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The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behavior, so you stay curious a little bit longer. It sounds like it should be easy, but it’s not. To get there, leading coach and trainer Michael Bungay Stanier offers specific coaching strategies, particularly on how to focus on what matters most. The audiobook of The Advice Trap gives you tools to make your conversations, coaching, and otherwise, irresistible.

If you've always wanted to stop procrastinating, follow through on your goals, and finally take action on the things that matter most—but you keep finding yourself putting them off until tomorrow—then keep reading...Are you tired of watching important projects sit unfinished while deadlines...

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...

In The Strategy Trap, veteran operator and former Nike executive Kevin Ertell delivers a no-nonsense guide to solving the problem every leader faces: why great plans so often go nowhere. Drawing on 30+ years of experience leading execution at global brands like Nike, Sur La Table, Borders, and Tower Records, Ertell shares the hard-won lessons that separate companies that move from vision to results—and those that don't. You'll learn how to avoid the traps that derail even the smartest strategies and how to build the systems, habits, and leadership practices that bring ideas to life.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most organisations don’t suffer from lack of ideas. They suffer from lack of courage. Complexity in business is almost never accidental. It accumulates because the people who could remove it are not willing to bear the cost of doing so. The product...

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...

Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means? Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental paradox...

Break free from the exhausting daily grind and build sustainable passive income to achieve true financial independence. This pragmatic entrepreneurship guide strips away internet fantasies to reveal the actual mechanics of wealth creation. Shift from a worker mindset to a builder mindset by...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Your desk is silently reshaping your body. This audiobook gives you the resets to reverse it. If you spend your day at a desk, you already know the symptoms: stiffness, low energy, brain fog, and a body that feels older than it should. You don't need a...

What if the life you worked so hard to build is costing you the very things that make life worth living?You hit the target. Then the target moves.The promotion arrives, but the satisfaction fades. The bigger paycheck brings a bigger lifestyle—and a bigger fear of losing it. Your calendar fills...

Success didn’t trap you by accident. It worked exactly as designed and now it’s costing you your time, energy, and life. In The Success Trap, peak performance coach and business consultant Arjun Vijeth exposes the invisible cage high achievers build through habits that once fueled their rise but now quietly sabotage their health, focus, and relationships. If you’ve mastered productivity yet feel constantly behind, this book explains why.

Every day, talented people, leadership teams, and entire companies become trapped in endless analysis, unnecessary meetings, fear of mistakes, and the pursuit of perfect answers. The result? Delayed decisions. Lost momentum. Missed opportunities. Frustrated teams. In The Paralysis Trap, Sean...

Most partnerships do not fail in the market. They fail at the table where the founders first agreed to build together. The Partnership Trap is a sharp, practical, and deeply revealing audiobook for founders, co-founders, investors, family business owners, board members, and anyone building an...

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. 

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.

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.

In Ego vs EQ, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a primary prevention tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEO’s fail in the first 18 months on the job and two thirds of business’ will disappear just a decade after founding. This book teaches you how to identify the most common reasons for leadership ineffectiveness, including the cascading consequences they create, and learn tools to prevent them.

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.

A wake-up call that exposes how modern convenience is eroding our physical, cognitive, and social capabilities—and a blueprint for reclaiming strength, resilience, and agency in an AI-driven world. Welcome to the most convenient era in human history—right now. And yet, we are weaker, more...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Why does acquiring more rarely make human beings feel that they have enough? Human beings in the twenty-first century possess material abundance that would have seemed miraculous to Roman emperors, Renaissance merchant princes, and Gilded Age industrial...