Money Lessons from the First Gen Mentor

Cultura and Cash is a practical and jargon-free money guide to help you tackle your finances as a First Gen Latina. In this valuable book, The First Gen Mentor, Giovanna Gigi González, uncovers cultural and systemic barriers First Gen face in their financial journey and provides actionable solutions on how to overcome them. Through storytelling and real-life examples, she'll go into depth and explain best practices for creating a solid financial foundation through emergency funds, credit building, budgeting, debt payoff, and investing.

This book will improve your money mindset and give you the information you need to create financial success on your terms with family in mind. You will learn how to balance family expectations while prioritizing your own financial wellness and that money does not control you and limit you. Instead, it's a powerful self-care tool you use to your advantage to support you and those you care about. Read this book and you will be empowered to take action and start designing a life you love.

Discover how great leaders draw out the best of human nature.

The dilemma. Our Stone Age brains are hardwired for survival and programmed to fear the unknown, yet the work world demands constant innovation. The enemy of better leadership is uncertainty deeply buried in the minds of your workforce.

The solution. In Certainty, Mears offers the answer: understand human nature. Work with it rather than pushing against it. Mears draws on neuroscience and psychology-plus compelling stories from his career-to offer practical leadership advice, including:

- Entertaining, science-backed explanations of how our brains think and how our primitive brains are colliding with the demands of the modern workplace

- New feedback, change management, and delegation tools to build an environment of certainty rather than of fear

- Fresh insights to overcome innate change resistance in yourself and others

- Time-saving ideas to empower yourself while empowering your employees

The results. You want loyalty, trust, and great performance from your team. We all do. With Mears's guidance, you can identify the limitations and strengths of the human mind and create a dynamic and innovative workplace.

A guidebook for anyone looking to comprehend and prosper in the new world order

In the age of autonomy, two parallel revolutions are unfolding. The first is a technological uprising, in which machines and algorithms achieve an unprecedented level of independence. Automation and AI will transform industries, altering the fabric of our economy and society. But this technological tide is more than a force of disruption; it's a harbinger of a new way of thinking and living.

The parallel revolution is deeply human and even more profound. As traditional structures crumble, a new sense of human autonomy emerges, allowing us to find meaning and direction in unexpected ways. Perspective Agents delves into this complex dance between machine and man, challenging us to adapt to and thrive in this new era.

Drawing from extensive research, interviews, and personal experience, communications consultant Chris Perry explores:

- The problem with using conventional wisdom to make sense of new realities

- How the predominant technologies of an era shape new values, norms, and behaviors

- The pioneering mindsets, models, resources, and strategies vital to future success

Through an unflinching examination of both technological and human evolution, this book encourages readers to harness the potential of the Autonomous Age, see the world anew through new sources, and forge a path for professional and personal growth.

The ultimate marketing strategy to help SMB companies break sales plateaus and beat the competition.

Sooner or later, every SMB (small and medium-sized business) hits a sales plateau or runs into significant competition. Even after tapping into all the mainstream channels and executing the best practices, these SMBs can't increase sales--their channels and budgets are maxed out. To meet today's challenges, SMB chief executives and senior marketers need to recalculate their budgets, rethink their strategies, and revolutionize their internal systems.

In his book, marketing expert Nick Doyle offers what he calls the Five-Tactic Marketing Framework, which unifies brand marketing, performance marketing, integrated campaigns, AI technologies, and lifetime value analytics. Doyle demonstrates that these tools are effective when deployed in isolation but really excel when deployed simultaneously.

You will learn to

- recalculate marketing budgets to reflect the realities of customer lifetime value;

- select channels and maximize efficiencies for integrated performance marketing campaigns;

- deploy AI and machine learning tools to enhance efficiency, performance, and insights;

- beat the competition and grow market share!

If deployed well, with the right strategy, these tactics can mark a watershed moment in the growth of an SMB company--one of expanded reach, optimized spending, and maximized profits.

Unleash your potential to do bigger things!

