The Start-Up Junkie’s Playbook: A 30-Step Plan to Launch Your Business

The Start-Up Junkie’s Playbook: A 30-Step Plan to Launch Your Business

$31.99

Starting a Business? What You Need to Think About, Know, and Do

Planning a business needs to start somewhere. This playbook is it.

The objective of this manageable and plainspoken playbook (and workbook) is to sometimes gently, and sometimes less so, prod you toward making an informed decision about your proposed entrepreneurial undertaking or, conversely, help you realize and understand why you need to let go, walk away, and look elsewhere for opportunities.

That’s the “go/no-go” crossroads, likely the most important business decision you will ever have to make.

Think of this as a race to the starting line.

Get ready to walk through 30 consecutive tough and sometimes personal (even mildly cringe-worthy) step-by-step milestones.

The Sales Momentum Mindset: Igniting and Sustaining Sales Force Motivation

The Sales Momentum Mindset: Igniting and Sustaining Sales Force Motivation

$34.99

Unleash your sales potential with The Sales Momentum Mindset. This transformative guide is the key to unlocking sustainable sales force motivation by doing something radical: ignoring motivation. Crafted for sales professionals and managers alike, it offers a fresh perspective on sales performance, designed to ignite production and guide teams towards unprecedented growth.

Discover the power that comes from focusing on momentum instead of motivation, understand its impact on sales culture, and learn how to convert it into significant, lasting results. Gain insights into a new language and framework around momentum, presented in a down-to-earth narrative that will resonate with every level of sales experience.

Authored by a seasoned sales veteran, the book’s authentic stories and enlightening visuals reveal an innovative approach to sales performance management. Find what’s achievable when you step away from obsolete motivational approaches, and instead cultivate a Momentum Mindset.

No matter what you sell or your level of experience, The Sales Momentum Mindset is set to revolutionize your perception of sales and sales force management. Step into a new era of sales success. This is your manual for momentum-based sales transformation.

Regular updates and more opportunities to learn at chamberspivot.com.

Markets in Chaos: A History of Market Crises Around the World

Markets in Chaos: A History of Market Crises Around the World

$34.99

“Nonetheless, this volume should be a part of any (aspiring) practitioner’s library, if for no other reason than to provide invaluable perspective on the context in which financial decisions are made and guidance on how best to navigate macroeconomic dislocations in the service of clients. Additionally, the case studies could supplement the CFA Program curriculum on the topics of macroeconomics and risk management.” –Marc L. Ross, Senior Branch Examiner at LPL Financial Read the full review HERE

“It’s way better to learn how to avoid making mistakes by reading about them than committing them and Brendan’s book will help you to do so.” –Tom Gayner, CEO of Markel Group

“Brendan Hughes’s groundbreaking book, Markets in Chaos: A History of Market Crises Around the World, is a must-read for any investor wishing to harness the potent lessons embedded in the annals of our financial past. –Lauren Templeton, Founder and Principal of Templeton and Phillips Capital Management

This book is useful for those seeking to learn about the history of market crises and individuals that want to learn about protection against downside risks for an investment portfolio.

The purpose of this book is not to convince the reader to attempt to anticipate the timing of the next market crash, but rather for the reader to be able to draw parallels (and some contrasts) between the different crises in history. The book reviews case studies related to specific macroeconomic event triggers ranging from COVID-19 to hyperinflation.

Readers will come away with extensive knowledge of different market crisis events spread across countries and timelines. The reader will be well versed on important macroeconomic topics such as the history of currencies. Perhaps most importantly, readers will feel better prepared to handle the next market catastrophe. Audiences such as business school students and those that are a part of organizations such as the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute will find this book of interest.

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  • Test Questions: This is a 14 page document that includes straightforward questions along with more open-ended essay questions based on the book.
  • Class Project Recommendations: This is a one page document that provides class project ideas that can be done in reference to the book.

    • Please email [email protected] to request either or both of these.

    How to Think Strategically: Upskilling for Impact and Powerful Strategy

    How to Think Strategically: Upskilling for Impact and Powerful Strategy

    $37.99

    Competent Strategic Thinking is Rare and Valuable.

    How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their business acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to “be strategic” and how to craft strategy that is effective, clever, and powerful. It provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action. Through these examples, you’ll gain useful lessons that can be applied in any organization and in your personal life.

    The Most-Important Tool of Strategy Is Found Between Your Ears!

    A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic.

    How to Think Strategically upskills you to:

    • Internalize the 20 micro skills of strategic thinking.
    • Distinguish strategic thinking from operational thinking and appropriately apply each.
    • Pose high-quality questions that spark strategic insights.
    • Write a concise one-page statement of strategy, with five essential concepts that will help you distinguish effective strategy from a list of goals.
    • Improve conversations with stakeholders.
    • Develop a courageous personal leadership style and a courageous perspective to address the real issues that are obstacles to your organization’s success.
    • Overcome the excuse of “I’m too busy to be strategic”.

    Anyone can improve their strategic thinking if they know where to focus their attention.

    Managing Millennials: Shaping a New Work Paradigm

    Managing Millennials: Shaping a New Work Paradigm

    $28.99

    Leadership. Engagement. Retention. Recruitment. Diversity. The key challenges facing workplaces today.

    Underpinning these challenges are the millennial workforce.

    • A generation who are experiencing global challenges like the economic crisis, debt, job insecurity and housing unaffordability.
    • A generation who are experiencing personal challenges like social media addictions, pressure, and mental health crisis.
    • A generation who has been put in the “too hard” basket by a lot of workplaces.
    • A generation who are soon to become the dominant global workforce.

