Book Excerpts Archives

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

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

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

‘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

Tough Conversations: It Takes Practice

The following is an excerpt on leadership from "Leading From the Jumpseat: How To Create Extraordinary Opportunities By Handing Over Control" by Peter Docker. Copyright 2021 by Why Not Press. Despite years of facing...

byPeter Docker

April 5, 2022

3 Ways to Engage Employees from a Place of Meaning, Purpose, Intrinsic Motivation, and Connection

Excerpted from "Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders" by Keren Tsuk. Copyright 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Mindful leadership enables us, as managers, to be mindful to ourselves, employees, customers, and the...

byKeren Tsuk

February 15, 2022

A Step-By-Step Process to Turn Your Ambition into a Worthy Goal

This excerpt is adapted from “How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters” by Michael Bungay Stanier ©2022 and is reproduced with permission from Page Two. It’s Hard to Be Ambitious I’m in my fifties,...

byMichael Bungay Stanier

February 8, 2022