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Self Made, 2nd Edition

Self Made, 2nd Edition

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Bianca Miller-Cole, Byron Cole

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This authoritative, focused and bestselling guide by two of the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs – The Apprentice runner-up, Bianca Miller-Cole and serial entrepreneur, Dr Byron Cole – is a comprehensive toolkit for anyone who wants to make a success of running their own business. Featuring interviews with well known entrepreneurs, entertainers and industry experts, the book covers every tier of the business development process, from start-up to exit, offering practical, implementable and global advice on the start up process.

This fully updated new edition will de-code the jargon that is prevalent in business circles today, providing straightforward advice on converting an innovative business concept into a commercially viable proposition. It will help you to avoid the costly common mistakes of many who have gone before you, and create a sustainable enterprise that will flourish. Fully updated and expanded to make it more timely, more international, more practical and more inspiring, it will be a vital tool for Entrepreneurs both inside and outside of the author’s hugely motivated network.
Work-Life Tango

Work-Life Tango

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Kristel Bauer

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The familiar concept of work-life balance endures, but does anyone actually boast of having a healthy ratio of work and personal time? Very few do, because our model for work/life leads to burn out – it asks individuals to chase a dream where work and life are both equal and distinct, where the demands of one do not contradict the demands of another. Simply giving 100% to the twin pillars of your life will not give you the work/life balance you crave. The good news is, there’s a much more intelligent, holistic and effective way to live your life.

Life has never fit into tidy little boxes. Family and social needs don’t stop between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and work pressures bleed into the hours between 5:01 p.m. and 8:59 a.m. all the time. And since the pandemic, the lines have become even more blurred, with remote workers bearing the brunt of the impact. It’s time to embrace new wellness strategies, This book will show how taking a holistic and integrative approach to the complex demands of life and work will transform your happiness and producitivity.

The book will contain three parts.
· Part I will focus on strategies to thrive as an individual; specifically, maintaining a healthy mind and body by prioritizing oneself. You’ll learn how to integrate healthy lifestyle habits into and throughout your workday, so that taking care of yourself won’t compete with productivity but will support it.
· Part II will focus on thriving at work. You’ll learn about checkpoints and how to use these moments to wake up and realign your well-being with your personal mission. You’ll learn how to create healthy boundaries, work through the common challenges that remote workers face and provide approachable solutions that you can immediately start integrating into your work life. Team leaders will gain key insights for managing remote and flexible teams so that they can create the conditions for success.
· Part III is about thriving in relationships. While community and connection are vital to well-being, many workers struggle to form and maintain these bonds. This book will explain why connection is vital, and show how to encourage it.
By identifying your personal mission and integrating the wellness strategies provided in TheWork/Life Tango, you’ll be able to show up 100% in all aspects of life-in your career, for your family and friends, and for yourself.
The 4 Jobs Club

The 4 Jobs Club

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Kathryn Sollmann

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JOIN THE CLUB!

Whether you’re managing a multi-million-dollar division or contributing to a small team, blending work and life over the course of a career takes creativity, organization, cutting yourself slack, exploring strategies and asking for help.

Plan Work and Life from Your Heart

Let fifty of the world’s most successful professional women show you how they too care simultaneously for kids, aging parents, households and careers. They each share simple strategies developed through every life stage and career level, whilst managing these 4 big jobs – all with sanity, good humor and grace.

Be True to Your Professional DNA

Career coach Kathryn Sollmann helps smart women integrate work and life, in her mission to keep women working towards long-term financial security. Through conducting this series of interviews she has compiled over 200 simple tips that will help you persevere and keeping moving forwards in your professional life.

These relatively easy, yet powerful tips are from women who have found non-life-shattering trade-offs, practiced anti-perfection, used short-cuts, got help, and set up systems for household equity.

THE 4 JOBS CLUB is the place where you will find the help and wisdom you need to pursue work that fits your life and be the professional, mother, daughter, and life partner you want to be.

Join the 4 Jobs Club community at /the-4-jobs-club.mn.co/
How to Get to Great Ideas

How to Get to Great Ideas

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Dave Birss

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The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creative director Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame a problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea, how to build support for it and how to inspire others to have great ideas. It proves that any organization – and any individual or department within an organization – can create a fertile environment for ideas.

