Want to increase your profits by improving your supply chain? Discover how with The Power of Professional Procurement.Overwhelmed by supply chain issues, inconsistent quality, and pricing? With over thirty years of industry experience, acclaimed Business Person of the Year nominee Keith Wright guides you through transforming your procurement.This book is your roadmap to diagnosing procurement problems, setting priorities, and crafting a successful ...

Jimmy Tickle's Christmas is a heartwarming story that shows how one act of kindness can change the world.Little Jimmy Tickle is the sweetest, kindness little boy who has a lot to contend with.He is an extraordinary young boy, and whilst there was no-one to feel proud of him, as such, had there been someone, they would have been very proud indeed.His Christmas wish each year is for his father to come home. Then a late-night visitor arrives on Christmas Eve. Rather th...

This book reviews tourist motivations for making religious or spiritual journeys, and the management aspects related to them. It explores sacred journeys across both traditional religions such as Christianity and Islam, and newer forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities such as sport, music and food. Demonstrating to the reader the intrinsic elements and events that play a crucial role within the destination management process, it provides a timely re-assessment of...

***The Strategic Planning Workbook***is an invaluable, ready-to-use guide to creating and implementing a strategic plan. Refreshingly free of the usual grand business models peddled by consultants, this book provides the concepts needed to do the thinking, the tools to gather the necessary information, the techniques to make your decisions and the frameworks to translate conclusions into action plans. With a strong focus on matching the right kind of strategy to your business and the all-i...

Are you serious about building a winning business? Then read this book.Why do some businesses struggle or even go under, while others go through the roof? The answer is It's not what you're selling, it's how you're running the show.Whatever your business interest or level, 101 Secrets to Building A Winning Business is packed with tips on how to run your show and build it up. Andrew Griffiths suggests a range of actions that you can take to turn your bright idea int...

If you work in a small business, you have to know how to sell. Full stop. But selling as most people know it doesn’t work anymore. It’s relationships that count.Real selling is about understanding customers’ goals and helping them to buy, not topping off a template presentation with a pushy attitude. So how do you put relationships first and still get results?Sales Therapy smashes the age-old sales model with an effective new approach grounded in behaviour...

Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life based on your passions, ambitions and ultimate visions. By actively taking part in each of the exercises, you give yourself the best chance of succeeding as an entrepreneur, or the sufficient clarity to decide what other career opti...

Accountants are routinely awarded the accolade of ‘trusted advisor’. Yet many accountants, bogged down with compliance work, spend most of their time writing history instead of helping their clients make history. There has been much talk about how accountants should embrace value-based, business improvement services so that they can step up and truly embrace their trusted advisor status. Yet little has been written on how to go about doing that in a way that sits firmly within the accounta...

'A must-read for managing your career' Laurence Moor, Guardian Jobs 'If you want to be in charge of your own career-you must have this book' Daily Telegraph 'It's like having your own career coach with you every step of the way' Monster Bored with your job? Frustrated at work? Need a career change but don’t know what? Perhaps you’ve watched as colleagues have successfully fast-tracked or reinvented their careers and wished you could do the same. If you’re feeling dissatisfied or stuck care...

"Elevate Your Entrepreneurial Journey: Unleashing the Power of Startup Success" is an uplifting and thorough guidebook meant to assist budding entrepreneurs in confidently embarking on their startup journey and unlocking the full potential of their business enterprises. This book serves as a road map for readers to get the knowledge, skills, and mindset required to negotiate the complexity of launching and building a successful business.This book will take you on a revolutionary jo...

Bark for joy at the arrival of this grrreat magical new series! A sequel to the bestselling sensation, Magic Kitten.Storm is the only young wolf left from his family in the magic Moon-claw pack after the evil wolf, Shadow, wounds his mother and destroys everyone else. With the rest of the pack now scattered, Storm's mother is too weak to protect Storm so she sends him to our world as a magic puppy where his magical powers can grow. But Storm must find a friend here to help...

Building the Value Machine represents the type of business that many aspire towards - a business that is able to align its internal functions, including sales and marketing, in order to collaborate with its key customers and create real and unique value for mutual benefit.This book provides a solution to the challenge of finding the right organizational structures, the right planning and operational processes, and to place all of that under the right kind ...