Small Leadership

Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker® series offers unique application of effective business practices from the perspective of multiple authors – each offering a chapter based on their scholarly expertise. The Refractive Thinker® series provides doctoral scholars with a collaborative opportunity to promote and publish their work in an award winning peer-reviewed publication, which meets the university standard. Our goal is to provide an affordable outlet for scholars that supports the tremendous need for dynamic dialogue and innovation while ...

For a business start-up you will be required to pay your own taxes so you must be prepared to learn and understand the different variations of taxes, what's tax deductible and what you can write off. This guide will cover it all and will give you a more in-depth understanding of filing your own taxes.

Global pandemics. Raging bushfires. The death of a loved one. Severe floods. Stock market crashes. Sudden illness. It seems that we no sooner get through one crisis when we’re faced with another. That is exactly what does happen, and Australian businesses will continue to be buffeted by such crises. Whether personal or international, a crisis can have devastating consequences for a small business. Small Company, Big Crisis is a timely, practical guide to preparing for, surviving, and coming out the other side of a crisis – with your business and sanity intact.

From the bestselling author of The Roaring 2000s and The Great Depression Ahead comes a work that looks forward, showing listeners how to weather the storm in this new economy that is going to get much worse in the years ahead.

In his most recent New York Times best-selling work, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent predicted the debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of the government’s failed stimulus plan. Dent’s investment advice sees no place to hide....

Wayne Rogers has, over the past four decades, become an enormously successful entrepreneur and businessman - and in Make Your Own Rules he shows you how to retain your own identity and reap tremendous rewards in your career and business while doing so. Using fascinating examples from his wide array of experiences - all of which involved leaping into situations where he lacked the traditional background in a particular field - Rogers presents a clarion call to the creative-minded person who isn’t quite sure how to apply that creativity to the world of business.

You will learn the depths of commitment you need, the perseverance and focus you must have, and the resolve for getting your life and business back on track. This book will help you rebuild confidence, provide you with strength and direction, and help you learn that you can overcome most things that are put in front of you. Out of necessity, you will learn just how far you can push yourself, and others, to get what you need to succeed. Listen to hear the follies, learn from perseverance, and mostly to hear what you need to do to make get your business and life back on track.

Is it possible to predict your financial future? Most business owners spend more time focused on the weather forecast than the status and forecast of their business. The truth is that the weather changes very quickly and is uncontrollable, but our business forecast is much more in our control. What if you could see into the future of your business? What if you had less stress, chaos, and uncertainty, and more influence over where you are going financially?

We continually learn new information but how often do we implement it into our lives? This 8-week small group study will not only help you realize your purpose and walk in the truth of it, but it will also help you set action steps each week that will accelerate your growth. Knowledge combined with action, accountability, and a supportive community will lead you to become even more of a world-changer than you already are.

In a day when successful churches are too often defined by large attendance and excellent facilities, leaders need to regain a healthy perspective on the unique contribution of each and every church. By studying the dynamics of the church at Antioch, today's leadership teams will be encouraged to learn that by surrendering to God-given opportunities their church can accomplish truly amazing outcomes. Each chapter provides background verses, readable commentary, and discussion questions which can be used in planning meetings or retreats. The principles gained provide insight by which every ...

This book explores how cloud-based tools like Google Apps for Work revolutionize the way IT can support smaller organizations. The ultralight approach to IT uses the latest technologies to achieve simplicity and excellence, giving you the power to operate at big business levels without the high cost.

Relationship Economics® takes a unique long term, strategic and quantifiable view of business relationships that goes far beyond networking oriented books. Nowadays, many companies believe that networking is a key to success. Relationship Economics shows us that this notion is a mere fallacy. With this course, the reader will learn that success comes from learning how to invest in people for an extraordinary return.

Elevate your coaching skills and build a successful practice with the Coaching Excellence Bundle, a powerful 2-in-1 audiobook collection. With the Coaching Excellence Bundle, you'll gain the knowledge and skills to not only build a successful coaching business but also to become a coach who inspires and drives real change in others. Embrace the journey to coaching excellence and make a profound difference in the lives of those you work with.

All across the planet, entrepreneurs and innovators are actively working to solve humanity’s toughest problems. If you are an inventor, trailblazer, or game-changer who dreams of making the world a better place through crazy ideas with extraordinary results, this book is for you. Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded will show you how to make that dream a reality, from tackling an insurmountable problem to creating the kind of breakthrough business that can fix it. You will be able to materialize your dreams, build your own future, and achieve anything you want in life.

Solid profits, a strong brand, steady customers - all of these can vanish when market shifts disrupt business as usual. So how do you keep from losing ground? How do you stay a step ahead of competitors? The solution is surprisingly straightforward: innovate tweak by tweak.

The goal of the book is to introduce you, the entrepreneur, to the power of online assessments, so you can hire the right people and put them in the right roles to build a winning team. This book is for you, the hard-working entrepreneur, who has a big vision and has worked hard.

Work from Anywhere: How to Become a World-Class Distributed Team delivers practical strategies and actionable guidance on how to develop a high performing team and business in a remote and distributed environment. Accomplished authors, behavioural experts and fast-growth business leaders Alison and Darren Hill show you how to craft business and culture strategies to bring out the best in your hybrid and remote team members by focusing on both performance and people.

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what, and what not, to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the listener with practical answers to the issues they will come across every day, and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and UK perspectives.

Why all these statistics about how many social media users there are? To make one, powerful point: Your customers and potential customers are definitely on at least one, if not more of these social media platforms. This audiobook gives you eight dead-simple steps to follow to start using social media to attract new customers and grow your business using the most effective communication channel available.

Judging a book by its cover is one thing. Judging Shut Up and Tweet by its size, however, is an epic mistake. This book contains game-changing strategies that will turn you into a Twitter rockstar. You'll access your ideal audience for free and get serious results. If you want to become a better brand, stop talking and get moving. Just shut up and tweet.

It's a competitive world out there, and running your own small business is far more difficult than most people think. Pocket Guide to Small Business Success is aimed at anyone thinking of starting their own company, those who have recently started one, and the owners of established businesses that have stagnated and are feeling stuck in a rut.