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The 9% Edge: The Life-Changing Secrets to Create More Revenue for Your Business and More Freedom for Yourself
by Candy ValentinoPractical wisdom on tools, concepts, and strategies to build, grow, and optimize your business 91% of small and medium sized businesses fail in the first 10 years. What is the other 9% doing to succeed? The 9% Edge is a highly practical guide to entrepreneurship and taking your business to the next level, no matter where you currently are in your build. Developed from extensive research on businesses and their founders, combined with the 26 years of real-world, firsthand experience of author Candy Valentino, this book breaks down the core principles and concepts that are essential to bridging the knowledge gap between different stages of a build, and contains a wealth of tools and strategies, explained in plain English, that can be put into practice as soon as today. Valentino went from a teenager living in a little white trailer on government assistance, to building, scaling, and selling multiple businesses in various industries and helping countless other businesses do the same in a consultant role. In this book, readers will learn about: Expanding your customer base, strategically reducing costs without compromise, and measuring and evaluating critical revenue drivers Making data-driven decisions, implementing strategic financial and metric changes, and always moving forward with intention Achieving organizational transformation through revamping a marketing strategy, optimizing operational efficiencies, and restructuring finances The 9% Edge is an essential resource for all business owners seeking to learn from someone who has run the gambit in entrepreneurial endeavors and knows from experience what has been proven to work.
The 9% Edge Planner: A Quarterly Guide to Help You Maintain Clarity, Stay Focused, and Keep You on Track for Success
by Candy ValentinoHelpful planner to drill down, get organized, and start putting concepts from The 9% Edge into action The 9% Edge Yearly Planner is a companion to The 9% Edge that gives readers all of the hands-on tools they need to seamlessly implement the proven principles contained in the main book. Written by Candy Valentino, WSJ bestselling author, business growth expert, and financial analyst with 25 years of experience, this planner contains worksheets, checklists, and other tools for success that readers can use to intelligently create, develop, scale, and exit their enterprises, no matter what stage they're currently at or how big they want to become. Some of the concepts that this planner helps readers drill down include: Identifying and implementing key strategies that have a direct impact on your bottom line Navigating each stage of the business development process with a different set of talents and skills Expanding your customer base, enhancing average order value, and boosting the frequency of purchases Strategically reducing costs without compromise and measuring and evaluating critical revenue drivers The 9% Edge Yearly Planner is a highly practical planner for driven entrepreneurs and business leaders seeking to access a wealth of business development tools that have been proven to work time and time again.
9 Lessons In Brexit
by Ivan RogersIn this short, elegant essay, Ivan Rogers, the UK"s former ambassador to the EU, draws up nine lessons for Brexit that we, as a soon-to-be `third country", need to learn from the last few years, if the next few years - indeed the next decade - are not to be even more painful.
The 9 Month Investment: A Passive Investors Guide to Achieving 10 Years Worth of Wealth Accumulation in Only 9 Months
by Darin R. GarmanWhat if you could realistically achieve the kind of wealth it takes most people 10 years or more to accumulate and have this wealth in your hands in as little as 9 months? Sound crazy? Good! Chances are you are one of the millions of people that have been led to believe that you have to wait a long, long time, sometimes up to 30 or more years, for your wealth goals to be achieved. The good news is you do not have to wait that long and can have your financial chips in a matter of months not years! Inside these pages you will find a proven system, complete with easy instruction, to achieving your financial goals now vs. having to wait for your financial payday and hoping your money will be there after working all of those years. The good news about "9 Month Investing" is it not only eliminates your biggest enemy, TIME, the methods are also easy to follow and implement as well. No excuses! Now anyone, if they know how, can achieve the wealth they want and deserve in a matter of just 9 months!
9-Object-Model FMEA: Ein Denkmodell zur Erstellung von technischen Risikoanalysen
by Pier Luigi BelcaroIst es möglich, FMEA auf wissenschaftliche Weise anzugehen und ein Denkmodell – präzise und stringent – zu entwickeln, auf dessen solider, formaler Basis operative Vorgehensweisen für ebenso präzise und stringente FMEAs erarbeitet werden können? Dieses Fachbuch schlägt ein solches Denkmodell vor und belebt es mit 9 Objekten sowie Eigenschaften und Interaktionen. Die auf dem Modell basierenden Vorgehensweisen (Design- und Prozess-FMEA) sowie deren logische Zusammensetzung werden leicht verständlich vermittelt. Abschließend wird ein mathematisches Modell zur objektiven Bewertung der Risikoparameter "Auftreten" und "Entdeckung" abgebildet, wobei gezielt formulierte Vektorindikatoren statt der klassischen Bewertungstabellen zugrunde liegen. Die gesamte Darstellung wird durch die FMEA-Software APIS-IQ unterstützt.
