A church in deep debt with attendance down by the thousands. A college that had lapsed into a coma, its buildings in shambles, its faculty demoralized, its enrollment at rock bottom. A university facing lawsuits, scandal, and near-bankruptcy. Each situation involved different financial needs, different lost dreams, different personal wounds. But they each had one thing in common: each needed a leader who could restore hope, vision, and viability. Dr. Mark Rutland has led three institutional turnarounds over the past twenty-five years. He has seen organizations that were dying come to new life. And he knows the steps you need to take right now. How do you know what to do to help your church or organization make it, even when circumstances and personnel challenges seem too much to handle? Here are the answers. As Dr. Rutland writes in this New York Times bestseller, the true leader can say, “This book is for the rugged visionaries who see in the wreckage a hope for the future and are willing to pay the price for a relaunch.”

In today’s day and age, when life has become a race, the only person you are competing with is - yourself. Get set to RELAUNCH YOUR LIFE with this treasure house of information to achieve success in all walks of life. With step by step exercises that bring together wisdom and practical learning, this book offers hands-on ideas to: - Face your fears and defeat them. - Beat the feeling of loneliness and social exclusion. - Break the cycle of self-defeat that is slowing you down. - Destroy negative emotions and replace them with inspiring ideas. - Rekindle your hidden potential in all domains of life. - Create a vision for the future with achievable goals. - Develop a personality that helps you attain success.

If you're a stay-at-home mom considering going back to work, these are some of the questions that have likely come to mind. Returning to the workforce can be a daunting prospect. It requires reigniting old contacts (including those with coworkers once your junior), marketing yourself strategically, and building confidence-whether you've been out of the workforce for two, six, or fifteen years. Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin understand, because they've been there. As Harvard MBAs who successfully relaunched their own careers after staying home full-time with their children, they know it can be done-with careful planning, strategizing, and creativity. Now, in BACK ON THE CAREER TRACK, they offer a prescriptive, seven-step program that includes: · Assessing career options and updating job skills · Networking and preparing for interviews · Getting the family on board. Packed with expert advice from career counselors and recruiters, and insightful stories from others who have been through the process, this book also offers an inside look at what employers and universities are doing to help relaunchers today-including how many businesses are recognizing them as valuable assets. As frequent speakers to women's groups, professional schools, and corporations, Cohen and Rabin provide a thorough, unique program from two experts on the topic of career reentry. BACK ON THE CAREER TRACK is sure to become the classic guide in the field.

A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy. This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests. With it, you’ll learn to communicate how your products will make your customers and organization successful. Whether you're a product manager, product owner, business analyst, program manager, project manager, scrum master, lead developer, designer, development manager, entrepreneur, or business owner, this book will show you how to: Articulate an inspiring vision and goals for your product Prioritize ruthlessly and scientifically Protect against pursuing seemingly good ideas without evaluation and prioritization Ensure alignment with stakeholders Inspire loyalty and over­-delivery from your team Get your sales team working with you instead of against you Bring a user­ and buyer-­centric approach to planning and decision-making Anticipate opportunities and stay ahead of the game Publish a comprehensive roadmap without over­committing

“A superb . . . how-to book for any entrepreneur who not only wants to get their thoughts down to share with the world, but to leverage off their expertise.” –Geoff Hetherington, JG Hetherington, The Clarity CEO With the availability of self-publishing services and the rise of the entrepreneur as a thought leader, writing a book is becoming more appealing to an increasing number of small business owners. The problem? Most businesspeople aren’t writers, have never written a book before, are time poor and don’t know where to start. While many want to write a book, they worry about investing months of their time and thousands of their dollars to write something that isn’t any good, or even whether they will finish. Book Blueprint gives a step-by-step framework that any entrepreneur can follow to write a great book quickly, even if they’re not a writer.

Do You Have a Book That Isn't Selling? Don't Leave Money on the Table!There's nothing more exciting than writing and publishing a book, but if you're like most authors, your book sells for the first couple of months and then quietly and alarmingly sinks to the bottom of Amazon's rankings. Or maybe your book never saw success. There are thousands of book authors who thought their book would achieve success who are still waiting for those elusive sales. Sadly most authors simply accept that it's just the way things are.But it doesn't have to be.The truth is, it is possible to relaunch your book months-or even years-after its initial release and see success. But a successful book relaunch is more complicated than simply marketing your book again. In fact, to do it successfully, you'll need to follow the 7-step program I outline in this book. Some of the things we'll cover areHow to: analyze your book's positioncreate an improvement roadmaptest the existing cover to determine whether or not to design a new onerearrange your book categories using my Lift Off strategyensure your internal marketing techniques are in place to increase sales of other books in the seriesuse the relaunch to increase the size of your mailing listorganize the relaunch so that you don't experience another quick drop off in sales.This book not only provides you with a 7-step process, but I'll also give you an "over the shoulder" view at how I successfully follow the program myself.If you have books on Amazon that aren't selling, you're leaving money on the table. Why should your only option be to continuously write new books in order to make money on Amazon? The secret is that you can-and should-revive your old books. Won't you follow along as I show you how to bring your backlist to life and reignite those book sales?