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Creating Authentic Customer Connections in a High-Tech World. In The Relationship Economy, author John DiJulius teaches business leaders about the importance of relationship building in the digital age. He argues that in spite of (and because of) the advances in tech, we've become a less connected society. We have dramatically evolved away from face-to-face communication, and the skill of building rapport is evaporating. This means that customer personalization and relationships are more important now than ever-they will be the key to success for businesses moving forward. As he aptly states, "Being able to build true sustainable relationships is the biggest competitive advantage in a world where automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are eliminating millions of jobs and disrupting entire industries, business, and careers." This book reminds readers of the importance of personal connections and shows them how to attain meaningful, lasting relationships with their customers.

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A Guide to a West African Tradition. The Art of Fufu is a fascinating and informative guide to fufu, one of the most delicious and beloved staple foods of West Africans. All fufu dishes consist of two parts—the prepared, cooked fufu (which has a dough-like consistency and is made by mixing a plant base with water) and a unique soup that accompanies it. The cooked fufu can be made from a variety of bases, such as yams, shredded cassava tubers, and cassava flour. After the fufu is cooked, it is rolled into small balls, which are then formed into a spoon shape with the hand. The soup is then scooped with the fufu, and the bite is swallowed whole. Just as there are many different types of fufu, there are many different types of soups. Part of the joy of fufu is discovering which flavours pair best together. This colourful book discusses popular ingredients used to make fufu and the soups that go along with it as well as methods of preparation for fufu. The Art of Fufu is sure to appeal to those interested in learning more about West Africa’s food culture and one of its most cherished foods.

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Dave Hersh's new book, Reignition Transforming Stuck Startups into Breakout Winners gives readers a valuable outline on how to transform a stuck startup into a lean, disciplined, focused organization that thoughtfully experiments with growth before making investments and that has the best chance of succeeding on a large scale.

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Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue. However you define business growth—total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty—sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services. It must create value in the way it sells by delivering a compelling experience that adds value beyond the product itself. As a leader, it’s your job to build and guide that experience. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales. With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn’t come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. In this leadership guide, you’ll learn how to ensure growth strategy is aligned at every level of the company, from boardroom initiatives to daily customer interaction. Best-selling leadership author and business growth consultant Scott Edinger helps CEOs and leaders intentionally and strategically engage with the customer experience to differentiate, innovate, cultivate loyalty, and grow. With this growth strategy mindset, your teams will know what they’re supposed to be doing, have the skills to accomplish their work at a high level, and be properly supported by systems, process, and environment. But they can only do all this if you lead them. Are you ready to be a Growth Leader?

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Let's just come right out and say it . . . stranger things do happen at Aberdasher Academy of Science We're talking weird science, with fantastical consequences such as a slithering colossal Mongolian Death Worm, clashing medieval Bog People, an ambushing Ayia Napa sea monster, and a ravaging mythical beast, just to name a few! Desperate to raise funds to save their favorite teacher's Genomic department from closing, Johnny "Spigs" Spignola, Theresa Ray "T-Ray" Rogers, and Pablo "Peabo" Torres team up to launch a crowdfunding lab experiment, but hastily use a mysterious DNA serum that astonishingly creates six pint-size, magical humanoids--the students affectionately call Creeples--who unleash mystical mayhem and campus chaos. But even more shocking, a startling mystery emerges for these intrepid teens. Their noble but foolish actions uncover a shadowy insider's evil plan to gain demonic supremacy from the academy's hidden powers of ancient sorcery--and the Creeples unwittingly stand in the way!

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A Unique 8-Step System to Reverse Your PCOS Author and naturopathic doctor Fiona McCulloch dives deep into the science underlying the mysteries of PCOS, offering the newest research and discoveries on the disorder and a detailed array of treatment options

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Are there things you'd like to change at your company? Have you found yourself wishing your boss would change? Or your peers? What about the team you lead? Everyone in the corporate world, from the CEO to the security guard out front, wants to change something about their company. That is the human condition at work. Where you can get stuck, however, is thinking that things will improve when the "other guy" changes -- and waiting for that to happen first. In this book author, speaker, and CEO advisor Mindy Mackenzie shows us that the conventional approach is wrong. You can't wait for the "other guy" to change. For true change to occur and for companies to perform better, we must all embrace one simple truth: The only thing you can reliably change or control is yourself. With truth telling the commodity in shortest supply in corporate America today, this book challenges business professionals of any level to take actions that are deceptively simple yet require vulnerability and courage. The result? Improved impact on the job, and increased happiness and fulfillment. Drawing on 20 years of demanding executive roles at global corporations, Mindy Mackenzie reveals sharply focused, quick-read strategies in four key areas: Part 1 -- You First: Taking ownership and accountability to create a career and life you love; Part 2 -- Lead Your Boss: Transforming your relationship with your boss; Part 3 -- Lead Your Peers: Accelerating positive peer relationships to improve business results; Part 4 -- Lead Your Team: Building the most effective teams and having fun while doing it. Whether you are a seasoned leader or just starting out in your career, this book will help you to create instant, lasting change and achieve the success you desire at work.

