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The numbers are dismal: only 20% of beauty school graduates continue in the field after five short years. What accounts for such high turnover? In Mentored by Failure, Tye Caldwell pulls from his personal journey—many wins and quite a few losses—to share five points that he believes are the basis for a long and successful career. Along with a few tell-tale stories, he debunks industry myths and offers truth and wisdom about how to survive and truly thrive in the beauty industry. Mentored By Failure will save you time and missteps. Within these pages are valuable lessons that act as an ...

How do you work? In businesses and nonprofits, families and faith communities, how we work matters. Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work reimagines these environments as places that are united with our values. Our work can feel like a nourishing part of our life. We can look forward to meetings. Working groups can become spaces we enjoy being, where learning is continuous and mistakes are welcomed, where each person knows they matter.

When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.

Taboo Topics by Nicole Johnston is a powerful manifesto for every woman ready to break free from silence and reclaim her power. From the hidden struggles of sexism to the unspoken realities of periods and menopause, this book dares to address the topics society often shies away from.

Again and again, Will hears the same powerful reflection from leaders who have applied The Culture Fix®: "We’re doing more work with less people." That’s the true power of a thriving culture. When people love where they work, why they work, and who they work with, they naturally become high-performing teams that accomplish more with less. Leaders around the world have unlocked that potential with The Culture Fix®. This must-read among workplace culture books lays out a practical 9-step framework that has helped organizations bring their core values to life and turn culture into a ...

According to research, 60 percent of your overall career success hinges on your ability to self-advocate. However, as a professional of color, communicating your value and contributions, stepping up for opportunities, and commanding the salary you deserve may feel like your biggest challenge, too. Author Devika Brij is here to show you that it doesn’t have to be this way.

Strategic Procrastination and Stealthwork Model (SPASM): Practitioner Course Handbook Master the Art of Workplace Survival While Doing the Bare Minimum Are you tired of watching others get ahead while you drown in actual work? Do you suspect that the most “productive” people in your office are simply better at looking busy than actually working? Welcome to the Strategic Procrastination and Stealthwork Model (SPASM): Practitioner Course Handbook—your definitive guide to mastering effort minimization, perception management, and career optimization. This practitioner-level handbook ...

"Principles: How to Create a Principled Business Culture '' is an explanation and guide of the method and results used to establish the best working environment I experienced in my nearly forty year business career. Our small Chicago company, Outer Circle Products, changed its internal operations and culture from an ordinary business to a principled business. The entire staff determined our principles and the working guidelines associated with each of them in partnership with the owner and management team. We put them in place, then worked to establish our culture as our daily method of ...

This paper addresses the subject of project management office maturity, by introducing the functions of the PMO unit, what maturity means and how it impacts performance, attempts to define a PMO maturity model, and assessment of the PMO maturity based on such models. Generally speaking, the discussion in this paper will be independent of the specific project management methodology followed by the PMO and the overall organization, since the functions of the PMO unit are the same regardless of whether the project management methodology is traditional or agile, and the standard framework ...

Among many concepts of Enterprise Architecture, which in many cases are explained and perceived as abstract ideas, we deal in this paper with the concepts of Continuum and Repository as related to Enterprise Architecture practices. These two terms are interrelated and applied together when implementing tools for performing enterprise architecture activities, and they are core for successful adoption of enterprise architecture practices, either at the first creation of these elements, or for repetitive use in the long run. We are explaining these concepts, relating them together, and looking...

Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) have never been so important in organizations and yet many feel inadequately prepared. In this guide, the authors combine their expert knowledge to provide a practical approach to bridge this skills and knowledge gap for those delivering Internal Communications. Navigating DEI language can be difficult, but Building a Culture of Inclusivity will help Internal Communication professionals, HR and business leaders engage employees in driving culture change to ensure everyone feels valued and like they belong.

Entfessle die transformative Kraft deiner inneren Stimme: Revolutioniere deine Selbstgespräche und erschaffe ein Leben voller Freude, Leichtigkeit und Erfolg. Du möchtest deine negativen Gedanken und Selbstzweifel ein für alle Mal überwinden, dein Selbstbewusstsein stärken und dein volles Potenzial entfalten. Doch oft blockiert dein innerer Kritiker deine Träume. In diesem bahnbrechenden Buch lernst du, wie du durch gezieltes Selbstgespräch dein Mindset auf Erfolg programmierst, negative Glaubenssätze auflöst und deine innere Stimme zu deinem mächtigsten Verbündeten machst.

This paper shows how our PMO Maturity Assessment tool works in measuring the maturity level of the PMO on a 5-level scale. It builds on maturity level assessment guidelines found in the CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) model from Carnegie Mellon University, and the P3M3 (Portfolio, Program, and Project Management Maturity Model) from Axelos Limited. Although none of these models addresses PMO maturity specifically, they address general aspects related to project management, as a subset of the considered process areas in the former, and as a detailed analysis in the later. We ...

The Innovative Leader cracks the code to how industry leaders get ahead of the curve. How do leaders such as Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Panera's Ron Shaich, and Levi's Chip Bergh make themselves and their organizations innovative, year after year? Authors Wunker, Law, and Nair, celebrated experts in innovation themselves, unveil the secrets that make these industry giants the world-class trailblazers that they are.

In The Answer Is a Question, multi-award-winning performance consultants Dominic and Laura Ashley-Timms set out a simple approach for rehumanising the practice of management. In a step-by-step walk-through of their groundbreaking STAR® model (used by FTSE and Fortune 500 companies), they’ll show how you can develop a new superpower that’s been proven to work by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in a major academic study across sixty-two organisations.

Toxic workplaces are more than just frustrating—they can be life-destroying. From manipulative leadership to hostile environments, far too many people stay trapped in jobs that drain their energy, confidence, and mental health. The Courage to Leave pulls back the curtain on the hidden realities of toxic work cultures. Through raw, unfiltered storytelling and research-backed insights, Jeff Davis gives a voice to those who have suffered in silence—and offers hope to anyone who feels stuck and powerless.

Creativity, often romanticized as an elusive muse that graces a lucky few, is far more universal and accessible than we tend to believe. While some may picture the creative mind as the domain of eccentric geniuses, lost in thought or splattering paint in bursts of chaotic inspiration, the truth is that creativity is a fundamental human capacity—a cognitive tool available to all of us.

No matter the industry or the position, business is built on relationships—and at the heart of all good relationships is good etiquette. Understanding good business etiquette skills and how to apply them to your job and your professional relationships is key to building a successful career. Work environments and the relationships we experience in them are complex. It’s important to know how to identify what type of environment and relationships you’re in and how to manage and adjust your behavior accordingly.

Is it truly possible to make a great living without a boss breathing down your neck? You can find the answers to this and more in the pages of this book. From basic terminology, to the bidding process, to getting your contracting business off the ground and truly thriving, I'll walk you step-by-step through the often overwhelming process of getting government work. In today's world, there's just no excuse to live your life paycheck-to-paycheck locked in a cubicle. I'll show you how to break out of that grayscale life and into a life with opportunity in the world of government contracting. ...

In this candid and personal account, Vineet Nayar—HCLT's celebrated CEO—recounts how he defied the conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees, and not the other way around.