Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.

Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. The Age of Unreason is an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business guru, has called the new 'upside down' competitive realities in the world of work and of leisure. It is a book to turn your understanding of the world on its head.

Thinking about getting up and telling the world what you stand for is daunting. Actually doing it is terrifying but the rewards are incredible. Imagine spending every waking hour doing what you love... Authentic shows how to do just that.

In Authentic, Neil Crofts offers inspiration for individuals tired of career conformity. He shows how we arrived at a situation where many of us are tied to jobs we don’t enjoy. He demonstrates the steps you need to take to find out who you are and what you want from life, and finally, he reveals how you can turn all that into a business idea that is Authentic to you.

Authentic is a lifestyle book based on practical experience. Neil Crofts’ vision of a role that allowed him to be true to himself and make a positive impact on the world around him convinced him to break out of a conventional corporate career. Authentic is about giving others the courage to follow their hearts in the same way.

There are around 3.6m small businesses in the UK and approximately 300 000 fail per year partly due to ignorance of the basics of business finance. This practical guide provides advice on proper financial planning and control and reinforces essential points through its use of questions within each section. By covering the important issues of key financial statements, financial analysis, business planning and budgeting, it enables the reader to become financially literate

Who Else Wants to Make LinkedIn Work?

New Edition: The most up-to-date LinkedIn makeover book for an eye-catching personalized LinkedIn profile that attracts attention and gets you results.

Did you know that less than 3% of LinkedIn users generate over 75% of business using LinkedIn? It’s all built on the strength of their LinkedIn profile.

LINKEDIN PROFILE OPTIMIZATION: Whether new or not to LinkedIn, you can be part of this minority. The key is using the same techniques such elite does to transform LinkedIn into a business powerhouse. This LinkedIn book will show you how.

You’ll learn how to identify, reach out to the right prospects and turn them to clients; how to leverage your knowledge to spike other’s attention; raise visibility and make you the only go-to expert in your field.

PROVEN FOUR-STEP MODEL: Turns LinkedIn into a tremendous branding tool via:

1 LinkedIn Makeover: build an All-Star LinkedIn profile

2 LinkedIn Marketing: locate your ideal clients

3 LinkedIn for Business: use the right approach solving their needs

4 LinkedIn Success: help them prosper

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: Short, snappy chapters will give you simple, clear guidance making the “How to” bits easy to apply yet running in a logical order. The “Tips” give you insider knowledge on LinkedIn.

Once you string together all you LinkedIn account and your profile is fully optimised, you can focus on weaving LinkedIn into your marketing with devastating results.

Dealing wiht some repetition or overlapping is better than scratching your head trying to guess a LinkedIn code.

Professional LinkedIn Profile: How to Gain the Recognition You Deserve will guarantee:

A FULLY OPTIMISED LINKEDIN PROFILE: So you:

• Craft a LinkedIn profile singling you out as the ultimate expert in your field

• Prospect effectively on LinkedIn and turn the tables on your competition

• Keep your social media presence buzzing with inspiring content & activity

• Strengthen your professional & personal branding on LinkedIn

A PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS: So you harness LinkedIn’s huge potential to:

• Map out highly effective ways to leverage LinkedIn as a B2B tool

• Generate LinkedIn leads with the minimum time and effort

• Increase your client base by up to 400%

• Fast track the system and get the job you want

• Invest in your long-term future

LINKEDIN UPDATES: Some say that even if you create a killer LinkedIn profile, it changes so often it wipes out LinkedIn books quickly. Not true. As you’ll discover, more than 80% of your LinkedIn profile & activity won’t change.

There will be changes, updates and added features, but no need to worry. First, it won’t affect your overall LinkedIn profile; second, the book is updated regularly.

What's more, this new & improved 2020 edition is the single, most up-to-date book on LinkedIn making sure you keep:

• Your LinkedIn profile fresh and unique

• Boosting income with less time on LinkedIn

• Proving your expertise non-stop

• Getting new opportunities for business

• Outsmarting competition

• Adding new prospects to showcase what you offer

• Establishing a solid brand

This book will help you build a professional LinkedIn profile alongside a sharp marketing strategy to stand out, get ahead of the competition and bring more business your way.

Get the book using the links provided and start your LinkedIn success journey now!

You can sell anything you want and targets are always achievable – Brilliant Selling will show you how. Whether you’re new to selling or want to take yourself to the next level, this bestelling, and definitive guide will show you how to instantly improve your sales performance.

Get noticed . . . and get ahead!

