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Managing the human side of work
Research by Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and coauthor of Primal Leadership, has shown that emotional intelligence is a more powerful determinant of good leadership than technical competence, IQ, or vision.
Influencing those around us and supporting our own well-being requires us to be self-aware, know when and how to regulate our emotional reactions, and understand the emotional responses of those around us. No wonder emotional intelligence has become one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion.
But luckily it's not just an innate trait: Emotional intelligence is composed of skills that all of us can learn and improve on. In this guide, you'll learn how to:
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
I highly recommend Keren Eldad's new book, GILDED, which comes at a time when many people are struggling with the strictures of ambition and perfectionism. Keren's approach gives readers the power to break free from the trance of pursuing 'more' and celebrate the present moment. -- Gay Hendricks, NYT bestselling author of The Big Leap
GILDED by Keren Eldad is the go-to guide for overachievers and high performers who feel trapped in the endless cycle of chasing success. If you're ready to break free from perfectionism anxiety and discover true fulfillment, this book will guide you toward a life of authenticity and freedom.
Are you an overachiever who feels unfulfilled despite your success? For those driven by ambition, perfectionism, and a relentless pursuit of more, it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters. In GILDED, Keren Eldad explores why so many high performers-whether C-suite executives or go-getters--feel trapped by the very success they sought, finding themselves unfulfilled despite outward achievements.
Do you want to break free from the pressure of always needing more? If you're tired of perfectionism anxiety and constantly moving the goalposts of success, GILDED offers a fresh perspective. Drawing from executive coaching and personal experiences, Eldad provides practical strategies to help you step out of the gilded cage, stop chasing hollow victories, and start living a life of genuine abundance and fulfillment.
Inside, you'll find:
If you liked other leadership development books such as The Coaching Habit, High Performance Habits, or Why Smart, Creative and Highly Sensitive People Hurt, you'll love GILDED.
How much money are you leaving on the table?
Are you tired of leaving money on the table when prospects and customers compare you to inferior competition who can do the same thing for cheaper? Does fear of losing customers and sales volume cause your team to underprice and over-discount?
It's time to break free from fear-based pricing and earn the profits that reflect the true value you've worked hard to create. Fearless Pricing provides the tools, strategies, and mindset shifts your team needs to price with confidence and command higher margins.
Speaker, author, and pricing expert Casey Brown exposes the myths that trap businesses in a cycle of underpricing and offers proven tactics to overcome them. Packed with real-world examples, actionable strategies, and powerful insights, Fearless Pricing is your blueprint for transforming how you think, talk, and make decisions about pricing.
In this book, you'll learn how to:
Overcome the limitations that sabotage pricing success and hold your business back. Stop second-guessing your prices and start commanding what you deserve. Fearless Pricing will show you how.
Harness value. Price with confidence. Unleash profits.
A straightforward framework for creating engaging and exciting business meetings
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life.
In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch.
How could my life have unraveled so quickly? he wondered.
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn't know how to solve. And he doesn't know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can't help him; they're as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings.
Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey's world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen.
As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams and create environments of engagement and passion.
You've done everything you can to save time. Every productivity tip, every life hack, every time management technique.
But the more time you save, the less time you have. The more overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted you feel.
Introducing a new approach to productivity. Instead of struggling to get more out of your time, start effortlessly getting more out of your mind.
In Mind Management, Not Time Management, best-selling author David Kadavy shares the fruits of his decade-long deep dive into how to truly be productive in a constantly changing world.
Mind Management, Not Time Management isn't your typical productivity book. It's a gripping page-turner chronicling Kadavy's global search for the keys to unlock the future of productivity.
You'll learn faster, make better decisions, and turn your best ideas into reality.
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education--a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself--among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polg r, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship--without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.
