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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.

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

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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.

Do you feel like you’re constantly being watched, criticized, or micromanaged by your boss? Has your creativity, confidence, or peace of mind slowly faded under a leader who can’t let go of control? Escape the Micromanager Trap is your lifeline. This audiobook isn’t just a survival guide—it’s a path to reclaiming your autonomy, building healthy boundaries, and finding your voice in the workplace again. You’ll hear relatable stories, research-backed insights, and simple, powerful tools you can use today—even if you’re stuck with a boss who nitpicks every detail.

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.

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...

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In this eye-opening book, The Retention Trap, Butterball Farms CEO Mark Peters challenges leaders of small and mid-sized businesses to break free from a cycle that prioritizes costly wages and benefits without addressing the deeper issues that lead to employee turnover. For thirty years, Peters focused on traditional methods, only to discover that they often miss the mark and fail to deliver lasting results.

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.

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.

Have you ever been so comfortable in a situation that you stop growing? Have you ever reached your goals for success - the money, the prestige, the stuff - yet felt unfulfilled in your work and your life? That's the trap of conventional, incremental success. The Trap of Success takes you beyond that comfort zone so you can start your journey to significance and exponential success.

Welcome To Trap Talk Reptile Network AKA The Coolest Reptile Network In The World...The most vibrant & dedicated reptile network there is. This is a place where reptile lovers whether new to the hobby or seasoned enthusiasts can come together to learn, share, and celebrate their passion. One of the things that sets Trap Talk apart is its commitment to authenticity from every host. It's regarded as the most honest & genuine reptile network out there... No holding back, just real talk, raw insights, and the truth about the reptile industry, care, and community. We prioritize transparency and ...

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.

Trap Talk Live is a resource for independent small business owners in the nuisance wildlife and pest control industries to listen to the experiences and knowledge of Ryan Ridgley (founder of Huntsman Wildlife) to hopefully help others going through the struggles of a sub $1m home service business.

Welcome to the Pitfalls, Traps & Barriers: The Entrepreneurs Journey Podcast where we engage with entrepreneurs and business leaders to learn more about their journey. And how they navigate life's pitfalls, traps, and barriers. With host, Don Booth.

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 T.R.A.P. Queens podcast was started with the mission to: TEACH our community by discussing issues that negatively affect us as we offer tips and tools to create change. We strive to REACH all individuals who are willing to change and have a desire to be the best version of themselves. We ACKNOWLEDGE people who have taken lemons and made lemonade by highlighting their stories in a way that we can learn from their experiences. We PROMOTE minority businesses by offering trade secrets and other tools to grow their business and encourage success. Our show ideas are bases on what we want our ...

In life and in business, success is elusive and, if found, often kills the creative drive that delivered it: painters paint the same picture over and over again, musicians sing the same songs and businesses lose the ability to learn and adapt. Why does this happen? Through conversations with business thinkers and leaders, The Success Trap explores the philosophical, psychological and practical challenges of success - how to achieve it and how to avoid its pitfalls. This podcast is for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, inventors and investors, and anyone with an interest in how businesses grow ...

Is your default self-identity holding you back from achieving the life results you keep seeking? For expertise-focused service professionals — founders, entreprenuers, consultants, advisors, coaches, every day people and subject matter experts, your self-identity underpines how YOU show up and the results YOU achieve. Self-identity is the lense through which humans experience the world and make sense of themselves in this world. More importanlty, self-identity is about choosing who you are as a person and what you may want to become. The Village Mindset Trap is THE self identity rebuilding ...