Combining a practical research-based system with fascinating insights and inspiring and humorous writing, the book also includes the problem-solving system RIGHT Thinking. This is a tool which enables a more effective way to generate more effective ideas, and is one that anyone can use to transform themselves or their business. Training on this system is also available in person from the author. And will be released soon as an online course.
The Life Cycle of a CEO

The Life Cycle of a CEO

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Claudius A. Hildebrand, Robert J. Stark

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Ground-breaking research into how CEOs succeed by navigating the storms and predictable crises of corporate life.

From the world’s most influential executive search and leadership consulting firms, Spencer Stuart, combining unprecedented research with 100 in-depth interviews, this framework charts the distinctive life cycle of a CEO. By analysing the individual performance of every twenty-first century CEO of top 500 publicly traded companies and accompanying macroeconomic and industry cycles, Hildebrand and Stark map the predictable passages of headwinds and tailwinds that leaders must face at each stage of their tenure, from the day they walk through the door till the day they walk out. They reveal how successful CEOs navigate these cycles by developing fresh skills and strategies needed for each distinct passage.

As captains of organisations crucial to the economic foundation of our society, CEOs have a critical role to play. But our understanding of why some drive phenomenal innovation and growth and others quickly falter is clouded by myths and caricatures perpetrated by the media and political and social commentators. the bewildered rookie; the rock star who can do no wrong; the corporate saviour, parachuting in to restore former glory; the treacherous villain out to destroy the planet or exploit people…

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A CEO breaks through these myths and provide insight into how those who thrive push themselves to evolve and master skills for meeting the challenges their companies face, and how they navigate the inevitable personal and organizational crises of corporate life as performance waxes and wanes.

This invaluable roadmap for personal growth yields insight needed for navigating crises such as: criticism by stakeholders; when leaders are at the greatest risk of stagnation and firing; and when aversion to risk is likely to turn into a weakness. It provides the foundation for both rookies and seasoned leaders to gain self-insight and self-confidence and unlock both higher individual and corporate performance.
The Journey of Leadership

The Journey of Leadership

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Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, Ramesh Srinivasan

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.

This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally and personally, including revealing lessons from its legendary CEO leadership program, The Bower Forum, which has counseled more than five hundred global CEOs over the past decade. It is a journey that helps leaders hone the psychological, emotional, and, ultimately, human attributes that result in success in today’s most demanding top job.

Packed with insightful and never-before-heard reflections from leaders, including Ed Bastian (CEO of Delta Air Lines), Makoto Uchida (CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation), Mark Fields (former CEO of Ford Motor Company), Reeta Roy (CEO of Mastercard Foundation), and Stéphane Bancel (CEO of Moderna), you will learn how to:

* Assess your personal leadership approach and style objectively.
* Discover your true mandate as a leader.
* Develop creative, actionable ways to reinvigorate both yourself and your organization.
* Create a personal commitment plan to inspire your team and cement your legacy.

The Journey of Leadership is an invaluable resource for anyone running or hoping to run an organization in today’s ever-more-complex world.
Our Next Reality

Our Next Reality

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Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg

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Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in the near future. The material is data driven, digestible, and very actionable.” RAY KURZWEIL, Author/Entrepreneur/Futurist

“A wide-reaching exploration of the intersections between AI, VR and AR: it’s a mind-opener, and a source of reflection on how transformative and still unknown the future of communication, personal technology and even personal privacy might become.” SCOTT STEIN, Editor at Large, CNET

Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.

We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.

In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we’re creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as artificial intelligence and spatial computing accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.

“For anyone who wants to use AI and XR to help build the future, read this book to help you skillfully navigate a future of unprecedented danger and promise.” JASON HINER, Editor in Chief, ZDNet

Our Next Reality really is a must-read for anyone who wants to prepare for the massive AI and XR driven disruption coming our way.” CHARLIE FINK, Author | Adjunct | Forbes Tech Columnist
Workstyle

Workstyle

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Alex Hirst, Lizzie Penny

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Workstyle is the freedom to choose when and where you work. It is only now, after centuries of formal and inflexible working hours, that such an opportunity is on the horizon. It is an opportunity that will have far reaching and profoundly positive implications, levelling the playing field and helping to create true inclusivity and accessibility in our society.

