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Lead More, Control Less describes eight essential skills for establishing a culture of autonomy and self-leadership. Using examples and case studies, Weisbord and Janoff describe how leaders can share responsibility, defuse group conflicts, show everyone the big picture, and more. With this approach, leaders truly gain more control by giving it up.

A bootstrapped entrepreneur is someone willing to build what they have to, so they can then build what they want to. It’s a powerful mindset aimed at survival above all—even if you decide to go raise money. Bootstrappers are better equipped to work within their means, maintain control of their vision, and maximize their own shareholder value. In Be Your Own VC, serial entrepreneur and CEO James Benham shares ten business principles and the story of testing them over two decades.

Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like portable communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this audiobook will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend.

Regardless of whether you are succeeding or stuck, living the dream or lost and frustrated, you are either on a journey or being called to one. What does it mean to be on a journey? Is there a way to use that understanding to not only survive these experiences, but thrive because of them? In The Journey Blueprint, educator and author Julie Bouche breaks down the journey pattern into predictable steps that, once understood, give us the power to take control of our story and become the hero we are meant to be.

As a young finance professional, technical skills and number crunching may get you noticed—but they won’t take you to the top. From Analyst to Impact is the essential guide for ambitious professionals looking to make the leap from analyst to strategic decision-maker. This book is designed to help you shift from a focus on numbers to a mindset centered on strategy and problem-solving, providing the tools and frameworks you need to excel as a future finance leader. In the early stages of your career, financial analysis is a critical skill. But as you move up, you’ll need more than just ...

Do you like to keep things moving? Do you want to get paid to do something that most people flat out don’t want to do? If so, then starting a moving company is a great idea for you!

Conquer the Air Traffic Control Profession: Your Concise Guide to a Career Managing Aircraft Movement on the Ground and in the Air is an essential resource for those aspiring to enter the high-stakes world of air traffic control. This guide provides an overview of the profession, detailing the critical role air traffic controllers play in ensuring flight safety and efficiency. Readers will explore the responsibilities of tower controllers, TRACON approach and departure specialists, and en route controllers who manage aircraft between airports. The book delves into the tools of the trade, ...

In this audiobook, you will learn the benefits of emotional intelligence, particularly how you can use it to develop self-discipline. You will learn how to increase your mental toughness, willpower, and your self-control, and this will help your chances of succeeding in all areas of life. It teaches dozens of techniques that you can use to increase your emotional intelligence, and for each technique, and it has more than 80 exercises. Additionally, it contains a 30-day program of structured daily tasks and exercises which you can follow to acquire the best self-discipline habits.

In an age when scandal can destroy a company's brand or anyone's reputation in an instant - Glass Jaw is an Art of War guide to modern crisis management. In boxing terms, a tough-looking fighter who can't take a punch is said to have a "glass jaw", and so it is these days with targets of controversy. Glass Jaw is a manifesto for these times, written by crisis management veteran Eric Dezenhall, who has spent three decades dealing with some of the most intense controversies, both known and...handled with discretion.

Andrew shares stories from his engineering career to help give you ideas on other ways to approach problem solving and make strides in your career. From over a decade of experiences, a consistent methodology to fix big issues emerged. Do something for yourself and boost your skillset. 10+1 will change your perception of how engineers become problem solving ninjas. Think like a Lead Engineer. And turn your boosted problem-solving skills into engineering career progression. Did you already reach your maximum potential? Or do you look at knowledge as a way to become an authority? This ...

No matter how educated they are or how far they have climbed up the ladder, women are taught one thing over and over at every stage of their lives: when someone asks you for help, you say yes. Women are supposed to agree to take on whatever is asked of them, regardless of how busy they are. No matter how much a woman deeply desires to say no, the societal expectation is that women are helpers-taught to fix problems, show up at all times, and not let people down.

In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat enables us to embrace this inevitability. Leading from the Jumpseat is a metaphor for how we can choose to lead.

What if you could dramatically increase your productivity? What if you could stop being overwhelmed and get an extra hour a day to do the things you love? What would finally having time to spend with your family or some alone time to read or exercise mean to you? Are you tired of losing focus, procrastinating, and leaving projects unfinished? In his newest audiobook, best-selling author Marc Reklau shows you his proven secrets to extreme productivity.

When we choose to go to the gym at 6am, keep running that marathon, or stay up late to study, we are making conscious, value-based decisions that help us fulfill our goals. But even though we know that daily good choices add up to healthy routines and strong results, these days it’s just too easy to surrender to negative thoughts and old habits. How can we not? Enter Functional Imagery Training (FIT).

Por que nos autossabotamos? Em que situações isso acontece? É possível abandonar de vez esse comportamento? Necessidades contraditórias estão quase sempre presentes dentro de nós, criando o ambiente ideal para a autossabotagem. É por isso que, em geral, resistimos a mudanças. Mas, ao extrair informações cruciais dos nossos hábitos mais prejudiciais, sejam eles conscientes ou inconscientes, é possível desenvolver a inteligência emocional necessária para o crescimento pessoal.

Controlling the Pause is an audiobook for top-performing leaders for whom the results matter and the people matter. It outlines a reusable, reliable, and scalable tool that can be used by leaders of any sized organization and in any industry to adjust their view, mindset, or communication and deal with any kind of transition, be it forced or chosen. If you are a leader who cares about their leadership development, that the results happen and your people are included, heard, and empowered, this audiobook is for you.

This audiobook offers to solve the UK productivity conundrum and dramatically improve health and care services while reducing their cost and much more, besides. And it is no promise or dream. It is evidenced by those who have followed John's prescription, which is to change the way they think about management. Beyond Command and Control exposes the fallacies in command and control management, and they are not what people expect them to be.

No one wants to feel like a failure, especially when the pressure and expectation of others is weighing you down. You want to make yourself and others proud and prove that you can do anything you set your mind to, so what’s holding you back? It’s that little voice inside saying, “Are you crazy? Of course, you can’t really achieve your goals.” No, you most certainly can. You are in a world where you choose the life you want to live. You deserve freedom and happiness.

This audiobook is not like other self-help books because the audiobook not only shows you how to control your thoughts and bring about positive outcomes but will give you the science behind how it is done. Your life іѕ not соntrоllеd bу thе соnѕсіоuѕ mіnd, wishes, аnd dеѕіrеѕ but bу thе ѕubсоnѕсіоuѕ mind. This audiobook will explain that to achieve permanent change, you need to reprogram your subconscious mind in order to remove the self-sabotaging and limiting downloads imputed into our minds in our early years.

The Million Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind is one of the most extraordinary books of mental mastery ever written - yet it has been largely forgotten since it first appeared in 1963. Now, acclaimed historian and New Thought writer Mitch Horowitz brings this powerful guidebook to a new generation. This special condensed edition includes Mitch’s new introduction, which directs you to the book’s most powerful secrets.