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The instant #1 international bestseller, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink is the essential and practical guide to leadership and how to excel at it, from the former US Navy SEAL and co-author of the number one New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership. Leadership...

Blending the tactics he learned from America's elite force with lessons from the Spartans, samurai, Apache scouts, and other great warrior traditions, Mark Divine has distilled the fundamentals of success into eight powerful principles that will transform you into the leader you always knew you could be. Learn to think like a SEAL and take charge of your destiny at work, at home, and at life. 

Amazon is the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in sales and they didn't reach that landmark by staying in their comfort zone. Risk taking is the key that unlocked the door to growth at Amazon, but those risks were (and are) intentional, calculated and strategic. Thomas Edison believed, 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work', and Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has always linked experimentation and failure with growth and success.

Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the 11th-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams - comprised primarily of fearless skeptics and those assuming the role of saboteurs who seek to better understand the interests, intentions, and capabilities of institutions or potential competitors - are used widely in both the public and private sector.

In business, and in life, everything is changing fast, apart from how we behave. Our ways of thinking and making decisions have changed little since we lived in agricultural and industrial societies, but the problems we now need to solve are entirely different. It requires a revolution in thinking and behavior to meet the challenges that now face us and to avoid disaster we need to totally rethink the model. Part business biography, part business blueprint, Total Rethink explains how this can be done.

“What would Jeff do?” Since leaving Amazon to advise start-ups and corporations, John Rossman has been asked this question countless times by executives who want to know “the secret” behind Amazon’s historic success. In this step-by-step guide, he provides 50½ answers drawn from his experience as an Amazon executive - and shows today’s business leaders how to think like Amazon, strategize like Bezos, and beat the competition like nobody’s business.

Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke shares his fascination with weeds and how anyone can grow their business into something resilient and unstoppable. How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed applies a model to business growth, examining the successful strategies that ordinary weeds use to spread, and prosper in almost any situation.

We are dizzy trying to keep up with the constant flood of newness across every aspect of our lives. And it's clear that some of our biggest companies are facing similar challenges. Each week another big brand name fails. Why is this? Change is like a wave: It has both amplitude and frequency. The last century was about change of great amplitude, big waves washing over the whole society.

The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don't advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground - throwing yourself into a firestorm change - and turning the upheaval to your organization's advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever. 

The NFL Sharp Betting Playbook is an honest, comprehensive, no-nonsense guide on how to win while betting on the powerhouse that is the NFL. It teaches beginner and intermediate bettors the fundamentals of identifying value, while providing a blueprint on how to read the market, go contrarian, locate sharp action, and make smart bets. It also breaks down how to manage a bankroll, know when to walk away, and survive the learning curve.

Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality - called "innovation capital" - is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative. The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the subject of The Innovator's DNA) and how people test and develop those ideas (explored in The Innovator's Method). 

If you're tired of feeling stretched thin, buried in tasks, and stuck in a cycle of constant busyness with little to show for it, you're not alone—and you're not broken. You just haven't been taught how the world’s most productive people actually manage their time. In The 7 Rules of Effective Time Management, executive coach Adrian L. Whitmore shares a clear, no-fluff roadmap to help you reclaim your day and master your time like a high-performing CEO. This audiobook isn't about waking up earlier or doing more—it's about doing the right things, at the right time, with full focus and energy.

Financial freedom is the dream goal for any person that wants to stop living paycheck to paycheck and live a money worry free life, but the question is how can I make that attainable for myself? No matter who you are, you have the power to make that happen. Having accurate, up to date information, and an actionable plan will help you take immediate steps that will make the difference between you and other investors. This will maximize your return on investment and scale your real estate owning portfolio.