All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

In Self-Promotion for Introverts®, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet strengths, articulate their accomplishments, and launch an action plan for gaining career advancement.You will learn how to:

• Promote yourself without bragging―when networking, on job interviews, and at work

• Use your quiet gifts (writing, researching, and listening)to your advantage

• Be a commanding presenter, despite your quieter nature

• Formulate your best plans, set goals, take action―and even find a better job

Featuring exclusive advice from Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and marketing guru Seth Godin, Self-Promotion for Introverts®helps you progress inward, outward, and onward.

THE LIFE-CHANGING MULTI-MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER - BASED ON ONE OF THE MOST WATCHED TED TALKS OF ALL TIME! DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE WITH ONE SIMPLE QUESTION: WHY?

'One of the most incredible thinkers of our time; someone who has influenced the way I think and act every day' - Steven Bartlett, investor, BBC Dragon and host of The Diary of a CEO podcast
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Why are some people more inventive, pioneering and successful than others?
And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?

Because it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.

Those who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate in the same way - and it's the opposite to most. Drawing on the stories of leaders such as Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton and the Wright brothers, who each discovered their why to maximum effect, Simon Sinek uncovers the fundamental secret of their success. How you lead, inspire, live, it all starts with why.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

'It's amazing how a book can change the course of your life, and this book did that.'

'Imagine the Ted Talk expanded to 2 hours long, with more depth, intrigue and examples.'

'What he does brilliantly is demonstrate his own why - to inspire others - throughout.'

Start with Why has sold over 2 million copies globally [Nielsen BookScan UK and Circana Bookscan US, April 2024]
Simon Sinek has one of the most watched Ted Talks of all time, Ted, January 2024

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'To Do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it's probably the worst thing you'll do all day. Using 'eat that frog' as a metaphor for tackling the most challenging task of your day - the one you are most likely to procrastinate on, but also probably the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life - Eat That Frog! shows you how to zero in on these critical tasks and organize your day. You'll not only get more done faster, but get the right things done.

Bestselling author Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. In this fully revised and updated second edition, he provides brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating your time. He details twenty-one practical and doable steps that will help you stop procrastinating and get more of the important tasks done - today!

A pep talk in your pocket

This short, small, highly illustrated book will fill you to the brim with happiness, positivity, wellbeing and, most importantly, success! Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker are experts in the art of happiness and positive psychology and The Art of Being Brilliant is crammed full of good advice, instructive case studies, inspiring quotes, some funny stuff and important questions to make you think about your work, relationships and life.

You see being brilliant, successful and happy isn't about dramatic change, it’s about finding out what really works for you and doing more of it! The authors lay down their six common-sense principles that will ensure you focus on what you’re good at and become super brilliant both at work and at home.

• A richly illustrated, 2 colour, small book full of humour, inspiring quotes and solid advice

• A great read with a serious underlying message – how to foster positivity and bring about success in every aspect of your life

• Outlines six common-sense principles that will help you ensure you are the best you can be

A fresh take on the vital business skill of networking

Networking is something that many of us dread and try to avoid at all costs. But no longer the sole remit of sales people, it has become a vital business skill for us all. Expected to negotiate effectively through our careers, social lives and online presence, networking 24/7 has become a real challenge. Many experts believe that you need to be super confident or a brilliant presenter in order to network to the best of your ability but networking has changed.

Let Stefan Thomas show you how to take a fresh look at Networking 2.0 and teach you how networking is no longer just something we do with other people and it's no longer an activity, it's a new way of thinking and acting. Instant Networking will show you how to build networking into all that you do, whether you're self-employed, fresh out of education and ready to take on the world or just ready to make your presence known.

Learn how to:

Combine networking, social media, marketing, and sales skills to give a full picture of how to network effectively
Explore how to establish your personal brand
Build networking into your existing day-to-day activities
Deal with the key challenges people face at networking events

 With its winning mix of gripping narrative and easy-to-implement performance-raising tips, this book has become a best-selling classic. It's garnered 5-star reviews and wide-ranging endorsements - from Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes to Lord Digby Jones. The book tells the inspiring story of how Ben Hunt-Davis - an ordinary guy in an ordinary team - achieved something pretty extraordinary: Olympic Gold. Co-author Harriet Beveridge, Executive Coach, then gives a simple, engaging account of how we can apply these strategies to raise our own game... in sport, in business and in life.

Building on the huge success of the original, this second edition includes two completely new chapters - on high performance conversations and performance under pressure - as well as a general update, based on the successes readers and businesses have reaped from the first edition. In the book's signature, down to earth and practical style, the new chapters unlock simple ways for readers to thrive in their own pressured environments, and to communicate in ways which consistently improve results.

