Career Design

Courage is a choice—your choice. If you wish, you can design and follow your own personal roadmap for a courageous life. In her powerful new book, visionary business leader Dee M. Robinson shows you how to transform your life by building up the courage to hear your own authentic internal voice. That voice is what points you toward your best self—and when you have the courage to hear it, that voice can teach you to overcome fear, make brave, bold choices, and find joy in fulfilling your true purpose in life.

Design sprints provide a problem-solving framework to get answers quickly and effectively. Learn to run sprints in any organization to reduce politics, increase collaboration, and put the focus on outcomes.

Ninety-four percent of consumers will leave a website if it has poor graphic design. Do you want to effortlessly keep an audience’s attention on your data visuals and not their phones? Keep listening.

Through Starting a Career in the Fashion World: 8 Proven Strategies to Help You Launch a Successful Career in Fashion and Make Your Mark!, build a solid foundation for your fashion career. Learn to create a personal brand that reflects your style and vision, and effectively network in the industry. Shine brightly and leave an indelible mark, propelled by your own unique vision and passion.

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

Your life is getting the exact results it's designed to get. To change your life, you must first change your design. What if you got the exact results you wanted? Sound too good to be true? Your results are simply a reflection of your thinking up until now. The seven steps that make up Higher Life Design will equip you to arrive at your intended destination healthy, wealthy, and happy.

This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life.

Human Permaculture is a powerful, forward-thinking guide that uses permaculture principles of ecological design rooted in people care, Earth care, and fair share for redesigning your life and community to align with the resources available on the planet. As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to others, changes must come from the inside out: transforming the "I" to "we", changing the world by changing ourselves.

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.

Are you a dreamer? Do you ever look at your life and wonder how to make it more like you imagined it could be? Have you ever had goals that you had no idea how to achieve or even where to start? This insightful and practical book not only answers some burning questions about how to get what you want from life and create the life of your dreams, this book offers a step-by-step system to follow.

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!

If you have ever wondered what goes into an awesome resume, look no further. You will find the complex and often conflicting advice on crafting the best possible resume broken down in just seven easy steps. Giving you an unparalleled deconstruction of modern resume building, no promotion, job transition, or career change will pose a challenge once you are done. After allying all the information in this guide, the only thing left will be the interview!

Thread's Not Dead is the essential strategy guide for dominating the t-shirt design business! Start your own clothing line, design for your favorite brands, and more. Learn the secrets and strategies used by the most successful clothing brands. You can become the next Mark Ecko, Obey, or Johnny Cupcakes! This book covers everything you need to know.

Being an Introvert is not something that needs to be cured, but it is a Superpower that can catapult your income to $100K and beyond. Introverts have 7 Superpowers that extroverts don’t have, that can transform you into a Sales Superstar if you use them to your advantage. Because of an Introvert’s natural tendency to be alone and not be in the spotlight, they often shy away from sales. However, sales are where they can take their Superpowers and Shine. The author, Michelle Kulp, is an introvert who went from a 9-5 job in the legal field to making 6 figures in outside sales and then ...

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.

Being a Black woman in corporate America is no small feat. Unlock the path to success with these seven secrets. You're always facing twofold discrimination for being Black and a woman in a place not designed for you to bring 100 percent of yourself. You try to take the stairs to corporate success, only to end up on the same floor; meanwhile, your White counterparts quickly ascend to the top floor. This book will reveal how to tap into your innate leadership potential and propel yourself forward to overcome obstacles and thrive in your career.

Art has been a staple in most cultures across the world, firmly having rooted itself as a means of communicating one’s understanding of themselves and the world around them. A great number of people in the world develop a natural passion for the act of creation, irrespective of talent. However, most of those who pursue the arts start off self-taught, and when they get to the point where they can take classes, there is a mix of bad habits and misunderstood techniques that they have to unlearn in order to improve.

We can't predict the future, yet we do it all the time. We organize projects, events, days, weeks, and years. We plan to buy a home, build a career, travel, get married, raise children, teach a class, retire, or get in shape. Our ability to model the world as it is and might be is a gift, but mental time travel is also really hard. Fortunately, since planning is a skill, everyone from playful improviser to rigorous planner can greatly improve, if they are ready to learn.

Despite how much is written about strategy, and money spent on it, reports of chronic failures persist. Two causes dominate. Strategy is still not fully defined, and strategy practice is still largely based on a planned view of the world. Change and innovation, however, are not wholly planned but emerge from the myriad interactions of the players involved—some by design, many not. This science of complex adaptive systems must be the bedrock on which strategy is built.

Do you want to create social impact, but feel there must be a better way? There is. So many problems the world faces go largely unaddressed because social entrepreneurs are unaware that they hold the power to design a better organization for creating more effective social impact. Not anymore.