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The 5 Minute Kickstart is a practical, no-fluff guide designed for people who want results now. Instead of overwhelming plans or unrealistic routines, this book shows you how to break through procrastination using a simple five-minute rule that gets your brain moving and your momentum flowing.

The New York Times bestseller by the most talked about woman in American business. For five and a half years, Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard through major internal changes, the worst technology slump in decades, and the most controversial merger in high-tech history. Yet just as things were...

Difficult people are the worst part of a manager's job. Whether it comes from direct reports or people above, outbursts, irrational demands, griping, and other disruptions need to be dealt with - and it's your responsibility to do it. Leading the Unleadable turns this dreaded chore into a straight forward process that gently, yet effectively, improves behaviors.

What if a book could save your company thousands to millions in wasted cybersecurity spending? That’s not hype, it’s the reality when you stop treating spending dollars like a bottomless pit and start treating it like a business strategy. Most executives assume the more money they throw at cybersecurity, the safer they’ll be. Wrong. In fact, the bigger your budget, the more likely you’re bleeding cash on shelfware, pointless meetings, and “solutions” that solve nothing. This book flips the script: it shows you how to slash costs, cut risk, and still move faster than your ...

SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR Control freaks. Narcissists. Slackers. Cynics. Difficult people are the worst part of a manager's job. This book turns this seemingly difficult chore into a straight-forward process that gently, yet effectively, improves behaviors. It all begins with...

Driving innovation in large organizations is as engaging and thrilling as a heist movie. Are you ready to embark on the adventure of transforming your ideas into impactful realities? In The Inside Job, Ed Essey, a senior director at The Microsoft Garage with decades of experience in driving innovation, offers just that: a game-changing guide for high performers and innovation leaders who refuse to settle and want to empower their crew so bold ideas flourish.

Got a question for the show? Call us at 1-833-3-ASK-SDR! Chris Collins, the leading Automotive Service Manager Coach and Service Advisor Trainer in the world, discusses little known service drive secret weapons to help pull your service department ahead of the pack. Everything from hiring technicians, increasing dealership CSI, building relationships for long term customer retention, to increasing customer pay sales and more, is all discussed here on Service Drive Revolution. All from the automotive industries #1 go-to guy for Fixed Operations; Chris Collins. Listen, and enjoy!

Stop leading from a place of depletion and start leading from a place of power. In the high-stakes world of modern leadership, we are often told that "grit" is the only way forward. But what happens when burnout, hormones, chronic illness, or trauma threatens to dismantle everything you’ve built? Heal to Lead Wellness: Stories to Rebuild Your Confidence and Resilience is an evocative collection of stories from leaders who refused to stay broken. From corporate executives to holistic practitioners, these authors pull back the curtain on their most vulnerable moments, including navigating 9...

Competing in the global economy isn't unlike guerrilla warfare. Your competitors come at you from unexpected places with surprising force, and the marketplace is constantly shifting. As a leader, what do you do to empower your business and your people not only to survive but to thrive - and win? First, Fast, Fearless is a practical guide for the business leader who wants to learn from the best of the best how to build and lead effective teams in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant change.

Tech entrepreneurs, make your startup dreams come true by utilizing this invaluable, founder-to-founder guide to successfully navigating all phases of the tech startup journey. With the advent of the internet, mobile computing, and now AI/Machine learning and cloud computing, the number of new...

Conquer the CTP Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Certified Treasury Professional is an essential resource for aspiring treasury professionals aiming to achieve the prestigious Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) designation. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of treasury management, providing in-depth knowledge and practical insights across 25 detailed chapters. Topics include cash management, liquidity risk management, financial reporting, investment portfolio management, foreign exchange risk management, and ethical considerations in treasury. Each chapter is meticulously ...

Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to fluid forward movement. This book is for anyone who helps people work together to transform their situation, be it a professional facilitator, manager, consultant, coach, chairperson, organizer, mediator, stakeholder, or friend. It offers a broad and bold vision of the contribution that facilitation can make to helping people collaborate to make progress.

The go-to podcast for working moms who want to consistently grow their business without overwhelm. Hosted by Chelsi Jo — Systems Expert for working moms who want an organized business — this show teaches you how to stop living off to-do lists and start operating inside a clear system that supports both your home and your business. If you’re a work-from-home mom who feels like:• You’re rebuilding your schedule every Monday• Time blocking works… until it doesn’t• Your to-do lists never actually end• Your business lives in your head instead of in systems You don’t need ...

AI is reshaping industries and products: This book helps Product Managers understand how to use AI tools to plan, design, and deliver great products. It explains the AI stack and strategic frameworks for integrating AI features into products; how to use GenAI to perform customer discovery, market research, and prototyping; and how the Product Development Life Cycle and the Model Development Life Cycle intersect when creating AI-driven products. This is not a theoretical textbook based on research: it is a practical guide for Product Managers to learn what AI can do and how to implement AI ...

Salespeople, consultants, managers, executives, entrepreneurs... Influence is a crucial tool for absolutely anyone seeking success and prosperity. But how can everyday people actually become more influential? Maximum Influence unlocks the secrets of the master influencers. Now in an all-new edition, the audiobook combines scientific research with real-world studies, presenting the most authoritative and effective arsenal of persuasion techniques ever.

A fully updated edition of the classic business reference book on product development from a world renowned innovation management scholar For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent...

The word "purpose" is big. Very big. And heavy. It carries the weight of a lifetime of work and struggle; the weight of legacy, and the mass of days spent not doing something else. It's something we all grapple with at some point-some of us find our purpose, others spend a lifetime searching. A lucky few grow to realize they've been working their purpose all along. Often, fulfilling your purpose requires some kind of change - career, lifestyle, habits, family - and what then? Are we selfish for the upheaval, or are we fulfilling destiny? Once we know our purpose, how do we pursue it?

Four innovation experts from the startup world, large enterprises, nonprofits, and academia come together to reveal the secret of uncovering authentic demand to build successful innovations. Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. The Heart of Innovation is the first popular book to concretely delve into what innovations really are and how to create them.

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.

We’ve entered an exhilarating new era of self-invention. With access to new resources, technologies, and connectivity, you no longer have to rely on traditional channels to craft an incredible career. But surviving and thriving in this new landscape requires a highly proactive approach. Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.