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No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.
A Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
Written as a "report into the circumstances surrounding the decision to introduce salmon into the Yemen", this is a novel that is made up of e-mails, letters, diary extracts, records of the prime minister's Question Time, interviews, and chapters from the memoirs of a fantastically weaselly Peter Mandelson-type figure.
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless.... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jake's life.
Great organizations are created by great leaders - leaders who can unleash the highest and best contribution of their team toward their organizations' most critical strategic priorities. This is FranklinCovey's flagship leadership-development program. It takes a "mind-set, skill-set, tool-set" approach to developing leaders who can unleash the talent and capability of their team against the organization's highest priorities.
Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving, and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, friends, and occasional heartache - but never misery. Bonkers is full of riotous adventures.
Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.
No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.
A Richard and Judy Summer Read Selection.
Written as a "report into the circumstances surrounding the decision to introduce salmon into the Yemen", this is a novel that is made up of e-mails, letters, diary extracts, records of the prime minister's Question Time, interviews, and chapters from the memoirs of a fantastically weaselly Peter Mandelson-type figure.
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless.... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jake's life.
Great organizations are created by great leaders - leaders who can unleash the highest and best contribution of their team toward their organizations' most critical strategic priorities. This is FranklinCovey's flagship leadership-development program. It takes a "mind-set, skill-set, tool-set" approach to developing leaders who can unleash the talent and capability of their team against the organization's highest priorities.
Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving, and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, friends, and occasional heartache - but never misery. Bonkers is full of riotous adventures.
Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.
Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable.
Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global best seller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time. With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why.
After extensive original research and a decade as the world's highest-paid performance coach, Brendon Burchard finally reveals the most effective habits for reaching long-term success. Based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on high performers, it turns out that just six habits move the needle the most in helping you succeed. Adopt these six habits and you win. Neglect them, and life is a never-ending struggle. We all want to be high performing in every area of our lives. But how?
This is an audiobook for busy people. If you want less on your plate and more for your life and career, tune in to the #1 Wall Street Journal best seller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. The ONE Thing will bring your life and your work into focus. Authors Gary Keller and Jay Papasan teach you the tricks to cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, dial down stress, and master what matters to you.
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.
Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are in an unprecedented race towards a $1 trillion valuation, and whoever gets there first will exert untold influence over the global economy, public policy and consumer behaviour. How did these four become so successful? How high can they continue to rise? Does any other company stand a chance of competing? To these questions and more, acclaimed NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway brings bracing answers.
In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, this is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. With perspectives that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned a reputation for straight talk, irreverence and courage. He is regarded worldwide as a passionate advocate for financial education. According to Kiyosaki, "The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money."
For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
How to Negotiate Effectively provides tips, tools, and techniques for getting it right. It explores and advises on every aspect of the negotiation process, including: tactics and counter-measures, handling deadlock, making concessions, enhancing your authority, and getting the best deal.
This book shares 11 devastatingly powerful principles you can apply immediately to start getting more of what you want and less of what you don't want. So, if you are ready to take action, sick of the usual guru bullsh*t advice, and want to finally make your life truly awesome, then buy this book and do every single thing Dan says.
Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives. In this, his first book, Steve shares his phenomenally successful mind-management programme that has been used to help elite athletes and senior managers alike to conquer their fears and operate with greater control, focus and confidence.
What qualities do you need to become a good leader? Jonathan Perks has had 30 years of leadership experience at all levels, in the British Army and global business. He combines this with wide research and has identified eight qualities that are evident in all successful leaders. The message of hope in this book is that the inspiring leadership qualities that Jonathan describes can be developed by almost anyone.
Using the author's compass model, you will be able to identify your own "true north". As you listen to this book and make small changes to your behaviour, you will be more successful, happier, and will live your life on purpose. Inspiring Leadership is based on Jonathan's wide experience and includes stories from people he considers himself privileged to have worked with. This book has the potential to change the way you approach your life forever.
Many books on leadership are dry and theoretical. This one is different. It comes from the experience of a lifetime of leadership from a special man, Jonathan Perks. His understanding of leadership isn't learned from a book, although he is very well informed about theories of leadership. It comes from his earliest experiences with his father and has been honed in the crucibles of army life and business. What Jonathan has to say about leadership is from his heart as well as his head. It is about what leaders need to 'be' as well as what they need to 'do'. That's what makes it so succulent and practically useful.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful
As the author says early on, ‘what really matters is how people show up in life.’ This audio book explicitly outlines what the reader needs to do in order to ‘become more effective with other people with less effort.’
Perks introduces a very convincing leadership model and describes it authentically to the listener.
Each chapter is rich with stories, examples and advice gained from personal experience. ‘Unfortunately,’ says Perks ‘most of us take much longer to become wise than we do to become old’. In my view, this book is the guide to becoming wise for people who cannot wait that long.
