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Today self-branding is not an option-it’s something women need to master. Ofter what’s holding women back from career success is that we don’t brand ourselves as well as men do.

Women Who Brand is about what happens when women take charge of their personal brands and performance success. It’s about what happens when women start thinking and acting more confidently, more creatively and more strategically about themselves and their abilities.

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a revolutionary approach to human communication and development based on the discovery that by changing how you think, you can transform what you think. It helps you to modify your thought and behavioural patterns to suit your projected goals. NLP literally “re-programs” your mind and your life – for faster learning, better relationships and greater success.

NLP will change your life. It has already helped millions of people overcome fears, increase confidence, enrich relationships and achieve greater success. Now, the NLP Comprehensive Training Team, a team of counsellors, coaches and consultants, draw on years of personal and professional experience to create an effective guidebook to learning and applying this technology to achieve what you want.

The reader can learn to: master powerful techniques of persuasion and negotiation; eliminate fears, phobias and low self-esteem in minutes; and learn the success secrets of top achievers. Every chapter in this step-by-step guide includes exercises to help you master specific NLP techniques, and a new 21-day programme, created especially for this book, provides the essential skills needed to achieve peak performance in business and in life.

Charles Faulkner is the author of “NLP: The New Technology of Achievement” and “Success and Mastery with NLP“.

From the creator of the hit newsletter Young Money, a guide for for Gen Z professionals fed up with the traditional career path and ready to rethink your relationship with money, work, and what it means to live well.

Jack Raines did everything right: got the grades, got the job, climbed the ladder. But somewhere between the meetings and the monthly salary, a question crept in – is this it? What once looked like success started to feel like a trap. So he did the unthinkable: he walked away and decided to do it all differently.

Young Money exposes the trap so many twenty-somethings fall into – chasing status, salary and stability without stopping to ask: is this what I actually want? Is this how I want to spend my time? Young Money lays out a bold new manifesto for life and money:

* Time is your most valuable currency.
* Every penny you earn reflects the hours you traded to earn it.
* Real wealth means buying freedom, not flexing status.

With humour and honesty, Young Money is the essential playbook for anyone starting to think about their career – and anyone ready to do it differently.

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read

‘Eye opening, deeply researched, and snort-out-your-nose funny. I dare you to put it down.’ William Bernstein, author of The Four Pillars of Investing

‘Refreshingly unequivocal advice.’ Publishers Weekly

In richly told stories and wild self experiments, historian and investor Joseph Moore tests history’s best and worst financial advice to find what worked, what didn’t, and why everyday people can still get ahead – including you.

What if so-called timeless beliefs about money like ‘invest for the long run’, ‘compound interest builds wealth’ and ‘property value always goes up’ were shockingly new . . . and rarely true?

From Benjamin Franklin to TikTok gurus, what ‘everyone knows’ about personal finance is constantly changing over time. In How to Get Rich the American Way, Joseph Moore shares the unexpected and counterintuitive lessons of the past so we can make the most of our own finances today. He explores financial folklore, forgotten bestsellers and self-help fads, as well as the real lives of everyday people whose fortunes rose or fell by following them.

Along the way, Moore tests history’s best and worst advice on his own finances, with hair-raising and hilarious results. His personal journey includes wild investments, get-rich-quick schemes and founding a cryptocurrency. By the end, to his own very great surprise, he has become a multi-millionaire.

Filled with eye-opening insights you can apply yourself, How to Get Rich the American Way pushes back against sceptics who claim the American dream is out of reach. This is a thoughtful, practical, and surprisingly hopeful read that sheds new light on the prospects of getting by and getting ahead today.

HOW TO DOMINATE, MAKE MILLIONS, AND GET ANYTHING YOU WANT

“Serhant shows us it’s not enough to just have goals, but to chase our dreams with a verve and joyous energy. Highly practical and infectiously fun.” Mark Manson, NYT bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything is F*cked

“In Big Money Energy, Ryan Serhant shows readers that when positive energy is mixed with self-confidence and topped off with a heavy dose of hustle. . . anything can be achieved.” Sophia Amoruso, NYT bestselling author of #GIRLBOSS

Big Money Energy is the feeling you get when you encounter someone who is massively succeeding at life. They’re the ultimate picture of self-confidence. There’s no bravado, no bragging – they know they have BME and so does everyone else. You get Big Money Energy by being 100% committed to making your vision a reality… and that vision has to be BIG.

Ten years ago, Ryan Serhant, billion dollar broker and co-star of Million Dollar Listing New York was living paycheque-to-paycheque and didn’t even own a suit. He realized that while he couldn’t change his circumstances or the balance of his bank account, there was one thing he could change – his energy. The energy you give off impacts every area of your life, from how much money you earn and how much power you have, to who you socialize with and the jobs you get.

Determined to leave his low-rent lifestyle behind forever, Serhant took life-changing steps that resulted in his getting cast on television and doubling his income every year for the next decade. He is now the CEO and Founder of SERHANT., a multi-dimensional property brokerage and media company, and averages a billion dollars in sales every year.

