Are you an inspiring boss? Do you want to transform your leadership style? See how to increase your impact and influence within your business? Succeed in creating openness and the right chemistry in your daily interactions?In The Business Alchemist, coach Pilar Godino shares her insights, real stories and tips gleaned from extensive experience working with top business professionals. She shows the pathway to the platform of authentic and inspiring leadership, the platform of the Business Alchemist. Learn how to:. Strengthen your personal impact and influence. Create an organizational structure and safe environment that people want to be part of. Increase your awareness of your management style and daily interaction patterns so that you can achieve more with less. Move into a space of true inspiration where you can become the leader you aspire to be. Develop an efficient communication style and give feedback effectively.Pressed to write this book by her many fans, Pilar delivers with insight and humour road maps and methods for taking yourself, your people and your success to another level.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth. Agrarian society regarded merchants with suspicion as the nonproductive exploiters of others' labor; however, territorial princes turned to commerce for revenue as the cost of maintaining the state increased. Placing Becher’s career in its social and intellectual context, Smith shows how he attempted to help his patrons assimilate commercial values into noble court culture and to understand the production of surplus capital as natural and legitimate. With emphasis on the practices of natural philosophy and extensive use of archival materials, Smith brings alive the moment of cultural transformation in which science and the modern state emerged.
In this enlightening and engaging book, Andrew Wallas views the company from a metaphysical perspective to provide a new approach to transforming the organization. Business Alchemy focuses on the inner dynamics and energy flow within the organization itself, seeing where there is visible and hidden contradiction working against the aims of the company. It is by taking a deeper look inside of your company (instead of focusing on the outer machinations of your business), and by bringing these (often unconscious) blocks to light, that energy is released and the company is then free to move forward, fully aligned with its stated objectives and goals. This is a unique perspective on how companies can evolve and grow naturally and successfully.
This is a delightful fable in the vein of Illusions by Richard Bach, but with a female protagonist and wise woman mentor. With the additional help of animal guides Hawk and Butterfly, Flo learns to overcome her Vows of Poverty and let her abundance in all things flow. Beautifully written and inspiring! Chellie Campbell, author The Wealthy Spirit and From Worry to Wealthy Clear Your Old Vows of Poverty The Business Alchemist is an engaging adventure story filled with wisdom, healing of the past, connection, magic, humor, spiritual laws, and business principles. This book is not only for entrepreneurs and businesspeople, but for anyone, even a hawk and a butterfly, not in the flow of receiving abundance. If you are in need of inspiration and hope, this is a must-read! Lorraine DiGiovanni, Intuitive Healer Free Your Money Flow My Business Alchemist, Laurie Hacking, guided me to clear my old Vows of Poverty and, magically, an abundance of patients began flowing to me! My business productivity has increased exponentially. Now lucky people everywhere can learn from her insights in this amazing book with ageless truths so that they too can make their powerful impact. Dr. Dawn Yoshioka Eberly, DC, CCSP, LAc, Chiropractor and Acupuncturist Step into more success
"This is a delightful fable in the vein of Illusions by Richard Bach, but with a female protagonist and wise woman mentor. With the additional help of animal guides Hawk and Butterfly, Flo learns to overcome her Vows of Poverty and let her abundance in all things flow. Beautifully written and inspiring!" -Chellie Campbell, author The Wealthy Spirit and From Worry to Wealthy Clear Your Old Vows of Poverty "The Business Alchemist is an engaging adventure story filled with wisdom, healing of the past, connection, magic, humor, spiritual laws, and business principles. This book is not only for entrepreneurs and businesspeople, but for anyone, even a hawk and a butterfly, not in the flow of receiving abundance. If you are in need of inspiration and hope, this is a must-read!" -Lorraine DiGiovanni, Intuitive Healer Free Your Money Flow "My Business Alchemist, Laurie Hacking, guided me to clear my old Vows of Poverty and, magically, an abundance of patients began flowing to me! My business productivity has increased exponentially. Now lucky people everywhere can learn from her insights in this amazing book with ageless truths so that they too can make their powerful impact." -Dr. Dawn Yoshioka Eberly, DC, CCSP, LAc, Chiropractor and Acupuncturist Step into more success
HUMAN NEEDS: THE MISSING INGREDIENT TO TEAM HEALTH AND COMPANY SUCCESS In her breakout business book, corporate coach and business guru Jeanet Wade distills the essence of team and company success. The secret sauce to great teams, vibrant organizations, and happy people? Human Nature. In a series of engaging and provocative chapters, she combines business research with anecdotes from her career and her executive client sessions, showing how we can attend to human needs by clarifying assignments, showing baseline consideration, and inspiring confidence. Poignant personal profiles, cutting-edge research, and the keen insight of a successful businessperson add vibrance and dynamism to each chapter, making for a compellingly readable and eminently useful book. If you want an inexpensive way to win the global war on talent and ensure your company can navigate disruption, this book is for you.
HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN? The Ogilvy advertising legend—“one of the leading minds in the world of branding” (NPR)—explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas. "Sutherland, the legendary Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, uses his decades of experience to dissect human spending behavior in an insanely entertaining way. Alchemy combines scientific research with hilarious stories and case studies of campaigns for AmEx, Microsoft and the like. This is a must-read." —Entrepreneur ("Best Books of the Year") Why is Red Bull so popular, though everyone—everyone!—hates the taste? Humans are, in a word, irrational, basing decisions as much on subtle external signals (that little blue can) as on objective qualities (flavor, price, quality). The surrounding world, meanwhile, is irreducibly complex and random. This means future success can’t be projected on any accounting spreadsheet. To strike gold, you must master the dark art and curious science of conjuring irresistible ideas: alchemy. Based on thirty years of field work inside the largest experiment in human behavior ever conceived—the forever-unfolding pageant of consumer capitalism—Alchemy, the revolutionary book by Ogilvy advertising legend Rory Sutherland, whose TED talks have been viewed nearly seven million times, decodes human behavior, blending leading-edge scientific research, absurdly entertaining storytelling, deep psychological insight, and practical case studies from his storied career working on campaigns for AmEx, Microsoft, and others. Heralded as “one of the leading minds in the world of branding” by NPR and "the don of modern advertising" by The Times, Sutherland is a unique thought leader, as comfortable exchanging ideas with Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler (both interviewed in these pages) as he is crafting the next product launch. His unconventional and relentlessly curious approach has led him to discover that the most compelling secrets to human decision-making can be found in surprising places: What can honey bees teach us about creating a sustainable business? How could budget airlines show us how to market a healthcare system? Why is it better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong? What might soccer penalty kicks teach us about the dangers of risk-aversion? Better “branding,” Sutherland reveals, can also be employed not just to sell products, but to promote a variety of social aims, like getting people to pay taxes, improving public health outcomes, or encouraging more women to pursue careers in tech. Equally startling and profound, Sutherland’s journey through the strange world of decision making is filled with astonishing lessons for all aspects of life and business.
Entrepreneurs play a vital role in economic development as key contributors to technological innovation and new job growth. We discovered that many people, just like you, have the urge to create an enterprise; to help themselves and to make a difference in this world. While successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are well publicized, the harsh reality is that most new businesses are prone to failure because they don't have access to accurate information about the entrepreneurial process. This book is a "word map" for guiding you through that process, from refining your business idea and securing capital to a successful launch into the marketplace. There are many types of business ideas to pursue and you are probably better educated than many historic entrepreneurs - both Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc being high school dropouts and both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being college dropouts. If you hunger to be your own boss and to make a contribution to society with your ideas, then Business Alchemy: Turning Ideas into Gold has the information for which you have been searching.
One of the world's top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business partners Andy Currie and John Reece. The company's prolific growth and unlikely success have reshaped the industry, though its first two decades have been punctuated by close calls and hard lessons, as well as unprecedented highs. As they celebrate the company's twentieth anniversary and continued evolution, Ratcliffe and his management team have opened up on the major junctions of the INEOS journey, and their insights into business and manufacturing today.
The inside story of the world’s most powerful central bankers—and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful people in the world. They were the leaders of the world’s three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. In The Alchemists, Washington Post reporter Neil Irwin presents the truly global story of the central bankers’ role in the world economy that we have been missing. Definitive, revelatory, and riveting, it shows us where money comes from—and where it may well be going.
