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Everything you need to know about creating LGBTQ2+ inclusive workplace, from A to Z. Every year, companies who aren't doing the necessary work are losing millions of dollars to low productivity, staff turnover, missed opportunities, and reputational damage-and no, simply slapping a rainbow over your company logo isn't going to cut it. In this myth-busting follow-up to the 2020 breakout bestseller Birds of All Feathers, diversity and inclusion expert Michael Bach breaks down everything you need to know about creating inclusive workplaces for people who don't fit squarely into the "straight" and "cis" box. And don't worry if you're already feeling lost; by the time you've finished this book, you'll know exactly LGBTQ2+ means-and a whole lot of other stuff to boot. With clarity and a healthy dose of humor, Bach lays out a road map on how to ensure your workplace is safe for LGBTQ2+ people. You'll gain a clear understanding of sexuality, gender identity, and gender expression; what a Safe Space is, and how to turn your workplace into one; how to create and properly enforce a workplace Code of Conduct; and how to grab a piece of the fabulous "pink dollar" (worth more than $1 trillion dollars annually in the Canada and US alone!). A must-read for leaders, HR professionals, CEOs, and managers of all levels, Alphabet Soup is a critical guide to creating a truly inclusive workplace for all.

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Know yourself, know your team, solve your challenge.You want to lead a good teama team that gets results, a team you look forward to working with every day.But many leaders are surprised to find themselves bogged down by people problems. They can't get people to row in the same directionor row at all. They have a nagging sense that the team isn't reaching its full potential.This book is a primer for busy leaders who want actionable ways to build a better team with the people they have. Sarah Thurber and Blair Miller combine their decades of team-building experience with research from the fields of cognitive diversity and creative problem solving to help people lead teams that collaborate, innovate, and get results.Their advice? If you want to lead a good team, don't follow your instincts. Follow the science.Built on research from their popular FourSight systemused by Nike, NASA, and Navy SEALsGood Team, Bad Team examines over 6 m

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Is your company a departure organization or a destination workplace? Finding, keeping, and motivating employees is harder than ever. Amid record-setting turnover and staffing shortages across industries, competition for candidates is fierce. How do you find employees that stay, take on challenging work, and deliver outstanding products and services? How do you keep your best employees from leaving? Answer: Employalty. There is a massive recalibration taking place around how work fits into peoples' lives. Winning the new war for talent requires a more humane employee experience, one that meets the needs and values of a changed workforce. Get this wrong, and the future of your organization is in jeopardy. Get this right, and you create an astounding competitive advantage around hiring and retention, while reaping all the benefits and business results that dedicated employees generate. Speaker, author, and commitment expert Joe Mull has spent 15 years teaching leaders how to be better bosses. Grounded in research and filled with captivating stories, Employalty provides a simple, evidence-based framework for creating the kind of employee experience that leads people to join a company, stay long term, and do great work. Employalty is a clear playbook for attracting and retaining talent and turning ordinary people into devoted employees. The era of trying to find the best person for the job is over. At an adapt-or-die moment for businesses of all sizes, employers must now create the best job for the person. Employalty shows you how.

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The pace of change has picked up and will continue to do so. The future is requiring us to get ourselves and others engaged in change rapidly. In Spark Action, internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor Gregg Brown unlocks why people aren’t motivated to act on our ideas and shares insights and strategies to spark positive change in our organizations and communities. With a thirty-year career that spans the health-care, education, non-profit, and private sectors, Gregg has learned what makes people tick and how to help them take action, often in difficult circumstances. But he’s the first to admit that he wasn’t always so confident with change. With interactive self-reflection activities and story-building frameworks, Gregg outlines a clear pathway to lead change that begins on the inside and bridges out to impact the people, organizations, and communities around us. Gregg shares customized strategies and inspirational success stories that he has nurtured in his diverse clients—from Fortune 500s to governments to humanitarian organizations. Gregg’s easy-to-follow advice, paired with his signature enthusiasm and candour, will ignite your change-making mastery before you’ve even finished the book!

