Great Business

Understand and decode the inner workings of great business teams with the more than 30 in-depth examples in Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance. Author Howard Guttman examines and dissects teams at top-management, business-unit, and functional levels and isolates five key factors that drive team performance to offer you insight into the ways these teams achieve success.

High performance expert Paul Rulkens provides the inside advice you need to accelerate your career as a business leader with an engineering background - from building on your unique strengths to achieving big business goals. How Successful Engineers Become Great Business Leaders is full of thought-provoking insights, practical applications, and pragmatic techniques to help you get everything you can out of everything you have.

Are you stuck in a financial rut? Weighed down by the stresses of your business or job? Do you dream of making a lot more money than you are right now? In How to Buy and Sell Great Businesses, multimillionaire dealmaker Jonathan Jay reveals how you can transform your finances by becoming a dealmaker like him. You'll get Jonathan's 12 step deal-making blueprint that you can start using immediately.

As leadership scholar Linda Hill, Harvard researcher Emily Tedards, and former Microsoft innovation executive Jason Wild show in this powerful book, there are indeed exemplary leaders to learn from—and the authors present their stories in fascinating detail, not only igniting your imagination but providing instructive and inspiring models to follow. The authors profile leaders from all kinds of companies who illustrate the mindset, skills, and digital savvy needed for leading in a world more uncertain and challenging than ever before.

This is an audio summary of Good to Great, a book that examines how good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies can achieve enduring greatness.

Don’t be daunted by a challenging economy and fierce competition. Even in the toughest environment, innovative, highly profitable businesses abound. And yours can be one of them with Now, Build a Great Business! This essential success kit from business heavyweights and acclaimed authors Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy is filled with straightforward, powerful strategies to ignite growth in your business.

Get motivated with words of wisdom from the most successful people in their fields! Take a new approach to success! Let words of wisdom from billionaires, entrepreneurs, and businesspeople motivate you and help you on your own path to success. In this witty collection of business know-how, you...

In this audiobook leading entrepreneur Judy Piatkus helps you focus on what you need to do in order to grow and develop your business into a great company. Her advice and guidance is based on her experience of building a world-class brand and growing her company through three global recessions.

Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb"to dunlap"when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years.

Instead of slogging through 10-15 books to piece together all the relevant bits of information you need, Peter Rasmussen has distilled his experience from helping more than 300 companies getting started in China - including six of his own startups - into manageable, "must-know" steps that are critical to successful entry into the startup world.

What if there was a way to instantly see your reality with the clarity of a coach – unencumbered by the baggage of you being you? In Distancing, bestselling author and former submarine captain David Marquet (Turn the Ship Around!) and psychology professor Michael Gillespie introduce a powerful...

Tons of people have great ideas for starting their own businesses but never carry them out because they don't know where to start or what steps to take. A business plan provides you with a road map to follow so you can go from having an idea to actually creating a successful business that makes money. The first part of this book covers the 10 recommended steps for starting your business by the SBA, along with my explanation of each in more detail. The second part of this book covers the most important part of any business.

This is a recording of the complete guided visualization program scripts from the book "The Job-Loss Recovery Program Guide: The Ultimate Visualization System for Landing a Great Job Now", by Lynn Joseph, Ph. D. It is narrated in the author's soothing voice, accompanied by Grammy-nominated Celtic Harpist Lisa Lynne. This audio of relaxing guided visualization exercises will help you reduce stress, regain control, and land the job of your choice. By listening to the two 20-minute visualizations, you can find renewed strength and confidence to take back control of your career.

It is common knowledge that customers value customer reviews. New studies shows 94 percent of consumers use online customer reviews in their buying decision. As a business owner, you might think "how important are customer reviews for my business"? Well the answer is simple: You do not have to be a math genius to know that if your customer base has five-star reviews, you will have a much better chance of ranking higher than your competitors on Google and other search engines.

Jim Collins' thoroughly researched look at corporate success, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, offers practical, well-researched advice on how truly great companies differentiate themselves from the merely good. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to Good to Great to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clear Thinking and Farnam Street founder, Shane Parrish. The fourth and final installment in the timeless Great Mental Models series. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental...

What makes a business succeed and what makes one fail? What is the difference between 'Great' or 'Poor'? Based on 20+ years of research, coaching and advising 1000+ businesses, Guy Arnold has identified 4 Vital Principles that are the foundation of EVERY long term business success. These principles are the key to growing a business though loyalty, reputation and referrals.

6 Great Global Opportunities for This Decade is an audiobook about some of these opportunities. It’s packed with insights from six of my favorite, topnotch guest experts, and it offers actionable tips on how YOU can capitalize on these exciting opportunities. No matter what kind of opportunity seeker you are, this audiobook can inspire your next big move.

This book is not about lean. This book is about how to become lean. Lean strategy brings to a company a purpose of existence, belonging, influence, trust, and conscious leadership among its managers. It strengthens the autonomy and responsibility of individual employees and ultimately provides an everyday feeling of collaborative winning. This is my strategic approach to lean. Lean strategy consists of two parts. The first is to help you understand the problem. The second part of the book is a kind of manual.

“Whatever it takes” That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and...