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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top

“No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exits do differently from those who’d had ‘bad’ exits?” When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem—how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem—how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated. Whatever your preferred outcome, you need to start planning for it while you still have time and options. The beautiful part is that if you start early enough, the process will lead you to build a better, stronger, more resilient company, as well as one with a higher market value. Unfortunately, most owners don’t start early enough—and pay a steep price for their procrastination. Burlingham interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs across a range of industries and identified eight key factors that determine whether owners are happy after leaving their businesses. His book showcases the insights, exit plans, and cautionary tales of entrepreneurs such as Ray Pagano: founder of a leading manufacturer of housings for security cameras. He turned down a bid for his company and instead changed his management style, resulting in a subsequent sale for four times the original offer. Bill Niman: founder of the iconic Niman Ranch, which revolutionized the meat industry. He learned about unhappy exits when he was forced to sell to private equity investors, leaving him with nothing to show for his thirty-five years in business. Gary Hirshberg: founder of organic yogurt pioneer Stonyfield Farm. He pulled off the nearly impossible task of finding a large company that would buy out his 275 small investors at a premium price while letting him retain complete control of the business. Through such stories, Burlingham offers an illuminating and inspirational guide to one of the most stressful, and yet potentially rewarding, processes business owners must go through. And he explores the emotional challenges they face at every step of the way. At the end of the day, owning a business is about more than selling goods and services. It’s about making choices that shape your entire life, both professional and personal. Finish Big helps you figure out how to face your future with confidence and be able to someday look back on your journey with pride.

Finish Big

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

Rise of the Creative Class

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Dave Ramsey

Louisiana

A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

A strategy for changing attitudes about personal finances covers such topics as getting out of debt, the dangers of cash advances, and keeping spending within income limits.

The Total Money Makeover

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Ohio

A strategy for changing attitudes about personal finances covers such topics as getting out of debt, the dangers of cash advances and keeping spending within income limits.

California

How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy

A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy. Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love’s lingerie designed specifically for each woman’s body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of glasses to choose from. You’ve seen their ads. You (or someone you know) use their products. Each may appear, in isolation, as a rare David with the bravado to confront a Goliath, but taken together they represent a seismic shift in a business model that has lasted more than a century. As Lawrence Ingrassia--former business and economics editor and deputy managing editor at the New York Times--shows in this timely and eye-opening book, a growing number of digital entrepreneurs have found new and creative ways to crack the code on the bonanza of physical goods that move through our lives every day. They have discovered that manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and customer service have all been flattened—where there were once walls that protected big brands like Gillette, Sealy, Victoria’s Secret, or Lenscrafters, savvy and hungry innovators now can compete on price, value, quality, speed, convenience, and service. Billion Dollar Brand Club reveals the world of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate behemoths battling over this terrain. And what fun it is. It’s a massive, high-stakes business saga animated by the personalities, flashes of insight, and stories behind the stuff we use every day.

Billion Dollar Brand Club

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Colorado

A New Concept of the Manager's Job

Managerial Breakthrough

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#hardcover #business #nonfiction #economics #selfhelp #management #change #leadership #changeyourlife 

Florida

An a-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.

Who Moved My Cheese?

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South Carolina

"This is the official handbook for Financial Peace University. If you are following Dave?s teaching, you already know what is in this book. But if you?re new to Dave this is the book for you."--Publisher's website.

Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money

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Mateo Askaripour

Virginia

For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street comes a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.

Black Buck

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#hardcover #business #sales #selling #selfhelp 

America's #1 Salesman Shows You How to Close Every Deal!

America's #1 salesman, the legendary Ralph R. Roberts, is back with a recipe for success that no salesperson, novice or veteran, can afford to be without. If you've already read Walk Like a Giant, Sell Like a Madman, you're ready for more of this super-salesman's powerful, practical advice. If you haven't, you can make up for lost time by studying this new book. More than perhaps any other human on the planet, Ralph Roberts lives, eats, and breathes selling. Dubbed "America's scariest salesman" by Time for his accomplishments, which include selling over six hundred houses per year, fifty times more than the average real estate agent, Ralph is in great demand as a speaker and seminar leader. So extensive were his out-of-town speaking engagements that his own staff spoke up and said, "Why don't you stay home and teach us a thing or two?" He immediately began series of popular weekly sales seminars for his employees, on which 52 Weeks of Sales Success is based. Ralph now offers the same sales-generating wisdom and closing tools to everyone trying to reach his or her full potential. He reveals strategies to meet the turn-of-the-century sales environment head-on: Spot business opportunities where your competition doesn't. Learn tips for breaking the sales slump. Know how to get the most out of your past clients--and when to "fire" a customer. Acquire surefire methods to supercharge your networking efforts. Learn the keys to marketing a home-based business. Design outlines for developing your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly success checklists. In addition, Ralph presents the strategies and techniques of other sales superstars from many different industries, including advertising, investment, auto, home decorating, home-based business, audio-visual production, Internet service, insurance, travel, and mortgage brokering, to name just a few. The strategies Ralph imparts in 52 Weeks of Sales Success will set you apart from every other salesperson. You'll learn how to look for and listen to what people want and try and find in for them; how to identify the true decision maker in the family in order to expedite closings; most important, you'll learn Ralph's technique for making an impression. It's all in this book, packed with infectious enthusiasm, wonderful personal stories about his own goal-setting and achievements, and down-home wisdom about setting priorities. Ralph's message can get you incredible results. Aimed straight at the problems of entrepreneurial salespeople, Ralph's methods will help you: Conquer your fears of selling! Eliminate nonproductive habits! Get to the point of closing fate! Walk away with more sales than ever before! Close every deal!