In today's changing world, where business leaders must navigate industry disruption, entrepreneurs struggle to push beyond initial success, and activists tackle hard challenges like climate change, there is a need for a more powerful way to do innovation. But too many innovators, in boardrooms, start-ups, and everything in between, are still trapped by the limits of common innovation practices. The way we've been taught to create and innovate for the past two decades is failing us.

It's time for a paradigm shift. To unlock the secrets to doing bigger things, this book introduces the pioneering concept of ecosystem innovation. Drawing on their extensive experience with a wide range of actors, from Fortune Global 100 companies to local entrepreneurs in Nepal, authors Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde present remarkable stories, accessible breakdowns, and actionable insights.

With this step-by-step guide, you'll acquire the big-picture mindset and capabilities you need to outmaneuver fast-moving competitors, break through the ceiling on innovation impact, and create solutions for problems others feel are beyond reach. Do Bigger Things offers a practical way to set bolder goals, understand harder challenges, design bigger solutions, and drive and deliver on ambitious ideas.

It's time to shatter the notion that hard problems or game-changing endeavors are beyond your reach, your organization's capabilities, or your community's grasp. The time for bigger action is now.

Learn to Innovate and Make Real Change

In our era of disruption and possibility, there are so many great opportunities within your grasp; however, most smart and successful people miss out. Unfortunately, your capabilities are limited by the seven traps of path dependency, which cause you to repeat past decisions. These traps can limit you from seeing the potential of what could be. If you could overcome these traps, what could you accomplish? How much more successful could you be?

Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. This book combines Jeremy's high energy, provocative thinking with tactics that have been battle-tested through thousands of his team's projects advising leading innovators like Disney, Starbucks, Amex, IBM, Adidas, Google, and NASA.

On top of all that, this is a double-sided book, paired with The Innovation Handbook, a revised edition of Jeremy's award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos.

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USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue.

However you define business growth--total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty--sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services. It must create value in the way it sells by delivering a compelling experience that adds value beyond the product itself. As a leader, it's your job to build and guide that experience.

The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales. With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn't come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. In this leadership guide, you'll learn how to ensure growth strategy is aligned at every level of the company, from boardroom initiatives to daily customer interaction.

​Best-selling leadership author and business growth consultant Scott K. Edinger helps CEOs and leaders intentionally and strategically engage with the customer experience to differentiate, innovate, cultivate loyalty, and grow. With this growth strategy mindset, your teams will know what they're supposed to be doing, have the skills to accomplish their work at a high level, and be properly supported by systems, process, and environment. But they can only do all this if you lead them. Are you ready to be a Growth Leader?

Bring the life you desire and deserve into existence today!

​Before her husband's sudden death, Regina Lawless was at the height of her corporate career as head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Instagram and seemingly had it all. Then tragedy struck, forcing her to rediscover who she truly was inside and what she wanted moving forward.

On her journey to live and thrive again after loss, Regina realized that the outdated rules for success--to grind incessantly and sacrifice yourself to get ahead--weren't serving her or any women, especially Black women and women of color. So Regina wrote this book to encourage people, particularly high-achieving women, to investigate their own states of happiness and fulfillment and to build more meaningful lives, both personally and in the workplace.

The meaningFULL framework that Regina uses will help you

● redefine success and live a more profound life,
● reconnect to your heart,
● restore the body,
● reframe your beliefs,
● renew your spirit, and
● reinvent your routines.

This valuable framework, actionable takeaways, and Regina's inspiring personal story will allow you to redefine what success means and find the courage to change your life.

