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THE ULTIMATE PLAYBOOK FOR FIRST-TIME FOUNDERSBEING A FIRST-TIME FOUNDER IS HARD.DON'T LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU OTHERWISE!TRUEFOUNDER WILL HELP YOU NAVIGATE THE CHALLENGES OF STARTING YOUR FIRST BUSINESS."True Founder is a must-read for inspiring entrepreneurs! Starting a business is hard, and Marc Lafluer does a great job of capturing the truth behind what it takes to be a successful first-time founder. if you want a leg up on the competition. True Founder serves as your tactical guide to getting started."- Michele RomanowDragon's DenCEO, ClearCoWHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: First-time founders - all first-time founders, at all stages and ages. If you're looking to pull the trigger and quit your job, this book is for you. If you're trying to figure out whether you should hire your first team members based on experience or take a chance on hiring friends, this book is for you. If you're trying to decide between angel funding, VC funding, or debt, this book is for you. If you're sitting there reading this feeling like you're about to burnout and that you're doing everything wrong, this book is for you.

"Stop losing sleep because you're not sure where your next customer is going to come from. Stop worrying about how you're going to meet payroll next week. Stop accepting customers who aren't a good fit just because you're afraid to turn away business. Claim your entrepreneurial freedom and start doing business on YOUR terms by creating an Automatic Marketing Machine for your business. The key to growing your business sustainably and predictably is building a marketing system that isn't dependent on your labor. This book will give you step-by-step instructions, examples, and real-world case studies to help you create an Automatic Marketing Machine that will produce a steady stream of new prospects and customers for your business--whether you're in the office, at home with your family, or on vacation!"--Jacket.

DO YOU BLEND OUT?You're skilled, you're smart, and you know how much you can accomplish, so why aren't prospects beating down your door? It's because they don't know who you are.In BLEND OUT, Snappy Kraken CEO Robert Sofia dives into the marketing history of some of the world's most successful companies, exploring the steps they took that left an unshakable impression with their target audiences and then applying those steps in such a way that any small business can recreate them.But this isn't a book for financial advisors who are looking for a quick fix or marketing hack. As with every company that has gone on to lasting success, successful marketing and long-term customer retention takes concerted effort, persistent reinforcement, and an unrelenting desire to be better than you were the day before. It's not easy, but it's exactly how you take your company from meager growth to exceptional success.

AT LEAST 75% OF ALL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS FAIL. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. Don Scales has been in the professional services business for more than three decades. During that time, he has been involved in more than forty M&A deals, on both the buyer and seller side. He has learned firsthand what works and what doesn't, and has long thought about writing a book to share his knowledge with others. The M&A Solution: A Values-Based Approach to Integrate Companies is the result of his realization that participants in M&A transactions often fail to focus on one important factor-corporate values. Corporate management teams have known for decades that competing values and culture clashes put more deals at risk than any other single factor. Yet, because values are hard to measure, they are often ignored when due diligence is being done. Don gives the reader the benefit of his experience and knowledge when it comes to analyzing values for fit. By using Don's methods to focus on corporate values, management teams can mitigate culture-clash risk and increase the odds of succeeding. It's that simple.

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS FOR REMOTE, HYBRID, AND FACE-TO-FACE TEAMS! Project management isn't just about process. It's also about people. Calling upon over thirty years of experience delivering optimized project outcomes for some of the world's leading brands, author Clinton M. Padgett reveals the "secret sauce" many leaders leave out of their project success equation. Taking what's already working on your teams, the principles detailed in How Teams Triumph help your people maximize performance by enhancing communication; breaking down silos; and providing a proven, repeatable framework to complete projects with all stakeholders pulling in the same direction. In the high-risk, high-reward business world, the success or failure of one project can mean the difference between career growth or career stagnation. The stakes are too high for you and your organization to leave any of it to chance.

When was the last time you pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone and dared to fail? In Disruptable, Allan Young shows you how embracing your different, getting outside your comfort zone, observing the impossible, daring to fail, and taking purposeful action will set you on a path of intentional personal disruption that will change your world forever. If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth. Join Allan on his journey of intentional disruption that has led him from a five-year-old entrepreneur to founder and owner of an Inc. 500 company and multiple start-ups that have generated over $500 million in sales.

