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.

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.

Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we're teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses - or none at all. There has to be a better way. In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his proven FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Rank, Execution) Method to dig deeper and get back to asking the right questions - the ones all companies must ask to survive.

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, ...

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 ...

Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from Big Tech and imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation. In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Cao show business leaders how to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.

Unleash the power of finance in your RPG hobby store with “Financial Wizardry for Your Role-Playing Game Hobby Store”! We've crafted an extensive guide designed to simplify bookkeeping, tax planning, inventory management and more - especially tailored to the role-playing game industry. In the rich landscape of RPG retail, understanding your specific market becomes crucial. Our introductory chapter demystifies the financial jargon and lays out actionable strategies. We delve into the importance of bookkeeping, offering a choice between manual and digital systems, elucidating how to ...

Welcome to a new era of performance enhancement with Steven Griffith’s groundbreaking Performance Hypnosis tracks! Unleash your full potential and elevate your performance to unparalleled levels of excellence.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In Predicting the Turn, Dave Knox discusses the new high-stakes game of business between disruptive start-ups and blue-chip companies, teaching listeners how to foresee the future of their industry. As a brand marketer, venture investor, and start-up advisor, Knox provides a one-of-a-kind worldview into the changing relationship between start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. His insight-filled audiobook Predicting the Turn teaches the world's largest companies how to foresee the future of their industries.

The questions we ask ourselves determine our lives. Our thoughts are nothing more than a continuous question-and-answer session we have with ourselves. Our lives - material, emotional, spiritual, and financial - are a direct reflection of our thoughts. Eighty-five percent of these thoughts are both habitual and unconscious. Meaning, we are asking and answering the exact same questions every day, usually in the same way over and over again.

As digital technologies and consumer expectations continue to disrupt almost every industry sector, companies are placing greater emphasis on developing and implementing transformation programs. Changing the Game offers the practical knowledge required to create a dramatic step-change in company performance.

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.

We all receive money, but how do we go about using it in our daily lives? This book is here to guide you on what the "rich" man uses to continue gaining wealth, while the average and poor continue to struggle. You will have a complete plan that reveals all the secrets of the wealthy and, by then, you will understand that what really counts are the little things we do.

Discover the lessons of agile and resilient leaders in Staying in the Game, the transformative new book from agile innovation expert Pamela Meyer, Ph.D. Delve into the captivating stories and lessons of some of the world's most agile leaders, from the adrenaline-pumping downhill racecourse to the dynamic boardroom and beyond.

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.