How should you grow your organization?It’s one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces-and the wrong answer can break your firm.The problem is most firms’ growth strategies emphasize just one type of growth-some focus on organic growth, others on M&A. When these strategies falter, the common response is simply to try harder-but firms falling into this implementation trap” usually end up losing out to a competitor whose approach is more in...

Poor access to care in low- and middle-income countries due to high costs, geographic barriers, and a shortage of trained medical staff has motivated many organizations to rethink their model of health service delivery. Many of these new models are being developed by private sector actors, including non-profits, such as non-governmental organizations, and for-profits, such as social enterprises. By partnering extensively with public sector organizations, these non-state actors have enormou...

George Berkowski, serial entrepreneur and one of the minds behind the internationally successful taxi hailing app Hailo, is the expert on mobile apps. In this free digital ebook companion to How To Build a Billion Dollar App, he includes an outline of the entire book and the chapters from step 1 of the journey, 'Building and Founding a Team', 'Validating Your Product' and 'Raising Seed Funding'. Through his experience, research and insights, readers will receive the begin...

Two short works inspired by meditation. A man devotes himself to opening a locked box, and a young peachtree embarks on a journey.

The One Reason For Success - and Failure - Lies Within YouHave you ever had a complete melt-down, a real failure of your world-view, where the world has gone to hell and stayed there?Sad to tell you: it's your own damned fault.What makes it worse is to find out that everything you ever needed to succeed is already programmed into you – and has been since you were born.Then how did you get into that mess?By blindly a...

Love and money is a tricky-and touchy-mixture. The unromantic truth is that money issues are the number one cause for discord, distrust and, sometimes, divorce.Let THE RICH BITCH GUIDE TO LOVE AND MONEY help teach you to be prepared as an individual so you can be an asset in any relationship-whether you're still searching for love, already married or navigating your way through a divorce. Finance expert and author of RICH BITCH Nicole Lapin covers it all.The basics for taki...

I'm Sean Morgan and my mission in life is to give hope to people who are looking for it. I've spent years discovering the most effective methods for self-transformation and empowerment from ancient eastern traditions to modern western research. I had to go on this journey due to intense mental, emotional, and physical illness. Now I'm sharing the most powerful insights and practices to provide guidance to those suffering with any or all of the following: low energy, low motivation, physica...

At not quite fifteen, Stefan's father finally let him board the longship, Sja Vinna, to take part in his first Viking raid. Yet, the battle was not at all what he expected, and he soon found himself alone and stranded in Scotland.Thirteen-year-old Kannak's situation was just as grave. Her father deserted them and the only way to survive, she decided, was to take a husband over her mother's objections. Instead, she found herself hiding a hated Viking, and that wasn't the only proble...

10 Top SEO Tips to Boost Website Traffic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has become a crucial part of Internet Marketing to ensure that your website is easily found by potential new customers, so we have put together a Top 10 SEO Tips checklist to help you get the best search results for your website or online business. Operating an online business website or e-commerce store, requires your website to be easily found in the major search engines. Just as retail stores try to get the best o...

Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the basic principles. One of these principles is what Harold Speed calls "dither," the freedom that allows realism and the artistic vision to play against each other.