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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.

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?

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...

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.