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So many salespeople believe that they have to push themselves out of their comfort zones and compromise their values to sell products. But, as Stacey Hall shows, the comfort zone can actually be a power zone that leads to sales, satisfaction, and success.

Hierarchy in organizations is obsolete. There is a better way: one that increases the engagement of employees and managers alike, reduces micromanaging and other limiting approaches, and promotes organizational and individual success. In this book, self-management expert Samantha Slade presents seven concrete practices to help your organization flatten its existing hierarchy and develop a horizontal organization. The result will be enhanced creativity, greater growth, and an increased employee retention and productivity - and a better bottom line.

In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization.

Adventurous international teacher, Amy Bovaird, is diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease that will blind her. In spite of that, she manages to continue teaching overseas. Then her father's final illness brings her back home for good. There, friends and acquaintances begin to notice that she doesn't always recognize them and sometimes stumbles as if drunk! Insensitive students ridicule her in the classroom.

Tall Lady With the Iceberg shows salespeople, leaders, and executives how to master the power of metaphor to break through in a noisy world and sell, persuade, and explain anything to anyone. Filled with exercises, 275 examples, and 25 real world stories, this audiobook will help anyone drive home a point, open minds, simplify complexity, rally people to a cause, close business, create change, and wow a crowd.

It's official. For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors. Resilience, she argues, is strictly a matter of energy management - by better managing your energy, you can both build resiliency and overcome burnout. McDargh guides the listener through the process of identifying energy drains and implementing strategies for handling them, whatever phase of life you are in.

Seeking Solace: Finding Joy After Loss is the audiobook to listen to when you struggle with any loss. Whether it’s the loss of a family member, a marriage, a precious child, or another tragedy, Amy Bovaird offers hope and encouragement through her devotions and spiritual experiences. Listeners will journey from heartbreak to healing. Seeking Solace is an audiobook about relationships and how to deal with loss. Discover truth, gratitude, and a growing awareness of God’s presence. Then wrap yourself in the solace of God’s reassuring comfort.

In an era of evidence-based inquiry, people need to be able to measure their success. In their new book, Patti Phillips and Jack Phillips aim to help listeners see the value of their work and then share it with others. The Show the Value process involves connecting projects with a business measure, collecting and analyzing data to track progress, and presenting the results to the right audiences. Listeners will learn how to keep their work relevant, their careers on track, and their organizations healthy.

Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, or an organization. Presence is not something you're born with - anyone can learn these skills, habits, and traits.

Up Is Not the Only Way, introduces the concept of flexibility and agility and the multiple ways employees can grow, learn, and build a career, as the way to solve the problems of immobility, and retention. Managers need the tools for building rich dialogue about career mobility, and dynamic workplaces that demand resilient talent at all levels. The key is communicating effectively and comfortably around the topic of career options, that span a spectrum of employee engagement. From those who are ready and want to move, to those who are satisfied to stay right where they are.

As the audiences we market to become ever more digital, agile frameworks are emerging as the best and only way to manage marketing. This book is a signpost showing the way toward the agile future of marketing operations, explaining how every role, from social media intern up to chief marketing officer, can work in unison, responding to the market’s demanding challenges without losing focus on the big picture.

Taking lessons she learned as a child, Sandy Weaver Carman takes the listener on a journey, re-living the childhood moments when the lessons first sank in, and fast-forwarding to the grown-up business situations where those same lessons paid off. The stories are genuine, the wisdom is priceless, and each section - or "room" - of the book wraps up with exercises - or "chores" - you can use to lock in the lessons for your own life success.

How virtually anyone can be an effective public speaker and give powerful presentations. From nationally respected communications guru Dianna Booher, here is a complete program for business professionals who want to take their presentation skills and public speaking skills to a bold new level. Writing for sweaty-palmed beginners and seasoned execs alike, Booher delivers powerful, battle-tested strategies and tips guaranteed to transform fainthearted presenters into master communicators.

Dr. Carla Johnston’s life story, uniquely her own, also resonates with all women. Fraught with roadblocks and buoyed by unexpected support, Carla’s dream of becoming a clinician to serve others on their health journey is interwoven with her life journey. Through bravery, resilience, and a dogged belief in herself, she became a freshman at 50. Empowering and enlightening, this is an amazing story.

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up provides refreshingly practical and candid insight into the best practices and techniques that project managers have successfully used for decades to manage a wide variety of senior-level stakeholders - ranging from perfectly competent and pleasant to downright dysfunctional and inept. While managing up is an incredibly valuable skill for virtually any type of boss (not just the difficult ones), the audiobook includes recommendations for managing six particularly challenging - and common - types of senior leaders.

Do you want to be happier? Are you creating anticipated joy? And would you like to hear the confessions of a serial caregiver? June Cline, CSP, and Sandy Weaver Carman believe the road to happiness is paved with wit, wisdom, and wonderful food. They host a weekly show called Happiness Recipe, where they chat with thought leaders, internationally known speakers, and other experts, learning how each of them spreads happiness in the world, what makes them happy, and, as part of each conversation, what foods make them happy.

Through anecdotes, real-life experiences, and documented growth trends, the audiobook reveals to the listener proven methods that will grow their business. The increasing endorsements are a testament to the author's growing list of followers. The author's three "P"s are far more relevant than the scholastic marketing model's four "P"s, most especially for those in retail operations.

A young woman leaves home and children to open a restaurant in a California beach town. In the process she learns how to listen within to hear her "inner guidance." In becoming both a leader and a manager, she comes to understand how her Inner Guidance speaks to her, thus helping her to create the successful life and the thriving business she envisions. Using the Principles of Humaneness and Applied Spirituality she realizes that she has everything she needs within herself to respond confidently and competently to life.

Non denominational and non sectarian, this little book recognizes as inherent and natural, the individual's personal relationship with the nonphysical universe, God, or 'Source Energy'. Its premise is that you are already connected to the 'Source' and have merely forgotten how to recognize and interpret your personal Guidance on Earth.

Driven by the need for an income, Maggie decides to enter a writing contest. Cooking and Women Magazine is seeking a columnist who can compare finding "Mister Right" to cooking. To qualify, an entrant must be single and an experienced chef. Maggie is neither - she can't even cook. But desperation turns white lies into tasty morsels and she whips up an article comparing finding "Mister Right" to picking the right tomato for homemade salsa. She wins the contest, is dubbed The Chef of Hearts, and her new life is launched.