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THE LIFE-CHANGING PERSONAL FINANCE BESTSELLER THAT SHOWS YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR MONEY – NOW IN A REVISED 3RD EDITION.

‘Opinionated and always packed with information‘ Mirror

Discover the money secret understood by virtually every rich person in history. Turn hundreds into millions through the power of compound interest.

HOW TO OWN THE WORLD shows you that:

* No one is better placed than you to make the most of your money.
* You can do better than many finance professionals.
* Making money from your money is easier than you think.
* You can make far more from your money than you ever thought possible.
* You can make more from your money than you can from your job.
* All this is possible no matter how much you currently earn.
* It’s easier today than ever.
* It’s time to start now.

It is entirely realistic for you to control your wealth, make a lot of money, and become financially free as a result. HOW TO OWN THE WORLD shows you how. With just a little knowledge you can turn your financial fortunes around and change your life.

‘For anyone who wants to understand how to best use the tools available in the modern world to learn about becoming a successful investor’ Metro

‘If you want just one book on investment from the cacophony, you couldn’t do much better‘ Michael Mainelli, Economics Professor

‘Without doubt the best book I have read in the last five years…‘ Emma Kane, CEO of Newgate Communications

What if everything you know about raw talent, hard work, and great performance is wrong?

Very few people are truly great at what they do. But why aren’t they? Why don’t we manage businesses like Warren Buffett, play golf like Tiger Woods or play the violin like Itzhak Perlman?

Greatness doesn’t come from inborn talent but from ‘deliberate practice’. This isn’t the kind of hard work that your parents told you about, but more of it equals better performance. Talent is Overrated will change the way you think about your life and work – and will inspire you to achieve more in everything you do. Great performance isn’t reserved for a preordained few.

From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L. Robbins, comes the 10th Anniversary Edition of his classic book used by scores of companies globally for diversity training.

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved classic features 10 new stories written by Dr. Robbins that help readers gain deeper insight into the role our brains play in shaping our thoughts and actions, and what we can do to be more curious and open-minded in our diverse world.

Based on his study of the fields of behavioural science and cognitive neuroscience, Robbins explores unconscious bias in many of its forms, including; availability bias, confirmation bias, anchoring bias and others.

What If? is a fun, unpretentious guide for individuals and organizations that will help break down defenses and shine a helpful light on human behaviour in a world filled with differences.

Are YOU living the life you were meant to lead? Are you stuck in a rut with a desire to improve but uncertain where to start? Are you searching for meaningful purpose and focus in your life right now? Are you spinning multiple plates and want to sense check whether what you’re currently doing will result in you achieving your goals?

We ALL have the potential to achieve GREATNESS. The biggest obstacle standing in your way is YOU and your own limiting beliefs. The greatest opportunity lies within YOU. Are you ready to unlock your potential, unleash your success and create the future you want?

RISE is about placing you firmly in the driver’s seat of your life, as the architect of your own destiny.

RISE not only gives you the tools to become successful, it shows you how to use and master the tools for a lifetime of success.

RISE is your blueprint to a compelling future.

Your time is NOW… let’s get started

‘Rise is literally your personal success coach in your pocket’ Perry Power, Entrepreneur & Digital Marketing Guru

‘A positive nudge to help and restore your attitude of action’ James Devine, Medway NHS Foundation Trust

What do your colleagues, spouse and kids have in common with a five-ton killer whale?

This work explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. It shows how using the techniques of animal trainers – specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld – can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home. It explains the difference between ‘GOTcha’ (catching people doing things wrong) and ‘Whale Done!’ (catching people doing things right).

A management classic from the author of the multi-million-copy bestseller THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER.

How would you like to get business startup advice straight from the man who co-founded Global Entrepreneurship Week and StartUp America? Well now you can.

Carl Schramm, the man described by The Economist as ‘The Evangelist of Entrepreneurship’, has written a myth-busting guide packed with tools and techniques to help you get your big idea off the ground.

Carl believes that entrepreneurship has been completely misrepresented by the media, business books, university programmes and MBA courses. He believes that the perception of what it takes to start a business no longer matches the reality – which is bad news for everyone because it stops great ideas coming to life.

Burn the Business Plan punctures the myth of the cool, tech-savvy 20-something entrepreneur with nothing to lose and venture capital to burn, showing that most people who start businesses are juggling careers and mortgages just like you.

Burn the Business Plan is written to encourage you to get started. It demystifies the entrepreneurial process portrayed on television shows like Dragon’s Den. It doesn’t rely on largely irrelevant stories of overvalued tech startups, nor does it build on the largely mistaken narrative of a linear path from cold start to great success that is the essence of business planning, as taught in universities. This is the guide to starting and running a business that will actually work for the rest of us.

Burn the Business Plan is for regular people who just want practical, real-world advice on how to start and run a successful business. It shows you how to avoid the common mistakes and what you need to do to put your enterprise on track for success.

For more than a decade, The Next Level has been an indispensable guide to executive success. It reads like a series of conversations with a trusted coach who has brought together a cadre of successful senior leaders to deliver a master class on executive level best practices.

This practical, actionable guide to success at the executive level helps readers understand what they need to pick up and let go of to achieve the results that are expected at the next level. Along with simple and immediately applicable tools and frameworks he’s road-tested with thousands of coaching clients, Eblin offers clear, practical advice reinforced by interviews and case studies from executives who know what it takes to succeed. With fresh insights throughout, this 3rd edition will help readers sustain their success over the long run with new information on how to develop a personal action plan for leading at their best by living at their best.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

1. Updated Introduction and Afterword
2. New insights on leadership effectiveness gleaned by the author since the 2nd edition
3. A completely revised chapter 3 with new guidance on creating a Life GPS personal action plan
4. New and updated Coachable Moment tools (including the TRACK Model of Effective Delegation)
5. A revised appendix with the latest approach to creating a self-directed Executive Success Plan (ESP)

Organized into five direct and digestible chapters, You, Incorporated, is the ultimate practical guide to career success that zeroes in on the three essential concepts that job-seekers, career builders and career changers need to know:
– No Job is Forever
– Employability Equals Options
– Your Career is Your Business
Written by an expert in career transition who has helped thousands of people find their own “job utopias,” readers will find a down-to-earth, accessible approach to becoming more valuable to current employers while developing long-term personal competitiveness to attract future employers and seize the opportunities that are waiting out there.

What do great enterprises have in common? What sort of person starts them? A single idea can help you find the next big thing, but it takes time to trawl through hundreds of business books to find inspiration.

With insightful commentaries on the landmark writings of old and new, 50 Business Classics presents the great entrepreneur stories, the best management thinking and the proven ideas on strategy, innovation and marketing – in one volume.

50 Business Classics presents the key ideas from classic texts such as My Years with General Motors and Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited to contemporary business lessons from the rise of tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon. It contains revealing biographies of luminaries like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett, as well as lesser-known stories including creation of publishing giant Penguin and Chinese behemoth Alibaba.

Here you’ll find the texts and ideas that matter in:
· Entrepreneurship
· Leadership
· Management
· Strategy
· Business history
· Personal development
· Technology and innovation

Summarising the smartest thinking for today’s professional success, 50 Business Classics provides inspiration and insights for entrepreneurs, executives and students of business and management alike.

‘This is not just the most insightful book ever written on public speaking-it’s also a brilliant, profound look at how to communicate’ – Adam Grant, author of ORIGINALS

In Ted Talks Chris Anderson, Head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks on the world’s stage.

Anderson shares his five key techniques to presentation success: Connection, Narration, Explanation, Persuasion and Revelation (plus the three to avoid). He also answers the most frequently asked questions about giving a talk, from ‘What should I wear?’ to ‘How do I handle my nerves?’.