This inspiring book will explain the history of work, where the 9-5 came from, and why the time is right for change. You’ll learn how workstyle differs from flexible, hybrid, or remote working, and why it matters. Most importantly, you’ll explore and design your own workstyle, by reflecting on the things that matter to you, acting to change your life and inspiring others to do the same, all underpinned by research that proves that this is a better way to work for us all.

This book is for everyone who has had to take a day off work to receive a delivery or go to a doctor’s appointment. It is for anyone who has caring responsibilities, for parents, for those with illnesses, with mental health issues, who feel burnt out, or who are living with disabilities. It is for those who are older, who identify as neurodiverse or who consider themselves different in any way. It is for people who feel disenchanted with work and want to live a meaningful, fulfilled life. It is for anyone who questions why they need to commute to an office to be productive. It is for every person who has a life outside of work.

This book is for everyone. This book is for you!
Brand it Like Serhant

Brand it Like Serhant

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Ryan Serhant

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Bestselling author of Sell it Like Serhant and Big Money Energy and real estate, television, and media icon Ryan Serhant shares his proven, three-step strategy to build your brand from scratch

Brand is everything. Whether you’re a real estate broker, a hair stylist, or a freelance contractor, your end goal is the same: get leads and generate new business. You want people to think of you the split second they consider looking for a new apartment, getting highlights, or finally redoing that guest bathroom. And while building a brand from scratch sounds daunting, the authentic you is already a brand – you just might not know it yet.

Brand It Like Serhant guides you through the exact same strategy that transformed SERHANT from that-broker-above-Burger Heaven into the most recognized real estate brand in the world. In Phase One, you’ll discover your core identity, from your written brand statement to fonts, colours, posing for photos, and more. In Phase Two, you’ll learn how to deliver consistent content – realistically, by understanding social platforms and making the right choices for your work. And in Phase Three, you’ll shout it from the mountaintops: share your accolades, leverage growth, and achieve your full potential.

Weaving interviews with household names like Gary Vee, Rebecca Minkoff, and Mark Manson, custom worksheets to get organized, and a case study of one person’s progress through each chapter, Brand It Like Serhant is textbook, classroom, and teacher rolled into one. Start to finish, Ryan’s actionable guide empowers you to build an authentic, enduring brand by becoming known for what you want to be known for – and skyrocket your career.
Ten Year Career

Ten Year Career

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Jodie Cook

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“A powerful and valuable book to live a life of greater freedom and impact”,
Robin Sharma, #1 worldwide bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Everyday Hero Manifesto

Reimagine your future, adjust your efforts, jump into action and work for just ten more years before doing what the hell you want!

Building a business can be confusing. Entrepreneurs aren’t sure whether to keep control or delegate and automate, say yes or say no, work all hours or prioritise work-life balance. They take advice from all directions and wind up feeling overwhelmed and overworked without a finish line in sight.

The TEN YEAR CAREER turns that premise upside down and argues that it doesn’t have to be that way. If you have intention, focus, a willingness to question received truths and the vision to think big, you can emulate the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and retire in ten years, no matter where you are in your career today.


You’ll learn:
– How to define success your way, not their way.
– How to achieve far more in a shorter space of time.
– How to run your business without it running you.
– The four-step framework by which to complete your Ten Year Career.

You can achieve much more than you do now, in much less time than you thought, to reach financial freedom earlier than you imagined. That freedom, in turn, leads to the freedom to choose how you spend your days. The freedom to do whatever you want, with whomever you want, when you want to do it. The freedom to live life on your own terms.
Find Your Purpose

Find Your Purpose

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Kevan Hall

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Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it all than this?

If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment.

FIND YOUR PURPOSE will:

· help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally
· introduce principles and techniques for actively designing happiness and fulfilment
· show you how to apply these principles in your work, relationships, leisure and learning
· introduce systematic planning tools into all areas of your life – even those areas you might not expect
By the end of the book you will have created a practical action plan for redesigning the next stage of your life and career, whether that be a sidestep, a side hustle or a complete step change.

Based on workshops and research from a highly experienced training team, these proven tools will enable you to identify the unique portfolio of activities that is likely to make you most happy and fulfilled.