Big Money Energy shows you how he tapped into his Big Money Energy to crush his goals and achieve huge success, earning his first million before he turned thirty. Whether you’re a self-made entrepreneur, a corporate executive or barista, Serhant will teach you how to climb the ladder to success better and faster than anyone else.

If you want Big Money Energy, this is your blueprint. This book is an inspirational, lively guide for anyone who is ambitious enough to dream big and is committed to doing whatever it takes to conquer their goals.

No one is right or wrong – just different!

Tracing the growth of the study of personality type from its roots in the work of Carl Jung to today’s subtly nuanced type theory, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You shows how greatly our individual personality preferences affect our interactions with others. By shedding light on individual characteristics and tendencies, consultants and coaches, Roger R. Pearman and Sarah C. Albritton teach us how to overcome our natural inclination to judge difference in order to recognize and celebrate it.

This new edition includes current research into psychological type, information about the benefits of using type to enhance health and manage stress, discussion of the link between type and emotional intelligence and analysis of how personality preferences translate across generational and cultural divides.

The God Instinct explores how people’s everyday thoughts, behaviours and emotions betray an innate tendency to reason as though God were deeply invested in their public lives and secret affairs.

In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Jesse Bering unravels the evolutionary mystery of why we grapple for meaning, purpose and destiny in life. He argues that God is not merely an idea to be entertained or discarded based on the evidence. Nor is God a cultural invention, an existential band-aid, an opiate of the masses. Instead, Bering proposes, God is a way of thinking – one that evolved through our ancestors, millions of years ago, to keep us in check and give us the edge on our competitors.

While a belief in higher forces may seem ridiculous to some, The God Instinct shows that it is hardwired into our genetic make-up, and carries with it massive evolutionary benefits.

Relocating to a foreign country for school or work offers in an opportunity to expand your world view and develop useful strategies for adaptation. Preparing for such a move requires both attention to the logistical details and emotional preparation for the experience of living in a new culture.

52 Activities for Successful International Relocation is the only book of activities that focuses on issues of international relocation. These excercises–grounded in research and field-tested–were designed to help international relocation trainers and educators create programs that aid the transition from a familiar culture to a new one. Sections include predeparture preparedness exercises to reduce “culture shock,” in-country support excercises, and reentry activities to prepare individuals to readjust to life back home.

Whether you’re using this book in a business, education, or HR setting, 52 Activities for Successful International Relocation will help your student or employee manage the practical and emotional challenges of cultural change.

‘HONEST, PRACTICAL, AND DEEPLY EMPOWERING’ Gino Wickman, Author of Traction & Shine, Creator of EOS®

As an entrepreneur with ADHD, some of your traits like creativity, hyperfocus, and risk-taking are rocket fuel for starting a business. Others, like trouble with attention to detail and time management can make running it feel impossibly overwhelming. Traditional business advice, designed for neurotypical brains, often leaves you stressed, doubting yourself, and on the road to burnout.

That’s why serial entrepreneur and ADHDer Amanda Perry wrote BRAIN FIRST BUSINESS a groundbreaking guide that rewrites the rules of entrepreneurship for you and your neurodivergent brain. Using her Brain First method, she blends lived experience with neuroscience to show you how to reach your goals without sacrificing your sanity. By learning how ADHD shows up in your business and adopting proven strategies that play to your strengths, you’ll redesign your approach in a way that works with your brain, not against it and unlock a sustainable path to a profitable business.

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.

‘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.

Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medalist in Work-Life Balance / Time Prioritization!

We’re raised to believe that we will have jobs and work. Our school system is designed in part to educate us so we can find a good job afterwards. Yet no-one ever tells you how to work. No one ever sits you down and tells you how to be at the centre of your work, how to get the most out of your role and how to be happy, healthy, safe and engaged in the workplace. Lacking this knowledge, work often veers off and feels wrong. Panicking, we change and start again somewhere else, thinking ‘it’s not me, it’s the job’. And then the process begins again.

In a world where redundancies are high, and job opportunities are low, never has it been so essential to learn how to be happy and healthy at work. Literature advocating that you ‘love it or leave it’ is not applicable or helpful in a squeezed job-market. Not many have the privilege of being able to up and leave their job, and even if you do there is no guarantee of happiness if you don’t know the rules or understand how to work well and be well at work.

Unless you do the work, you can change jobs as often as you like but still never find the elusive happiness you seek. Jumping from job to job will not provide you with the answers, unless you can first rework yourself and shed yourself of the burden of inherited cultures, past beliefs and historical mistakes.

Reworked utilises neuroscience, evidence-based psychology and two decades of working in health and wellbeing to teach you how to be happy, healthy, safe and engaged at work. These are the four key pillars which run throughout the book. A book to empower, inspire and ignite a passion for happiness at work, Reworked will teach you everything you need to rethink, reimagine and reinvent yourself, as you always wanted to be, in the workplace.

