Business Elite

As moms, we’re always someone’s someone, giving, loving, and nurturing. Stripped from all the labels, who are we, just being a girl in this world? Self-doubt reminds us that we aren’t enough, that someone else could do a better job raising our kids, or that we should be further along in life. Somewhere along the way, we feel stuck, lose our identity and purpose, comparing ourselves to others, as a measuring stick to success.

In 2007, fundraising professional Mary Valloni walked through the doors of another nonprofit organization, determined she was going to break the cycle of fundraising burnout and frustration. She wrote on the white board in her new office: "Work smarter, not harder." This is the eye-opening journey of a fundraiser who was looking for freedom and found it after years of successfully creating and implementing these seven steps.

Crucibles: History's Most Formidable Rites of Passage explores fourteen elite organizations, with a special emphasis on the onerous trials designed to cull initiates from aspirants. It analyzes the underlying commonalities of such trials, describing how they work, why people are willing to subject themselves to such rigors, and how such tests benefit or harm the organizations that require them.

Become an elite sales professional by learning proven lessons from the warriors who set the global standard for operational excellence: the American military elite. Drawing on exclusive interviews with former members of the US Special Forces and leading sales professionals from a variety of industries, executive coach Bill Hart shows you how to develop the mindset, habits, and disciplines to elevate your sales performance to become the elite of your industry.

De maneira prática, profunda e inspiradora, McRaven, um líder de líderes, compartilha ensinamentos poderosos, para além do campo de batalha, e mostra que a soma de qualidades individuais e atitudes é o alicerce de todo grande dirigente. Liderar é simples (mas não é fácil) é um livro sobre estratégia e resiliência, sobre autorresponsabilidade e gestão de pessoas, sobre grandeza e humildade e, sobretudo, um tratado sobre as qualidades que separam os bons líderes dos líderes verdadeiramente incríveis.

これまでのような「分析」「論理」「理性」に軸足をおいた経営、いわば「サイエンス重視の意思決定」では、今日のように複雑で不安定な世界においてビジネスの舵取りをすることはできない――「

Author and speaker Cathy Studer shares the steps she followed as she moved through her own pain of carrying shame, low self-worth, and humiliation after suffering six years of childhood sexual abuse. She models how it is possible to recover from intense hurt and abuse, and create a life filled with value, purpose, and joy.

In Inside Out, Charlie Unwin, one of the world’s leading performance psychologists, explains the techniques that enable the elite to perform at their best under immense pressure. It reveals how they think, prepare, and perform, taking you inside the unpredictable modern battlefield, the chaos of the catwalk, the operating theater, the stadium, the maximum-security prison, and the opera house. The “inside out” method helps you gain control so that you can have a greater impact. It’s about mindset, learning new skills, maintaining confidence, and sustaining great results.

From its glitzy heyday in the 1980s through to the 2000s, American publishing empire Condé Nast and its magazines—including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and GQ—defined how to live the good life, with its editors and writers creating a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped cultural and consumer trends, intellectual attitudes, and political beliefs the world over.

Gary Vonk is a life-long learner who has held senior positions in higher education and corporate leadership. A leader in higher education, as well as a faculty member and student mentor, Dr. Vonk has taught at the upper division university level in courses in business, management, and technology. He became a university professor in January of 2007 after a career of nearly thirty years in retailing and company turnaround management where he served as CEO, President and Senior Executive for a half dozen public and/or private companies. What’s in This Book for You? Simply put, you might read...

On the surface, Addy Cruz has everything the daughter of an international billionaire could want. Except the freedom to follow her dream to become an internet rock star. Hired by Addy’s father to protect his willful daughter, Jareth Fox, one of a four-man team of elite mercenaries, takes on the sheltered, talented young woman who is determined to crash the internet music scene. When her father neglects to tell Jareth his murderous past, he not only threatens Addy’s musical future, he also threatens her life. Love Kaylea Cross's heart pounding romantic mystery thrillers? Sylvia Day’s ...

Across the world, key decisions are made by tiny coteries of political and business leaders. With enough talent, élan, and hard work, any of us can join them - so we are told. Follow key rules: be transparent; defer to bosses and clients; take responsibility; feedback is everything. Understand these, and the world is our oyster.

人生１００年時代、「老後に２０００万円が必要」と言われて多くの人が絶望的な気持ちになっている。しかしはたしてそうだろうか？

Without courage, there is no winning. After working over 5,000 hours with leadership teams in growth mode, Jill Young observed that true entrepreneurs thrive in courage rather than in fear. These business owners have a way of thinking that fuels larger-than-life ideas. They strived, failed, and fought their way to master the courage mindset. This is The Courage Advantage. In this book you'll discover three components that create the courage mindset - a valuable accelerator for heightening business excellence and company-wide innovation.

A young, ambitious advisor, Alex runs as hard as he can until he gets his first client, his second, his third. Finally, he gets to a point that he's got a solid client base but...he's always on. He takes calls at dinner and right before bed and he spends nearly every weekend giving seminars. His relationship starts falling apart, and his quality of life plummets. He can't get off the hamster wheel.

Most employees lack clarity about how their performance connects to the value they create for their company. The Earning Advantage is a unique resource for employees to earn more money while promoting their company's growth. Author Jill Young draws upon her thousands of hours of coaching experience to offer practical advice that helps team members deliver a star performance and encourages managers to foster healthy work environments. Everyone in your organization can thrive when they're working toward a shared vision.

You’re a high performer who wants a career on your own terms. Maybe you’re exploring the next best step. Maybe you feel stuck. Maybe you want more. No matter where you are right now, you need options. When you have options, you’re in control. You make decisions from a position of strength. You run to something, not from something. Options Are Power provides strategies for surrounding yourself with options. You’ll learn to lead with a me-suite mindset, cultivating the role you want work to play in your life.

Do you want to be recognized and paid by people as an authority figure in your niche or area of expertise? Even if you think you have a massive following or have a following/fan base of zero, this audiobook will enable you to multiply your impact and personal brand on and off-line! Think about a public figure you look up to right now. At one point, they started with no following! No one knew who they were or what they did, but they took control of their personal brand to earn their recognition. Now it's your turn!

Mental illness. Addiction. Pain. Fear. Control. Abuse. What images do those words stir in your mind’s eye? For me, those words paint a darkening abyss filled with millions of gallons of heaviness, guilt, and duty trapping me in tangible darkness. Why do I share this story? I write it for the victim. Why? Because there is more than hope, there is light, and I want you to know that you have worth within you more than you can ever know.

Get a world-class approach to leading a business - any business - to exceptional and sustained success. Houston Texans President Jamey Rootes shares the principles and ideology that has made the Texans one of the most valuable professional sports franchises, both in the NFL and globally. Every new leadership opportunity you face is a chance to grow as a leader and as a human being.