Too many business plans focus on the details most important to the managers or business owners writing them. . . and fail to address the questions most crucial to potential backers. This immensely practical and eminently readable book shows readers how to create a business plan that speaks directly to investors and lenders and makes it easy for them to say yes.

According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be developed by anyone willing to develop their organizational habits and leadership capability. That’s why he founded Behance, a company that helps creative people and teams across industries develop these skills.

In The Social Organism, Luckett and Casey offer a revolutionary theory: Social networks – to an astonishing degree – mimic the rules and functions of biological life. In sharing and replicating packets of information known as memes, the world’s social media users are facilitating an evolutionary process just like the transfer of genetic information in living things. Memes are the basic building blocks of our culture, our social DNA. To master social media – and to make online content that impacts the world – you must start with the social organism.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.

Revealing the inspiring stories behind the 50 best innovative ideas that have changed the business world. Judged by an expert panel of entrepreneurs, business leaders and inventors, from the humble post-it note and the revolutionary fax machine to email, conference calls and pay per click.