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Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student 30 years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, without interruptions. By grouping a number of pomodoros together, users can tackle a project of any length, and drastically improve their productivity, enhance their focus, and better achieve their goals.

The Soulful Art of Persuasion is a revolutionary guide to becoming a master influencer in an age of distrust through the cultivation of character-building habits that are essential to both personal growth and sustained business success. This isn’t a book full of tips and life-hacks. Instead, The Soulful Art of Persuasion will develop the habits that others want to be influenced by. This audiobook is based on a radical idea: Persuasion isn’t about facts and argument. It’s all about personal character.

El autor del bestseller Los primeros 90 días presenta un nuevo marco práctico para ayudar a los líderes a pensar de manera estratégica, una de las habilidades que se necesitan más que nunca en un mundo en cambio constante.

In a culture that constantly tells us to do more of everything but simultaneously pressures us to do nothing, Permission to Rest is a passionate cry for a more regulated, resourced, and rested life. Wellness expert Ashley Neese combines personal essays, contemplative questions, scientific research, and somatic practices to help us disrupt the state of urgency, reflect inward, and relax deeply. Neese examines common beliefs around rest and offers support and guidance to challenge the shame, guilt, and discomfort that often arise when we attempt to slow down.

Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot.

El mundo se aceleró y se volvió incierto, complejo y volátil. Y fue este mundo disruptivo el que me reveló la fragilidad de las escuelas de negocios. Yo fui víctima de las incapacidades de esas escuelas. Después de haberme graduado de dos carreras, e incluso estar en proceso de estudiar un par de maestrías, no lograba que mi negocio despegara. Estuve metido en un "negocio pendejo" - como suelo llamarlo -, hasta que encontré la salida. Me tomó diez años desaprender fórmulas equivocadas de la vieja escuela.

The art of letting go, Dr. Judith Orloff explains, is the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. In our superconnected world where emails and text messages constantly interrupt us, it’s easier to let go than you think. Once embraced, surrendering removes roadblocks and the exhaustion that comes from "trying too hard" - and it helps you achieve goals more effortlessly and brings ongoing happiness.

In this controversial, hard-hitting account of today’s explosive market, Robert J. Shiller, a leading expert on market volatility, evokes Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 reference, “irrational exuberance,” to explain the alternately soaring and declining stock market. Shiller’s unconventional yet persuasive argument credits an unprecedented confluence of events with driving stocks to uncharted heights, and he analyzes the structural, cultural, and psychological factors behind these levels of growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy.

Entre más rápido se mueva tu dinero, más altas serán tus ganancias y menor el riesgo. La sabiduría financiera convencional recomienda ahorrar dinero e invertir a largo plazo; en otras palabras, estacionar tu dinero. Pero ese no fue el consejo del padre rico de Robert Kiyosaki; su consejo fue, ¡incrementar la velocidad del dinero!

El reconocido autor de la serie Padre rico, padre pobre nos enseña en estas páginas los pasos indispensables para desarrollar nuestras habilidades financieras y aprender a tomar mejores decisiones con nuestro dinero.

Red Teaming is a revolutionary new way to make critical and contrarian thinking part of the planning process of any organization, allowing companies to stress test their strategies, flush out hidden threats and missed opportunities, and avoid being sandbagged by competitors.

In The High Performance Entrepreneur, Subroto Bagchi draws from his own experiences to offer guidance from the idea stage to the initial public offering level. This includes deciding when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting a team, defining the values and objectives of the company, writing the business plan, choosing the right investors, managing adversity, and building the brand.

यह सिखाती है कि क्यों भविष्य के लिहाज़ से भारी-भरकम वेतन पाने के बजाय संपत्ति हासिल करना और बनाना ज़रूरी हो सकता है - और वे कौन-से टैक्स के लाभ हैं जो निवेशक तथा बिज़नेस मालिक प्राप्त करते हैं

You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, 17 bills to pay, 36 e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you would love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You cannot add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will help you make the most of the time you do have and get things done.

The more complex life becomes, the more people crave simplicity - in their work, relationships, health, finances, and leisure time. For all of those who are overpowered, overextended, overworked, and overcome by the go-go lifestyle of the last decade, Simplify Your Life provides a user's manual for learning how to unwind and improve the quality of one's life.

The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate—from small startup to industry leader.

¿Odias los impuestos? ¿Sientes que no hay nada que puedas hacer al respecto? ¿Temes la temporada de impuestos cada año? En Riqueza libre de impuestos, Tom Wheelwright, asesor fiscal personal de Robert T. Kiyosaki, te enseña con un lenguaje sencillo y fácil de comprender cómo usar el código fiscal para hacerte más rico. “Los impuestos a menudo roban los sueños y la jubilación de las personas. Riqueza libre de impuestos explica cómo usar la ley fiscal como una hoja de ruta para reducir tus impuestos y aumentar tu riqueza.”

A lo largo de un centenar de cortos capítulos, el doctor Carlson presenta una serie de estrategias simples para controlar el pesimismo y evitar que los sinsabores que la vida trae consigo nos amarguen la existencia.

We are in the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions ever, and it's a brave new world indeed. Who better to guide us through it than Michael Lewis, whose subversive, trenchant humor is the perfect match to his subject matter. Here is an audiobook as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, and as entertaining as its best selling predecessors.

Drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon 25 years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately forc