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From a mud-walled home in rural China to boardrooms in New Jersey, In Through the Window traces Lintao Lu’s extraordinary rise. Born into a world of famine and political upheaval, Lu overcame every obstacle—language barriers, poverty, cultural bias—to become a multilingual engineer, a patent-holding innovator, an entrepreneur, and a trailblazer in the industry.

Build-to-rent (BTR) is a new kind of rental community. These are communities designed for people who prefer to rent housing but want a place that feels more like home. They take the best aspects of single-family rentals and upgrade the experience by developing all homes inside a professionally managed community. With the average sales price for a home across the US at $350,000, a mortgage is out of the reach of most people. BTR developments, which resemble traditional, gated neighborhoods, are currently one of the best options for affordable housing.

Ryan Matt Reynolds is a successful strength coach, business owner, and business mentor. This book is the road map he wished he had many years ago when he felt like he was drowning in urgency. Reynolds’s personal journey as a professional athlete, business owner, husband, father, and mentor lends credence to his practices as he shares his foundational principles.

For too many professional women it’s not just the glass ceiling holding them back; it’s the sticky floor, too. This may be your experience. You’ve advanced to a specific level in your career, but now you’ve stalled. In Climbing the Spiral Staircase, author Leanne Meyer shares specific, actionable strategies that will help you build the career you aspire to have. This audiobook will help you gain control of your career by reclaiming the passion and ambition with which you began.

Western leaders face significant challenges when conducting business in Iraq, from navigating cultural differences to overcoming ingrained misconceptions. In Leadership Beyond Borders: A Western Executive’s Guide to the Iraqi Business Mindset, Midhat Zwayen delivers a powerful guide to overcoming these obstacles with culturally attuned leadership practices.

In an industry plagued by short careers and constant churn, Recruiting to Retain offers a better way.

The Enduring Impact by Kris Erickson is a practical guide for leaders seeking to create lasting organizational change through the employee experience. Drawing from one of the world’s largest databases of employee feedback, this book offers a data-driven framework for building workplaces where people feel engaged, fulfilled, and inspired to do their best work. Kris Erickson, cofounder of Workforce Science Associates, reveals six core drivers that consistently shape employee engagement across industries and cultures: Mission, Trust, Communication, Appreciation, Support, and Growth.

Bulletproof Your Marketplace offers platform stakeholders useful and actionable ways to avoid to identify, predict, prevent, and respond to the risks that come with launching, operating and scaling marketplaces and digital platforms.

Seeing Around Corners tells the inspirational rags-to-riches story of entrepreneur Stan Middleman and shares his principles for achieving business success. Follow Stan's journey from humble beginnings in Philadelphia to building Freedom Mortgage, one of the largest privately held mortgage companies in America.

Most M&A deals fall short of their goals or outright crash and burn. Achieve personal and financial success with the nontraditional skills of The Seller Whisperer. Ignacio Macias and Carlos de Torres recognize that the acquiring of a company is only half the deal, the value-creation of the newly combined companies completes the deal. Just as the horse whisperer brought a uniquely empathic, heartfelt, and mutually trusting emphasis to equine communication, the seller whisperer can apply these nontraditional skills to mergers & acquisition deals for long-term success.

Calling upon over thirty years of experience delivering optimized project outcomes for some of the world’s leading brands, author Clinton M. Padgett reveals the “secret sauce” many leaders leave out of their project success equation. Taking what’s already working on your teams, the principles detailed in How Teams Triumph help your people maximize performance by enhancing communication; breaking down silos; and providing a proven, repeatable framework to complete projects with all stakeholders pulling in the same direction.

Many leaders hesitate to innovate, struggle with uncertainty, or find themselves unsure of how to reach the future they imagine. Turning the Giant offers a clear, experience-driven path forward. John Berra—who rose from a shy, uncertain university student to Chairman of Emerson Process Management and a member of the Process Automation Hall of Fame—shares the insights gained from decades of confronting the “giants” that shape a leader’s journey.

Imagine if you could use book authorship and media strategy to skyrocket your brand authority and reach millions of people with your message. Imagine if you could learn from the best in the business, the Authority Architects who have helped top entrepreneurs transform their expertise into powerful books and digital platforms. That’s what this podcast is all about. Meet the Experts from Forbes Books is a podcast where you get to hear from the masterminds behind some of the most successful book publishing, digital strategy, and content creation projects in the world. You’ll get to learn ...

The best business owners know that scalability is all about capacity and capability. They understand their businesses can grow, and systems are in place to accommodate growth. But how do you scale your business for growth? Each week, join Tony DiSilvestro, an entrepreneur who has founded over 30 businesses and employs over 400 people, as he speaks with CEOs who have grown their companies by creating experiences that create results. If you want to design a blueprint for business success, this is the podcast for you, Tony D. Talks, a production of Forbes Books.

In today's business ecosystem, knowing how to maximize your technology investments is incalculable. Each week, join Ben DeBow, the founder of Fortified and the innovative architect of global mission-critical enterprise data platforms, as he speaks with trailblazers that have unlocked the way to create and show the value of technological initiatives while transforming business. If you’re looking to measure success through technology, this is the podcast for you, Tech(e)valuation with Ben DeBow from Forbes Books.

Digital technologies are reshaping companies and entire industries, but it requires organizations to disrupt the current state of affairs. Each week, join Gerard Szatvanyi, the groundbreaking co-founder of OSF Digital, as he speaks with today’s top thought leaders about what it takes to drive digital transformation. If you want to get inspired by tech, reimagine possibilities to think outside the box and reimagine your business, this is the podcast for you, The Great Digital Transformation with Gerard Szatvanyi, a production of Forbes Books.

Welcome to The Tax-Alpha Solutions podcast with Matt Chancey. Matt introduces listeners to tax-advantaged strategies, and how to keep & grow more of your money. Matt Chancey has helped his clients save tens of millions of dollars and has coached other high-net-worth individuals how to do the same. On the show, Matt shares his expertise on how to defer, reduce or eliminate taxes using legal tax shelters for high income earners, passive income or capital gains. Guests on The Tax-Alpha Solutions podcast include experts in their field who have succeeded in helping their clients and can share ...

The journey to an amazing life is often a winding road, but the scenic route can be fun and enlightening. Each week, join Sharon Price John, the CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop, as she speaks with trailblazers and groundbreakers who have lived extraordinary lives and acquired wisdom along the way that we can all learn from. If you want to hear real stories from real people who have really put their hearts into this thing we call life, this is the podcast for you, Stories and Heart with Sharon Price John, from Forbes Books.

The intricacies of global value chains have led to the localization of variability and risk, causing an array of unforeseen consequences. Each week join Jonathon Karelse, an expert in demand planning, sales, and operations planning, and predictive analytics, as he speaks with innovators and creative thinkers who have successfully and strategically transformed their teams. If you’re looking for best practices and pitfalls to avoid in global value chain planning, from AI to the use of computer-based forecasting to the role of human judgment, this is the podcast for you: Histories of the Future...

The world’s a mess. Why should you care? Our world is remarkably automated. Resources remain in abundant supply. Life should be so simple. So prosperous. And yet, the vast majority of people still aren’t making a decent living. America was built on principles of personal freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency; no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition. However, over the last 50 years, our freedoms have been threatened by mounting personal, corporate, and government debt.