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In The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself, celebrated workplace culture and employee engagement expert Heather R. Younger delivers an exciting and practical discussion of how to develop an entirely new mindset around personal advocacy and self-leadership. You'll learn how to take control of the workplace experience and set expectations up front about relationships.

This book is about FOLLOWERSHIP, the Hidden Half of Leadership. It's the 2025 edition, revised and updated. It was created for you and everyone in the workforce, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. Followership is your ability to consistently produce excellent results and add greater value to those who helped you achieve those results, especially your boss. It’s one of twenty books from a revolutionary program called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE, designed to help you achieve your true potential. The first ...

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.

"Fierce and utterly compelling" An absolutely glorious study into how Agile and its pervasive commercialization have risen to such a toxic extent that it has poisoned the well of not just software development but all disciplines aching to be agile without a pause for some critical thinking. According to the dictionary the term agile means: to have the “agility to move swiftly, gracefully, accurately and with quick, easy grace;” The term Agile has become ubiquitous in the fields of Business and Industry, however, the term 'agile' in a technology context has its provenance in the Agile ...

"Previously published as WEALTH BY DESIGN: ART OF MAKING MONEY & GETTING RICH How to Build a Life of Financial Freedom by Elliott, Norris (AUTHOR)." "The Art of Making Money & Getting Rich: How to Create Wealth and Build a Life of Financial Freedom" stands as a transformative guide for anyone aspiring to transcend financial constraints and unlock a realm of wealth and abundance. Authored with penetrating insights and practical wisdom, this book serves as your personal blueprint to financial independence. Here's why it's essential for your journey to prosperity: Wealth Creation Strategies: ...

In Executive Charisma, Benton outlines a proven six-step approach for learning how to think, act, and relate to others like an executive. She provides powerful tools for fine-tuning the executive charisma skill set, including interpersonal communications, managing upwards, confidence-building, business humor, executive-bearing, and more. Drawing upon her experience coaching clients at American Express, Merrill Lynch, Nabisco, Viacom, Pepsi, and other top companies worldwide, Benton explains why projecting a commanding professional demeanor is so fundamental to corporate success.

"Wealth by Design: How to Build a Life of Financial Freedom" by Norris Elliott is an indispensable resource for anyone committed to enhancing their financial well-being and paving the way to wealth. Here's why this book is a must-have in your collection: Master Financial Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of the core principles of finance, including managing debt, understanding credit scores, and the importance of savings. Budgeting Made Easy: Learn how to create and stick to a budget that works for your lifestyle, enabling you to save more and spend wisely. Investing with Confidence:...

Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of small but compelling practices to help you build leadership skills. You’ll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. The essays in this book examine the practical skills Lopp learned from exceptional leaders - as a manager at Netscape, a senior manager and director at Apple, and an executive at Slack. You’ll learn how to apply these lessons to your own experience.

The coauthors of the New York Times best-selling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: How we see ourselves. Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past 15 years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice.

We're too tired to think, too wired to focus, less efficient than we want to be, and guilty about not getting enough time with our loved ones. We all know that we feel starved for time, but what are we actually doing about it? Precious little. In The Art of Stopping Time, New York Times best-selling author Pedram Shojai guides us towards success with what he calls time prosperity - having the time to accomplish what you want in life without feeling compressed, stressed, overburdened, or hurried.

In Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching, renowned author and coach Elena Aguilar delivers a compelling and inspirational message about how to coach in the face of daunting challenges. In the book, you'll learn how to listen expansively in a coaching conversation, how to plan conversations effectively, how to coach across lines of racial difference, how to coach resistant teachers, and more.

Your mental models and mindsets will determine your life. Harness and control them to achieve the impossible. All we can control in this life is our thoughts, which lead to perception and action. If your thoughts are running amok, it will throw your life into chaos. The life you want comes from the way you think - you need to learn how to think intentionally.

A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton; and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now award-winning Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match real world realities.

This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere.

Hailed by INC. magazine as "America's toughest CEO coach", retired Navy SEAL Rob Roy teams with former national security correspondent Chris Lawson to pen this innovative guide on leadership. The Navy SEAL Art of War explores how battle-tested skills employed by SEAL teams can translate to the boardroom, helping leaders of all stripes thrive when the pressure is on.

Mindfulness meets execution...at work. The wisdom of 13 Eastern sages, augmented by modern research on workplace influence, is the basis for profound yet practical advice on getting things done without force. The Art of Quiet Influence shows anyone how to use influence, a key mindfulness principle, to get things done. Through the classic wisdom of 13 Eastern sages (especially the Buddha), relevant insights from influence research, and anecdotes and advice from 25 contemporary experts, Davis lays out a path for becoming a 'mainspring,' an unobtrusive yet powerful influencer.

It is not too often one can read or listen to a 2,600-year-old book and know that it still has relevance and importance today. The Art of War has long been considered not only a military classic, but a classic book in general. Sun Tzu’s treatise on various aspects and components of wartime strategy is highly recommended for insight into the Eastern mindset and military planning. It also can apply to business, legal, and educational situations as well.

Dive into the world of programming with "The Art of C Programming" - a comprehensive guide that will empower you to unleash the full potential of the powerful C programming language. If you're a beginner embarking on your coding journey or an experienced programmer seeking to improve your skills, this eBook has got you covered! The Art of C Programming meticulously takes you through a vast range of C programming concepts that cover everything from syntax, datatypes, and variables, to advanced topics such as multithreading, networking applications, and graphical user interfaces. This ...

Hypnotic Money: How to Automate Your Budget, Savings, Investing, and Debt Payoff for Lasting Financial Freedom Tired of budgeting burnout, financial anxiety, or always wondering where your money went? Hypnotic Money is your step-by-step guide to building an automatic personal finance system that works — even when you're not thinking about it. In this practical financial planning book, you’ll learn how to automate your money using proven strategies for budgeting, saving, debt payoff, investing, and charitable giving. You’ll discover: How to set up a zero-stress budget that runs on ...