52 Weeks of Sales Success

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A No-Nonsense Guide to Standing Out and Selling More for Mompreneurs Who 'Ain't Got Time for That'

"Lindsay Teague Moreno is one of the smartest, most insightful people I've ever met when it comes to getting noticed. I read this, not just because I wanted to endorse it, but because I needed it. Don't miss this!"

- Jon Acuff, New York Times Bestselling Author / Speaker

"Lindsay Teague Moreno's Getting Noticed is an inspiring read for anyone looking to be more intentional in social media and get real results. Her kind spirit combined with relentless hustle shines brightly in her candid storytelling, making it clear why she has achieved so much success." 

- Jessica Turner, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Fringe Hours

Momtrepreneurs, listen up!

You don't have time for another "change everything you're doing on social media and be just like me" book. You need information and you need it fast. Do you want to grow your following, sell more product, and experience the freedom that comes with being your own boss?

Getting Noticed isn't the "secret to social media" - it's a no fluff, take charge guide to the way we present ourselves, our business, and connect with customers online.

Lindsay Teague Moreno knows the hardcore mom life. In between wash cycles, packing lunches, and balancing a to-do list that would make Santa jealous, she grew a business from nothing into a team of 300,000 people producing over $15,000,000 each month in just three years. Lindsay knows you don't have time for another book that leaves you with temporary warm fuzzies but no real content to actually building your business. Getting noticed is the first step to entrepreneurial success in our fast-paced, online world.

Step up your game.

Getting Noticed

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John P. Kotter

Leading Change

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Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

The founder of IDEO and his partner and brother, the author of the best-selling The Art of Innovation, outline strategies for tapping innate creative abilities, sharing uplifting stories from their work with forefront companies to outline principles for fostering innovation and problem solving.

Creative Confidence

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#hardcover #business #sales #toddduncan #timemanagement #nytimesbestseller #timetraps #nonfiction 

Oregon

Proven Strategies for Swamped Salespeople

Productivity.  It has been a buzz word in the business world for years.  But despite our best attempts and countless self-help books, we still fall behind, work late, juggle our schedules, and become swamped.  Time Traps addresses the most common misconceptions we have about time and our use of that time in the marketplace.  Duncan has proven remedies for universal time troubles, and he shows readers how to set a schedule that works-not just some days but every day.  With the principles in Time Traps, salespeople will see a rise in their sales as they experience a drop in their working hours.

Time Traps

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Kentucky

Create your own training miracles! Discover training techniques that produce extraordinaryresults--training miracles! With the right tools and training,everyone has the ability to learn. And to be a successful trainer,you yourself need to continue learning. Explore emerging trAnds intraining such as globalization, competency-based training, andhigh-tech delivery of training. Each chapter introduces you to a different training method, andopens with a story to actually demonstrate how the techniqueworks. Learn all about: * Getting Training Results in the Workplace * Competency-Based Training * Self-Directed Learning * Using Icebreakers and Energizers to Warm Up Learners * Neurolinguistic Programming * The Power of Accelerative Learning * Successful Role-Playing Techniques * Designing and Using Classic Case Studies * Organizing Outdoor Learning Programs * Facilitation . . . and more! Select only the topics that interest you. Want to learn moreabout a particular training technique? Every chapter contains asummary and list of references for further reading andresearch. Discover cutting-edge, exciting techniques and create trainingprograms that produce amazing results!

Creating Training Miracles

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Texas

Stephen C. Lundin

Harry Paul

John Christensen

Ken Blanchard

A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers. In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful department into an effective team. Across the street from her office is Seattles very real Pike Place Fish Market, world famous and wildly successful thanks to its fun, bustling, joyful atmosphere and customer service. By applying ingeniously simple lessons learned from the actual Pike Place fishmongers, our manager learns how to energize those who report to her and effect an astonishing transformation in her workplace. Addressing todays work issues (including employee retention and burnout) with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message that applies to any sector of any organization, Fish! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profoundthe hallmarks of a true business classic. Based on a bestselling ChartHouse training video which has been adopted by corporations including Southwest Airlines, Sprint, and Nordstrom.

Fish!

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Mike Lindell

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

From Crack Addict to CEO

"What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, is a memoir written by Mike Lindell describing his entrepreneurial journey and how he overcame addiction to build one of America's most successful brands. Woven throughout the book are themes of a "what are the odds" outlook, as well as hope, and an unwavering spirit to never give up. Foreword by Dr. Ben Carson. About Mike Lindell: Mike Lindell is the inventor and CEO of MyPillow, Inc. The Minnesota based company has been in business for more than a decade and sold more than 46 million pillows. He is a philanthropist giving millions of dollars to help those in need, including starting the Lindell Recovery Network that helps people struggling with addiction. Lindell is also an evangelist who does speaking engagements nationwide." -- Amazon.

What Are the Odds?

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Changing and Succeeding under Any Conditions

Most of the denizens of the Antarctic penguin colony sneer at Fred, the quiet but observant scout who detects worrying signs that their home, an iceberg, is melting. Fred must cleverly convince and enlist key players, such as Louis, the head penguin; Alice, the number two bird; the intractable NoNo the weather expert; and a passle of school-age penguins if he is to save the colony. Their delightfully told journey illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Simple explanatory material following the fable enhances the lasting value of these lessons. Our Iceberg Is Melting is at once charming, accessible and profound; a treat for virtually any reader.

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