Spark your personal creativity, fuel your creative leadership skills, and set your organizational culture ablaze
The employee experience has dramatically changed, catalyzed by emerging technology, remote-first and hybrid work structures, and rapidly changing business environments. Well-being at work has become an essential strategic priority, while the pressure and demands on teams to deliver results have never been greater. Leaders crave guidance to ignite more connection, innovation, and belonging at work to attract, develop, and retain top talent and discover deeper purpose at work. Creativity is the essential ingredient in today's workplace to be more effective, joyful, and authentic.
Born to Create illustrates the power skills often developed by artists and applies them to corporate environments in a way that's engaging, memorable, and high impact. Through highlighted stories of artists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, each scene delivers examples to build creative confidence and resilience, lead others in the creative process, and foster a thriving creativity culture to achieve business value and personal fulfillment. At the end of each scene, you'll get practical exercises and assessment tools you can carry with you.
​As we search for more meaning in our work and lives, Born to Create shines a light on the potential we each hold to imagine and realize the creative life we were destined to lead.

You can be more than you are.

You can stop living in fear of being judged.

Helping women wake-up, and get their life on track with a real plan is the main goal of this workbook. It is well-designed and will help you move through the lessons presented by Rachel Hollis in Girl Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals. You'll find everything you need to start your journey right away.

So easy to follow, complete newbies will find this workbook fun and simple to do.

Studies have shown that writing something out helps to imprint it in our brain so we can remember it better. If you want to do this by pen and use the pages provided in this workbook, super... if not, then grab your digital device and go for it

Either way, this is a great workbook to help you clarify and understand more of your own life experiences and how they relate to what you learn in Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan For Embracing and Achieving Your Goals by Rachel Hollis.

This workbook is very well-written. It in you will find:

• Professionally designed forms for ease of use and faster lesson application.
• Bulleted key points for each chapter.
• A distillation of each chapter in simple & meaningful terms.
• Space to write down answers to questions that relate directly to the material in the chapter. This is where you'll draw in your own life experiences and be able to capitalize on them.
• Exercises that can be used individually, or as a group for further support and help.
• Practical worksheets to further your understanding and application of what Ms. Hollis has presented in her original work.

• Complete forms needed to create your own road map to your goal. This is a HUGE bonus.

• Places for you to brainstorm, write out your lists and keep track of the plan you develop for your own personal growth.

So don't wait Grab this workbook today and start down the path to greater self-confidence, growth and joy.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial workbook. This workbook is meant to accompany the original work for your further edification and application and is not meant to replace the original work. This workbook has not been authorized, approved, licensed or endorsed by the original book's author or publisher and any of their licensees or affiliates. Readers are encouraged to purchase the original work by Ms. Hollis along with this workbook.

The path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies

​Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies--Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google--have built innovative products that improve many aspects of our lives. But their intrusiveness and our dependence on them have created pressing threats to our civil rights, economy, and democracy.

Coming from an extensive background building Silicon Valley-based tech startups, Tom Kemp eloquently and precisely weaves together the threats posed by Big Tech:
- the overcollection and weaponization of our most sensitive data
- the problematic ways Big Tech uses AI to process and act upon our data
- the stifling of competition and entrepreneurship due to Big Tech's dominant market position

This richly detailed book exposes the consequences of Big Tech's digital surveillance, exploitative use of AI, and monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. It offers actionable solutions to these problems and a clear path forward for individuals and policymakers to advocate for change. By containing the excesses of Big Tech, we will ensure our civil rights are respected and preserved, our economy is competitive, and our democracy is protected.

How to Create an Engaged, Empowered, Self-Led Team

Imagine a workplace where people can be themselves. Where there aren't hierarchies or power dynamics. Where team members continuously find ways to better themselves and their work because it makes them feel excited and fulfilled. Where everyone supports each other without ego. This type of environment is not only possible; it's the catalyst for a successful company.

Nurse Next Door President and CEO Cathy Thorpe inspires leaders to radically change their people practices and organizational culture by leading with kindness. Her leadership and culture philosophy, Bold Kindness, is based on the principle that team members perform best when they feel respected, valued and empowered. People who have the autonomy to pursue their genuine desires are more likely to feel engaged and passionate about their work, helping to create lean businesses with less overhead and greater financial growth.

Cathy's innovative leadership approach has disrupted the home care industry and made Nurse Next Door one of the world's fastest-growing home care companies and a globally admired brand. Her learnings will challenge you to reflect on your own leadership and organization, reframe the traditional corporate mindset and accelerate your business by putting people first.

