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In this accessible and practical book, Ozan Varol reveals nine simple strategies from rocket science that you can use to make your own giant leaps in work and life - whether it's landing your dream job, accelerating your business, learning a new skill, or creating the next breakthrough product. Today, thinking like a rocket scientist is a necessity. We all encounter complex and unfamiliar problems in our lives. Those who can tackle these problems - without clear guidelines and with the clock ticking - enjoy an extraordinary advantage.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Asshole Survival Guide written and read by Robert I Sutton. Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%. And social...

Markets shift. Competitors adapt. What determines your future are the mindsets shaping your culture. In Act Like an Owner, Greg Hawks introduces a vivid metaphor that reframes how people show up at work: Owners, Renters, and Vandals. Owners bring their heart, head, and hands. Renters show up with only their hands. Vandals bring division and strife. These mindsets are not fixed, but they shape whether a workplace thrives or collapses. The heart of the book is the Five Unlocks of an Owner’s Mindset.

Who will take care of everything if you don’t take care of yourself? You’ve built a life of showing up for your business, your team, your clients, and your family. On the outside, it looks like you’ve got it all handled, but the weight of your responsibilities is quietly wearing you down. Author Barbara Gustavson knows how you feel. Navigating the emotional demands of caregiving, raising a family, and running a business took its toll, until she built a life around alignment and restoration.

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.

The great lie of the modern workplace is that your work gives you value. You actually believe that if you produce enough, you will matter. You treat work as if it bestows dignity upon you. This is a lie. It is the lie of the Anechoic Hell Chamber™, which is the isolation of your own heartbeat, set on repeat, and amplified. When you believe everything must be earned, you drown out the true, good, and beautiful existence that exists in the world and in community. It places yourself first to the exclusion of communion and freedom. That's what Hell is. You and only you.

Whether you're leading a diverse team, working in a challenging cross-cultural environment, or simply working with people who are "not like you," you need to be able to get along with everyone as a team, to get the work done. This book explains the skills you need to communicate, motivate, and inspire people to collaborate-even if they have very different values, lifestyles, or priorities.

Brought to life through real-world examples and backed by rigorous data, The Athena Doctrine shows how feminine traits are ascending - and bringing success to people and organizations around the world. By nurturing, listening, collaborating and sharing, women and men are solving problems, finding profits, and redefining success in every realm. 

The New York Times best-selling author of The No Asshole Rule reads his guide on how to preserve civility, sanity, and success when facing a business world full of difficult people. Since The No Asshole Rule became a national best seller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has been asked, in a thousand different ways, the best way to deal with an asshole. This new guide presents Sutton's signature prescriptive advice.

Marketing has an image problem. Media-savvy millennials, and their younger Gen Z counterparts, no longer trust advertising, and they demand increased social responsibility from their brands - while still insisting on cutting-edge products with on-trend design. As always, brands need to be cool - but now they need to be good, too.

You won’t get far in your career if you can’t present effectively. And there’s one factor above all others that makes the difference between a yawnfest and a clear, compelling, change-making, reputation-building presentation: presence.

Now revised and expanded with five new chapters for the 10th anniversary of its 2015 publication, the beloved classic on truly human leadership “Bob Chapman, CEO of the $1.7 billion manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller, is on a mission to change the way businesses treat their employees.”...

In Train Like a Rockstar: Speaking Tips from a Stand-Up Comedian, Jeff Birk puts his 25+ years experience as a headlining comedian and Fortune 500 corporate trainer into this fantastic, no-frills "here's the way you do it" book. Presenters, trainers, and public speakers at any level will learn techniques and skills stemming from the author's thousands of hours on comedy club stages, corporate event keynoting, and trade show presentations.

In the tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, a wise and fascinating book that shows us how “we can make deadlines work for us instead of the other way around” (The Wall Street Journal). Perfectionists and procrastinators alike agree—it’s natural to dread a deadline. Whether...

Whether you're running a large global firm or a small project team, it's the way you communicate and connect to other people that can make or break your success. The secret, according to Roxi Bahar Hewertson, is to make those connections count - to leverage your skills and play on your strengths - to lead like it matters…because it does. A virtual crash course in leadership, Lead Like It Matters…Because It Does combines three decades of experience and research with Hewertson's revolutionary work at Cornell to create the definitive book. 

There's no doubt about it. Mark Zuckerberg's creation has changed the world. Literally. Facebook has single-handedly revolutionized the way more than one-seventh of the world's population communicates, engages, and consumes information. If you run a business or plan to start one, you're probably asking yourself the same question organizational leaders worldwide are asking: What did Mark Zuckerberg do right? At long last, the answer is here. 

From the family that made Sargento a household name comes the story of four generations of the Gentine family as they worked towards creating a company they can all stand behind. At the age of nineteen, high school diploma in hand, Leonard Gentine knew two things: he wanted to own a family...

Sales is now a team sport, and to win, you have to build and manage selling squads that work in complete alignment - not just during client meetings, but before and after, as well. In Sell Like a Team, Michael Dalis, a senior consultant at the legendary sales training firm, The Richardson Company, guides you through the process of creating and managing selling squads that execute and win in every sales meeting or pitch. 

The second volume is giving answer's that many were afraid to ask. Since every Believer is an heir of Salvation; we have a right to inquire, says Ray Anderson. The Lord spoke unto Jeremiah and said, "... I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding" (Jeremiah 3:15).

This book will offer you an insight into all the tips, tricks, and strategies that you need to implement into your team that will lead to respect, hard work, and loyalty on their part. Managing and being a member of a team is a give-and-take relationship, and it is important that you offer the right foundations for your team members to thrive upon.