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Brought to life by Academy Award®-winning actor F. Murray Abraham and an ensemble cast of narrators, and featuring original music by Michael Bacon, this collection contains Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved fairy tales, as well as a selection of lesser-known favorites. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore and fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. His fairy tales are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and vivid imagination.

In Blind Spots, you will discover how false assumptions, emotional detachment, outdated core beliefs, and unconscious habits can conspire against you, block your progress as well as your performance. This book isn’t just theory, it includes real-life examples and offers practical solutions for dealing with them in ways that benefit you, your teams, and your organization.

Turbulent times are here to stay. That’s why leaders need a new way to lead. In times of turbulence, leadership is everything. While leadership is a privilege, it can also carry a heavy burden during these periods of great uncertainty. It is humbling for a leader to realize that their traditional leadership processes are not sufficiently adapted to meet to the challenges of our time. Being Iteractive = Iteration + Action Only Iteractive leaders are able to engage with turbulence while remaining hopeful. They operate under the assumption that change is happening for us.

Most of us are working too hard. We live in a society that values "busy-ness" at the expense of effectiveness and sustainability. Our conditioning causes us to forget our best interests and leads to career dissatisfaction and burnout. Many coaching programs use a "more effort/more discipline" approach to pursuing success that often includes more hours, stress, fatigue, and overwhelm. This formula is different; it provides you with solutions to create meaningful and enjoyable work.