When sales pros are consistently failing to achieve their annual sales targets-and more than 50% regularly do-it is the Sales Manager that executives look to for solutions. While the sales pros must own their own success or failure, it is the Sales Manager who must own the success or failure of the entire team. Managers must build an effective team as well as provide the right support, training, tools, and systems to help their sales pros meet both their individual sales targets a...

How a female investigative journalist brought down the world’s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) confronted the company known simply...

Named Best Business Book by the New England Book Festival 2024!MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF SALES PROS REGULARLY FAIL TO ACHIEVE THEIR ANNUAL SALES TARGETS.Shocking, right?But it doesn't have to be this way. Sales is no longer a simple linear process, and thus professionals in the industry-andthose who hope to enter the industry-require new skills to deal with the profound changes in the digital marketplace.Filled with the type of tips and techniques that...

When sales pros are consistently failing to achieve their annual sales targets-and more than 50% regularly do-it is the Sales Manager that executives look to for solutions. While the sales pros must own their own success or failure, it is the Sales Manager who must own the success or failure of the entire team. Managers must build an effective team as well as provide the right support, training, tools, and systems to help their sales pros meet both their individual sales targets and the te...

MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF SALES PROS REGULARLY FAIL TO ACHIEVE THEIR ANNUAL SALES TARGETS.Shocking, right?But it doesn’t have to be this way. Sales is no longer a simple linear process, and thus professionals in the industry—andthose who hope to enter the industry—require new skills to deal with the profound changes in the digital marketplace.Filled with the type of tips and techniques that only a long, successful career in sales could otherwise gain you, this...

For most of human history, life has been nasty, brutish, and short. Even the most romanticized and glorified ages—the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Ancient Athens—were still cauldrons of war, disease, poverty, and grueling labor. Of course, people expect epochs from the distant past to be somewhat cruel and barbaric, but what historians consider the late modern era was no less merciless on its population. The modern nineteenth century is associated with scientific advancement and the ris...

Barbie stars as Lumina, a mermaid who dreams of being a princess. Lumina and her best friend Kuda, a pink seahorse, embark on an adventure to a majestic mer-kingdom. There Lumina discovers that her magical pearl powers are the key to unlocking her true destiny and ultimately saving the kingdom.

At the dawn of civilization, a wolf dog befriends an old hunter and revives his alpha powers among his human tribe. Together with the animal’s pack, they discover a new way of life—a shared odyssey of survival and trust that grows into the most successful partnership the Earth has ever known, changing dogs and humans forever.The pack led by Oohma encounters the first humans they have ever seen—Ish the old hunter, Lut the gifted young medicine woman and Hun the brutal tribe leader wh...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? This ancient philosophical question is not typically associated with Napoleon's Coronation Day. But perhaps it should be. With the twenty-first century now firmly underway, the meaning, purpose, and raison d'être for life has been repeatedly, violently, relentlessly undermined from all sides. It is said today, quite routinely, that our universe has been around for 13 billion years and that, indeed, the sun is just one o...