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Bloomsbury presents Buy, Run, Build: A guide to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition by Charles Skinner, read by Tom Alexander. ‘This book is fun to read, exciting to apply, and profitable to implement.’ John Kay, economist Buying an established company – rather than creating a start-up...

"If you've ever worried about running out of things to say, this is the only conversation guide you'll ever need." Have you ever stood in silence trying to think of something interesting to say? Do you overthink every conversation, replay awkward moments in your head, or wish you could talk to anyone with confidence? You're not alone. The truth is that great conversationalists aren't born with some magical gift. They simply understand a few principles that most people never learn. Never Run Out of Things to Say is far more than a collection of conversation starters. It is a complete social ...

You know HVAC. You don't know how to stop being its hostage. You're booked solid, your trucks never stop moving, and somehow the bank account never reflects how hard you're working. You're the best technician in your company — which is exactly the problem. Every callback, every quote, every decision still runs through you, and the day you take off is the day everything quietly falls apart. PROFIT PER CALL is the practical, no-fluff playbook for HVAC contractors who are done trading their health for revenue that never seems to stick. Written by a retired licensed mechanical engineer with ...

For the Long Run gives you a personalised system for protecting your energy, resilience and recovery, one habit at a time. Jessica Spendlove has spent 15 years inside elite sport, military and corporate environments. For the Long Run is built around five daily rhythms (nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep and connection) and the practical question of how they operate under real-life pressure. It's time to stop feeling exhausted, to stop cycling through burnout and reset, and instead design an operating system that actually works for you.

Every property manager knows the 11:47 call. Water coming through a ceiling. A scared tenant. A nervous owner you can't reach. A plumber to find at midnight, and money to spend that someone has to approve. You're standing in the dark, the human shock absorber between every owner and every tenant and every broken thing. You didn't get into this to be on call twenty-four hours a day. This is a practical playbook for owners of small residential property management companies — single-family and small multifamily, roughly 50 to 500 doors — who want to use AI where it actually helps, and ...

Every HVAC owner knows the first 97-degree Saturday. Thirty-one voicemails before 7 a.m. Every caller says "no air," and every one of them is right that it's an emergency. A tech texts in sick — maybe sick, maybe interviewing with the shop that's been poaching. And somewhere in that phone, a $12,000 replacement quote is going cold, because the season that buries you in $189 service calls is the same season you lose the five-figure installs. Feast or famine, twice a year, every year. Either the season runs you, or you run the season. This is a practical playbook for owners of residential ...

This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business.

There is a consulting firm in Austin that billed $2.3 million last year. It has one employee. There is a content agency in London that produces strategy for eleven clients simultaneously. It has one employee. A financial advisory practice in Singapore manages portfolios for forty-three families. It has one employee. These aren't outliers. They're the leading edge of a structural shift in what one person can build. The Agentic Entrepreneur is the methodology for building businesses that operate at enterprise scale with a team of one. Not by working harder or longer, but by designing AI agent...

Every cleaning company owner knows the 5:44 Monday morning. Two crews didn't show. Three sites are open. And you're driving over with a mop bucket in the back seat, texting a property manager an apology before he unlocks the door. You didn't start the business to run it this way. You started it because you were good at the work — and now you barely have time to touch it. This is a practical playbook for owners of small cleaning companies — commercial, residential, or specialty, with 1 to 15 cleaners — who want to use AI where it actually helps, and never where it shouldn't. Thirteen ...

You are still doing by hand what AI automation for small business was built to replace. Every hour spent on repetitive tasks is an hour stolen from the work that actually grows revenue. Meanwhile, other small business owners are already turning to AI automation to work fewer hours, not more. The gap between the two is compounding daily. Claude AI for Business Automation gives you the exact playbook for turning scattered manual tasks into reliable, self-running systems. You will use plain English instructions and the tools already built into Claude for real no-code automation. No technical ...

Are you building a business that can run without you, or have you accidentally built one that depends on you for everything? Most founders do not set out to become the bottleneck. It happens slowly. You make every decision because you care. You stay involved in every detail because letting go feels risky. You protect old customers, outdated products, and underperforming employees because they feel personal. Then one day, you realize the business you built cannot function without you.

"Monsters don’t run. They build their own pack." Emery spent his whole life running from monsters. Then he met Cassian — all sharp teeth, rough hands, and dangerous loyalty. And Theo — all stubborn mouth, soft heart, and zero self-preservation. Now he’s not running anymore

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. My name is Hank Steelman. I failed at hot shot the first time I tried it. Fifteen years in the oilfield, then I filed for my own authority on a Tuesday, gave notice on Wednesday, and was independent by Friday. Three months later I was back under the...

I used to work 60-hour weeks. Now I work 20. My revenue tripled. The difference? I stopped doing tasks and started building workflows. THE AUTOMATION REVOLUTION IS HERE Research shows automation delivers extraordinary results: • 76% see positive ROI within 1 year (44% within 6 months) • 451% increase in qualified leads • 40% faster process completion • 95% reduction in repetitive tasks • 77% time savings on automated workflows The Intelligent Process Automation market is exploding: $16B → $52B by 2030. Companies using Make.com automated 331 years of manual work in a single year....

Most entrepreneurs start with freedom in mind but end up trapped by their own workload. You wake up already stretched thin—emails waiting, invoices stacking, clients expecting miracles. The dream that once drove you now drains you. You’ve been told to scale by hiring and delegating. Yet deep down, you know adding people won’t fix the overwhelm—it only multiplies it. There’s another path.

Build Systems Your Team Can Run Without You is a practical blueprint for turning chaotic processes into repeatable, scalable workflows that keep delivering value even when leadership isn’t in the room. No more bottlenecks, no more firefighting—just clear rules, trusted playbooks, and a culture that can sustain itself. This book walks you through the exact mechanisms that let teams operate with autonomy defining measurable outcomes, designing SOP playbooks, and translating goals into rules that guide daily decisions. You’ll learn how to establish documentation standards that travel ...

You built your business for freedom. So why does success feel so heavy? If you are answering emails at night, solving problems on weekends, taking calls on vacation, and making decisions no one else seems able to own, you are not alone. Many entrepreneurs do not burn out because their business is failing. They burn out because the business is working, growing, and quietly becoming too dependent on them. Your team needs you. Your customers need you. Your business needs you. But your family needs you too. Your health needs you. Your life needs you.

Build runs that feel different for meaningful reasons Replayability is more than shuffling rooms and rewards. It comes from giving players clear choices, understandable risks, compelling builds, and enough control to adapt when a run takes an unexpected turn. This practical guide presents a complete framework for designing roguelikes, roguelites, and hybrid games around those principles. From the first room to the final boss, you will learn how to shape a satisfying run loop, define failure and completion conditions, and connect moment-to-moment decisions with long-term progression. The ...

Most professionals using AI are still doing it the hard way. They prompt. They wait. They copy the output somewhere useful. They trigger the next step manually. They repeat the same sequence tomorrow. AI has made the work better, but it hasn't made it lighter. That's the gap this book closes. Your First AI Agent is about the shift from AI-as-assistant to AI-as-workflow. Not the version that lives in developer documentation, but the version available right now in tools most professionals are already paying for, without writing a single line of code. Four workflow types that genuinely deliver...

Leaders on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others doing the work. In fact, while most entry level positions execute work, senior leaders lead, organize, and build teams. This book is about building remarkable teams that build remarkable projects. To do this, you must have three key things: a multiplier leader, a strong team, and a strenuous performance target, goal, or milestone. With these three in place, any team can win! This book will help you become the team builder you were designed to be....