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John Murray Press 7 Lessons in Finance for NonFinancial Managers
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John Murray Press 7 Lessons in Leading Teams
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John Murray Press 7 Lessons in NLP
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John Murray Press 7 Lessons in Sales
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Mobius Secrets of Great Influencers
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Mobius Secrets of Productive People
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John Murray Press How Great Ideas Happen
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Random House USA Inc The First Tycoon
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
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HarperCollins Focus Startup Money Made Easy
Book SynopsisLet the experts at Inc.guide you through every critical step and potential pitfall as their on-the-ground reporting shows how to locate funding, manage your money, and smart hack your way to a comfortable retirement.Startup Money Made Easy gathers the best advice from the magazine’s pages, spotlighting celebrated entrepreneurs and inspiring stories. You’ll hear from: FUBU founder Daymond John, who mortgaged his family home for start-up capital—and built a $6 billion empire Makeup artist Bobbi Brown, who turned a modest lipstick line into a profitable 30-store enterprise Alexa von Tobel, who dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch the equity-magnate LearnVest.com Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck, Max Levchin, and other founders who overcame financial obstacles on their way to the top Additionally, these stories include on-target tips that explain how to:Rais
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Covert Cows and ChickfilA
Book SynopsisThe longtime chief marketing officer for Chick-fil-A tells the inside story of how the company turned prevailing theories of fast-food marketing upside down and built one of the most successful and beloved brands in America.During his thirty-four-year tenure at Chick-fil-A, Steve Robinson was integrally involved in the company’s growth--from 184 stores and $100 million in annual sales in 1981 to over 2,100 stores and over $6.8 billion in annual sales in 2015--and was a first-hand witness to its evolution as an indelible global brand. In Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A, Robinson shares behind-the-scenes accounts of key moments, including the creation of the Chick-fil-A corporate purpose and the formation and management of the now-iconic Eat Mor Chikin cow campaign. Drawing on his personal interactions with the gifted team of company leaders, restaurant operators, and the company''s founder, Truett Cathy, Robinson explains the import
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HarperCollins Focus The Customer of the Future
Book SynopsisWith emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it''s important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow''s customers need to be targeted today!Customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines ten easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective.The Customer of the Future explains how today''s customers are already demanding frictionless, personalized, on-demand experiences from their products and services, and companies that don''t adapt to these new expectations won''t last. This book prepares your organization for these increasing demands by helping you do the following: Learn the ten defining strategies for a customer experience-focused company. Implement new techniques to shift the entire company fro
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HarperCollins Focus People Powered
Book SynopsisWhat if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers?Communities have been a popular topic since the rise of the Internet and social media, but few companies have consistently harnessed their power, driven tangible value, and effectively measured their return on investment (ROI) like Salesforce.com, Star Citizen via Kickstarter, and Red Hat. Companies such as PayPal, Facebook, Bosch, Microsoft, CapitalOne, and Google, have also built communities inside their organizations, which have fostered innovation, broken down silos, and helped their organizations to operate more efficiently and collaboratively.People Powered helps C-suite leaders, founders, marketers, customer advocates, and community leaders gain a competitive advantage by answering the followingTrade Review'If you don't like herding cats but need to build a community, you need to read People Powered' - Jamie Hyneman, Co-Host and Co-Creator of Mythbusters'Jono is an expert at integrating the potential of communities with businesses. People Powered provides a clear and thoughtful blueprint for others looking to tap into this potential and unlock benefits for their own organizations.' - Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO, Red Hat and author of 'The Open Organization''People Powered equips businesses with a powerful community building formula. It is clear, consistent and thus a genuinely effective tool for integrating community into the day to day operations of a business. Highly recommended.' - Paul Salnikow, CEO, The Executive Centre'If you want to tap into the power that communities can bring to businesses and teams, there is no greater expert than Jono Bacon.' - Nat Friedman, CEO, GitHub'If you want to unlock the power of collaboration in communities, companies, and teams, Jono Bacon should be your tour guide, and People Powered should be your map.' - Jamie Smith, former deputy press secretary to President Barack Obama.'Whether you are a start-up or a corporation, if you are not building a community, you are missing an enormous opportunity. People Powered needs to be on every executive's bookshelf.' - Maxx Bricklin, Co-Founder, BOLD Capital Partners
