As a Christian business owner, when you give God a chance to speak and learn how to hear His voice, you enter into a powerful relationship with Him as your business partner. This partnership brings unique benefits to your business. Looking back at our decades of building businesses, we can assure you that the best way to build, scale, and grow a business is to partner with God and listen to His voice. His guidance can lead to innovative ideas, strategic insights, and a deeper understanding of your customers and market. God is a good business partner-the best you could ever have. And if you take the time to listen to Him each day, you'll discover the treasure trove of wisdom He will give you. The Expert Ownership Listening Prayer Journal will help you do just that. In these pages, we will share the method we use to hear God speak to us about our life and work and give you the outline we created to help you do the same. Created with 200 Listening Prayer worksheets, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in hearing God's voice and documenting what He speaks. As you take the time to listen to God and write what He says about your life and business, you'll discover things you never would've known otherwise. And you'll walk in a power and anointing you've never experienced.

Twin brothers and former professional baseball players, David and Jason Benham, built a company from one office in North Carolina to 100 locations in 35 states. This book describes their business journey and details the twelve-step process that helped them scale beyond their wildest dreams. Expert Ownership will help you own your business without it owning you, while doing it with a heart to please God.

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields. Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.

Art and finance coalesce in the elite world of fine art collecting and investing. Investors and collectors can’t protect and profit from their collections without grappling with a range of complex issues like risk, insurance, restoration, and conservation. They require intimate knowledge not only of art but also of finance. Clare McAndrew and a highly qualified team of contributors explain the most difficult financial matters facing art investors. Key topics include: Appraisal and valuation Art as loan collateral Securitization and taxation Investing in art funds Insurance The black-market art trade Clare McAndrew has a PhD in economics and is the author of The Art Economy. She is considered a leading expert on the economics of art ownership.

Are you seeking financial freedom? How about a thriving business and healthy relationships? What about all that plus a vibrant faith that impacts the world and enough time in your day to make it all happen? Then Expert Ownership is for you! Best-selling authors and nationally acclaimed entrepreneurs, David and Jason Benham, reveal their proven path to help you grow your revenues, transcend the grind of over-work, and live the rest of your days in freedom and success. Or as they call it, you can live as a "SeeYaPreneur" for life! Based on Scripture as a manual for business development, their 12-step program walks you through the path they took to scale their business from one location in NC to 100 offices in 35 states, achieving financial freedom by the age of 33 and gaining their time back to focus exclusively on impact around the world. In these pages, you'll discover the mindsets and the methods that will drive your business to success and empower you to pursue your God-given calling in the marketplace while strengthening your core relationships at the same time. Are you ready to become an Expert Owner? "David and Jason show you how to achieve incredible success by making God and family the cornerstones of your life." ~Dave Ramsey, President, Ramsey Solutions "David and Jason's business success is similar to our own - God's grace and a lot of grit. I love these guys!" ~Curt Richardson, Founder, Otter Box "The Benham boys have got it down straight!" ~Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty & Duck Commander "The Benhams have helped me immensely in business and challenged me to run our race team God's way!" ~Dave Alpern, President, Joe Gibbs Racing "David and Jason have the God-given ability to speak directly into specific problems or roadblocks, as well as the foresight to point out things you might not be thinking about. And they truly love people - combine that with their innate business sense and you're left with a lasting impact!" ~Landon & Kat Eckles, Founders Clean Juice "I brought my entire team of managers to their office, and the brothers poured into them with Bible-based kingdom principles that revolutionized the way my team saw their work. I've enjoyed watching them work with newfound purpose and passion!" ~Andy Osbolt, Zaxby's "In just one hour working through the Benham's 4S model, my paradigm for business completely changed. I'm finally going to be able to become the absentee owner I've always wanted to be!" ~Brian Echevarria, Founder C3 Coffee "Insights from David and Jason have taken my business from $250k in revenue to over $1mm." ~Steve Pinkerton, Owner Crossfit Vitality "Over eight years of business growth, I craved mentorship and advice. I found it with Benham Brothers' Expert Ownership! Even while taking the class I was able to immediately put lessons learned into action -- which helped me make hiring decisions and organize my business in a way to truly scale." ~Brian Jackson, Owner, Mighty Missouri Coffee Co "The Benham's have decided both privately and publicly to take their stand as Christians. Not willing to hang out in the closet of spiritual complacency, they have positioned themselves as beacons of light in the midst of cultural compromise and spiritual mediocrity." ~Dr. Tony Evans, Pastor & Best-Selling Author "David and Jason's story will move you with compassion and challenge you with resolve to stand on the firm foundation of God's Word--whatever the cost!" ~Franklin Graham, President, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and The Art of Agile Product Ownership is here to be your guide. Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what it takes to be a successful product owner. You will learn how you need to define your role within a team and how you can best incorporate ownership with strategy. With the Agile method, time is the key factor, and after using the lessons from this book you will confidently be able to synthesize features, functionality, and scope against delivery. You will find out how other team members such as the UX designer and business analyst can support and enhance your role as product owner, and how every type of company structure can adapt for optimal agility. The Art of Agile Product Ownership is a beacon for current product owners, programmers who are ready to take the next step towards ownership, and analysts transitioning into the product space. This book helps you determine for yourself the best way to fill the product owner role so that you utilize your unique combination of skills. Product ownership is central to a successful Agile team, and after reading this book, you will be more than ready for the challenge. What You Will LearnExplores activities the product owner needs to do in order to write good and valuable user storiesIdentifies skills product owners can learn from product managers and business analystsDemonstrates how to make decisions based on business and customer demand rather than technical needs and feasibility Who This Book Is ForThis is a book for anyone becoming a product owner: developers and programmers, who, after some years at the code-face, are ready to step up to the next stage to own the product that they have been coding. Business Analysts and Product Managers who see themselves transitioning into the a product owner role will find value in this book in understanding their new role and how the work is the same and how it is different

An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace. If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation—as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984. Until, it turned out, they didn't. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property. Of course, ebooks, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the tradeoffs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But, most important, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.