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Hurry up and pause to take leadership from functional to excellent! In The Leadership Pause, trauma psychologist and mindfulness coach Chris L. Johnson takes readers on a guided journey into their most truthful future as leaders. Johnson's goal is to teach all leaders-new and seasoned professionals alike-the importance of slowing down. The Leadership Pause shows how to quiet the noise of the daily hustle so leaders can hear the still-small voice of purposeful curiosity that lives within them, which breeds wisdom in both work and life. The Leadership Pause teaches readers the gift of mindfulness and decluttered thinking, which then opens the door to reduced stress, a deeper connection to self, and a clearer vision of the natural leader resting just beneath the surface. Johnson shares stories from established and powerful leaders about how they've used these practices to transform their previously limited way of thinking into finding greater meaning and purpose in their work. This book is for anyone looking to deepen their impact on the lives around them, leave a profound mark on their companies, and build a legacy of compassion, ambition, and empathy.

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There is hope for recovery from Lyme disease and other chronic illness. In Starving to Heal in Siberia, Dr. Michelle Slater takes readers on her journey from her bed, where she was sidelined much of the time, to Siberia, where she was cured of the debilitating effects of advanced Lyme disease. After a years-long struggle with extreme chronic fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and other mysterious symptoms that ultimately prevented her from teaching and doing simple tasks like reading and driving, Michelle began considering assisted suicide. She had tried every known treatment, from aggressive allopathic treatments to holistic remedies, without success. In a last-ditch effort to save her life, she found a radical alternative treatment offered by the world's leading expert on dry fasting and traveled to Siberia to give it a chance. Starving to Heal in Siberia is both a moving and insightful memoir of recovery from devastating chronic illness and a practical guide to the science and psychology behind safely dry fasting. It offers useful information for anyone who is curious about intermittent fasting and the research on dry fasting. It also offers hope to doctors who have had to tell their patients to adjust to the chronic symptoms of an autoimmune disorder that didn't dissipate under their best care. And for readers with chronic illness and those who love them, this book is an antidote to despair. Michelle's thoughtful account of her wellness journey provides similarly afflicted readers with the tools and encouragement to begin their own.

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The most effective leader behaves more like a coach Authors Bill Eckstrom and Sarah Wirth have spent a decade researching the activities, behaviors, and performance of leaders. After studying more than 100,000 coaching interactions in the workplace, primarily of sales teams, they have been able to determine how coaching affects team outcomes and growth. The authors share three critical performance drivers, along with the four high-growth activities that coaches must execute to build a team that is motivated to achieve at the highest levels. Through both hard data and rich stories, Eckstrom and Wirth demonstrate how leaders can measure and improve their coaching to lead their teams to better results. The Coaching Effect will help leaders at all levels understand the necessity of challenging people out of their comfort zone to create a high-growth organization. Leaders will learn how they can develop trust relationships, drive accountability and leverage growth experiences to propel their team members to the highest levels of success.

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Take your ego out of the equation, and watch your company thrive! "I've got a solution," Encore's CFO tells Brandon, "but it's unorthodox." It's 2005 and Brandon Black has just been promoted to CEO of Encore Capital, a company struggling to navigate an increasingly difficult business environment. Faced with a rapidly declining stock price and low workplace morale, Brandon knows he needs change - and fast. Following his CFO's advice, he and his executive team start working with Learning as Leadership (LaL) and its president, Shayne Hughes. Through their partnership, Encore's executive team learns to root out the unproductive ego habits that undermine collaboration and performance. As they instill these more effective behaviors throughout the organization, Encore begins to solve problems collectively, prioritize resources without infighting, and focus on the initiatives with the greatest strategic value. When the financial crisis of 2008--09 forces 90 percent of its competitors out of business, Encore thrives, with its profits increasing by 300 percent and its stock price by 1200 percent. Told from two lively first-person perspectives, Ego Free Leadership brings readers along for Encore's incredible success story. They'll see a CEO overcome his unconscious resistance to modeling the change he wants in his team and discover a time-tested roadmap for eliminating the destructive effects of the ego in teams and organizations.

