Career Planning

At Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff Bezos' own words, "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death." Most companies today are set up for Day Two. They build advantages and defend them fiercely, rather than invent the future. But Amazon and fellow tech titans Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are operating in Day One: They prioritize reinvention over tradition and collaboration over ownership.

In Surrounded by Setbacks, internationally best-selling author Thomas Erikson turns his attention to a universal problem: what to do when things go wrong. Too often it seems like our dreams and ambitions are derailed by one roadblock or another. How do we learn to take setbacks in stride and still achieve our goals?

Una buena idea puede cambiarlo todo. Si quieres tener ideas poderosas y comunicarlas de manera efectiva para conseguir un cambio de conducta o modificar las opiniones de tus empleados, compradores, hijos, lectores o alumnos, Ideas que pegan es tu libro.

In this eye-opening book, serial entrepreneur and former tech CEO Patrick Henry explains how to build a fundable company. He reveals the truth about what investors are looking for and presents a three-part plan to smash through the typical business roadblocks, allowing you to move far beyond the bootstrapping stage. If you are serious about building a billion-dollar company, then Plan Commit Win is the book that will help get you there.

Feeling Uneasy About Your Teen’s Readiness for Adulthood? This 2-in-1 Guide Sets Them Up for Life & Financial Success! As a parent, you want your teen to be prepared for whatever life throws their way. But are they truly ready to handle the demands of adulthood? From managing daily responsibilities to mastering financial independence, there’s so much for teens to learn—and most of it isn’t taught in school. This comprehensive 2-in-1 collection combines essential life skills and personal finance mastery, ensuring your teen has the tools they need to thrive. Inside, they’ll gain ...

Find Your Potential to Impact the Best How Inclusive are you? Are you unconsciously biased? Do you promote Psychological Safety? This book will help you find answers and enable you Onboard as Inclusive Leaders. Innovation, financial performance and employee productivity are indispensable for business growth. Inclusion helps in achieving these objectives of business. Diversity in line with inclusion and equity creates a sense of belonging in employees. This book helps to develop the essential qualities required to be hired as an inclusive leader; understand unconscious biases, the importance...

No pre-pandemic strategy is effective anymore. Alan Weiss has developed an original, new approach to strategy which thus far has certified over 100 people globally, delivering this approach to scores of firms of all types in four countries.

Why You Win or Lose: The Psychology of Speculation by Fred C. Kelly is a timeless exploration of human behavior in financial markets, delving into the psychological forces that drive investors and speculators. Published in the early 20th century, this classic book emphasizes that success in speculation is not solely about financial knowledge but largely about understanding human emotions, crowd psychology, and decision-making processes.

What if you were able to create a profitable business in just six months? You will discover in this book 100 side hustle ideas that are proven to get you results, how to create a sustainable extra income source, what it takes to create a profitable side hustle, and the author’s strategy plan to set up your business. This book was created for aspiring entrepreneurs and beginners who want to dip their toes into starting a business and being their own boss. If this sounds like you, then dive into the story and strategy plan of entrepreneur Austen Porter.

Generative AI, biometrics, spatial computing, electric vehicles—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption? The Year in Tech 2025 will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.

The Chaos-Free Contractor is your blueprint for transforming your business from a stressful, reactionary mess into a streamlined, profitable, and self-sustaining operation. Scott Beebe, founder of Business on Purpose, has spent years coaching contractors to escape the cycle of exhaustion and unpredictability.

Dirigir un negocio suele alejarse mucho de lo que nos imaginamos al emprender. Creemos que lo más difícil es dar el primer paso y empezar a vender, pero nadie nos advierte que la mayoría de las pequeñas empresas quiebra por no saber gestionar ese crecimiento. Si tu negocio te pide a gritos un plan para crecer de manera segura y confiable, pero no sabes por dónde comenzar, llegaste al lugar indicado.

This concise audiobook is based on Mr. Drucker's summary of The Effective Executive done at the request of Harvard Business Review and is now one of their best selling published works. This article is a perfect way to learn about the subject broadly in a short period of time. Unlike many articles of this kind, summarizing a book's contents, this article was written and crafted by the author himself.

An article which extols the virtues of being a writer, outlining some of the criteria necessary for recognizing the talents and needs and skills one must have to just plain 'go for it". It's not always a matter of how good you think you are, or how many rejection letters you have received. All that matters is that you want to put your thoughts down. Sometimes it is not whether or not the final goal may be achieved, it is the experience of the journey which is the satisfying portion of your life.

More than 20 years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the balanced scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the balanced scorecard into action.

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a new way to borrow, lend, trade, save, and invest. It’s an open-source financial system that has no central authority or middlemen. The DeFi network has risen from zero to about $50 billion in value locked! Cameron Belfort brings his knowledge of the DeFi and cryptocurrency space to deliver an easy-to-understand, straight-to-the-point guide through the ecosystem. Cryptocurrency DeFI Guidebook: A Beginner to Expert Guide on Decentralized Finance is written for beginners who are yet to familiarize themselves with how DeFi works.

Pharmaceutical companies launch new products for two fundamental reasons, new products drive growth and growth drives valuations. But consistent growth has never been harder to come by. The decreasing tenure of companies in the S&P 500 Index is an indication of this. The 33-year average tenure of companies in 1964 declined to 24 years by 2016 and is projected to shrink to just 12 years by 2027. More than ever, companies must understand the levers that accelerate growth and put their shoulders behind them.

Event planning can be an exciting, rewarding, and fabulously fun vocation, but it takes more than just knowing how to throw a great party if you want to make it work. In Behind the Red Velvet Curtain, Cindy Y. Lo, DMCP, shares her insights and stories about how she built an international award-winning company, Red Velvet Events (RVE), and made it a roaring success. From Cindy’s triumphs—and from her mistakes—you’ll learn how to Unlock your creativity Find the right clients Handle finances Take risks Master networking Use social media as a powerful business tool Define your company ...

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. Strategy is simple, but simple is complex.

As Rick Pitino says, great leaders aren't born great; they learn great leadership along the path of life. Now in Lead to Succeed, Pitino shares the ten traits of great leadership he discovered and has cultivated in himself, and shows listeners how they, too, can become leaders.