Ted Talks is also full of presentation tips from such TED notable speakers as Sir Ken Robinson, Bill Gates, Mary Roach, Amy Cuddy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dan Gilbert, Amanda Palmer, Matt Ridley and many more. This is a lively, fun read with great practical application from the man who knows what goes into a truly memorable speech. In Ted Talks Anderson pulls back the TED curtain for anyone who wants to learn how to prepare an exceptional presentation.

‘Nobody in the world better understands the art and science of public speaking than Chris Anderson. He is absolutely the best person to have written this book’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘This book is the ‘bible’ for anyone who wants to understand the blessings and the curses of growing up multiculturally’ -Wm. Paul Young, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Shack

In this third edition of the ground-breaking, global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock have significantly updated what is widely recognized as The TCK Bible. Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity & inclusion and transitions. Includes new advice for parents and others for how to support TCKs as they navigate work, relationships, social settings and their own personal development.

Specific updates:

· A second PolVan Cultural Identity diagram to support understanding of cultural identity

· New models for identity formation

· Updated explanation of unresolved grief

· New material on ‘highly mobile communities’ addressing the needs of people who stay put while a community around them moves rapidly

· Revamped Section III so readers can more easily find what is relevant to them as Adult TCKs, parents, counselors, employers, spouses, administrators, etc.

· New stages and needs tool that will help families and organizations identify and meet needs

· Greater emphasis on tools for educators as they grapple with demographic shifts in the classroom

‘If you only ever read one spiritual book, let is be this one’ Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

‘A kaleidoscope of inspiration‘ The Watkins Review

50 Spiritual Classics captures the diversity of life journeys that span centuries, continents, spiritual traditions and secular beliefs: from the historical The Book of Chuang Tzu to modern insight from the Kabbalah, from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

This one-of-a-kind collection includes personal memoirs and complelling biographies of Gandhi to Malcolm X and Black Elk; Eastern philosophers and gurus including Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Chogyam Trungpa and Shunryu Suzuki; and Western saints and mystics such as St. Frances of Assisi, Hermann Hesse and Simone Weil.

‘The best of success literature ever written’ Brian Tracy, author of Maximum Achievement

‘A smorgasbord of some of the best thinking on what success really means’ Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager

What makes a person successful? What makes them motivated, prosperous, a great leader? Inside this brand new, updated edition of 50 Success Classics, discover the all-time classic books that have helped millions of people achieve success in their work, their mission, and their personal lives.

New chapters include Angela Duckworth’s Grit, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and the biography of Steve Jobs.

‘A tremendous resource . . . affirms and inspires’ Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

‘An exceptional and diverse collection’ Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Thousands of books have been written offering the ‘secrets’ to personal fulfilment and happiness. But which are the all-time classics? Which ones really can change your life?

This is the brand new, updated edition of the only book to distill the classic, life-changing texts on happiness and fulfilment. Bringing you the essential ideas, insights and techniques from 50 legendary works, from Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway to the teachings of the Buddha to Marie Kondo, 50 Self-Help Classics is a unique guide to the great works of life transformation.

New chapters include The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly and Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit.

Coaching for Performance is the #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. This is the definitive, updated and expanded edition.

“The proven resource for all coaches and pioneers of the future of coaching.” Magdalena N. Mook, CEO, International Coach Federation (ICF)

An international bestseller, featuring the powerful GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.

Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand new practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary, strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

“Shines a light on what it takes to create high performance.” John McFarlane, Chairman, Barclays, Chairman, TheCityUK

A brand new edition of the thinking person’s guide to popular psychology.

In a journey spanning 50 books, hundreds of ideas and over a century, 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us, what makes us feel and act in certain ways, how our brains work, and how we create a sense of self. This edition includes contemporary classics like Thinking, Fast and Slow; Quiet and The Marshmallow Test.

