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Lead from the inside out to build great teams and powerful business results. Leading great teams is like building a bridge. Each support cable strengthens the organization, providing both safety and strengthens work culture. The Leadership Bridge was written for anyone who aspires to great leadership in today’s volatile work environment.

Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating into an uncertain job market that is leaving them financially dependent on their parents for years to come - a reality that has left moms and dads wondering: What did I pay all that money for? There Is Life After College offers students, parents, and even recent graduates the practical advice and insight they need to jump-start their careers.

In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.

Say Good Bye to the I Must Check Email Habit. Love or Hate Email Are you guilty of checking your Email every other five or ten minutes? Are you always feeling the strong urge to reply to Emails the moment you set your eyes on them? It may not have occurred to you but you have unfortunately transformed into an Email Junkie, just like most people who have their own Email accounts. As a matter of fact, a typical Email user is said to spend on average 36 times checking their Email an hour. Well, that is an awful lot of time gone to waste and probably a lot of money that could have been ...

Lenders lure you with teaser rates. Investment partnerships dazzle you with fancy marketing materials. These are the tools of their trade, helping them earn excess returns on your hard work. Breakout Valuation provides entrepreneurs with the insider knowledge they need to build what matters—a valuable business. Written by an author who shares your entrepreneurial journey and has spent three decades investing, analyzing, and advising billions of dollars of transactions, Breakout Valuation tells you everything you need to know to finance your future today.

If Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had come of age at the end of the 20th century looking for an all-American adventure, they probably would've headed for Vegas. However, they'd have been hard-pressed to go on a wilder ride than the one taken by Tom Breitling and Tim Poster to the top of the famed Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. Call them the Odds Couple.

Have you ever thought about how you could use your day job to change the world? Imagine if you could harness your professional skills, knowledge and experience to help address our biggest social and environmental challenges? In this book, Seán Barnes shows how to do just that. In the process you will learn how to harness your skills and talents to take action, how to lift your professional work to a new level of contribution, and where to start today. Explore practical advice on how you can play your part in creating positive change.

For business owners and listeners interested in creating a business that serves its owners, "Sustainable: A Fable About Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business" offers much more than just a good listen. It’s a guidebook filled with wisdom and practical solutions for building a business that can thrive well into the future. And it's not another how-to book; there's a great story that you can use to learn from the Aardvark family.

No organization is totally free from destructive friction; the forces that make it harder, more complicated and sometimes downright impossible to get things done. Drawing on years of research and featuring case studies on the likes of Uber, Netflix and Boeing, The Friction Project teaches listeners how to become 'friction fixers'. Stanford professors Sutton and Rao unpack how we should think and act like trustees of others' time. They provide friction forensics to help listeners identify where to avert and repair bad friction, and where to maintain and inject good friction.

Business leaders today face unprecedented challenges—and it's not uncommon to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and complexity of nonstop decision making. To further complicate matters, you may believe that some decisions require rational (brain) decision making, while others call for you to "go with your gut." In The Steadfast Leader, you'll discover that integrating the two—brain and gut—will help you become the calm, steadfast and powerful leader you want to be.

Dans le monde des affaires comme aux échecs, le gagnant est celui qui prédit et devance les actions de son adversaire. Si vous ne contrôlez pas le jeu, c'est que vous êtes vous-même un pion ! Quels que soient votre secteur d'activité et la taille de votre entreprise, ce livre sera votre allié pour concrétiser vos objectifs business les plus audacieux.

La idea de este libro es ir más allá de ser un simple manual de Compliance, ya que debe funcionar en distintos niveles. Los recién llegados y los expertos pueden aprender sobre los diversos aspectos para crear un sistema eficaz de Ética y Compliance.

In today's environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn't happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated—in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for this kind of work doesn't have to be hard. There's a technique available to everyone, with no special certification required: gamestorming.

Topgun on Wall Street chronicles one man’s extraordinary journey from the cornfields of Ohio, to the cockpit of an F-14, to the boardrooms on Wall Street. Lieutenant Commander Jeffery Lay and number-one New York Times best-selling author Patrick Robinson bring a provocative, ground-breaking voice to the business landscape with a revolutionary answer for stabilizing corporate America: business - the military way.

Making a Quantum Leap: From There to Here, Vol. 1 takes you deep inside the mind of international best-selling author, Tom Nelson, as he goes from a maximum security prison cell to being a successful businessman, respected member of society, and father. Tom tells how he went from being a street thug and cocaine trafficker to owning the largest private fitness training facility in Los Angeles, being voted Trainer of the Year and Best Gym in Los Angeles.

What if saving the Earth were a game? Not just any game, but the greatest game we’ve ever played. This workbook helps social and environmental change professionals learn how to implement powerful techniques from the fields of game design, behavioral psychology, design, data science, and storytelling, that are not only proven to have impact, but also can make your project fun. In a 10-step framework of exercises, tutorials, and case studies, How to Save the World will teach you the art of changing the world — and it’s often not what you think.

When most people hear the term “day trader”, they imagine the stock market floor packed with people yelling "buy" and "sell" - or someone who went for broke and ended up just that. These days, investing isn’t just for the brilliant or the desperate - it’s a smart and necessary move to ensure financial well-being. To the newcomer, day trading can be a confusing process: where do you begin, and how can you approach trading in a careful yet effective way?

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

In Refounder: How Transformational Leaders Take What's Broken and Make it Better, you'll see how a small but committed group of visionaries took a broken health technology startup and created a thriving, humanity-enriching company. Are you ready to be a Refounder? Whether you're a C-suite executive hoping to change a struggling business, a middle manager tasked with revitalizing a dysfunctional team, or a community organizer attempting to renew the city block, Refounder is an invitation.

Procrastination is a growing problem. Everything is postponed until the last minute, whether it is addressing a critical assignment, studying for a test, or finally arriving at the workplace. Things are often postponed because the choices are so many that we lose sight of what is truly important. If you want to finally put an end to frustration, chaos, stress, and lack of motivation, this book is the ultimate guide. The practical structure of the book takes into account the need for everyone to develop their personal vision at their own pace.