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Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that...
2) Starting a Business: The Complete Guide on How to Start Your Own Business, Learn the Basics and E
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Starting a Business: The Complete Guide on How to Start Your Own Business for Beginners, Learn the Basics and Everything You Need to Know To Turn the Dream Business Idea You Had into Reality
Starting your own business can be a bit overwhelming especially if you're a beginner and you have no prior experience. But it doesn't have to be intimidating and you definitely don't need a business degree in order to have a successful business.
Many people...
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Lucid Leadership tackles the toughest challenge facing organizational leaders today: how to get unfiltered, honest information from multiple sources and transform it into industry leading growth. In this powerful audiobook, the father and son team of Nicholas and Chase Webb reveal how leaders facing a bewildering mass of data and opinions can cut through the static, get a grip on reality, make affective decisions, and lead their organizations to sustained...
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Can you sell with integrity and still make a profit? Yes!
In Selling Ethically: A Business Parable Connecting Integrity with Profits, author Joel Malkoff--a.k.a. the Ethics Giver--reveals the powerful and surprising link between business ethics and profits.
Drawing on the wisdom of biblical sages, modern thought leaders, and the tenets of Malkoff's faith, this heartfelt and relatable business parable is inspired by experiences from the...
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Business has a values problem. It's not just spectacular public scandals like Enron (which, incidentally, had a great corporate values statement). Many companies fail to live up to the standards they set for themselves, alienating the public and leaving employees cynical and disengaged resulting in lower productivity, less innovation, and sometimes outright corruption. The reason, argue top scholars and consultants Edward Freeman and Ellen Auster,...
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Originally published in 1926, 'The Richest Man in Babylon' is George S. Clason's timeless classic, revealing the secrets to making money and keeping it. Clason founded two publishing companies and was the first to publish a road atlas of North America. He is best known for writing a series of pamphlets advising readers on finding financial success, which were later compiled to form this classic bestseller.
This inspirational book is hailed as the...
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A story about an optimistic young man that eventually loses everything as a result of the dissolution of a Fortune 1000 corporation. 401K, IRA, home, and nearly life itself. Standing alone fighting some of the top executives. It takes twenty years to get there and another twenty years to get from there. It describes power games of executives and survival games of employees. And how both contribute to the downfall. It is about Yankees and Texans,...
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If you own a business, plan to own a business or work in someone's business.
I taught this to 1600 accountants and lawyers and in my UCLA business fraud course.
Learn how they get cheated and what to do and what not to do about it.
The business facts of life nobody taught you.
Business fraud is not about accounting. It's about deception.
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What is the single most important factor that determines if a business will succeed or fail?
It is not $$$ deep pockets, "connections," or advertising. Or any of the factors usually talked about. It is ATTITUDE.As the business guru Zig Ziglar said: "Your attitude determines your altitude." Attitude is faith in action.
The Bible is a Faith Guide. Business requires faith. The Bible is the best Business Guide.
If one business fails, faith encourages...
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Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of many books, including Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It (with Ann E. Tenbrunsel) (Princeton), Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore), Better, Not Perfect, and The Power of Noticing. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his spouse, Marla.
What all of us can do to fight the pervasive...
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Corporations are the most powerful entities on the planet. Unfortunately, many have long records of unprecedented and unbridled environmental degradation, social transgressions, and governance secrecy. But you can do something about it. Because public companies are beholden to their shareholders, if you own stock, you have influence. And even if you own shares in a mutual fund or invest through a workplace-sponsored retirement account or 401(k),...
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Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum (1810-91) is best known for forming the circus that came to be known as The Greatest Show on Earth. A brash, larger-than-life entrepreneur, he transformed the nature of commercial entertainment in the nineteenth century, from his private museum of curiosities to his big-top extravaganzas. Towards the end of his illustrious career, the renowned showman shared the secrets to his success in The Art of Money Getting or, Golden...
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