tested techniques, Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye helps you examine your BUT, understand it, manage it, cover it, and most important, shrink it. It also enables managers to help their employees discover personal weaknesses and to learn how to deliver the direct, honest feedback every worker needs and deserves.

In Top 10 Expired Objections, William J. May will share a strategy for going after the so-called low-hanging fruit of the real estate market: expired listings. A veteran real estate agent in the Los Angeles housing market, William has built his business, with much success, on going after the listings that other agents ignore.

This booklet contains an essay on the subject of Business ethics. When one agrees to go through with a sale or gift, is he required to do so whether legally or ethically? At one point is a sale or other type of business transaction considered final by which one can no longer legally retract from it. Even prior to reaching this point, is it considered unethical for one to retract from an agreement to go through with a sale or gift? In this Halacha we will review the technical laws of acquisitions which make a sale considered final according to Halacha, and therefore make it illegal to ...