Practice Management

When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn't know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson's The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who've experienced a life-changing loss.

Dr. Liker's book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific learning modules. Here the objective is to illustrate the Toyota Business Practices using a warranty example.

It's no secret that continuous innovation is the key to seizing and maintaining the competitive edge in today's increasingly challenging business environment. Unfortunately, the process for achieving this holy grail of business has been a mystery - until now. Built to Innovate delivers a proven system for building relentless innovation into your company's DNA.

Lift yourself out of the daily struggles and heartbreaks life deals you. Wading through the trials we face on a day-to-day basis can be exhausting. When we're hit with painful experiences that bring us to our knees, finding joy may seem to be too big a task for us to handle. Xandria Ooi, dubbed the "Happiness Guru", meets listeners in those dark and trying places and equips them with the courage to navigate them.

Break Free from Fibromyalgia's Chains – Discover Hope, Healing, and a Brighter Tomorrow! Do you wake up each day with excruciating pain, wondering if there's any hope for relief? Do you toss and turn, desperately seeking the elusive embrace of restful sleep? Are you tired of feeling like your life force has been drained by the relentless grip of Fibromyalgia? Does this sound like you, then we have you covered in this book.

Encapsulating over 60 years of combined professional experience working with successful leaders worldwide, authors Eric Harvey and Steve Ventura provide a proven collection of universal best in class leadership beliefs and behaviors labeled THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP. Despite the old adage, leaders are made not born. They are made with integrity, discipline, commitment, and hard work. Truly effective leadership is developed by learning and refining specific skills and applying those skills according to sound principles and time-tested guidelines. Providing you and your colleagues ...

While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of "empty labor", defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance.

The Student Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner—today's premier leadership experts—demonstrate how anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience. Grounded in the same extensive research as the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, it uses real-life stories and examples exclusively from college students.

Everett Harper delivers a powerful and pragmatic take on solving complex problems by, and making decisions through, uncertainty. You'll learn to discover insights quickly by experimenting, iterating, then building infrastructure to sustain your innovations in your teams and organizations. The author demonstrates a set of practices, processes, and infrastructure that addresses complex problems alongside a set of methods to systematize, scale, and share best practices throughout an organization.

You not only need superior strategic insights but also the wisdom and discipline of a Zen master, the incisiveness of a razor-sharp investor, the diplomacy of an ambassador, and the inclusiveness of a social activist. That requires inspiring, conscious, and enlightened leadership based on a purpose that is larger than self, presented in the CEO Mastery Journey.

Procrastination is a silent productivity killer, and its effects are undeniable. Imagine this scenario: a looming project deadline that should be your chance to shine, yet you find yourself wasting precious hours on social media or binge-watching your favorite TV series. As the deadline approaches, panic sets in, and the quality of your work suffers. Procrastination, a silent saboteur of dreams and ambitions, can be overcome. However, practical solutions exist and can be seamlessly integrated into your daily life.

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.

The agile practice is only one of the many iterative methods devised by development leaders in the past. Fundamentally speaking, iterative methods opposed the overly-incremental approach of the waterfall method by using a multitude of smaller phases. These phases encompass the main parts of the waterfall method (requirement, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance); but done so in smaller, more frequent increments.

Tired of feeling like you're constantly on edge, grinding through life, and running on empty? In Break Free from Stress, Book #2 of the BREAK FREE SERIES, Michael Priv delivers a no-nonsense, soul-refreshing guide to ditching stress for good. This isn’t another self-help book telling you to "think positive." This book offers unique insights into why stress has you by the throat, how it sneaks into your body, your mind, and your life, and practical methods to kick it out. You'll discover: What stress really is, and why it's not your nature, Why cortisol is aging you faster than French ...

In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, the ability to manage one's attention has become a critical skill for success. This is especially true for technical professionals, who face unique challenges as they juggle complex tasks, tight deadlines, and the constant bombardment of information. The Attention Architect: Techniques to Boost Productivity and Build Better Focus Habits is a practical, research-based guide designed specifically for engineers, developers, data scientists, and other technical professionals. This book will help you harness the power of your attention to maximize ...

Yes, your practice is unique. And yet the challenges of running a dental business remain universal for dentists. What works for one dental business can and does work for another - Rob Walsh proves this time and again, in the many business board meetings he attends with dental teams every year - almost 150 in the last three years alone. You win as Rob shares his experiences and insights. You get to see and hear what works and what doesn't with dentists around the UK.

Yoga is thought of by many as a fitness hobby—a gentler alternative to SoulCycle and CrossFit—but its underlying philosophy offers much more than a good workout. Yoga can relieve stress, focus the mind, and provide a path to reinvention, resilience, and a meaningful life. In Beyond the Mat, physician, executive, and yoga instructor Julie Rosenberg reveals how the essential lessons of the four-thousand-year-old Yoga Sutras contain a relevant framework in which to thrive both personally and professionally.

What if there's something you haven't learned yet that could change everything? I'm guessing you'd want to know what that is. This book gives you 25 of those things. Go ahead, click! You’ll learn from 25 holistic health experts who specialize in unique modalities for peak mind, body, soul health and wellness.

Portfolio management us the essential part of any investment. Without it, the investors cannot optimize their wealth. This book will help a simple as well as sophisticated investor in understanding, evaluation, management of portfolios. Its written in simple language in a precise manner. Even an investor with very limited finance knowledge can understand it.

As recent scientific research shows, the simple act of praying can be emotionally, spiritually, and even physically healing. With Prayers for Hard Times, author Becca Anderson offers solace in bringing together the wisdom of great thinkers, spiritual leaders, and writers who have faced difficulty and learned from it. This audio daybook draws from sacred sources such as the Bible, the Torah, Buddhist and Native American texts, as well as inspirational writings of: Joan Didion, Elizabeth Gilbert, Maya Angelou, Rumi, Abraham Lincoln, and many others.