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How to Grow Your Business By Writing a Book

Writing a book for your business can help expand your influence--these titles are just a few prime examples--because thought leaders write books. When you write a book, you establish and support your credibility. Authorship, in...

byBarbara Richter

April 26, 2024

Choosing the Right Business: What Do You Want to Do?

The following is an excerpt from "Starting a Business 101" by Michele Cagan, a CPA, author and financial mentor with more than 20 years of experience helping clients break out of debt, minimize taxes, maximize...

byMichele Cagan

April 17, 2024

International Capabilities of Buying and Selling Businesses

The following is an excerpt from "Acquisitional Wealth: The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity" by Josh Tolley. Having acquired over 100 companies in his lifetime, Tolley shares his advice on how people...

byJosh Tolley

April 16, 2024

How Brands Leverage Cultural Literacy to Drive the Conversation and Thrive

This is an edited extract from Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy by Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel. In the book, the cultural theorist and strategist provides a vital new framework for understanding how...

byAnastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel

March 26, 2024

‘Shining’ a Light on the Internal Struggles of the Entrepreneur

The following is an excerpt from "Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom," in which Gino Wickman and Rob Dube shine a light on the internal struggles of the entrepreneur....

byRob Dube

March 25, 2024

A 10-step Guide to Turning Your Trade into $100K a Year

This is an excerpt from "Six Figure Tradesman: 10 Steps to Making $100,000 in Your First Year as a Professional Tradesman" by Elysia and Andrew Gloudeman. The book describes life as a self-employed tradesman (or...

byElysia and Andrew Gloudeman

March 19, 2024

‘She Thinks Big’: 7 Assumptions about the Future that Create ‘Stuck Stress’

This is an excerpt from "She Thinks Big: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Guide to Moving Past the Messy Middle and into the Extraordinary," by Andrea Liebross. Liebross is a certified business and life coach who encourages...

byAndrea Liebross

February 22, 2024

Making Waves: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage

The following is an excerpt from MAKING WAVES: A Woman’s Rise to the Top Using Smarts, Heart and Courage, by Lisa Lutoff-Perlo. The former CEO of Celebrity Cruises reveals how she navigated an extraordinary four-decade...

byLisa Lutoff-Perlo

February 19, 2024

‘Glad We Met’: What Smart Leaders Do to Meet the Needs of Others

This is an excerpt from "Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings" (Oxford Univ. Press),by Steven G. Rogelberg. An organizational psychologist, Rogelberg holds the title of Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte for...

bySteven Rogelberg

January 9, 2024

Mindstuck: Why The Most Effective Leaders Allow For Autonomy

The following is an excerpt from Mindstuck: Mastering the Art of Changing Minds by Michael McQueen (Dec. 5, 2023; Amplify Publishing). Civic engagement expert Peter Block put it well when he observed that the “yes”...

byMichael McQueen

October 25, 2023

Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO" by Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann.

12 Absolutes of Fundraising: From ‘Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO’

The following is adapted from "Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO" by Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann. Copyright © 2023 by Gerard Neumann and Elizabeth Joy Zalman. Used by...

byJerry Neumann and Elizabeth Zalman

October 19, 2023

What Makes a Good Idea for a Startup? From ‘Myths and Realities of the Startup World’

The following excerpt is adapted from The Idea is the Easy Part: Myths and Realities of the Startup World, by Brian Dovey, published by Matt Holt Books. Copyright © 2023 by Brian Dovey. Brian Dovey passed...

byStartupNation

October 16, 2023

Sound of the Future: Creating a World Where No One Is Left Behind

The following is an excerpt from The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, which discusses the ways voice technology is poised to drastically alter the way we live and how companies do...

byTobias Dengel

October 9, 2023

Fast Forward: 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year

Excerpted from "Fast Forward: 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year", copyright © 2023 by Wendy Leshgold and Lisa McCarthy. Reprinted with permission from Matt Holt Books, an imprint...

byStartupNation

September 6, 2023

Rewired: How to Think About Emerging Technologies like Generative AI

The following is excerpted with permission from the publisher, Wiley, from "Rewired: The McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in Digital and AI" by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel. Copyright © 2023 by McKinsey & Company....

byStartupNation

August 25, 2023

Lead: Discovering the Heart of Authentic Leadership

The Current Version of Leadership is Broken

The following is an excerpt from "The Empathy Revolution: Practical wisdom to combat organizational and social loneliness" by Chris Meroff, (Oct. 17, 2023) The Current Version of Leadership is Broken As an owner of multiple...

byChris Meroff

August 18, 2023

Why Every Good Network Should Evolve Over Time

This is an adapted book extract from "The Personal Board of You Inc." by Emma Maslen. You will need to build (and rebuild) your networks over time, for example when you decide to set up...

byEmma Maslen

July 6, 2023

‘Lessons My Brothers Taught Me’: Building a Great Team

This excerpt from “Lessons My Brothers Taught Me” by Charles McCarrick highlights the importance of building a great team in business and emphasizes the responsibility of managers to create a supportive workplace environment. Building a...

byCharles McCarrick

June 13, 2023

Growing Your Business from Chaos to Calm: How to Manage and Lead with Love

The following is an excerpt from "Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm" by Michael J. McFall, an Inc. Original Imprint by Greenleaf Publishing Group. Ask anyone I work with. I am a hard-core pragmatist...

byMike McFall

June 9, 2023

Winner Takes All: Case Studies in How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies

The following is an excerpt from "Winner Takes All: Case Studies in How Online Marketplaces Are Creating Modern Monopolies" by Shirish Nadkarni. According to Wikipedia, “A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of...

byShirish Nadkarni

May 19, 2023