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In a good negotiation, everybody walks away a winner. Drawing on her nearly two decades of experience negotiating multimillion-dollar agreements with the most savvy people in sports, Molly Fletcher provides the strategies and tactics business professionals need to find common ground, strengthen relationships, and close more deals.

Throughout Billy Graham’s evangelical ministry, his roles as an evangelist and as “America’s pastor” have been well documented. However, the story that remains untold is the story of his leadership - both publicly and in private - as a minister and as a CEO. For more than fifty years, Graham was CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and oversaw its worldwide gatherings and diverse media divisions.

What do leaders and executives do to keep improving their performances and maintain momentum? They go back to the basics. Fundamentals are the glue - communicating, listening, questioning, inspiring followers, being accountable, and delegating. These essentials are the change agents for leaders with a desire to succeed. In Leadership Skills That Inspire Incredible Results Halstead gives listeners the same advice, guidance, and techniques he offers his clients. He outlines the skills needed to be an effective leader and provides techniques augmented by real-world examples.

In today's fast-paced, unstable workplace achieving success requires speaking up, promoting oneself and one's ideas, and taking initiative. Extroverts, fearless in tooting their own horns, naturally thrive in this environment, but introverts often stumble. If you question your ability to perform and succeed in this extroverted work culture, The Introvert's Complete Career Guide is custom fit for you. In this supportive, all-inclusive handbook, Jane Finkle demonstrates how to use your introverted qualities to their best advantage.

For Efrem Harkham, hospitality isn't just a job - it's a way of life. And that attitude is evident when you walk into any of Harkham’s one-hundred-plus luxury hotels. In a true, rags-to-riches American success story, Harkham built a renowned international hotel brand that is synonymous with comfort and refinement.

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all the chaos it's revealing, our understanding of how things happen is changing - and with it our deepest strategies for predicting, preparing for, and managing our world. This affects everything, from how we approach our everyday lives to how we make moral decisions and how we run our businesses.

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment" in Greenwich Village.

Our economy is spiraling, and younger generations are getting locked out of the opportunities our parents had. Generation F*cked exposes why the system is so broken and offers practical steps for Millennials and Gen Z to retake our financial futures.

Daily emergencies sideline dreams. A thoughtful, strategic playbook turns them into reality. Follow Anthony and Ricki’s transformative journey from overwhelmed auto shop owners to strategic business leaders as they use a game-changing approach to reclaim their vision and passion and create a truly flourishing enterprise.

Despite decades of progress, women are still facing persistent gaps in pay, representation, and opportunity. But here’s what’s often overlooked: men are struggling, too. Pressured to conform to outdated stereotypes—stoic, aggressive, competitive—many men feel boxed in, disconnected, and unable to show up as their full selves. In Men at Work, Jennifer McCollum, President and CEO of Catalyst, reveals a bold truth that the key to building inclusive, high-performing workplaces isn’t only about helping women—it’s about unlocking the full potential of men as well.

In Unlocking the Last 20%, celebrated fighter test pilot and AI innovation leader Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton shares the framework that propelled him from high school dropout to commander of the military’s largest flight test organization. Drawing from his myriad experiences flying aircraft, leading combat missions, and pioneering autonomous aircraft systems, Hamilton unveils the crucial mindsets and actions that separate those who merely achieve from those who truly excel.

Your ability to get what you want depends upon your ability to persuade. Unfortunately, the way most people approach persuasion has the opposite effect: we double down on our own perspective and cite tons of facts to make our point—or even try to strong-arm people into giving in. None of this is persuasive. In reality, it pushes people away from us, making it hard or even impossible to get what we want.

As Chairman of the Napoleon Hill Institute and former CEO of Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment (the inspiration for Jerry Maguire), where his first major task was to bring home negotiations for returning the NFL’s Rams to Los Angeles from St. Louis, David Meltzer followed his boss’s instructions: “Don’t negotiate to the last penny. Always be fair. Don’t do business with d--ks.” Since then, David’s taken this advice on as his mantra, not just for negotiating high-stakes deals but for navigating life.

Playing by the rules is a surefire path to mediocrity—a road well traveled and devoid of true greatness. Unlocking your utmost potential, however, requires a rare breed of audacity and courage. This isn’t just another career advice book. The CodeBreaker Mindset is a comprehensive blueprint for identifying and dismantling the barriers—both visible and invisible—that hold you back from pursuing your dreams.

The biggest epidemic plaguing businesses today is the failure to solve issues quickly and permanently. Most companies get stuck in endless meetings that rehash the same problems without resolution, creating a culture of frustration and stagnation. Issues reveals the cure: a proven system used by tens of thousands of businesses to remove friction, fast-track growth, and ignite greatness.

Prepare your business today or risk irrelevance tomorrow. The generation that will reshape everything about how brands connect with consumers has arrived in full force.

A field-tested set of principles and practices for connecting with others on a deeper level and fostering more meaningful relationships.

In the age of social media as personal television, it's not about being the best at what you do, it's about being the best at getting the right people to see it. Guru, Inc. reveals how to position yourself as the go-to authority in your niche and build a personal media company that turns attention into influence, trust, and revenue.

Fueled by curiosity—and occasionally one too many drinks—Zane Lamprey has raised glasses with people around the world, meeting them where they are most themselves—their local watering holes. In Glass Half Full, Zane takes readers back to his roots, delving into his childhood, his leap of faith moving to Hollywood, and the independent projects he hustled to create. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how he ultimately broke new ground in the travel show space with his Three Sheets and Drinking Made Easy and become inspired to drink up all the world has to offer.

Most tech ventures fail to stand out or connect meaningfully with customers until it’s too late. What separates promising products from true market leaders isn’t just great technology—it’s embedding brand power into your product’s DNA from day one, not as an afterthought after the product is built. Too many founders and product managers dismiss brand as a fluffy marketing activity that can wait. That assumption kills promising products.