Transcend Networking

Brad Englert has written Spheres of Influence: How to Create and Nurture Authentic Business Relationships to help emerging leaders develop and perfect what he calls the critical hard skill of building effective and enduring business relationships.

There are two major parts to the book. The first part of the book focuses on the internal sphere of influence, those people with whom readers can have the most direct impact: relationship with the boss, relationships with executive leaders, relationships with direct reports, and relationships with all staff. In the second part, Englert focuses on the external sphere of influence, and explores relationships where readers have less direct impact. these include relationships with customers, relationships with peers and influencers, and finally, relationships with strategic vendor partners. The real-world stories in this book are relevant to a diverse range of industries, organizations, and backgrounds. In these pages, emerging and aspiring leaders will learn how to build authentic, mutually beneficial, trusting, and enduring relationships spanning years and even decades.

Polish your Italian, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these 100 entertaining and humorous Italian short stories! How is it possible to learn Italian easily and effortlessly by yourself? The most effective way to learn Italian is reading interesting Italian short stories that includes Italian culture. Learning Italian doesn't have to be boring and agonizing!

This book includes 100 entertaining and interesting Italian short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level.

Italian for beginners can be challenging, but not with this book. All Italian short stories are unique and hopefully entertaining in content, and new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed.Towards the end of this Italian book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for advanced beginners and intermediate level learners.

This Italian language learning book offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to Italy or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for Italian language learners but also for anyone interested in Italian culture in general.

This book comes with audio to compare the stories to the Italian voice.

This book will help you to become more fluent in Italian, it will help you to improve your reading and conversation skills, start being an Italian speaker today, get your copy now!

Brush up your Portuguese, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these 100 entertaining and culturally interesting Portuguese short stories!

How is it possible to learn Portuguese easily and effortlessly by yourself? The most effective way to learn Portuguese is reading interesting Portuguese short stories. Learning Portuguese doesn't have to be boring and agonizing!

Here you have 100 entertaining and interesting Portuguese short stories for beginners and intermediate learning level.

Portuguese for beginners can be challenging, but not with this book.

All Portuguese short stories are unique and entertaining in content, and new vocabulary is gradually added at a manageable pace so you won't get overwhelmed.

Towards the end of this Portuguese book you find the stories slightly more complex, but still comprehensible for advanced beginners and intermediate level learners.

Also, this Portuguese language learning book offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to Portugal or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for Portuguese language learners but also for anyone interested in Portuguese culture in general.

This book comes with Audio (one downloadable mp3 file) and contains 40 of the more extensive stories.

A World Class Transformation

On August 16, 2018, NYU Langone Health captured the attention of the medical world with the surprise announcement that all current and new medical school students would receive full tuition scholarships. That bold move is yet another giant step in the transformation of NYU Langone Health from a faded and money losing medical institution to an innovative world class institution with a highly regarded hospital, medical school, and research program.

How did NYU Langone go from mediocrity to global leadership in less than a decade?

In World Class, internationally renowned author, scientist, business leader, and philanthropist Dr. William A. Haseltine answers this question and many more. Based on first hand in-depth interviews with those that led the change, World Class provides a vivid account of the transformation of NYU Langone Health and its rise to preeminence. Haseltine gives his readers a step-by-step guide for anyone wishing to achieve similar excellence at their institution, whether that be at a medical facility, school, business, or nonprofit organization. World Class offers crucial lessons at a critical time, as both high and low income nations grapple with how do deliver effective healthcare at a manageable cost.

Are you a changemaker who wants to achieve, grow, and build more within your organization?

If you're like many people, when you think of innovation, you think of entrepreneurs.

And gifted entrepreneurs have written countless books for go-getters starting their own businesses. But what if you're a visionary who wants to innovate effectively within the framework of your larger organization? Far too often, you've been left to reinvent the wheel, over and over again.