YOUR WAY TO A COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATION In these pages, innovation and transformation expert Bill Adams reveals why a modern-day phenomenon he dubbed "on-the-fly leadership" creates a fallout on the Core Leadership Functions and a blowback effect on the ability of leaders to focus their attention that he calls Attention Deficit Syndrome. Drawing upon years of research and consulting experience in Fortune 50 and high-growth companies, he maintains that knowing how to deal with the fallout and the blowback is an essential part of good leadership in this age of collaboration. You'll discover what it takes to compete in the race to out-collaborate competitors. And why the author's Five Focus Factors are a roadmap to help leaders get the job done. You'll further be introduced to his AI-driven platform-TARGA-that enables organizations to hyper collaborate and fully gain the competitive advantage. You will learn how his three Forces of Excellence move the organization closer towards excellence, the "holy grail" of performance. Especially in the post-COVID world, leaders must take notice. There is much at stake not knowing how to OUTFOCUS competitors. FIVE FOCUS FACTORS TO SUCCEED: 1. OVERCOMING THE FALLOUT 2. HONING ATTENTION SKILLS 3. MOVING THE ORGANIZATION 4. LEVERAGING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY 5. ATTAINING HYPER COLLABORATION

"Leadership is never easy. Almost all leaders deal with both triumph and tragedy, oftentimes in equal measure. The fact of the matter is that leadership insists on constant rejection of the status quo. True leaders demand continuous reflection and improvement of those around them, and even more importantly, of themselves. True leaders are Changemakers. In Deke Copenhaver's The Changemaker: The Art of Building Better Leaders, you will learn to become unafraid of doing something different in the service of a good cause and how to spark a movement that others can't help but rally around. The Changemaker is a roadmap of sorts, designed to deliver comprehensive, common sense leadership strategies to people from all walks of life. Through personal and professional anecdotes, case studies, and the wisdom from Changemakers gone by, The Changemaker will inspire and empower you to embrace adversity, rely on creativity and character, and sometimes take the road less traveled in order to unlock your ultimate potential."--Page [4] of cover.

Failing Opens the Door to Succeeding Too many efforts with potential game-changing outcomes are short circuited by the fear of failing; people with huge ideas become paralyzed by "what ifs," unable to see past the challenges of today. Dr. Akintoye Akindele and Olakunle Soriyan see "failure" and "failing" as two different realities and mindset. Failure is a destination, a windowless prison that does not exist unless you accept that it does. However, failing is a journey, a launchpad into new knowledge and new beginnings and the key to successful innovation and entrepreneurship. In A Love Affair with Failure, the authors aim to help emerging entrepreneurs be prepared for the inevitable challenges ahead and urge them to be resilient in pursuing their dreams, embracing the idea of failing not only as a prerequisite for achieving success, but also a victory in itself because it signifies having had the courage to take action. Drawing lessons from their own personal journey and from other sources ranging from Ancient Greece to today's best-known businesses and leaders while also revealing the incredible potential of Africa as a catalyst for entrepreneurial support and achievement, A Love Affair with Failure paints a compelling picture of a region uniquely positioned to become a global powerhouse in entrepreneurship.

The next big tech disruption is already here... and you can be a part of it. It's no secret that SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a staple of our lives, from personal entertainment with video streaming platforms like Netflix to business development with powerful tools like Salesforce. But what if the power of SaaS could serve a greater purpose beyond convenience for the user? What if it could be harnessed by any organization-or any person-to its fullest multi-dimensional capacity to generate massive economic growth and social good?In this quick and insightful read, Feyzi Fatehi shares a remarkable vision for a game-changing disruption in the software industry by granting unprecedented software access to the masses through rapid and automated SaaS-enablement empowered by Corent's disruptive SaaSOps¿ platform. With a wealth of experience and success in the tech industry, Feyzi provides compelling proof of how fully automated SaaS is unlocking the next tech boom by empowering everyone from global giants like Samsung to open source developers and organizations alleviating poverty through SaaS-based banking services.