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We don't eat beef to stay alive, we eat it to feel alive. We eat beef for the experience. We eat it for the texture, the aroma, the atmosphere. Whether it's prepared in a backyard or a bistro, North Americans LOVE beef. Look at it this way: the French have their wine, the Germans have their beer--and the Americans have their beef. From hamburgers to meatballs, briskets to ribeyes, the average American eats almost 60 pounds of beef every year. Yet, how well do you know the steak on your plate, the roast in your oven, or the ground beef in your freezer? Where does it come from--Texas, Nebraska, Uruguay, or Australia? Is it true that the meat from thousands of cows is in just one pound of hamburger? And, if so, how safe is it? And what about hormones and antibiotics? Scott Lively, president of Raise American, cuts through the bull and brings you the truth about the Big Beef industry in this essential guide to all things beef. You'll find out what packers, grocers, and the government know, but don't have to tell you. You'll learn how to look at a cut of beef and know whether it's clean, green, and healthy, or came from an old dairy cow. You'll find out what "grass fed" really means (and what it doesn't), and how the USDA actually measures the quality of your beef. And you'll understand what sustainable cattle farming is, and how it can benefit your health and the environment. For the Love of Beef has the answers to the questions you never knew you had about your favorite meat, written by one of the foremost authorities in the beef industry. Whether you're a budget-minded consumer or would-be connoisseur, you'll never look at beef the same way again.

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Greater Than Goals. More Powerful Than Habits. Discover Your Streaks!Most of us have a vision for ourselves and who we want to be: a top-notch professional in our field; a fantastic parent and friend; a physically fit, healthy person; someone who sets and achieves goals in multiple areas of life. But, amid the busy-ness of our days and all the competing demands, we often fall short of our hopes for ourselves. How could we possibly fit in another activity to become the person we've always dreamed we could be?In this practical, step-by-step guide, authors Jeffery Downs and Jami Downs show you how, by introducing the art of streaking (not that kind!) to gain mastery in whatever area you choose to improve. To streak is to deliberately select a laughably simple activitysuch as writing one sentence a day, doing seven push-ups a week, making one cold call a monthto repeat and record it over time, and to build a community around it as you do. As you create this

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You want to write a nonfiction book that matters. A book readers love and rave about. A book they underline, dog-ear, and highlight. A must-read. How do you do that, when you've never written a book like that before? When you aren't sure what content to include in a nonfiction book, or how to organize it? And when you're not sure if your idea is worth pursuing in the first place? At the heart of the answers to all these questions is a craft created by AJ Harper, ghostwriter and editor for some of the foremost thought leaders of our time. The foundation of that craft is a simple, yet powerful philosophy: Reader First. When you learn how to put your reader first at every stage of book development, writing, and editing, you can create the connection and trust required to transform their lives. In these pages, Harper reveals the proven methods and frameworks she has used for nearly two decades to write and edit perennial bestsellers. It's not the easy way, or the fast way; it's the effective way. The payoff for doing this important work: a must-read book, and a massive readership who serve as ambassadors for your message and your brand.

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Children are more anxious, aggressive, and shut down than ever.Faced with this epidemic of emotional health crises and behavioural problems, teachers are asking themselves what went wrong. Why have we lost our students? More importantly: How can we get them back? Hannah Beach, a celebrated educator and specialist in the field of emotional health, and Tamara Neufeld Strijack, clinical counsellor and academic dean of the acclaimed Neufeld Institute, provide a thoughtful guide to restoring the student-teacher relationship and creating the conditions for change. Reclaiming Our Students empowers teachers with relationship-based strategies to restore their leadership role and build emotional safety and inclusion in the classroom..You'll learn: How to build, feed, and protect the student-teacher relationship Why children are anxious or bossy, aggressive or checked out, and what you can do to address these behavioural issues at their root How you can help