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HarperCollins Focus The Business of We
Book SynopsisDiscover how this leader-focused approach to understanding, managing, and maximizing organizational diversity and inclusion can increase employee retention and productivity.Workplace misunderstandings lead to lost revenue, lost time, and increased legal risk, thus your success in the marketplace will depend on our ability to collaborate across difference. Yet, inevitably, Us versus Them gaps disrupt workplace efficiency.In The Business of WE, cross-cultural consultant and diversity expert Laura Kriska will: Provide a practical roadmap for creating trust with others who are culturally different from yourself Help you create a WE mindset throughout your organization, bringing teams together into cohesive units. Walk you through the steps in fostering a workplace that is inclusive and respectful of all employees—one of the most critical, yet most widely mismanaged keys to success. &nb
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HarperCollins Focus The Leaders Greatest Return
Book SynopsisIn The Leader''s Greatest Return, Maxwell shares the most important lessons he''s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century, from identifying high-potential leaders to coaching leaders to develop others.Trade Review'Highly recommended! In my experience, the ability to identify and develop leaders is a critical trait to any high-performing business. John Maxwell skillfully lays the groundwork on how to create a virtuous cycle where leaders are developed and then encouraged to foster new leaders.' Joel Peterson, Chairman of JetBlue Airways'John Maxwell hits the nail on the head in The Leader's Greatest Return. Much of our long-term success at Paychex has stemmed from our ability to attract, hire, and develop great leaders. I highly recommend this book for leaders seeking to develop this essential characteristic in their own organization.' Thomas Golisano, founder and Chairman of the Board, Paychex, Inc.'Rachel and I are living examples of John's belief in the compounding value of developing leaders. By sitting at John's leadership development table, we've been able to expand our own organization by developing the leaders who will carry The Hollis Co. forward.' Dave Hollis, CEO, The Hollis Co. and author of Get Out of Your Own Way
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HarperCollins Focus The Mans Guide to Corporate Culture
Book SynopsisStudies have shown that 60% of male managers feel uncomfortable working one-on-one with their female colleagues. That''s where The Man''s Guide to Corporate Culture comes in.Heather Zumarraga, a business journalist who has spent much of her career in testosterone-filled work environments, wants to make sure that any male leader who wants to be part of the solution knows how to do it the right way.Heather provides you with logical solutions to complex gender issues and gives important, practical lessons for men and women alike.The Man''s Guide to Corporate Culture teaches you: Which behaviors to adopt (and which to avoid) to create and maintain a comfortable work environment for their female co-workers. How to create an environment that is not only welcoming to both women and men but also encourages healthy and respectful collaboration. And more real-world tested advice and approaches toTrade Review'The Man's Guide to Corporate Culture is an easy read with important practical lessons for men and women alike. Heather blends scientific data and personal testimonials in an engaging way.' * James M. Trusty, Former Prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice *'The Man's Guide to Corporate Culture is that PERFECT PLAYBOOK combining practical, easy-to-follow advice with a dose of humor.' * Carol Roth, New York Times Bestselling Author *'Heather's writing is as equally engaging as her on-air style--so, by definition, YOU WILL LOVE IT! She provides readers with logical solutions to complex gender issues.' * Guy Adami, CNBC Host and Fast Money Anchor *'Some of the best business lessons come from bad managers and so-called leaders--don't be 'THAT GUY!' Save yourself the headache and heartache and read the book!' * Morgan White, Chief Security Advisor for SentinelOne *'The best way to stay out of trouble is to know these secret rules. If you're looking for pragmatic advice and guidance on how to be your best in the workplace, THIS IS IT!' * John Bachman, Managing Editor and Host of Newsmax TV *'This book is a GAME CHANGER for the way leaders engage in the workplace.' * Joanie Bily Courtney, Board of Director for the American Staffing Association *
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HarperCollins Focus Bet on Yourself