Whether you are a business leader looking to achieve a compelling vision, an individual with a dream, or a coach supporting others to unlock their potential...this book is jam-packed with tried and tested methods to help you achieve your own 'gold medal'.

Success can be yours with Susan Jeffers's
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the tools to face the fears that hold you back.

We're all afraid of something: beginnings, endings, changing, getting stuck. But fear doesn't have to hold you back from happiness or success. You can change your relationship with fear -- and in this dynamic, inspirational program, Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., teaches compassionate concepts and highly effective exercises that help you unravel the complexities and reverse the effects of fear.

You'll learn:
* The five truths about fears
* How to weed negatives out of your words and thoughts
* How to develop goals that help extend your self-imposed limitations

Don't be prisoner of you own insecurities. Career growth, personal harmony and financial rewards can by yours -- when you learn to Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.

E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 

1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 

2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business.

Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION

'The Lean Startup changes everything.' - Harvard Business Review
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Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable.

The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Essential reading for any ambitious entrepreneur, The Lean Startup will teach you to identify what your customers really want. You'll learn how to test your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late.

With over a million copies sold across the globe, now is your time to think Lean.

NEWLY REVISED IN 2022!!

Award-winning financial writer, Julia Anderson is back with an updated edition of her how-to money book, “Smart Women Smart Money Smart Life.” Fresh chapters cover money (and life) lessons from Covid-19, setting up a Roth IRA for a grandchild and selling grandmother’s silver. Divorce issues, estate taxes, paying off a mortgage, receive her attention. The book includes a motivating 5-step plan to safeguard your retirement. She tackles life’s tough topics: the death of a spouse, late-in-life divorce, settling a parent’s estate, family mental illness and end-of-life planning. Easy-to-read, Smart Women is exactly right for those starting their financial journey, as well as women facing challenges in post-retirement. “Authentic, readable, helpful, and motivating,” say her reviewers.

The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.

The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

• Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.

• The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.

• A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.

• The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

"Some of the key concepts discerned in the study," comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people."

Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

The share of funding secured by female founders is unfairly and disproportionately low, a state of affairs that has remained unchanged for many years despite advances made in other areas of gender equality in business. The truth is that there is clear and consistent bias against female founders.

Experienced entrepreneur and fundraiser David B Horne provides useful insights on and proven strategies for raising different types of funding, including debt and equity funding, and how to prepare bids and approach investors. Crucially, he shares the experiences of female founders who have successfully overcome the gender bias and share David’s vision of a fairer world of fundraising and the steps being taken to achieve it.

The No. 1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century

'[Thirty] years after it first appeared, the wisdom of The 7 Habits is more relevant than ever . . . exactly what we need now' Arianna Huffington

Considered one of the most inspiring books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the past three decades. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, teachers and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Now this thirtieth anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 habits with fresh insights from Sean Covey.

With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD

Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now.

People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call.

He calls them atomic habits.

In this ground-breaking book, Clears reveals exactly how these minuscule changes can grow into such life-altering outcomes. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. Along the way, he tells inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of tiny habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy.

These small changes will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships, and your life.

THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake.

Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.

In "Rise of the Female Entrepreneur," embark on an empowering journey as 23 remarkable women unveil their inspiring success stories. Timed perfectly with International Women's Day, this collection showcases the resilience, innovation, and triumphs of female entrepreneurs across diverse industries

Dive into the pages and discover tales of courage, determination, and breakthroughs that shattered glass ceilings. From overcoming challenges to building empires, these women share their insights, strategies, and the lessons learned on their paths to success.

As the world celebrates the achievements of women, "Rise of the Female Entrepreneur" contributes to the narrative, amplifying the voices of these trailblazers. Each story is a testament to the limitless potential within every woman to create, lead, and thrive in the entrepreneurial landscape.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned professional, or someone seeking inspiration, this book offers a reservoir of wisdom and motivation. Join us in commemorating International Women's Day by celebrating the rise of female entrepreneurs who redefine possibilities and pave the way for a future of limitless potential. Their stories will leave you inspired, motivated, and ready to conquer your own entrepreneurial journey.

Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload?

Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?

Do you ever feel busy but not productive?

If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an essentialist.

In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a leadership and strategy agency in Silicon Valley who has run courses at Apple, Google and Facebook, shows you how to achieve what he calls the disciplined pursuit of less. Being an essentialist is about a disciplined way of thinking. It means challenging the core assumptions of "we can have it all" and "I have to do everything" and replacing them with the pursuit of "the right thing in the right way at the right time".

By applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.

Using the experience and insight of working with the leaders of the most innovative companies and organisations in the world, McKeown shows you how to put Essentialism into practice in your own life, so you, too, can achieve something great.