9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Bosses
by Vincent D. O'Connell Stephen E. KohnWhy does one management style make employees hate their jobs while a different style inspires them to outperform and commands their respect? Emotionally intelligent people-management skills turn out to be the primary reason. In modern organizations keen to retain their most talented human capital, there may be no more important competency to develop than the skills that motivate people to outperform the competition.9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Bosses features a sensible, easily implemented framework organized into three distinct sets of skills--foundational, prevention of common pitfalls, and advanced relationship management. Kohn and O'Connell enhance the approaches to effective people management that they presented in their highly praised previous publication 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses.
9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Mentors: How to Inspire and Motivate Anyone (9 Powerful Practices)
by Stephen E. Kohn Vincent D. O'ConnellMost companies around the globe clearly believe that people should have the opportunity to achieve as much as their initiative and native talent can justify, but too many managers still lack the wherewithal to effectively groom junior employees who have the potential to climb the corporate ladder. The support of a mentor is an integral part of any effort to maximize someone’s full potential. A mentor-protégé relationship has many unique features, which both sides of the relationship need to understand and appreciate. Serving in the role of mentor to protégés involves providing highly individualized guidance from someone with the appropriate background, life, and work experiences and, importantly, an avid interest in helping others reach their life and career goals.9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Mentors features a set of proven techniques for those who serve as mentors in a variety of contexts, but particularly in the workplace.This new title completes a trilogy of practical books on management skills along with 9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Bosses and 9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams by these two highly acclaimed authors.
9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Mentors
by Vincent D. O'Connell Stephen E. KohnMost companies around the globe clearly believe that people should have the opportunity to achieve as much as their initiative and native talent can justify, but too many managers still lack the wherewithal to effectively groom junior employees who have the potential to climb the corporate ladder. The support of a mentor is an integral part of any effort to maximize someone's full potential. A mentor-protégé relationship has many unique features, which both sides of the relationship need to understand and appreciate. Serving in the role of mentor involves providing highly individualized guidance from someone with the appropriate background, life, and work experiences and, importantly, an avid interest in helping others reach their life and career goals.
9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams
by Vincent D. O'Connell Stephen E. KohnIncreasingly, organizations count on project teams to develop products and deliver services to their customers. Consequently, effective teamwork and team leadership are integral components of an organization's success. In 9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams, Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell define the essence of superior performance by project teams at work, and identify nine attributes of team membership and team leadership that set the stage for accomplishment of group objectives. Kohn and O'Connell bring these proven strategies to life with real-world examples drawn from decades of experience.
The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying (G. K. Hall Core Ser.)
by Suze Orman<p>Suze Orman has transformed the concept of personal finance for millions by teaching us how to gain control of our money -- so that money does not control us. She goes beyond the nuts and bolts of managing money to explore the psychological, even spiritual power money has in our lives. <i>The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom</i> is the first personal finance book that gives you not only the knowledge of how to handle money, but also the will to break through all the barriers that hold you back. <p>Combining real-life recommendations with the motivation to overcome financial anxieties, Suze Orman offers the keys to providing for yourself and your family, including: <p> <li>seeing how your past holds the key to your financial future <li>facing your fears and creating new truths <li> trusting yourself more than you trust others <li>being open to receiving all that you are meant to have <li>understanding the lessons of the money cycle</li> <p><i>The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom</i> is useful advice and inspiration from the leading voice in personal finance. As Orman shows, managing money is far more than a matter of balancing your checkbook or picking the right investments. It's about redefining financial freedom -- and realizing that you are worth far more than your money.</p>
The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
by Suze OrmanManaging money is far more than a matter of balancing our checkbooks or picking investments. Witness the fact that many of us know what we ought to be doing with our money yet often just don't do it. This is the first personal finance book that gives us not only the knowledge of how to handle money, but also the power to break through the barriers that hold us back. Suze Orman, best-selling author of You've Earned It, Don 't Lose it, goes beyond the nuts and bolts of managing money to explore the psychological, even spiritual, power money has in our lives. Before we can get control of our finances, we must get control of our attitudes about money, feelings that were shaped by our earliest experiences with it. Letting go of these anxieties and creating new attitudes are the first steps of Suze Orman's program. Next comes mastering the practical elements of financial life: investments, credit, insurance, and estate and retirement planning. This book tells you everything you need to know to provide for yourself and your family, not abstract principles but specific, concrete, and easy-to-follow procedures. Here you will also find the latest tax code revisions regarding estate taxes, inheritance, and individual retirement allowances (IRAs), including vital information on the new Roth IRA and educational IRAs and how to make them work best for you. You'll also learn why you should trust your own instincts more than someone else's advice in making any financial decision. Finally come the most unusual -- and powerful -- steps: understanding the spiritual side of money. As Suze Orman explains, financial freedom is about realizing that we are worth far more than our money. Her program concludes by showing how to leave behind financial anxieties and open ourselves to true abundance, not only of the pocketbook but also of the heart.
