Business Process

If you have a great product, but don’t have the operations in place to efficiently and effectively support it—production, manufacturing, sales, finance, human resources—you won’t succeed. Product innovation is seen as flashier, getting far more attention, but you can create an enduring competitive advantage by revolutionizing business operations.

Transform your business with one pivotal role that changes everything. Most business owners think they must document every process themselves. But systems expert David Jenyns has discovered another way. Real transformation comes from empowering the right person to champion this mission.

By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. When her X Factor audition went viral in 2012, Lucy became the bookies' favourite to win the show. She was the first contestant ever to write and perform her own original songs, refusing to be pigeonholed by stylists and producers. Viewers fell for her unmanufactured, anti-pop princess stance, and the tabloids loved her. Then, suddenly, mid-way through the live shows, Lucy dropped out. The public were told Lucy was unwell.

Few of us have lived through the kind of suffering Teal Swan endured: 13 years of ritual abuse at the hands of a cult. But all of us have been fractured by trauma in one way or another. Your wounds may be visible as bodily scars; or they may show up in the form of anxiety, depression, or PTSD; or you may simply be struggling in your life for reasons you don’t simply understand. The good news is that you can heal your wounds.

Perhaps you find it difficult to address issues or excess workload with your manager, leading to working yourself to your limits before suffering burnout. Or maybe you have a member of your team or a friend that is struggling with burnout at work, and you want to learn how you can help them.

Leadership is a lifestyle, not a vocation. The Process creates emotionally intelligent leadership starting in your relationships and extending into your business and your entire life. This book summarizes the process. It contains probing and powerful questions at the end of each chapter, questions designed to help you discover your own way forward. Whether you are struggling as an individual, in a relationship, or married, the process will point you in the direction of seeking and receiving help as a lifestyle, not as a solution to a problem.

Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth, tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies to global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has now codified in High Growth Handbook.

In this breakthrough program, you will join the founder and director of the Agape International Spiritual Center to learn the same powerful practice that he has taught to thousands throughout the past 30 years....

Digital transformation of the business landscape is well underway, and businesses are being reshaped faster than ever before. Agility and adaptability are now critical components of these businesses' survival. But building these traits requires a holistic approach with an unrelenting focus on automation. How does one go about developing that focus? Vijay Tella, Scott Brinker, and Massimo Pezzini deliver a guide to implementing automation in the real world, avoiding jargon and vague bromides in favor of concrete examples.

For almost 30 years, conflict resolution practitioners, faculty, and students have depended on The Mediation Process as the all-inclusive guide to the discipline. The most comprehensive book written on mediation, this reference is perfect for new and experienced conflict managers working in any area of dispute resolution - family, community, employment, business, environmental, public policy multicultural, or international. This is the expert's guide, and the Fourth Edition has been expanded and revised to keep pace with developments in the field.

The Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author's step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success. Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contribution to your organization. The only thing worse than having an open position is filling it with the wrong person. The Effective Hiring Manager offers a proven process for solving these problems and helping teams and organizations thrive.

Harvard Business Review called data science “the sexiest job of the 21st century,” so it's no surprise that data science jobs have grown up to 20x in the last 3 years. With demand outpacing supply, companies are willing to pay top dollar for talented data professionals. However…To stand out in one of these positions, having foundational knowledge of interpreting data is essential.

One of the main reasons companies resort to outsourcing is it can significantly reduce costs. In the case of overseas outsourcing of manufacturing tasks, costs can be cut dramatically because there are lower wages and costs associated with managing and maintaining the manufacturing plants.

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B2B Sales Secrets is a step-by-step guide that turns your walls and roadblocks into doors filled with opportunities. Whether you’re a business leader, entrepreneur, or a sales professional, if you’re selling to other businesses, there are a few methods that work, and there are many methods that don’t.

Jack Daly is an international expert in sales and sales management, bringing 30 plus years of field proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. The thrust here is creating an environment in your business where your employees don’t begrudgingly come into work, but rather are excited to be working at your company. If we get the culture right, everything else in our business will be easier. If we don’t get it right, all else will be hard.

As a salesperson your product knowledge is extensive, but that's not enough. If you fail to ask the right questions - the ones that uncover a customer's real needs - you will never close the deal. Questions that Sell reveals advanced questioning techniques that will help you sell your products or services based on value to the customer, rather than price - and increase your success rate as a result.

You have a great product. You have top-notch talent. You have a process that’s been carefully mapped out. So, what’s missing? Executive, speaker, and leadership authority Billy Ray Taylor points to a lack of clarity on strategy that makes it impossible for your employees to understand how their activities fit within the company’s overall vision and to take true ownership of their careers. In this groundbreaking guide, Taylor reveals how his proprietary LinkedX Process can help your organization cultivate extreme ownership at every level, from top management to front-line employees.

Propaganda, an influential book written by Edward L. Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Propaganda explored the psychology behind manipulating masses and the ability to use symbolic action and propaganda to influence politics, effect social change, and lobby for gender and racial equality.

Do you prefer to have technology explained in layman’s terms and combined with actionable insights? Are you constantly seeking ways to improve your business, expand your customer base, and grow? Entrepreneurs to multinational corporations are racing to integrate ChatGPT into their businesses, so you are right in wanting to seize this opportunity.