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From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue

April 15, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

Impossible Goals, Inevitable Successes Why are you struggling to grow your business when everyone else seems to be crushing their goals? If you needed to triple revenue within the next three years, would you know exactly how to do it? Doubling the size of your business, tripling it, even growing ten times larger isn’t about […]

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High Growth Handbook

April 8, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High […]

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Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

April 1, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with […]

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

March 25, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black […]

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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

March 18, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you’ll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep […]

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Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World

March 11, 2019 By Jeremy Shapiro

Thirst - Scott Harrison

New York Times bestseller An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. In Thirst, Harrison recounts the twists and turns that built charity: water into one of the most trusted and admired nonprofits in the world. Renowned for its 100% donation […]

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Negotiate This!: By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much

October 8, 2018 By Jeremy Shapiro

The author of You Can Negotiate Anything (1980), Cohen has been a practicing negotiator for three-plus decades, acting on behalf of U.S. presidents, corporate CEOs, sports and theatrical agents, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, and the FBI. Using a personable, conversational tone, Cohen relays examples from his own experiences as a professional negotiator to […]

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The Boron Letters

October 1, 2018 By Jeremy Shapiro

A series of letters by history’s greatest copywriter Gary C. Halbert, explaining insider tactics and sage wisdom to his youngest son Bond. Once only available as part of a paid monthly premium, The Boron Letters are unique in the marketing universe and now they are a bona fide cult classic among direct response marketers and […]

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Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself

September 24, 2018 By Jeremy Shapiro

Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive? What if instead your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?  It’s possible. And […]

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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

July 30, 2018 By Jeremy Shapiro

“An immersive play-by-play of the company’s ascent…. It’s hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story.” — Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.com’s visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do […]

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