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The quest to build a culture that rocks. Business is hard. Arnie Malham, founder and president of cj Advertising, understands this thoroughly. But the challenges that make business hard are more than just obstacles - they provide the foundation to building and strengthening a culture that attracts the best people to do the best work.

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. Though the root cause is by no means malicious, we have begun to reward speed over quality, and the negative effects suffered in both our personal and professional lives are potentially catastrophic. Best-selling author and Chief Envisioner Dan Pontefract offers the solution to this predicament with what he coins "Open Thinking".

This is the companion book to the online course Why Conflict Models Don’t Work When the Problem Is Bullying. In this audiobook, author Jennifer Hancock discusses the differences between a conflict model and a bullying elimination model and how we can use elimination models to resolve both conflicts and harassment situations ethically and effectively. Workplace bullying and harassment situations often masquerade as conflict. But they aren’t. Applying a conflict resolution model to a bullying or harassment situation makes the problem worse.

In this practical guide, business coach Stacy Tuschl shares a personalized, step-by-step plan for rescuing your business - and your sanity. She talks directly to you and other female entrepreneurs who are lost in the responsibilities of running a business while maintaining a full life.

Ordet psykopat kan få det til at gyse i folk. Man tænker på seriemordere og diktatorer. Men de allerfleste psykopater er ikke kriminelle. Tværtimod går de rundt blandt resten af befolkningen og gør livet surt for os. Blandt fagfolk er det en almindelig antagelse, at omkring 2-4% af alle mænd er psykopater, mens kun 1% af kvinderne er det, svarende til ca. 2% af befolkningen som helhed. Men der er endvidere en hypotese om, at blandt chefer er andelen større.

Experience the power of Metronomics with The M Game, the streamlined definitive guide to Metronomics crafted by celebrated entrepreneur and CEO+Leadership team coach Shannon Susko. This essential monograph demystifies complex business concepts and offers a clear path to sustainable growth and innovation in today's competitive global marketplace. With engaging case studies and real-world examples, also available on themgamebook.com, Shannon demonstrates how Metronomics fosters balance, rhythm, and growth within organizations, propelling them to new strategic heights of success.

In The Versatile Leader, Msuega Tese offers twelve metaphors for effective leadership spanning a broad spectrum of strategic and tactical situations. Each of the twelve metaphors is helpful to leaders at different moments. The metaphor-based leadership builds off the concept of situational leadership. It encourages leaders to learn and adapt with integrity continuously. In addition, this approach brings synergy to a team, regardless of size or type.

Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you—and you'll probably be waiting forever. Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up.

From sports to business, the benefits of great coaching are well understood. Imagine if you could unlock the power of having a great coach in any moment, by learning to coach yourself. Take Charge of You teaches you the secrets to self-coaching. Everyone could use a good coach to help them reach their full potential. Written by two highly successful coaches from the worlds of business and professional sports, this book provides a straightforward process that will guide you on your self-coached journey to success.

For women over 50, this invaluable guide combines practical advice, exercises, and no shortage of sass that will inspire listeners to beat ageist limitations and own their careers.

Learn real frontline leadership in The CareFull Supervisor. Acclaimed business educator Kevin Burns shatters the traditional view of supervisory roles, exposing a profound understanding: your team doesn't work for you - you work for them. The CareFull Supervisor dismantles the complexities of leadership, equipping supervisors in trades-based and industrial companies with practical techniques and resources to lead with confidence.

Most of us struggle to find the balance between being friendly and liked, and standing our ground or setting boundaries to get what we want. We feel that we should change in order to fit in, even when that goes against who we are. Irresistible Assertiveness will teach you how to proceed in delicate situations and how to set clear boundaries in a courteous and pleasant way that will create mutual understanding and help you to get what you want without being a jerk.

International risk expert David Ropeik takes an in-depth look at our perceptions of risk and explains the hidden factors that make us unnecessarily afraid of relatively small threats and not afraid enough of some really big ones. This audiobook is a comprehensive, accessible, and entertaining mixture of what's been discovered about how and why we fear—too much or too little. It brings into focus the danger of The Perception Gap: when our fears don’t match the facts, and we make choices that create additional risks.

Drawing on the existing research, personal transition anecdotes, and first-hand experience coaching more than 500 individuals through career changes, Career Clarity walks you through a simple approach to find fulfilling work. In this book, you’ll learn an adaptive strategy for how to define success on your own terms, identify roles that fit your values, and transition into energizing work that lets you grow.

After several highly successful businesses and a couple of epic failures, Jake Hanes, CPA and highly successful entrepreneur, shares not only his step-by-step strategies on turning a business into a cash cow, but also the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs. No matter your age, the industry you’re in, or your current level of success (or failure) in business to date, this book will provide the resources, insights, best practices, and ultimately, the step-by-step road map to become the number one most successful business owner in your industry.

Pulling Together is a fantastic guide for leaders from all walks of life. In it you will learn about the 10 Rules for High Performance Teamwork. They’re simple, yet so important! It’s not only about leading a team, but also being a part of one. The 10 rules are presented in a way that every person in your organization can understand. Use this audiobook to clarify expectations and foster accountability, build more focus, unity, trust and credibility with your team, align people and systems, mobilize commitment and generate enthusiasm.

Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary’s well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships.

Imagine for a moment that your favorite artist, musician, group, or rock star came into your office or called you today requesting your product or service. What would you say to them? What would you do to serve them? Now ask yourself: When was the last time I treated a customer or a client like a rock star? What would it do for your business if you treat every customer and client like a rock star?

Treasurer finds that the most difficult problem leaders face is finding the right midpoint between overconfidence and indecisiveness or weakness. Just about all leaders land on the wrong side of this tough balance at some point - and that's when they get their asses kicked. This book is a survival guide, coach, and morale booster to help the listener master the art of confident humility. If you succeed, the next place you get kicked might be upstairs.

If you find yourself hindered or discouraged by your introversion, the good news is that this book is now around to help you. It will empower you and show you how you can use your introversion to become a successful entrepreneur. This book will not force you to become an extrovert to be successful in the field of business. It simply shows you some ways to use your unique introverted traits to your advantage.