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In Lead Better Now, Performance Coach Jake Thompson offers practical insights and strategies you can implement today to reshape your leadership experience and start driving the positive change you want to see in your team, department, and organization.

John C. Maxwell delves into the process of becoming a successful leader by examining how questions can be used to advantage. What are the questions leaders should ask themselves? What questions should they ask members of their team? He then responds to the toughest problems leaders have presented to him. Using social media, Maxwell offered the floor to followers with unanswered questions about what it takes to achieve their professional best, and selected seventy questions on the most popular topics.

"Conquer the Series 65 Exam: Study Guide for the Investment Advisers Law Exam" is your comprehensive resource for mastering the essential knowledge required to pass the Series 65 exam. This study guide covers all key topics, including investment strategies, portfolio management, ethics, and legal guidelines. Designed for aspiring investment advisers, this guide offers clear explanations, practical examples, and expert insights to help you understand complex concepts and apply them effectively. The book is structured to facilitate efficient learning, with each chapter dedicated to a specific...

Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economic history at the UC Berkeley, created this vitally important book in order to detect and neutralize its threat.

What do we need most in life? Water, you might say? Food, you may incorrectly guess? LOVE? No. It’s Drama. Welcome to the DRAMA MAMA Podcast hosted by yours truly, BENOFTHEWEEK! Join me as I pick apart the latest, juiciest drama and offer my most qualified opinions on every matter. People fighting? I’ve got it covered. Influencer beef? I’ll be turning it into steak. TikTokers making music? Man, do not get me started. Heck, I’ll even pick apart the downfall of American Society. Hooked yet? You name it, I’ll talk about it. And don’t you worry–I’ll tell you what I really think. ...

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.

Una vez que conquistes el autosabotaje, liberes tu verdadero potencial y alcances tus metas, podrás empezar a liberarte de comportamientos autodestructivos, fortalecer tu motivación y derribar los muros que te impiden ver el panorama general: tu propio éxito.

Leaders Leap goes beyond the standard business playbook and teaches you the secrets to creating the bolder, faster, and essential transformation needed to avoid becoming irrelevant in an era of profound and accelerating change. Renowned thought leader on business strategy and innovation Steve Dennis argues that most business transformations are doomed to fail due to two fundamental reasons: their leaders don't aim high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption.

For years now, win-win has been the paradigm for business negotiation. But today, win-win is just the seductive mantra used by the toughest negotiators to get the other side to compromise unnecessarily, early, and often. Win-win negotiations play to your emotions and take advantage of your instinct and desire to make the deal. Start with No introduces a system of decision-based negotiation that teaches you how to understand and control these emotions.

After 30+ years in the Network Marketing industry and having achieved the highest rank as well as being among the top 25 highest income earners in her Network Marketing Company, Donna Weiser's biggest joy is to support others in creating their own success. She says it's her honor and privilege to share her thoughts, wisdom, tips and suggestions in her first book, So You Said Yes: The Weiser Way to Network Marketing

The Lean Tech Manifesto is a major step toward solving your greatest challenge: getting ahead of the competition without the need for massive investments in staff and resources, which always result in higher levels of organizational confusion and waste.

This might be hard to hear before you can even start, but it is important to be realistic: Statistics show that on average, only 10 percent of online businesses succeed while a staggering 90 percent fail within the first 120 days. However, there's a new tool that could increase your chances of success: ChatGPT.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than 15 million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales. But so do the other eight. Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, entrepreneurs enticing funders to invest, or parents and teachers cajoling children to study, we spend our days trying to move others.

Bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"—and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.

Are you frustrated with your agency's plateauing growth, even after trying multiple marketing strategies? Have you ever wondered if narrowing your agency's focus to a specific vertical could lead to faster growth, better retention, and a more streamlined business model? Anyone, Not Everyone provides a simple solution to a big problem that digital agency owners face: serving too many types of clients. In it, leading agency advisor Corey Quinn guides listeners through his proven 5-step process, helping them transform from a generalist agency to a vertical market specialist.

What's the secret sauce to Supercharged Communications? Can it be quantified? Can it be taught? More than that, as a leader, who are you? What are the values you project—not just in the workplace but 24/7? David Schreiner, Ph.D., spent years researching and speaking to executives and people in large organizations across the country to try to discover just that.

With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting.

From the best-selling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience, and virtue. In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known - and not so well-known - Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it.

This book was written for ambitious, driven, and intentional therapists who are ready to outgrow the office, leave behind the outdated model of mental health, and make a bigger impact serving others as they ethically add group coaching. Cheers to getting paid for your knowledge, around the clock, and serving your ideal clients around the globe with your online group coaching program. All while earning back the success, freedom, and security you deserve.

Looking for techniques or ways you can use every time you feel like you're about to overthink? Internalizing things is normal and healthy. But if those thoughts keep you awake at night and make you not focus as your mind is always preoccupied, then you should start addressing this problem. Especially if those thoughts are getting intrusive. Easier said than done right? I get it, it’s a good thing I have a solution to exactly fix that. In my newest creation, "How to End Overthinking", I will tell you exactly what really overthinking is, what triggers it, and steps on how to manage it.