Book SynopsisTake charge of your career and create a life full of learning, adventure, joy, and success utilizing these never-before-shared leadership principles Ann Hiatt learned working alongside the world’s top tech CEOs—Google’s Eric Schmidt, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Yahoo!''s Marissa Mayer. Whether you’re stuck in your current job, starting your first job and wondering how you can use it as a steppingstone towards your dream career, or mid-career and wanting to finally be recognized for promotion or a leadership role, this book is for you.For the first time, Ann Hiatt shares both the daily habits and long-game strategies she learned working side-by-side for decades with the giants of technology at Amazon and Google.Through clear guidance and incredible stories, Bet on Yourself will teach you:How to define your abilities and speak up so that you can be recognized for the work that you do and the unique cTrade Review'Bet on yourself' is the principal piece of advice I give to all of my students. Now Ann Hiatt has written the definitive book on how to actually do that! It should be on literally everyone's shelf.' * Scott Duke Kominers, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School *'Moonshot thinkers thrive when partnered with visionary implementers. Ann Hiatt was that force behind the CEOs of both Amazon and Google. Bet on Yourself is a rare glimpse into the foundation of these revolutionary companies and a step-by-step manual of empowerment which will inspire each reader to bring their own dreams to life and design new radical opportunities.' * Pablo Rodriguez Moonshots Ambassador, Google's Moonshot Factory *'What if you knew someone who collaborated firsthand with the world's most powerful executives, observing what makes them successful and then applying that wisdom to kickstart her own successful career? Ann Hiatt is that person, and in Bet on Yourself, she shares previously untold recipes for success in the internet age.' * Steven Levy, author of Hackers, In the Plex, and Facebook: The Inside Story *'Ann Hiatt knows what it takes to get things done--it's why the top executives at Amazon and Google relied on her. Her book is filled with sage advice for taking smart risks, championing your ideas, and increasing your impact.' * Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the TED podcast WorkLife *
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HarperCollins Focus Master Mentors
Book SynopsisFor busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30 essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Trent Shelton, General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our time.Mining the best and brightest revelations from FranklinCovey’s global podcast, On Leadership with Scott Miller, Scott personally introduces you to 30 Master Mentors, featuring the single most transformative insight from each of them.Depending on where you are in your journey, Master Mentors will: Challenge your current mindset and beliefs, leading to what could be the most important career and thought- process shifts of your life! Restore you to the mindset and beliefs you find effective but aren’t currently living in alignment with. Validate that you are on the right path with your current mindset and beliefs and empower
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HarperCollins Focus Work Your Way
Book SynopsisBuild your successful consultant life doing the work you love, on your terms utilizing the practical tips, inspiration, and straightforward advice from recognized new world of work visionary and thought leader, Lisa Hufford. Professionals want freedom and flexibility in the work they do, and they have more options than ever before to create the work & life they want on their own terms. They want to make work fit their lives—not the other way around.Lisa’s promise is that consulting is a viable alternative to traditional full-time employment, and you have everything you need to make it happen.Equal parts actionable and inspirational, this is the definitive guide for beginner and experienced consultants. Lisa teaches readers how to successfully step off the corporate career ladder and transition to doing the work they love, on their terms. Grounded in Lisa’s experience trading a high-powered corporate career for the freedom and f
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HarperCollins Focus Back to Business Finding Your Confidence
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HarperCollins Focus Untapped Talent
Book SynopsisTens of millions of people in the U.S. with criminal records are highly talented, reliable, and eager to work. Implement these second chance hiring practices to give your company a significant competitive advantage over those that do not.Researched, tested, and written by the chief investment strategist of one of the country’s leading business banks, Jeffrey Korzenik includes dozens of examples of businesses that have successfully implemented the second chance hiring practices outlined in this book.Korzenik shows those companies that have learned to go beyond the label and to evaluate the qualities of the individual applicant have tapped into an often-overlooked source of loyal and productive talent.In Untapped Talent, you will: Understand what goes into a successful second chance hire, from the support that will be needed internally to the resources that are available from outside agencies. Learn how busin
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HarperCollins Focus Surviving a Startup