YOUR ONLY JOB AS A LEADER IS TO MAKE SURE MONDAY MORNING DOESN¿T SUCK. At least that¿s what Eric Harkins thinks. In his first book, Eric talks about his twenty-five-year journey working in corporate America and the many lessons he learned about leadership. He was lucky enough to work for a company that made sure Monday morning didn¿t suck, but even luckier to work for several that didn¿t. Great Leaders Make Sure Monday Morning Doesn¿t Suck is a fun, engaging, and light-hearted collection of stories told by Eric. He¿s worked for some good leaders. He¿s worked for some bad leaders. And he learned a lot about what it takes to create a culture high performers want to be a part of.

You can have it all-not just more income to spend in your retirement years but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, you'll have a worry-free income for life. In this book you'll find: ¿ Ten steps to build a portfolio that will survive the perfect financial storm, so you can stop worrying about the economy, the political climate, the latest financial catastrophe, and what the market did today, this week, this month, or this year ¿ Two questions you must answer before you invest another dime ¿ Why investing after you retire is radically different from investing while you're still working ¿ The life expectancy of six key investments-and how to use these and others to build a portfolio that will generate income longer than any single investment on its own ¿ The three essential questions you must ask a financial advisor before you hire one ¿ The exact amount of income you can take to make the most of your retirement without worry or guilt, knowing you've applied the best available research to generate income for the rest of your life

Accountability Starts With You Are you a manager who struggles to get accountability right within your organization? Have you been faced with the need to hold someone accountable and either bulldozed your way through the encounter or talked yourself out of it with excuses like "I've already tried that," or "It's too risky"? If you've ever done a poor job of holding others accountable, this book can help you feel more comfortable with how you gain ownership from employees. Own Up! addresses the big myths, everyday hesitations, and all the other stories we tell ourselves about what it means and how much time and effort it takes to create a culture of responsibility. Author Jennifer Thero Long's central insight is that lack of clarity around ownership is responsible for all the drama that accountability conversations (done poorly) entail. It's the drama, and not actual accountability, that demands our extra attention, time, and energy. To combat misunderstandings and self-defeating assumptions, she guides readers through a series of practical and immediately implementable steps for achieving accountability in any situation. Own Up! shows how clarifying ownership¿of expectations on the one hand and duties on the other¿is the key activity by which accountability is established and maintained. Accountability done well takes very little time and energy, and its results include immediate gain in employee performance and execution, reduced work and workarounds, increased trust between individuals, and greater employee reliability.

FOR TOO MANY PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IT''S NOT JUST THE GLASS CEILING HOLDING THEM BACK; IT''S THE STICKY FLOOR, TOO. This may be your experience. You''ve advanced to a specific level in your career, but now you''ve stalled. In Climbing the Spiral Staircase, author Leanne Meyer shares specific, actionable strategies that will help you build the career you aspire to have. This book will help you gain control of your career by reclaiming the passion and ambition with which you began. Leanne''s executive coaching strategies are firmly grounded in pragmatic, evidence-based thinking. Her goal is to equip you to be intentional in recognizing your sources of strength, assessing your impact, and achieving your ambitions. This is a book that will empower you with the understanding of where you are in your career today-and equip you with the skills to advance further.

THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY HAS PROBLEMS.EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES ARE THE ANSWER.Exponential technologies are transforming our present and shaping the future. The leading companies of today-and tomorrow-are those that make innovative exponential technologies central to their business practices and strategy.In You and AI, author Rajeev Ronanki explores how exponential technologies can solve the problems that plague the American healthcare industry and provide everyone better, personalized healthcare at lower cost. Enterprising healthcare companies like Anthem are forging the way by integrating exponential technologies right into the company DNA, creating AI-first, blockchain-first, data-first, technology-first digital enterprises for the twenty-first century and beyond.

