Business Relationship Management

Technology professionals focus on building skills, not their relationships. This hinders their career growth and success.

Having difficult conversations at work is a necessary discomfort. Instead of avoiding these conversations with your boss, colleagues, or direct reports, you need a strategy that won't leave you feeling like you were being talked at or ignored. The key to solving this problem starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful conversation, Can We Talk? outlines what each contributor needs to do to achieve the best possible result.

While Erik Z. Severinghaus has been to the top of the physical world (literally climbing Everest) and the business world (exiting companies for hundreds of millions of dollars), what has defined his journey is not the successes...but rather, the hard times of loneliness and self-doubt that nearly cost him his accomplishments and his life. This guidebook passes along the lessons needed in those dark times, with the hope that it will help every entrepreneur who is going through this struggle understand their journey and build the mental resiliency to succeed.

Since 2016, Josh Keating has been the director of operations for Medical Solutions, Inc., a pharmaceuticals research company. His biggest unplanned challenges now come before him in 2021: a global pandemic and the devastating news that Dr. Lynn Ann Marconi, the current CEO of Medical Solutions and Keating’s life partner, is missing. Dr. Marconi was planning to host a major announcement following a plane flight she took to Los Angeles. The composite of an authentic leader will be discussed and challenged from the leadership gene discovered by her partner and employee, Josh Keating.

Y cómo de esta decisión dependerá que se te abran las puertas de todo lo que deseas. En este libro encontrarás un camino sencillo para tomarla con certeza: recomendaciones muy poderosas para relacionarte con tu ropa y así comunicarte a través de tus prendas, mientras gozas de los beneficios de sacarle provecho a lo que la naturaleza te dio.

Do you want to save hours a day and do more in less time? Feel productive instead of stressed, defeated, and overwhelmed? If (1) you wonder where your time goes, (2) you can't motivate or organize yourself, and (3) you struggle to buckle down and concentrate when it really matters - newsflash! Your to-do list is not cutting it anymore. You need to develop superhuman focus and all that comes with it. Superhuman Focus teaches the most important of skills - the ability to get stuff done.

To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone.

The Quick-Step Handbook to Improved Listening Skills and How You Honor Others in Listening. Not a complicated textbook - this simple handbook explains the 20 key protocols necessary for active, purposeful listening. There is tremendous power in listening, and being a better listener can elevate your status among those around you, mitigate many a drama, and instill a sense of esteem in those to whom you listen.

Do you find yourself constantly worrying, obsessing over the past, or ruminating over the future? Are you often consumed by worry and unable to shake off negative thoughts? Do you feel trapped in a cycle of stress and anxiety? If so, stop overthinking the solution! Amazon best-selling author Lucas Bailey shows you the quickest route to take control of your thoughts and declutter your mind. Through a series of engaging and practical exercises, learn how to make clear and concise decisions, reduce mental noise, and have a fully focused, driven mind that is sharp and free of any self-doubt.

The Plateau Effect is a powerful law of nature that affects everyone. Learn to identify plateaus and break through any stagnancy in your life - from diet and exercise, to work, to relationships. The Plateau Effect shows how athletes, scientists, therapists, companies, and musicians around the world are learning to break through their plateau - to turn off the forces that cause people to “get used to” things - and turn on human potential and happiness in ways that seemed impossible.

Tackle your thorniest problems using the wise fool's savvy strategies! The wise fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted wise fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions.

In this revised and expanded third edition of The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the Power of Relationships for Your Life and Business, author Steve Harper offers even more tips and strategies for unlocking the amazing potential of your personal and professional networks. Provocative and practical, The Ripple Effect is filled with valuable strategies for both veteran and rookie connectors.

Would you have the patience and drive to change your mind state, music production techniques, and health habits to sustain this highly demanding way of life? This step-by-step guide to music composer lifestyle design teaches how J.T. went from a six-figure job in a Fortune 500 company to composing music full-time, almost doubling his revenues within the first two years; how to compose, sound, and live like the pros; how to monetize every second spent in front of your equipment, making sounds and songs; and more.

Drawing on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes, as well as research by experts, the author brings together the best of both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach. The Leader You Want to Be is the indispensable guide to helping you tap into and expand your leadership capacity so that you can sustain your optimal level of performance and thrive as a leader.

Michael Watkins' best-selling book The First 90 Days has become the business bible for accelerating leadership transitions. Now, Watkins zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions: negotiation. In Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating, Watkins draws from extensive research and practical consulting work to reveal four fundamental objectives that should guide new leaders' actions in every negotiation.

Are you stuck in your home-based business? Have you tried sharing, but it’s not leading anywhere? Is your life an endless chain of no’s? Then, it’s time to get unstuck. Find your unique way of sharing. Get over the fear of talking to people you’ve never met with specific action steps. It’s time to grow! This is the year you get unstuck.

The Charisma Code is a handbook for connecting across cultures. The best connectors are the biggest influencers, and those who influence culture change the world. The key is unleashing your inner soul force - your charisma - to attract, connect, engage and bring value to your relationships. In her barrier-breaking book, cultural anthropologist, Robin Sol reveals how anyone can tap the language beyond words to build bridges, open doors, or start revolutions.

"Less is more" - or, more specifically, the less you have to do, the more life you have to live. Efficiency expert Ari Meisel details his "Less Doing" philosophy, which will streamline your life, and make everything easier. In business and our personal lives, it often seems as if the only way to get more done is by putting in more time - more hours at the office, more days running errands. But what if there were a way that we could do less, and free up more time for the things and people we love? If this sounds like what you need, Ari Meisel has the program for you.

Most new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure. McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world' s top companies and challenging us to think differently about how we live, learn, and work.

Great leadership is built on great relationships. Let John C. Maxwell show you why relationships are the glue that holds successful teams together. Leadership is a relationship-intensive endeavor. If your people skills aren't strong, neither will be your leadership. Bestselling author and...