He introduces many helpful techniques for a leader to use. As a professional expedition leader I have found myself using these. For example 3 questions I now carry whilst I am working with groups: Am I inspired? Am I creating an inspiring environment for others? Am I truly enabling others to release their full potential? Simple, I know, but for a leader in the moment, also effective.
Perks reads this book with humility and authenticity and I recommend it to anyone who is interested by the subject.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
I loved every bit of this book. Jonathan Perks has a fantastic way of telling stories and speak so you really listen. I would recommend this book to everyone interested in Leadership. This is a masterpiece in the leadership litterature.
Thankyou Jonathan Perks.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the paperback version of this book, so much so that I now own the audio version. The Compass model developed by the author is a superb personal developmental navigation tool for anyone in or aspiring to be in a leadership role regardless of the company or organisation, business or military. Anyone reading or listening to Inspiring Leadership will easily see a marked improvement in their own leadership skills as well as an increase in personal and corporate success. This is a must read.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful
A great read.
Fully recommended to anyone aspiring to move up the corporate ladder.
Jonathan Perks's everyday life examples really bring a personal touch to everyday truths. Additionally, the colourful examples in the audio book make the listen both entertaining and informative.
Well worth purchasing.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
I am so happy that at last I am able to label my leadership style, so firstly Jonathan, Thank you!!!
I have listend to it 3 times cover to cover, and find so many areas of the book inspirational, and reinforce in me the importance of sticking to who you are as a leader rather than who you are expected to be.
I spend 10 years in the Royal Engineers, served in the Gulf War and left as an NCO at the top of my game as a minewarfare and counter IED instructor at the School of Infantry. I joined the Fire and Rescue Service as a firefighter and found that I was not reaching my potential fully so from day 1 set myself the goal of rising through the ranks.
I found that the leadership principles you speak of such as 'Serve to lead' and the age old military adage of 'Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent P**s Poor Performance' drove me onwards. It is only after listening to your book that I realised that this was the case.
I completed my probationary period of 2 years in April 2001 and found myself promoted albeit temporarily to Leading Firefighter in the July of the same year, well that was the start. Cutting a long story short I moved through a number of differing roles within the Fire Service and 13 years later I am working in the Chief Fire and Rescue Advisers Unit within the Department of Communities and Local Government as a seconded expert in fire safety enforcement as an Appointed fire inspector for Crown Premises and the Lead Officer for ensuring compliance in English Prisons.
Your Audio book has refreshed my ambition and I have started exploring the power of Coaching and feel that I am starting to find meaning, and if I had taken heed of the 'old hand' firefighters on my first fire station who said things like 'why are you bothering, things will never change' and 'you wont get promoted unless you do it the fire brigade way' I would have found myself in an unhappy place. The spark has been rekindled.
Thanks again.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to attend a brief leadership course being conducted by the author. Whilst the course was brief, its impact on me has been quite profound and enduring. When I saw this book in audio format I bought without hesitation and during the last few weeks I have listened to it over and over again whilst out running. The experience moved me, for the first time in my life, to write to an author to thank them personally for such a wonderful piece of original work. The book is indeed inspiring, insightful, practical and hugely thought provoking and I highly commend it to anyone.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
"Inspiring leadership" is a philosophy with an incredible sense of applied reality. The author of this audio is clearly not just a writer with great concepts or ideas, he actually is a leader whose experience has something to teach anyone about him/herself. Being a leader is not about scale, about greatness, about recognition, it is about helping others to realise themselves by being yourself, pushing yourself and always being true to yourself... Thanks Jonathan for this virtuous mix of experience and in-depth knowledge that makes it the perfect tool to help anyone with a purpose in life succeed.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
This audio book was inpiring as Jonathan uses very relevant and personal experiences to provide leadership lessons. The mix between business and army life is very balanced and the leadership tips are very relevant to all readers. Well done Mr Perks, looking forward to the next edition - John Ennis, Wincor Nixdorf.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
By chance I found an audiobook that really got me! Half ways in chapter two I had to stop listening, I was so moved I almost cried. I have been working as a leader since I was 15 yrs. old. In the Scouts, in church, in non-profit organisations, as a teacher in leadership. I become so touched of the message of Jonathan Perks, a unknown englishman (I am a swedish clergy man). “We lack inspiring leader in the Swedish Church, we lack inspiring leaders in Sweden and I want to be one!” Was the thoughts I got listning. Yes I become inspired by what I heard. I have listen to the whole book two time driving to my job, 60 km away. The audio inspirers me, but I had to buy the paper book so that I could study it! There is lots of good questions, good quotes, lots of thing to contemplate on. A audio book don’t work that out so well, (that why I gave it only four stars). I found Perks down to earth, but well grounded in research and pedagogics I bit to manny military and business abbreviation for me as a clergy man in the Swedish context. My problem is how to transform Perks ideas to work in a non-profit organisation, with lots of volunteers, with almost no chain of command. But I am really inspired to try!
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Rather self indulgent, and not nearly as ground-breaking as the description and introduction would have you believe.