The Small Business & Entrepreneurship category has 2,904 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 30,175 ratings. The most-rated is Start with Why.
Principles of Product Design
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Combined with the power of design thinking, these extensively researched best practices from some of the world's best design teams will help you nail the fundamentals of product design and do great work. This book includes: Learn what the best teams know - that customer research is the base of successful products and companies How product stories, journey maps, storyboards, and personas can build empathy and understanding Hear how sketching helps designers and stakeholders find solutions together without getting lost in details How design reviews, retrospectives, standups, and more can help create a culture of feedback Using prototypes to collect feedback and make tweaks before development Improve your process by bridging gaps between design, engineering, and product Stepping away from your work to build partnerships will transform your design process
©2019 Aarron Walter (P)2019 Aarron Walter
Producing Empathy
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Johnston is widely known as a pioneer in the invention, system, and science of viral video. In this book he reveals for the first time the secrets behind 10 billion plus video views online. Secrets discovered from years as a top producer and video executive at NowThis, Business Insider, New York Magazine, and more. Do you want your videos to go viral online? And get mass attention to you, your business, or both? You could buy a $1,000 video course that may or may not deliver...or you could buy this book for 98 percent less - and get an even better result. In Producing Empathy you will learn: Matt's exclusive, plug-and-play HERO system to create repeatable viral video online (the system behind 10 billion views) Over 50 hacks to create massively shareable video content with no prior experience A battle-tested methodology for writing social video scripts optimized for virality A domination guide for creating a video strategy that builds massive awareness and revenue for your brand An exclusive chapter on how to perform on camera, with a foolproof methodology anyone can use and instantly perform better
©2020 Matt Johnston (P)2020 Matt Johnston
WFH (Working From Home)
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The no bullsh*t guide to getting your work and life on track in the new flexible workplace. Virtually every industry is making lasting changes that will open doors to a more flexible working week. So how do we adjust, thrive and excel in an environment where glitchy daily video conferences are the norm? By turns fierce, funny and highly practical, Harriet Minter will show you the skills to be effective and creative during the day-to-day. Harriet breaks down how to be an inspiring and energising manager (either remotely or to a flexibly working team), how to create and thrive in a high-trust culture (on a small and large scale) and most importantly how to achieve your ambition and propel your career forwards. Packed full of hard-won tricks, tips and tools, Harriet Minter draws on her own experience as a careers coach and adviser to companies on their flexible working culture to help you bring your best self to work - from your living room.
©2021 Harriet Minter (P)2021 Quercus Editions Limited
The Richest Man in Babylon
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The Richest Man in Babylon, based on “Babylonian parables”, has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated best seller, it offers an understanding and a solution to your personal financial problem. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. Before The Greatest Salesman in the World, The Richest Man in Babylon, and Acres of Diamonds, The Magic Story captured the imagination of people worldwide, inspiring them to reach for ever-greater levels of success. Since its first publication, this timeless parable has sold tens of millions of copies.
©2021 Clason (P)2021 Clason
The Art of Social Enterprise
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The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Nonprofits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an exciting, blended model driven by the desire to create positive change through entrepreneurial activities. The Art of Social Enterprise is a practical guide that supplies everything you need to know about the mechanics of social entrepreneurship including: Startup-envisioning and manifesting intention Strategic planning-balancing social and monetary value Maintaining an even keel despite the inevitable challenges associated with being an entrepreneur This valuable resource also provides an unparalleled legal perspective to help you take advantage of established legal organizational forms, recent statutory creations, contract hybrids, certification programs and more. Aimed at emerging as well as established social entrepreneurs, for-profit leaders who want to introduce an element of social responsibility into their companies, and nonprofit organizations who want to increase their stability by generating income, The Art of Social Enterprise is the definitive guide to doing well while doing good. * Be sure to download the PDF that accompanies this audiobook. Carl Frankel has been writing about green business for over two decades and is a serial social entrepreneur and acknowledged thought leader in his own right. He has extensive experience consulting for for-profits, nonprofits, and social enterprises. Allen Bromberger is the leading social enterprise lawyer in North America. Over the years, he has advised thousands of social entrepreneurs: his expertise is as broad as it is deep and specialized.
©2013 Carl Frankel & Allen Bromberger (P)2014 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
FREE
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Author's Note: Get the point in half the time! In this abridged edition, the author handpicked the most important and engaging chapters and points, cutting three hours from the length without losing key concepts. Time is money! The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before. Now, in Free, he makes the compelling case that, in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company's survival. The costs associated with the growing online economy are trending toward zero at an incredible rate. Never in the course of human history have the primary inputs to an industrial economy fallen in price so fast and for so long. Just think that in 1961 a single transistor cost $10; now Intel's latest chip has two billion transistors and sells for $300 (or 0.000015 cents per transistor - effectively too cheap to price). The traditional economics of scarcity just don't apply to bandwidth, processing power, and hard-drive storage. Yet this is just one engine behind the new Free, a reality that goes beyond a marketing gimmick or a cross-subsidy. Anderson also points to the growth of the reputation economy; explains different models for unleashing the power of Free; and shows how to compete when your competitors are giving away what you're trying to sell. In Free, Chris Anderson explores this radical idea for the new global economy and demonstrates how this revolutionary price can be harnessed for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.
