Small Business Future

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

What if you created a business that provided amazing client experiences and set a new standard for what it’s like to work with a law firm? What if you slept great at night while traveling abroad for months at a time, knowing your team could run things without you with the help of thoughtful systems and optimized technology? Yes! It’s all possible. The Small Firm Roadmap Revisited will show you how to build something different—a law firm business that is people-centered, effectively managed, and ultimately more valuable.

People Operations explains how leaders at small- and medium-sized businesses can stop spending time on HR administration - "paperwork" - and start focusing on the "peoplework" that truly fuels employee growth and productivity. Authors Jay Fulcher, Kevin Marasco, and Tracy Cote provide listeners with a playbook for creating a massive competitive advantage by eliminating antiquated approaches to HR. The book takes a look at how work has changed and what companies need to do about it, and the new approach they must take to processes, systems, and best practices. 

Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. In The $100 Startup, he tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a finger. Instant communication would bring us together. Technological convenience would give us more time to focus on what really mattered. When the pandemic hit, that future transformed into the present, almost overnight. And the reviews aren't great.

Delivering the Digital Restaurant explores the massive disruption facing restaurants through firsthand accounts of food industry veterans and start-up entrepreneurs innovating the future of food. Combining sociological observations, rich industry data, and insider knowledge, Delivering paints a picture of how food is evolving and how you as a leader, owner, or operator can successfully innovate and meet the new consumer demands to capitalize on the opportunities ahead.

Return to Decize, where conflict between the new foundry and the workers is brewing into rebellion. Join Haywood Vale as he struggles to feed a desperate populace with his garden magic. Now a full Gardener six years after his devastating conflict with the blood mage he might be the only one who can save the city.  As a master of Baari's twisting and a dabbler in the devoured god, Bileam, he must make a choice between standing up for the people of Decize or hiding in his gardens.  When Haywood makes a desperate attempt to save lives he is swept into a conflict that might topple the city, ...

As the world moves from the industrial era to the digital age, power is shifting and fragmenting. Power is no longer about might and ownership; power in a digital world is about access. Existing businesses need to understand this shift and position themselves to survive and thrive in an environment where entrepreneurs and start-ups enabled by access to technology are genuine threats.

Stop giving away your hard-earned money to taxes, fees, loss, and the unknown. This book will help you overcome the self-defeating conditioning of your upbringing and past, will increase your money mindset to a wealth mind-set, and shares methods of investing and saving that actually work. You will be motivated to break free from the herd mentality and forge your own path – a much easier and enjoyable path to an even better future. You will learn the best-proven strategies that Steve has collected during his lifetime as a consultant and as The Financial Engineer that actually work.

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root—one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it the Mesh and reveals why it will dominate the future of business.

At some point, every early-stage start-up needs to stop being a secret and start telling people. As your engineering and development work begins to take shape, building fast attention and strong demand become essential—and just buying ads won't be enough. Matthews provides frameworks, examples, and interviews that reinforce the book’s central thesis: Marketing is a discipline, not just an activity. The book offers practical, jargon-free ideas that seamlessly blend marketing fundamentals with the functional realities of fast-paced, growth-focused start-ups.

DeFi witnessed a lot of amazing growth in its applications in the last year. Fortunately, there are more opportunities for development for the system in the coming years. Many countries have thrown their weight behind the use of cryptocurrency, and this can only mean that the traditional finance system would still be replaced in not time. This book gives listeners a vision of the future of finance and simplify it in a way everyone can understand. The world of finance will be transformed over the next decade.

Regardless of the nature, structure, and position of your business, one of the first things you will like to consider is finding the easiest, cheapest, and fastest way to grow and steadily expand the network of your influence and customer base. The truth is, there are many marketing, income generation, and business promotion options out there, but all these have been taken over by significant technological breakthroughs of the 21st century. It is called social media marketing and other internet-based business platforms.

Is it possible to predict your financial future? Most business owners spend more time focused on the weather forecast than the status and forecast of their business. The truth is that the weather changes very quickly and is uncontrollable, but our business forecast is much more in our control. What if you could see into the future of your business? What if you had less stress, chaos, and uncertainty, and more influence over where you are going financially?

The complete guide that will provide you with proven tips and tricks to help you make even more money in your dropshipping venture, this book will teach you advanced dropshipping strategies, the best niche marketing strategies, how to get the best deal from suppliers, how to pick the right channels to sell, the importance of competing with other companies, and much more.

Can you be a leader that people will follow? The most successful leaders and influencers are not only committed to making the world a better place, but they have the character and integrity to lead others to do the same. People Follow People is a practical guide for embracing your true character and values to create an authentic, long-lasting connection with your audience, colleagues, and customers. Best-selling author and international speaker Sam Cawthorn reveals the 12 characteristics you need to become an outstanding leader who attracts a loyal following, attains longevity to achieve objectives, and leaves a revered legacy.

This is an audio summary of Zero to One, a book containing hard-hitting set of standards for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and thought-leaders to carefully consider when building the “next big thing” of the future.

If you think that going out on your own and being self-employed is the riskier option in life, think again. Recent events and the ever-changing business environment are causing us to reevaluate the employer/employee relationship and how we move forward as an economy. The Free Agent Mindset is about finding your place in this new work environment and positioning yourself as an independent worker. It will make you look at your career differently by laying out the future of work and allowing you to see options that you may not have seen before. 

Your time, money, creativity, purpose, intention, inaction, and action are the primary assets with the power to help, hinder, or hijack your present and future financial success. Where and when the chips fall depends on whether they're blindly squandered reactively or proactively managed with foresight. With Flowcasting™, you'll possess the seer-like ability of the uncommon but lucky few to perceive the truth behind your money movements over time.