Book SynopsisSteve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space, prepares entrepreneurs to avoid mistakes, overcome obstacles, and master the skills necessary to make the right choices along their path to success.The fact is, over 90 percent of all new startups fail. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top.In Surviving a Startup, Hoffman brings readers on a wild ride, sharing with them the tumultuous journey of launching a venture-funded startup and revealing what it takes to make it.In this one-of-a-kind guide, you will learn: A deep analysis and insights into the major challenges every entrepreneur faces when launching a business. How to make the best possible decisions and deal with crisis situations. Strategies for raising capital and growing a business, even when it seems impossible. Secrets on how to manage difficult employees, demonstrate leade
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HarperCollins Focus The Ultimate Marketing Engine
Book SynopsisA step-by-step system for creating customers and clients for life.In a world that’s difficult for business professionals to cut through noise to create relationships with their customers, organizations that focus on converting their customers to members and helping them achieve lasting transformation rather than simply offering the transaction of the moment are winning.The Ultimate Marketing Engine teaches you how to develop a system to take every customer from where they are to where they want to be by building on the innovative principles first brought to the marketing world in Duct Tape Marketing and honed over three decades of working with thousands of businesses.In this book, you will learn: Why strategy must come before tactics. How to narrow your focus and choose only ideal customers. Why no one wants what you sell – and what they actually want. How to use story and narrativTrade Review'The Ultimate Marketing Engine will fundamentally change how you view marketing forever.' --JJ Virgin, New York Times Bestselling Author, The Virgin Diet, Founder, The Mindshare Collaborative * The Virgin Diet *'John shares a remarkable insight: What if you aligned your business around transforming your customers with an unrelenting focus on their success rather than your own?' and shy; --David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR * The New Rules of Marketing and PR *'John unlocks the secret to rapid business growth: The customer is not king; the GROWTH of the customer is king. This book is a must-read for entrepreneurs who want to build (or re-build) their business on a foundation of predictable growth.' --Ryan Deiss, author of the Invisible Selling Machine * Invisible Selling Machine *'The best teachers and books are the ones that show you how to do it, not do the work for you. That is The Ultimate Marketing Engine.' --Kara Goldin, Founder and CEO Hint, Inc. and Author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and amp; Doubters * Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts & Doubters *'There is one common factor for every successful business: the word spreads. John's book is the recipe to do exactly that.' --Mike Michalowicz, author of Get Different and Profit First * Get Different *
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HarperCollins Focus The Art of Excellent Products
Book SynopsisItalian brands are known to create some of the most premium, sought-after products in the world. Learn to compete in the modern marketplace using the proven business principles that Italian brands have been employing for generations. While it is no secret that Italians create superior products that both withstand the threat of ongoing competition and stand the test of time, the specific business principles that have led to such tried and tested successes are shrouded in secrecy, until now.Businessman Riccard Illy details personal experiences using these Italian business standards to run his family’s world-renowned coffee company for generations. Through the age of intense competition from Starbucks and Coffee Bean, the Illy empire has remained at the top of the coffee industry simply by employing key Italian business principles and values.In The Art of Excellent Products, you will:Learn how to approach your reseaTrade Review'In The Art of Excellent Products, Riccardo Illy's vision of Incanto is a 21st century concept for age-old product excellence and will inspire both business owners and employees across a multitude of endeavors. Land and water and air are inextricable; so too are beauty, perfection and sustainability. Bravissimo to the author of this inspiring philosophy, who is also the steward of Gruppo illy brands, for his intelligence and insights.' * Susan Ennis, former executive vice president of HBO, and founder, Susan Ennis & Associates *'While reading The Art of Excellent Products, my first reaction was surprise. I expected a story of Riccardo Illy's family businesses but instead, he writes with great verve and certainty about better goals--vision, surprise, delight, planning that survives for generations, and sopratutto, quality. This is not only the Illy way but the way of the many world-renowned Italian businesses. By revealing the practices of these firms, Illy finds patterns of core values. And where did their values originate, these makers of cars, clothing, wine, furniture, even pastries and pianos? This is the best message of all. Not from