The days of a linear career progression are gone. Shape your life and work to suit the true you and enjoy your personal breakthrough.
The Excellence Dividend

The Excellence Dividend

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Tom Peters

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“The Real Deal” Seth Godin, New York Times bestselling author of Linchpin

“I’d rather hire someone who has studied [Peters’] writings than someone who has an MBA” Matthew Kelly, CEO of Floyd Consulting and New York Times bestselling author of The Dream Manager

The Excellence Dividend is a critical work from one of today’s leading visionaries in business. Winner of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award and the CEO Reads Lifetime Contribution to the Business Book Industry Award, Tom Peters is one of the world’s most revered management gurus and global business thinkers.

For decades, he has been preaching the gospel of putting people first, and in today’s rapidly changing business environment, this message is more important than ever. Studies show that fewer than one-third of employees feel engaged with their work and that half of all jobs are at risk due to technology. But Peters has a solution: a sustained commitment to excellence combined with a commitment to people. These are, he argues, the only tools for coping with and thriving amidst the tsunami of change facing business today.

In The Excellence Dividend, Peters shows that nothing beats a high-quality product or service, designed and delivered by people who are as dedicated to each other as they are to their shared goal. With his unparalleled expertise and inimitable charisma, Peters offers brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement.

After spending four decades in in pursuit of professional excellence, giving more than 3,000 presentations on the subject and working with companies around the world, Peters has delivered a contemporary personal excellence manual for any professional looking to make their mark and face today’s business challenges.
The New Brand You

The New Brand You

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Catherine Kaputa

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The New Brand You is the field guide to standing out and succeeding in the new professional landscape transformed by the pandemic. In the new world of virtual, remote and flexible working, everyone needs to consider carefully their personal brand and power, and many will need to hit the ‘reset’ button.

We are all on camera now – we all need to be producers of our own brand narrative. Like it or not, in a digitally driven, more competitive, more global world of employment, the reality is that you need to consider your personal brand. You have no choice, if you don’t brand yourself, other people will. And not in the way you want to be seen. That, or you will simply become invisible, and that’s almost never good.

The New Brand You uses ten tried and tested strategies from the commercial world of branding and applies them to individual brand creation. Strategies such as defining your positioning, researching your target audience and taking steps to ensure you always stay relevant, are equally applicable to individuals as they are to products and companies. It’s not about sticking some slightly skewed version of your name on social media, it’s about smart positioning and successful tactics.

Featuring high profile success stories and accompanied by an online Personal Brand Finder, an assessment tool that measures psychological preferences and aligns with the ten strategies in the book, this book will help you to target the most relevant strategies for you. It will include examples, exercises and callouts to make it a quick read and easy to action immediately.

Getting your personal branding right will give you the edge in the new age of work.
TomorrowMind

TomorrowMind

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Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Martin Seligman

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A future-proof guide to rehumanising the workplace in order to bring about greater personal success and corporate productivity, from two global authorities in workplace mental health.

In recent years, workplace toxicity, industry volatility, employee isolation and technology-driven change have threatened the psychological well-being of employees. The rise of quiet quitting has shown that when we can’t flourish at work, both personal success and corporate productivity suffer.

As we sit on the cusp of some of the most turbulent economic changes in history many of us wonder if we can not only survive but flourish in our careers.

Based on the science of thriving, Tomorrowmind proves we can and provides essential plans and actionable advice for succeeding in the uncertain future of work. Build skills in resilience, foresight and creativity and help to cultivate workplace that fosters connection and meaning for yourself and your team. Engaging evidence shows how individuals, teams, and organizations that excel at these five key attributes will win in the whitewater of work every time.

A timely and crucial guide that is destined to inspire generations of workers.
Smart Brevity

Smart Brevity

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Roy Schwartz, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei

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THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO SAYING MORE WITH LESS
–NOW A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER–

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity – think Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for the digital age.

In SMART BREVITY: The Power of Saying More with Less, Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz teach readers how to say more with less in virtually any format. They also share communications lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications.
The Art of Quiet Influence

The Art of Quiet Influence

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Jocelyn Davis

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Anyone can be a quiet influencer. But not everyone knows how.