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It's time to forget everything you think you know about selling. Winning new customers is the number one challenge 80 percent of entrepreneurs face-and a big reason half of small businesses fail within five years. In Buyer First, Carole Mahoney-who once struggled to pay bills and is now a top sales coach and influencer-says the reason so many of us are bad at selling is, well, we think selling is bad. In the "book my clients have been asking me for," Mahoney shares her revolutionary sales-success formula that draws on data from 2.2 million professional sellers, plus solid research on the psychology of decision-making and behavior change, to show you that sales isn't something we do to others, it's something we do with them. With her approachable, honest writing style, Mahoney is like your personal sales coach, guiding you to tailor your current sales strategy in a way that's consistent with your values and strengths, so you can align how you sell with how customers buy. Complete with worksheets and exercises like exploring your own Sales Origin story, Buyer First teaches you the tactics of a collaborative selling framework. Each point is backed up with real-life stories from Mahoney's colleagues and students as well as her own experiences. Not only does Buyer First promise to transform your sales approach, help you change your behaviors, and get consistent results-it'll make you feel fantastic about every transaction.

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Don't burn out-stand out. Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do-or at least used to-but feel overwhelmed by it? When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn't mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work, nor do you need to settle for dragging yourself out of bed surviving your way through it, but you can feel a greater sense of aliveness engaging in it. Dear Work transforms traditional advice by using the power of brain science to show you how to boost your Work Vitality Quotient so you stand out, bringing your best, most energized self-without burning out. Sara Ross, chief vitality officer and leadership expert, will show you how to: - Identify the four "success traps" that limit your potential by luring you into thinking you're doing what it takes when really what you're doing is taking from you. - Adopt a "yes, and" mindset to work better with stress and feel fueled and fulfilled in the process. - Expand your approach to self-care to strategically identify when slowing down is needed and when accelerating in a different direction is even better. In a world that refuses to let up, reigniting your take-on-the-day vitality will be your competitive advantage at work and your path to pursuing a fully lived life outside of it as well.

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Happiness, career satisfaction, and resilience aren’t only available to a select few. Mental health isn’t something you’re born with — it’s something you can cultivate, nurture, and strengthen, no matter your background or life experiences. In the third installment of his Globe and Mail bestselling Break Through series, organizational psychologist and addictions counselor Dr. Bill Howatt — one of Canada’s foremost authorities on mental health — gives you six ingredients that will strengthen your mental fitness today, so you can be prepared to take on anything that life throws at you. Drawing on positive psychology research, client stories, and his own experiences overcoming adversity, Dr. Howatt provides you with activities, exercises, and insights to build the components of mental health so you can live a life that aligns with who you are and what you value. A powerful interactive guide for anyone feeling stuck, lacking confidence, or caught in a cycle of bad decisions, No Regrets offers you the tools, and the instructions on how to use them, to build a life that finally feels good.

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Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual-until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture-a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better. With honesty and humor, they share their own hearing loss journeys, and outline invaluable insights, strategies, and workarounds to help you engage with the world and be heard. You'll gain tips for navigating all areas impacted by hearing loss, including relationships, work, technology; strategies for adopting a new, empowering mindset towards your hearing loss; and communication behaviors that can make almost any listening situation manageable. Informed by the lived experiences of thousands of people living with hearing loss, and corroborated by hearing science, technological advances, and modern hearing-care principles, Hear and Beyond offers a new way forward to greater connection and engagement-whether you're new to hearing loss or have been living with it for a long time.

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Beloved Economies defines what it takes to co-create US economic futures that work for all. From rising inequality, to systemized oppression, and an increasing consolidation of wealth, it's clear that work isn't working for us anymore. Rather, it's working for a select few. What changes can we implement at all levels of organizations, now, to make them healthier and more just? Based on five years of data, Beloved Economies offers seven practices for individuals who are part of teams within enterprises-from businesses to nonprofits, farms, and after-school groups-to build economic realities of more purpose, meaning, and joy. These seven practices are:* Choose Trust* Share Power* Reckon with History* Prioritize Relationships* Seek Meaningful Difference* Source from Multiple Ways of Knowing* Prototype Early and OftenIn their work with a range of communities and leading voices across the United States who are building the next economy, researchers Jess Rimington and Joanna Cea have found