©2009 Chris Anderson (P)2009 Hyperion
The 80/20 Manager
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Best-selling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work - without stress or long hours. In his best-selling audiobook The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed listeners how to put the 80/20 Principle - the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort - into practice in their personal lives. Now in The 80/20 Manager, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management. An 80/20 manager learns to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results, and feeling successful everyday while working less hard in fewer hours. A large number of managers - especially in these difficult times - feel completely overwhelmed. Their inboxes are overflowing and they constantly struggle to finish their to-do lists, leaving little time for the things that really matter. The 80/20 Manager shows a new way to look at management - and at life - to enjoy work and build a successful and fulfilling career.
©2013 Richard Koch; 2013 Hachette Audio
The Most Successful Small Business in the World
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As statistics tell us that most of the "ventureholics" who go out on their own to start a business will ultimately fail; and, as readers will learn, the main reason for this is because most businesses are not started the right way. Based on decades of experience working with small business owners, Michael Gerber will teach budding entrepreneurs his one-of-a-kind seven-step method - which is meant to be conceptualized long before the doors are ever opened, and what will ultimately position business' for long-term success and growth.Not by writing a business plan or spending countless amounts of resources on marketing will readers learn what is essential to creating a successful small business. By following the methodology outlined in this book small business owners will be able to build a solid structure for their business - what it looks like, how it works, the fluency of performance, etc. It is not until these seven-steps are considered and fully-executed that the business will be prepared for growth. MICHAEL E. GERBER is a best-selling author and founder and chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, a company that transforms the way small-business owners grow their companies. He has coached, taught, and trained over 60,000 small businesses in 145 countries, which has led him to become the world's preeminent small-business guru.
©2010 Michael Gerber (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Making Business Online
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Are You Ready to Make Money Online Through the Use of E-Commerce and Social Media? This Guide Is for You. It will teach you in a simple way how to start with a new company from scratch, through detailed and easy-to-understand information even for beginners. He will talk in depth about the social media associated with online marketing and their effectiveness. Finally, we will talk about dropshipping, the activity which has just started but is giving many satisfactions to those who are doing it using our information. The Advantages of This Book The strength of this book is that it was written with the participation of experts from various sectors and entrepreneurs who are making money from their online activities, and they help us with their experience. This is very important because it helps you decrease errors, which means less money lost at the start of your business. This Book Will Talk About: How to become an entrepreneur How to create a company from scratch The right product at the right time The social media of yesterday and today and their influence on the market The most profitable marketing Dropshipping as an online business The importance of the brand Mistakes to avoid Who Is This Book For? In the end, this complete guide is useful for everyone, for beginners without experience who are looking for the right information to start their own business, and also for people who are already in the sector, but need new ideas and incentives to make the leap of quality. What are you waiting for? Click now and start earning now!
©2020 Tom F. Cowell (P)2021 Tom F. Cowell
Online Business Models for 2021
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This book will introduce you to a lot of different online business models that you can choose from. Learning about all the possible options will help you decide on the perfect fit for you. In the uncertainty of today's world, it can be immensely helpful to have an extra source of income. Setting up your own online business will assure you of financial independence regardless of whether you still have your job or not. In this book, you will find: Detailed information on the best online business models How to get started with these businesses How to increase online revenue How to make your online business successful And much more! So, what are you waiting for? If want to discover the best ways to make money online, then this is the book for you!
©2021 S.H Publishing (P)2021 S.H Publishing
Forex Trading Method
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Discover how you can generate tons of passive income with the power of Forex Trading! Do you want to take advantage of the world of forex? Looking for a detailed breakdown of all the must-know techniques? Then, keep reading... Forex is a powerful market - but only those who know how to navigate it can make the best returns. To succeed, you need to understand the market and exactly how you can get the most for your money. Inside this guide, you’ll uncover the secrets of forex and how you can take advantage of this incredible money-making opportunity! From understanding the primary currency pairs and how you can begin trading to learning how to avoid common mistakes and Ponzi schemes, here’s what you’ll discover inside: A comprehensive introduction into performing trades Top tips for forex trading Steps to master the candlestick strategy Reversal trading - everything you need to know Ponzi schemes and how to avoid them Starter tips for new traders And so much more! No matter your level of experience, this guide gives you simple, easy-to-follow instructions to help you break into forex trading and start seeing returns. With tips, tricks, and practical advice, you’ll have all the tools you need to begin your first trade and then keep going from there! So don’t wait! Buy now to join the millions of people succeeding with forex today!
