Showing results by publisher "Simply Media" in Business & Careers

Describes how to pivot in order to get what you want in your personal and work life. Analyzes how to do it, how others have done it, how to turn the proverbial chessboard around to learn from others including a Harvard Business Press case study in hundreds of business schools and a student favorite. Discusses how many great successes pride themselves in pivoting when new trends and facts arise such as Socrates, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sam Walton, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett.

How to have a better life by finishing things at work and in your personal life for success, happiness, personal satisfaction, and tranquility.

"Meetings, Events & Presentations" describes the purpose of them: to sell or buy-in. Other types should use other forms of communication to save time and money, as well as expedite the process. This title explores the ins and outs of each type of sales or buy-in opportunity your company and you have, as well as specific advice and tips of how to make this work best for your organization and yourself.

An introductory guide to the subject to get you started. Rob has great insights but doesn't pretend to know it all and acknowledges how the field is growing. Provides lots of practical tips to get started right away to expand your work and personal contacts.

Here is the story of Deaver Brown and Simply Magazine facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company. Created by serial entrepreneur Deaver Brown, this audio contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

Collections presents the approach that gets the most collection dollars and has the highest percentage ability to keep your late customers and get them out of the bad pay habit. Collections is about selling companies and people to pay you. Have the end in mind: they have the money; your job is to get them to send their money to you. A must listen for all business people involved in finance and collections.

> First Job Lessons emerged from a LinkedIn conversation with over 2,200 comments, one of the most popular ever on the site. People contributed their thoughts about first-job lessons and hiring managers commented on those. Interestingly, hiring managers found that people’s comments were right on point, but they did not find that employees walked that talk. In fact, they thought people required more of themselves than they had to do.

Simplify your life so you can focus on things truly important to you. In other words, dispense with the trivial to concentrate on the important. If you do one thing at a time you can get almost everything done in a day. If you multitask, you wind up behind and frustrated. Busy & Stressed will help you find ways to make life better through simplification and focus.

Eight best-selling life skills titles: Handling Difficult People, Organize Yourself for a Better Life, Good Manners Is Making Other People Feel Better, Persuade: 54 Ways to Do So, People: 10 Habits to Influence Them, Personal Finance & Investing, Talking Cooking, and Conflict Resolution: Let It Be as You Say.

This audiobook is a toolkit for making the best impression immediately in a new job for promotions, respect, and money. It includes numerous tips and stories to help you become the go-to, promoted, better-paid person. It also includes Robert Half's, the founder of the largest employment agency of his time, tips on the best hiring practices, too. A must listen for all job candidates.

Describes how to choose the career that is right for your temperament and talents as well as avoiding one that is wrong for you by creating a life plan as a work in process. How to learn more about yourself to do this through rules, questions, and open mindedness in seeking advice from others and deciding for yourself. 

The story of Deaver Brown & Cross River facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company created by Deaver Brown & Alex Goodwin. Contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

The focus here is entirely on the employee who is trying to keep his or her job in the face of downsizing, productivity gains, and outsourcing. It includes Ten Rules to keep your job when others lose theirs. This is a realistic, hard hitting title to help employees protect their incomes and livelihood. An eye opener.

The author emphasizes that the Board of Directors should start every meeting discussing the customers. What are they thinking? How is our franchise doing? What are the metrics of repeat business? Trial and similar questions. Why? Because financials are reasonably straightforward, most Board members are good at understanding them without conversation, and customers are the foundation of every organization.

> Being the Boss starts and ends with doing the work. The role models should be Jack Welch, ex-CEO of GE; Steve Jobs at Apple; and Jeff Bezos at Amazon. They get out in front of the work and lead the charge. Only then do they assess their talent to see who to enlist to help them. This audiobook emphasizes that, even if you get the boss job because you get along with people, have leadership skills, or network well, the key is doing the work - getting the job done.

This audiobook focuses first on the strategic issues concerning your organization with regard to its development and what tactics are most productive regarding your office space (including home offices as well). The author points out that most organizations just "get an office" without thinking through their requirements for the people who will populate that office. Much management and employee effectiveness is lost in this way; it is also a huge waste of money and resources....

Paulette Ensign came up with 110 ideas and tips; Simply added seven more plus added thoughts to many of her ideas. These tips include both large and small ways to increase your effectiveness, efficiency, and promotability. They dovetail nicely with other Simply titles, such as Sell Anything, Finance Anything, and Negotiate Anything—all meant to strengthen your career, make you more money, and get you promoted.