Whether in the business or political arena, individuals who capture attention and inspire action are often experts in crafting and delivering their message. This book offers valuable insights, interviews, stories, and techniques that can benefit business professionals at every level of an organization. In a world where audiences are inundated with six-second sound bites and PowerPoint presentations, mastering the art of persuasion is more important than ever. Drawing on interviews and profiles of some of today's most successful CEOs and leaders, this book uncovers the secrets behind their electrifying presentations and shows how they are able to connect with even the toughest audiences. It offers practical tips and strategies that can help anyone develop their communication skills and become a more effective and influential speaker. Whether you're preparing for a big presentation or looking to enhance your everyday communication, this book is an essential resource for mastering the art of delivering a powerful message.

401 Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask poses the hundreds of questions any entrepreneur should ask, the answers to which will essentially create an operational X-ray of your business operation. After posing a question, Silvester explains its importance to the overall health of your company, discusses the business consequences of a negative answer, then instructs you on how to correct or avoid the unwanted consequences. You Will learn the importance of asking questions such as - Do you have a written statement of your company's mission or purpose? How do you predict future developments in your industry and have you planned for technological changes in your business? How do you stay on top of cash flow? Do you have someone ready to take your place in case of an emergency?

These are the men who strived to succeed which in turn made the nation successful. It must be considered an honour to talk about such great personalities who worked every minute to ensure that the country doesn't really have to be dependent on foreign countries. Young enterpreneurs today are following those great footsteps to ensure that India as a developing country, has complete independence in terms of entrepreneurship. Needless to say, they have been quite very successful. Indian entrepreneurs are renowned across the world and the business firms of India are breaking several new boundaries abroad. They are creating waves across the world.

Once a year, the managers of public companies have to fling open the doors and let the owners in -- whether they want to or not. A Weekend with Warren Buffett and Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures is a humorous, informative business-related travelogue that looks at how companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia treat their investors during the brief period when the welcome mat is out. It's an Average Joe Investor's search for shareholder democracy and an occasional free lunch. Companies featured include Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Dow Jones, Dupont, eBay, Gannett, Google, Hawaiian Electric, Hershey, MGM Grand, Microsoft, Otter Tail, Playboy, Starbucks, Tootsie Roll, Wal-Mart and Walt Disney, among others.

Nominee for Best Nonfiction (2018) James Clear thinks that you can change your life by doing hundreds of small things a day. The main thing is to pick up small habits. In this groundbreaking book, Clears shows exactly how these tiny changes can lead to such life-changing results. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of habit stacking, the unexpected power of the two-minute rule, or the trick to getting into the Goldilocks zone) and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. Along the way, he shares inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of small habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy.

In his book, "Being Digital," Nicholas Negroponte offers a comprehensive overview of the digital age we are living in and the ways in which computer technology and telecommunications will continue to shape and enhance our lives. As the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a columnist for Wired Magazine, Negroponte is well-positioned to describe the various ways in which digital technology will transform the workplace, households, and educational institutions. Negroponte argues that this revolution will not only change the way we live and think but also the way we interact with one another and with technology. He believes that the development of truly global systems for delivering multimedia and other forms of digitally based information will be essential to the success of this new era. Negroponte characterizes this development as a battle between atoms, the components of books and other physical resources, and bits, the basic building blocks of information. He predicts that being digital will become a way of life that impacts every aspect of our existence. Ultimately, Negroponte's book is a guide to the present state of our rapidly changing digital age, and a map for the future. He foresees both the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead, and he encourages us to embrace this new era with open minds and a willingness to adapt to the changes that are sure to come.

When it comes to business growth, bigger is not always better. The key to achieving real growth is to change the way we think about it. It's about your organization reaching its greatest potential, not maximum size. Based on ten years of research and exclusive interviews by the author, Bigger Isn't Always Better identifies seven key habits of mind that lead to real growth and shows through powerful examples, how they have been applied successfully around the world.

One of the world's richest people today, Bill Gates was so certain about setting up Microsoft as a young man that he decided to drop out of Harvard University to pursue his dreams, and the rest is history. Gates channelled his inherent rebellious streak into establishing a business empire. His adaptability and foresight in the constantly evolving world of technology has enabled him to grow his company and focus on philanthropic work.

This is not a book about charismatic, visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about simply having a corporate vision. This book is about something much more important, lasting and essential. This is a book about visionary companies.' Based on a six-year research project at the Stanford College Graduate School of Business, million-time bestselling author, speaker, and consultant on business leadership, sustainability, and growth Jim Collins and organizational theorist Jerry Porras studied eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies, comparing each company directly to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their beginnings to the present day-as startups, as mid-sized companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked, "What sets the truly exceptional companies apart from other companies? Built to Last is the result of that research: filled with hundreds of concrete examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last offers a masterful blueprint for building organizations that will succeed well into the twenty-first century and beyond.

The definitive little guide to understanding and using your ultimate communication hack. Storytelling has become a buzzword in marketing, but do stories work in other areas of business? And if so, how? Meaning and significance are essential to every human endeavour, and therefore vital to every business leader. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and using examples from everyday life, Guptara shows that storytelling is a brain hack and how to "hack" seven key areas of communication, from small talk to self-development to winning people over to a vision, idea, or strategy.