KNOW THE NEW RULES ON THE DIGITAL FAULTLINE AND SUCCEED WITH A NEW APPROACH TO DIGITAL LEADERSHIP. For three decades, changes powered by digitalization have swept across industries, creating seismic upheavals. These Digital Faultline forces are now upending long-standing business paradigms, success models, and entire ecosystems. But despite enormous investments, fewer than 8 percent of companies worldwide have managed to cross this faultline and thrive in the new paradigm. Combining pre-and post-COVID data from 5,000+ companies and more than three decades of leadership experience in the military, and as the CEO of a technology services firm, Sri systematically deconstructs these transformational forces on the faultline. Using simple, nontechnical language, Sri explains the rules that govern success on the faultline and secrets that power the technology industry''s unstoppable growth and encroachment of other industries. Isolating leadership as the single most important factor for success, Manchala presents a new leadership persona for the digital ageΓÇòthe Methodical InnovatorΓÇòand an invaluable 120-day playbook for readers to make an equally seismic transition into the mindset and approach required to succeed.

YOUR ROAD MAP TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM This book is not offering a get rich quick plan. It takes time to implement long-lasting strategies that lead to financial independence. Toby Mathis has created a road map for you to follow to create wealth over time. He shares his get rich slow approach based on the investing and money management practices that have helped hundreds of participants in Anderson Advisors' popular Infinity Investing program reach financial freedom. One central principle in the Infinity Investing approach is that you must take the critical first steps necessary to learn about personal finances and smart investing. Toby understands that the intimidating jargon, unnecessarily complicated math, and mystique surrounding money management can be a roadblock that often prevents the average person from ever starting. This book demystifies the process and describes it in a straightforward and engaging way. Toby has spent years studying wealthy people who have built their wealth over time by creating a solid plan and sticking to it. He breaks down what these people do and don't do, so that you can follow their path. Toby is a gifted storyteller as well as a clear-eyed researcher. Readers will find his stories about people to be vivid and relatable while he uses just the right amount of real-world financial data to back up his lessons. Let's create your infinity plan!

We¿ve all read the cybersecurity horror stories: a prominent company exposes the private information of their customers only to scramble after the fact to apologize and safeguard the data. Cybersecurity is often an afterthought, a much lower priority than profit¿until a data breach threatens the bottom line anyway. In The Cyber-Elephant in the Boardroom, data security expert and CEO Mathieu Gorge, along with a host of guests, shows why protecting a company¿s data should be top of mind for C-suites and corporate boards. With the innovative 5 Pillars of Security Framework, any C-level executive can understand their organization¿s cyber risk and the steps they need to take to protect their information. There¿s a cyber-elephant in the boardroom and it needs to be addressed!

In The Leader within Us, business leader and experienced mentor Warren Rustand finally puts in writing the basic principles of what he calls a life by design- that is, a life that, through deliberate choice and hard work, reflects the vision and aspirations of the person living it. These are the same principles that Rustand has enacted in his own life and has taught to many other adults who have come to him for guidance. You will find his story, and some of their stories, in this book. No matter where you begin, no matter your age or ability or circumstances, there is always the possibility for growth, for redemption, and for success. This book is a blueprint for making significant changes, setting and achieving your goals, and living a life you can be proud of. It will help you be the person you want to be, starting today.

Clarity + Alignment = PERFORMANCE One of the hardest things to achieve in business is getting everyone on your team aligned to the same plan. Picture your business as a rowing team. Most have some people casually rowing, others our of sync, and even some rowing in the complete opposite direction. In Relentless Implementation, you will learn a tried and tested system that will get every person on your team vigorously rowing in the same direction. This operating system will allow you to achieve maximum performance from your team while creating a Working Together culture that will help provide clarity to all functions of your business. In this book you will learn: ¿ to implement the operating system Alan Mulally famously used as CEO at Ford Motor Company and Boeing Commercial Airplanes ¿ 11 Practices and Principles of Working Together ¿ to create a Creating Value Roadmap ¿ to set up and run a weekly Business Plan Review meeting Relentless Implementation shares a tested and proven operating system that creates organizational clarity, alignment and improved performance so you have One Team working One Plan for One Goal.