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A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change “Essential reading . . . a lively, ultimately hopeful examination of how...

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm.

After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry's story is not an anomaly. In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment.

In this book, I share with you the research that looks at the emotional, psychological, and physical impact a social media addiction has as well as how to take a step back from being connected. Remember, we have one life to live, and if we continue to live through our smart devices, it does not matter how many photos, videos, or tags we get because we won’t have lived it.

Since childhood you've had all of the resources that you need to create the life that you want, and over time you've simply lost touch with them. Now is the time to find them again. With expert guidance from broadcaster and entrepreneur Ed James and behavior and relationship experts Mark and Nicky Taylor, you'll rediscover your sense of purpose, reconnect with what is important to you, and find out how to unlearn unhelpful habits and behaviors.

The Ponzo Trap offers a deep dive into the fascinating world of human perception and decision-making. Inspired by the well-known visual illusion, the book uses the Ponzo metaphor to explore how our minds often misinterpret the world around us—leading to flawed judgments, unconscious biases, and distorted thinking.

It comes as no real surprise that so many people find retirement planning a daunting process. If you’re one of those people, this audiobook is for you. It doesn’t matter if you are 18 or 35; the time to start retirement planning (and saving) is now. If you think you’re too late, you’ll be even later if you let it wait a moment a longer. If you believe you are too early, you’re absolutely wrong. Life has a way of sweeping by, and before you know it, you will be looking around for a financial support system that simply isn’t there, if you fail to plan, that is.

The Villain Trap is a leadership book that doesn’t pull punches. It’s a callout and a call forward for anyone who’s ever felt misunderstood, frustrated, or quietly disconnected in their leadership, and blamed someone else for it. This book introduces the concept of the Villain Trap, a common but often invisible cycle where leaders, under pressure, discomfort, or emotional fatigue, begin to assign blame instead of taking ownership. It’s not about toxic behavior or dramatic blowups.

In today’s noisy, digitally crowded sales environment, prospects are overwhelmed with endless information and options—leading to inaction, stalled deals, ghosting, and lost opportunities. The reasons behind these breakdowns aren’t always obvious, making it difficult to know what to change or how to keep deals on track. How can sales leaders help their teams break through the digital noise and build momentum with prospects? What communication missteps or behaviors are causing deals to stall or die?

Outsmart the traps that are holding you back from success! Trap Tales is your guide to avoiding the seven obstacles that ensnare people every day. We all fall into traps, and we often don't even realize it until we're deeply entrenched. Like quicksand, traps are easy to step into, but difficult to escape - it seems that the harder we try to climb out, the deeper we sink. But what if there were another way? What if we knew the right strategies to escape the traps we have fallen into? What if we could spot traps from a distance, and avoid them entirely?

Navigate potentially messy or awkward office conflicts with the help of this guide to professional communication and finding workplace peace. This authoritative manual provides valuable insights for turning conflicts inthe workplace into productive working relationships...

Honey Trap Marketing has the unconventional formula to rapidly magnetize your ideal audience of buyers. Honey Trap Marketing is for experts, coaches, speakers, and authors who want to build trust and rapport with their audiences through hyper-relevant content.

This book is primarily hinted to all those who want to live a prosperous life both mentally and financially. The author provides an in-depth analysis of some essential life decisions along with the advices from his peers that helped him tackle difficult situations. Life is not a bed of roses and unexpected problems are inevitable. It’s in these times that you need a mentor, someone who guides you through all the options and select the best one of all. Stop searching, this book is your holy grail to build a life of success, contentment and prosperity.

It’s time to say, “Hell no” to the status quo! If it feels like the zombie apocalypse has invaded your career, it doesn’t have to become your ultimate fate. No one prepared you for your mid-career funk or how to avoid it. If you have a massive case of “I-don’t-give-a-shit-itis,” you are not alone! It sneaks up on you until one day you look around and wonder, How did this happen to me? If you dread Mondays, find yourself wondering “What’s the point?” and worry it’s too late for you to make a change, then look no further.

Learn to retrain your mind and become more creative and productive with this step-by-step guide to replacing habitual thinking with free thinking. Unless you can name six thoughts you had today that you haven’t had before, you are a habitual thinker 99.9 percent of the time just like everyone else. This is because our hard-wired survivor bias drives us to repeat mental patterns and solutions that seemed sensible in the past, and that provided comfort, social rewards, and a stable identity.

As experts in leadership development, executive coaching, strategic human capital, and much more – they are keenly aware that every manager has blind spots. The best workplaces foster high trust and commitment. Leaders who learn from the traps they fall into throughout their careers are better equipped to manage with humility and an intuitive sense of ‘the right thing’ in creating great organizational cultures. The Leadership Trap podcast’s purpose is to introduce its listeners to accomplished, successful leaders who learned along the way – converting hazardous traps to seizing big ...

Productivity. It has been a buzz word in the business world for years. But despite our best attempts and countless self-help books, we still fall behind, work late, juggle our schedules, and become swamped. Time Traps addresses the most common misconceptions we have about time and our use of...

Countless people face "integrity stress" in their daily work - where they feel pressure to compromise their values, life commitments and integrity with no choice but to make a "devil's bargain" at times. This audiobook offers powerful understanding of what is really going on in these compromises, how people can escape the traps and hooks of organizational life by "playing a bigger game" - which allows them to be true to themselves while also contributing more effectively in their work.

This book is about supporting your work as a leader. Its about helping you slow down, pull out of the day-to-day spin, build better problem solvers within your team, reduce your stress, and have more time for the leadership work you love. It reviews six strategies to deal with ASKhole behavior and stay out of the ASKhole trap.