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Intensify your impact and performance with practical, real-world insights, strategies, and techniques designed for ambitious people. If you're looking to become a groundbreaking leader with a personal stamp that cuts across industries and decades, Lead Beyond 2030 is the book for you. Caroline Kennedy, an accomplished, international award-winning CEO, shares her personal experience, stories, wisdom, intelligence, and pragmatic advice.

Rather than juggling the two worlds of career and life, what if you could create a third alternative, your own, new, evolved world: one that works for you rather than against you? Breaking the Gender Code not only unpacks why women feel the constant pressure to keep so many balls in the air, but also where this pressure comes from.

Many medical professionals feel like they've been studying their whole life, through medical school, working as a registrar, and then specialist training, but despite all that study they feel like they have never learned how to run a successful business. They build a business around their medical skills, but despite their high level of medical achievement they feel like their finances, overall stress levels and personal life are suffering, and they don't know where to start to fix it.

Do people drive you nuts? Are silos and turf wars challenging the culture? Wondering if it ever gets any easier? The toughest - and best - part of leadership is the people. But let’s face it, people dynamics can be tricky. Solutions are within. People Stuff is your map to the complex territory of human behaviour and leadership strategies. People Stuff goes well beyond frustrating "personality clashes" to uncover the dynamics of human interactions at work.

Smart Time Investment for Business provides 128 short, sharp, and practical productivity strategies that you can start implementing today for immediate results, punctuated with tips and anecdotes from leading business people from around the world who share how they use time to their advantage. Your time is not limitless. Your time is a finite and enormously valuable resource - and, just like your money, if you want to grow your wealth and your success you must invest your time wisely.

Positive thinking coupled with positive doing is a must for anybody in today’s disrupted, distracted world where change is the new normal. It’s All Possible shows how to embrace change through insightful stories and proven possibility hacks from everyday people, business leaders, sports stars, and entertainers that will inspire and motivate you. It is backed by the latest research on mind-set and personal development.

Every business has customers, and employers are seeking to hire, retain, and reward employees who have the skills, the knowledge, and the motivation to provide a consistently superior level of service to every customer, every day. No longer is a bright smile and a friendly hello enough to satisfy customers and keep them coming back. Employers and customers want customer service professionals.

Have you ever wondered how to gain that extra edge? Perhaps you know your stuff, but just need something more to help you reach your potential. Or maybe you've watched the achievements of others and thought - that should be me! Athletes who reach the pinnacle of their sport have found the mental edge that sets them apart from everyone else - and that edge is within your reach. For over 25 years, Dr. Jo Lukins has helped individuals, teams and organizations achieve success at the highest level.

It does not matter whether this is your first or fifth year in business or if you are about to sell your business and retire, there is something for everyone at every stage of the business journey in this must-listen audiobook by financial planner, accountant, and money mentor Rita Zappulla. It’s never too early to start, and the sooner you do, the more your future self and your bank account will thank you for it. So, stop procrastinating and start saving for your retirement now, before it’s too late.

Gabby has been living with her brother Raphi in their grandmother's wildlife sanctuary at the edge of the bush. While Raphi has thrown himself into life at the sanctuary ever since their parents went missing and their grandmother became their reluctant caregiver, Gabby longs to return to the city. Somehow, they all must find a way to get along while caring for injured animals. Amid a daily routine of feeding, nursing, and releasing a menagerie of wild creatures, the siblings must attend a new school.

Plan! Strategize! Build wealth! Be proactive in your quest to live the life you dream of. Learn how to understand what you’re really buying, and dodge the traps of spruikers and their dreaded up-sell techniques. Understand property, contract and loans types, savings that can be made on taxation, and how to avoid the pitfalls of rental property investment before you make the purchase. Get to know the rationale behind out-performing suburbs and many different strategies, and wonder why nobody ever explained to you that there is a process.

Have you or a friend or loved one struggled with loss, abuse, addiction, low self-esteem, or even suicidal ideation? Then this book will ring true for you. Dr. Liz’ personal memoir chronicles the first 25 years of her life living in abusive environments, how she survived and ultimately found her way into the supportive and caring arms of 12-step recovery programs.

Once you're pregnant, the rest is easy, right? No. Knowing parenting wouldn't be easy, Stephanie Thompson never thought too much about how the baby would actually arrive and how that was, in fact, the hardest part of the journey so far. Many women feel foolish for not knowing what they didn't know. They found out the hard way. The Day My Vagina Broke is about breaking the silence on the secret women's code around childbirth and empowering mums-to-be at their most vulnerable time.

For more than a decade, Jason T. Smith led the Back In Motion Health Group with a traditional organisational structure. For a while, it worked well. But then something changed. Jason set a new goal that couldn’t be achieved through the status quo. In this audiobook Jason shares how just two years later, after challenging their internal culture and work flow, they found the sweet spot between authentic collaboration and the holy grail of peer accountability. The result: an explosion of new business growth and the freedom for each team member to excel at what they love.

Paul Higgins draws on his personal experience of leaving a senior role at Coca Cola due to health issues to embark on what he thought would be a walk in the park - running his own business. It turns out that nothing could be further from the truth. Paul shares his struggles and challenges. But it is not just Paul’s journey; it is the journey of hundreds of other solopreneurs who Paul has mentored.

The Day My Vagina Broke follows one woman's journey to becoming a mumma and how she had no idea childbirth could break your vagina...and you. Once you're pregnant the rest is easy right? No. Knowing parenting wouldn't be easy, Stephanie Thompson never thought too much about how the baby would actually arrive, and how that was, in fact, the hardest part of the journey so far. Many women feel foolish for not knowing what they didn't know; they found out the hard way. 

Choose spotlights a simple truth: Our best selves do not come from being given the answers; they live in the questions we ask ourselves, of others, and of life itself. This book presents a simple system for making better decisions so that you can thrive in this risky modern world.

A tactical, step-by-step guide to help today's frontline reps create valuable new business conversations. Whether you're an individual rep or leading a sales team, the simple processes outlined in TPG will have you talking to more valuable prospects in the shortest time possible.

The Experience Equation helps mature individuals create a future where their experience is valued. If you're over 50 and feeling undervalued, then this book is for you. The book explores how to make your own future plan, the future of work, and what the journey to the future will look like for you. It helps the mature individual take back control and overcome the challenges of discrimination and ageism that are endemic in the workplace today.

Telling better stories in business is not about thinking up clever words, images or jingles that will make your products or services seem a little more schmick. That's called advertising.