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Storytelling is an essential business skill. We use stories in a variety of ways to attract customers, partners, investors, and build our team. Your audience needs to understand why you do what you do, and your powerful storytelling skills must emotionally hook them. A pie chart can’t communicate emotionally the way stories do. This book will teach you how to put your listeners in a “Mind Movie” so that they see it, taste it, smell it, touch it, and most of all, feel it—so that your leadership becomes magnetic, memorable, and impactful to drive the results you seek.

Imagine if you could start your dream business, work from home, and make a real difference in people's lives. When you become a life coach, all of this is possible. The authors of Make Money as a Life Coach get it. They know what it’s like to navigate the world of online business and coaching. After considerable learning and several wrong turns, they’ve both gone on to create successful coaching businesses.

Most managers already know that cultural differences are important when they're dealing with business partners from other countries. They understand that the current business environment is increasingly global. What today’s managers don’t fully get is that they must learn and use global management skills in every interaction they have. With this book, managers will be able to make sense of common situations that they do not understand.They will be able to recognize, assess, react to, and solve complex management situations where diverse styles, personalities, and cultures are in play.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

Do you know why 82 percent of new businesses fail? Poor money management. To focus on profit and wealth building, entrepreneurs need to become confident about understanding their business finances as well as their ability to manage them. Everything in business affects your bottom line, as do all your decisions. You need to take ultimate responsibility for the financial future of your business-you need to become cash confident! Cash Confident is a roadmap to becoming a financially savvy business owner.

A must-listen audiobook for the Black and Brown communities! Financial Literacy & Ownership, from conception this audiobook was meant to facilitate the delivery of a singular, but broad message. My message is that of financial literacy and ownership; ownership of assets, real property, commodities, businesses, and intellectual property. Financial literacy and ownership are sorely lacking in the Black community and this fact is, has been, and shall continue to stymie the growth and the evolution of the Black community until we infuse a paradigm shift in our communal thinking.

Metaversed is an insightful discussion and analysis of the next, rapidly approaching technological revolution. The authors deliver a compelling new exploration of how the metaverse and emerging technologies combine to define our collective future. In addition to identifying the business opportunities, the book pulls back the curtain on major safety and privacy issues that will arise and the expected shifts in both our private and social spheres.

Growing up in poverty, in a family with extremist religious beliefs, Noell Jett knows what it’s like to work hard to survive. When she married Daniel and they began a family together, she discovered the joy of working hard to achieve her dreams. In From the Ground Up, Noell shares the unbelievable story behind her 3,700-square-foot custom farmhouse—built by hand and savvy influencer marketing—and the key strategies she learned about never giving up.

What if you could still work at home, but have a personal area that’s professional, well-appointed, and not easily accessible to your curious kids? With your own shipping container workspace, separating work and home life is possible even if you work from home.

One Yellow Brick reveals effective strategies, with a healthy dose of humor, to overcome the obstacles and challenges that may be holding you back in your career. Swader shares the secret ingredients on how to get you in the spotlight and become an industry thought leader while building the confidence you need to own the room…one yellow brick at a time.

Discover the strategies and tactics to maximize the value of your laboratory as you prepare to sell. Melissa Butterworth explains the process, as she teaches you how to become far wealthier than you could have ever dreamed. Don’t leave money on the table.

Storytelling in business works. It enhances memory, enthusiasm, and commitment in listeners. But where do you get the stories from and when should you use them? The Storytelling Entrepreneur was developed during workshops and one-to-ones held by business consultant and author Melissa Addey with real-life entrepreneurs at the British Library’s Business & IP Centre.

With social networks, teleconferencing, and webinars, you are able to meet more people in more ways than ever before. But that doesn’t mean you’re creating new possibilities through valuable connections. Networking Is Dead offers a new approach to fundamental networking misconceptions. Authors Melissa G Wilson and Larry Mohl show it’s the quality rather than the quantity of connections that counts. Their fable tells the story of connection expert Dan guiding Meredith, an outgoing social media expert, and Lance, a shy accountant, to build relationships that matter to them and their businesses.

Founded is the go-to reference for first-time entrepreneurs, providing lessons and inspiration to empower anyone starting a new project or business. Melissa Kaufman and Mike Raab, the directors of Northwestern's renowned student entrepreneurship program, The Garage, show you how to tap into the superpower of thinking and acting like an entrepreneur based on their experience guiding hundreds of early-stage startups.

Failures & Successes is the fourth installment of the Igniting Your Vision series in which we learn that our failures are just as important as our successes. Our failures uses our heartbreaking moments and disappointments to often lead us to groundbreaking successes! Know that every scar of failure makes your success so much more impressive to those who are struggling around you. Celebrate your successes but appreciate your failures, for with them comes life-changing lessons that make us into better individuals.

Ending Triumphantly is the final installment of Igniting Your Vision series. When you have experienced tremendous level of success, it is natural to want to evolve into a better version of yourself. Finding a greater purpose will have you uninterested in the acquisition of material things, instead it will have you seeking a deeper and more spiritual fulfillment. Ending Triumphantly is also about inspiring the next generation through their own struggles, disappointments, and pain. Your evolution is essential to those trying to make it around you.

We Stand Here as a Millionaire is a book about making your first million dollars. The book provides 21 strategies to help you achieve this goal, including tips on everything from investing to starting your own business.