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Build community to accelerate success Do the leaders in your company work together towards a common goal? Do they trust one another? Are they accountable not only individually but as a team? These are just a few traits found in community-minded leaders, the kind of leaders essential to grow your organization.With his new book, Community of Leaders, New York Times bestselling author Vince Molinaro breaks down why having a strong leadership culture in your organization is critical, how to build it, and how to sustain it for long term success. By detailing accessible strategies as well as common complications, Vince gives you the practical tools you need to help accelerate the creation of community in your organization. With real-world stories and researched statistics, you get a glimpse into community-based leadership in action and will understand exactly how it can benefit your team and your business.Leadership is best executed with collaboration

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How do we begin working towards living the good life when the global landscape is ever changing? What even is the good life anymore? We could try to sift out the philosophical and spiritual components of one-but where do a clean house, remembering teacher gifts at the holidays, working under a mediocre boss with unreasonable expectations, and our jean size figure into the equation? Life is not only hard as hell but also joy-filled, complicated, and messy. Its pace has dramatically increased and the bodies that carry us are desperately trying to catch up. In Stress Wisely, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe draws on her rich research in wellness, stress, and resiliency to show us what got us into this situation in the first place, then gently guides us towards navigating the chaos in the best possible way. Through exploring eight touchstones of wellness (physical, emotional, intellectual, social, environmental, occupational, financial, spiritual), she suggests not how to avoid stress but how to live a full, healthy, and whole life in inherently tough circumstances. With her signature honesty and humor, relatability and intimacy, Hanley-Dafoe offers us the gift of awareness-when we can see clearly all the forces at play, we can choose new strategies and actions to support our wellness at many levels. Amid the noise and the mayhem and the stress, we can find a place within ourselves where we are okay. Just as we are, truly okay.

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We know the impacts of poor leadership: lackluster performance, missed opportunities, deleterious cultures, and, in some cases, disaster. While these issues are all too common, leaders also possess an immense opportunity. They can create a speak-up culture, one in which people feel it is both safe and worth it to share their ideas, concerns, disagreements, and even mistakes—all for the betterment of the organization. Speak-Up Culture is for leaders at all levels? from senior executives who believe in putting people and purpose first; to mid-level supervisors who wish to lead better and nurture the voice of their people; to aspiring leaders who want to uncover their strengths and better provide support to those in their span of care. All these leaders share a common desire to know a better way to behave as a leader. They want to operate in a team and culture where people are engaged and willingly speak up, for the success of the whole organization. Stephen Shedletzky has focused his career on helping leaders listen to and nurture the voices of others— to foster an environment where people feel heard and that they, their opinion, and their contributions matter. Speak-Up Culture shows you how creating such an environment is the responsibility and the advantage of every leader who wants to be great at leading, and who wants to create a better version of humanity while they do. Because the bottom line is that organizations with speak-up cultures are safer, more innovative, more engaged, and better-performing than their peers.

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Embrace the Power of You In the competitive world of Silicon Valley, corporate lawyer Tricia Montalvo Timm knew that talent and drive weren't enough to succeed. She had to belong. Timm took a cue from her days as a child actor, when she had to change her name to get auditions. As an adult, she downplayed her Latino heritage and her life as a mother to fit in. And it worked: at the height of her success, she sold software company Looker to Google for $2.6 billion. But when a LinkedIn post about her roots went viral, she knew she couldn't continue to hide. As a high-powered Latina lawyer, she had a responsibility to be visible so she could be the role model she never saw coming up the ranks. She realized that belonging begins with self-acceptance. If you've ever hidden your real self to belong, Embrace the Power of You will resonate. Timm's journey toward self-acceptance provides a wealth of insight into the reasons why people feel alienated and invisible in the workplace. Timm knows firsthand the fear and shame that comes from hiding your identity, and shows how to overcome those feelings one small step at a time. By offering practical tips and strategies based on research and personal experience, Timm proves an expert guide for those who want to bring their authentic selves to work and don't know where to begin. If you're seeking a way to embrace your identity at work or need management strategies to aid those who want to do so, this book will set you on the path to success. A singular book from one of the only Latinas to have attained the triple achievements of reaching the C-Suite, joining the boardroom and cracking the venture capital ceiling, Embrace the Power of You is a warm and courageous guide to finding success through choosing your authentic self.