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Melting glaciers, suffering polar bears, rising oceans- these are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research, Bell deflates these and other climate misconceptions with perceptive analysis, humour, and the most recent scientific data. Written for the laymen, yet in-depth enough for the specialist, this book digs deep into the natural and political aspects of the climate change debate, answering fundamental questions that reveal the all-too-human origins of "scientific" inquiry. Why and how are some of the world s most prestigious scientific institutions cashing in on the debate? Who stand to benefit most by promoting public climate change alarmism? What true political and financial purposes are served by the vilification of carbon dioxide? How do climate deceptions promote grossly exaggerated claims for non-fossil alternative energy capacities and advance blatant global wealth redistribution goals? With its devastating portrayal of scientific and government establishments run amok, this book is an invaluable addition to the tremendously popular literature attacking the scientific status quo. This book will bring welcome relief to all those who are fed up with climate crisis insanity.

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Samantha Harte has had her share of heartbreak. This is a book for anyone who has tried everything and failed, on a soul level, to navigate life's hardest things. Samantha's harrowing yet hopeful journey is a testament to each person's power to turn trauma and pain into triumph and joy.

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Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success? In How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, Brad Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate Americaand distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map.

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Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? ! And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn’t enough to drive top performance. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are re-evaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. People are searching for teams with purpose, a compelling vision, and a sense of belonging where they can pursue their full potential and live their lives to the fullest. In Leading with Significance, Joey Havens breaks through the limiting barriers of common culture theory and shows, with great transparency, the real human emotions that elevate a culture to one that is genuine, enduring, and magnetic. Joey shares insights, failures, low points, lessons learned, and growth from his experience of helping lead the successful transformation of HORNE LLP’s good culture to a magnetic, people-first culture based on the Christian principles of caring and service. Whether you are inspired by exponential growth, the power of inclusion, or attracting and retaining outstanding people, this book will inspire you to choose a journey toward significance.

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John Warrillow's book The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top is directed to business owners of companies worth from $1 to $10 million dollars, with from 1 to 50 employees. This is not a book for the masses; the audience is small and specific. This book is the last of a trilogy of books on building value, which began with Built to Sell, the starting point for small business owners beginning to think about their business as more than simply a job. The Automatic Customer revealed recurring revenue as the core ingredient in a valuable company and provided a blueprint for transforming just about any business into a company with an ongoing annuity stream. Warrillow completes the set with The Art of Selling Your Business, an essential guide to monetizing a small business. This is a nuts-and-bolts approach for selling a business at a premium.

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What is the amazement revolution? It is the culture that can drive any organisation -- from one employee to tens of thousands -- to focus completely on delivering an amazing customer-service experience. In this sequel to the Wall Street Journal best-selling book "The Cult of the Customer", Shep Hyken shares seven powerful strategies that any organisation can implement to create greater customer and employee loyalty. In a tough, competitive, and price-sensitive economy, customer service is one of the most essential tools to separate your business from the competition. These strategies work, as evidenced by the more than seventy case studies and examples that Hyken shares throughout the book. These examples provide dozens of lessons that can and should be implemented immediately. Corporate and industry clients from all over the world have tapped into the expertise of Shep Hyken. His client list is a who's who in the business world. As an author and speaker, Hyken is known for his simple and direct strategies that help his clients build successful, customer-focused organisations.

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A revolutionary approach to marketing, based on neuroscience and psychology, that will transform your business forever. Mention the word “marketing,” and every executive cringes. For decades, we’ve been told that marketing success is hidden behind secret strategies, hacks, and platforms promising incredible results. Yet those results never come, and business owners around the world are left with lost money and lost time—worse off than where they started. In Marketing Built by Love, Daniel Bussius asserts, with compelling support from academic research, neuroscience, psychology, and over a decade of rigorous real-world testing, that there are four indispensable pillars to marketing success—pillars based on one reality of marketing that will never change: your audience is human. Whether you’re a small business owner, marketer, or executive, this book will teach you: • How to mimic the human experience to cultivate customer loyalty • The four vital components every foundational marketing plan needs • How to align your marketing with the five science-based stages of human relationships • How to implement these strategies in a proven marketing framework Marketing Built by Love will reshape the way you think about marketing and how you communicate with your customers, giving you the framework and strategies you need to create repeatable, consistent marketing success today, tomorrow, and decades into the future. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to thrive in today’s competitive business landscape.

