Career Design

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration.

This game-changing audiobook gives you a refreshing science-based approach to the classic challenge of motivation in the workplace and is ideal for any leader or manager looking to take their workplace culture in a new direction. The Game Changer includes practical advice for creating highly productive, motivated, and innovative teams.

Money Anxiety is a behavioral economics book exploring how financial anxiety impacts consumer behavior. The book explains why we make instinctive financial decisions, why we are more risk averse when stressed, and why we hate to lose more than we love to win.

This comprehensive book is designed to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the various technologies and concepts involved in web development. From the basic building blocks of HTML and CSS to the more advanced concepts of JavaScript, client-side frameworks, and server-side programming languages, this book covers all the essential topics and best practices necessary for building dynamic and responsive web applications. In addition to covering the core technologies, this book also provides an overview of popular web development tools and libraries, as well as advanced topics...

Conquer the ASPPA QPA Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Qualified Pension Administrator is a comprehensive study guide designed to help individuals prepare for the Qualified Pension Administrator (QPA) exam. It covers essential topics such as pension plan design, contributions, distributions, ERISA compliance, and fiduciary responsibilities. The book provides in-depth explanations of both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, ensuring a solid understanding of the key differences and requirements for each. Detailed chapters on participant eligibility, vesting schedules, ...

"Conquer the Tattooing Theory Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Tattoo Artist" is a comprehensive study guide designed to help aspiring tattoo artists prepare for their certification exams and succeed in their careers. The guide covers essential topics, including the history and cultural significance of tattooing, anatomy and physiology of the skin, and sanitation and safety practices. Detailed chapters on tattoo design and artistry provide foundational knowledge on principles of design, developing an artistic style, and collaborating with clients to create custom tattoos. The book ...

If you want to start making more money as a painter and decorator, improving your sales and marketing is the key. If you don’t take your sales and marketing seriously, you are leaving thousands of dollars per year on the table. Creating advertisements, crafting proposals, and selling your services at the highest level is the fastest way to increase your profits. This book will guide you through everything you need to know about sales and marketing for your decorating business.

With Expand: Stretching the Future By Design, authors Jens Martin Skibsted, a multiple-award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher, and Christian Bason, political scientist and CEO of the Danish Design Centre, take listeners beyond "design thinking" to challenge current habits and carve out new space for more sustainable innovation. From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand explores how expansive thinking across six key areas.

Hire by Design describes design thinking and explains the different ways you can utilize design thinking in talent acquisition. The book covers the different pieces of the talent acquisition strategy and then provides examples of how to use design thinking in each piece. Templates are provided that will enable the listeners to implement design thinking into their business and hiring practices.

Do you want companies fighting to have you as part of their team? Sarah Andreas shares discoveries from working with clients and her personal experience, offering tools, suggestions, and answers to questions in an easy to understand format packed with stories and examples to help develop your career advancement strategy.

Evidence shows culture drives fiscal performance. It's no secret that a toxic work culture can drive away employees and drive down profits. Creating a dynamic work culture that promotes both employee and business growth is key to ensuring an organization's success. However, culture is a moving target and hard to get right. In Great Mondays, brand strategist Josh Levine introduces a proven formula for building and managing a workplace culture that maximizes employee engagement, performance, and retention for long-term business success.

Designed to Win, written by Po Chung - the co-founder of DHL - reveals the industry secrets they used to build a worldwide network that now operates in more than 200 countries and territories! Warning: Listening to this book and following the advice within can result in designing an industry that doesn’t yet exist!

This book employs scientific evidence to examine why humans tend to make poor investment choices. Most investors continue to see their investment results harmed by the book’s two main themes: fear and greed. Fear and greed are human emotions that are as old as history, even prehistory. The bible also cites fear, greed, envy, and desire as destructive influences, so this has been going on for a long time.

Conquer the ASPPA QKS Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Qualified 401(k) Specialist is an essential resource for professionals seeking to advance their expertise in 401(k) plan management and achieve the prestigious QKS certification. This comprehensive guide covers the core concepts and principles necessary to excel in the field, including the fundamentals of defined contribution plans, employee deferrals, matching contributions, and the intricacies of 401(k) plan design and setup. In addition to exploring the technical aspects of 401(k) plans, the guide delves into the critical ...

Oprah Winfrey is not a brand. Oprah is a Black woman who was born into poverty in Mississippi to a single teenage mother who used her challenging and troubling childhood to inspire her to create a new category of television talk show that evangelized a more intimate, emotional, and confessional form of media. She did something different.

The Magic Triangle is the combination of product design, company design, and category design that produces legendary outcomes in the world of business. All three elements—company design, product design, and category design—work together and balance each other to exert great force on a company’s success and value. And the legendary, enduring companies get these three elements of company design, product design, and category design in such a state of synchronicity that they reinforce each other.

Learn the simple steps to make strong arguments that win people over in any talk. They'll Say Yes: Persuasion by Design shows you how to build arguments that get results without being pushy.

You will learn how design and innovation are being impacted by new and emerging technologies, societal demands, cultural shifts, and broader world issues. The Future of Design is practical, concise, and includes guidelines for building and supporting creative teams, advice and strategies for evaluating product concepts, and interviews with product designers, inventors, and innovators from around the world.

The 50 tips in High Conversion E-Mail Copywriting can fine-tune your e-mail copywriting skills to make your customers more loyal, your prospects more responsive and your list more profitable. Understanding the way that your prospects and customers read their e-mail will help you create messages that will gain and hold their attention, boosting response rates to new levels.

A leading behavioral economist shows how businesses can improve consumer thinking and decision-making on screens. The typical American office worker now spends the majority of his or her waking hours staring at a screen. In the 21st century, every business is a digital business, which is why it's so critical to understand how we think and behave online. Acclaimed behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi reveals a toolkit of interventions for the digital age. Using provocative case-studies and engaging exercises, Benartzi shows how businesses can update their nudges to help consumers make better decisions on screens.