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It’s time for new leadership. Today’s world of work is more digitized, decentralized, and unpredictable than ever. As we emerge from the COVID crisis, we need to move from transactional to human-centric management, mindsets and methods. In Empathy Works, work futurist, speaker, and workforce consultant Sophie Wade shows you why empathy is a critical corporate value and skill—for achieving engagement, productivity, and sustained growth in a post-pandemic world. Sharing data and insights from brain science, organizational psychology, as well as real situations and stories from around the world, Wade guides you through the steps to cultivate empathy throughout every aspect of your organization—from culture to leadership, for managing distributed workers, sales teams, and bridging generations. You’ll learn how to integrate empathy habits into management practices and daily operations, nurturing an organization empowered by human-centric connection and understanding. Not only will you create a more supportive, meaningful, and positive workplace, but you’ll gain a sustainable competitive advantage as you manage, motivate, and enhance team performance and business results. An invaluable resource for existing and rising executives and managers, Empathy Works provides you with essential insights and knowledge to adapt, thrive, and grow—no matter what the future holds.

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Hi there, it''s Michael, the author. You might know my previous book, The Coaching Habit. It was an unexpected bestseller: more than 700,000 copies sold so far, 1,000+ 5-star reviews on Amazon (my favourite: I have plodded through many books that wish they could be this book), a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and used by people and organizations around the world.So I''ve been sweating on the follow-up. The pressure! The anticipation! But here it is, and I think you''re going to like it. If The Coaching Habit says, here are the seven essential questions to be more coach-like, The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behaviour so you stay curious a little bit longer.It sounds like it should be easy, but it''s not. You have to tame your Advice Monster, that part of you that jumps in to offer up ideas, opinions, suggestions and advice. And it''s taming your Advice Monster that''s at the heart of this book. But there

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A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we've learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. In this illuminating book, acclaimed author Heather Plett reveals:? How traumafrom the earliest patterns of our upbringing to devastating eventscan shape our lives and our personalities? How treating ourselves with radical tenderness can be the balm of healing for our wounded selves, and how this healing can invite others into their own healing? How learning to hold space for ourselvesour hopes, our aspirations, and our desiresis one of the most worthwhile pursuits of a life well-livedEach chapter in this heartfelt and honest book contains a revelation about how to move from shades of fear and doubt to freedom and joy. Through stories that range

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Bigger Results with Less MarketingYou keep being told to do more marketingmore complex, more aggressive, and more expensive marketing. Chasing the latest bright, shiny object is exhausting. Increased efforts keep leading to disappointment. The overwhelm for entrepreneurs, marketers, and business leaders is real. There's a better way.The lean movement has transformed manufacturing and is now revolutionizing marketing. Small, medium, and large businesses are getting bigger and better results with less marketing.In this book, you'll discover:? Why many existing marketing techniques have stopped working and what to do instead.? The exact tools and tactics you need to build a devastatingly effective marketing system.? How to win with a simple, structured, and systemized approach rather than failing with random acts of marketing.? How to pivot from bloated, ineffective, and wasteful marketing activities to ones that compel p

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Upgrade your mind to upgrade your life. What if you could accomplish your five-year plan in a matter of months? If that sounds impossible, you're not thinking bravely. Yet. In this transformational guide to changing your life for good, personal development expert and best-selling author Mary Morrissey shows you how to move from stasis to action-by changing the stories you tell yourself. Drawing from advancements in science, timeless principles from wisdom traditions, and her personal stories and insights, Morrissey gives you the tools to overcome "common-hour thinking"-the fact-based, linear way of processing reality that measures what is possible by what resources you believe are available to you-and replace it with the powerful alternative that is brave thinking. Where common-hour thinking is limiting and uncreative, brave thinking is expansive and imaginative, not limited by time or circumstance or even the past. Brave thinkers know that before something can exist in the real world, it must first exist in your mind. Then, it must be grounded in decisive action. If you want results in life that are different from the ones you currently have, you need a different operating system for your mind. It's time to install brave thinking, and start living the life you want.

