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The Game Before the Play shows you the truth: negotiations don’t start at the table. They start with preparation, power, and perspective. When you master these unseen dynamics, you stop reacting and start leading. You’ll learn how to build confidence, influence outcomes, and tilt the odds in your favor — in any setting.

“Manipulators in Business” is your tactical guide to spotting, neutralizing, and outsmarting hidden influence in corporate environments. Rooted in psychology, real-world corporate dynamics, and proven power analysis, this audiobook exposes the unseen playbook manipulators use and arms you with clear, practical strategies to protect yourself and rise above them.

Do you ever walk away from a conversation at work feeling confused, guilty, or like you suddenly owe someone something? Ever had your ideas stolen, your boundaries ignored, or your competence quietly questioned? Tired of sensing that something is “off,” but you can’t quite prove it so you just doubt yourself instead?

Customer Experience expert Jim Tincher provides the wisdom and tools to show business-to-business (B2B) organizations how to build and sustain superior customer experience (CX) as a core business activity.

How to Outsmart Office Politics is your manual for turning office politics into a career advantage instead of a career hazard. Written in clear, direct language, this book strips away corporate clichés and gives you the real playbook for navigating workplace power dynamics. Through practical strategies, sharp observations, and real-world examples, How to Outsmart Office Politics teaches you to move with precision instead of reacting blindly. You’ll learn to stop seeing office politics as a dirty game and start seeing it as a survival skill—one you can master with discipline and integrity.

Discover the lessons of agile and resilient leaders in Staying in the Game, the transformative new book from agile innovation expert Pamela Meyer, Ph.D. Delve into the captivating stories and lessons of some of the world's most agile leaders, from the adrenaline-pumping downhill racecourse to the dynamic boardroom and beyond.

Michael Watkins' best-selling book The First 90 Days has become the business bible for accelerating leadership transitions. Now, Watkins zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions: negotiation. In Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating, Watkins draws from extensive research and practical consulting work to reveal four fundamental objectives that should guide new leaders' actions in every negotiation.

In The Giving Game, thought leader, executive coach, and CEO James Turk, provides an essential guide for new managers navigating the transition from team member to team leader. Focusing on the critical first year, with an emphasis on the first 45 days, The Giving Game offers practical, easily implemented strategies to set new managers on the path to lasting success.

As a master negotiator for more than three decades, Herb Cohen is "the guy the pros go to." Here with wit and wisdom, Herb reveals his conceptual canopy—a step-by-step approach for establishing and maintaining mutually satisfying long-term relationships. Emphasizing the importance of style (manner and means) over substance (terms and conditions), and using recognizable anecdotes and examples, you will learn how to transform an opponent into a genuine partner.

Every day, someone is trying to influence you—and not always for your benefit. At work, at home, in relationships, and even in everyday encounters with strangers, manipulation is everywhere. It’s in the friendly coworker who makes you feel guilty for saying no, the partner who keeps shifting the rules, the relative who plays the victim to get their way, and the salesperson who creates false urgency to push you into a decision. Most people don’t see it happening until it’s too late. By then, they’ve already given away their time, their trust, their resources—or their power.

As an adviser to U.S. Presidents and corporate America, Herb Cohen has earned the title of World's Greatest Negotiator. "Care...but not that much" has become Herb Cohen's mantra. In this live seminar, he illustrates how conscious inattention can produce increased awareness, confidence, and create a "win-win" situation in all your interpersonal dealings. In both personal and business relationships, Cohen teaches what is most important in the bargaining process: how to win—or compromise—with the most effective strategies ever conceived.

Discover the secrets to success and fulfillment in "The Atomic Game Changer: 9 Life-Changing Principles for Unrivaled Success and Fulfillment." Unlock your hidden potential and transform your life with these powerful principles that have helped countless individuals and businesses thrive.

According to People Skills, 80 percent of people who fail at work do so because of a lack of social skills. This is especially true of new hires and millennials who have grown up in the digital world and may not have had an opportunity to learn to effectively communicate in a business setting. Office Meta Game is the best soft skills training guide, because author Dekker Fraser provides real world experience as an employee moving up through successful businesses.

Power Play is the powerful and practical 21st century guide to mega-impact and influence, providing business leaders with explosive influence strategies to move people into action and results. Influence, like gravity, pulls success into your orbit and gives you the power to make real changes in your relationships, your organization, and the world. This audiobook explores the different types of power and you will learn when to coerce, when to collaborate and when to connect.

You'll learn how to develop and leverage innate global business qualities and tactics that could mean the difference between commercial success and failure, including emotional and relational intelligence, relationship building, brand development, business strategy, and more. Whether you're launching a business or seeking to breathe new life into an existing venture, you'll get all the bricks you need to lay a solid foundation for success with the business strategies in The Rival.

In Ballgames to Boardrooms, Taylor Scott resurfaces what many have forgotten from those simple, yet profound, lessons we learned playing sports at a younger age. Our little league, high school, and college coaches taught us lessons, values, winning principles, and dropped pearl after pearl of wisdom we never knew we needed back then. Taylor is bringing them back to the forefront and inspiring anyone, and everyone, who wants a change in their day-to-day grind.

If you are a networker, thinking about (or being thrusted into) becoming one, this is a must listen mini-book that will serve as an “owner’s manual” for you. This information-packed mini-book will shed light on concepts and real-world examples that most college business courses simply cannot provide.

With his more than three decades of negotiating experience and unique presentation style, Herb's dynamic process will enable you to anticipate, predict, prepare, and successfully respond in all of life's negotiable relationships.

The art of storytelling has been a fundamental part of human society since the beginning. It is how we share knowledge, teach our children, and pass on our culture. With a world more driven by technology and social media than ever before, it is necessary to know the best techniques to convey the unique story of your brand. This book takes the art of storytelling and breaks it down into an easy-to-follow process that any content writer can use to create engaging content. It will teach you how to sell a story that will resonate with your audience and take them on an emotional journey.

As an adviser to U.S. Presidents and intimately involved with several highly publicized international negotiating dramas, Herb Cohen has earned the title of "World's Greatest Negotiator." Employing a geocentric perspective, Cohen views bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. In successful global negotiation, Cohen emphasizes, "We don't see things as they are, but as we are. In fact, if there is anyone here exactly like you, there would be no need for you to be here."