Economics and Business

There are four major pitfalls that business owners experience that inevitably lead to failure. START ME UP! provides strategies to avoid those pitfalls and gives you the powerful ideas you need to build your thriving business. This is the perfect time to start a small business using your existing skills.

While today's global economy is experiencing a significant cycle of outsourcing across industries, leadership cannot be outsourced; it must be organically transformed. THE NEXT GEN LEADER will show you how to discard outworn traditions and become the next-generation leader you were born to be!

Should your company pursue global expansion or mine local opportunities? Take risks to grow dramatically or protect your current stability? Seek to maximise sales or the bottom line? We're so often faced with apparent paradoxes: continuity and change, conservatism and progressiveness, predictability and chaos.

As companies expand and grow, the skills that led to their success often won't sustain further development in a more complex, high-stakes environment. Yet few resources exist to help them. They frequently flounder in their attempts to create a competitive strategy, work with the board and keep other talented executives, managers and employees on board, all while endeavouring to navigate the ...

Life is a contact sport and no one knows that better than Eve Wright, a dynamic professional sports executive, entrepreneur and mother. But as our world grows increasingly complex, competitive and confusing, life becomes less about the luxury of doing what we want and the necessity of doing what we must. But it doesn't have to be that way.

80 percent of small businesses do not receive outside funding. They scrimp and save to make their business dreams a reality. As these businesses grow, the hasty financial decisions and systems put in place during their infancy inevitably crumble.

Most companies around the globe clearly believe that people should have the opportunity to achieve as much as their initiative and native talent can justify, but too many managers still lack the wherewithal to effectively groom junior employees who have the potential to climb the corporate ladder. The support of a mentor is an integral part of any effort to maximise someone's full potential.

After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out.

Do you feel like everyone around you is getting ahead while you're stuck in the same old rut? And do you blame everyone and everything for your situation - except yourself? Many of us walk around engaging in negative behaviour and mindsets, and don't even realise we're doing it. Every day, people work harder and harder to get - nowhere.

There are millions of women-owned businesses; they account for trillions in revenue and employ nearly 8 million people. Women are starting businesses at a rate twice that of men. Most of these women are, also, mums. What does it take to be successful as both a mum and as an entrepreneur?

Play is an essential, necessary and natural human activity... and it's for adults and companies too. Play is an immersive process that allows us to ask “What if?” - to break free of the strictures that limit creativity and satisfaction.

Somewhere between self-help and self-promotion lies self-awareness and advancement. YOUR ULTIMATE SUCCESS PLAN is a book that provides surprisingly easy-to-apply business strategies in an approachable, actionable, authentic way and encourages you to find your voice and realise your potential.

How do you take an underperforming unit - team, department, office or company - that has run aground and get it moving forward? In ALL HANDS ON DECK, Peter J. Boni shows any leader or aspiring leader exactly what to do. Following his advice, recognition and rewards come quickly.

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...refreshing...concentrates on small 'boring' businesses... serves up a recipe to bypass the challenges of a founder by creatively financing smart deals." - Forbes

Rich people know a secret. In this book, former Wall Street investor Codie Sanchez pulls back the curtain.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The New Great Depression and Currency Wars, a telling prediction for how AI will endanger global economic markets and security

A stunning story about how power works in the modern age?the book the New York Times called ?one helluva page-turner? and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as ?riveting?an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read.? Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billio