$9 Therapy: Semi-Capitalist Solutions to Your Emotional Problems
by Megan Reid Nick GreeneA tongue-in-cheek collection of the tips, tricks, and recipes that will fix your life without busting your budget.$9 Therapy proves that it’s possible to take self-care seriously without taking yourself too seriously. Self-professed lifestyle gurus Nick Greene and Megan Reid know that sometimes it takes as little as spending nine dollars on an act of self-care to turn your day around. While working their first, low-paying jobs out of school, Nick and Meg learned to spend wisely—and fabulously—and firmly came to believe in the radical potential of simple pleasures. In $9 Therapy, they use their hard-won wisdom to show how small, inexpensive treats can elevate your adulting game: whether it’s mindfully repotting a plant to finally drinking from a decent wine glass (even if you can afford only one), to recipes you’ll actually want to cook, to design tips to make even the tiniest spaces look like Instagram-bait.With enthusiasm and sass, (and featuring 30 colorful illustrations), $9 Therapy brings together the lifehacks and mini-upgrades that encourage you to make your life a little bit easier, a little bit less stressful, a little bit better, a little more loving toward yourself and the humans around you.
9 Things a Leader Must Do
by Henry CloudWhy do some leaders get and accomplish what they want as a matter of routine, while others seem to regularly experience frustration and setbacks? Why do some leaders achieve their goals and reach new heights, while others barely "hang in there" and survive? Based on his groundbreaking psychological study of the ways that successful individuals think and behave, Dr. Henry Cloud presents a simple yet profound roadmap to help leaders-and those who want to become leaders-arrive at greater levels of personal growth and corporate influence than they previously thought were possible. The good news for all of us is that leadership success is not limited to vague notions of "charisma" nor traditional advantages like graduate degrees and connections, but much more to a pattern of thinking and moving forward that learns from mistakes and stays focused on goals.
The 9 to 5 Window: How Faith Can Transform the Workplace
by Os HillmanWhat happens when Christian believers take the Word of God literally and begin to apply it where they spend sixty to seventy percent of their waking hours? What happens when they use their spiritual authority in their work lives, reflecting their spiritual value system in their area of influence? What happens when Christians move in a spiritual dimension in their work lives as few have endeavored to do before now? What happens is that lives, workplaces, cities and nations begin to be transformed by the power of Jesus Christ. His prayer in Matthew, which says "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," becomes a reality in the here and now. Os Hillman is one of the leading authorities on faith at work today. The 9 To 5 Window: How Faith Can Transform The Workplace, provides an in-depth look at this new move of God and how Christians can practically implement their faith with their work life. Topics include facts on the current movement, how to bring the presence of God into your workplace, developing an intercessory prayer team at work, transforming your workplace, city, and nation for Christ, and much more. Hillman combines his ten years of experience working in the faith at work movement with 20 years as an advertising executive. Bonus Feature: Includes a Bible study guide at the end of the book, ideal for small groups!
90 Church: Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
by Dean UnkeferMAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORKBefore Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam was on the nation's tongue—but so is something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but equally ruthless, the agents of the Bureau were feared by the Mafia, dealers, pimps, prostitutes—anyone who did his or her business on the streets. With few rules and almost no oversight, the battle-hardened agents of the bureau were often more vicious than the criminals they chased. Agent Dean Unkefer was a naive kid with notions of justice and fair play when he joined up. But all that quickly changes once he gets thrown into the lion's den of 90 Church, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, where he is shocked to see the agents he revered are often more like thugs than lawmen. When he finally gets the chance to prove his mettle by going undercover in the field, the lines become increasingly blurred. As he spirals into the hell of addiction and watches his life become a complex balancing act of lies and half-truths, he begins to wonder what side he is really on. 90 Church is both the unbelievable memoir of one man's confrontation with the dark corners of the human experience and a fascinating window into a little-known time in American history. Learn the story of the agents who make the DEA look like choirboys.
