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In Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can't-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You'll learn what it takes to become a sustainable leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground.

Write Your Book on the Side will show you how to write your first nonfiction Kindle book while you're working a full-time job, even if you've never written a book before. You'll learn how to come up with a winning topic, how to choose the right title, and how to publish your book in 10 easy steps.

In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In became a massive cultural phenomenon and its title became an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of best seller lists both nationally and internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Now, this enhanced edition provides the entire text of the original book updated with more recent statistics and features a passionate letter from Sandberg encouraging graduates to find and commit to work they love.

Discovery is perhaps the most critical phase of any sales journey and yet it also one of the least managed. Learn the best strategies and tactics to give you the best chance to make sure that first meeting isn’t the last.

If you're struggling to get your online business up and running then you need to read this book. Over the years I've helped a lot of people make money online. Sadly, most of the people that come to me will never have success. It's a shame because anyone can be successful online... IF they follow these 10 simple principles. Trust me, it's not rocket science. If I can go from a clueless PC repair man that didn't have any website or marketing experience... ...to a full-time Internet marketer and top 100 Clickbank affiliate, I know you can. In fact, I'm sure you could achieve even more than ...

Regardless of your expertise and experience, it’s your people skills, political nous and ability to build key relationships that will ensure you survive and thrive. Packed with real-life examples and practical guidance, Become a Successful First-Time CEO is a roadmap to help you develop the confidence and master the strategies you need to be an inspirational corporate leader.

This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate - writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now, there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality.

In her newest book, Be Bad First, Erika explores how we can become masters of mastery; proficient in the kind of high-payoff learning that's needed today. She encourages listeners to embrace being bad on the way to being great - to be novices over and over again as we seek to learn and acquire the new skills that will allow us to thrive in this fast-changing world.

It gets lonely on the road for a professional woman like Chloe, who's always going on business trips far away from her husband. And it's even harder when you're a woman like Chloe who can't stop thinking about, or craving, hot sex with as many men as possible! During a business trip to Florida, she wanted to get with a whole bunch of men at once, and she was pleasuring herself in her hotel room thinking about it. Then she decided to go out and do something about it. But when one group of men filling all her holes just wasn't going to be enough to satisfy Chloe, she was on the hunt for yet ...

Between the constant pressures of job performance and demands on your time, it’s easy to lose sight of your values, letting them shift out of alignment. Those simple misalignments are keeping you from feeling joyful and fulfilled.

This book provides plentiful questions and answers, which, we hope, may prove useful in your interview preparation. An analyst and job seeker can practice these questions prior to their interview, and can be assured to come across as a confident, competent, and well-composed professional. Aside from sample questions and answers, the book also provides helpful tips to make the concepts easy to understand and some "shine on" pointers for listeners to stand-out in their interviews.

Political observers have long attached a near-talismanic status to the first 100 days of a new administration. For an executive taking the new role as a corporate leader, the first 100 days are no less consequential. The New Boss is a guide for newly appointed senior managers to make a successful leadership transition. Written by Peter Fischer, an industrial psychologist and psychotherapist, this book provides new bosses with tried and tested models and self-assessment techniques for managing expectations, building key relationships, and implementing change....

This book is created for you, hard-working father who works at a corporate American job to pay the bills. You long to support your family composing music for film, TV, and video games. You get no joy or fulfillment from your work...this is a safe, “real” job. You complain to your wife every night about how you long for the day when you can support your family composing music for film, TV, and video games.

How to hit the ground running when you have a new startup idea. De-risk it before you invest years of your life or all of your savings. How many pairs of shoes did you buy online in the nineties? In 1998, UK born film-school grad Nick Swinmurn was scouring the Bay Area for a pair of Airwalks, but couldn't seem to find the right size and style. Yet he knew most consumers didn't buy much of anything online. Especially shoes, which are very personal. The assumption that consumers would actually buy shoes online needed to be tested. Swinmurn began by putting up photos of shoes from local shoe ...

Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. But humanity did not give up its only home without a fight. After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven back to Mars. Their millions of willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.

One professional transition that stands out and is vital to your career is shifting from playing the role of an individual contributor to becoming a manager. There are a lot of things that new managers need to learn apart from leading others. You need to work on yourself, win your team members' trust and respect, become a motivator for them, and find the right balance between the delegation of responsibilities and maintaining control. Becoming a manager is the first step in this process. You work hard, dedicate long hours, and give up your weekends to earn a promotion.

Management consulting is a $250 billion industry and growing at a rate of over four percent annually. Many predict that more than 40 percent of the US workforce will soon be contingent, freelance, or consulting members of the workforce - making this book more relevant than ever. Individuals become independent consultants out of necessity or preference: necessity because they lost their job or the company offered an attractive exit package; preference because they want a career change, more control over their time, or an enriched, varied work situation.

Do you want to know how to achieve your first million dollars 20 times faster? As a CEO and entrepreneur committed to accelerating your business to the million-dollar mark within 24 months - a quantified 20-year quantum leap - it starts with you truly understanding what it is you want.

Can your business make a positive impact and grow at the same time Follow Kent as he shows you how, going from a young entrepreneur to learning the secret to success.

You are invited to take the first step in what will be a Successful Entrepreneurial Journey! You'll give yourself a hand after listening and applying this practical book to your journey!