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A guide to finding peace, love, freedom, and joy. Shit happens, and when it does, the voice in our heads that we choose to listen to—and believe—determines whether we’ll land in Victimtown or Freedomville. In Navigating Shitstorms, Liz Long shares her challenges and successes in battling the destructive Victimtown voices that control through fear and invites you to amplify your heart voice, your own source of innate wisdom, to guide you to Freedomville. Touring Victimtown’s most popular attractions—such as the Guilt & Shame Café, the Control Factory, the Denial Trails, and more—Liz demonstrates that while short visits offer life lessons and healing, extended stays lead to all kinds of problems. This groundbreaking framework to understanding the voices in your head will enable you to • open healing conversations with yourself and others by equipping you with an accessible language to discuss mental health, • reframe your shitty inner dialogues by embracing a new awareness, and • discover your own route to Freedomville by learning to love yourself without limits or conditions. Written in Liz’s fresh and relatable voice and interspersed with her funny-not-funny memories, Navigating Shitstorms will take you on a personal journey to make sense of how you got to where you are now and find your true life course.

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Befriending our inner mind with curiosity opens the way to secure attachments, empathy, and intimacy. Because relationships dominate our inner world, knowing what we feel, and what we think about how we feel, cultivates self-awareness and acceptance. We learn to respect that others have their minds; we stop blaming and seeking scapegoats. Self-reflection, a learnable skill, links raw emotion--the kind we feel in our hearts and guts--to past events and behavior patterns. Knowing the story behind our painful feelings soothes and regulates our emotions so we can think before we act. Creating and updating a lifelong self-narrative—including the good, the bad, and the ugly—are the cornerstones for gaining wisdom and loving-kindness, qualities that interrupt cycles of trauma. The brain creates new neural connections during these processes, improving emotional health and cognition. Jacqueline Heller, MS, MD, is board certified in psychiatry and neurology and is a psychoanalyst. In Yesterday Never Sleeps, she draws upon decades of clinical experience to weave together a powerful narrative that contains neuroscience, memoir of her life as a child of holocaust survivors, and patient histories involving a range of psychological ills and trauma. Dr. Heller offers a uniquely holistic approach demonstrating how the therapeutic process and self-analysis help us make sense of our history and forge a better future.

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An indispensable organizational framework for leaders to bring companies into perfect alignment. This inspirational guide by successful executive coach John Quinlan equips leaders with the tools to transform themselves and their companies. Quinlan presents the ten components of his pragmatic organizational model by overlaying them on a depiction of Da Vinci's ideal human form. This schematic of absolute alignment symbolizes the essential attributes of an integrated, culture-strong organization and clarifies for leaders the synthesis of the ten necessary steps that position a company for health and sustainable, competitive advantage. Quinlan's planned, organization-wide, and long-range change initiative is supported and affirmed from the top and built from the ground up. By following Quinlan's model, leaders will learn the importance of: • Finding vulnerability and changing from within • Integrating social and humanistic components • Aligning organizational visions and missions with meaningful and purposeful core values • Developing more significant interpersonal relationships Using research and support from the world's top leaders, authors, and business trailblazers, Quinlan presents the established principles of his model in order for leaders to turn their organizations into self-sustaining values systems that are human-centric, technically equipped, and postured to compete in today's global community.

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Lunch with Lucy is a successful entrepreneur's business book about how and why companies will be more profitable if they take better care of their employees and how an employee-first culture drives top-line growth and bottom-line success. Entrepreneur author CEO Sherry Deutschmann exemplifies how she put her employees first by means of a program she set up called ""Lunch with Lucy."" She used the name ""Lucy"" -a fake name for herself-to make employees feel less intimated about inviting the CEO out to lunch. Any employee, at any level, could invite her out on any Wednesday (with the bill paid by the company) so they could openly share any concerns or topics were relevant to their personal lives or to her company, LetterLogic. She credits this approach and her employees' honesty with the success of her business. Chapters are laid out like courses on a restaurant menu, and the author uses this construct to show how she used empathy and open leadership to transform her employees' lives and her company, one lunch at a time. This book shows she wasn't successful in SPITE of her unorthodox leadership, but because of it.

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In a world where most businesses fail, The Art of Preventing Stupid offers a system for leaders to solve common business problems before they happen. Author Matthew Neill Davis introduces the Preventing Stupid Method to running a business, a method that guides readers in identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing threats to and weaknesses in their business. His book details how to efficiently prevent and manage potential and present problems and helps business owners and managers learn how to create leads for a more profitable business. Readers will learn how to seize opportunities rather than wallow in problems that should never have made it to the surface. Forward-thinking risk management Davis delivers bold business strategy rooted in forward-thinking risk management. This book is about changing how leaders think, so they can run their business with confidence, effectiveness, and profitability. It shows struggling entrepreneurs how to weed out the stupid mistakes they are making, so they can move forward. For those already running a business, Davis' next-level risk management strategies make work easier, more profitable, and more secure. Advice from a lawyer Matthew Neill Davis owns and manages Davis Law, PLLC, a firm dedicated to helping ambitious business owners become rock-star entrepreneurs. His firm builds and runs custom legal departments for businesses and nonprofits and has thrice made the Law Firm 500 for being among the fastest-growing law firms in the nation. In The Art of Preventing Stupid, readers can get a lawyer's perspective and insight and the value of a fractional general counsel for the cost of a single book. Davis shows readers how to make smart, meaningful changes that successfully grow their organizations.

