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In Improv Leadership, Stan L. Endicott and David A. Miller share five leadership competencies: story mining, precision praising, metaphor cementing, lobbing forward, and going north. IMPROV leaders apply these five competencies to initiate powerful conversations, create memorable moments, and craft personal coaching strategies that help people grow. Improv Leadership cultivates teams of people who love their work (and each other), who perform at a high level, and who stop the disruptive carousel of staff turnover.

The post-apocalyptic survival adventure begins anew as Hobe sails for Florida in search of new opportunities after leaving the Trade Rendezvous. He has a plan that has not been revealed to his sailboats crew yet to hopefully put them into some new profitable adventures. Everything seems to be going well despite the hurricane that blew them off course and sent them towards an oyster fishing village in a far bay until pirates were spotted on the horizon. Follow our stalwart heroes as they brave the high seas five years after a Solar Storm has taken the electrical grid and economy down.

Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America's leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started.

In Diversity in the Work Place, you will discover what diversity looks like now, and how you, as a leader, can help foster a more inclusive workplace; the devastating fear of the unknown and why so many leaders are reluctant to change and evolve their managerial skills; how to be an inclusive leader, and build trust and open-mindedness among your employees; and much more.

Bart Foster reveals a science-inspired philosophy that reimagines corporate culture by bringing business outdoors, allowing for increased creativity, meaningful connections, and psychological restoration. Through a self-assessment of your personal values and discovery of your Zones of Genius, Bart shows how to rise above societal and outdated corporate norms that hinder growth. You’ll learn the benefits of a natural setting, why feeling personally fulfilled matters in your career, and proven practices that will put you on the path toward an authentic, intentional life.

No matter what your title or place on the organization chart, you have the potential to be a leader - or more precisely, the potential to exercise leadership in the moments that matter most. Leadership is not a job title or position, but rather an action. In certain moments and situations, anyone can rise to the occasion to act as a leader - gaining respect, confidence, and ultimately greater success in the organization. But how can you recognize these moments where leadership is required, and then know what to do?

Feeling drained and compromised at work? Struggling to maintain your well-being amidst professional adversity? Are you a Black woman leader navigating unique workplace hurdles? If yes, I invite you to explore empowering insights into overcoming challenges and fostering success.

Through Foster Kid to Executive, Mandy reveals the six essential secrets that propelled her from adversity to achievement. These secrets include the power of choice, the transformative potential of mindset, the importance of relentless effort, the clarity of setting and pursuing goals, the value of nurturing meaningful relationships, and the ability to seize opportunities.

Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently: hiring the right person instead of the best person; focusing on one priority while leaving room to explore new ideas; creating an environment where people are comfortable dealing with the uncomfortable.

La notable historia de cómo, empezado con una pequeña fábrica en Bolton, Joe Foster convirtió a Reebok en una de las marcas deportivas más famosas del mundo.

Dirty Diversity is a practical guide for organizations looking to strengthen their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. This guide includes strategies for effective conversations on challenging topics, tips for creating workplace training sessions and workshops, and cost-effective ways to improve the corporate culture. Gassam reveals her success stories as well as not-so-successful stories from her consulting experiences, and what was learned along the way.

As entrepreneurs, we are always on the hunt for those hidden nuggets of wisdom, those secrets that can make all the difference. In this book, we expose the concealed capabilities of OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT, as a revolutionary tool packed with hidden insights for entrepreneurs.

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas - but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks listeners through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. The 22 exercises in this hands-on book help you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership.

For Efrem Harkham, hospitality isn't just a job - it's a way of life. And that attitude is evident when you walk into any of Harkham’s one-hundred-plus luxury hotels. In a true, rags-to-riches American success story, Harkham built a renowned international hotel brand that is synonymous with comfort and refinement.

Que hayas oído o no sobre Slim, debes leer este libro. Aprende sobre la convincente historia del hijo de un inmigrante libanés que creció para convertirse en el hombre más rico de México. El padre de Carlos, Julián, abrió una tienda de ropa y complementos que tuvo mucho éxito, pero falleció cuando Carlos tenía tan solo trece años. Entonces Carlos tuvo que dirigir la empresa familiar hasta que se graduó de la escuela secundaria e ingresó la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Corporations can no longer just worship the bottom line. Consumers and customers want to be associated with brands that align with their values. For business success today, your company needs to tell a compelling story that creates engagement, word-of-mouth, and brand loyalty. The Hook gives you a proven methodology to create a compelling narrative, then shows you how to share your story with the world and get consumers and customers to listen to and remember your message.

Struggling with objections? Having trouble overcoming objections? Looking for a system to tackle objections? In this short listen, I'll share what I've learned throughout my selling career. Objection handling is not some ancient mystical secret.

In an ever-evolving global landscape, it's not enough to merely recognize the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). One must actively integrate it to create workplaces where everyone thrives. "Impactful Inclusive Leadership" isn't about following trends but pioneering a future where inclusivity is at the heart of every organizational decision.

The transition from line staff to management is fraught with difficulty. Sixty percent of new managers either fail outright or underperform in their first two years, while 51 percent of managers said they were unprepared for their first managerial role. In this quick-reference guide, master trainer and professional coach Joan Underwood shares practical insights and proven strategies for conquering the three most common challenges associated with this transition: managing self, managing others, and managing processes.

Are you ready to unlock secrets that can revolutionize your job searching process? In this comprehensive guide you'll unearth 20 unique and in-depth scenarios, each containing numerous concealed techniques crafted specifically to guide you through the cryptic journey of job-seeking. That's a total of 240 secrets, all meticulously designed to be instantly applicable and customizable to your unique situation!