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The ultimate hustle is to move freely between the street and corporate worlds, to find your flow and never stay locked in the same position. This is a manifesto for how to operate in the twenty-first century, where everything has been turned on its head. Building on the runaway success of Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power (almost five million copies sold), the 'modern Machiavelli' teams up with rapper 50 Cent to show how the power game of success can be played to your advantage.

There's a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization's strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they're misused by most organizations. For example, executives buy and implement a tool without first asking, "What problem are we trying to solve?"

People are angry with the world—in some cases, rightfully so—and now view companies as they do governments, as targets of their wrath and potential forces for social change. Managing outrage has moved from being an occasional leadership challenge, like handling a PR crisis, to a necessary and critical leadership capability, like strategic thinking or financial acumen.

Unlock Your Financial Freedom – The Gerry Marrs Way! Tired of the endless grind? Eager to take the reins of your financial destiny? You're just in time for the Gerry Marrs revolution! "Make $800 Per Month Starting Tonight!" This isn't just a book; it's your ticket to a life you've only dreamed of. A life where your bank balance blossoms while you sleep. Where every dawn brings new profits, all without spending a single dime of your hard-earned money! Welcome to the Plan Your master key to the gig economy vault. This isn't just any market; it's a goldmine waiting for your claim. Discover ...

Welcome to Building the Future: Strategies for Success in a Modern Business World. In this first chapter, we’re going to dive into what really makes a business successful in today’s fast-paced, competitive environment. When we think about successful businesses, we often think of big names—companies like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla. But what do they have in common? What drives their success? The answer lies in their foundation. What is the foundation of a business? Think of a business like a building. Just like any strong building, your business needs a solid foundation.

Discover how to master the power of influencers with this comprehensive and updated guide. Ideal for professionals, companies, and marketing enthusiasts, it offers valuable insights to optimize your strategies. Explore from the fundamentals to practical strategies for identification, approach, and collaboration with relevant influencers. Highlights include in-depth analyses of the role of influencers in brand building and audience engagement.

Entrepreneur and best-selling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses ranging from established companies to early stage startups to grow revenues, drive innovation, and emerge as truly modern organizations poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the 21st century.

“Kill it with fire”, the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more forgiving modernization framework, laying out smart value-add strategies and proven incremental techniques that work equally well for ancient systems and brand-new ones.

Are you utilizing AI in your marketing but unsure if you’re maximizing its potential? Wondering how to scale AI (artificial intelligence) marketing across your enterprise? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, this book is for you. Ideal for B2B marketers, enterprise sales professionals, marketing ops specialists, revenue ops managers, growth marketers, email marketers, content creators, and anyone involved in sales and marketing, this book provides essential knowledge about AI.

In the Confidence and Assertive Skills for Women guide, you're going to discover: How to become a confident, strong, and calm woman in today's chaotic world. Real-life case studies of ordinary women like you who transformed their lives and became powerful, assertive women. How to get rid of the debilitating impostor syndrome and gain the confidence you need to take on the world. Foolproof strategies to help you become an assertive woman and impose your will on the world without coming across as pushy or domineering.

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America. Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's best-known financiers, is thoughtful, observant, eloquent, and brutally honest, making him well-positioned to tell the story of a life that is a microcosm of modern China, and of how, improbably, that life became intertwined with America.

Ever Wonder What (In The World) Were The Chinese Thinking? You are not the only ones who are occasionally confused, misunderstood and lost in the wonderful yet sophisticated Chinese system. For those of you who want to taking a deeper, more structural and practical, modern approach to understand what the Chinese were thinking through a cultural and historical perspective, this book is a quick and dirty guide that will help get you on board in no time. Award-winning novelist Vann Chow introduces in What Were The Chinese Thinking? a series of important fundamental Chinese school of thoughts ...

Si has tenido alguna vez la sensación de que algo te estaba reteniendo en la vida, arruinando tus planes o impidiéndote ser lo que tú querías ser; estás en lo cierto. El hecho es que, hay una única fuente para todos tus problemas, el estrés, la infelicidad y la propia falta de confianza. Se llama la mente reactiva: la parte oculta de tu mente que almacena todas las experiencias dolorosas y luego las usa contra ti. Con Dianética, puedes aprender a controlar tu mente reactiva; liberándote para vivir una vida extraordinaria y ser tú mismo.

Here is a bold new history of economics, the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built a rigorous social science without peer.

We know that they prayed, sang, and wore long robes, but what was it really like to be a monk? Though monastic living may seem unimaginable to us moderns, it has relevance for today. This book illuminates the day-to-day of medieval European monasticism, showing how you can apply the principles of monastic living, like finding balance and peace, to your life. With wit and insight, medievalist and podcaster Daniele Cybulskie dives into the history of monasticism in each chapter and then reveals applications for today.

The Circular Economy: Principles, Philosophies, Science, and Modern Applications is a definitive guide to one of the most urgent and transformative ideas shaping the future of our global economy. Written by Ronald Joseph Legarski, Jr., President and CEO of SolveForce, this book offers a deep, multidisciplinary exploration of how the circular economy can drive sustainable innovation across industries, governments, and societies. Moving beyond traditional "take-make-waste" models, the circular economy envisions a world where materials, energy, and systems are regenerated in continuous, value-...

This no-frills guide to public relations is everything you wish you learned in college about launching a PR career or adding new skills to your marketing position. In an honest, boots-on-the-ground account of two decades working in PR, I’ll teach you how to work with bloggers, podcasters, and traditional media to gain press coverage, organic SEO, and better working relationships.

Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Mirco Hering, a thought leader in managing IT within legacy organizations, lays out a road map to success for IT managers and tells them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success, and addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.

Cameron Mitchell’s “dish room to boardroom story” began when he was 16-years-old and started working as a dishwasher at a local steakhouse in Columbus, Ohio. Two years later, when Mitchell was working as a line cook during a chaotic shift change, he had an epiphany. He realized he loved the restaurant business and set out to make it his lifelong career. He knew he wanted to be the president of a restaurant company, one day.

Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in over 30 years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopaedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopaedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.