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Readers will relish this captivating second entry in Kelley's trilogy, with free-thinking literature professor Sean Byron McQueen returning for another rousing adventure. It's been nine years since Sean Byron McQueen's best friend was murdered and Sean recovered his friend's world-changing theory. Now, Sean and his wife, Professor Emily Edens, quantum cosmologist, run a college in Oregon where they teach innovative classes about science, literature, and most importantly, The Theory of Everything-or how to choose love over fear. The couple are raising two young children, as well as their good friend's twin daughters, who are technological savants. They help Sean through his trepidation over the use of holograms and a new form of mass mind communication run by Genesis, a breakthrough quantum computer made in Russia. After Sean begins receiving strange communications with forgeries of famous authors' works, he realizes that the evil Guru might be the mastermind behind Genesis. And the Guru might also be after Emily, who is leaving on a worldwide tour to discuss The Theory of Everything. Sean sets out to track down the Guru before the dangerous ""hive-mind"" technology of Genesis is used for malevolent ends and find his beloved wife before the Guru does

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The second book in this richly imagined fantasy series finds the engaging young Lucas on another action-packed journey in a long-ago world where peril, adventure, and excitement wait around every corner. When Lucas awakens one morning on a riverbank, he has no memory beyond scouting for thieves with his fellow "chosen" comrades the evening before on King Itan's land. He is disoriented, and a poisoned dart is protruding from his neck. Although he's undoubtedly someone's target, when King Itan asks Lucas to set out to spy on Itan's enemy, King Boran, Lucas readily obeys. Before the end of Lucas's perilous journey, he is reunited with his friends in the traveling circus, barely escapes an attack by the Dark Order, and discovers a nefarious plot by King Boran to take control of the land. Lucas realizes that the only way to save his people will be to surrender himself to the enemy and hope that King Boran won't kill him-believing the prophecy that anyone who kills Lucas will also die a horrible death. Relevant to our tumultuous times, this page-turning young adult novel weaves together a compelling set of well-drawn characters and delivers a roller coaster of events that will leave readers breathless as they follow Lucas's quest to do right and fulfil his destiny.

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Delicious recipes for home chefs who are mindful about the welfare of animals. Now, more than ever, a large percentage of home chefs are conscious of where their food comes from. They want to support farmers and ranchers who do things right and care deeply about the well-being of animals. In line with this holistic approach, Dr. Robin Ganzert, CEO of American Humane-America's first national humane organization-has compiled delicious recipes featuring ingredients that are compassionately produced by farmers, ranchers, and other organizations that are American Humane Certified™. The recipes are constructed around the seasons-summer, fall, winter, and spring-so that whether home chefs are simmering a stew on a cold night or grilling out under balmy skies, they can set a humane table year-round. Compassion and love are the ingredients for a humane table-a setting where American Humane's shared values of treating animals with kindness, respect, and dignity are truly celebrated. The Humane Table is for those home chefs who support these same principles.

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A tale of mentorship, hard truths, and the path to success. In a fictional account of an entrepreneur's rollercoaster ride to the top, Cap Treeger crafts a series of dynamic, well-drawn lessons for anyone craving a career in the tech startup industry. The hero of the story, Ren, is fired up with ambition and has a strategic dream in place to build his own startup from the ground up, but he has a lot to learn about how this particular sector of the business world works. Fortunately, Ren has the guidance of generous and invested mentors, and their sound recommendations and warnings are chronicled as Ren makes decision after decision. With their advice, as well as his own encounters with trial and error, he discovers that who he chooses to employ and partner with, and how he engages with them, makes all the difference. Ren's journey guides readers through numerous factors necessary for success, including building a solid team with strategic placement of individuals in carefully selected roles appropriate to their skill sets and crafting the all-important business model. Ren navigates the daunting process with grace and hands readers an account loaded with insight-rendering Finding the Way, told in a straightforward and reader-friendly manner, a valuable gem amidst business-building literature.

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In Live Like Sean, angel investor, sales consultant, and former CEO T.J. Nelligan reflects on the remarkable life of his beloved special-needs son, Sean, who passed away in 2019. Sean was born with developmental disabilities that never prevented him from living a full, rich life or from deeply touching the lives of everyone around him. With each chapter, the author reveals a major lesson Sean taught him about life, told through a series of engaging, funny, and uplifting stories. Nelligan describes how the experience of being Sean's father changed his life for the better, and offers readers the chance to let Sean's love, kindness, and gratitude touch their lives, too.

