Game Management

Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. Game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion.

Mind Over Muscle: Mastering the Mental Game of Bodybuilding is the definitive psychological guide for serious lifters, competitive physique athletes, coaches, and high-performance gym-goers who understand that success isn’t just built with sets and macros—but forged in mindset, discipline, and emotional control. From training plateaus and prep fatigue to body dysmorphia, steroid psychology, and post-show depression, this book confronts the most unspoken and critical mental struggles in bodybuilding. Each chapter dissects a core psychological barrier—ranging from perfectionism, ego, ...

Personal Finance for Teens: The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Financial Game at a Young Age offers practical tools and strategies to help teens take control of their money, avoid common financial pitfalls, and build a strong foundation for future wealth.

For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change your business, the way you learn or teach, and even your life. Werbach and Hunter explain how games can be used as a valuable tool to address serious pursuits like marketing, productivity enhancement, education, innovation, customer engagement, human resources, and sustainability.

From leading global futurist and advisor James Canton, the acclaimed author of The Extreme Future and Technofutures, comes Future Smart: the essential blueprint on what's coming next. It details the key changes--in health and medicine, technology and communication, the global economy, the Earth's climate, energy, and business--that every person, company, and government must understand in order not only to adapt accordingly but to thrive in the coming decades.

Matt Wellington yearns for a freedom that his current job and boss don't permit. He has plans to start a real estate company with his brother in their hometown of Grant City. Matt's brother, Allan, has a slight addition to the plan. Despite Matt's resistance, Allan insists on including their younger sister, Charlotte, in the company. Two years after starting, money dries up, and pressure sets in. Matt finds himself headed off to unclog toilets in rentals and patch drywall in flips because no one wants to work for him and not get paid.

Unlock the full potential of your organization with "ORDER IN CHAOS: Objectives and Key Results (OKR)." This comprehensive guidebook takes you through the ins and outs of implementing OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a powerful goal-setting framework that has been used by some of the world's most successful companies. Learn how to align your team's efforts and measure progress toward achieving your organization's most important goals. From crafting effective objectives to tracking progress and holding team members accountable, this book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing OKRs ...

High performers share this common characteristic: a nagging sense that no matter what they have accomplished, they are capable of more. That drive to test themselves and their own capacity to contribute brings with it a host of questions, but often their focus on achieving does not allow for taking the time to reflect on how to navigate choices more powerfully.

We have a significant "yes" problem that’s stunting our growth and career. Yes, more meetings, projects, clients, initiatives, reports, data, dashboards, collaboration, emails, notifications, and social media. Yes, make it digital, faster, and always-on. Yet, we always feel behind. Eventually we hit a ceiling or burn out. The truth is that you, Oprah, Elon Musk, and Melinda Gates all get the same 168 hours each week. So, how do some leaders cut through and accomplish great things? Their yes-to-no ratio is just radically different from yours.

The Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama that has taken the world by storm, provides a poignant and unflinching depiction of the economic trappings that leave many feeling trapped and unable to achieve financial freedom. In this book, retired Marine officer Alan R. Singleton II draws parallels between the Squid Game, the economic trappings of the rat race, and his own military service, offering listeners a roadmap for achieving financial freedom and overcoming systemic barriers.

When Dave Asprey started his Bulletproof Radio podcast more than five years ago, he sought out thought leaders and influencers in an array of disciplines, from biochemists to business titans to mediation masters. These folks were some of the top performing humans in the world, people who had changed their areas of study or even pioneered entirely new fields. Dave wanted to know: What did they have in common? What mattered most to them? What makes them so successful at what they do - and what makes them happiest?

In this book, you will learn how to use the business models and strategies of startups to your own advantage. Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you can maximize the value of your existing businesses and move into profitable new ones. Most importantly, you will learn how to build the agility to anticipate threats, sense opportunities, and seize them before your rivals do. In today's world there are two paths: navigating to a new digital future, or being engulfed by exponential competitive change.

In The Giving Game, thought leader, executive coach, and CEO James Turk, provides an essential guide for new managers navigating the transition from team member to team leader. Focusing on the critical first year, with an emphasis on the first 45 days, The Giving Game offers practical, easily implemented strategies to set new managers on the path to lasting success.

Jack is a stressed out CEO of a once great business, Stackflow. But after a pandemic, supply chain chaos, labor market fluctuations, and his own failed strategic initiatives, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water—and the company's. Like nearly every other CEO in history, Jack is working endless hours away from his family, who is quickly losing patience. During those long days, he's cobbling together ideas and goals—and still not seeing meaningful results.

In Beyond the Game, Komori provides a toolbox for those who aspire to lead successful teams. Coaches, he says, strive to improve themselves first, to provide a foundation for instilling greatness in others. Smart coaches pay attention to what Komori calls the Three Cs of Leadership: Choices, Communication, and Culture. Komori also teaches the Six Keys for Peak Performance and how to focus on and apply these areas to achieve the most and excel in life. He offers advice in direct, straightforward terms and draws examples from his decades as a championship-winning tennis coach.

You can reduce stress and enjoy your life! Homemaker, career woman, wife, supermom—sometimes the roles you have to fill all at once can get to be too much. Internationally known psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman has seen scores of women who are overcome by stress. With humor, insight, and practical solutions, this best-selling author helps you manage the six stress points in your life: kids, career, husband, housework, money, and crammed schedules.

This game-changing audiobook gives you a refreshing science-based approach to the classic challenge of motivation in the workplace and is ideal for any leader or manager looking to take their workplace culture in a new direction. The Game Changer includes practical advice for creating highly productive, motivated, and innovative teams.

Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know it. The Apollo moon landing of 1969 was one of those events - the invention of the Apple personal computer was another. In this book, John Sculley - former CEO of both Pepsi and Apple - claims we are in an era that is giving birth to numerous groundbreaking events and inventions - moonshots - that will change the way we live and work for generations to come.

Stoicism has a lot to offer that is as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago—its guiding purpose was to help us to live better lives. The Stoic golden rule was that "we can't control external events, but we can choose how to respond to them". This idea can have a profound effect on how we exist in the world.

Attention all growth focused individuals.... Do you who want to develop your "game" in such a way that it is actually worth something to to your target audience? Want to get yourself seen, heard, and known so you can put your game on full display? Want to convert the value you create into money, attention, and connections? You want to bring your "game" to the world and the Work on Your Game System Manual - made by creator Dre Baldwin - reveals how you can develop your game, show it to the world, and create ROI for yourself through bringing value to others.