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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading Data Domain and ServiceNow to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up, he shares his leadership approach for the first time.

In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help listeners tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide listeners through each step in the process.

He knows how to win. More, he knows the many ways - subtle, brutal, often self-inflicted - we lose. As the most trusted mental coach in the world of sports, Trevor Moawad has worked with many of the most dominant athletes and the savviest coaches. From Nick Saban and Kirby Smart to Russell Wilson, they all look to Moawad for help finding or keeping or regaining their competitive edge. (As do countless business leaders and members of special forces.) Now, at last, Moawad shares his unique philosophy with the general public.

International risk expert David Ropeik takes an in-depth look at our perceptions of risk and explains the hidden factors that make us unnecessarily afraid of relatively small threats and not afraid enough of some really big ones. This audiobook is a comprehensive, accessible, and entertaining mixture of what's been discovered about how and why we fear—too much or too little. It brings into focus the danger of The Perception Gap: when our fears don’t match the facts, and we make choices that create additional risks.

You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.

Owning Your IT is your own, personal guide to breaking free from the habits and behaviors that are holding you back. We all have an "IT"—those habits that seem to have more control over us than we do over them. In Owning Your IT, you'll learn how to identify yours and manage them better.

Some people are natural leaders. Most aren't. Yet, as these folks get promoted, they find themselves in team-management roles. With little experience and minimal support from their organizations, they—and their teams—aren’t set up for success. With endless lessons learned over thirty years in the corporate and non-profit worlds, Kerry has developed a leadership approach grounded in empathy and focused on strategy.

Nothing changes if nothing changes. To get the most from your day requires a transformation—of your mindset and your daily habits. Luckily, these adjustments can be easy, quick, and stress free. Successful real estate professional Vivian Risi, a firm believer in the power of positive routines, offers a no-nonsense, simple, habit-based approach to daily living with her book 24 Hours Is All It Takes. This guidebook demonstrates how to make long-term changes for the better, and you’ll feel and see the benefits of Risi’s advice as soon as day one.

In a world rife with choices and distractions, the ability to make clear, effective decisions is a superpower. This audiobook unveils the secrets to mastering your decision-making skills, providing you with the tools to escape the clutches of over analysis.

The essays in How I Did It teach and inspire. Pulled directly from the pages of one of the most popular columns in Harvard Business Review, these essays offer firsthand accounts of the most difficult management challenges faced by the men and women who occupy the corner office. It's the next best thing to sitting down and talking face-to-face with these corporate leaders.

These brain teasers are designed based on people’s real experiences which cover many topics in their daily lives. The solutions to the 100 problems show various examples of impressive, ingenious thinking. Solving these problems will provide a lot of fun for you, your family and your friends, as well as strengthen your ability to think creatively.

This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life.

This book is a self-reflection exercise designed to help listeners overcome challenging problems through the use of specific problem solving techniques. In the introduction we learn about decision-making strategies that work in situations of uncertainty and we learn scenario planning - a technique invented in the 1960s for the US Dept. of Defense, later adapted for use in the private sector.

We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders, and with our manufacturing engine driving the process, we built a solid, high-achieving middle class. Now, thanks to policies that are either indifferent - or downright hostile - to manufacturing, we're at the brink of losing it all. If you think this won't affect you, guess again. Author Andrew N. Liveris presents a powerful case for the critical importance of domestic manufacturing.

Coaching Up! is about inspiring those who matter to you to achieve peak performance. Whether you are a coach, a business leader, a civic activist, a teacher, a counselor, or a parent, this book will offer you a powerful, highly effective way to connect to the people you care about and move them forward toward their best selves. In sports, coaches have developed ways of connecting with their players quickly in the "heat of the battle", inspiring them to perform to their fullest potential and "leave it all on the field".

Some of the toughest decisions we face are just clashes between different frames. It is perfectly rational to value the same thing differently in two different frames, even when the decision-maker knows that these are really two sides of the same coin. Frame It Again sheds new light on the structure of moral predicaments, the nature of self-control, and the rationality of cooperation.

Snowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman has penned The Amp It Up Fieldbook to help leaders grow any organization by challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where they count, and being uncompromisingly objective.

This book will explore what success means, along with a look at the philosophies of some of the greats minds down through the ages. Your own thoughts and beliefs about success can thus be redirected and bloom into a self-actualizing life.

In How to Be Right When It Counts, Sofola Soboyejo explores what goes into making better decisions. He explores key blindspots that get in the way of favorable outcomes. How to Be Right When It Counts ultimately offers basic changes you can make today to improve the quality of your decisions and outcomes in life and at work.

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this. Every day, we make over 35,000 decisions in our personal and professional lives. How many of those decisions do you get right?