“I’ve had thousands of problems in my life, most of which never actually happened.” Mark Twain. As never before, our lives are bombarded with daily events that stir fear – real or imagined – in both our individual and collective psyches. From financial worries to social anxiety, from public speaking to personal safety, “Free Yourself From Fears” show us how to ‘unlearn’ our unreal fears and find emotional freedom. Applying the power of psychology, O’Connor goes inside the mind and shows you how to deal not only with such common anxieties as fear of heights and flying but also fear of other people’s opinions and even of our own success. This immensely practical, hands-on book will help you: know when to trust and when not to trust, develop your intuition to stay safe when there is real danger, defeat socially created fears in this age of anxiety, deal with change and worries about an uncertain future, and be in the here and now – true emotional freedom. One of the first books to address how to help children deal with fear and to deal with the all-pervasive and insidious feeling of “social anxiety,” “Free Yourself From Fears” includes dozens of helpful exercises and practical techniques to help you achieve your best without anxiety and live without worry.

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.

**Discover the power of coaching through an entertaining and lively story that will develop the skills and understanding of how to coach effectively.**


In this groundbreaking new approach to learning how to coach, join Alice on an adventure as she learns the fundamental principles of personal and business coaching. Meet a host of fanciful characters who will help you understand how to listen, how to ask questions effectively and how to have a coaching conversation from start to finish.

Adventures in Coaching introduces Coaching as an approach for managing people, improving performance and solving problems. Research shows that learning is often better retained when made fun and stimulating. This book delivers the most rigorous and advanced textbook coaching theory, including the GROW model, in a uniquely engaging and mesmerising manner. The structure and sequence of the material is based on a tried and tested progression that the author has refined through his training and workshops with hundreds of people.

The book is brought to life through relevant coaching conversations and practical examples as Alice faces some tough coaching conversations and applies her new learning to the clients she works with.

Both new and existing coaches, as well as managers and leaders, will improve their skills of listening, asking questions and exploring ideas.

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.

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.

Why do members of Al Qaeda have to submit travel and expense reports?

How do you create incentives for policemen, or priests?

What are managers good for?


We create organizations because they are an efficient way of doing something we couldn’t do alone. We join organizations because we are inspired by their mission, or their payslip. But once we’re inside, these organizations rarely feel efficient or inspiring.

In The Org, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the trade-offs that every organization makes, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is in fact actually inherent in the very nature of orgs. Woven throughout The Org are fascinating stories of organizations ranging from Google and McDonald’s, to Al Qaeda and the island nation of Samoa.

The Org tells us how the office really works. As such it is required reading for anyone who wants to come to terms with the frustrations of their workplace, or to work their way up the org.

THESE ARE THE REAL COMMUNICATION INSIGHTS YOU NEED TO GET AHEAD

WHAT DO GREAT COMMUNICATORS KNOW THAT THE REST OF US DON’T? Do they have a secret recipe for success? Is there a special alchemy? The 50 secrets in this book reveal the things you need to know to express yourself with assurance and get your message across effectively.

Every one of the 50 secrets in this book contains 3 strategies you can put into practice right now to get better results. Some of the ideas will surprise you, all will inspire you. Put these simple strategies together and you have a recipe for success, a formula that will unlock your potential.

Communication made easy
Whether you want to find your style, understand body language, or banish self-doubt and build a bedrock of self-assurance, this book provides the tools and techniques you need.

ABOUT THE SERIES
Secrets books are designed to be easy to incorporate into your daily life. They boil down the essentials of important topics into short, quick lessons giving expert advice on a wide range of challenges that you can apply instantly. Each chapter outlines one of the 50 secrets and gives three strategies for putting the ideas into action. Whether you want to improve your efficiency, clear your desk, or be on top of your work, these books give the answers you’re looking for.

“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.

‘This book is a must for anyone involved in organizational coaching’ Adrian Moorhouse, Managing Director, Lane4 & Olympic Gold Medallist

Coaching the Team at Work is the result of research over 20 years with practising team coaches and with major corporations around the world. It recognises that in a complex and constantly evolving business and social environment, teams can only keep up if they adapt frequently. But to adapt, they must have clarity about their internal and external systems and how these contribute to or undermine performance. There are multiple aspects of team function that underpins performance – and each influences and is influenced by the others. This revised edition explores the six most significant aspects:

* Purpose and motivation
* Systems and processes relating to external stakeholders
* Relationships, especially within the team
* Systems and processes relating to internal functions (such as quality and decision-making)
* Learning (how the team adapts to keep up with the pace of change)
* Leadership (how the functions of leadership are exercised within the team)

When these aspects are aligned, a team can perform at its best; but when any one or more of the aspects is malfunctioning, the result is underperformance.

This book helps team coaches develop their skills to support teams in understanding these complex dynamics and, as a result, in developing more effective ways of working together.

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.

Four forms of energy pulse through each of us at all times: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. To thrive, we must recruit all four of these energies in the service of a specific mission. To be fully engaged means to be physically energized, emotially engaged, mentally focused, and spiritually vested.

Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz draw on 30 years of research and experience with thousands of world-class atheletes, FBI hostage rescue teams, emergency service workers, and corporate executives who must sustain high performance in the face of pressure. In this book they offer their precise understanding of how to help individuals and organizations manage energy to drive full engagement – along with a step-by step programme to make that happen.