“A tremendous and relevant read!” Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust

Drawing on the enduring wisdom of the Buddha, Confucius, Rumi, Gandhi and others, The Art of Quiet Influence shows anyone, not just bosses, how to use influence without authority, a key mindfulness principle, to get things done at work and in life. Through the classic wisdom of 12 Eastern sages, relevant insights from influence research, and anecdotes and advice from 25 contemporary experts, Davis lays out a path for becoming a “mainspring,” the unobtrusive yet powerful influencer first introduced in her book The Greats on Leadership.

Organized around three core influence practices – Invite Participation, Share Power, and Aid Progress – readers will learn how to take mindfulness practice “out of the gym and onto the field,” while gaining the confidence and practical know-how to be influential in whatever role they occupy.
Lead to Win

Lead to Win

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Carla Harris

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What does it take to lead effectively today?

The world of work has undergone a sea change, presenting a new matrix of concerns and questions for leaders and potential leaders. How can you be successful amidst the present-day pressures and threats?

In this much needed book, Carla Harris, TED speaker and one of the world’s most senior women in finance, examines the journey from individual contributor to intentional leader. She explores the essential skills necessary to succeed, such as the importance of taking risks, creating a vision, and leveraging assets like relationships and partnerships.

Based on ten attributes of leadership that you must be intentional about every day, as well as exploring the key traits of executing as a transformational leader, Lead to Win is timely and inspiring. Filled with Harris’ trademark practical advice, it is the guide you need to become powerful, impactful and influential when leading others in any environment.

Carla Harris’ TED talk has been viewed over 4 million times.


Real Wins

Real Wins

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Michelle Moore

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‘Powerful and inspiring. A must read’ Denise Lewis OBE
‘A book that could simply change your life’ Colin Salmon, Actor

Face your fears, build resilience and find your own unique leadership style.

Real Wins is an urgent call to action from one of the most influential women in sport. In her unflinching style, Michelle Moore seeks to redress inequality and shows us how to channel our inner Serena Williams or Raheem Sterling to challenge stereotypes and tired assumptions.

Through an eye-opening insight into her experiences on the track and in the boardroom, and in sharing the inspiring stories of others, Michelle redefines the relationship between identity and success.

Giving you the practical strategies of self-awareness and resilience to run your own race, Real Wins will empower you to take responsibility for your own ultimate success.

Michelle Moore tirelessly champions a brand of conscious leadership for a new age of sport and business. She is sought out by corporations, government bodies and international sports federations to help drive change and bring about personal and collective transformation.

Longlisted for CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2022
Strategize to Win

Strategize to Win

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Carla Harris

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Whether you’re starting out, striving toward a promotion, or looking for a new opportunity, the working world is changing. Discover how to manage your career and position yourself for success no matter the environment.

Wall Street powerhouse Carla Harris has distilled the tools you will need to get started; get unstuck from bad situations or redirect your momentum. With her trademark galvanizing advice, Harris identifies and clarifies issues that are often murky, offering lessons on:

· Identifying and making the most of your work profile
· Preparing for a career change without going back to school or taking a step down
· Honing three essential skills industry leaders possess
· Tuning into unspoken cues
· Thriving through change

With practical advice on planning your career, interview techniques and negotiating compensation, Strategize to Win presents battle-tested tools that Carla has used to launch and sustain her own successful career. Her book will help you move forward, recover from setbacks and set yourself up for success.
100 Things Productive People Do

100 Things Productive People Do

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Nigel Cumberland

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Following the success of the international bestseller, 100 THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO, Nigel Cumberland turns his attention to productivity.

100 THINGS PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE DO distills all the wisdom of a lifetime of coaching successful business people into 100 short chapters showing you how to boost your productivity and get things done.

It is packed with great ideas for achieving more and creating success. Explore the habits, tools, techniques and mentality of highly productive people and discover how to effortlessly take on your to-do list. Every chapter features a new idea that will help you work smarter, not harder. Mixing simple explanations with activities and exercises, you’ll learn the optimal mindset and habits you need to succeed.