soaring profits and world recognition but from the artistic heritage and the generous beauty of the land, which inspire artisans and entrepreneurs toward their own commitment to beauty. Hard-hitting advice, humor, life lessons, originality--all these surprise every page.' * Frances Mayes, poet, essayist, and New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun *'One can learn quite a lot from Riccardo Illy's new book, The Art of Excellent Products, a survey of business practices and conclusions in modern Italy and actually, the world. He discusses and outlines what he terms an 'Incanto' business, one that continues along amid history lessons and the intimacies of all family businesses, which is interesting and most rewarding. I'd recommend reading this book as well as the enjoyment of all the illy products.' * Francis Ford Coppola, film director, screenwriter, and producer *
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HarperCollins Focus The FiveWeek Leadership Challenge
Book SynopsisWall Street Journal BestsellerDevelop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you for the job you were made to have.A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties.In addition to serving as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, Patrick Leddin has founded successful businesses and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you''re the only person for the job.In this book, you will find:35 daily challe
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HarperCollins Focus Honest Answers
Book SynopsisBECOME A MASTER AT NEGOTIATION AND COMMUNICATIONNever go into an important conversation feeling unheard, unprepared, or uninformed again—apply the proven SISCO method for communication to become a master negotiator, trusted interviewer, and engaging conversationalist. No matter the conversation, detecting honesty and persuading others to be honest are some of the most valuable skills you can learn. With these skills, you can master your daily conversations and interactions with others. The Strategic Interviewing Skills and Competencies (SISCO) Method will help you see the full picture, have all the facts, and make effective decisions.Former Navy interrogator, Lena Sisco, created this method during challenging investigative and information-gathering interviews. Her 5-step program focuses human-to-human interaction. When you can gain someone’s trust you can get truth in any scenario. She teaches readers how
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HarperCollins Focus TechPowered Sales
Book SynopsisCreate sales success by leveraging technologies that are changing business-to-business selling forever. Become superhuman in how you operate with technology by embracing AI automation and platforms that transform results.
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HarperCollins Focus Unleashing Your Hero
Book SynopsisDevelop, expand, and share your gifts as a leader to inspire others to use their own individual talents in extraordinary ways—from one of the country’s most sought-after motivational speakers with a 30+ year career in franchise development.In Unleashing Your Hero, renowned speaker Kevin Brown shares how the heroes who transformed his life are people just like you. People who stepped up and used their talents to make a positive difference within the hectic moments of everyday life. The same person your employees are looking to and trusting in for guidance and support.Through his real-life examples and stories, Kevin will: Provide you with a new definition of what it means to be a hero who inspires others to rise above and beyond in extraordinary ways. Unpack the four characteristics of a hero, based on the entertaining and enlightening true stories of heroes who entered and forever enriched his life.
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HarperCollins Focus The Power of Potential
Book Synopsis“A powerful, game-changing book. Tom''s approach is changing lives.”— Seth Godin, Author of This is MarketingDiscover how supporting employment for people with autism unlocked new ways of running a business—and revealed transformative lessons for all of us.Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way. When Tom D’Eri and his father John bought the location in 2013, they wanted to create employment opportunities for workers with autism. Like 1 in 54 Americans, Tom’s brother Andrew has autism, and he was facing lifelong unemployment. So the family set out on a mission to provide professional opportunities for people like Andrew, starting with one car wash. Now it’s one of the highest-volume washes in Florida. Its employee retention rate is five times that of its competitors. It has spun off into two additional locations that have been iTrade Review'Everybody who is interested in getting people with autism employed in a job that gives them a sense of purpose should read this book.' * Temple Grandin, Author of The Autistic Brain and Thinking in Pictures *'One of the top ten businesses books of 2023. The book goes way beyond a story of one business that is so exhilarating and stimulating you'll want to tell it to friends and colleagues. It ultimately provides essential advice for every manager in business, nonprofits, and government. The advice on hiring alone will have you hiring art teachers to engineers and nurses--in half the time with double your success.' * Chip Heath, Professor at Stanford Business