Until now. In this inspiring, yet practical primer, award-winning intrapreneur and author Louis K. Gump shines a light on the efforts that occur behind the walls of almost every organization--from global business titans to local market leaders; from charitable nonprofits to government entities; from educational institutions to informal community groups and beyond; these are the places of the in-house innovators, the explorers, the intrapreneurs. And what is an intrapreneur?

An intrapreneur is someone who

- leads change within a larger organization,

- creates value through innovation and growth, and

- develops new products, services, and businesses that shape industries.

The Inside Innovator is the playbook Gump wishes he'd had years ago while he and his teammates experimented, problem-solved, and ultimately learned how to be successful intrapreneurs. Full of insights from interviews with industry leaders and essential tools that Gump has learned through decades of experience--this primer will help you achieve more, build stronger relationships, and increase personal fulfillment through intrapreneurship.

Learn from the past. Understand the present. Explore the future.

. . . Present Future is a fascinating, expert look at the history of the key technological advances affecting life today, and preparation for the exponential leaps yet to come. . . .

-BILL MARIS, Founder and First CEO of Google Ventures, Founder of Calico, Founder of Section 32

With the context of an economic historian and the on-the-ground insights of an active technology investor, Perelmuter's Present Future brings readers to the bleeding edge of the science and technologies poised to revolutionize the 21st century. Comprehensive and yet enthralling, the book is a must-read for anyone who has an intellectual or commercial interest in what the future may hold.

-PETER HEBERT, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital

. . . Perelmuter draws upon his own experiences as a successful tech entrepreneur and investor, and the writings of dozens of other experts, to highlight the most important implications of multiple emerging technologies. Recommended

-BEN CASNOCHA, Co-Author of the #1 New York Times best seller The Start-up of You

A comprehensive survey of action across the entire frontier of advanced technologies is daunting in concept and even more so in execution. Guy Perelmuter has pulled it off, providing an accessible yet historically informed review from the world of algorithms to the world of genomic analysis by way of just about every field of science in between. Most important: He avoids the hype-ridden cheerleading that all too often accompanies accounts of breakthrough innovation. . .

-BILL JANEWAY, Venture Capitalist, Economist, Author of Doing Capitalism in The Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game Between Markets, Speculators and the State

A tale about strategy done differently

The One-Hour Strategy follows Martin, the new sales team lead at Waters & Flows, which attracted him because of their unique way of doing strategy. We shadow Martin as he onboards with his new colleagues, who walk him through each aspect of their One-Hour Strategy, answering his questions and addressing his reservations. Along the way, Martin learns:

- Why employees at every level in the firm should be involved in strategy

- How strategic competence creates company agility, which is crucial in disruptive times

- How this new approach closes the strategy-versus-execution gap

Martin's story introduces an easy but valuable tool for integrating strategic planning into your organization's culture. Martin's notes on key takeaways distill the information he learns, and each chapter includes self-evaluation questions to help you consider how this new way of thinking could be integrated at your company. If you're dissatisfied with the traditional way of doing strategy or your company seems stuck in a rut of strategizing that never turns into action, this book offers a solution.

Speaking Tomorrow's Truth to Power

Sustainability is going mainstream-but where did the story start? For decades, the traditional capitalist business model required growth at all costs. Business-as-usual guaranteed unsustainability. Now, in contrast, we see growing adoption of greener practices, but where did these ideas come from-and where are the linked movements headed?

Drawing on a half century of experience since the early seventies, Godfather of Sustainability John Elkington explains how a series of societal pressure waves have helped to transform business, markets, and, ultimately, capitalism. He explains how he came to tickle the human sharks of the corporate world, encouraging them to embrace once-unthinkable ways of addressing new social, economic, environmental, and governance priorities.

John's candid memoir tracks his colorful journey through youthful misadventures and inspirations to his pioneering work making business sense of sustainability. Written in a knowledgeable, thoughtful, and humorous voice, this witness statement explains-and criticizes-progress to date before sketching a manifesto for those determined to make the global economy more responsible, more resilient, and, crucially, more regenerative.