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Your indispensable guide for coaching mastery. Language is a powerful tool that can unite, engage, and move people to action. It's all in what you choose to say, and how you say it. In this practical, accessible guide to having more powerful conversations, leading evidence-based coaching expert Haesun Moon offers a set of powerful words or phrases-one for every letter of the alphabet-to help you move others toward greater purpose and accomplishment. Based on her extensive research with the University of Toronto and Harvard Medical School, Moon shows you how to apply each of these concepts to transform the way you relate to others and empower them to strive for and achieve better outcomes. Each entry includes an inspiring real-life example, and reflection questions to help you put it into action in your own life and in the lives of people around you. Whether you're a leader in business, education, healthcare, the public or non-profit sector-or even in your family-the ability to coach others and support them in achieving their goals is an integral skill one of the most important skills you can master. A guide to return to again and again, Coaching A-Z is an indispensable tool for anyone seeking to master the art of coaching and leadership.

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Every leadership journey has moments when the path forward suddenly feels unclear. When it happens, your sense of self, and your clarity of purpose, get out of balance. It's like you're no longer the hero in your own story; at times like these, you need a rewrite. A growing body of research suggests we are guided by a core narrative that acts as a key source of personal motivation, drive and action. What holds you back as a senior leader isn't a lack of skills or knowledge, but a narrative that is frozen in time. When your leadership stalls, it's a sign that your story has taken you as far as it can - and it's time to write a new one. In this transformative guide to leadership development, executive coaches and leadership experts Rick Lash and Christine Miners illuminate how your internal narrator acts as the operating system of your mind. Like any OS, it can become outdated and overstretched, because it was mainly installed in your teens and early 20s. Through engaging stories, research-backed insights, and techniques, you'll gain the tools to re-engage and update the story that you tell yourself, so you can operate at a higher level. As you edit and upgrade your internal narrator, you'll develop a personal story that is more grounded and anchored in your true self: one that is less fragile, more resilient, and able to withstand the relentless pressures of leadership - and life.

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This book is for ambitious, high-achieving women leaders, entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders ready to move to the next level. It is a manifesto and call to action for women to lift themselves and each other up by refusing to accept limitations and instead embracing an ethos of possibility. There are big gorgeous goals that we all need to set. These are so different from goals that we know we can accomplish because they feel safe and tidy. These goals scare us; they keep us up at night?because we fear they are beyond our grasp. We all know women who are great at achieving big gorgeous goals. How do they do it? What allows them to reach outward, upward, and think expansively? The book explores the possibilities that open when we set big gorgeous goals, and the common characteristics in the women who move towards these. Through stories and lessons, the book shows women leaders how thinking beyond habitual limits allows us to surpass our current levels of success. It includes Julie's personal story of becoming a founder of an unexpectedly and wildly successful children's labels company that started in one of the founders' basement and was eventually sold at an eight-figure price. And it tells the story of what happened next, when having hit a business high, she found herself at an inflection point, where she needed to draw on different resources to find a new path to success. Julie Ellis shares the lessons she has learned as an entrepreneur and those of several other women entrepreneurs she interviewed for the book. Their experiences impart to readers the qualities that allow us to thrive as women in business, to healthily, sustainably integrate the work of leadership into their larger lives as mothers, caregivers, partners, dreamers and so much more...

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Discover your path toward a more sustainable life. The science on climate change is in, and its impacts are being felt around the globe. It's time for every one of us to start finding a new way of living, working, and moving around our planet. The good news is, it doesn't have to be hard, and it doesn't have to feel like a sacrifice. By understanding how you fit into the global picture, and investigating what changes work best for you, you can soften your impact on the planet in as many areas of your life that feel right and work for you. It just takes some planning, some action, and some practice. In Planting a Seed, corporate sustainability expert Kate Gaertner shows you how to develop an action plan that will help you develop new habits and ways of living that fit into your daily life. You'll gain greater insight into how you are personally connected to the larger ecosystems and environmental issues, and start discovering and embracing your values every day through your actions, commitments, and purchases. You'll learn about the six impact categories where your actions can be felt, and customize an adaptation plan that builds from where you are. Offering ideas for sustainability at a small, medium, and large level, Kate shows that living lightly can also mean living well. Accessible and lively, Planting a Seed charts a way toward a greener future by encouraging each of us to find the sustainability path that feels just right.