School and coauthor of four NYT bestsellers including Switch and The Power of Moments *'This is a powerful, game-changing book, a book for anyone who has ever built a hiring process or managed a team. Tom's approach is changing lives.' * Seth Godin, Author of This is Marketing *'This provocative, informative, and engaging book contains the seeds of a revolution--an inclusive future in which businesses unlock the hidden potential of employees with autism and other neurodivergent conditions by redesigning onboarding processes and creating opportunities for them to shine. It's a template for a society in which everyone is given the best chance of success.' * Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity *'Tom's account of how he built Rising Tide Car Wash and the lessons he learned from hiring and managing a non-traditional workforce is riveting. Read it and learn how to overcome some of the most entrenched problems that hold companies back from scaling.' * Chris Yeh, Author of Blitzscaling *
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HarperCollins Focus Jump
Book SynopsisLearn the approach that made serial-entrepreneur Kim Perell a multi-millionaire—and it could make you one too. Discover the simple, successful formula for facing fear head on, ditching the excuses that hold you back, and finding the courage to Jump into the next chapter of your life.Bestselling author and award-winning entrepreneur Kim Perrell shares her powerful personal story about hitting rock bottom and summoning the courage required to take a life-changing leap into the unknown. Broke, bankrupt, and afraid of change, she trusted her instincts, closed her eyes, and “jumped”. Kim’s self-belief, know-how, and ultimate triumph is an inspiration.Whether you’re jumping from a place of greatness or uncertainty, Jump will: Encourage you to get out of your comfort zones, overcome self-doubt, and take proactive steps to change your life. Empower you with invaluable insights and b
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HarperCollins Focus The Italian Kid Did It
Book SynopsisEntrepreneurs, business owners, investors: here is the rare, no-nonsense advice you haven’t heard—straight from Paychex founder and billionaire philanthropist Tom Golisano—to overcome the most common (and some not so common) obstacles to live a successful life.Watching his father struggle to support his family through bigotry and other challenges in being an Italian immigrant, Tom Golisano learned early on the value of thinking outside the box and not letting perception sway your view of reality.Now, for the first time, Golisano shares the political shenanigans, behind the scenes stories, significant characters from his remarkable life, and key insights to thrive in your career. Filled with humor and wisdom, The Italian Kid Did It!: Reveals the secrets behind much of Golisano’s success and teaches you how to apply those same success-hacks to your own life. Emboldens you to see the world differently in
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HarperCollins Focus Workplace Ethics
Book SynopsisLEARN TO NAVIGATE COMPLEX EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT ETHICAL CHALLENGESPaul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees, teaches you the leadership principles that cultivate an ethical workplace and legally protect your company.Ethical challenges ranging from designing a diversity and inclusion strategy to creating a process for handling harassment allegations or establishing an employee discipline or termination process can overwhelm even senior leaders. This quick-guide walks you through these and many more critical ethical challenges you’ll face when managing a team and workplace.Workplace Ethics provides solutions for: Facing common ethical challenges in the workplace and offers quick pointers to help you navigate those situations. Understanding The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 affects your team and meeting SOX obligations. Educating employees h
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HarperCollins Focus Effective Hiring
Book SynopsisPUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN PLACE THE FIRST TIME with the help of scripts, templates, and tools you can apply immediately, from the leading voice in HR expertise. Paul Falcone, author for 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Your Employees and renowned hiring, performance management, and leadership development expert, walks you through the challenges you’ll face during the interviewing, hiring, and onboarding process.This quick guide to Effective Hiring: Offers new interpretations of candidate responses to the most often used interview questions. Identifies red flags in the candidate assessment process, such as unrelated responses to questions that delay getting to the answer to your question. Provides leaders who often struggle to meet crucial HR demands with simple tools to guide them through effective interviewing, hiring, and onboarding. Getting the best employees on board is o
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HarperCollins Focus Leadership Offense
