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Blue Ocean Strategy is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become pioneers in previously uncharted market territory, and gain access to impressive growth opportunities and an untapped customer base.

The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner takes a close look at the factors that contribute to strong leadership in a variety of fields. In their research, Kouzes and Posner found that there are five practices that leaders commonly list as key to moments when they were effective leaders. Central to every leader's success is credibility, which is related to the characteristics that followers seek in their leaders.

This is a summary of Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity (2016), in which motivational speaker and real estate investor Dean Graziosi explains how successful people use seemingly small changes in day-to-day routines to achieve more wealth, increase happiness, and overcome obstacles. While it can be tempting to believe that the richest and most successful members of society have extra hours in which to accomplish their goals, the truth is that everyone has the same amount of time each day....

Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the 18th century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers.

Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence (2018) by psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel is a comprehensive guide to cultivating attention, awareness, and intention through mindfulness. Siegel developed the Wheel of Awareness, a visual metaphor designed to help anyone cultivate heightened awareness and focused attention.... Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

A Return to Love (1992, revised by the author in 1996) is Marianne Williamson's explanation and exploration of the spiritual text A Course in Miracles. The premise of A Course in Miracles is simple: there is only one reality, and it is love.

Eat Dirt is a practical overview of Dr. Josh Axe's theory that repairing and preventing leaky gut is a crucial part of wellness. Leaky gut, also known as increased intestinal permeability, is a condition in which the intestinal lining becomes depleted or damaged, compromising its ability to function as the body's filtration system. Healthy intestinal walls are usually able to keep toxins and harmful bacteria from entering the bloodstream.

In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she's lived and the knowledge she's learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development that stretches from 1997 to 2008, the bulk of the narrative follows Jahren from her first appointment as a professor in Atlanta to her current job at the University of Hawaii. Navigating personal and professional challenges including bipolar disorder, meager budgets, and sexist work environments.

Patrick Lencioni's The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues posits that in order to succeed - especially in a work environment - one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team players share three core virtues: They are hungry, humble, and smart.

Structured as a six-week plan, I Will Teach You to Be Rich offers no get-rich-quick schemes or stock tips. Instead, the book focuses on long-term, personal finance strategies that build wealth over the course of decades, making the 20-something listener a perfect target audience. The plan also urges its adherents to forego the small changes, like nixing the daily Starbucks latte, to set their sights on far bigger goals that they can achieve over the long term.

The Sleep Revolution is a call to action to make sleep a priority and reclaim the night for the basic human need of rest. Millions of people use nighttime hours for activities other than sleep. They choose to prioritize work or succumb to an addiction to technology rather than invest those precious hours in sleep. In the United States and increasingly around the world, work culture regards sleep as an inefficient waste of time.

You can get the lowdown on winning the office politics game right now in this just-released audiobook. A must-have! How to Protect Yourself Against the Hidden and Dirty Tactics of Office Politics! Know the Secrets and Be on Top of Your Career! Do you sometimes feel like your place of work is more dangerous than a swamp full of alligators? Are there shady characters lurking behind the photocopier disguised as reliable team players in your office?

Who is living your life, you or someone else? Many of us have a tendency to lead guarded lives, only showing our true selves to a select few. Many of us live in constant fear or doubt that if we don't conform to the way society sees us, we will be shunned or ousted, forced to fend for ourselves. Why do we do this? Why do we feel that we need to please others instead of ourselves? We will talk about what makes up our authentic selves as well as what we can do in order to become the people we want to be.

We’re all selling something. It’s just that some of us are better at it than others. Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

This is a summary of Michael E. Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (2001), which explores the question of why so many small businesses don’t survive. The answer is simple, yet profound: because they don’t understand the work of running a business....

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The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her 91st birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder if he and his mother knew one another as well as they could.

Mary Roach's Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans Aat War examines technological and medical research in the military. Each chapter focuses on a different topic - for example, diarrhea among soldiers - and then presents historical background, interviews with scientists and affected military personnel, and possible solutions to the problem.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014) by neuroscientist and atheist Sam Harris explores how to develop a spiritual practice that is not based on outmoded religious beliefs about how the world works. Harris draws upon personal experience, neuroscience, psychology, and Buddhist conceptions of the mind to explore the nature of consciousness and how it is possible to embrace spirituality and remain secular....

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership: In Turbulent Times (2018) is a comparative consideration of four of the most beloved and effective American presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The narrative revisits foundational events in each president’s life in order to trace the origins and crucial ingredients of leadership.... (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)