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A Boundless Tale of Love. Replenishing the Sea of Galilee is a sweeping story of love, loss and the power of loyalty in the face of conflicting ideologies and religious beliefs. The story begins in 1940s Palestine where twins Rasheed and Rasheeda Dinar work in their family inns. Educated by a Jesuit priest about the essence of his own Muslim religion, relative to love and sex, Rasheed follows closely the teachings of his mentor and includes Rasheeda, so that she learns those teachings as well. When Rasheed falls in love with Natalia, a Jewish woman, he is able to apply what he learned from the priest to his budding relationship. However, it is the 1940s, and relations between Arabs and Jews are tense. Before long, those tensions come to a breaking point. Natalia mysteriously disappears, and Rasheed and Rasheeda are chased out of Palestine to Beirut, Lebanon. Years pass, and though Rasheed continues to miss his beloved Natalia, he gets word of a surprising visitor—someone he didn’t even know existed. Rasheed’s life is upended, but in the most wonderful way. As the Dinar family expands and enters the 1970s, their convictions are tested. In a dramatic final scene, the family reunites and proves once again that the thin line separating people because of their differences is powerless against the strength of family, love, and loyalty.

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The trial of a lifetime is about to begin . . . At the center of Phantom Money lies Declan Collins, a brilliant criminal defense lawyer, who writes a screenplay woven around an ingenious money laundering scheme. The script is nothing more than an artistic dalliance until Matt Esposito, Collins' best friend, gives it to Blackpool Studios, a new movie studio with big money. A week later, Collins and Esposito find themselves on a private jet to Mexico to meet with an investor interested in making the screenplay into a film. Unfortunately for Declan and Matt, the ""investor"" is Ramon Cayetano, the head of a very old and powerful Mexican drug cartel. Cayetano desperately needs to launder one hundred million dollars of drug profits into the US within six months, and he intends to use Collins's scheme to make that happen. Collins and Esposito are forced to play the lead roles in the illicit operation, thrusting them into a world of intrigue, violence, and mortal danger. To survive, they must secretly launder a mountain of money in an impossibly short time, deceive an FBI strike team, and outwit the drug lord. Sean O'Keefe has written a complex and exciting page-turner (think The Firm meets Ozark) that will have his readers rapt until its dramatic ending.

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A book of inspiring tales across the business world that will have readers thinking Strategy First In Strategy First, Brad Chase, the mind behind some of Microsoft's largest and most successful initiatives, leads readers through his ""strategic theory of relativity,"" a formula that illustrates how the most important aspect of a business leader's role is to create and execute their strategy. Accompanied by a plethora of both triumphant and tragic examples from football to tech, Chase will inspire readers to re-examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the formula that served him in his time at some of the world's most well-recognized companies. From 1987 to 2002 Brad Chase was a stalwart for Microsoft. After breaking records and winning awards for his marketing campaign of Windows 95 and then spearheading the turnaround of MSN.com, Chases ended his tenure at Microsoft as a senior vice president. Since 2002, Chase has served as an advisor and board member to many companies such as GE, Sonos, Expedia, and the Boys and Girls Club, as well as sharing his strategy-first mentality across the nation through public speaking.

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A practical guide to help C-suite executives and managers of all levels break bad habits, empower their teams, and redefine their leadership style for maximum adaptability and results in the workplace. In The Self-Evolved Leader, leadership expert Dave McKeown breaks down the most prevalent myths about business leadership in fast-growth industries, carefully debunking destructive tactics such as confidence-shaking micromanaging and the impulse to step in and save the day-every day. In place of these tired, ineffective habits, The Self-Evolved Leader identifies the skills, mindset, and daily management rituals required to empower direct reports to perform at their highest level, no tedious oversight required. The book includes a comprehensive 15-week program designed to help business leaders implement the kind of flexible, adaptable best practices that work to deliver results company-wide. Not only are readers left understanding what kind of managerial practices affect change and bring results, they're also given a practical framework for applying those principles to their own businesses.

