Finding the Sweet Spot

Finding the Sweet Spot
Author: Dave Pollard
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1933392908

"Now what am I going to do?" is a question many people ask—and leave unanswered—at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you’re a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big corporation, you wish you could start your own sustainable and responsible business. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in a job you hate for a few years, but you still dream of doing the thing you love and that you’re actually good at. Or maybe you’re a boomer and you’re ready for a second career, a personal venture that will represent a total change from what you’ve spent most of your work life doing. Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs, and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You’ll learn how to find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to find the "sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect. And make no mistake: our world needs your talent. The current economic system and the educational system that feeds into it have let us down and are destroying our planet. We need a blossoming of natural enterprises—connected, collaborating, and supporting ventures—to form a dynamic new natural economy. Is such a thing possible? Inventor, entrepreneur, and humanist Buckminster Fuller said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Finding the Sweet Spot presents a new model. Use it to find the work you were meant to do, thereby helping to create the world we’re meant to live—and make a living—in.

The Accidental Creative

The Accidental Creative
Author: Todd Henry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591846242

Many of us assume that our creative process is beyond our ability to influence, and pay attention to it only when it isn't working properly. For the most part, we go about our daily tasks and everything just "works." Until it doesn't. Adding to this lack of understanding is the rapidly accelerating pace of work. Each day we are face escalating expectations and a continual squeeze to do more with less. We are asked to produce an ever-increasing amount of brilliance in an ever-shrinking amount of time. There is an unspoken (or spoken!) expectation that we'll be accessible 24/7, and as a result we frequently feel like we're "always on." Now business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to unleash your creative potential. Whether you're a creative by trade or an "accidental creative," this book will help you quickly and effectively integrate new ideas into your daily life.

Mapping Chengde

Mapping Chengde
Author: Philippe Foret
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0824863518

The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

Find Your Sweet Spot

Find Your Sweet Spot
Author: Karen Elizaga
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-12-23
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1493004050

This smart, stylish motivational guide helps readers discover their dreams and true potential via an action plan based on the coaching strategies of an executive coach. Finding one’s "sweet spot" means digging deep for new levels of self-understanding and re-prioritizing one’s life to align with one’s inner excellence. Written to make readers feel they have access to their own personal coach, the book leads them through a series of inspiring stories, practical steps, and "sweet spot checks" designed to spur personal and professional growth. Find Your Sweet Spot consists of four parts--The Sweet Spot Strategy, The Sweet Spot Inside, The Sweet Spot Outside, Integrate Your Sweet Spot--and offers practical tips and exercises that explore everything from self-love to the power of gratitude and a productive mindset. Find Your Sweet Spot is geared for modern adults who find themselves yearning for more in their daily lives. As a chic, jet-setting businesswoman with many high-powered clients, Karen Elizaga boasts a distinctly modern edge among self-help authors.

The Suitcase Entrepreneur

The Suitcase Entrepreneur
Author: Natalie Sisson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501178180

Now in its third edition, The Suitcase Entrepreneur teaches readers how to package and sell their skills to earn enough money to be able to work and live anywhere, build a profitable online business, and live life on their own terms. After eight years of working in the soul-crushing bureaucracy of the corporate world, Natalie Sisson quit her high-paying job and moved to Canada, started a blog, and cofounded a technology company. In just eighteen months she learned how to build an online platform from scratch, and then left to start her own business—which involved visiting Argentina to eat empanadas, play Ultimate Frisbee, and launch her first digital product. After five years, she now runs a six-figure business from her laptop, while living out of a suitcase and teaching entrepreneurs worldwide how to build a business and lifestyle they love. In The Suitcase Entrepreneur you’ll learn how to establish your business online, reach a global audience, and build a virtual team to give you more free time, money, and independence. With a new introduction, as well as updated resources and information, this practical guide uncovers the three key stages of creating a self-sufficient business and how to become a successful digital nomad and live life on your own terms.