©2019 Chris Franklin (P)2019 Chris Franklin
Breakthrough
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Career development is more important than ever! Many experts believe COVID-19 will have a disproportionate impact on women in the workplace. Give yourself, other women, or men in your life the gift of honest dialogue about overcoming some of the unique barriers women can face. While the number of female entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders in corporate leadership roles is growing, there are still many challenges women face that are different from their male counterparts. Saundra Stroope has conducted research in this area, surveying 200+ global women in leadership and professional roles, and identified the top career myths impacting their satisfaction and career success.
©2019 Business Expert Press (P)2021 Saundra Stroope
The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset
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From technology to business, two (or more) heads often prove to be better than one - but only if those heads are cognitively diverse. Diverse perspectives are a powerful tool for maximizing productivity and enhancing collective performance. Now, in The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset, you can learn the strategies that make you a more diverse thinker and position you to break down institutional silos and build robust, effective teams. Delivered by Professor Scott E. Page of the University of Michigan - a pioneering researcher in his field - these 24 thought-provoking lectures are packed with case studies, cautionary tales, and formal mathematical methods that prove the case for cognitive difference. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 The Great Courses (P)2012 The Teaching Company, LLC
Business German 3
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Learning Business German 3 with parallel text is the most rewarding and effective method to learn a language. Existing vocabulary is refreshed, while new vocabulary is instantly put into practice with a focus on management. Our management short stories evolve around business, making the terms and phrases easier to remember in the learning process. Learning business German with parallel text is recommended for beginners with a good basis of German, intermediate level learners — and as a refreshers course. The stories have been written to keep the listeners' attention and are fun to listen to for you to learn through your motivation. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2015 Polyglot Planet Publishing (P)2017 Polyglot Planet Publishing
Business Is Personal
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Business is personal. A statement on life as a business owner. Being the leader of your own life is the greatest lesson in business. Your business is personal, as it is yours. We live in a fast-paced, overconnected world. Relying on your own instincts and knowing the dreams you hold for your version of success, ambition and happiness will ensure you have the life you want and not the life you compare yourself with. Business Is Personal shares the areas of business that are rarely discussed but have been learned the hard way by Penny and others. The emotions we need to understand, the mind we can be in control of, and tools Penny learned following years of hard work and many challenging moments. Penny has poured her heart into this book, and it is incredibly revealing.
©2018 Penny Power (P)2018 Panoma Press
Managing Successful Rental Properties
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Are you struggling to manage your Rental Properties? Well, worry no more! Being a successful project manager requires skills, knowledge, and experience. You must be able to adapt quickly to ever-changing conditions in the property market and be prepared for unforeseen eventualities that are likely to crop up. Fortunately, anyone can be a successful residential Property Manager. As long as they are dedicated to learning every day and applying the things you learn in your day-to-day management duties. In this book, I have painstakingly laid out all the pre-requisites that you need in order to become a star property manager. The strategies and tips that I have discussed are tried and tested and have been proven to work time and again. I have no doubt that by reading and applying the invaluable tips that I have shared in this book.
©2021 Nyiva Musau (P)2021 Nyiva Musau
Skip the Line
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The entrepreneur, angel investor, and best-selling author of Choose Yourself busts the 10,000-hour rule of achieving mastery, offering a new mindset and dozens of techniques that will inspire any professional - no matter their age or managerial level - to pursue their passions and quickly acquire the skills they need to succeed and achieve their dreams. We live in a hierarchical world where experience has traditionally been the key to promotion. But that period is over! Straight, clear-cut career trajectories no longer exist. Industries disappear, job descriptions change, and people’s interests and passions evolve. The key to riding this wave, entrepreneur James Altucher advises, is to constantly be curious about what’s next, to be comfortable with uncertainty so you can keep navigating the rough waters ahead, and most important, to pursue the things that interest you. In Skip the Line, he reveals how he went from struggling and depressed to making his personal, financial, and creative dreams come true, despite - and perhaps due to - his many failures along the way. Altucher combines his personal story with concrete - and unorthodox - insights that work. But Skip the Line isn’t about hacks and shortcuts - it’s about transforming the way you think, work, and live, letting your interests guide your learning, time, and resources. It’s about allowing yourself to do what comes naturally; the more you do what you love, the better you do it. While showing you how to approach change and crisis, Altucher gives you tools to help easily execute ideas, become an expert negotiator, attract the attention of those around you, scale promising ideas, and improve leadership - all of which will catapult you higher than you ever thought possible and at a speed that everyone will tell you is impossible.
