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Be the Best at What Matters Most is about simplifying how you think and go about your business. Most businesses of today are more focused on the newest gimmicks and tricks of the trade that they believe can save the day. This book focuses on the view that success is a result of quality, consistency of performance, and relentless improvement on those things that matter most and not about the wow factor provided by flashy tricks. It will teach companies...
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Unlocking the value of business analytics can be challenging complexity, uncertainty, and confusion are usually the norm, not the exception. True innovation and competitive advantage stem from navigating the razors edge between order and chaos. So how do those who succeed do it? Everyone faces the same challenges; success comes from balancing the benefits of unfettered creativity with the need to industrialize those same unstructured processes. The...
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The action-based guide to powerful, influential organizational storytelling. Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of the world's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers to help you find, tell, and draw value from your organizational stories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded with fun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, and facilitated processes that require no special training or...
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Hailed by PMA, the Independent Book Publisher's Association, as a "business breakthrough" and "one of the thirty best business books of the year" by Soundview, the first edition of Working Relationships set the standard for managing conflict and developing teamwork while learning to get along with friends and foes at work.
Now author Bob Wall is back with the latest research and field-tested knowledge about the critical role emotional intelligence...
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In today's world, leadership is all about establishing community and connectivity so everyone can be part of something bigger than themselves. To have the grace to create this kind of leadership, we need greater self-awareness and genuine connection to others.
In The Five Graces of Life and Leadership, CEO of the celebrated consulting firm Korn Ferry delivers a meaningful and thought-provoking exploration of leadership, emphasizing the five kinds...
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The purpose of this book is to focus on what goes wrong in entrepreneurship what business owner’s regret and what one can do to address these laments. The book will commence with an overview of the personality traits and qualities that make success in entrepreneurship more likely, and will then turn to an examination of 7 key laments the author has experienced and witnessed as an entrepreneur himself and as a corporate attorney representing hundreds...
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Coming Interest Rate Collapse will explain how the bubble was created, what we as a country can do now to ameliorate the crisis and how investors can protect themselves no matter what economic condition prevails. The author first examines how decisions by both the Federal Reserve and private industry contributed to the current impending interest rate disaster and how is similar to the debt crisis in Europe. Retirees will be at particular risk as real...
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Given all of the looming insolvency of America and the very possible collapse of the U.S. dollar, China seems to be poised to step in and take America's place of prestige and superpower status on the world stage. This viewpoint would certainly appear to have an aura of inevitability, except for one crucial fact: China itself is on the verge of repeating what has been the hallmark of its communist rule for the past sixty years, a recurrent cycle of...
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The Tokens tells the fascinating story of Eric, a skilled craftsman and builder. During the course of his business journey, Eric struggles to take his burgeoning company to the next level. A chance encounter introduces him to Carl, a retired multimillionaire. Carl offers Eric the opportunity to take any material and supplies from his log cabin in exchange for demolishing the building. While working on the cabin, Eric discovers an unexpected and mystifying...
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Our homes, communities, and the world itself need the natural assets our children bring with them as learners, and which they often lose over time on the assembly line that pervades most of the public education system today. We see no actions as more important in school than developing, supporting, and reinforcing children's sense of agency, the value of their voices, and their potential to influence their own communities.
In Timeless Learning, an...
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Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today's world. In Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times, authors John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. You'll discover the emerging science of change that teaches us about how to build organizations-from...