EXPLORE the human condition through the great thinkers in psychology:

Alfred Adler on human nature – Albert Bandura on self-efficacy – Isabel Briggs-Myers on personality type – Hans Eysenck on the four dimensions of personality – Albert Ellis on emotions – Erik Erikson on identity crises – Anna Freud on defense mechanisms – Sigmund Freud on dreams – Eric Hoffer on mass psychology – Karen Horney on inner conflicts – Carl Jung on the collective unconscious – Alfred Kinsey on sexual psychology – Melanie Klein on envy – Abraham Maslow on human potential – Stanley Milgram on obedience to authority – I. P. Pavlov on conditioning – Carl Rogers on counselling – Jean Piaget on child psychology – B. F. Skinner on the power of environment

DISCOVER the findings of contemporary research and practice:

Susan Cain on introversion – Carol Dweck on mindset – Martin Gilbert on happiness – Malcolm Gladwell on intuition – John Gottman on marriage – Temple Grandin on autism – Stephen Grosz on self-delusion – Daniel Kahneman on thinking – Walter Mischel on self-control – Leonard Mlodinow on the subconscious – Steven Pinker on nature vs nurture – V. S. Ramachandran on neurology – Barry Schwartz on the burden of choice

GAIN the essence of great writings in psychology:

The Nature of Prejudice – The Female Brain – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – A Guide To Rational Living – The Will To Meaning – The Nature of Love – I’m OK, You’re OK – The Divided Self – Gestalt Therapy – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Authentic Happiness – Darkness Visible

From personal influencing skills and positive psychology to handling relationships and communication, you’re about to discover the simple truth about success

‘John Lees has re-written the rules on everything you thought you knew about successful self-projection, networking and effective communication’ From the Foreword by Sarah Willingham of BBC’s Dragons’ Den

This is a book about getting noticed, but not a conventional book. It doesn’t tell you to sell yourself, get out there, impress with power dressing or to have an elevator speech. Getting noticed doesn’t have to mean over-selling. Over the course of this book, you will discover exciting research, positive psychology and advice from a range of experts that will help you make an authentic impact.

By stepping just to the edge of your comfort zone, you will learn to project yourself onto the world of work. From personal influencing skills to presentations, this book decodes success for people who hate the idea of selling themselves. You’ll rethink networking, learn how to talk about yourself in ways that others find easy to hear – and also directly influence what people say about you. You’ll discover how you can project yourself in writing without looking as if you’re pushing too hard, and learn to engage people in a way that sparks curiosity and leads to interesting offers.

Written for both introverts and extroverts, THE SUCCESS CODE shows you how to find an authentic voice even if your style is naturally self-effacing. You’ll learn to get your name ‘front of mind’ by making sure the right messages about you come across even when you’re not in the room. This is your game plan for getting noticed.

Are you ready?

‘A pragmatic and insightful guide to building reputation and impact that anyone can learn from’ Penny de Valk, Managing Director, Penna Talent Practice

‘If you would rather climb the stairs than get in the lift to do an elevator pitch, then buy this book’ Dr Carole Pemberton, Coaching to Solutions, Executive coach and author

‘Packed with helpful facts, insightful quotes and practical tips’ Ian Nicholas, Chief HR Officer, REED Specialist Recruitment Ltd

‘A great resource in aiding your development’ Gordon McFarland – HR Director – Global Professional Services

‘Full of practical advice and tips and will help you find your voice and achieve success in an authentic way’ Zoe Shackle, HR Director AMC Networks International

‘No one has taught me more about the complexities and mysteries of human decision-making’ Malcolm Gladwell

‘Gary Klein is a living example of how useful applied psychology can be when it is done well’ Daniel Kahneman

Insight is everything. At its most profound, it can change the world. At its simplest, it can solve everyday problems. It can be used to build businesses, solve crimes, progress science and make many aspects of our lives quicker, easier, bigger or better.

Yet remarkably we often unwittingly build barriers to seeing what is in front of us. Both as individuals and organisations we can hold on to flawed beliefs and conform to established processes that can interfere with our perceptions. Having clear insight can transform the way in which we understand things, the decisions we make and the actions we take.

In this groundbreaking study, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein uses an eclectic miscellany of real-life stories to bring to life the process of insight. He demonstrates the five key strategies for spotting connections and contractions to ensure you too can see what others don’t.