Book SynopsisMASTER EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWSReady-to-use quick-guide to streamline employee reviews, create effective career development plans, and monitor year-round employee performance.Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert, gives you powerful scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews and development conversations.Along with key tactics for appraisal, motivation, and professional and career development, Leadership Offense: Reduces the time it takes to complete employee reviews by offering sample phrases for key performance areas. Gives you the framework and language for concrete and constructive feedback. Hones your ideas for evaluations and development plans with examples of employee behaviors, strengths, and opportunities. This handy, quic
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HarperCollins Focus Leadership Defense
Book SynopsisLEARN TO HANDLE EMPLOYEE CORRECTIVE ACTIONS LEAGALLY AND ETHICALLYA quick guide to legally and ethically mastering progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise.Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.Leadership Defense answers practical, legal, and ethical questions surrounding employee discipline and termination, including how to: Mediate employee disputes and engage in healthy conflict resolution strategies Avoid the preemptive strike of “pretaliation” against unsuspecting managers or supervisors Address attitude problems and stop bullying in its tracks
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HarperCollins Focus The New Managers
Book SynopsisMASTER YOUR ROLE AS AN EFFECTIVE MANAGERAn accessible and practical quick-guide that will help you develop your skills as a manager from Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have With Your Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert. Being a good manager is not a natural skill for anyone, but it’s an easy-to-learn discipline that will allow you to develop a strong team and create an environment that amplifies the skills of everyone on your team. This book breaks down the basics of each aspect that new managers struggle with most.New Managers covers key leadership topics facing any manager, including: Coaching and Mentoring Employees Inspiring Employee Engagement Fostering Teamwork to Encourage Innovation Mastering the Art of Active Listening Becoming an Effective Communicator Establishing Key Metrics to Drive Business Forward
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HarperCollins Focus The Deal
Book SynopsisLEARN STRATAGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL DEAL MAKINGStar of the hit show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Josh Flagg shares his secrets to mastering any negotiation in any industry and at any level. Throughout his career, Josh Flagg has faced off with challengers of all kinds in negotiations over the world’s most expensive and sought-after real estate. He has seen and put into practice what works and identified the “common tricks” that don’t. Josh has curated ten rules that, when applied to any deal, will significantly increase your chance of success, and make you the master negotiator your clients need you to be. Sample rules include: Rule #1: Don’t Sell Garbage- you are what you sell. Rule #2: You Only Have One Client- focus on the one you’re with. Rule #3: Up Your Attitude- be the person people want to represent them. Rule #8: Play the Psychologist- you a
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HarperCollins Focus Running Remote
Book SynopsisWall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly BestsellerLearn success secrets from original remote work pioneers on the mindset and strategies they developed to build and grow successful organizations from the ground up.With the unprecedented rise in remote work due to the pandemic, many businesses have struggled with how to effectively transition to a distributed format. Meanwhile, companies who had always been remote-first had a unique advantage: a highly scalable set of work processes, a unique communication style, and the proper “async mindset” required to succeed without an office. This groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets and the lessons discovered by those pioneer entrepreneurs and founders who have figured out how to harness the async mindset and grow their businesses remotely in the m
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HarperCollins Focus Embracing the Calm in the Chaos
Book SynopsisRun your own business, raise a family, and make a difference—at your own pace.Stacy Igel, founder of the global fashion line BOY MEETS GIRL®, walks you through the highs and lows of creating a business: how to establish a brand and attract customers, hire and fire employees, collaborate with business partners, rise up from the midst of discouragement, and not just survive the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship—but thrive.Stacy shares her twenty-year journey of growing her company from the ground up while powering through life’s challenges. Today, with her clothing sold in Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and other stores worldwide, Stacy has climbed to the top of the ladder—but instead of pausing to look at the view, she’s pulling other women up with her.Embracing the Calm in the Chaos shares a realistic look at how to successfully balance the chaos of being a businessperson, a woman, and a paren
£15.00
HarperCollins Focus How to Grow Your Small Business
Book SynopsisSpeak to the heart of your target audience and create a movement around your mission or campaign through this comprehensive, step-by-step approach to crafting messages that resonate.
