Showing results by publisher "Macmillan Audio" in Career Success

In Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips to Clean Up Your Writing, Mignon Fogarty, the woman behind the popular Grammar Girl podcast, tackles some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. From "lay vs. lie" and "affect vs. effect" to split infinitives and run-on sentences, the Grammar Girl offers clear explanations and effective memory tricks to help listeners write (or say) it right.

Negotiating is an art. It's complicated. To become an exceptional negotiator traditionally requires years of experience in negotiations. But that doesn't mean that most people can't quickly and easily learn proven negotiating skill and techniques if someone shows them what to do. This book does exactly that. Never Lose Again reveals a simple but remarkably effective set of fifty questions that anyone can immediately use to become far better negotiators.

Whether you're one of the 47 million Americans who dreams of running your own small business or you're already the owner of one of the 25 million small businesses in the United States, Jeffrey Fox is the man who can help you get to the top. Using his own experience as an extremely successful entrepeneur, Fox offers his blueprint for success.

Jeffrey Fox, the author of such business best-sellers as How to Become CEO, is unsurpassed when it comes to empowering readers to gain the edge on the competition. But before you can run the company, you have to get your foot in the door, and in How to Land Your Dream Job, Fox shows how to do exactly that, with invaluable, and often counterintuitive, advice.

What makes a successful business? How can we work most effectively as a team? What are the keys to being a great leader? Best-selling authors Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge address these questions in Working with Presence. From the importance of harmonized thinking to the role that tacit knowledge plays in every organization, they discuss how companies can transform themselves into learning organizations.

Do you want to get to the top? Do you want to know how to rise above the crowd and become a leader in your field? Then this is the audiobook for you. In How to Get to the Top, best-selling author Jeffrey J. Fox combines his own experience as an extremely successful entrepreneur with lessons learned at the family dinner table by business leaders.

Coming Back tells how you can save a career if still employed, or get one back if cast out. Fawn Germer, one of the nation’s most popular leadership experts and global motivational speakers, has personally interviewed more than 300 CEOs, senior executives, professors, lawyers, organizational experts, industry leaders, and professionals. The result is a tactical, tough-love call to action: to learn, re-tool, connect, grow, and get ready to work again.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, is renowned for his work as a scientist, writer, and teacher bringing mindfulness into everyday life. He has dedicated his career to the fields of mind/body medicine, integrative medicine, and self-healing. Here, in this groundbreaking audiobook, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Daniel Goleman explore ways in which mindfulness can be applied by a variety of institutions and businesses to make better leaders and improve the quality of the workplace.

Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all - chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike.

Microsoft is well-known for being an intense place to work: employees face constant pressure to innovate and excel and are passionately devoted to their jobs. In this insightful audiobook, Anna Rowley reveals the major problems all managers face and shows how to conquer them.

In What It Takes, Amy Henry, a formidable businesswoman and national star from The Apprentice, shares her experiences, skills, and in-your-face advice for moving up in today's workplace.

Meet the women who haven’t asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. Geek Girl Rising isn’t about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce listeners to the fearless female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that’s changing the way we live, work and connect to each other.

What does it take to reach the top in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant of The New York Times decided to answer this and other questions by sitting down with more than seventy CEOs and asking them how they do their jobs and the most important lessons they learned as they rose through the ranks. Over the course of extraordinary interviews, they shared memorable stories and eye-opening insights.

We all need to speak, write, and communicate more effectively. Dave Bartlett shares his decades of experience as a strategic communications consultant in an accessible, easy to apply guide to help anybody--students, business people, public speakers, or politicans--improve their speaking and presenting skills.

Thousands of people have attended Susan RoAne's seminars and used her smart, savvy, sassy advice to change their lives. This original audio program explains how you can present exactly the image you want to convey and create the best impression wherever you go.

Let America's foremost expert teach you to learn anything better, easier, and faster. By the time you are through listening, you will have discovered your own personal learning style, mastered eight techniques to break through learning blocks, and learned new brain-friendly memory and note-taking skills.

Millions of people have improved their lives with the help of Richie Frieman, the hilariously insightful columnist known as the "Modern Manners Guy" on the Quick and Dirty Tips network. With his signature wit and unique insight, Richie reveals the best ways to handle every sticky situation with aplomb and class. Case studies and chapter quizzes all help to deliver actionable, easy-to-use tips to help young professionals navigate the minefield of their workplace and come out on top.

How powerful are your networking skills? In this era of super-communications, "making it" means making connections, and putting those connections to work.

Now Susan RoAne, best-selling author of How to Work a Room, offers her surefire methods for developing your networking techniques and resources and turning your networks into a ladder for success.

“Come just as you are.” It’s become common for workplaces to employ this phrase to create the illusion of an inclusive workplace culture. But these calls are dishonest and overlook the true risks of being yourself at work. Too often, the qualities that make us whole–our values, motivations, and perspectives–are turned around and used against us in the workplace to the detriment of our careers. We cannot work like this.

Remember your first business card? It was such a novelty item. But did you know that these six square inches are the best and most handy marketing devices that ever fit right in your pocket? In this program, you'll learn how to network using your business card to actually create more business. Now that's a novel concept.