    To future proof workplace performance and engagement, workplaces must act.

    Getting the best out of the millennial workforce, means creating an environment where they can thrive. Critical to this, is good management and leadership. Without it, workplaces will not resolve the current challenges.

    This book provides a solution. It’s designed to educate readers on the current and future millennial workforce: who they are, what they want, what they need and how to get the best out of them. It offers clear cut guidance and best practice techniques for both managers and millennials as they continue to navigate the current and future landscape of work.

    Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen

    Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen

    $34.99

    Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen!

    The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is…how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through:

    • Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
    • How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.
    • Three processes—connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).
    • Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.

    Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!

    International Trade and FDI: An Advanced Introduction to Regulation and Facilitation

    International Trade and FDI: An Advanced Introduction to Regulation and Facilitation

    $37.99

    This book is for use in IMBA, MIB, LLM and other graduate programs; in university-based executive development programs; and in in-company seminars — and for use as a handbook and reference book by managers, executives, board members, consultants, and legal counsel who are engaged in the practice of international trade and/or foreign direct investment (FDI).

    The authors provide an advanced introduction to international trade and FDI terms, concepts, principles, and practices — and to the governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental factors that regulate or facilitate the conduct of international trade and FDI. These factors include, inter alia:

    • tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, and other barriers to trade;
    • entry and post-entry barriers to FDI;
    • provisions contained in the GATT and other trade instruments;
    • the functionalities of the WTO, other global mechanisms, and regional trade blocks; and
    • international standards, the harmonization of laws, and the settlement of disputes.

    The material in the book is drawn from multiple disciplines, which include international relations, international trade, international law, and economic and diplomatic history; relies primarily on original source materials; makes extensive use of examples; and is formatted to facilitate its use as a textbook, handbook, and reference book.

    Click HERE for International Trade and FDI supplemental reading and bibliography

    Warp Speed Habits: A Brain-Based Roadmap for Leveraging Change in Organizations

    Warp Speed Habits: A Brain-Based Roadmap for Leveraging Change in Organizations

    $34.99

    What if you could adapt rapidly to change, design your destiny, plot your own North, systematically design the roads you wish to travel and go the distance, improving your health, your work, and your life?

    Change means that you will have to create habits, and as both individuals and organizations have found, this is an extremely challenging venture. You may feel that procedures and methods, allied with inspiration, willpower, and motivation will be enough, but the up and down nature of the latter qualities can lead to repeated failed attempts.

    For individuals, leaders, managers, or anyone who wishes to build or change habits and behaviors and acquire new competencies, the answer lies in Warp Speed Habits, a revolutionary brain-based strategic-tactical approach to creating habits and changing behaviors.

    Intersecting neuroscience and psychology, this guide leverages business management lessons at an individual level, promotes the development of a “habit mindset” and reshapes environmental contexts. In this quest, as you learn to design, build, and implement sustainable habits, you will travel to worlds and dimensions in different realms.

    Ready? Begin your first voyage, but make no mistake, as you execute missions in your travels to different worlds, do not illude yourself by biographies of overnight success—these are myths that blur the mindset of energy and resilience you will require.

    But with the Warp Speed Habits practical and pragmatical roadmap, you will overcome brain traps and obstacles along the way, and ultimately contribute to thriving behaviors that deliver results!

    Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Caring Culture

    Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Caring Culture

    $28.99

    Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Caring Culture provides a much-needed blueprint for organizations looking to create a calm, balanced, and focused environment inviting people to thrive in both their personal and professional lives.

    This blueprint of nurturing equanimity to build a culture that cares is a necessity for any organization concerned about identifying, recruiting, and retaining the human capital required to create a sustainable future in today’s post-COVID marketplace. Securing the right people for any organization is difficult in most markets; doing so as the economy emerges from the pandemic induced global recession challenges even the most satisfied workplace cultures. The pandemic’s disruption and residue created an unstable and imbalanced culture across organizations of all sizes and in each industry that exposed numerous negative workplace characteristics many either knew, or never stopped to consider.

    Examples included low wages, long and unnecessary commutes, bad management, and unfulfilling work. These characteristics were symbolic of organizational cultures outdated, toxic, and imbalanced created by incompetence, inertia, and ineptitude. The pandemic allowed employees to pause, consider their life situation, and realize their lives had been imbalanced for far too long.

    Required reading for individuals from small-to-medium sized businesses, large corporations, non-profit organizations, and government offices, Nurturing Equanimity: Building A Culture That Cares offers employers and employees alike a valuable resource to use as they chart a course forward in a post-pandemic marketplace.

    Power Skills that Lead to Exceptional Performance

    Power Skills that Lead to Exceptional Performance

    $34.99

    This book is for leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and all employees who desire to take their performance to a higher level.

    Do you have the Power Skills needed to achieve the level of success you desire? Power Skills are a top asset in today’s ever-changing workplace. This book reveals Power Skills that promote accountability and how to think and act effectively for success.

    But this book does far more. It describes Power Skills that, if taught and nurtured to all employees of an organization or company, will result in the organization continuously and holistically evolving. Adopting these Power Skills can lead to exceptional performance both for individuals and for their organizations.

    Power Skills discussed include:

    • break the rules occasionally,
    • never avoid necessary confrontation,
    • think for yourself,
    • manage daily to your top three priorities,
    • routinely practice boldness and courage,
    • decide who you chose to be,
    • be a good actor,
    • and so much more.

    I welcome you to come along for a potentially transformative and game-changing ride in your personal pursuit of the adventure called life.