Business Systems Design

This book guides listeners through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from lead designers at Shopify, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

The system design interview is one of the hardest challenges you'll face in the software engineering hiring process. This practical book gives you the insights, the skills, and the hands-on practice you need to ace the toughest system design interview questions and land the job and salary you want.

Your First AI Blueprint cuts through the chaos and overwhelm. It gives you a simple, beginner-friendly guide to understanding AI, talking to it effectively, and building real systems that save time, reduce stress, and boost your value at work — exactly the roadmap people wish they had when they first started. You don’t need to be technical. You don’t need coding. You don’t need years of experience. You just need a clear pathway, one that shows you exactly how to think, communicate, and build with AI in a way that feels natural and immediately useful.

Selling to homeowners is different - and challenging. To succeed in this environment, you need the Sandler Selling System. Selling to Homeowners the Sandler Way shows how the Sandler Selling System delivers career-changing results for salespeople who close deals in the buyer's personal, private domestic space. This kind of selling applies to dozens of industries, from remodeling to insurance.

Automate. Innovate. Build Agentic Workflow with n8n. Have you ever wished your digital tools could work for you instead of making you work harder? 🔹 With this “n8n Beginner’s Book: Build Your Own AI Agents and Automate Everything”, you’ll learn how to transform your ideas into intelligent workflows that think, react, and save you hours every day - without writing a single line of code. This book is your step-by-step companion to mastering n8n, the open-source automation platform trusted by creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Written in a friendly, beginner-first tone,...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The...

Most business books focus on personalities. This one focuses on the strategy beneath them. Across industries, eras, and economic cycles, a small group of individuals and organizations consistently outperform their peers. They build companies that endure, capital that compounds, and systems that grow stronger with time. Their success is often attributed to intelligence, luck, or relentless effort. In reality, something deeper is at work. They design reality. How Winners Design Reality breaks down the shared strategic architecture behind enduring success and distills it into seven ...

Find the best solutions to your problems. Become a better decision maker. We are surrounded by systems. Businesses, schools, families, the economy, our country are all systems. The more you understand how they work, what problems do they face and how can you improve your position in them, the happier, and more stress-free your life will be. Find strategic solutions considering every aspect of your problem. Apply systems thinking to solve work, business, and relationship problems. Learn to see through the hidden pathways of contemporary politics, economics, and education changes.

This book is your hands-on guide to understanding, designing, and deploying AI agents that do more than chat — they act. Whether you're a beginner or a technical professional, you'll explore how intelligent agents are automating real-world tasks across industries like customer support, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, education, and software development. Inside, you'll learn: What AI agents are and how they work Key tools like LangChain, Flowise, and Make.com Real use cases with workflows, tools, and diagrams How to build agents with or without code What’s coming next in autonomous ...

Designed to Thrive: A Pathway to Building Resilient Systems is a compelling guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers looking to future-proof their organizations in an era defined by complexity and disruption. Blending decades of hands-on experience in public sector governance, manufacturing, and consulting, Dr. Alison Foster explores the essential principles of systems and systems thinking, and their practical applications in the real world.

Every business starts with an idea, but not every idea becomes a machine that produces wealth without constant oversight. The difference lies in the design of the business model. In a world where technology, automation, and leverage have compressed timelines and multiplied opportunities, the entrepreneurs who thrive are those who structure their ventures as self-sustaining engines. This book is not about hustling harder—it’s about designing smarter.

What if everything you've been told about building a successful digital business is wrong? While most entrepreneurs are grinding 60+ hours a week, burning out, and watching their businesses consume their lives, a select few are building million-dollar enterprises in just 10 hours per week. The difference isn't luck, talent, or timing—it's strategy. The Scaling Paradox That's Killing Your Freedom You started your digital business to gain freedom, but instead you've created a prison. Every "growth milestone" demands more of your time, not less. You're drowning in: Technical complexity that ...

Land that job! An in-depth overview of system design and how to prepare for your interview. When it comes to answering system design questions, many of us don't know where to start. We don't have the logic and knowledge to effectively communicate back a reply that impresses the interviewer. System Design Interview: A Strategic Guide for a Successful Interview is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step book that provides clarity on how to prepare and respond to questions in an interview.

This updated edition presents a structured and experience-based guide for business architects who work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation. Built on decades of architectural leadership, it offers refined tools, expanded perspectives, and practical insights tailored to the evolving demands of digital business in 2026. When the first edition was published in 2019, the goal was to offer a practical method for applying business architecture principles in real-world transformation initiatives. Since then, the landscape has undergone significant changes. Market ...

Kill It with Fire examines aging computer systems, the evolution of technology over time, and how organizations can modernize, maintain, and future-proof their current systems. “Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk...

In Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System, the cofounder and CEO of Triple Session, Matt Doyon, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to maximize sales success by encouraging collaboration between sales leadership and front-line sales personnel. In the book, you'll learn how to utilize a design-build model to create a fully integrated sales organization made up of six interlocking systems.

This book should be read and implemented by: Hairstylists wanting to grow their clientele. Salon or spa owners that need a constant flow of new clients. Everyone has an opinion on how to get new hair clients, and most of it is garbage that either costs too much money or wastes too much time. You don’t want to spend either. In this book, I am going to show you a simple and proven salon marketing strategy to get clients in your chair every day. It is the same salon marketing plan we have used in our salon over the last decade to go from zero clients to a multiple six-figure salon. In beauty...

Right now in America, there are about two million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: We’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar energy is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the home of the future.

Harnessing AI Agents for Business Success is your definitive guide to thriving in the age of intelligent innovation. As artificial intelligence transforms industries, workplaces, and markets, this insightful book by Marc Stanford equips entrepreneurs, developers, executives, and change-makers with the tools and vision needed to stay ahead. From the foundational pillars of AI and machine learning to real-world case studies and practical tutorials, Harnessing AI Agents explores how SMART agents can streamline operations, drive innovation, and unlock unprecedented business value. You’ll ...

In an era of invisible coordination and AI-enhanced movements, Hidden Networks reveals the breakthrough analytical tools you need to understand the systems shaping our world. From financial markets and healthcare systems to terrorist cells and online communities, modern networks operate with staggering complexity, resisting traditional analysis and obscuring their true objectives. Hidden Networks equips analysts, data scientists, strategists, and intelligence professionals with a revolutionary methodology to detect, decode, and influence these systems. Drawing on advancements in machine ...