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Since the pandemic, many businesses have gone under. Others are fighting to stay afloat. But some are thriving. Why is that? Rebuild is a lift raft, a vital guide to how we reset and build back better. Retail and brand expert Mary Portas argues that over the past 30 years, the business of what we buy has been dominated by the biggest, fastest and cheapest. But those values no longer resonate. We've come to realise that more doesn't equal better.

For much of its history Cyprus was regarded as the Cinderella of empires—beautiful, abused, isolated. Today, the island is divided between the Greek-Cypriot south and the Turkish occupied north. However, both sides take pride in a shared "Cypriotness," and are united in their common hopes, pain, memories, music, excellent cuisine, rich history, and majestic landscape. Culture Smart! Cyprus equips you with essential information on the history, values, and attitudes of the people you will meet, their customs and traditions, and offers tips on etiquette and socializing.

If you're trying to be all things to all people, juggling work overload with multiple caring responsibilities for younger and older generations, the chances are the one person you're not looking after is you. At work, you might be struggling to get a promotion, facing redundancy, or just feeling...

Creativity is no longer optional. It is fast becoming the defining human advantage. As artificial intelligence reshapes every industry, one human capability is rising faster than all the others: creativity. Yet most people either don’t believe they have creativity or never take the time to develop it. In SuperCreativity, internationally recognized keynote speaker and AI expert James Taylor explains why the age of the lone genius is over, and why the future belongs to those who know how to collaborate creatively with other people and with artificial intelligence.

Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known and most-successful companies, they illustrate how these two forces can - and do - work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.

Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organization of the future.

Working hard doesn't guarantee recognition, and watching less qualified colleagues advance while you stay invisible is frustrating. Tired of vague career tips that never tell you exactly what to say or do? Do salary negotiations or performance reviews leave you second-guessing yourself? Watching others get ahead while you stay overlooked? You are not alone. Career Skills for Young Adults Blueprint equips young professionals with practical frameworks and ready-to-use scripts for navigating the modern workplace without burning out.

The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization.

This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes offers a pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power and how it stifles workers around the world. 

Burnout is widespread among high achievers in the workplace, in business and in caring professions like health and teaching. Parents with new babies and those caring for the elderly and people with disabilities are also at risk. Although burnout is so common, it's often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed - most commonly as depression. Drawing on groundbreaking new research, this audiobook hands you the tools to work out whether you have burnout - or not.

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of...

The most dangerous part of a workplace is often what no one notices. Small shortcuts, accepted workarounds, and repeated behaviors slowly blend into the background until they become “the way we do things here.” Safety VIEWS Safety CUES reveals how those patterns form—and how leaders can interrupt them before they lead to harm. From David Allan Galloway, bestselling author of Safety WALK Safety TALK, comes a powerful new look at how workplace behavior is shaped long before an incident occurs.

This book offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren't fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention and actions originate. Scharmer calls this lack of awareness our blind spot. He illuminates the blind spot in leadership today and offers hands-on methods to help change makers overcome it through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U.

Are you a Sensitive Striver? Learn how to get out of your own way and rediscover your sensitivity as a superpower. ___ Highly sensitive and high performing? ___ Need time to think through decisions before you act? ___ Judge yourself harshly when you make mistakes? ___ Take feedback and criticism...

President Obama’s former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter—from the international stage to everyday life. History often appears to consist of big gestures and dramatic shifts. But for every peace treaty signed, someone set the stage, using hidden...

It's 4:40 on a Thursday. The document is done. You didn't write it. The machine wrote it in nine seconds, and it's good. Your cursor is hovering over the button that sends it to the client, and your name is on it. That moment is the job now. Hard Skills got you hired. Soft Skills got you promoted. Stake Skills keep you in the room. For fifty years, two columns mapped a person at work: what you can do, and how you work with people. Then AI walked into every room and started producing the work itself. What it cannot produce is the person who answers for it. It risks nothing. It claims nothing.

Now, in Managing Corporate Lifecycles - The Complete Edition, he brings listeners up-to-date on his theory and practice by combining the content of Managing Corporate Lifecycles: Volumes I and II in one convenient download. This audiobook guides your company to prime with speed and efficiency, covering the different stages of a company lifecycle such as courtship, infancy, the wild go-go years, and adolescence.

In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management. 

A compendium of essential information for the modern security entrepreneur and practitioner. This audiobook provides essential direction for those who want to succeed in security, either individually or as part of a team. It also aims to stimulate some fresh ideas and provide new market routes for security professionals who may feel they are underappreciated and overexerted in traditional business domains.   

A bold argument that many workplace hierarchies are fundamentally broken and that all of us—regardless of our rank or role—can help fix them. “A smart, evidence-backed guide to fixing the systems we love to hate but can’t live without.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling...