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Lean QuickStart Guide
- The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Lean
- Narrated by: Lucy Vest
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Lean Six Sigma QuickStart Guide
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Drive improvement within your organization through the implementation of lean six sigma - finally explained in a simple and effective manner. Running an organization is simple. Running an organization that is effective and efficient and has little waste is another story. At the core of every organization, what defines how it operates on a day-to-day basis is its philosophy and strategy.
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Taxes for Small Businesses QuickStart Guide - Understanding Taxes for Your Sole Proprietorship, Startup, & LLC
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Drawing on nearly three decades of hands-on experience, Colwell lays out the clearest path yet for new entrepreneurs who need to manage hiring, daily operations, and business growth while developing critical leadership, time management, and growth mindset skills. It doesn’t matter if your company is two weeks old or two years old—this book will teach you how to scale operations, strengthen your bottom line, and build a resilient business that stands out from the competition for years to come!
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Digital Marketing QuickStart Guide
- The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Developing a Scalable Online Strategy, Finding Your Customers, and Profitably Growing ... Business (QuickStart Guides™ - Business)
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With the availability of cost-effective advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, and more, there has never been a better time to connect with your customers and grow your business. In Digital Marketing QuickStart Guide, author and veteran marketer Benjamin Sweeney distills a decade’s worth of marketing experience into a crash course that covers everything from marketing fundamentals to sophisticated digital strategies.
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Starting a Business QuickStart Guide
- The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
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In the highly competitive world of business, what makes or breaks a new entrepreneur? Sourced from over 20 years of firsthand experience working with entrepreneurs, new ventures, and high-growth startups, author Ken Colwell, PhD, MBA, has the answers. In his comprehensive Starting a Business QuickStart Guide, Ken Colwell concisely presents the core fundamentals that all new entrepreneurs need to know to get started, find success, and live the life of their dreams.
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extremely practical and methodical
- By Jay Public on 16-05-2022
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Lean Methodology
- A Guide to Lean Six Sigma, Agile Project Management, Scrum and Kanban for Beginners
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- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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It is difficult for businesses to effectively manage projects and processes using traditional project management methods since they lead to missed timelines and overshooting of the budget. New project management methodologies were developed to overcome these issues. Experts have identified numerous technologies, and some of these methodologies have gained fame across the globe. So it is important to understand these methods better and look at some variations in these methods.
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Lean Six Sigma QuickStart Guide
- A Simplified Beginner's Guide to Lean Six Sigma
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Drive improvement within your organization through the implementation of lean six sigma - finally explained in a simple and effective manner. Running an organization is simple. Running an organization that is effective and efficient and has little waste is another story. At the core of every organization, what defines how it operates on a day-to-day basis is its philosophy and strategy.
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Taxes for Small Businesses QuickStart Guide - Understanding Taxes for Your Sole Proprietorship, Startup, & LLC
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Did you know the typical small business owner works three to four months just to earn enough profit to pay taxes? Whether you've been in business for several decades or are breaking ground as a new entrepreneur, taxes are a significant expenditure. They must be accounted for and incorporated into your business plan from the very beginning. Failing to account for taxes when planning, budgeting, and assessing revenue goals for a business is like failing to account for the expense of your rent or mortgage.
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- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Drawing on nearly three decades of hands-on experience, Colwell lays out the clearest path yet for new entrepreneurs who need to manage hiring, daily operations, and business growth while developing critical leadership, time management, and growth mindset skills. It doesn’t matter if your company is two weeks old or two years old—this book will teach you how to scale operations, strengthen your bottom line, and build a resilient business that stands out from the competition for years to come!
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Starting a Business QuickStart Guide
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- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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extremely practical and methodical
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Lean Methodology
- A Guide to Lean Six Sigma, Agile Project Management, Scrum and Kanban for Beginners
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- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Lean, total quality management, and process improvement. If you're in the business world, you've undoubtedly heard these terms - from your supervisor, from a client, or from someone talking shop in the break room.
Perhaps you have a decent understanding of these concepts, or maybe you have absolutely no idea what they mean. What's most significant is that you know they are important, that they are not just business buzzwords. You understand that it is critical to your career that you understand these concepts - that's why you are here.
Now that you have realized the significance of the Lean business model and all the concepts, techniques, and philosophies that it brings to the table, where do you start in the learning process, you ask? Right here.
Don't get overwhelmed by the long books that simply have too much information and are impossible to follow. In the Lean QuickStart Guide, we will teach you what you need to know to get up and running with Lean.
You'll understand the fundamentals that form the Lean business model, so you can incorporate it into your business wheelhouse within hours.
Learning for academic purposes? We have you covered too. We will take an academic approach to the Lean business model as well as looking at real-world practical applications in the business environment.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.