£13.49
HarperCollins Focus How Creativity Rules the World
Book SynopsisAxiom Business Book Award Winner in Entrepreneurship Category Learn to make creativity work for your career.Anyone, regardless of who you are or what you do, can cultivate the habits, actions, and attitudes that inspire creativity and innovation.There has never been a more crucial time than now to develop your creativity and your ability to innovate. Coming up with original ideas of value is today’s most precious skill.How Creativity Rules the World shows that, despite contrary beliefs, creativity can be taught and learned by anyone. Creativity is an inexhaustible resource that is the key to thriving in the business world and beyond. This timeless guide promises to make the creative process of successful seven-figure artists and billion-dollar entrepreneurs—as well as Maria’s own—accessible and actionable for you to take the power of their ideas to the next level.Trade Review'Creative entrepreneur Maria Brito has written a primer on how to unleash and build on our creative potential. Through fascinating case studies and her own career trajectory, she shows how innovators have harnessed their creativity through techniques like improvisation, aggregation, and juxtaposition of opposite concepts. In addition to providing useful examples of creative strategies, the book gives us an absorbing history of creative accomplishment.' * Jeffrey Deitch Gallerist and former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles *'How Creativity Rules The World is one of the most fascinating reads on how to harness our immense creative power in business and in life. Maria Brito does a brilliant job, with candor and humor, at demonstrating that we all have everything we need to become innovators, disruptors and changemakers.' * Catherine Levene President, Meredith Corporation *'Interesting, revealing and soulful, 'How Creativity Rules The World' brings something powerful to those who are already creative and to those who want to improve their creativity and their ideas' * June Ambrose Creative Director, Puma *'Maria Brito has crafted a first-rate guide to creativity that explodes the many myths about the topic and places this elusive ability within anyone's grasp. If you're looking to get unstuck, this is a book for you.' * Daniel H. Pink #1 New York Times bestselling author of WHEN, DRIVE, and A WHOLE NEW MIND *'Not an artist or an entrepreneur? Not a problem. We all have original ideas, and this user-friendly guide shows how to access them and put them to work.' * People Magazine *'Punchy look at the mindsets and skills necessary for innovation.... Those looking to spark some creativity will find this worth a look.' * Publishers Weekly *
£19.00
HarperCollins Focus The Agents Edge
Book SynopsisFor the first time ever, five-time number-one RE/MAX agent worldwide, Jordan Cohen, reveals his secret sales strategies that will elevate your real estate sales career to the highest levels.Jordan Cohen started out selling entry-level houses in Southern California over thirty years ago, before transitioning to the luxury market. Always working alone as an individual agent without a partner or a team, he consistently sets new sales records year after year, including 2021 where he closed over $314 million in residential real estate. In The Agent’s Edge, he teaches agents of all levels how to win listings, take advantage of every opportunity and make your fortune in the fast-paced, exciting world of real estate sales. Whether you’ve been in the business for decades, are just starting out, or somewhere in between, these strategies will work for you.In this powerful and entertaining guide with a heartwarming forward from Sylvester Stall
£999.99
HarperCollins Focus The First Meeting Differentiator
£18.70
HarperCollins Focus The Leaders Guide to Managing Risk
Book SynopsisBe prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits.Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there is some-game changing technology or catastrophe that gives rise to a “new normal” and sends businesses scrambling for how to rethink themselves to operate under these new conditions. In The Leader’s Guide to Managing Risk, K. Scott Griffith, a former airline pilot, socio-technical physicist, and author of the first independently-audited high reliability and just culture model offers practical and proven methods to build processes that will withstand the winds of uncertainty while driving success. By understanding that organizations are people operating within systems, leaders of all kinds will build reliability and resiliency into their culture
£999.99
HarperCollins Focus Always March Ahead
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£18.70
HarperCollins Focus I Hate Job Interviews
Book SynopsisFor anyone wanting to elevate their interview skills, this superb book does the job!” —STEPHEN M. R. COVEY, New York Times bestselling author of The Speed of TrustGo into your next job interview with confidence, ready to knock any question they throw at you out of the park!The key to landing that dream job or big promotion often comes down to how you perform in the job interview. After bombing some interviews early in his career, Sam Owens vowed that would never happen to him again and began work on a system to ensure he was ready for even the most oddball questions in future interviews. The system he developed proved so successful, Sam built a career coaching business around teaching it to others and has now coached thousands of people on how to prepare for interviews.In I
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HarperCollins Focus Hire Smart from the Start
Book SynopsisSuccessful business owners don't hire just for immediate needs. They do so with a focus on future flourishing!
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HarperCollins Focus The FirstTime Manager DEI
Book SynopsisThe essential resource for new managers who want to foster a safe, inclusive, and productive space for their teams.Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an individual employee over that of the whole team? When do we hold firm that what the team needs is more important than what the individual wants? How do we ensure that we uphold one person’s boundaries without compromising another’s? How do we live up to the promises we make to ourselves and to each other, all while driving results and hitting our earnings targets?Alida Miranda-Wolff has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them create cultures of belonging and successful DEI initiatives, which means she knows the common pitfalls to avoid and action items required to make DEI work. In this practical guide, she shares both the mindset and actions required for new managers to build inclus
£13.49
HarperCollins Focus The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders
Book SynopsisIn The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization.
£11.69