The 90 Day Brand Plan: How to Unleash Your Personal Brand to Dominate the Competition and Scale Your Business
by Dain WalkerBecome a known name and authority in your field to unlock infinite money-making opportunities In The 90 Day Brand Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Art of Branding, celebrated branding agency founder and influencer Dain Walker delivers an expert roadmap to harnessing your authority, credibility, and skills in your field to create consistent money-making opportunities. In the book, you’ll learn how to get paid for being a known name in your industry through your businesses, products, and services. Discover how to nail and scale your likeability, charisma, and character as you channel your personal brand’s attention into whatever company or product you’re building. The author explains how he used his own personal Instagram following to grow multi-million-dollar brands, and how you can do the same thing. You’ll also find: Strategies to use your creativity, sales abilities, action plans, and fun daily mental exercises to create the right mindset and skillset for growth Ways to eliminate fear, rejection, and self-doubt as you learn to unpack personal belief into the creation of content of all sorts Techniques to harness a variety of income streams, including those from social media, speaking, selling, podcasting, marketing, pitching, and advertising An effective and insightful guide to harnessing the full potential of your personal credibility, expertise, and authority, The 90 Day Brand Plan will prove invaluable to influencers, promoters, marketers, entrepreneurs, and founders of all stripes.
The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual
by Peter Mauch James Stewart Frank StrakaDesigned and written by professionals with extensive ISO 9000 Certification experience, the techniques and forms in this Manual have been used successfully to achieve certification at over 50 companies. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual provides the basic system you need in place to satisfy an ISO 9000 Audit.First, ISO 9000 is explained and the registration process described in detail. Next, you are taken through exactly what you need to do to prepare for an audit. You are given the working instructions and forms you need to meet certification requirements. The forms are unique and have been designed specifically for ISO 9000 standards.Since ISO 9000 is not designed to be a TQM program the authors have also included a special section that provides the information, instructions and forms needed for quality audits such as Q94 or Z1. If you want to take your program further than just ISO 9000 certification, the material is available to you. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual includes the latest published draft of Q91 DIS, which is the formal public review copy. Companies that have recently been audited have noticed that certain improvements in documentation have been expected by registrars. These improvements require rewording the old standards. The new standards have been incorporated in this manual and several schemes have been modified.The authors of The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual have extensive experience working on ISO 9000 standards review, consulting with companies developing programs, registrar experience and international ISO 9000 activities. This manual will reflect a practical approach to registration for the next five years.
90 Day Race: The Secret to MASSIVE RESULTS
by Rollan Roberts IIIt had never been done before in American politics, much less in Montana. A no-name who's not originally from the state, with no political backing, no war chest, no years of campaigning and building relationships, and no political capital going against one of the most powerful, influential, well-conneted, well-funded, decades-in-themaking legislators in the state and coming 33 votes away from winning the state Senate seat - that had never been done before. And Dr. Roberts did it with the 90 Day Race. you can spend years, even decades, struggling and grinding along trying to: - Earn a Massive Income -Build a Massive Business - Accopmlish a Massive Dream - Achieve Massive Attrativeness ...and never get there. Or you can do the patent-pending 90 Day Race and do more to become a millionaire, start your business, become an entrepreneur, lose weight, or attain any goal than years of consistent effort and struggle. Magic happens during the 90 Day Race, and this thrilling read can be the beginning to your Massive Results!
90 Rules for Entrepreneurs: How to Hustle Your Way to a Business That Works
by Marnus BroodrykDiscover the secrets that distinguish successful entrepreneurs from those who fail, and learn which rules to follow and which to break. This is not just another one of those books about 'rules'; this book may be the defining factor that will turn your dream into reality. Many have succeeded at being an entrepreneur, but many, many more have failed. Which side would you rather be on? Sure, entrepreneurship is often about breaking the rules. But there are also a number of them that you should follow if you want to survive long enough to see what happens when you do. A business should be more than just a venture - it should be an adventure! The difference between a successful journey, rather than a wasted one, is knowing when to do what. That is what this book is about. Not science, but experience. The rules of hustle.Marnus Broodryk, one of South Africa's best-known young entrepreneurs, shares the lessons he wishes he'd been taught before he started out.
