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Powerful audiobook to learn all essential skills, improve self-confidence, and climb the ladder to success! Do you often find yourself choked up at a certain level and miss out on great opportunities, while others learn smarter and become successful? Do you often wonder why only a handful of people beam with self-confidence and perform at their best, while others struggle to finish their tiny five-pointer to-do-list? Seven Essential Skills to Success is a powerful solution to learn seven essential skills.

How to Make Better Decisions shows you, step by step, how to choose wisely every time. You'll discover how to stop agonizing and make smart decisions quickly and confidently with zero regret. You'll also learn how to recognize influences, both internal and external, that threaten to sabotage your choices.

Turn to Decide and Conquer to access the decision framework David Siegel used when he took over as CEO of Meetup, the world’s leading platform for making connections and finding your community. Let David’s success during one of the most tumultuous times in his company’s history help guide you on your own path. Decide and Conquer helps all leaders navigate the big decisions that will impact their future and make their organizations a success. David outlines the 44 challenges leaders face when starting a new position.

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.

Do you feel the pull to start your own business? Tired of working for others and dealing with office politics, eager for control and more money, Ed ''Skip'' McLaughlin certainly felt it. When he left his high-level corporate position to start not one but two new businesses. One of his businesses thrived...Now, you can learn from his experience - what to do and what not to do - to create your own successful startup. The Purpose Is Profit eliminates the mystery of becoming an entrepreneur.

Science confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and don't demand a more mindful approach. It's when we're faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patterns that can lead us astray.

Decision Making for Dummies is a candid resource that helps leaders understand the impact of their choices, not only on business, but also on their credibility and reputation. Designed for managers, business owners, and anyone else who makes tough decisions on a daily basis, this guide helps you figure out if the decisions you're making are the right ones.

In The 24-Hour Rule and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations, business consultant Adrienne Bellehumeur shows how her six steps of documentation can become your and your team’s new superpower.

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.

Agility isn't a formula, a framework, nor a set of roles and rituals to follow. It's a timeless way of being that matures with practice and skill. Becoming agile involves knowing the difference between being quick or hurrying, moving with ease or difficulty, being in or out of balance, graceful or awkward, adaptable or rigid, resourceful or resentful. With Joy of Agility, Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, one of the oldest and most-respected agile consultancies in the world, shows you how to harness agility in work and life to solve problems and succeed sooner.

Start-up leadership will only get you so far. The founder path is isolating, stressful and overwhelming, and few founders survive the scale-up journey unscathed. If you don't scale your leadership as you scale your company, you're unlikely to survive. Rachel Turner has spent over twenty years helping founders of growing businesses to survive and thrive, so they can lead successful and healthy businesses. The Founder's Survival Guide shows you how to do the same.

Life is full of uncertainty. You don't know what lies ahead. But you can learn to control the controllable by using logic and reason. With the help of this book, you'll discover new ways to think about - and solve - problems more efficiently than ever before. Discover how strategic games model real-life behavior.

We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isn’t steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, it’s the most elemental explanation of all: the swing.

A "brilliant, fun, and wise" (Cass R. Sunstein) tour of nine common business decision-making traps - and practical tools for avoiding them - from a professor of strategic thinking.

تتشكل الانطباعات الأولى بسرعة، وغالبًا دون وعي، وهي مهمة. وقد اكتشف باحثون من جامعة نيويورك أن الناس يتخذون أحد عشر قرارًا رئيسيًّا حيال بعضهم في أول سبع ثوانٍ من اللقاء. تستند هذه الأحكام إلى مزيج من ردود الفعل الواعية واللاواعية تجاه المظهر، وإيماءات الجسد، والوقفة، ونبرة الصوت، وافتتاحيات المحادثات، كما تضع الأسس لعلاقاتنا المستمرة. من خلال تحسين وعيك وتفكيرك وتقييمه، ثم مواءمة تأثيرك في الآخرين، ستتمكن من ضمان أفضل تأثير ممكن في كثير من الأحيان، وفي جميع وسائل الاتصال الخاصة بك، وطرق تواصلك.

في هذا الكتاب، يؤكد ميرفي" أن الطريقة المثلى لإدراك وبدء ممارسة إمكاناتك الأكبر تقوم على اتخاذك قرارات سريعة. وغالبًا ما تخرج القرارات كنتيجة للحدس — والذي أعتقد أنه يعمل كنتيجة لكل من مخزون المعلومات لدى الفرد (لا تهمله أبدًا) — وقدر من المشاركة في تنفيذ إرادة الخالق أو العقل الأسمى. لقد أطلق اليونانيون القدماء على هذه السمة العقلية اسم Nous (وتعني العقل). وإن مصطلح genius (والذي يعني عبقري)، يعني في أصله باللغة اللاتينية "الذات الحاضرة" — حيث رأى القدماء الإلهام والفطنة والبصيرة باعتبارها نعمًا وهبها الخالق.

Peter Herrmann, CEO eines mittelständischen Traditionsunternehmens, steht vor dem Nichts: alte Rezepte greifen nicht mehr, das Team entfremdet sich, die Märkte kippen. Doch die wahre Krise? Die tobt in ihm. Dann taucht ein sprechendes Kaninchen auf. Und plötzlich beginnt eine Reise durch Denkfallen, Führungsmythen – und die Schattenseiten des Erfolgs. Ein Roman wie ein Coachingprozess. Provokant. Poetisch. Persönlich. Eine Geschichte über Mut, Kontrollverlust – und die Revolution der Selbstführung.

प्रखर वक्ता होना, ओजस्वी वाणी का स्वामी होना, प्रभावी शैली में श्रोताओं को मंत्र-मुग्ध कर देने की क्षमता जिसमें हो, वह सामान्य व्यक्ति की तुलना में अधिक सफल होने की संभावना रखता है। बातचीत करना भाषण की कला सीखने का सबसे पहला सिद्धांत है। शुरुआती दौर में स्वर एवं अंदाज जैसी कलाओं पर ध्यान देने की आवश्यकता नहीं होती है। बातचीत करना कला को सीखने का पहला सिद्धांत है; अर्थात् बोलिए, वाद-विवाद में हिस्सा लीजिए, अपनी प्रतिभा का स्वयं आकलन कीजिए और दर्शकों की आलोचना से सीखने की कोशिश कीजिए।.

When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to.

Challenging the conventional wisdom of data-driven decision-making, marketing professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni argue that many analytics efforts flounder because data analyses are disconnected from the decisions to be made. In their important book, they offer a new approach they call decision-driven analytics. Counterintuitively, they argue that the key to making good decisions with data is to start by putting data in the background.