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Best-selling author Bill George ( True North) and longtime corporate executive Doug Baker have participated for decades in a unique small group of peers dedicated to personal growth and leadership development. In this book they provide the first practical guide - including detailed instructions, rules, and resources - for anyone to start and manage such a group on their own.

Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who try to lead with ethics and integrity struggle with embracing a position of power and authority. You might worry about “being bossy,” unintentionally disrespecting others, or making the wrong call—and in the process, put your mind and body under so much stress that you burn out.

Mind Tools for Managers helps new and experienced leaders develop the skills they need to be more effective in everything they do. It brings together the 100 most important leadership skills - as voted for by 15,000 managers and professionals worldwide - into a single volume, providing an easy-access solutions manual for people wanting to be the best manager they can be. Each chapter details a related group of skills, plus the tools you need to put ideas into practice.

In leadership, you need to be able to play to your strengths and look toward overcoming your limitations. The first and most important step is identifying and understanding your leadership style. Without this self-analysis, it’s impossible to know what your strengths and limitations are.

In Courageous Communication, Robert Heath, Sr. unveils a game-changing framework for leaders who want to make a real impact, not just hold authority. This book is designed for high-achieving CEOs, managers, and emerging leaders facing the demands of modern leadership. Whether you’re looking to inspire your team, gain buy-in without authority, or balance leadership with personal growth, Courageous Communication is the guide you need to elevate every conversation and unlock genuine influence.

You probably already have the skills to be more fulfilled and successful. But sometimes it's about showcasing these skills so that colleagues, customers, friends, and the rest of the world can recognize what you do. Drawing on extensive research and inspiring real-life examples, psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Rob Yeung guides you through proven techniques that will get you noticed for all the right reasons.

This book takes everything that three remarkable authors - a corporate strategist, the former acting director of the CIA, and a world-renowned magician - have learned about magic and packs it into a unique framework that captures the best of this art form and relates it directly to lessons applicable to a wide variety of business enterprises. The authors' objective is not to create a new generation of magicians, but to adapt nine strategies of the world's greatest magicians and inspire boundless imagination, bolster innovation, energize leadership, and spark success in any business.

Success in business isn’t just about what you know—it’s about how you connect. In today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world, genuine human relationships are the key to unlocking peak performance, strong teamwork, and lasting success. Cultivate is your go-to guide for turning everyday interactions into powerful, real connections.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of the world's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers to help you find, tell, and draw value from your organizational stories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded with fun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, and facilitated processes that require no special training or expertise. You'll discover your organization's hidden narrative assets, use different templates and frameworks to tell the stories of your past, present, and future, and more.

In "How to Argue like a Journalist," Peter E. Grey offers a prescriptive, well-structured guide that empowers you to communicate persuasively in any situation. This practical audiobook is filled with step-by-step techniques you can apply immediately.

In The Manager’s Communication Toolkit, Tina Kuhn introduces hands-on strategies for dealing with the most challenging personality types. Dividing the book into three parts, she breaks down the different communication tools, illustrates techniques for working purposefully and skillfully with the personalities she profiles, and shows listeners how to explore their own communication and management styles. This book is for anyone who needs to communicate with others at work—bosses, coworkers, subordinates, and customers.

As you face daily choices that require yes or no decisions, there are times when you feel paralyzed - either from fear of making the wrong choice or because of too many seemingly equal options. Social entrepeneur Jeff Shinabarger helps you break through these moments of tension and transition with proven ways to move toward good choices.

This bundle includes the four best self-help guides that help you overcome anxiety, stress, and depression and will improve every area of your life.

Laurie Beth Jones, management expert and business consultant extraordinaire, noticed that of the personality/temperament profiles in the market today, none of them provided a tool that was simple, visual, intuitive, and powerful enough to create a shift in thinking as well as relating. So she developed The Path Elements Profile (PEP), which can be used in recruitment, placement, retention, team building, and customer relations as businesses transform many individuals into a harmonizing, humming force for good.

In How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World, Neil Irwin, senior economic correspondent at the New York Times, delivers the essential guide to being successful in today’s economy when the very notion of the “job” is shifting and the corporate landscape has become dominated by global firms. He shows that the route to success lies in cultivating the ability to bring multiple specialties together - to become a “glue person” who can ensure people with radically different technical skills work together effectively.

Owning a business is tough; so is being married. Finally, an audiobook that will help you navigate through many of the main problems married couples face when they become business partners. Things like lack of direction, mixing roles, ineffective communication, and poor money management are a tried-and-true formula for disaster. Stop fighting over the business and putting that added stress to your marriage! Business owners who implement these strategies are able to grow their business and strengthen their marriage simultaneously.

In Lead Like Ike, business journalist and communications guru Geoff Loftus explores 10 essential business strategies leaders can glean from Ike's role as a commander overseeing the Normandy invasion. Weaving a fly on-the-wall narrative from Ike's perspective, Loftus sweeps listeners into a gripping story that honors the sacrifice of all who fought and died on D-Day and explores the prevailing significance of fundamental leadership principles often forgotten by managers, like listen to your people, set your vision, be consistent about your message, and let your managers manage.

Fully revised second edition. Since Breaking Through Bias was published in 2016, the #MeToo movement has exposed just how pervasive sexual harassment is in the workplace; the increase in public misogynistic comments has made clear that explicit gender bias is not a thing of the past; and stay-at-home orders and school closings due to Covid-19 have brought into even sharper focus the discriminatory impact of the unequal division of child care and household responsibilities between most couples.

Em seu trabalho definitivo sobre inteligência emocional, Daniel Goleman explica que ela é duas vezes mais importante que as demais habilidades na formação de um líder excepcional. Se você não tiver tempo para ler mais nada sobre inteligência emocional, leia estes 10 artigos escritos por especialistas no assunto. Eles foram selecionados pela Harvard Business Review entre centenas de textos publicados com o objetivo de ajudar você a aprimorar suas habilidades, melhorar os relacionamentos e garantir seu sucesso profissional.