How would you like to succeed in business and master investment by profiting in untapped areas that the masses know nothing about?

Uncommon Sense guides you to unique, little-known and commonly misunderstood strategies that generate lasting revenue and sustained results by going against the tide.

In this book you’ll discover:
– How to asses real value, understand the hidden motives of the media and see through hype.
– Real business investing models such as hybriding and super-specialisation which will enable you to invest securely and profitably.
– Understand the popular misonceptions, schemes, traps and truths which part you from your money – and learn how to defend yourself against them and secure lasting wealth.

Essential reading for investors, innovators and entrepreneurs, Uncommon Sense provides a balanced, insightful and inspiring toolkit for making smart decisions in investing and business.

In the dawning age of brilliant machines, what will people do better than computers?

It’s easy to imagine a frightening future in which technology takes over the jobs that we now get paid to do, working more accurately and for barely any cost. Computers can already perform surgery, drive vehicles, write articles and do intricate legal work, so what hope will there be for tomorrow’s workforce?

Drawing on a wealth of research, Geoff Colvin uncovers the skills that will be in great demand as technology advances – and how they can be developed. In this new machine age, we shouldn’t try to beat computers at what they can do. We’ll lose that contest. Instead we must look to unlikely places, learn from the best, and cultivate the human abilities that make us unique.

Management writers have come up with many tools for explaining how different types of personalities can work best together. But they have ignored the most important personality difference of all – the difference between introverts and extroverts. This book is the first book to fill that gap.

This book follows up from Sylvia Loehken’s international bestseller Quiet Impact, published in the UK in June, and will be required reading for all managers and anyone who wants to understand their colleagues better.

The New York Times bestseller that draws on research from over 12,000 individuals to explain what makes people ‘choke’ under pressure and show you how to develop nerves of steel

‘An unusually sharp account of work and performing under pressure’ Financial Times

Nobody performs better under pressure. The reality is that pressure only makes you do worse. But there are things you can do to diminish its effects on your performance. In How to Perform Under Pressure, Hendrie Weisinger and J. P. Pawliw-Fry explore the science and psychology behind pressure and give empirically tested short-term and long-term solutions to help you overcome its debilitating effects.
The book draws on research from more than 12,000 people and features the latest studies from neuroscience and from the frontline experiences of Fortune 500 employees and managers. It explains what makes people ‘choke’ under pressure and includes 22 strategies you can use to excel in whatever you do.

Whether you have an important presentation to make or an Olympic record to beat, How to Perform Under Pressure will help you to do your best when it matters most.

‘A wonderful mix of empirical studies and first hand accounts that show how pressure impacts our personal and professional lives’ Forbes

‘All too often, we choke or crumble under pressure. This book reveals how we can develop nerves of steel’ Adam Grant, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

If you know how to sell, you know how to succeed. Selling is the most important, and perhaps the most misunderstood workplace skill. Once you understand how to sell you will become more persuasive, naturally and confidently.

This book has four sections, enabling the reader to focus on their most pressing need:
* Selling basics – a simple, explicit guide to the sales process;
* Selling yourself – and how to get noticed, connected and respected;
* Selling to colleagues – presenting, persuading and getting promoted;
* Selling to customers – winning orders and succeeding in shops & at shows.

This book will help the reader:
* Learn the basics about how to sell and why people buy;
* Recognise the importance of goal setting and measuring personal performance;
* Understand how to find, then influence people able to contribute to their success;
* Become more confident in taking the lead and steering things they way they want them to go, at work, home and in social situations.

With the “first screen”-the television-companies sent ads directly into consumers’ living rooms, reaching millions with one campaign. The “second screen”-the personal computer-increased interaction between companies and consumers and allowed for immediate customer feedback. Now, the “third screen”-the mobile device- changed the game in an even more revolutionary way.

The Third Screen: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Marketing defines the implications, strategies, and tactics used to thrive in business during the mobile revolution. This revised, updated paperback links technological developments to behavioral changes, reveals the unexpected forces of the changes in mobile, and equips marketers and businesses for the future.