©2021 James Altucher (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
Rethinking Agile
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You can turn any problem into a mystery. There are now enough agile templates and frameworks to turn any simple insight into a challenge that naturally can only be resolved with this or that method or framework. Yes, I am sitting in a glass house. I make my money giving companies valuable tips and my name is associated with Kanban. However, my goal is to never make things more complicated than what they really are. And a simple insight goes along with this: An agile organization is not created by completely optimizing elements isolated from one another — in most cases, this involves teams. Often, though, agile odysseys start with this local (sub-)optimization, where at the same time their chosen agile method becomes the golden calf. Then the only attempt is to do the method justice rather than asking what creates more value for the customer. Typically, collaboration between the development areas of an organization and the business decision makers isn't taken into consideration. In this book, combined with the power of illustration, I want to make a clear and meaningful point about this simple insight, which you can neither certify nor trademark. In the past two years, I have gone from conference to conference with my presentation "why agile teams have nothing to do with business agility". Over and over, I receive feedback from people in the audience about how they have found themselves in the same trials and tribulations during agile transformations. Hence, this book presumes a fundamental knowledge about agility and the mechanisms behind it. Perhaps your company has just started down the path of becoming agile, or you are already stuck knee-deep in the transformation and are asking yourself what the heck has gone wrong. In this case, you will probably find useful hints in this book. And perhaps while listening to this book you will realize something that makes you smile to yourself, which means my goal has been achieved.
©2019 Klaus Leopold (P)2020 Klaus Leopold
Real Estate Investment for Beginners: Is Real Estate Investment Profitable?
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You are a click away from learning how to invest in real estate, earn passive income, and achieve financial freedom! The average millionaire has at least seven streams of income. And there is another quality that most millionaires have; they have interests in real estate! This shows that real estate is indeed the millionaire’s preferred investment vehicle! The reason why it is a preferred investment vehicle is because it provides a stable way of earning passive income almost on autopilot, it is always economically viable, always beats inflation, has attractive tax benefits, and much more. But I’ll let you in on a secret: You don’t have to be a millionaire to invest in real estate! Even if you don’t have truckloads of money to invest, you can still jump right into real estate and make steady passive income from your investment, just like the big boys do! So how exactly can you invest in real estate? What should you pay attention to when investing? How do you invest in real estate if you don’t have so much money to invest? Where can you get the funding for investments if you don’t have finances? What are some real estate investment strategies that you need to know? If you have any of the above questions and even more, this book will answer them and provide you with a lot of useful information to enable you to get started with real estate investing. And here is a preview of what you are going to learn: What passive real estate investing entails The difference between passive and active income The various types of passive incomes at your disposal Suitable examples of how passive income works Why invest in real estate The three main ways to invest passively in real estate Common myths on real estate investing debunked Nine common mistakes made by novice real estate investors and how to avoid them Five real estate investment strategies that you need to know How to build your team to have success in real estate investing Important tips for buying and selling real estate How to finance your real estate transactions How you can invest in real estate without money And much more... This book simplifies the process of real estate investing so that you can have the knowledge to get started with investing as soon as possible. It is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to real estate investing that will get you started right away! Would you like to know how to make money in real estate investing? Scroll up to the top of this page and Click "Buy Now" to get started!
©2019 Robert Wealth (P)2020 Robert Wealth
Conflicted
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Drawing on advice from the world’s leading experts on conflict and communication - from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats - Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight, creativity and connection, in a book with vital lessons for the home, workplace, and public arena. For most people, conflict triggers a fight or flight response. Disagreeing productively is a hard skill for which neither evolution nor society has equipped us. It’s a skill we urgently need to acquire; otherwise, our increasingly vociferous disagreements are destined to tear us apart. Productive disagreement is a way of thinking, perhaps the best one we have. It makes us smarter and more creative, and it can even bring us closer together. It’s critical to the success of any shared enterprise, from a marriage, to a business, to a democracy. Isn’t it time we gave more thought to how to do it well? In an increasingly polarized world, our only chance for coming together and moving forward is to learn from those who have mastered the art and science of disagreement. In this book, we’ll learn from experts who are highly skilled at getting the most out of highly charged encounters: interrogators, cops, divorce mediators, therapists, diplomats, psychologists. These professionals know how to get something valuable - information, insight, ideas - from the toughest, most antagonistic conversations. They are brilliant communicators: masters at shaping the conversation beneath the conversation. They know how to turn the heat of conflict into the light of creativity, connection, and insight. In this much-needed book, Ian Leslie explores what happens to us when we argue, why disagreement makes us stressed, and why we get angry. He explains why we urgently need to transform the way we think about conflict and how having better disagreements can make us more successful. By drawing together the lessons he learns from different experts, he proposes a series of clear principles that we can all use to make our most difficult dialogues more productive - and our increasingly acrimonious world a better place.
©2020 Ian Leslie (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers