The life and career—including both the highs and the lows—of the visionary businessman who started the iconic supermarket chain. The grocery business began as a complicated service industry. Random pricing, inconsistent quantities and prescriptive salesmen made grocery shopping burdensome. It took one brash Memphian with uncommon vision and unbridled ambition to change everything. Clarence Saunders worked his way out of poverty and obscurity to found Piggly Wiggly in 1916. With an unprecedented approach, he virtually invented the concept of the modern self-service grocery store. Stores flourished, franchises spread, and Saunders made millions. Yet just as the final bricks of Pink Palace—his garish marble mansion—were being laid, Saunders went bankrupt, and he was forced to sell Piggly Wiggly. A variety of new ventures helped Saunders out of bankruptcy, but he never duplicated his prior success. Memphis historian Mike Freeman tracks the remarkable life of this retail visionary.
As a business owner, are you tired of hearing all the buzz about social media...and wondering what it's all about? Are you worried that learning how to use social media would be too complicated or time consuming or just wouldn't work in your business? Through a beautifully written, engaging story about someone struggling with his desire to break free from the 9-5 grind, you will discover resources and strategies that you may have never realized existed to succeed in implementing a social media marketing strategy. Follow the journey that Andy Stubbs embark on as he grows from a frustrated employee learning how to start his own business. He then overcomes trials and setbacks as he discovers how social media and an MBA-level marketing strategy used in combination become the salvation to his business...with even less time and effort than he ever imagined! *As a special bonus, after you purchase this book from Amazon, the author will give you a bonus Facebook marketing package. Once you receive your order confirmation and Amazon receipt number, visit: www.MarketingHuddle.com/amazonbookbonuspackage
Digital is not a technological conversation; it's a people conversation. The heart of Mike Saunders' exciting new book, HumanCentric, is how to build a successful business in the Fourth Industrial Revolution while focusing on human stakeholders. Never before have we had so much information so readily available at our fingertips and there is no doubt that acceleration of innovation and the velocity of disruption underpinning the Fourth Industrial Revolution are having a major impact on businesses. Is it realistic to be at the forefront of these disruptive forces? Is it even necessary? It most certainly is. Knowledge of these disruptive forces – notably mobile, social, the Internet of Things, data and blockchain – equips us to build our businesses in the change that is enveloping us, but we need a framework to help us understand how to operate in a new revolution, how to organise the chaos into success. It is this framework to which Mike has been applying his mind for the last ten years and in this book he presents just such a model to help us to navigate the digital world and build value in a humancentric way. The four concepts of his model are explore, ideate, intersect and create and he unpacks each of them in detail and with crystal-clear clarity, while never losing sight of the human element so essential to ensuring success in an ever-evolving world. With his wide experience both locally and internationally, and his success in running the highly respected DigitLab, as well as his passion for sharing knowledge, Mike is uniquely positioned to share a complete framework for human-centred digital transformation. Our role in life is not to become digital. Instead, it is how to succeed in a digital world.
Discover the hidden insider secrets that allow dental practice owners all over the country to make record profits during this economic downturn. This book allows you to easily learn proven strategies and begin profiting immediately. Inside you will discover: How to guarantee that your dental practice stands head and shoulders above your competition. The "Hidden Goldmine" in your dental practice and how you can use it to make big profits. Quick, easy and cheap ways to advertise your dental practice promotions and sales.
This book is for anyone who wants to unlock the power in their network by leveraging the online world. If you have a sale to make, a business to build, a promotion to get, a message to share or a movement to start, this book will help you amplify and accelerate the work you do.
In this book we first review the ideas of Lie groupoid and Lie algebroid, and the associated concepts of connection. We next consider Lie groupoids of fibre morphisms of a fibre bundle, and the connections on such groupoids together with their symmetries. We also see how the infinitesimal approach, using Lie algebroids rather than Lie groupoids, and in particular using Lie algebroids of vector fields along the projection of the fibre bundle, may be of benefit. We then introduce Cartan geometries, together with a number of tools we shall use to study them. We take, as particular examples, the four classical types of geometry: affine, projective, Riemannian and conformal geometry. We also see how our approach can start to fit into a more general theory. Finally, we specialize to the geometries (affine and projective) associated with path spaces and geodesics, and consider their symmetries and other properties.
Join Johnny as he searches for his Boom Boom. An illustrated book in verse that introduces children to the sounds and looks of various musical instruments.
Studies the causes, effects, and consequences of avalanches and landslides. Includes historical facts and patterns, as well as an examination of humankind's role in causing these disasters.
In Tidal Waves and Flooding, find out why tidal waves happen, how floods are caused, and what the destruction of rainforests may do to increase widespread flooding. Book jacket.
Examines the cockpit, passenger cabin, engine, and other aspects of some of the world's largest jetliners and explains how they have changed over the years from small aircraft to today's jumbo jets.
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