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We all want to live a life that matters. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner—and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. It doesn't have to be that way! This is the year you finally close the gap between reality and your dreams. In this fully revised and updated new edition of Your Best Year Ever, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals.

Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce us to...

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results. We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The...

In Go Long, authors Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel take you behind the scenes to witness the business decisions that are enabling leading organizations to outsmart and outlast the competition.

How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential listening on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work.

The legendary New York Times bestselling tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that...

Talent doesn’t make the team—the team makes the talent. Why are some teams more motivated, innovative, and successful than others? Why do some groups of talented people fall short against lesser teams? And how do you go about building a high-performing team? Dr. David Burkus understands that to build the best team, you must first shape the habits and practices that bring out the best in each member. Best Team Ever reveals what some of the world’s most effective teams do and shows you how you can do the same.

Thousands of business books are published every year. Here are the best of the best. After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the 100 best business titles of all time, the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers and listeners.

Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do well. In many cases, how you communicate with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers may be more important than the designs themselves. Because if you can't get their support, your work will never see the light of day - no matter how good it is. This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for presenting your designs.

The best things in life are on the other side of difficult conversations. This means that your quality of life is going to be determined by how you handle conflict, both within yourself and with others.

Performance coach Alan Stein Jr. shares the secret principles used by world-class performers that will help you improve your productivity and achieve higher levels of success. High achievers are at the top of their game because of the discipline they have during the unseen hours. They have made...

This is a collection of the best leadership speeches, gave by the most outstanding leaders of our generation.

> Hire and Keep the Best People details 21 of the most important, proven principles of employee recruitment and retention. It tells you everything you need to know to attract the most capable, committed employees and to make sure they continue to be active contributors to the company for years to come. Action exercises will help you apply the techniques immediately and see the results for yourself.

When you're leading at your best, how does it feel? If the words at ease, engaged, and confident come to mind, then you've experienced what meditators and neuroscientists call mindfulness-awareness. We all have access to this natural confidence - and great leaders live it. Carroll has worked with a remarkable list of clients in fostering healthy workplaces and developing truly distinctive leaders. Here he shows us how to lead from within, make wiser decisions, and inspire others to contribute their very best in pursuit of excellence.

Discussions about accounting management, best practices, controls, throughput accounting, and GAAP for the accountant, controller, or CFO.

Investing can be a roller-coaster of highs and lows, and the investors detailed here reveal just how low it can go; stories from Warren Buffet, Bill Ackman, Chris Sacca, Jack Bogle, Mark Twain, John Maynard Keynes, and many more illustrate the simple but overlooked concept that investing is really hard, whether you're managing a few thousand dollars or a few billion. Failures and losses are part of the game. Much more than just anecdotal diversion, these stories set the basis for the book's critical focus: learning from mistakes.

Five of his best titles shortened by him for Harvard Business Review: "The Effective Executive", "Discipline of Innovation based on Innovation & Entrepreneurship", "Theory of the Business", "What Executives Should Remember", and "What Only the CEO Can Do".

Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook inspires potential founders and provides essential guidance and advice for people who want to create their own start-up and build a successful company. This audiobook answers the question “how do I get started?” It takes the listener from making the decision to plunge into entrepreneurship, through the process of choosing and developing an idea and team, all the way to raising capital and working with VCs and angel investors.

In his characteristic no-nonsense approach, Horst Schulze shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have led to immense global success over the course of his still-prolific fifty-year career in the hospitality industry. In Excellence Wins, the cofounder and former president of the...

All the most well-known leaders in sales have one thing in common: They believe in continuous growth and learning from those who have walked the path before you. Leon Ehumadu has walked that path in exactly your trajectory. Not only does he know what works and what doesn’t work in sales he knows what works and what doesn’t work in furniture sales. Consistently successful salesmanship requires you to quickly understand any situation that lies before you and interpret the needs of your customer. It requires you to make that customer trust you…and then go forth and spread the word.