Because starting a small business is not only a huge financialrisk but also a complete lifestyle change, anyone who wants to behis or her own boss needs to approach entrepreneurship thoughtfullyand with careful planning. That’s why there is no better resourcethan The Wall Street Journal Complete Small Business Guidebook, apractical guide for turning your entrepreneurial dreams into asuccessful company, from America’s most trusted source of financialadvice. It answers would-be business owners’ biggest question—howdo I fund my venture?—then explains the mechanics of building,running and growing a profitable business. You’ll learn: ? How to write a winning business plan ? Secrets to finding extra money during the lean years andbeyond ? Ways to keep your stress in check while maintaining a work/lifebalance ? How to manage your time, including taking vacations anddealing with sick days ? Strategies for keeping your business running smoothly—frominvesting in technology to hiring the right peop

In the business world, confrontations are inevitable --whether they're with your employees, peers, bosses, or evensuppliers and customers. Ignored or handled badly, confrontationscan damage workplace relationships and ruin careers. This volume helps you master the art of effectively managingdifficult interactions. You'll learn how to: Determine which confrontations are worth an investment of yourtime and energy Understand and manage the strong emotions that can arise duringconfrontations Design solutions that meet all stakeholders' needs Coach your direct reports to resolve confrontationsproductively

Every business needs a business plan,a plan to meet theexpected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the futureholds. This book will help you take a long, hard look at eachelement of the plan and show you how to communicate the rightmessage to the right people to maximize the chances of getting yourbusiness venture launched.

There will come a time when you must decide to lead the lifesomeone else has chosen for you…or the life you want. According to legend, when a young boy asked the great Renaissanceartist Michelangelo why he was working so hard hitting the block ofmarble that would eventually become his greatest sculpture, David,the artist replied, “Young man, there is an angel inside this rock,and I am setting him free.” In The Angel Inside, the renownedconsultant and career coach Chris Widener uses Michelangelo’s wordsto explore the hidden potential that exists within us all. In this unforgettable tale, Tom Cook, a disillusioned Americanbusinessman, has traveled to Italy looking for direction in hislife. In Florence, the last city on his tour, Tom meets amysterious old man who opens his eyes to the art and life ofMichelangelo and reveals what the artist’s work can teach him—andall of us—about the power of following your passion. Among the lessons that Tom learns over the course of the ne

规范化管理不再是大企业的专利，随着市场环境的不断变化，规范化管理的思路也被广大中小企业接受。?张国祥老师经过多年的规范化管理培训实践，分别从战略管理、员工管理、流程管理、生产管理、营销管理的角度，对企业规范化管理进行了系统的阐述，并介绍了大量的实用工具，为中小企业的规范化管理提供了清晰的思路，值得广大中小企业借鉴。

Welcome to the world of high-powered investment banking. Please check your soul at the door. Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates, grabbing their chance to become lords of the investment universe, as they run willingly into the open arms of one of Wall Street's giants, DLJ. Frustrated foot soldiers in a designer white-collar army, the two find themselves embedded in the strata of overworked and overlooked lemmings furiously trying to spin straw into gold. It's a high-stakes pressure cooker fueled by 20-hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters, and strip club lap dances. Suddenly, escaping with their sanity seems like the wisest investment of all -- if it's still on the market.

Technological advances and the global marketplace are changingthe way we live and work. Doing the work you love is the critical factor to personal fulfillment and economic success. Noone understands this more than Laurence G. Boldt, whose Zen andthe Art of Making a Living helped many carve out new andrewarding career paths. But how do you find the courage to startthe search for a new career? And how do you tap into your own bestresources to discover what you want to do and what you’re good at?This remarkable guide offers simple yet profound strategies to helpyou answer those questions by focusing on four key elements to besought in any life’s work: Integrity, Service, Enjoyment, andExcellence. Boldt has reduced the quest for meaningful work to itsessence and will lead you to an understanding of what you could andshould be doing with your life.

What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everydaytruths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set aboutensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why dowe remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In thecourse of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath haveestablished what it is that determines whether particular ideas orstories stick in our minds or not, and "Made to Stick" is thefascinating outcome of their painstaking research.Packed full ofcase histories and thought-provoking anecdotes, it shows, amongother things, how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'ddiscovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filledwith bacteria, how a gifted sports reporter got people to watch afootball match by showing them the outside of the stadium, and howhigh-concept pitches such as 'Jaws on a spaceship' ("Alien") and'Die Hard on a bus' ("Speed") convince movie executives to investvast sums of money in a project on the basis of almost noinformati

成为出色的销售人员，实现百万年薪的梦想，是每一个从事房地产销售人员的梦想。阅读完《房地产销售:百万年薪不是梦》后，将使你的梦想成为可能。全书共九章，章房地产知识全掌握让你从一名销售的门外汉，成为销售人员，第二章塑造自我、第三章认识产品和第四章认识客户让你从一名销售人员成为合格销售人员，第五章销售人员十大必杀技、第六章编制一套十全十美“销讲词”和第七章做好售后服务让你从一名合格的销售人员成为销售人员，第八章刁难问题如何对答如流以及第九章舒缓压力让你完成从到的过程。《房地产销售:百万年薪不是梦》立足房地产销售市场，以理论知识为基础，以技能训练为重点，结合职业标准实施，给广大房地产销售人员提供一条提高销售技巧，实现梦想的捷径。书中的销讲词和刁难问题的对答是你们在房地产销售中每天都会

规范化管理不再是大企业的专利，随着市场环境的不断变化，规范化管理的思路也被广大中小企业接受。?张国祥老师经过多年的规范化管理培训实践，分别从战略管理、员工管理、流程管理、生产管理、营销管理的角度，对企业规范化管理进行了系统的阐述，并介绍了大量的实用工具，为中小企业的规范化管理提供了清晰的思路，值得广大中小企业借鉴。

Turn Your Dream of Starting a Home-Based Business intoReality! It's incredibly easy to start a money-makingbusiness right from the comfort of your own home. Millions ofpeople just like you are enjoying the freedom—and extra income—ofworking for themselves. You can too. In 199 Great HomeBusinesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000, home-based business guru Tyler Hicks shows you how toachieve your work-at-home dream. Inside you'll learn the secrets to: ·Choosing the home-based business that's just right for you ·Getting started in your business with minimal cost ·Building your fortune doing what you love ·Running a business from home while keeping your day job ·Using the Internet to advertise and promote your home-basedbusiness ·And much more! This invaluable book will help you begin your promising new lifetoday as a successful home-based entrepreneur!

Required reading for all present and future leaders, thisclassic is for those who have to "get the job done"--military ornot.

Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated businessleaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story thatreveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager), Don Hutson,CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning,tell the inspiring story of one man’s challenges in creating hisown business. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, weconfront many of the typical problems all entrepreneurs face instarting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue tosecuring the commitment of their people and the loyalty of theircustomers. More important, we learn the secrets to becoming asuccessful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation,how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendaryservice. In addition, the book offers invaluable advice, deliveredthrough One Minute Insights, from such entrepreneurs and t

You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you! For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s! Learn: The six ways to make people like you The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment and much, much

This is a book for people like us, and we all know who weare. We make our own hours, keep our own profits, chart our own way.We have things like gigs, contracts, clients, andassignments. All of us are working toward our dreams: doingour own work, on our own time, on our own terms. We have no realboss, no corporate nameplate, no cubicle of our very own.Unfortunately, we also have no 401(k)s and no one matching them, nobenefits package, and no one collecting our taxes until April15th. It’s time to take stock of where you are and where you want tobe. Ask yourself: Who is planning for your retirement? Who coversyour expenses when clients flake out and checks are late? Who issetting money aside for your taxes? Who is responsible for yourhealth insurance? Take a good look in the mirror: You are. The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and theSelf-Employed describes a completely new, comprehensive system forearning, spending, saving, and surviving as an independent worker.From

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our cut-and-paste online culture in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggrega

In The Heart of Business Liz Mohn describes her experiences asa woman and an entrepreneur at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest mediacorporation, in a powerful call to action for organizations ofevery size and purpose to adapt to the evolving criteria of successin the twenty-first century. With the new millennium being shapedby the forces of internationalization and globalization, Mohn asksan important question: Will humane values take their rightful andnecessary place as a vital factor in the equations that measureachievement and prosperity in the world we will hand over to ourchildren and grandchildren? Making a plea for a new paradigm of business and personalachievement that combines material rewards with those of friendshipand social consciousness, Mohn writes passionately and eloquentlyabout her beliefs as a woman, a philanthropist, and a corporateleader. At their heart is a deep concern about frightening trendsin our society: the loss of direction, the increase in bothselfishness and lonelines

Book De*ion In his phenomenal bestseller, Emotional Intelligence, DanielGoleman mapped the territory where IQ meets EQ, where we apply whatwe know to how we live. Spending over a year on the New York Timesbestseller list, Emotional Intelligence provided the evidence forwhat many successful people already knew: being smart isn't just amatter of mastering facts; it's a matter of mastering your ownemotions and understanding the emotions of the people aroundyou.Now, in Working With Emotional Intelligence, Goleman shows whyemotional intelligence has become the new yardstick for success forCEOs and junior hires alike. Drawing on both unparalleled access tobusiness leaders and in-depth research, he documents that starperformance in every field depends more on emotional intelligencethan IQ or technical skills. And the impact of emotionalintelligence is even greater at the top of the leadershippyramid.Goleman vividly shows how self-awareness, motivation,influence, conflict management, and team-building pl

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In How’d You Score That Gig? , career expert AlexandraLevit profiles more than sixty of the coolest careers on theplanet–all rated in a national survey by twenty- andthirtysomethings for twenty- and thirtysomethings. To find the jobsthat are calling your name, take Levit’s short quiz and discoveryour “passion profile.” You may be: ? an Adventurer: You’re spontaneous, free-spirited, and youalways ready for change = foreign services officer, oceanographer,news correspondent ? a Creator: You’re always looking for a way to express yourself= video game designer, book author, landscape architect ? a Data Head: You have an uncanny knack for gathering andorganizing information = computational linguist, meteorologist,urban planner ? an Entrepreneur: You have business savvy and don’t want to bechained to a desk = blogger, boutique owner, inventor ? an Investigator: You excel in science, logic, and learning =futurist, classic-car restorer, field archaeologist ?

Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning ofwork, solitude, and love “The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinarynobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always.” —Louis Begley,The New York Times “A sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness.. . . Life Work reads most of all like a first-person psychologicalnovel with a poet named Donald Hall as its protagonist. . . .Hall’s particular talents ultimately [are] for the memoir, a genrein which he has few living equals. In his hands the memoir is onlypartially an autobiographical genre. He pours both his fullcritical intelligence and poetic sensibility into the form.” —DanaGioia, Los Angeles Times “Hall . . . here offers a meditative look at his life as a writerin a spare and beautifully crafted memoir. Devoted to his art, Hallcan barely wait for the sun to rise each morning so that he canbegin the task of shaping words.” —Publishers Weekly (starredreview) “I [am