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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.

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to think more clearly.' - ROLF DOBELLI, multi-million copy bestselling author of The Art of Thinking Clearly We assume that smarter people are less prone to error. But education and expertise can sometimes make our mistakes worse and our blind spots bigger...

In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. 

Great leaders create teams and companies that don't need great leaders. That idea might stop you cold. Good. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. You're the hero of your organization . . . and its biggest bottleneck. Every decision waits for your approval. Every problem lands on your desk. The harder you...

Our strengths can become our weaknesses. Our traits and habitual behaviors can become traps. In each chapter of The Coach's Casebook the listener follows a skilled coach working with a client who is struggling with one of the 12 traits that every coach will face in their coaching work - traits such as people pleasing, perfectionism, impostor syndrome, performance anxiety, and procrastination. In each of the case studies in The Coach's Casebook, the coach shares their emotions, their thought processes and their reflections.

Four business-owning entrepreneurial knuckleheads chew the fat on the sometimes murky, always quirky, world of UK and Irish personal finance.

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.

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...

In this workshop, Tiffany Dufu, a career coach for women and author of Drop the Ball, explores the ways in which women are often expected to take on extra, non-job-related projects at work that ultimately hinder their professional growth and how women can "drop the ball" while building a framework for success.

In The Entrepreneur Success Formula, Greg Slaughter exposes the hidden trap that keeps driven entrepreneurs stuck—the Achievement Loop. More goals. More grind. More wins. And somehow, less freedom. This book challenges the belief that working harder leads to a better life. Instead, it reveals why success built on effort alone eventually becomes exhausting—and what to do instead.

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...

The Broke Genius Trap Why Smart, Hardworking People Stay Poor — and the Systems That Actually Build WealthYou followed the rules. You studied hard, got the degree, landed the job, and did everything right. So why does your bank account tell a different story?The Broke Genius Trap is the show for intelligent, driven people who are tired of working hard for someone else's wealth. Each week, host [Name] dismantles the psychological traps, structural disadvantages, and cultural lies that keep high-earning, high-functioning people financially stuck — and replaces them with the specific systems,...

Global business leader Mathias Döpfner offers a “compelling” (Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for Financial Times) and revolutionary road map to reshape global trade, strengthen our democracy, and safeguard our freedoms. Freedom is on the decline around the world. Autocrats...

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.

What if the franchise opportunity you've been dreaming about is actually designed very differently from what you think?Across India and around the world, thousands of entrepreneurs invest their life savings into franchise businesses hoping to achieve financial freedom, business ownership, and long-term stability.But behind the grand openings, growth announcements, expansion targets, and investor presentations lies a much more complicated story.In this documentary, we investigate the hidden economics of modern franchise expansion.Who really profits when a new franchise opens?Why are investors ...

Beyond the Owner's Trap:Running a trades or service business looks great from the outside. From the inside, it can feel like you're doing everything — the sales, the scheduling, the fires nobody else can put out — and there's no end in sight.Beyond the Owner's Trap is a show for owners who are stuck in that spot. Every episode, host Alan Melton sits down with real trades and service business owners — contractors, remodelers, roofers, accountants, and more — and talks about what running their business is actually like. Not the highlight reel. The long hours. The hiring headaches. The ...

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.

The anti-hustle guide to getting what you really want AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition...

Your tech isn't broken—it's misaligned. Tame the Tech Beast exposes the hidden IT bottlenecks silently draining your organization's productivity, security, and morale. If you're stuck in fire drills, bleeding money to shadow systems, or just overwhelmed by tool sprawl, Noah Landow and Michael Horst offer a simple, strategic escape. This isn't about buying the latest gadget; it's about building a future-proof IT foundation. You'll learn how to assess what's broken, prioritize fixes, and choose the right partners without wasting budget or trust.

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