Critical Business

Let these 15 leadership skills help you overcome the challenges of today so that you can lead for a better tomorrow. Stepping into the shoes of a leadership or managerial role is never easy. It’s a challenge that constantly puts you face to face with conflicts, disagreements, decisions, and people – all of which need to be brought together to work like a well-oiled machine. But the biggest challenge is the thoughts in your own mind that bring you down, especially those of the confidence-busting, imposter syndrome variety.

Someday, somebody somewhere is going to try to scam you. It could be someone online. It could be a person in your workplace. It could be a friend. It could be your partner. There are a myriad of ways in which people will try to get you to buy the lies. In the second book in the Why Smart Women series, we rejoin Kat who’s in a relationship with a lovely, decent man, she’s enjoying her well-paid job and she has adopted a large groodle. Things are looking up!

Backed by real-life case studies, expert insights, and interactive exercises, this audiobook helps you turn complex legal and operational challenges into manageable tasks. You’ll develop a solid business strategy, navigate risks, and create a sustainable path to success. With clear explanations and practical examples, you’ll gain the confidence to tackle everything from tax considerations to long-term planning.

A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical ideas on how to protect ourselves in the 2020 election and beyond MIT professor Sinan Aral isn’t only one of the world’s leading experts on...

John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life...

Wasted is a riveting exploration of the complicated, and often surprising, ways that waste occurs in our businesses, our communities, and our lives “A smart, unconventional book that takes readers far beyond what they think they know about a complex subject.”—Kari Byron, former cast member...

Find the best solutions to your problems. Become a better decision maker. We are surrounded by systems. Businesses, schools, families, the economy, our country are all systems. The more you understand how they work, what problems do they face and how can you improve your position in them, the happier, and more stress-free your life will be. Find strategic solutions considering every aspect of your problem. Apply systems thinking to solve work, business, and relationship problems. Learn to see through the hidden pathways of contemporary politics, economics, and education changes.

Politicians have failed us. But democracy doesn’t have to. Bought by special interests, detached from real life, obsessed with reelection. Politicians make big promises, deliver little to nothing, and keep the game rigged in their favor. But what can we do? In Politics Without Politicians...

The cry for a more inclusive form of capitalism is growing. But the irony is we are using the same tools that caused the excesses of shareholder capitalism—incentives and regulations—to drive responsible behaviour.Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith propagated profit maximization as the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and...

""One of the best Political Biography books of all time"" - BookAuthority George Sorial, a top Trump Organization executive, shares behind-the-scenes stories of Trump’s leadership, problem solving, and success...

If you constantly second-guess yourself, overanalyze small decisions, or feel mentally drained trying to solve problems, this audiobook offers a transformative shift. Designed for busy professionals and thinkers ready to level up their logic, this powerful 10-in-1 guide gives you the clarity and structure you’ve been missing. Through modern examples, proven tools, and timeless mental models, you’ll learn how to think critically under pressure, make confident decisions, and protect yourself from manipulation, bias, and misinformation. This isn’t about learning more—it’s about thinking better.

Al Dunlap is an original: an outspoken, irascible executive with an incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies. The business media have coined a new verb"to dunlap"when describing a fast company turnaround. In April 1994 he became CEO and chairman of Scott Paper, which had lost $277 million in 1993, was on credit watch for excessive debt, and whose stock had been comatose for seven years.

The most effective leaders across a wide variety of spectrums have achieved their success by beginning their journey with a question few bother to ask: How do I lead myself? As New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell says, “A leader never has to recover from a...

What does it mean to be limited to inside the box, as opposed to being outside? The key, according to experts on the subject, is to apply creative thinking to your daily life. Perhaps up until this time, you've never really thought yourself a creative person. Many of us go through life thinking that the only people capable of creative thought are artists, writers, and others who have been trained to apply this thought process in specific and sporadic circumstances. The truth of the matter is that every single one of us is capable of this type of thought.

In Critical Thinking: Think Smarter, you’ll discover proven techniques and strategies to sharpen your analytical thinking, strengthen your problem-solving skills, identify logical fallacies, and improve communication.

Do you want to live in insanely awesome life? Are you looking to achieve massive success? Do you feel stuck in life and not exactly sure how to proceed? The majority of people achieve a certain level of success in their life but never really live up to their true potential. In this book Sunil Saxena describes the mental framework needed to live in insanely awesome life. This intellectual and action oriented book brilliantly explains how you can develop the proper mental framework and start living the "massive action lifestyle".

From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Anthropocene antihumanism has been inspired by revulsion at...

Being an apex problem solver is choosing to tackle those complex problems in your every day life and career. In The Apex Problem Solver: Understanding Critical and Creative Thinking to Enhance Complex Problem Solving, you will learn the difference between critical thinking and creative thinking and how both styles of thinking are essential aspects when it comes to any complex problem.

Terrified of making bad decisions and missing great opportunities? Do you question your judgment and doubt your intuition? Your brain is like any other muscle: it needs training to improve. Nobody is born with flawless critical thinking and judgment skills. These skills usually require systematic practice, but you can shortcut the learning curve by learning and mastering the methods of the best thinkers, psychologists, and high achievers.