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Nearly half of all mergers and acquisitions involve private equity, but the world of PE can confuse even lifelong business professionals. For years, the #1 bestselling book The Private Equity Playbook has helped countless entrepreneurs, leaders, and CEOs like you successfully navigate the PE playing field. But much has changed since the book was released at the start of 2019. Adam Coffey knows the rapidly evolving PE game isn’t won with outdated tactics.

If you’re tired of motivational fluff, endless side-hustle hacks, and financial “gurus” yelling at you on social media while secretly leasing their lifestyle—this book is your sanctuary. Money Moves: The Silent Game reveals what the wealthy actually do—and what they’ll never post about. This isn’t theory. This is the silent blueprint the rich use to stack, scale, and disappear into peace, freedom, and time-rich living.

In The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice, author David J. Mullen, Jr., reveals how to become a top-producing financial advisor using the method he has taught at Merrill Lynch and is famous for in the industry. This comprehensive book combines marketing, prospecting, sales, and time-management techniques into a system that will help listeners build a successful and lucrative practice. Containing templates, scripts, letters, and 15 tried-and-true Market Action Plans, this indispensable guide shows listeners how to take their financial services practice to the million-dollar level and beyond.

Laugh Tactics is full of strategies that dissect, break down, and analyze all of the types of humor that you'll encounter in daily conversation - stuff you can really use with people you talk to. We're not all trying to become standup comedians, and this isn't a book about ha-ha jokes with setups and punch lines. Learn to simply make a better impression on people, put them at ease, charm them, and make them smile with you.

In Soft Skills for the Professional Services Industry: Principles, Tasks, and Tools for Success, renowned auditing professional, valuator, and author Andreas Creutzmann delivers an essential guide for professionals seeking to upgrade and refine their soft skills. From public speaking to problem solving, digital literacy, and intercultural fluency, the author discusses concrete strategies and practical techniques for professionally trained and credentialed experts to expand their skillset, augment their leadership abilities, and even find more fulfillment in their work.

In Friend and Foe, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hardwired to compete or cooperate, humans have evolved to do both. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want.

This series of short and engaging essays outlines the obstacles to great "who" decisions and offers solutions to address them in a systematic way. Drawing from several decades of experience in global executive search and talent development, as well as the latest management and psychology research, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz offers wisdom and practical advice to improve the choices we make about employees and mentors, business partners and friends, top corporate leaders and even elected officials.

The introduction of a new product may be as thrilling and unpredictable as the ever-changing digital scene. The all-inclusive manual for navigating the murky waters of digital product release is "Digital Products Launch Formula: The Blueprint to Launching, Marketing, and Selling Digital Products" by Russell Scott. You can now confidently and precisely launch your new products into the market thanks to Russell Scott's distillation of the key elements of successful digital product launches into an understandable and usable blueprint.

Ryan Matt Reynolds is a successful strength coach, business owner, and business mentor. This book is the road map he wished he had many years ago when he felt like he was drowning in urgency. Reynolds’s personal journey as a professional athlete, business owner, husband, father, and mentor lends credence to his practices as he shares his foundational principles.

If you never have enough time, this material is for you. Most people suffer from "time famine" - there's more to be done than there is time to do it. Making list after list with no end in sight, your only accomplishment is frustration. The motivational speaker and creator of the highly successful Franklin System, Hyrum W. Smith, shows you how to organize your time and how to organize your life. By applying The 10 Natural Laws, you will increase productivity and you will increase inner peace. As a result, every aspect of your life will manifest greater satisfaction.

Most of us are quite relaxed and confident when we're with our friends and family. We can tell a story or even tell a joke. But put us on a platform and we can feel very different. When we speak to an audience, we often put on a public mask; and use a different voice. Why can't we seem to be ourselves when we give a talk? In this audiobook, we will look at all aspects of spoken communication, from structure right through to delivery. We will learn how to have a conversation with our audience - to be ourselves - so that we connect with them every time we speak.

To win deals at the prices you want, the needed strategy is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation, but sales differentiation presents an untapped opportunity to create meaningful value and stand out from the competition. Sales Differentiation presents 19 easy-to-implement concepts to help salespeople win deals while protecting margin. These concepts are applicable to any salesperson in any industry and are based on the foundation that how you sell, not just what you sell, differentiates you.

This is the EXACT step-by-step system that many self-help experts use to manage their lives. This book goes into the life planning process, such as how to create an ultimate vision, ultimate purpose, identity, and code of conduct for your life. This book is more of a workbook with specific exercises so you can get clarity for your life.

It all starts with a sale. Whether you love it or hate it, making sales drives your wedding and event business. You don't get to use your creative skills for cooking, music, flowers, decor, fashion, ceremonies, or whatever your business is, until you make the sale. If you have been selling for a long time, this book will be a good refresher.

During Lee Cockerell’s career at Disney as the senior operating executive of Walt Disney World Resorts, he led a team of 40,000 cast members (employees) and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, four theme parks, and two water parks. As you can imagine, Lee had to become a time-management expert, first as a means of survival and then as a way to help others make the best use of their time. The time-management secrets he developed have become one of his most requested corporate-training lectures and are now available to you in this tell-all audiobook.

There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won't work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now?

Clarity, Focus, and Concentration: Three strong attributes needed to hit the bull's eye! And just as you can develop your physical muscles through hard work and concentration, you can develop your mental muscles through continuous repetition. Bull's Eye will teach you how to unleash your powers for success and accomplish more in the next few months than many people do in a lifetime.

My guide offers concise, no-nonsense advice that is thoughtfully designed for all skill levels, ensuring you can implement these techniques immediately and begin seeing results right away.

Forget everything you've been taught about selling: forget the hard sell, forget negotiation strategies, forget those closing techniques. In The Inner Game of Selling, Ron Willingham debunks the familiar myths about "sales skills", showing that those tired methods are too shallow and manipulative to do anything but alienate potential customers and drain you of energy and dignity.

How did a balloonist circumnavigate the earth without fuel? How did an inventor design a device that creates electrical power from human footsteps? How did the WHO figure out how to treat and reduce the transmission of Ebola? They all used alien thinking. For over a decade, innovation experts Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux and Michael Wade have studied individuals around the world who have made leaps of creative genius. Their research shows that they are five patterns of thinking that distinguish true innovators from the rest of us.