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Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today.
Unstoppable shows these managers how to look deep within their organizations...
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How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities.
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.
It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally recognized experts in public finance describes...
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Whether you call it "harvesting intangible assets" or "intellectual property management," organizations must make the most of everything they have to remain competitive and experience continual growth. In this thought-provoking book, author Andrew J. Sherman shares insights and expertise gleaned from his work with some of the world's leading companies who have capitalized on intellectual assets such as patents, trademarks, customer information, software...
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All companies, no matter what industry they are in, or what product or service they create, do four basic things. Offer something for sale, sell it, collect money for it, and create content about what they do. Product development, Marketing, Sales, and Finance are all essential to the organization and are typically managed at the VP or CXO level, yet a company's content, which contains all of its intellectual property, is often overlooked. The Content...
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Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 5
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Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client in need of detective services, especially when that client is the most notorious woman in Atlanta. Whitney Albright Dobbs is a wealthy socialite who, while under the influence, killed a young black girl in a hit and run. Callahan is not keen on tracking down Whitney's soon-to-be ex-husband's assets. But it only takes a glance to see that...
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Caregivers today find themselves in need of a crash course in new and unfamiliar skills. They must not only care for a loved one, but also access hidden community resources, collaborate with medical professionals, craft new narratives consistent with the changing nature of their care role, coordinate care with family, seek information and peer support using a variety of digital platforms, and negotiate social support--all while attempting to manage...
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The must-read summary of Chris Zook's book: "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Future Growth".
This complete summary of the ideas from Chris Zook's book "Unstoppable" shows that, sooner or later, every company tends to reach a point at which its historical rate of growth flattens out. When you reach this junction, you have to decide whether or not to move to a new and different core business. In his book, the author explains...
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YOUR TREASURE MAP TO HIDDEN RICHES. Leaders need to know that hidden wealth resides in three places in organizations: their people, their creativity, and their leveraged interactions. In 1+1=7, business leaders are guided to uncover hidden assets and leverage investments to gain enhanced value and return on investment (ROI). According to author Baldwin Tom, many executives are not aware of or do not value the seven capital investment areas that will...
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Whether you are an entrepreneur, an employee or a seasoned business owner, the way customers engage with you has totally changed. Therefore, a company's brand worthiness is up to every single person connected with the brand. This book transforms the traditional notions of a business that backs a product or an employee who is backed by a company. Instead, it offers transitional ideas and suggestions that realign the business, the business professional...
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The must-read summary of Adrian Slywotzky's and Richard Wise's book: "How To Grow When Markets Don't".
This complete summary of the ideas from "How to Grow When Markets Don't" shows that for many years, the answer for growth creation was thought to be product innovation — a better product. However, as every company creates more and more products, ever faster, this is proving more difficult. Customers are not willing to buy another product just...
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Could your business be worth 5X more? The Fortune 500 know the secret. The largest companies in your industry do, too. Your competition may also be leveraging it. So why aren't you? The number one multiplier effect of any business is Intellectual Property-patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, servicemarks, and the people who create all of them. In most businesses, the most valuable asset-employees who make things and solve problems-walk...
12) Red as Blood
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Áróra becomes involved in the search for an Icelandic woman who disappeared from her home while making dinner, as she continues to hunt for her missing sister. The second breathtaking instalment in the chilling, addictive An Áróra Investigation series...
‘Icelandic crime writing at its finest' Shari Lapena
‘Áróra establishes herself as a heroine to move the heart' Daily Mail
‘Lilja is a standout voice...
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Want to help make your community, your town-your world-a better place, but don't know where to begin? How To Be An Everyday Philanthropist shows you the way. A handbook, a resource guide, a call to action, and an inspiration, it offers 330 concrete, direct ideas for making a difference-all of which have nothing to do with the size of your checkbook and everything to do with using the hidden assets that are already a part of your life. Whether you're...
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"At first glance, few would guess that Luna and Cullan Bodman are siblings. Cullan, efficient and serious, is rarely out of a business suit. Luna reads palms and tarot cards, and loves flowing skirts and dangling jewelry that matches her unconventional spirit. Still, her artistic eye is an asset to the family's furniture restoration business. When Cullan stumbles across something unexpected in a piece he just acquired, and a client of Luna's reveals...
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Introducing "return on relationship" with your most valued customers
The traditional model of growing your business-by relying on employees in sales, marketing, and product development-is dying. Today's most successful companies are taking a different approach: getting customers to market, sell, and create products for them.
In assessing client value, most companies look at the money paid for their goods and services. But in this book, Customer...
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Your company's data has the potential to add enormous value to every facet of the organization -- from marketing and new product development to strategy to financial management. Yet if your company is like most, it's not using its data to create strategic advantage. Data sits around unused -- or incorrect data fouls up operations and decision making.
In Data Driven, Thomas Redman, the "Data Doc," shows how to leverage and deploy data to sharpen your...
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TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE. Tailored for small business owners and entrepreneur like yourself who are looking for long-term financial planning and wealth management, The Business Owner's Guide to Financial Freedom reveals the secrets behind successfully investing in your business while bypassing Wall Street-influenced financial planners. Attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler and expert financial planner Randall A. Luebke deliver a guide catered...
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"A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville's lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our...
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In six short days, you can and will experience a total financial transformation! There are truckloads of investing and personal finance books available. What makes this one different? You'll learn how to develop a compelling financial vision for your life, quickly put your savings on autopilot, maximize your success by investing with a purpose, survive when disasters strike, and protect your loved ones in a way that's simple, effective, and fun.
This...
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Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through the confusion, misinformation, and bad policy-making that keeps us spending or saving poorly. It begins with acknowledging what a person or household actually needs...
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