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This is a memoir about a man who embraces adventure and misadventure, who often finds himself in unique business and life situations, and who always uses risks and challenges to make things better. It's the life story of Michael Ainslie, innovator, problem solver, business leader, and philanthropist. He shares about his early beginnings; his career as president, CEO, and distinguished board member across a number of companies and institutions; and his work to transform what's around him to give the world something of meaning and value. Often in the middle of serious or unfortunate circumstances, he describes his personal experience with several high profile events, including the 2008 bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers; he was one of ten people in the Lehman boardroom on the evening of September 14, 2008 who saw first-hand the events that led to the largest bankruptcy filing in US history. And he offers readers an insider's view of the situations surrounding the price-fixing scandal between Sotheby's and Christie's, a scandal that rocked the art world and sent the ex-chair of Sotheby's to prison. Michael Ainslie pinpoints important life lessons and insights acquired from someone who's never shied away from a challenge. This is a book for those who read business/leadership memoirs, young people trying to make their way into college or start out in their careers, and anyone who likes an inspirational true story about someone from humble beginnings who rose to the top through hard work, ingenuity, and a certain stubborn optimism.

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Kristine Lilly is a legendary athlete: she played midfielder for the United States Women's National Soccer Team for over twenty-three years. This included five FIFA World Cups and three Olympic Games. She was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in 2012 and the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 2014. Before that, she won four national championships at The University of North Carolina. During this remarkable career, Lilly gained unprecedented insights into how high-performing teams work together, on and off the field. In Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success, she teams up with Dr. John Gillis Jr. to help readers and their businesses: - Transform - Empower - Achieve - Motivate Using Lilly and Gillis's insights, readers can revolutionize teams in their organizations so that they can achieve sustainable excellence and peerless success. The tactics they share, supported by Dr. Lynette Gillis's academic research, dig deep into the dynamics of collaborative work and highlight the actions readers can take to empower their teams.

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Emily is a career-driven thirtysomething with big ambitions. She manages to make an impact at her tech company while finding time for her husband Jason and young son Henry-but when the company passes her up for multiple promotions, she finds herself at a loss for what, or how, she could be doing better. Fate answers her in the form of a kind-and surprisingly direct-older man in a coffee shop, who helped her clean up a spill. A well-respected CEO before he retired, David is a treasure trove of leadership knowledge. Emily is at a point in her life where she needs direction. Growing Influence outlines their weekly meetings together, as well as Emily's challenge of putting her lessons from David into practice despite a sexist boss and patriarchal workplace. Growing Influence is a truly unique book in that it offers readers both solid, practicable advice on how to grow their leadership skills and a relatable account of one woman's personal growth by putting the principles of the book into practice. Unlike nonfiction business books, or business memoirs, this story is a true "business fable" that is both impactful and potentially transformative.

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Can warthogs fly? Do tigers eat tomatoes? For answers, follow along as Warthog lies his way to the throne in this timeless, yet most timely, Tale from the Watering Hole. Will the Truth catch up with the king? Find out as Alex Beard’s whimsical animals come to life to illuminate real world truths for children of all ages. With a nod to Aesop and Kipling, this funny and pointed parable has lessons for everyone, from the playground to the boardroom and beyond!

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Win in a world of increasing choice by becoming the clear, unique fit. The gig economy is made up of project-based, or on-demand services, that can be provided by anyone. The common denominator in the gig economy is technology, so our modern online-lives provide the perfect marketplace for the ever-diversifying opportunities in the gig economy. By some estimates, 2020 will see half of all workers involved in the gig economy. Are we ready for this seismic shift in our work lives? aFreelancers need to clearly answer "Why choose you?" so that they stand out in the new economy. Because all workers in the gig economy need to bluntly pose this question to themselves, The Gig Is Up is designed to answer this one key point head-on, giving readers innovative tools like Unique Value Proposition to confidently step up. The Gig Is Up offers the best boots-on-the-ground methods for success, by evolving the reader's perspective and process. Many books on the gig economy focus on letting people live out their dreams, instead of looking at the realities of what it truly takes to win in a world of increasing choice. People need to understand how to compete and how to put the best version of themselves up front and center. The goal in competing today is to not only be chosen, but to move toward becoming the only choice, over and over again

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The majority of the nation's workforce hates their job. Are these employees working at your organization? Seventy percent of US workers hate their jobs and don't want to show up on Monday morning, cites entrepreneur and CEO Dudley Slater in his inspiring book, Fusion Leadership. Slater squarely lays some of the blame for this shocking phenomenon at the doors of leaders: When their selfish actions diminish the effectiveness of their teams, they commit the ultimate failure in leadership. But when leaders learn how to successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal. Slater examines some of the biggest hurdles and toughest calls you may have to make in your organization and, with tips and anecdotes from a variety of gifted leaders, he reveals how to navigate these situations. From a call center in Minneapolis to the desert of Saudi Arabia, Fusion Leadership offers valuable insights into how top CEOs and leaders at all levels reconcile power and wealth temptations with what is best for their organizations and their people. Through the powerful stories of eight leaders and his own journey of becoming the leader he is and aspires to be, Slater illuminates the goals of Fusion Leadership: to create a motivated workforce committed to its members and to ignite a common passion that provides self-fulfillment for individuals and increased success for the organization. Unleashing the power of Fusion Leadership can grow profits, engage employees, and release the most powerful force on earth - human beings working together toward a shared purpose. Slater's genuine commitment is apparent, and it generates great hope and optimism that when leaders apply Fusion Leadership concepts, they can start a movement that will extend well beyond their workplace to society as a whole.