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Little Bee has a hungry heart. Are fame, glory, and wealth enough to fill it?In this beautifully illustrated tale, a little bee shares his big dreams with his mother, who gently imparts her wisdom, guiding her son to discover what matters most in life: love.

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You are one conversation away from changing your life. We all crave connection. We were never meant to live alone or communicate only in likes and retweets. In Every Conversation Counts, TV host and human connection keynote speaker Riaz Meghji digs deep into the dangers of isolation and loneliness, our social pandemic, that have been brought into sharp relief by the coronavirus crisis. He tackles a uniquely modern question: why are we so connected, and yet so aloneand how can we reconnect?Sharing personal insights from powerful interviews and years of on-air experience, Meghji offers 5 simple habits for building extraordinary relationships. He explains how to spark authentic conversations, win trust, create new business, and collaborate effectively. Meghji points a way forward to a better futureone in which we express genuine curiosity about others, listen with our whole hearts, show up as our authentic selves, and make every conversation count.

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Everything your sales boss taught you is wrong. Forget everything you learned about selling. Your boss's persuasion-based sales methods are outdated, ineffective, and annoying. It's time to take matters into your own hands with a modern and effective approach to selling that actually gets results. In How to Sell Without Selling Out, global sales guru, top podcaster, and entrepreneur Andy Paul cuts through the "persuasion" crap, and lays out the five essential understandings you need to take control of your selling. You'll learn: - Why and how to take control of the selling process - How to understand your buyer's mindset - The difference between influence and persuasion-and why it's time to ditch the latter - The difference between "selling out" and "selling in" - How to engineer a new personal sales process This book is not a how-to. It's not a script. There's no detailed step-by-step recipe in these chapters, because that's not what's going to catapult you to the top. How to Sell Without Selling Out is about what is possible for you to achieve in sales, if you have the right perspective about your job. Develop your own personal sales style, and you'll be able to effectively compete in any sales situation.

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What if your legacy isn't what you leave behind, but something you create, every day of your life?What if you started acting the way you want to be rememberedright nowand shared your unique gifts with the world? In Everyday Legacy, Codi Shewan inspires readers to redefine how they live and embrace the idea of livingnot leavinga legacy. His message is simple, yet powerful: In each moment, you have the ability to change yourself and those around you, in profound ways.This book is for anyone who wants to rethink their own legacy and start living it now. Everyday Legacy shares vital lessons for living, informed by Shewan's experiences as a funeral director who developed a deep understanding of the reality of death. From tales of unexpected friendship as a young volunteer in palliative care to what he learned through his estranged father's funeral, Everyday Legacy shows us what it means to be deeply human, undeniably mortaland how to choose a l

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Drive high-IMPACT business value with a game-changing strategy delivery systemORGANIZATIONS must accelerate strategic results to thrive, and they need you in the driver's seat. How do you achieve this, even when firefighting is the norm? With three decades helping organizations deliver change, 2021 World PMO Influencer Laura Barnard unveils the system she uses with clients and students to evolve stagnant project and transformation teams into nimble, business-driven delivery engines.The IMPACT Engine is a comprehensive playbook that will help you accelerate business value, deliver sustainable change, drive higher ROI, increase stakeholder buy-in, and earn your place guiding organizational priorities.Following the six-stage road map, you will embrace the IMPACT Driver Mindset, secure quick wins, and scale value while addressing shifting business prioritiesthe key to sustained relevance at the leadership table as the Strategy Navigator your C-Suite

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Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do-or at least used to-but feel overwhelmed by it? When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn't mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work, nor do you need to settle for dragging yourself out of bed surviving your way through it, but you can feel a greater sense of aliveness engaging in it. Dear Work transforms traditional advice by using the power of brain science to show you how to boost your Work Vitality Quotient so you stand out, bringing your best, most energized self-without burning out. Sara Ross, chief vitality officer and leadership expert, will show you how to: · Identify the four "success traps" that limit your potential by luring you into thinking you're doing what it takes when really what you're doing is taking from you. · Adopt a "yes, and" mindset to work better with stress and feel fueled and fulfilled in the process. · Expand your approach to self-care to strategically identify when slowing down is needed and when accelerating in a different direction is even better. In a world that refuses to let up, reigniting your take-on-the-day vitality will be your competitive advantage at work and your path to pursuing a fully lived life outside of it as well.

