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In the newly revised third edition of Value-Based Fees: How to Charge What You're Worth and Get What You Charge, best-selling author, speaker, and renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss delivers a thoroughly updated guide to proposing, and receiving, consistently high fees that are based on the value you deliver to each client you serve. The author walks you through the many reasons that time-and-materials pricing models are outdated and inadequate and how to convert existing clients to your new value-based fee model.

In their book Abundance, best-selling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the best-selling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next 10 years of rapid technological disruption.

How to Win Client Business When You Don't Know Where to Start provides a masterclass in teaching the practical techniques and concrete strategies that professional services providers were never taught in school or on the job. Pragmatic lessons take the place of the vaguely defined principles found in competing books to turn listeners from sales novices into rainmakers.

Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders - men and women who are confident in who they are and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don't become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: They deploy individual strengths to engage followers' hearts, minds, and souls.

Most entrepreneurs are fixated on their competition and on external conditions they can’t control. To them, cash flow is a constant source of worry. What they don’t realize is that their success isn’t actually about them at all. It’s about who they can create value for and what those people aspire to. Entrepreneurs who know exactly how they create value can cross over a line where cash flow becomes certain and the model they’ve created continually improves. Once you reach this point, you become totally confident that your cash flow will always be predictable.

Stretch identifies key ways for people and organizations to work beyond their resources to achieve higher performance. Based on in-depth research in psychology and management, Scott Sonenshein shows how to accomplish goals, find professional and personal success, and live a richer life. Sonenshein reveals that while we rarely have all we think we need, we usually have more than we imagine.

Beyond technology, software, social media networks, even advertising and marketing campaigns, the biggest and best tool you'll ever have in your belt is a book with your name on the cover. You Must Write a Book introduces you to important concepts, and digs further - revealing not only the benefits of how a book can help you to build and grow your business and your brand, but how you can put your ideas on the page.

Are You Fully Charged? reveals the three keys that matter most for our daily well-being, as well as our engagement in our work. Drawing on the latest and most practical research from business, psychology, and economics, this audiobook focuses on changes we can make to create better days for ourselves and others.

Everyone says that innovation is important. The problem is that no one tells you how to be innovative. Innovation is a State of Mind sets out a step-by-step guide to creating innovative ideas and putting them into action. You'll learn how to generate more ideas with greater potential, how to grow and evaluate them, test their effectiveness, and then implement the ones that are going to improve your business.

Are you tired of not having enough money to buy all the real estate you want? Are you hesitant to talk to investors because of the complexities of raising capital legally? Look no further. How to Raise Capital for Real Estate is a comprehensive guide designed to help you unlock your investment potential while avoiding legal and practical pitfalls that could damage your reputation and financial future, or worse yet, land you in legal trouble.

Random Acts of Automation dives deep into the hidden consequences of our rapid automation, examining the forces that will reshape the current workforce. This book focuses on real people—fast-food workers, warehouse staff, customer service agents, even lawyers and tech professionals—all facing the impact of automation. In its chapters, you will find practical solutions to your workplace concerns about AI. This isn't just about understanding your current job; it's about seeing where automation will take you and how you can thrive.

The best-selling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new expose.

Embracing ESG—environmental, social, and governance goals—isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't address their material long-term risks may save a few dollars today, but they're putting themselves, their stakeholders, and their investors in jeopardy. ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you move past the noise and political debates to execute an ESG strategy that best fits your business.

In Digital Customer Success: The Next Frontier, a team of trailblazing customer success professionals and digital entrepreneurs delivers an insightful discussion of the next stage in customer success management. In the book, you'll discover how to design and deploy touchless and automated digital interventions that help your software users learn and grow as they use your product and unlock the value trapped within it-without ever needing to reach out to a live customer success manager.

Negotiation is a skill people need to use every day. In this exclusive audiobook, learn the skills required to navigate difficult situations at home. In this program, you will learn how to effectively manage emotions in negotiation. You will learn why gender matters when discussing difficult issues, and how to spot generational differences when a negotiation is underway. For parents, there is a section on learning how to play give-and-take with your children.

Business owners and leaders are being challenged as never before. The trends are changing fast, business models are under attack, clients are fickle, and staff expectations are rising. It can make for very reactionary leadership...but that is not what drives sustainable success. As you're seeking to drive the growth, performance, and, ultimately, value of your business, what must be done to avoid stalling through the climb? At last, there is a book that supports leaders in not only surviving, but thriving in this context.

To win deals at the prices you want, the needed strategy is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation, but sales differentiation presents an untapped opportunity to create meaningful value and stand out from the competition. Sales Differentiation presents 19 easy-to-implement concepts to help salespeople win deals while protecting margin. These concepts are applicable to any salesperson in any industry and are based on the foundation that how you sell, not just what you sell, differentiates you.

If you are getting exhausted by the endless emphasis on revenue or employee growth as the assumed primary goal of every agency owner, then this book is for you. It is a clarion call for agency owners to stop chasing unicorn-like growth, and instead focus on serving their clients, employees, friends, family, neighbors, and thus make an indelible imprint on the world.

An Insider's Perspective on the Chief of Staff explores every aspect of the Chief of Staff role in a straightforward and engaging way. Author Emily Sander provides one-of-a-kind insights, combining her own experience as a Chief of Staff with perspectives gained from colleagues and her coaching clients. Sander offers her unique perspective on how the role fits into the organizational big picture, with real-life examples to drive home her points.

B Corps are part of a global movement of more than 2,700 companies in 60 countries that are using the power of business as a force for good. B Corps have been certified to have met rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. This audiobook is the authoritative guide to the what, why, and how of B Corp certification.