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"A practical guide to thriving at work, based on a popular course offered at the Standford Graduate School of Business"--Dust jacket flap.
"In today's workplace, the traditional boundaries between 'work' and 'personal' are neither realistic nor relevant. Office hours bleed into evenings and weekends; e-mails and calls can be fielded from home; and the stresses of life--young kids, aging parents, financial hardships--don't evaporate when we walk into...
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"In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 85 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and lays out an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances -- a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way...
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From the moment we enter school as children, we are made to feel as if our brains are fixed entities, capable of learning certain things and not others, influenced exclusively by genetics. This notion follows us into adulthood, where we tend to simply accept these established beliefs about our skillsets (i.e. that we don't have "a math brain" or that we aren't "the creative type"). These damaging--and as new science has revealed, false--assumptions...
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The material and expressions in this book come from over 30 years of serving as a recruiter for experienced professionals for various organizations across the U.S.A. My viewpoints didn't develop from one field, or one client but rather as a result of working for staffing agencies and various corporate clients. The bulk of my experience has been working with global corporate firms. Along the way I have learned what hiring authorities really want in...
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Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about that moment--and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.
In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the ways in which to get--and keep--our Mojo. Our professional and personal...
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Want to Achieve True Wealth? Start Here.
No matter where you are, you hear the noise. "Do something with your money! Do it now!" It could be a finance guy shouting on TV. It could be a stock market "warning light" on cable news, or on your smartphone. If all that noise makes you nervous, don't be embarrassed. It just means you're normal.
This book will help you understand what "normal" means, how our reactive, human nature can lead to spending decisions...
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Books like StrengthsFinder 2.0 have helped leaders discover their strengths, but they stop there. The Sindell's argue that focusing only on your best abilities neglects a vital development opportunity. They show how to identify hidden strengths that can be quickly elevated into full strengths with attention and focus. Working mainly on your strengths can ultimately make you weaker, they argue you need to continually add new skills, not rely on what...
8) How Performance Management Is Killing Performance-and What to Do About It: Rethink, Redesign, Reboot
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Rethink, Redesign, Reboot. Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Tamra Chandler...
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You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school-shows how managers and executives at all levels...
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Young Money4 Proven Actions to Design Your Wealth While You Still CanBeing young is the ultimate advantage when it comes to building wealth. It may not seem like it when you look at your student loan debt or when the rent comes due, but you have a huge amount of a priceless resource: time. You just need to know what to do with it. Rising-star financial advisor Dasarte Yarnway offers a simple four-step mastery approach anyone can follow to become a...
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From the mind of the ultimate corporate gunslinger comes this no-nonsense, real-world Curriculum, designed to augment-if not replace-the more traditional path to achieving mastery of the business universe. Conquer this sharp, practical and often amusing course of study and save $250,000 of wasted business school tuition. Unlike those august, Ivy-encrusted factories that churn out masterful business administrators, The Curriculum will teach you the...
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Negotiation without fear, for everyone, everywhere
Nicknamed "the negotiator" as a child, Fotini Iconomopoulos has been honing her skills her entire life. As a sought-after expert, for more than a decade she's been empowering Fortune 500 executives and their teams to achieve their objectives, guiding them through high-stakes scenarios in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail, professional services, energy, telecommunications, tech and...
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Do you enjoy being alone? Prefer keeping your personal life to yourself? Hate small talk? Wish the people you do business with would stop yakking and get to the point?If so, you may have been sold a bunch of malarkey when it comes to bringing in customers. Contrary to the stereotype in our culture, introverts can excel at marketing.This ebook describes dozens of ways in which introverts can approach networking, publicity, getting published, speaking...
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The first step to success: really, truly and ultimately know thyself.
What if you never procrastinated again? What if you knew your priorities with crystal clarity and were always aware of the path to achieve your goals? What if you discovered all obstacles and struggles in advance and prepared for them? What if you were always motivated to hustle along a success path?
Amazon bestselling author Michal Stawicki presents an easy self-analysis process...
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The bestselling author of How to Become CEO returns with a pithy, smart, and useful collection of wisdom learned by business leaders at their own family dinners.
Do you want to get to the top? Do you want to know how to rise above the crowd and become a leader in your field? Then this is the book for you. In How to Get to the Top, bestselling author Jeffrey J. Fox combines his own experience as an extremely successful entrepreneur with lessons learned...
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Ask Outrageously! The Secret to Getting What You Really Want… Do you ask for what you want? Or do you simply take what you are given? There is magic in asking. The strongest relationships, top sales groups, and most successful businesses have one thing in common: people who possess the courage to feel the fear and still ask for what they want. People who ask outrageously. Asking outrageously doesn't mean being obnoxious or taking advantage of others....
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Most companies talk about excellence, but what does excellence really mean? What specific attitudes and practices lead to excellence? Drawing on years of study and decades of experience, authors Harry Paul, John Britt, and Ed Jent have zeroed in on five core qualities of excellence. In this entertaining and enlightening book, they tell how to give and be your best in each of these five critical dimensions and foster excellence in your organization...
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Most jobs lack a compelling purpose. Research finds that this workplace deficiency makes people sluggish, disengaged, careless, disloyal, unhappy and unhealthy.
Fortunately, there is a way to be free from the modern trap of meaningless labor without switching careers or quitting jobs. The scientifically-validated practice of job purposing, which consists of surprisingly modest acts that anybody can do, elevates ordinary work to a fulfilling venture....
19) Be a Happy Leader: Stop Feeling Overwhelmed, Thrive Personally, and Achieve Killer Business Results
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Be a Happy Leader inspires readers to prioritize and elevate their personal happiness and create lasting career success through an easy to follow, 8-step methodology.
Be a Happy Leader teaches leaders to lead positively, put their people first, and create engaged teams which leads to higher productivity and profit. It shows the reader how to be the type of boss that people want to work for-forever. It motivates leaders to make their personal well-being...
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The Purpose Revolution. How Good Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good We're in the midst of a purpose revolution. Customers, employees, and investors are making it clear that they want companies to do more than provide good products, good prospects, and good profits-they want companies to do some social good too. Ironically, as this extremely timely book demonstrates, purpose-driven companies do better on nearly...
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