Self Development Leadership

Working with difficult people can reduce your morale, threaten your productivity, deplete your energy, and waste your time. But you don't have to be helpless in the face of other people's craziness! Knowing how to handle coworkers' disruptive behavior is one of the most important career skills you can have, allowing you to become a more valuable employee and a more self-reliant person.

What would it take for you to overcome fear, become your ideal self, find your focus, beat anxiety, escape your comfort zone, and live your best life? What has held you back so far? Is it possible that the mistakes, regrets, and pain of the past have simply set you up for future success? What if the best is yet to come? What sort of fresh perspective, guidance, and motivation do you require to get to where you need to go? Finally! A group of expert authors have come together to help you reach your goals and achieve your wildest dreams in this brand new audiobook.

In Cowgirl Power, advertising CEO and cowgirl Gay Gaddis shares insights and examples for women to lead like fearless, risk-taking cowgirls: enhance and exude confidence, developing personal power on all fronts. As the owner of one of the largest female-owned independent agencies in the U.S. and former chairman of C200, one of the country’s top women’s business organizations, Gay Gaddis knows a thing or two about empowerment. Gay’s secrets of success have roots in the spirited strength of real cowgirls who were fearless risk-takers in everything they did.

Though the vision of one person can change the world, no one can carry out a vision alone. Extreme dreams depend on teams - lack of teamwork is often why big dreams go unrealized. Using examples and anecdotes from history and contemporary people, Pat Williams shows how the greatest world-changing events came to be as the result of the passion of one person. In each case a team was assembled with people equipped in the various areas needed to bring the vision to pass.

If only you knew…What it feels like to be heard. To share your voice and have your opinion matter to everyone within earshot. To broadcast your message to all those who needed to hear it. If only you knew that you were being prepared. If only you knew that everything you have ever learned about communication can be remodelled and be of service to your biggest dreams.

Followers of Dian Griesel's highly regarded blog SilverDisobedience.Rocks and her social media pages @SilverDisobedience have asked for her essays in book form. This is her response. Daily, thousands of people from all walks of life read and respond to short Silver Disobedience® essays published on an assortment of social media accounts. Not with a mere thumbs-up: Dian’s passionate readers share extensive personal responses, stories and gratitude for her heartfelt candor about deep feelings, thoughts, fears, problems and doubts to which so many seem to closely relate. As a “she-ro” ...

Optimism is your secret weapon in business and in life. It is custom designed specifically for you, and it is capable of bringing you everything you want. Optimism can overcome financial problems, physical disabilities, and personal challenges. In Jim Stovall's latest audiobook The Art of Optimism, he uses stories, studies, and personal experience to illustrate how adopting an attitude of optimism can change your life.

Tricia and Antoinette Clarke - best friends, Power Twins, and Boss Ladies - show you how to take your work and life to the Next Level. As African-American women who have climbed their way to the highest ranks of the media world, Tricia and Antoinette have learned that to win when the deck is stacked against you, you need to ditch the old Status Quo rules. If you’re tired of getting second-class rewards for first-class work and you’re ready to be respected for who you are, Double Down will give you the tools and tactics to go all in on your dreams.

Learn valuable lessons while Hollywood actors voice the parts in this entertaining and true story of Barefoot Wine. A Sherwood Players Production featuring a full ensemble cast ​including Hollywood Legends Ed Asner and Gigi Perreau​, an original cinematic score, sound effects, and behind the scenes interviews with the real Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey (creators of Barefoot Wine) with author Rick Kushman. It is amazing that such an iconic brand as Barefoot Wines began as a startup in the laundry room of a rented farmhouse.

To help you in becoming a more charismatic person, this guide goes through many actionable examples and strategies. As you press yourself to grow, you will find that there are so many experiences you have already had that will help formulate your ability to be successful. It’s time to take the plunge and grow!

Tom Peters has, for the past 12 years, been telling American business that the rules have changed. Now he goes farther in The Tom Peters Seminar, the first in an exciting new series aimed at helping everyone, Fortune 500 chairmen, middle managers trying to hold onto their place on the ladder (a mistake!), and hotel housekeepers, thrive in the brave new world of business in the 90s.

In any conflict, the 1st Alternative is my way and the 2nd Alternative is your way. The fight usually boils down to a question of whose way is better. There are many methods of “conflict resolution,” but most involve compromise, a low-level accommodation that stops the fight without breaking through to amazing new results. The 3rd Alternative is about more than just an armistice - it’s about creating a new and improved reality. The 3rd Alternative transcends traditional solutions to conflict by forging a path toward a third option....

Are you living the life of your dreams, or have you settled into the comfort of what you currently have? At one point, you had big dreams, right? So if you haven’t achieved them, what is it that is holding you back? What is keeping you from achieving them? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live a richer fuller life and be nicer to yourself along the way?

Coach 'Em Way Up teaches listeners to exhibit their best thinking, set a great example, lead, and mentor others to put them on a path to lasting competitive greatness while becoming great people, too. Based on the teachings of legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, listeners get effective leadership strategies for creating a culture of excellence in today's modern workplace. Simply put, Coach 'Em Way Up does for listeners what John Wooden did for decades:

Learn valuable and applicable life lessons from Oprah Winfrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan, Maya Angelou, Corrie ten Boom, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Truett Cathy, Ray Charles, Helen Keller, John Wooden, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to name a few, as they re-adjusted their attitudes and became who they are today. Your Attitude will determine your relationships with others. Your Attitude will show the difference between your successes or failures. Your Attitude will determine whether you soar like an eagle or walk around ...

We are all crazily busy. Yet many of us know that we still need to take the time to learn how to get better. Better at productivity. Better at achievement. Better at running our minds and bodies in the optimum way to enhance our rate of success. So how can we fulfil our potential when there's so much else to do? Win Fast offers succinct, proven strategies in no-nonsense language to help us rise to a new level in our personal and business lives, to be more productive and efficient and to exceed our goals.

Lessons & Learnings from a career journey spanning the U.S. Marines, silicon valley, and the executive board room, that will help you accelerate yourself, your business and your career! Oh how todays terminology confounds us. Terms like accurate self-assessment, effectiveness, efficiency, lean, six-sigma, executive presence, leadership-by-example, empathy, DEI, resiliency, balance, etc., can be overwhelming at times, and thus are misused or mis-applied frequently, regardless of how far you've progressed along your career path journey, or what outcomes you have achieved so far. One thing I ...

The founder of Tough Mudder - the world's greatest obstacle course races - takes us inside his unconventional company and reveals how tribes form and grow in surprising and powerful ways.

Life really does begin at 50! A must read for anyone wondering what to do in the second half of life... Are you at a crossroad wondering what's next for you? You might be stuck in a rut or experiencing a life event that's forcing you to make a change. Age 50 - and even 60 - is a perfect time to redesign your life, but how will you know the path that's right for you? The first place to start is your passions, but passion is often not enough, unless that passion is your purpose. We seldom have certainty of what our true purpose is, but life leaves clues that we often overlook. Those clues are...

Between the extremes of passive and aggressive styles is an effective, winning management approach - the assertive style. Assertive doesn't mean overbearing, pushy, or autocratic. It's a valuable, balanced approach that assures you'll handle people, get things done, and communicate - all in the same level-headed, confident manner. Understand the three styles of management. Specify what you need, when you need it, and the quality you receive. Motivate others to perform as expected.