Business Professional

When the storm hits, most people hide. A few go out —and make a fortune. This book is the ultimate guide to turning snow, ice, and chaos into profit, structure, and lasting success. Written from the front lines of real winter operations, it reveals how small, mobile crews can outmaneuver giant fleets, how to turn seasonal work into a year-round income, and how to build a loyal team that thrives when the temperature drops. This is more than a manual —it’s a mindset. It’s about transforming hardship into advantage, urgency into opportunity, and cold nights into nice profit.

The Power of Consistency lays out the Personal Prosperity Plan, a simple process to create meaningful results by unleashing the power of focus and your subconscious mind. Taking you step by step through the FEAR process - focus, emotional connection, action, and responsibility - this audiobook will teach you: How to get focused on what you want; How to become deeply emotionally committed to achieving your goals.

Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many. When he was growing up, the...

Originally published in 2016, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga immediately became the essential resource for those looking to start or maintain a successful career in yoga. Since then, the landscape has changed. Online yoga and social media are now a crucial part of most teachers'...

Most business books tell you how to succeed. This one tells you what happens when you don’t—and why that’s where the real education begins. The Business of Hard Choices is a sharp, irreverent, and deeply practical guide to the decisions that keep entrepreneurs awake at three in the morning. Should you grow fast or grow carefully? Cut costs or improve quality? Diversify or double down? Bluff your way through or admit you’re a beginner? And when everything falls apart, should you close the shop, sell it, or quietly transform it into something else entirely?

In today’s competitive coaching landscape, professionalism is paramount—and most coaches aren’t acting as professionally as they think. The Professional Coach offers a comprehensive road map of ways to elevate your mindset, strategies, and workflows. Melinda Cohan, best-selling author and leading expert on coaching business success, has helped coaches and service-based entrepreneurs demystify the business of coaching for two decades.

The Swedish firm Hästens enjoys an outstanding international reputation for creating the finest beds in the world, as evidenced by a client list that includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to actual crowned heads of state. Its luxurious, handcrafted, top-of-the-line Grand Vividus sells for as much as $750,000. Now the family business lovingly run by fifth generation and CEO Jan Ryde sells its beautiful beds in fifty countries around the world. In When Business Is Love, Jan shares his leadership philosophy and explains how any business, in any field, can operate on the basis of love.

Artificial Intelligence for Leaders & Professionals is four complete books—four systems, one question: how do you become the person AI makes more valuable, instead of less?

This is a dual-language audiobook designed to build practical business communication skills for native English speakers learning Italian. Each story is presented first in Italian, then in English, then in Italian again, allowing listeners to absorb the language naturally across repeated exposure while following the narrative with full comprehension. The content centers on realistic workplace scenarios that professionals at any stage of their career will recognize.

As the reach of business becomes global and companies expand into newer markets, it is increasingly more important to dominate a greater number of languages. And what language is more important to learn in the 21st century than Spanish - the second most-spoken language in the world? For these reasons, we have created Business Spanish: Learn Conversational Spanish for Business Professionals to provide you, the business specialist, with the best tools in language-learning for situations you will encounter in your day-to-day life.

The definitive guide to non-linear career development: Your roadmap for thriving in the ever-changing business world. Do you dream of a career that's both fulfilling and financially rewarding but feel trapped in your dead-end job? Do you feel like you're missing out on opportunities because you don’t know how to stand out and be noticed by the top brass? It’s frustrating because you know you’re smarter than your peers, and yet they’re climbing the corporate ladder and leaving you behind.

Organized around the transition from student to professional life, Business and Professional Communication, Fifth Edition gives listeners the tools they need to move from interview candidate to team member to leader. Coverage of new communication technology and social media, and an emphasis on building skills for business writing and presentations help students gain a deeper understanding of the role of communication in successfully handling situations like job interviewing, providing feedback to supervisors, and working in teams.

Having a clear knowledge of your business's financial life is important. No one should be in the dark about their overall financial picture. That's a disaster waiting to happen. However, with a perfunctory knowledge of basic accounting principles, including assets and liabilities, creating financial statements, budgeting, and more, you'll be on the road to healthier relationship with your money.

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We have all been told that the key to success is a brilliant strategy. Plan your moves, outsmart your rivals, dominate the market. But what if the whole idea of strategy is mostly a story we tell ourselves after the fact—a comforting bedtime tale for grown-ups who are terrified of chaos?

"Probably in the life of everyone there comes a time when he is inclined to go over again the events, great and small, which have made up the incidents of his work and pleasure, and I am tempted to become a garrulous old man, and tell some stories of men and things which have happened in an active life. In some measure I have been associated with the most interesting people our country has produced, especially in business - men who have helped largely to build up the commerce of the United States...."

Finance Essentials for Managers delivers the key concepts you need to know, so you can master the topics required for moving to the next step in your career. Best of all, no prior accounting or finance experience is required.

In a world obsessed with endless expansion and saying “yes” to every opportunity, The Freedom of No in Business reveals a proven truth: lasting competitive advantage comes from preserving structural integrity, not matching rivals’ indiscriminate openness.

In this age, turning hard data into a compelling narrative is no longer a luxury. It has become a necessity. Visual communication is no longer enough. Presenters need to kick things up a notch and find effective ways to turn hard-to-chew insights into compelling and persuasive stories that influence your audiences’ decisions and push them to want change to happen.

Ryan Wright is founder and CEO of a principal trading firm whose traders include veterans of Jane Street, Point72, and DRW. In The Art and Business of Professional Trading, he argues that the amateur's obsession with predicting price direction is a trap. In a market dominated by algorithms and...