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You've been asked to manage a key project—or perhaps you've volunteered for an assignment that could advance your career. So how do you make sure the project succeeds? Managing Projects walks you quickly through the basics.

Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur is for the individual who is ready to get serious about investing. Not a rah-rah or get-rich-quick book, this book is for someone who is prepared to think about what he or she wants to accomplish. James Randel provides the how and why.

In the newly revised third edition of Value-Based Fees: How to Charge What You're Worth and Get What You Charge, best-selling author, speaker, and renowned consultant Dr. Alan Weiss delivers a thoroughly updated guide to proposing, and receiving, consistently high fees that are based on the value you deliver to each client you serve. The author walks you through the many reasons that time-and-materials pricing models are outdated and inadequate and how to convert existing clients to your new value-based fee model.

Everyone possesses psychic powers and can be presently aware of events and experiences transcending the five senses. This audiobook teaches you to use your latent psychic powers. It explains how to contact the Infinite Healing Presence within you and supplies specific techniques for putting extrasensory powers into operation for your practical benefit, with amazing results.

Discover the revolutionary antidote to overload and exhaustion. Productivity speaker, trainer, and author Maura Nevel Thomas shows you how to master attention management with practical strategies that make an immediate impact.

Discover the 11 insights that will change the way you think and sell. Improve performance through self-awareness and relationships. Mattson and Seidman - C-level executives at Sandler Training, a world leader in sales training - focus listeners on the 11 core principles that can reshape identity and promote professional growth.

Your organization's culture can feel like something that has a life of its own; it's long-standing, inherited, and seemingly impermeable - in fact, a strong culture is often an obstacle to doing new things or going in new directions. But leaders are the stewards of a company's culture and have the power to shape it. The best leaders know that organizational culture is a fundamental and powerful management tool that can drive positive outcomes.

The Art of Selling to the Affluent, 2nd Edition offers a detailed landscape of today's affluent. Put yourself ahead of the competition by knowing how the recession has affected purchasing behavior and where the opportunities are moving forward.

Granville N. Toogood is a top executive communications expert, as well as an established speaker, trainer, and writer. Before starting his own company in 1982, Mr. Toogood was a television reporter and network news producer for NBC and ABC. Today, he works with a long list of blue-chip clients and has served as a consultant to 38 of the Fortune 500 CEOs, as well as thousands of senior-level executives, elected officials, and diplomats throughout the world. This book is based on his acclaimed corporate workshops in executive communications.

Whether it's people looking to earn extra money, those tired of their nine-to-five, to entrepreneurs looking to grow their side hustle, Entrepreneur is uniquely qualified to guide a new generation of bold individuals looking to live their best lives and make it happen on their own terms. Whatever industry or jobs this new workforce takes, Start Your Own Business will guide them through the first three years of business. They'll gain the know-how of more than 30 years of collective advice from those who've come before them.

The discipline of infonomics takes you beyond thinking and talking about information as an asset to actually valuing and treating it as one. Infonomics provides the foundation and methods for quantifying information asset value and tactics for using information as your competitive edge to drive growth.

This book is designed to help you rise to the challenge and become the game changer your organization needs. Candid insights from dozens of coaches, managers, CEOs, journalists, entrepreneurs, and other elite performers reveal the qualities that make some people stand out, and the underlying theme is mindset. While talent is a great head start, it is merely potential. Undeveloped and erratically-wielded talent holds little value for an organization.

Are you a young dreamer wondering what it would be like to run your own business and gain true independence? Are you juggling school, life, and other responsibilities but can’t shake off that entrepreneurial itch? Do you wish you had the skills to turn your passion into a profitable business? Young trailblazers like you are eager to make their mark but often find themselves overwhelmed by the challenges of starting their own business. Imagine if you had a roadmap specifically designed for your journey—a companion to guide you from an idea to a successful business right now!

John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.

Setting business strategy enables you to develop absolute clarity on priorities, organize resources, and get better results than ever before. It may sound complicated, but Brian Tracy knows how to make it simple. In this practical audiobook, he shares the most important lessons for strategic planning.

Rachel Pacheco, professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough Business School and a former chief people officer, will give you tools and tips that will immediately and positively affect how you manage people, despite differences in communication styles or personalities. With seven research-backed lessons, including suggested exercises, this course will help you develop and practice the skills to ultimately make you more fulfilled, competent, and successful in your role.

Serena Howard and Blake Russell are two driven individuals with tunnel vision when it comes to their goals. The two meet in Philadelphia, and there's instant chemistry between them. They date, have fun, and eventually fall for one another. Will the desire to achieve their goals interfere with their feelings for one another? Will they sever ties, or will their connection be too strong to break?

Why are some people more successful than others? What gives them their winning edge? World-renowned performance expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying uncommonly high achievers, and in this short, inspiring audiobook, he shares what he has learned: Even small adjustments in outlook and behavior can lead to enormous differences in results.

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

In Startup Boards, Brad Feld - a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist - shares his experience in this area by talking about the importance of having the right board members on your team and how to manage them well. Along the way, he shares valuable insights on various aspects of the board, including how they can support you, help you understand your startup's milestones and get to them faster, and hold you accountable.