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Good leadership is about more than inspiring people. Effective leadership stands on two pillars: excellent people and efficient processes. Through well-tested models and a series of structured metrics, The Diamond Process will help you identify weak points in your work flow so that you can retroactively fix your organization and make it more efficient. Using the Diamond Process Model, you'll learn how to; IDENTIFY and REFINE your organization's key drivers or primary motivations; INTEGRATE resources like people, equipment, and funding with the processes that achieve the key drivers; BALANCE the key drivers, resources, and processes; CREATE new processes for long-term SUCCESS. Authors Mike Diamond and Chris Harding pull on their considerable experience in the corporate and military worlds to share a wholly innovative approach to effective leadership. Whether you are a small business owner or a shift manager, The Diamond Process will help you transform your organization and lead your team more effectively.

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Are you all in as an entrepreneur in business and in life? Stephanie Breedlove took a leap of faith, left the corporate world, and answered the call of entrepreneurship. Over the next few years she built a thriving business while simultaneously raising two young children, eventually selling her start-up for over $50 million. In this book Breedlove outlines the hows and whys behind the decisions that led her towards success. Her inspiring message empowers readers to be all they are called to be, to set the bar higher, and to grow businesses with economic impact and power. The book explores the current status of women in growth businesses, debunks myths surrounding entrepreneurship, and gives practical advice and support for women who want to start or grow their own businesses. Using research, case studies, and transparent insights from her own journey, Breedlove gives her readers the information and authentic guidance they need to take the leap and bravely make tough choices on the road to success.

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A Guide to Resilience: The Second-Greatest Principle in the World Christian Moore is convinced that each of us has a power hidden within, something that can get us through any kind of adversity. That power is resilience . In The Resilience Breakthrough , Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you're facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can all have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life's hardships. As he shares engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analysis of his own experiences, Moore equips you with twenty-seven resilience-building tools that you can start using todayin your personal life or in your organization.

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This transformative collection of the teachings of renowned spiritual leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will help readers find balance, peace, and joy amid the ups and downs of everyday life. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has changed the lives of millions of people around the world for the better. Yet many in the West have not been introduced to his profound and practical approach to living a spiritual life. This book is meant to bridge that gap. In June of 1995, Gurudev began a weekly tradition of creating a short talk, often on a subject that was relevant to current events or in response to questions posed by audiences at his international gatherings. What resulted were powerful words of wisdom, accompanied by much celebration, laughter, and lightheartedness. This book is a collection of those transcribed talks, spanning almost a decade. Gurudev's teachings can make a huge difference in how a person lives their life, how they interact with their family, friends, and co-workers, how they understand the spiritual path, and how they walk it. This extraordinary compilation of insights can help readers on their journeys within, to that all-encompassing love, joy, and peace at their cores

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In Flipping ADHD on Its Head, Dr. Poole introduces and explores a holistic, integrated, and empowering approach to identifying and promoting the strengths of ADHD children by first flipping thinking about ADHD. Rather than framing ADHD as a disability, Dr. Poole encourages readers to see it as a normal, if somewhat challenging, way that a brain works. Rather than ""fixing"" readers, Dr. Poole wants them to focus on understanding and improving their behaviours in three areas: medical, behavioural, and educational. Dr. Poole shares his own stories and those of his patients to help readers go from merely living with ADHD to thriving

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One by one, Caterpillar, Tadpole, and Flamingo gaze up at the night sky and wish upon a star for their wildest dreams. Baboon insists these dreams could never come true. But when he sees Caterpillar turn into a winged butterfly, Tadpole into a dancing frog, and Flamingo into a beautiful pink bird, Baboon realizes that a transformative power exists between the stars and the animals once they truly believe in themselves and their dreams. When Baboon tries out this secret, CATCH-M, his Magical, Mystical, Wished-Upon Star, whooshes down from the heavens to wham! ignite the courage in his chest too, and what happens next is fantastic! Dream Big's inspirational message makes it a perfect gift for dreamers of all ages, from children to young adults about to enter a new chapter in their lives. Together we can all be inspired to identify and pursue our dreams, no matter how big or impossible they may seem.

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The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue

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