Sweet Spots

Sweet Spots
Author: Mattie-Martha Sempert
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1685710107

Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words--that is, language that lands as written text--are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice of acupuncture--and its relational thinking--often makes its presence felt to twirl the text-tissue of the bodying essays. Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections. Entangled in the text-tissue are an assortment of entities, such as bickering body parts, quivering jellyfish, heart pacemaker cells, a narwhal tooth, Taoist parables, always with ubiquitous, stretchy connective tissue--from gooey interstitial fluid to thick planes of fascia--ever present to ensure that the essaying bodies become, what Alfred North Whitehead calls the one-which-includes-the-many-includes-the-one. The essaying bodies orient towards the sweetest sweet spot which is found, not in the center, but slightly askew, felt in the reverbing more-than that carries their potential. Crucially, this produces a shift in perspective away from self-enclosed bodies and experts toward a care for the connective tissue of relation.

The Sweet Spot

The Sweet Spot
Author: Paul Bloom
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0062910582

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that, boring.

Finding Your Kingdom Sweet Spot

Finding Your Kingdom Sweet Spot
Author: John R. Bost
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2023-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"It's rare to have an opportunity to be mentored by a catalytic business leader with such rich cross-sector experience as John Bost has, and that is the gift found within these pages." Shae Bynes, Author, Grace Over Grind "For those deeply wanting to impact their faith, family, and community, John provides thoughtful questions to explore. His perspective on history, faith, philanthropy, and entrepreneurial living is a treasure of honesty, humility, and hope. A worthy read for sure!" Eddie Hammett, Author, Master Certified Coach "While many people simply live a life learning the 'hows', John's writing takes you to not only 'how' but also to the 'why', which is the most important question to answer for your life calling and identity. John is not just a theorist but also a practitioner." Rick Hughes, Crisis Response Specialist "If you knew John like I know John, you would discover a person who is a personification of finding his sweet spot and following God into the marketplace as a high impact entrepreneur." George Bullard, Strategic Thinking Mentor, ForthTelling Innovation "This short, to the point, transparent presentation of finding one's sweet spot in the Kingdom was a great resource for helping me center my longing and primary target of walking by faith, now better understanding my "gut" and its design as a means used by the Spirit." Kevin Gheen, Senior Engineer Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Negotiating the Sweet Spot

Negotiating the Sweet Spot
Author: Leigh Thompson
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 140021744X

Everybody negotiates at various points every day, be it in life or business, and it’s important to get it right. On average, people leave about 20% of potential mutual gains untapped in any negotiation. This is akin to taking 20% of the value in any deal and dumping it into a garbage canister. Finding that hidden 20%, the “sweet spot,” is a skill that takes practice but is also one that anybody can learn. Leigh Thompson offers best practices and tools within this book to use in daily negotiations and conflict situations. She calls these strategies “hacks” because they work but don’t require a lot of investment, training, expense, and time. You don’t have to be a CEO, senior VP, or regional brand manager to learn how to find the sweet spot in life’s negotiations. In Negotiating the Sweet Spot, benefits include learning the following: Understanding where the sweet spot is in the deals you negotiate Adopting a big-picture mind-set when approaching any negotiation Seeing negotiations less as win-lose battles and more as opportunities to use problem-solving skills Utilizing a tool kit of “hacks” that will work in any negotiation and have been proven effective by a top expert in the field Negotiating the Sweet Spot walks people of all skill and experience levels through simple and proven techniques that are sure to result in better outcomes for all parties and that uncover the hidden value that exists in any negotiation.

Sweet Spot

Sweet Spot
Author: Arun Sinha
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470113537

What if your business could make growth and innovation look easy? What if you could beat the competition day in and day out? You can. Sweet Spot shows you how to align all the vital parts of your business to create a competitive advantage and long-lasting success. You’ll learn how to bring smart marketing together with good leadership to find your business’s sweet spot.