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Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary - no question - but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to big growth in your company.

We’ve all read the cybersecurity horror stories: a prominent company exposes the private information of their customers only to scramble after the fact to apologize and safeguard the data. Cybersecurity is often an afterthought, a much lower priority than profit—until a data breach threatens the bottom line anyway. In The Cyber-Elephant in the Boardroom, data security expert and CEO Mathieu Gorge, along with a host of guests, shows why protecting a company’s data should be top of mind for C-suites and corporate boards.

You can have it all—not just more income to spend in your retirement years but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, you’ll be on your way to a worry-free income for life.

In this relatable collection of savvy business advice on developing a corporate culture where people genuinely want to perform at their best and keep the interests of the business top of mind, Toby Stansell develops a series of pithy, memorable “Mantras for Excellence.”

What if the power of SaaS could serve a greater purpose beyond convenience for the user? What if it could be harnessed by any organization—or any person—to its fullest multi-dimensional capacity to generate massive economic growth and social good? In this quick and insightful book, Feyzi Fatehi shares a remarkable vision for a game-changing disruption in the software industry by granting unprecedented software access to the masses through rapid and automated SaaS-enablement empowered by Corent's disruptive SaaSOps™ platform. 

Through years of experience in business, the military, and graduate school university teaching, Kirk W. McLaren developed a keen understanding of why many owners of small to medium-sized private companies become stuck in the pursuit of revenue growth and profitability. Even better, he came up with a solution he shares in this audiobook: A Growth CFO Void.

We bring products to life and connect them to living, breathing customers. Without us, our companies would crash and burn. And yet, it often seems we don’t get the prospectors the budgets we deserve. Where is the love? The reason our companies don’t love us is that they see us as cost centers rather than revenue centers. So, how do we change that perception (and that reality)? How do we become provable, dependable sources of revenue? By changing our relationship with our customers; by turning them into raving advocates and long-term clients.

In Blend Out, Snappy Kraken CEO Robert Sofia dives into the marketing history of some of the world’s most successful companies, exploring the steps they took that left an unshakable impression with their target audiences and then applying those steps in such a way that any small business can recreate them.

At least 75 percent of all mergers and acquisitions fail. It doesn’t have to be that way. Don Scales has been in the professional services business for more than three decades. During that time, he has been involved in more than 40 M&A deals, on both the buyer and seller side. He has learned firsthand what works and what doesn’t and has long thought about writing a book to share his knowledge with others.

In these chapters, innovation and transformation expert Bill Adams reveals why a modern-day phenomenon he dubbed “on-the-fly leadership” creates a fallout on the Core Leadership Functions and a blowback effect on the ability of leaders to focus their attention that he calls Attention Deficit Syndrome. 

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.

UNLEASH YOUR TRANSFORMATION is an empowering book for business leaders. Change is the new norm as organizations need to stay ahead in an ever-faster-changing world. However, changing the status quo is hard and challenging. So how do you succeed? Unleash Your Transformation offers a unique holistic and pragmatic approach–The Transformational Flywheel–to make change at scale happen.

In this third episode of The Wire Family series, meet Magnolia, the sister, who discovers that there is no water in the Fountain-in-the-Middle anymore. The villagers are in panic! But fortunately, the clever Magnolia is there, as is Inspector Thimble who will do everything to solve this mystery (or let Magnolia do all the work, perhaps).

In this fifth episode of The Wire Family series, Magnolia shares her recent discoveries with her family about the Lost and Found Village where found objects all woke up one fine day without remembering anything of their past life.

In this fourth episode of The Wire Family series, meet Ambrose, the little brother, who discovers a small paper boat in the middle of a puddle in the school playground. How strange!

In this second episode of The Wire Family series, meet Rosemary, the mother, who discovers in the middle of the village market that farmer Welly Boot has disappeared. She decides to start looking for him! Inspector Thimble decides to accompany her and Elliot on this new adventure.

In this first episode of The Wire Family series, meet Arthur, the father, who discovers a bone on the shiny orange pavement. A bone on the pavement?! But who could have lost a bone? Is that possible? Luckily, Inspector Thimble is here to help Arthur Wire solve this mystery.