Was a massive terrorist strike on Western soil imaginable before 9/11? Yes, if you read the letter to the US president contained in The Mind of a Fox, the No.1 bestseller published in June 2001. The book has since transformed scenario planning from an esoteric discipline into a practical model widely used in the business world. Now the authors, Chantell Ilbury and Clem Sunter, have extended their model to allow companies to have an intense strat ...
A practical South African guide to making your small business work by avoiding common risks.With its easy-to-read, step-by-step presentation, this book is an invaluable tool for budding business people. It equips you to make informed decisions, ensuring the long-term success of your new enterprise.The author, a chartered accountant who has worked in both the corporate and government sectors before setting up his own business consulting company, ...
The Little Black Beauty Book is for any independent beauty professional who needs a simple roadmap and action steps to become a successful beauty-preneur. You can read and study about branding and opening a business all day long, but if your basic business infrastructure isn't put in place, your beauty business will suffer. In this book, I have put together a step-by-step action guide to understanding and implementing the ten essential pi ...
The Trump presidency alone is a topic of considerable public discussion and debate. Yet, Donald Trump signals much more than the behavior of a single person. He is a symptom and not the sole cause a greater malaise gripping the republic. Albert P. Melone argues that the Trump phenomenon is an instance of the rise of mass society and the decline of pluralist democracy. He points out that yesteryear’s Madisonian pluralist paradigm of dem ...
In Bureaucracy’s Masters and Minions: The Politics of Controlling the U.S. Bureaucracy , the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agency’s internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization. Through a revised principal-agent framework, the author explores an agent-principal model to use the ...
Starting your own business is hard. But the biggest obstacles often have less to do with time and money, and more to do with fear and doubt.In What If? and Why Not? serial entrepreneur and small business advocate Jen Groover—creator of the Butler Bag and creator and host of Launcher’s Café, an online community for entrepreneurs—shows you how to transform your fears into action by rethinking the negative quest ...
If anyone knows what it takes to be an elite entrepreneur, it’s Ephren Taylor.Author of a 2009 Wall Street Journal bestseller Creating Success from the Inside Out, Taylor started his first business venture at age 12, when he began making video games. By age 17, he built a multimillion-dollar technology company and took a company public at age 23.Now 27, Taylor appears weekly on FOX News and has been featured on 20/20, PBS, Black Enterp ...
The Essential How-To Guide for Social Media Marketing by Leading Expert Shama Hyder, Named “Social media’s zen master of marketing” by Entrepreneur magazine and One of LinkedIn’s “Top Voices” in Marketing & Social in 2015In 2001, at the dawn of the millennium—and the digital marketing age—the first edition of The Zen of Social Media Marketing became a global hit. In ...