Praise for 100 THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO
‘Inside these pages you’ll find a powerful reminder of the many ways you can make your life – and other people’s lives – more successful. It will help you identify what success means to you and give you the building blocks for making that success a reality. This is your chance to overcome whatever obstacles are stopping you. Read it, act on it and experience the difference’ Marshall Goldsmith Ph.D., bestselling author of TRIGGERS
50 Economics Classics

50 Economics Classics

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Tom Butler Bowdon

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Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject.

50 Economics Classics
is the smart person’s guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy. From Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty’s bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great reads, seminal ideas and famous texts, clarified and illuminated for all.


The revised edition will:
· include 5-6 new titles addressing some more up to date areas of the subject such as The Bitcoin Standard, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Discrimination and Disparities
· have a revised introduction to reflect on the current turbulence and challenges facing the global economy over the next decade
· have some of the less relevant titles removed


‘Something of a modern classic in its own right.’
E&T magazine

’50 Economics Classics is a celebration of the large imaginative canvasses of the great economists. Butler-Bowdon’s choices are broad, interdisciplinary and compellingly idiosyncratic. His chapters are not simply straight summaries of the chosen works, but thoughtful reflections on why we should care about this or that book and what its relevance is for us today. Butler-Bowdon’s renderings are done so well that one might never bother going back to the original! Professional economists, students and general readers alike will find much here to delight in and many new byways to explore.’
Niall Kishtainy, Fellow in Economic History, London School of Economics
The Art of Business Wars

The Art of Business Wars

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David Brown, Business Wars

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Based on the chart-topping BUSINESS WARS podcast re-imagined using Sun Tzu’s THE ART OF WAR as a guide, THE ART OF BUSINESS WARS features stories and lessons from history’s greatest business rivalries revealing why some companies triumph while others crumble.

Business is a fight for survival. In business as in war, leaders match their wills in pursuit of opposing outcomes, they devise strategies, and marshal resources for victory. Success can turn on the smallest of details; a single tactical blunder can topple an empire. Ultimately, one side triumphs – and victory is all that matters.

In The Art of Business Wars, David Brown, host of the hit podcast Business Wars, masterfully frames some of the biggest business rivalries in history using revered Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s insights and pragmatic advice. Each rivalry tells a story of combined wits, strategies, and resources. Brown chronicles the rise of companies as they vanquish rivals, formulate innovative plans, and adapt to keep up with shifting needs. The goal? Stay ahead of the competition and emerge victorious.

By compiling powerful insights uncovered over hundreds of podcast episodes and more than a year of in-depth research, Brown has developed a formula for business intrigue rich in popular history. The stories in The Art of Business Wars will inspire you, and the lessons you can draw from them – about determination, ingenuity, patience, grit, subtlety, and other traits that contribute to a victorious enterprise – are invaluable, whether you’re a creative freelancer or the CEO of a multinational manufacturer.
Talent

Talent

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Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross

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How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?

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The Values Compass

The Values Compass

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Mandeep Rai

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The Values Compass takes us into the hearts, minds, and traditions of the cultures and people of the world. It demonstrates how interconnected we are and how the divisions that exist between us stem from narrow self-interest rather than concern for the good of our human family. I hope that the book will contribute to making our world a happier place.’
The Dalai Lama

‘The Values Compass is a fresh, engaging and eye-opening guide to understanding ourselves and others in the most profound and practical ways.’
Deepak Chopra


Every day, whether we acknowledge it or not, we make decisions based on what we believe in. The choices, challenges, or opportunities facing us – and how we engage with them – in politics, family, relationships, work, and play reveal something important about our character, desires, and personality to ourselves and to others. When those values align and are shared by a single population, they have the power to transform a nation and teach the world valuable lessons about success.

In The Values Compass, Mandeep Rai explores this concept by taking 101 distinct countries and identifying a single key value in each that is represented throughout its history, geography, and culture in the hope that we may find a way to incorporate those values into our own lives. From India’s ‘faith’ to Vietnam’s ‘resilience’, Argentina’s ‘passion’ to Singapore’s ‘order’, Australia’s ‘mateship’ to Uganda’s ‘heritage’ and from Malta’s ‘community’ to Sri Lanka’s ‘joy’, we may all find something of ourselves in others and succeed together as a result.

This is an insightful and readable collection of profiles that open our eyes to the world around us, and in turn help us reflect on which values matter, last, and have the power to create change.
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