Arts Management

What’s your story? It’s a question human beings have been asking each other since we first gathered around a campfire. Millennia later, this human need for storytelling hasn’t changed. We communicate most effectively through our personal stories - and our professional success depends on it. This groundbreaking guide shows you how to tap into the timeless power of storytelling to transform your business.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

How you deal with life depends on your your program. A subconscious set of rules that drive the actions you take and limit the results you get. To be extraordinary in any area of your life, you must write and master your own code. This is your guidebook for doing that now.

When we live our lives via empathy, we see life and are living life from a foundation of kindness and compassion which helps us in becoming more than we already are and gives the same to all those that we come into contact with. If you are interested by deepening your emotional focus and in growing your emotional intelligence in methods that enhance aware, co-innovative living, then this audiobook is for you.

So how do we move the future from the distant horizon to the present day? We need Intellectual Anarchy. The accelerating challenges facing our planet—such as climate change, food scarcity, sustainable energy, overpopulation, nuclear proliferation, income inequality, and rising healthcare costs—are solvable. The question is not if, but when. All these challenges directly impact our lives and our unwritten future. They have enormous economic consequences for humans and society. They also provide incredible opportunities for investors and innovators.

The story of a student who went to extraordinary lengths - including living in a van on a campus parking lot - to complete his education without sacrificing his financial future. In a frank and self-deprecating voice, memoirist Ken Ilgunas writes about the existential terror of graduating from college with $32,000 in student debt. Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set himself a mission: get out of debt as soon as humanly possible. To that end, he undertook an extraordinary three-year transcontinental journey.

Are you ready to delve into the powerful world of manipulation techniques and dark psychology? Whether you seek to protect yourself from the subtle forces of manipulation or learn how to ethically influence others, this book is your ultimate guide to understanding the depths of the human psyche. Learn the basic psychological principles that underlie all forms of manipulation, including cognitive biases, emotional triggers, and social dynamics.

A toxic relationship can be hard to escape, hard to pinpoint, and hard to prevent from occurring again. Although you might not have the answers right now, you can sleep easy knowing you’re about to connect with a proven approach to detoxifying your life. With the unique insights on offer in The Art of Dealing with Toxic People, you’ll learn how to discover your worth in a way that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Not only will you discover the warning signs of a toxic relationship, you’ll learn how to put in place boundaries that safeguard your well-being.

Lajf-menedzhment - novaja sistema tehnologij v upravlenii zhizn'ju, pojavivshajasja tol'ko v 2003 godu. No jeta hitraja nauka uzhe zarekomendovala sebja, ved' ona pomogaet dostigat' postavlennyh zadach i planirovat' zhizn' v celom. S pomoshh'ju jetoj knigi vy opredelite, chto dlja vas dejstvitel'no vazhno, a znachit, posledujushhie shagi v zhizni stanut dlja vas bolee osoznannymi i rezul'tativnymi. Vy uznaete o strategii lajf-menedzhmenta, ved' v knige podrobno raspisany vse hitrosti jetoj jeffektivnoj metodiki.

Chaos rewards the clear-minded. Surgeons steady scalpels while monitors shriek, Navy operators keep voices low under fire, elite athletes drop heart rates on command. These people are not born different; they train their nervous systems to convert stress into razor-sharp focus.

Digital is inevitable. Disconnecting is impractical. The Art of Bitfulness is a book on how to live with our devices, not how to live without them.What is Bitfulness?Bitfulness is being effortlessly mindful of your technology.In this short, practical book, Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani...

Dynamic Reteaming shares real stories of how successful software companies have thrived through changing their teams as opposed to keeping them the same. Team change will happen whether we like it or not. People will come and go from our teams. Our companies might double in size or even get acquired. We can catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos. Dynamic Reteaming describes practices for effective reteaming as well as anti-patterns.

What enables great corporate leaders to detect signals that their industry, or perhaps the entire world, is about to change? How are they able to place their companies in a position to capitalize on that change? And how can you become one of those extraordinary people? It boils down to one word - vision. Leaders who lacked it have often guided their companies to obsolescence and failure. The rare leaders who cultivated a strong vision have disrupted industries, created new ones, and remade the world.

Supercharge your effectiveness as a coach with this essential guide to reflective coaching. Coaching can create transformational results through the fundamental art of asking insightful questions... but how do you know which questions to ask? This audiobook introduces you to the MAGIC Coaching Methodology and provides you with an invaluable set of core questions to accompany you through the coaching process.

“From its gripping opening pages…Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year.” —Boston Globe USA Today calls Laura Lippman, “A writing powerhouse,” and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in...

Do you have relationships you'd like to repair but feel it's too late or don't know where to start? It could be a co-worker, ex-friend, or family member. Perhaps the conflict has gone on for so long that trying something new and different seems hardly worth the effort or even feels like a complete waste of time. In Build New Bridges: The Art of Restoring Impossible Relationships, author Greg Stephens offers practical tools and hope for tackling seemingly insurmountable conflicts.

WHAT MAKES A PITCH GOOD, BAD, OR AMAZING?Serial entrepreneur and The Final Pitch creator and host John Aguilar shares valuable lessons, tips and techniques he picked up from years of producing and hosting the reality pitching show.In this book, he straddles the East and the West to interview...

From ancient battlefields to the modern business landscape, competitors have tried innumerable approaches to conquering adversaries. Success for the victors has taken many forms and traveled many paths, but at its heart, winning strategy can be boiled down to ten universal principles. When...

The business environment has never been more fast-paced and competitive. Survival, let alone success, depends on an organization’s ability to recognize possibilities, innovate, implement change, and sustain that transformation.

From Jenniffer Weigel's radio show on WGN in Chicago called I'm Spiritual, Dammit! comes this collection of podcasts on spirituality in the business place. Included are interviews with Jennifer Connor, CEO of Mustard Girl Mustard, and Kathryn Guylay, author of Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes.