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Change Is Good, You Go First by Tom Feltenstien and Mac Anderson is not your typical business book on implementing change. The 21 stories will inspire you and your team to stop conducting business as usual! This creative audiobook will help you embrace change and realize change can be good!

In My Top 40 at 40: Making the First Half Count, Kari Loya presents an original, meaningful way to celebrate his 40th birthday - by sharing his own collection of forty favorite stories spanning six continents and two decades. Loya reflects on experiences we can all relate to, such as preparing for the first job interview or coping with a long commute. The stories are full of surprise and are told with a keen eye, gentle humor, infectious curiosity, and an inspiring positive attitude towards embracing challenges and learning.

As work and organizations have become more fluid - and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment - companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. Turning conventional views on their heads, talent and leadership experts Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey provide leaders with a new and different playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent.

Congratulations, you've decided it's time to make a change in your life. You’re tired of your situation, you earn close to nothing, you're working a dead-end job, and you’re worked to the bone having little to no free time for yourself. You’ve heard it through the grapevine that you can make good money by starting a side hustle and working for yourself. You’ve heard that some are making upwards of $1,000 or more in their sleep. You ask yourself, "If others can do it, why can’t I?" Well, the good news is...you can!

In this honest, practical and empowering guide, seasoned entrepreneur and investor Garry Mansell shows first-time founders how to master B2B sales – even if they’ve never sold a thing in their lives. Whether you’re building a SaaS product, a consultancy or a complex solution, you’ll learn how to approach sales with structure, confidence and integrity. No sleaze. No jargon. Just a clear, step-by-step approach to turning conversations into customers.

Taking listeners on a street-smart journey through life, mentors, and business, Cliff proposes a radical shift in global education and career training. He also provides thought-provoking stories on The 4 Essentials (mindset, strategies, values, purpose) that dispel myths on how we define and create success.

Are you ready? Let's get to it!! I am not going to hold back. I am going to tell you my beliefs and insights on how you can take six, seven, or eight figures online. I'm going to tell you how I and others have achieved this online.

From the heart of Africa, a spellbinding true story of entrepreneurship, media, culture, and tradition all tastefully rolled into one! Absolute Radio is an authentic story of girls and boys who became women and men—and heroes—on the wings of a radio station. Running the course of 25 years, the story comes from the culturally stylish twin city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana with global footprints. It is the most tantalizing and groundbreaking body of work about Ghana’s private broadcasting industry.

An accessible and entertaining biography of our nation’s greatest public servant and original political maverick John Quincy Adams, from the bassist of the Grammy-nominated band the Avett Brothers. During the tumultuous period between the era of the Founding Fathers and the disunion of the...

This book provides actionable strategies and techniques that listeners can implement daily. It offers practical advice to help listeners navigate challenges they may encounter in their supervisory role. It also takes a holistic approach to becoming a supervisor, covering not only the technical aspects of team management but also emphasizing the importance of mindset, communication, problem-solving, and ethical leadership. It provides a well-rounded and comprehensive guide for aspiring supervisors.

Ever wonder why you've had more strategy conversations than you can count, but not a single strategist discussion you can remember? That's because strategy has made a career out of ignoring the strategist—until now. Strategists First will help you learn what every strategist needs to know, including: who strategists are, what strategists believe, how strategists behave, where strategists thrive, when strategists strike, and why strategists matter.

As IMD professors Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace show in this eye-opening and practical book, it's due to a basic strategic misalignment and a misunderstanding of what actually drives customers' purchase decisions.

Are you planning an online business that it doesn’t need any IT experience and skills to get started? Are you tired of your nine-to-five job? Are you worried about how you will do it? Don’t be! This book is tailor-made for you! Amazon FBA is the right business for you....

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

Behavioral Economics for Leaders: Research-Based Insights on the Weird, Irrational, and Wonderful Ways Humans Navigate the Workplace is an accessible and unique approach to implementing the many lessons of behavioral economics in your own leadership strategy. You’ll explore how and why your team members often don’t make rational decisions ― and why that can be a good thing.

What makes a Million Dollar Host? Ask Julie George. In 2016, curiosity led her to list her first property on Airbnb. What began as a simple way to make some “holiday money” quickly revealed its true potential. Julie transformed a side hustle into a thriving business—earning $1.43 million in her first year, with the second year poised to double that figure. In Million Dollar Host, Julie shares how she built a multi-million-dollar Airbnb management business—without owning any property.

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance is a simple affirmation that successful organizational change involves - requires, in fact - the active, willful participation of the people affected by the change. In the change approach prescribed here, the friendly factor is not just a play on words; it is the very foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts, and hopes.

اللحظة التي تصبح فيها مديراً، تواجهك مسئولية التأكد من إنجاز العمل، وأن موظفيك يؤدون بأعلى قدرة يملكونها، وأن الأمور في قسمك تسير بسلاسة. هل موظفوك محفزون؟ هل يعملون بصورة جيدة سوياً؟ ماذا عن المهام الجديدة التي تظهر أمامك فجأة والتي تتضمن التوظيف والفصل من العمل، والانضباط، والتواصل مع الإدارة العليا؟ هل أنت مستعد لمواجهة كل التحديات التي تعوق طريقك؟

THIS KIND OF BUSINESS CAN ONLY BE PERSONAL Sage Reese lives for her job. More precisely, she lives for her debonair boss, Parker Andersen. Sage handles everything for Parker, even as she fantasizes about the one thing that isn't in her job description: him. But when a high-stakes account crosses...

Author Matt LeMay explains agile in clear, jargon-free terms and provides concrete and actionable steps to help any team put its values and principles into practice. Examples from a wide variety of organizations, including small nonprofits and global financial enterprises, bring to life the on-the-ground realities of agile across industries and functions.