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From a trio of authors, best friends, and leadership development consultants, Better Work Together is a book for leaders who want to improve — at leading, yes, but also at their lives. How so? By building deep, long-lasting relationships that set everybody up for success. One of the most important indicators of individual, team, and organisational success is the presence of an ally mindset. When we have best friends at work — people who are with us, in good times and bad, and who help ensure we make it through together — we thrive. When we don’t, we flail, and eventually crash and burn, leaving only a smoking hulk of debris behind as evidence that they were ever even there. Through their extensive work with clients that include Google, National Geographic, Microsoft, and many more, the authors have discovered the framework for an ally mindset includes five key parts: - Abundance and generosity - Connection and compassion - Courage and vulnerability - Candor and debate - Action and accountability In Better Work Together, they share valuable lessons on each of these aspects, to show you how to be a better friend at work, and how doing so leads to greater happiness, collaboration, and business outcomes.

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In this groundbreaking new book, organizational psychologist and executive coach Gena Cox shows you how to lead an inclusive organization, from the top down, and to seek solutions to the racially based discontent that pervades many employees’ experiences. Drawing on psychological science, corporate leaders, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), and her own experience in corporate America, Cox explains how to reframe the conversation, so you can more effectively guide the rest of the leaders in your organization. She helps you understand the key questions you should ask, the constituents you must address, and the difficult actions you must take to build an inclusive organization. In this book, you will learn: - the historical facts that created, and reinforce and maintain, many of the social patterns encountered in work-life today; - how to understand your experience as a top leader, regarding DE&I issues, within the context of organizational realities; - what you must do to ensure that you have an accurate picture of the current experience of all your employees; - science- and experience-based insights intended to help you identify the specific next steps for your organization. Your organization can become a haven of inclusion, even if it is not so today. Leading Inclusion will empower you with the psychological, historical, and practical knowledge to change your organization — and America — one employee at a time.

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You CAN change your business destiny. From a veteran technology executive comes an essential toolkit to reveal exactly where your company's true value lies-and how to reap its rewards. Over his 30 years as an executive in the technology sector, Matt Hulett has become the go-to company fixer. From RealNetworks to Rosetta Stone to Expedia, he has steered start-ups and large companies into renewed areas for growth. Now, he shares five key questions that will uncover new insight into your business's potential-without the need for a lengthy and costly strategic planning process. Through real-life examples, personal stories, and insights from thought leaders and CEOs, Hulett guides you through the steps of taking a deep dive into your company's pivot potential. He shows you how to take stock of your business, from your company's alignment to market trends and your supply chain position, to your value proposition for customers, to your ability to raise capital. Along the way, you'll begin to identify where your true potential lies, and map out a plan to capitalize on it. With expert advice on assessing industry shifts, valuable insights on leading teams, and tips for raising money and pitching investors, Hulett shows you exactly where to look, and what you need to find, in order to map out a new future for you and your company.

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Stop chasing money and start redefining success Sure, money is important. And yes, it can make you happy--but only up to a point. The truth is, science has shown that we each have a set point that links our earnings with happiness; go beyond that point, and your happiness ceases to increase with income. In this illuminating guide to living a financially healthier, and happier, life, bestselling author and financial journalist Andrew Hallam demonstrates how you can optimize your income for maximum happiness by investing responsibly and living according to your values. You'll find tips for using robo investors, insights for investing in socially responsible funds, and how to craft a personal budget that aligns your spending with what you hold most dear. Drawing on behavioural science, evidence-based investing, and environmental science, he shows you how to start framing success in a way that actually brings happiness, not stress, into your life--by balancing your money, connection, health, and purpose. Whether you're a broke teenager, a middle-aged millionaire or someone who hopes to retire on a shoestring, we all have one thing in common: we want to enjoy our lives. That means living better and laughing more. It means caring for the environment and helping our children to succeed--while defining "success" the way we really should.

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