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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...

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...

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.

Tired of being the employee, manager, CEO, marketer, and customer support of your own business all at once? Let me tell you something straight up: you do not need a team, a big budget, or a computer science degree to build a business that practically runs itself. You just need the right playbook. From the author of The Future of Intelligent Automation and one of the voices who predicted this AI era before most people even knew what a language model was, comes the most practical, honest, and actionable guide to agentic AI ever written for the one-person business owner. The Agentic AI ...

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to be successful without a clear...

Are you trapped in the business you built? You started your company seeking freedom and success, but now you're working longer hours than any employee. Vacations get interrupted by "emergencies." Your phone never stops. The business that was supposed to create freedom has become your prison. It doesn't have to be this way. Imagine your business running smoothly without your constant involvement. Picture checking metrics occasionally instead of putting out fires daily. Envision having time for family, travel, or new ventures while your company continues generating profits. This isn't a ...

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.

Modern security operations are at a breaking point. Analysts drown in alerts, dwell time keeps stretching, and adversaries weaponize automation faster than human teams can respond. Traditional SOCs built on a single SIEM dashboard and a tier-one ticket queue cannot keep pace with ransomware, supply-chain compromise, identity-based intrusion, and AI-driven attack campaigns that probe defenses around the clock. Defenders are asked to do more with less, while regulators, boards, and customers demand evidence that the program actually works. This handbook delivers a complete blueprint for the ...

The 2026 AI Agent Revolution is here — and you don’t need to know how to code. Just two years ago, building intelligent automations meant hiring expensive developers. Today, any small business owner, freelancer, or solopreneur can build AI agents that handle email, content, sales, support, and operations — in under 30 minutes, with zero coding. This is the 2026 Edition of the practical no-code guide written for non-technical people who want real results. What you’ll build: An intelligent email triage system that sorts, drafts replies, and archives junk A Content Creation Machine ...

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 ...

Most people don’t fail to build a community because they lack knowledge. They fail because they try to build excitement instead of behavior. Excitement spikes… then fades. Behavior repeats… and repetition becomes income. This book is not about getting attention. It’s about creating a place people return to — automatically. You don’t need a massive audience. You don’t need constant content. You don’t need daily motivation. You need a system that removes decision-making and replaces it with rhythm. That is what the Infinite Skool Engine is designed to do. Inside these pages ...

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...

You didn’t start a business to become its most overworked employee. Yet here you are, buried in emails, chasing follow-ups, juggling systems, and wondering when “freedom” quietly slipped out the back door. Agent AI for Entrepreneurs is for business owners who are done doing everything themselves and are ready for a smarter, calmer way to grow. In this engaging, refreshingly human guide, entrepreneur and coach Roger Best cuts through the hype and explains what agentic AI really is, and why it may be the most important business shift you’ll make this decade. No jargon. No techno wizardry.

Every month your competitors stay manual, your structural advantage compounds. Most businesses are still adopting AI the way the market said to start two years ago—pick one process, automate it, see what happens. That advice was correct then. It is now the constraint. The businesses pulling ahead aren't the ones with more tools. They're the ones rebuilding the operating model underneath the tools — and the gap between them and everyone else is where the competitive moat of the next decade is forming right now.

"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

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...

Running a business should be exciting and rewarding, not a burden. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs fall into the daily grind of stamping out fires and doing everything themselves because they’ve unknowingly become their own best employee and the bottleneck of their business. Do questions, decisions, and problems always funnel their way back to you? Has your business become a revolving door for employees or the permanent residence for under-performers? Are you tired of burning the candle at both ends and not living life on your terms?

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....

Don’t let your company run off the rails. If your organization is beset by competing deadlines, inexpert strategies, and missed milestones, it’s time to invest in your own business conductor: A program management office. In this essential field guide to building, staffing, and running a top-notch PMO, software industry executive and program management specialist Paula Dieli shares essential tools, insights, and real-life case studies from major companies such as Zendesk, Adobe, and Macromedia.

Fundraising isn’t just about raising money—it’s about creating campaigns that truly make a difference. Take inspiration from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised over $220 million and helped develop a new treatment for ALS. That’s the power of effective fundraising.