Business Change

Does it sneak up on you on holiday when your mind finally has time to wander? After a bad day in the office where your ideas have gone unnoticed? We all have days when we idly dream of a new life. But this is different. The Career Change Guide is designed to take you from the confusion and indecision that stops you doing anything, to a clearer picture of the kind of work and life you want, with concrete steps to make it a reality. Get your brain into gear and equip yourself with the tools to become a committed career redesigner.

A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement. Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we' re always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold.

The pace of change has picked up and will continue to do so. The future is requiring us to get ourselves and others engaged in change rapidly. In Spark Action, internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor Gregg Brown unlocks why people aren’t motivated to act on our ideas and shares insights and strategies to spark positive change in our organizations and communities. With a thirty-year career that spans the health-care, education, non-profit, and private sectors, Gregg has learned what makes people tick and how to help them take action, often in difficult circumstances.

Unlock the transformative power of curiosity with "5 Steps to Asking Better Questions." Dive into a practical guide designed to elevate your communication skills, enhance your relationships, and sharpen your problem-solving abilities.

Getting heard is a tricky business: It’s what you say and how you show up, filtered through your audience’s assumptions and biases—and maybe even your own. For women, people of color, immigrants, and queer folks, there’s often a dissonance between how you speak and how we collectively think powerful people should speak: like the wealthy white men who’ve historically been in charge. But, fortunately, the sound of power is changing.

Too many businesses miss opportunity after opportunity to design, plan, and achieve intentional business change. Why? Because they charter projects focused on delivering software products: IT projects. But as this groundbreaking book points out, there’s no such thing as an IT project - or at least there shouldn’t be. It’s always about intentional business change, or what’s the point? It’s time to stop providing simplistic, one-dimensional, all-you-gotta-do panaceas.

Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social justice, from Stanford University's d.school.

On April 20, 1999, Billy Epperhart was taking a break to go fishing. That's when he received the call that two students had opened fire at Columbine High School. As the pastor of the nearest church to the school, Billy found himself thrust to the forefront of tragedy, broken people with lots of questions, and a whirlwind of media attention.

En este libro te compartiré nueve filosofías japonesas que han sido la base de la estructura económica, educativa y cultural de este país y que han logrado situarlo dentro de las mejores economías del mundo, contando con innumerables empresas reconocidas en todo el planeta. ¿Cómo lo lograron sin contar con materias primas, tierras u otros factores importantes ¿Cómo se convirtieron en ejemplo mundial con su sistema educativo?

This isn't just another self-help book. It's the culmination of my amazing wife Sofia and I's life experiences. It's a testament to our challenges and perseverance, and a tangible tool to create real, lasting change in your life. Unravel the truths about controlling your mindset and attitude, avoiding distractions, and setting your life on the path of transformation. My assurance in writing this book stems from a life filled with struggle, resilience, and personal growth. I don't shy away from sharing my setbacks and challenges because I wanted you to get the raw value of these lessons.

Do you want to start an online business with massive growth potential and little upfront cost in 2024? Look no further! Print-on-demand business model is a top choice! Imagine starting a global e-commerce business with minimal investment yet unlimited potential. No huge upfront costs, no inventory dramas, and no overstock nightmares! Gone are the days of needing to create an intricate supply chain, handle the production of your merchandise, or even worry about shipping your products out.

“Os 7 Hábitos das Pessoas Altamente Eficazes” é um manual para todas as pessoas que desejam ser bem-sucedidas, seguir em frente e descobrir seu potencial. Covey revela um passo a passo para viver com justiça, integridade, trabalho e dignidade humana–princípios que nos proporcionam a segurança para nos adaptarmos à mudança, bem como sabedoria e força para tirar proveito das oportunidades criadas pela mudança.

Ninety percent of the world's population wants a better life. But wishing is not going to improve the quality of life. You can only improve your lifestyle by changing your mind. To gain a foothold, our mind-set needs to change completely. All that you have been taught to a child and your school years have to be re-evaluated and transformed. Although the way you were taught was not wrong, it has not taken into account the needs and the ambition in this age that you are now in.

As this book shows, human beings are wired to care, and we can become more empathic with practice. Empathy increases dopamine, reduces stress, boosts self-esteem, heightens the immune system, and enriches our relationships. Empathy also improves business key performance indicators. This means that leveraging empathy on purpose can lead to better health, happier and more productive workplaces, and a more meaningful life. That's why empathy is our superpower.

In What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting, celebrated speaker, coach, and author Tara McMullin shows you how to transform the way you set and achieve your goals to create a gentler and more fulfilling way to work toward what you truly want. In the book, you'll explore what's driving your pursuit of "more" (more money, more things, more prestige, etc.), set commitments to help orient your growth, and organize your actions as part of a holistic learning process.

People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They cannot solve their problems in their current context; the larger system within which they are operating is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They cannot transform this system on their own or by working only with their friends or colleagues; the system is too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector.

Leadership is all about others - inspiring them to believe, then enabling that belief to become reality. That's the essence of Leadership U: it starts with U but it's not about U. Those timeless words are timelier than ever today, as leaders look to accelerate through the crisis curve. As author Gary Burnison observes, "There will likely be more change in the next two years than we have seen in the last 20." Now, in Leadership U, Burnison lays out a framework - his Six Degrees of Leadership - to show leaders how to create change.

Invest in yourself by choosing this breaking-bad-habits book for adults who want more in life. Unlike other productivity books, self-help books, or self-improvement books that only offer theoretical advice, this breaking-habits guide will provide you with a bulletproof strategy to ditch bad habits and start fresh.

Women make over 80% of healthcare decisions in the U.S., yet only 4% of all medical research and development is focused on women's health issues. From periods and childbirth to menopause, female pain has been normalized, as society shrugs and says "Welcome to being a woman," instead of coming up with better solutions. But it doesn't have to be this way. In The Vagina Business, award-winning journalist Marina Gerner, Ph.D. takes an eye-opening look at the innovators challenging the status quo to deliver the healthcare solutions women need.

Written by the originators and leaders of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) movement itself, this short, practical audio guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal "something different is happening this time." That difference systematically taps the potential of human beings to make themselves, their organizations, and their communities more adaptive and more effective.