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A newly revised edition of this guide to achieving success through the art of persuasion offers winning advice on how to increase self-confidence, cultivate a taste for success, and much more. By the author of Think and Grow Rich.

More than 50 years after it was first published, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich still inspires thousands of people each year to take charge of their lives and pursue success. Now, from The Napoleon Hill Foundation, comes this collection of 365 daily spurs to better and greater achievement.

Everyone knows that you are supposed to "follow your dream". But where is the road map to help you discover what that dream is? You have just found it. In Springboard, award-winning author and teacher G. Richard Shell helps you find your future. His advice: Take an honest look inside and then answer two questions: What, for me, is success? How will I achieve it? You will begin by assessing your current beliefs about success, including the hidden influences of family, media, and culture. These are where the pressures to live "someone else's life" come from.

Career coach and Harvard-trained lawyer Tama Kieves presents 365 tidbits of easy-to-digest wisdom in a day-by-day format that listeners will love! In this day-by-day book, motivational speaker, career coach, and Harvard-trained lawyer Tama Kieves presents the listener with 365 days worth of inspiration for overcoming fear, conquering obstacles, and achieving their life's greatest work. With morsels of wisdom presented in an easy-to-action format, this book will help listeners to realize and achieve their true destiny!

Brainblocks are the mental obstacles that keep people from achieving success, defined as setting, pursuing, and achieving a goal. Managing the brain is the solution to preventing mental blocks from interfering with achieving your goals.

Here is the greatest "deal" you will ever find: This concise, deeply practical guide shows how to forgive anyone who has ever hurt you and to receive a payback of enormous personal satisfaction and inner peace. "What I am offering you in this book is the best deal you have ever gotten in your life, or ever will. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm willing to make this claim with complete certainty."

With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge in life or business.

With greater workplace demands comes greater stress--and it's taking a toll on our productivity and well-being. The standard recommendations are to exercise, meditate, and eat better. But who has time for yoga poses amid nonstop meetings and pressing deadlines? Stress reduction becomes one more thing to do! Executive coach and psychotherapist Aimee Bernstein offers a more effective and realistic approach: Embrace the pressure. See it as an energy source.

Carol Kinsey Goman, a leading workplace body language expert, combines her own experiences with the latest research to identify 50 subtle physical and vocal cues that will enable you to spot destructive workplace lies. She analyzes the role we play in supporting lies - how our own vanities, desires, self-deceptions, and rationalizations allow us to be duped. And once you detect a lie, she provides tactical advice on how to respond, whether the liar is above, below, or on the same level as you - even if it's your boss.

Since founding Orange County Choppers in Upstate New York in 1999, Teutul has grown the business from a hobby into a 70-person-plus operation that produces and sells 150 custom bikes a year at retail prices starting at $30,000 and quickly escalating to six figures. Teutul and his team not only sell their choppers from their world headquarters in Newburgh, New York, but throughout a multicountry dealership network in the US and abroad.

Beyond Titles helps listeners break free from the weight of labels tied to job titles, empowering them to build a professional narrative that highlights their skills, leadership, true abilities, and, most importantly, how to lead fearlessly through the lens of authenticity and vulnerability.

An allegory about an origami crane's dream of becoming a paper plane, Unfolded imparts a philosophy and strategy to help leaders meet their full potential, cultivate better relationships, and grow their leadership capacity. Through purposeful storytelling, the book encourages listeners to join a journey of transformation, self-acceptance, and expression, helping them unpack their identity and build confidence in themselves.

Speaking with a powerful voice is the backbone of successful leadership. A leader needs their voice to calm people down, reassure people with certainty and hope, foster connection, build trust, convey the vision, inspire teams, and drive results. This book shows you that the voice you were born with can be changed.

Written by trailblazing global product innovator Leslie Grandy, Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI provides everything listeners need to develop the mindset, skills, and confidence that allow creativity to flourish, enabling them to challenge conventional thinking to improve customer, business, and personal results and collaborate effectively with generative AI to cultivate and explore novel ideas.

The gap between good and great leadership? It's bridged by relatability. But what does it truly mean to be a relatable leader in today's diverse, multi-generational workforce? And how can you cultivate this essential quality to elevate your leadership and your team's performance? The Relatable Leader provides a practical roadmap to build genuine trust and psychological safety; communicate with clarity and empathy; inspire others through purposeful, motivating leadership; and unlock team potential and drive engagement.

Venture capitalists manage to raise and invest trillions of dollars despite being wrong most of time through asymmetric bets—where a few big wins outsize losses by factors of 1,000x. In The Super Upside Factor, Daniel Kang draws on his experience as a venture capitalist at Softbank Vision Fund and a Y Combinator-backed founder to adapt asymmetric principles for personal and professional life. He offers a clear framework for maximizing luck and generating outsized returns―what he calls Super Upsides.

A must-listen new book from leadership and entrepreneurship coach Lauren Morrison.

In Ice Cold Leader, special forces combat veteran, FBI agent, and business founder Errol Doebler reveals his unknown and silent battle with a traumatic brain injury incurred as a Navy SEAL in the late 1990s, and how he overcame emotional distress, self-doubt, depression, and anxiety to create a successful and happy personal and professional life until the day he discovered his pain was due to an injury he didn't even know he had.

In The Two But Rule: Turn Negative Thinking Into Positive Solutions veteran tech innovator John Wolpert delivers an exciting hands-on guide to using the principles of Momentum Thinking to get you—and your organization—unstuck. You'll learn how to build unstoppable velocity for your big idea, product, or strategy as you blast through the endless objections and counterarguments that bedevil every innovator and changemaker.

Dr. Thom Mayer knows first-hand that true leadership stems from our actions, not our positions, especially in times of crisis. Drawing on his experiences heading the 9/11 Pentagon rescue efforts, dealing with on-field emergencies in the NFL (he was at Damar Hamlin's bedside after his injury), training mobile response medical teams in Ukraine, and more, Mayer covers such topics as why trust is vital for innovation; the critical role of failure in devising new ways of leading; and more.