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Was it a typo when the CEO mandated that the organization "institutionalize incompetents"? If not, how did the company wind up institutionalizing incompetence instead? How to Work for an Idiot is still the confessions of a recovering Idiot Boss. After decades of writing and consulting, Dr. Hoover finally realized that many of the people he kept trying to "energize" and "enlighten" were, well, idiots. More importantly, he was an idiot for thinking he could change them. This new edition is bigger and better - and filled with even more idiots - than before.

In this book, Natalie Dawson, best-selling author of "TeamWork: How To Build A High-Performance Team," shares her proven playbook for busy business owners looking to break free from doing it all by themselves (or feeling like they have to) and start building their business so that it's dependent on your team and not just you as the business owner.

Whether you are a new player or a seasoned veteran, Secrets to Winning at Office Politics can help you increase your personal power without compromising your integrity or taking advantage of others. This smart, practical guide shows you how to stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start taking steps to get what you want. 

Building confidence is essential to fighting imposter syndrome and silencing your inner critic. Do you doubt your abilities and feel like a fraud in your own life? There are five common competence types of imposter syndrome. The perfectionist, the superwoman/man, the expert, the natural genius, and the soloist. Learn to change these negative thought patterns and replace them with positive ones. Find validation from within and surrender to not knowing everything. Fight the fear of looking incompetent and know that there is strength in asking for help.

Read by the author. In a world of constant change, the greatest professional advantage isn't just working harder—it's working smarter, in alignment with your natural design. From William Vanderbloemen, the bestselling author of Be the Unicorn, comes a new, essential guide for anyone seeking...

To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks…and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple...

Everything you’ve been taught about leadership is backward, beginning with the costly mistake that causes you to sacrifice money, time, and human capital day after day. It’s not a calculation error or a problem with management style—it’s repeatedly choosing revenue and results over connection and team.

Remote work is here to stay,so if you can do it well, you're ahead of the game! The remote work revolution has been rapidly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace shares insights from the remote employee, manager and leader perspectives, offering a blueprint...

You sit down to work. You know what needs to get done. But instead of starting, you scroll, overthink, reorganize, procrastinate, and wait for motivation to appear. It never does. If you constantly feel stuck before beginning important tasks, this book was written for you. How to Work When You Can’t Start is not another productivity book filled with unrealistic routines, hustle culture, or motivational clichés. It is a practical system designed to help overwhelmed people start working even when they feel tired, anxious, distracted, or mentally frozen.

Even reading a book on managing time is something that many Work-at-home business owners must make an appointment to do. In this fantastic book, you are going to learn techniques, strategies, methods, and ideas for getting things done faster and more efficiently than you ever have before; these strategies are not only practical but also immediately useful. Once you have this knowledge and know how to apply these potent, sensible techniques sufficiently, you will improve all aspects of your life spectacularly.

Your ideas aren’t the problem. The way you communicate them is. Have you ever sat in a meeting knowing exactly what to say—but someone else spoke first and got the credit? Do you overthink presentations or struggle to speak up, sell your ideas, or advocate for yourself—even though you know you’re capable? You’re not lacking confidence. You’re missing a system. What if you had a simple, repeatable way to speak with clarity, authority, and impact—every time?

"In this age of diminishing trust in public figures, this audiobook offers highly useful guidance about how to trust and withhold trust more thoughtfully." - AudioFile From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and...

Stop Working Harder. Start Working Smarter—with ChatGPT. You don’t need more time. You need a better way to handle what’s already on your plate. Every workday feels full before it even begins. Your inbox keeps growing. Meetings blur together. Simple tasks take longer than they should. You’ve tried ChatGPT. But the results feel off. Generic. Not quite usable. So you go back to doing everything yourself. This is where most professionals get stuck. Not because the tool doesn’t work. But because no one shows you how to use it in real work situations. A Practical System for Real Work.

Whether the pandemic has permanently altered your working arrangements and you're not dealing well with the new setup, or you work from home running a business and are struggling to find a good balance of work and ‘me time’, this book will help.

Discover the internationally acclaimed time management system that’s gone viral on TikTok and has already changed millions of lives! Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student thirty years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro...

The only career operating system built for a 40-year work span in the AI age.

Trabajar a distancia te da flexibilidad e independencia. Pero puede suponer un reto cuando se necesita trabajar en equipo con colegas o compañeros de trabajo. Cómo colaborar virtualmente cubre los aspectos básicos para trabajar de forma productiva -y colaborativa- desde cualquier lugar. En este audiolibro aprenderás a: Comunicarte con claridad a través de diversos medios y establecer vínculos con colegas a pesar de la distancia.

We all get the same 24 hours in a day, so why do you think your time is not enough? If nobody can rely on more time than that, why are you struggling when others are not? Stop blaming the world and stop making excuses for yourself. Improving your productivity is based on using your time effectively and finally accepting the fact that you create your life and you are not just reacting to it.

Jobs. Kids. Chores. Bills. Life has an uncanny ability to get in the way of our dreams. But, this doesn't need to be the case. Michal Stawicki shares his techniques for extreme productivity. As a busy, working parent of three, Michal still manages to follow his dreams prolifically.