Growing a business you can sell, putting a deal together to buy another company or taking on outside capital to foster growth all require a certain know how in terms of language, preparation and process. Rarely do business owners use the resources and strategies that have been tried and tested by major companies and brands. Instead most business owners choose to bootstrap, hope their company can keep up by growing organically and forge ahead without thinking about how to make their single biggest asset - their company - worth as much as possible. In Capitalize On Your Success, investment banker Julie Garella demystifies Wall Street and the capital markets offering straightforward advice and answers in place of incomprehensible business jargon and lofty financial theories. With her decades of experience working with closely held companies, Garella creates a unique, definitive guide for all business owners looking for step by step guidance and clearly focused strategies. Her accessible approach shows business owners how to grow a business they can sell, realize the importance of capital and why debt is not a dirty word, understand what investors look for when backing a company, develop long term financial strategies that create value, discover the intangible extras in a deal - what makes a company worth more, know what needs to be in place beforehand to make a deal happen. An indispensible resource, Capitalize On Your Success takes the key concepts of funding, growing and selling a company and distills them into practical knowledge every business owner can use.

Covers Fundamentals to Advance topics like OOPS, Exceptions, Data Structures, Files, Threads, Networking, GUI, DB Connectivity and Data Science. This book covers almost all the concepts of Python in an easy and simple language. The reader starts at the basic level and goes up to the higher levels as he/she gains knowledge of the concepts. The book first explains the basic concepts of Python such as datatypes, variables, loops, etc. and then discusses arrays, strings, functions lists, tuples, dictionaries, stacks, linked lists, queues, etc. This book explains each and every concept with the help of a running program and also describes the logic behind the program. As this book contains hundreds of programs, it can be used by students to solve programs generally asked in their theory and lab examinations as part of their courses like BCA, MCA, BE and B Tech. Apart from this, software professionals can also use this book as a reference to enhance the programming skills or revise the concepts.

Set of 10 books from Jaico Young Readers Series - Creative Companies The Story of Apple The Story of Nike The Story of Microsoft The Story of Twitter The Story of Amazon.com The Story of Facebook The Story of McDonalds The Story of Coca-Cola The Story of Google The Story of Disney

In July, 1995, the American e-commerce pioneer, Bezos invited about 300 friends to beta test a website he had developed. It was named Amazon.com, after the South American river. The early success of Amazon.com was meteoric. With no press promotion, the company sold thousands of books across the United States and 45 other countries within 30 days! Discover how this book will further delve into the growth of the company, role of the leaders, and products of Amazon.com – an undisputed giant in the e-commerce market.

Apple, the company that created a market by inventing iPod, iPad, and iPhone among several other technological miracles, started only as a project shared by two determined boys in their computer club! When Steve Wozniak designed a computer in 1976, his friend Steve Jobs instantly knew its potential and saw its success in a mass market. And when they found their first customer at their local hobby club meeting, the Apple Computer was born. The rest is history. Their company transformed the computer industry in the following years of its inception. The Story of Apple presents the story of the origins, leaders, growth, and the wonderful products of Apple that have revolutionized the way we work, communicate, or even listen to our music. It explores how this prodigious company functions and inspires budding entrepreneurs and businessmen of tomorrow.

Did you know the world s most celebrated soft drink was concocted by a pharmacist while trying to create a cure for headaches? Today, more than one billion Coca-Cola products are being consumed every day around the globe. Nicknamed Coke, a company that churns out a revenue of USD 24 billion a year had a rather humble beginning. When local pharmacist John Pemberton brewed a mix of fruit syrup, extracts from cola nut, cocoa leaf and several other ingredients to create a tonic, little did he know he was creating a brand which would later become synonymous with having a good time frothing with fun and frolic. The Story of Coca-Cola is the chronicler of a journey that started in 1886 at the back of a shop in Atlanta, Georgia, to become the global leader in the beverage industry; through their shares of wars, scandals, ups and downs. It is the story of a survivor, a world leader.

Walt Disney had a magic touch that no one could reproduce or imitate; it made the world of movies an enchanted empire. The Story of Disney is about two brothers and their animated dreams that went on to become a billion-dollar enterprise. From movies to theme parks, the Disney brothers Walt and Roy always tried to give their audience something new; something memorable; something big. Walt in particular was a man of innovation and is credited with many firsts in the motion picture industry first-ever cartoon with sound, first colour cartoon, the animated feature film to list but a few. Originally a film studio, the Walt Disney company is now involved in nearly every aspect of the entertainment world. This book is a roller-coaster ride through the legacy of the creator of many a dear cartoon and animated character of our times.

Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout genius with an extraordinary vision of connecting the world takes the centre stage in this book. His simple, but a brilliantly executed idea of bringing his fellow Harvard friends onto one online platform, has evolved into a billion dollar company with an unbelievable count of almost 1.5 billion users as of today. It is a tale that has taken its place in the annals of history. This title reveals several layers of Facebook as a company – its incredible growth over the years to what it is today. It tries to explain in detail how various factors contributed to its remarkable success.