House Management

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 world-renowned investors, venture capitalists, conglomerates, startups, creatives, and legal and financial experts to identify the components of a pitch that makes an impact—whoever you are, wherever you are, and at whatever stage of your idea, start-up, or scale-up.

With A Cat in the Doghouse, the last in Michael Grinder’s Classroom Management Trilogy, Michael proves again why he's the go-to person to learn to deal with the difficult and at-risk children in our classrooms today. In A Cat in the Doghouse, he uses the analogy of our beloved household pets - cats and dogs - so that we can easily understand what motivates all of our students. The techniques and tools Michael shares will transform your classroom into a more humane society.

Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and studied bushfires in Europe, Canada and the US. He risked his life in the 1994 Sydney fires and, later, during our catastrophic Black Summer of 2019-20. As a career firefighter, he worked his way up the ranks to become commissioner of one of the world's largest fire services, Fire and Rescue NSW, for nearly 14 years. When it came to natural disasters there was little, if anything, he hadn't witnessed first-hand.

The corporate masks we wear hide many a secret. The most potent are not the secret financial numbers or confidential strategy documents hidden away in locked drawers or in safes but the simple ones—good filter coffee generosity and thirty minutes of me-time. This book offers a selection of fascinating and useful secrets that can help you be far more successful at your workplace. As a bonus they can make you happier as well. Harish Bhat wields his pen with his signature insight to delight inspire provoke and change the way you see offices forever.

Most managers are promoted because they excel at their jobs—but the moment they step into a new leadership role, they’re expected to know how to motivate teams, navigate tough conversations, and drive results with little to no guidance. Manager Method fills this gap, and provides managers at any level with practical, real-world strategies to help them lead with clarity, confidence, and impact—without burning out.

Justin Bookey ha pasado décadas en ambos mundos. Como creador y estratega de contenido nominado al Emmy, ha trabajado con líderes de empresas globales para lograr sus objetivos comerciales. Como jugador de tenis de mesa, entrenó con campeones nacionales y mundiales y ganó medallas en el Abierto de Estados Unidos.

In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson upends the traditional notion of a strong leader. Everyone, she argues, is a leader. YOU are a leader. Whether you are the head of one of the largest companies in the world, supervising a small team or working from home you impact people through the words you use, the choices you make and the behaviours you role model to others.

What makes someone an impactful leader? Global leadership expert Cash Keahey believes you have much in common with that leader no matter who you are. Keahey focuses on leadership lessons from eight occupants of the White House, enabling you to discover and leverage your authentic leadership style. This book is a culmination of twelve years of research into eight leader-presidents, revealing how their personality types shaped their leadership styles.

From inside the walls of Enron, a lone whistleblower attempted to avert the course of events leading to the largest bankruptcy in American history. On August 16, 2001, Sherron Watkins wrote an anonymous letter to Enron's Chairman, Ken Lay, laying out problems with Enron's use of partnerships to hide debt. She warned of a possible scandal that could topple the company if investors and the news media learned of the operations. Then, she revealed her identity and confronted Lay directly.

When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist down - a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She’s forced to take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting point for Together, which looks at the changes every couple faces - the slow, ordinary ones brought about by time and the sudden, dramatic ones that take us by surprise.

From the best-selling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness". A malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond", a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families.

Still Standing: Taking Care of Yourself When You're Chronically Tired and Stressed Out is a compassionate, science-informed guide for anyone navigating chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, or burnout—especially those who never get a break. Whether you're a working parent, caregiver, student, professional, or neurodivergent adult, this book offers practical, shame-free support for staying afloat when rest feels out of reach. With gentle humor and zero pressure to overhaul your life, Jordan Blake Carter helps you understand what’s really going on in your body and brain.

Believe it or not, recessions make millionaires! Will you be one? In Start Over, Finish Rich, America's best-loved financial expert, David Bach, explains that 2010 will be the best opportunity for building wealth we have seen in decades. And as the economy recovers, you must be set up to recover with it. Bach's easy, take-action plan will show you how.

Have you ever told yourself, 'I’m just not wired to be organized,' and given up before you even tried? Does it feel like no matter how many times you try to get organized, nothing ever sticks? Do you think organizing your life will take hours that you just don’t have? This doesn’t have to be true for you. In this book you will find many ways to understand your abilities and use them to your advantage.

'Time poor' is the catch-cry of our era, and yet end-of-life retirement means we have an average of two decades of feeling time rich to look forward to...when we're old. How arse-about is that? But there is an alternative to working your butt off for decades and retiring when you're worn out: it's called financial independence, and it means being able to cover life's essentials and afford the luxuries you want without having to turn up to a job each day.

In an era of rapid climate change, this vital account of how agriculture can address major issues is an Australian story with global ramifications. Patrice is at the front line of enormous challenges, from water scarcity and land stewardship to food security and the rural-urban divide. The devastation of drought and the crises created by industrial-scale chemically dependent primary production are discussed and alternatives proposed - along with bold ideas for new sources of energy.

Un nuevo enfoque de liderazgo para el futuro basado en dos engranes que se activan mutuamente: el autodescubrimiento y la reinvención empresarial. Al terminar su primer año como CEO de Walmex, Walmart México y Centroamérica —la división más grande de Walmart fuera de Estados Unidos—, Gui Loureiro decidió que la compañía necesitaba un cambio radical para convertir a la icónica compañía en un negocio más orientado a los datos, centrado en el cliente y competitivo en la economía digital.

A handy guide that has been helping people manage their daily lives since 1978 is revised and updated to apply the principles of organization to today's lifestyles.

Drawing on the entrepreneurial life lessons Taulbert learned from his uncle Cleve, Who Owns the Ice House? chronicles Taulbert’s journey from life in the Mississippi Delta at the height of legal segregation to being recognized by Time magazine as "one of our nation’s most outstanding emerging entrepreneurs". Who Owns the Ice House? reaches into the past to remind us of the timeless and universal principles that can empower anyone to succeed.

Este libro cuenta la extraordinaria historia de una compañía global y una familia danesa que durante noventa años ha defendido el derecho al juego de los niños, y también el de los adultos, quienes deben dedicar tiempo a cuidar de su niño interior. La historia de LEGO se construyó a partir del acceso privilegiado de Jens Andersen a los archivos de LEGO y a las múltiples entrevistas que tuvo con Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, expresidente y CEO de Grupo LEGO, nieto del fundador Ole Kirk Christiansen.