What's the hard truth? Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career. Master your soft skills and really get ahead at work
Fortune 500 coach Peggy Klaus encounters individuals every day who excel at their jobs but aren't getting where they want to go. It's rarely a shortfall in technical expertise that limits their careers, but rather a shortcoming in their social, communication, and self-management behaviors. In The Hard Truth About Soft Skills Klaus delivers practical tools and techniques for mastering soft skills across the career spectrum. She shows how to:
Klaus reveals why soft skills are often ignored, while bringing their importance to life in her trademark style--straightforward, humorous, and motivating. Perfect for readers at all professional stages--from those who are just starting out to seasoned executives--this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take his or her career to the next level.
What you learn on the mat in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can make you successful in business.
Being an entrepreneur is tough. No matter how well you plan and strategize, things can fall apart, failure can seem imminent, and the stress can weigh you down like an opponent who's double your size and strength. Sometimes you find yourself so stuck in a position that you fear you might have to tap out.
Fortunately, the principles that allow you to succeed in jiu jitsu can also be used to win in business. Author Jordan Edwards learned this firsthand during the COVID-19 pandemic, as he fought to keep Mixology Clothing Company open.
Edwards combined the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu principles he'd learned on the mats into a technical framework that not only kept his company alive but allowed it to thrive. In this book, he shares stories from the pandemic that highlight which BJJ principles he used in specific circumstances. He then demonstrates how these principles can be expanded to business in general.
In Part One, Edwards covers the basics, including the need to create space so you can breathe when faced with adversity. Part Two moves into gaining control of your thoughts. Part Three brings everything together to discuss finishing principles and taking calculated risks by implementing a system of controls.
By integrating these parts, readers will be able to make strategic, technical business decisions, even during times of uncertainty and fear. The framework, broken down into three parts, shows how the principles of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can be applied to business.
This approach proved so powerful that Edwards continues to run his company from this perspective and even applies it in his personal life.
To further enrich the insights shared in this book, Jordan Edwards launched the Business Jiu Jitsu podcast. This platform allowed him to engage in profound conversations with some of the brightest minds across various industries. From world champion athletes like Gordon Ryan and elite coaches such as John Danaher, to Olympians like Travis Stevens and Jimmy Pedro, the podcast provided a wealth of knowledge and diverse perspectives. Edwards also spoke with Navy SEALs like JP Dinnell, special operators such as Mike Rogers and Nick Koumalatsos, CrossFit champions like Jason Khalipa, and leaders from diverse professions, including marines, firefighters, teachers, musicians, and billion-dollar CEOs like Rich Byrne.
These conversations reveal how the discipline, resilience, and strategic thinking honed on the Jiu-Jitsu mats translate into success in business and life. The universal lessons from these discussions have been integrated into the book, offering readers a comprehensive guide to navigating business challenges with the mindset of a Jiu-Jitsu practitioner.
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Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree?
Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they're doing.
It's hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level.
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable - it's a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge--knowledge that creates tangible value.
Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals.
Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable.
These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel:
Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages.
Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book.
The ultimate resource for learning how to design, plan, build, and manage extraordinary events!
Events matter. When people come together to share ideas, they can forever change the course of progress. No one knows that better than Bob Priest-Heck and Carrie Freeman Parsons of the Freeman Company, one of the world's leading event companies. These two event pros have seen firsthand the power of uniting people to explore innovative ideas, grow businesses, advance education, improve the art and science of healing, and create memories that last forever.
Inside Live Events lifts the curtain on how to create successful large events--such as trade shows, conferences, expositions, and business meetings. This book explores a proven four-phase design-thinking methodology to help you
- create memorable experiences,
- design moments and events that matter,
- connect people who will change the world,
- plan effective experience marketing.
Providing clarity, expert guidance, and essential resources, Inside Live Events is an indispensable tool kit. So whether you're an established event planner or new to this exciting industry, get ready to learn absolutely everything you need to know--from high-level planning to the nitty-gritty details--from two of the top event-planning experts.
Discover new skills, expand your knowledge and build your confidence through this fascinating and accessible guide to working with AI.
Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our everyday lives. But it remains an elusive, complex and intimidating technology that has hundreds of iterations and nuances. With Confident AI, build your confidence when working with AI by learning the fundamentals and discovering the intricacies of the industry. Andy Pardoe has spent decades working with AI, not only as an influential academic but also within corporations and as a consultant and accelerator for AI start-ups. He draws upon his expertise and lived experience to offer the essential skills and tools that you need to succeed with Artificial Intelligence, whether you are pursuing it as a career or simply working with AI in your work-life. About the Confident series...
Master the art of time management and getting the right work done.
Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business.
Don't let destructive drama sideline your career.
Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues--even difficult ones--for the good of your organization and your career. How can you do that without compromising your personal values? By acknowledging that power dynamics and unwritten rules exist--and navigating them constructively.
The HBR Guide to Office Politics will help you succeed at work without being a power grabber or a corporate climber. Instead you'll cultivate a political strategy that's authentic to you. You'll learn how to:
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to Yes And veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks a form of mental agility with powers far beyond the entertainment value of comedy troupes.
Drawing on principles from cognitive and social psychology, behavioral economics, and communication, Kulhan teaches readers to think on their feet and approach the most typical business challenges with fresh eyes and openness. He shows how improv techniques such as the Yes, and approach, divergent and convergent thinking, and focusing on being present can translate into more productive meetings, swifter decisions, stronger collaboration, positive conflict resolution, mindfulness, and more. Moving from the individual to the organizational level, Kulhan compiles time-tested teaching methods and training exercises into an instrumental guide that readers can readily implement as a party of one or a company of thousands.
Help your employees help themselves.
As a manager in today's business world, you can't just tell your direct reports what to do: You need to help them make their own decisions, enable them to solve tough problems, and actively develop their skills on the job.
Whether you have a star on your team who's eager to advance, an underperformer who's dragging the group down, or a steady contributor who feels bored and neglected, you need to coach them: Help shape their goals--and support their efforts to achieve them.
In the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees you'll learn how to:
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
Building a Better Business Using the LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) Method delivers a creative approach to enhancing innovation and improving business performance, with the focus on unleashing play. Written by the two original Master Trainers for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), the book outlines how LSP can develop teams, people, relationships and business . Based on the merging of play with organizational development, systems thinking and strategy development, LSP can foster improved meetings, faster innovation processes, team growth, and better communication.
The belief that everyone intends to do good and has the potential to do it is at the heart of LSP. The method nurtures the idea that everyone in an organization can contribute to discussions and outcomes. Building with LEGO bricks is a type of creative play that triggers a different kind of thought process, unleashing imagination and potential that is frequently untapped by the logical mind. The book explains this hands-on, minds-on approach, and discusses the theory as well as the practical implementation of LSP. Topics include:
The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method is employed by start-ups and multinational corporations alike to maximize synergy among teams and throughout organizations. For leaders looking to boost effectiveness and see better results, Building a Better Business Using the LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) Method is a comprehensive introduction to this creative management technique.
Now in paperback--the Wall Street Journal bestseller that reveals the secrets behind Steve Job's legendary presentations, with a new introduction about his legacy.
Celebrating the inspiring life and vision of Apple's game-changing CEO, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs has become the essential go-to guide for top-level executives, middle managers, organizational speakers, startup entrepreneurs, and pretty much anyone who needs to engage, persuade, and captivate an audience.
This is as close as you'll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs's performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets that anyone can master. You'll learn how to take charge of a room, create an inspiring brand story, deliver unforgettable moments--and do it powerfully, effortlessly, and effectively.
94% of all enterprises depend upon cloud services. Gain the edge in your career with this essential guide to the fundamental concepts and platforms of cloud computing.
Cloud computing is part of our everyday lives, from cloud backups of personal data to cloud platforms powering businesses around the world. But do you really understand how cloud computing works? This comprehensive guide demystifies key concepts and gives you the confidence you need to succeed in this sector. Confident Cloud includes key concepts from FinOps and DevOps to Kubernets and automation. This is supported by practical guidance on working in the industry, alongside a variety of fascinating case studies, clarifying how cloud infrastructure is effectively deployed and maintained. About the Confident series...