90 Rules for Entrepreneurs: How to Hustle Your Way to a Business That Works
by Marnus BroodrykDiscover the secrets that distinguish successful entrepreneurs from those who fail, and learn which rules to follow and which to break.This is not just another one of those books about 'rules'; this book may be the defining factor that will turn your dream into reality. Many have succeeded at being an entrepreneur, but many, many more have failed. Which side would you rather be on? Sure, entrepreneurship is often about breaking the rules. But there are also a number of them that you should follow if you want to survive long enough to see what happens when you do. A business should be more than just a venture - it should be an adventure! The difference between a successful journey, rather than a wasted one, is knowing when to do what. That is what this book is about. Not science, but experience. The rules of hustle.Marnus Broodryk, one of South Africa's best-known young entrepreneurs, shares the lessons he wishes he'd been taught before he started out.
90 Rules for Entrepreneurs: How to Hustle Your Way to a Business That Works
by Marnus BroodrykDiscover the secrets that distinguish successful entrepreneurs from those who fail, and learn which rules to follow and which to break. This is not just another one of those books about 'rules'; this book may be the defining factor that will turn your dream into reality. Many have succeeded at being an entrepreneur, but many, many more have failed. Which side would you rather be on? Sure, entrepreneurship is often about breaking the rules. But there are also a number of them that you should follow if you want to survive long enough to see what happens when you do. A business should be more than just a venture - it should be an adventure! The difference between a successful journey, rather than a wasted one, is knowing when to do what. That is what this book is about. Not science, but experience. The rules of hustle.Marnus Broodryk, one of South Africa's best-known young entrepreneurs, shares the lessons he wishes he'd been taught before he started out.
935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
by Charles LewisFacts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government OC of the people, by the people and for the people, OCO requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is more difficult and confusing than ever. The Internet Age makes comment indistinguishable from fact, and erodes authority. It is liberating but annihilating at the same time. For those wielding power, whether in the private or the public sector, the increasingly sophisticated control of information is regarded as utterly essential to achieving success. Internal information is severely limited, including calendars, memoranda, phone logs and emails. History is sculpted by its absence. Often those in power strictly control the flow of information, corroding and corrupting its content, of course, using newspapers, radio, television and other mass means of communication to carefully consolidate their authority and cover their crimes in a thick veneer of fervent racialism or nationalism. And always with the specter of some kind of imminent public threat, what Hannah Arendt called OCyobjective enemies. OCOOCO An epiphanic, public comment about the Bush OC war on terrorOCO years was made by an unidentified White House official revealing how information is managed and how the news media and the public itself are regarded by those in power: OC You journalists live] OC in what we call the reality-based community. But] thatOCOs not the way the world really works anymore. WeOCOre an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality . . . weOCOre historyOCOs actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. OCO And yet, as aggressive as the Republican Bush administration was in attempting to define reality, the subsequent, Democratic Obama administration may be more so. Into the battle for truth steps Charles Lewis, a pioneer of journalistic objectivity. His book looks at the various ways in which truth can be manipulated and distorted by governments, corporations, even lone individuals. He shows how truth is often distorted or diminished by delay: truth "in time" can save terrible erroneous choices. In part a history of communication in America, a cri de coeur for the principles and practice of objective reporting, and a journey into several notably labyrinths of deception, "935 Lies" is a valorous search for honesty in an age of casual, sometimes malevolent distortion of the facts.
$950 Million in 40 Minutes
by Meshulam RiklisWhat makes a world-class financial genius tick? Enter the mind of a financial mastermind who started from scratch to build a world-wide business empire. Meshulam Riklis invites you on his amazing roller coaster ride to meteoric heights, providing valuable tips for life, for success, and for survival.
96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire
by Paul FalconeSupplies questions for employers to ask during a job interview and during the decision-making process, and shows how to interpret answers and spot warning signs. Includes advice on illegal interview questions, telephone screening interviews, and reference checks. For managers and human resource professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc. , Portland, Or.
96 Great Interview Questions to Ask Before You Hire
by Paul FalconeWith more than 120,000 copies sold, this hiring classic gets results.Why do so many promising job candidates turn out to be disappointing employees? How can you consistently hire the right people at the right time for the right roles?Employment expert Paul Falcone supplies the tools you need to land top talent. The third edition of his practical and popular book is packed with interview questions, each designed to reveal the real person sitting across the table. What is the applicant’s motivation for changing jobs? How well does he handle stress? Does she consistently show initiative? Managers learn to define the key criteria they seek in their next hire and pose strategic questions to uncover these qualities, including:Achievement-anchored questionsQuestions that gauge likeability and fitPressure-cooker questionsHolistic questions that invite self-assessmentQuestions tailored to sales, mid-level, or senior management positionsAnd moreComplete with guidelines for analyzing answers, asking follow-up questions, checking references, and making winning offers — as well as new chapters on evaluating freelancers and onboarding successfully — the book simplifies the hiring process and puts people in place who can get the job done.