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If your answer to any of the following questions is YES, listen to this book now. Eliminate those communication breakdowns! 1. Have you ever inserted your foot into your mouth' 2. Have you ever wished you could take back something you said to a colleague' 3. Have you ever communicated in a defensive manner' 4. Have you ever wondered when to send an e-mail or when to pick up the phone' 5. Have you ever been engaged in a conversation and heard nothing that the other person said' 6. Have you ever had difficulty clearly articulating your ideas' 7.

"The entrepreneurial revolution is in full swing and many of your friends have started new businesses successfully. You wonder if you have what it takes. Yes, entrepreneurship requires passion, discipline, hard work, creativity, and resilience, but it is ultimately a process. Discover The Entrepreneur Within, based on Verinder Syal's award-winning classes at Northwestern University, will demystify this process. He has created a step-by-step guide that gives you the tools to launch your business.

"""A guide to help make the most of your mid-career entrepreneurial pursuits...whether they were originally planned for or not. Employee to Entrepreneur is the audiobook to help entrepreneurially minded professionals seize the opportunity offered by the current economic environment to begin a """"second act"""" in their careers.

"What if you could sit down with some of today's most successful thought leaders' Now you can. Knowledge@Wharton has interviewed some of today's leading thinkers about what success means to them.

"One of the biggest challenges we face as entrepreneurs and innovators is understanding how to make our ideas resonate. We tend to have no shortage of ideas, but we struggle to tell the story of how they are going to be useful in the world and why they will matter to people. Marketing is the way we communicate how our ideas translate to value for people in a marketplace.

Referred to as The Five Love Languages for money, The Seven Money Types helps readers identify how God has wired them to think about, feel toward, and handle money and how that knowledge affects their financial well-being. "True financial well-being involves more than getting out of debt and accumulating wealth. It's about discovering how you're wired by God, and how that wiring influences the way you think about, feel toward, and handle money," says financial development strategist Tommy Brown.

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn't take any action because you thought it would be too risky' Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company-perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees' If you have, but you haven't known how to take the next step, you need to understand what the authors call the innovator's method-a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development that are revolu

New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated' If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five.

Go ahead, be skeptical about big data. The author was-at first. When the term "big data" first came on the scene, bestselling author Tom Davenport (Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work) thought it was just another example of technology hype. But his research in the years that followed changed his mind. Now, in clear, conversational language, Davenport explains what big data means-and why everyone in business needs to know about it.

"Against a drumbeat of hopelessness about too much student debt and too few jobs requiring a college degree, Smart is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials is a realistic and optimistic road map for millennials to save more, navigate their careers, invest in the stock market, and pay their student loans all at the same time. TIME is a four-letter word of the very best kind for millennials. It is the single most important driver of wealth, and young people have it in spades.