Management Reality

In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances - one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same - without drama or defensiveness. Filled with dynamic examples and innovative tools, this book shows you how to become a reality-based leader.

This book is for restaurant owners, chefs, and cooks that want to learn about kitchen management. There are three routes to learning how to manage a kitchen; culinary school, private restaurants, and corporate training. I have experienced all three, and realized there is a lot left unsaid no matter how you learn. Now I am sharing my experience with you to help fill in the gaps of standard education.

Bending Reality is Victoria Song's innovative process used by billionaires, tech founders, and the world's most successful leaders to make the impossible probable. After achieving success without fulfillment at Yale University, Harvard Business School, and then as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Venture Capitalist, Victoria set off on an unusual quest to study with over 24 of the world's best coaches, therapists, and healers.

Integrity. It is more than simple honesty. It's the key to success. A person with integrity has the, often rare, ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances.

Stan McChrystal served for 34 years in the US Army, rising from a second lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division to a four-star general, in command of all American and coalition forces in Afghanistan. During those years he worked with countless leaders and pondered an ancient question: "What makes a leader great?" He came to realize that there is no simple answer. McChrystal profiles 13 famous leaders from a wide range of eras and fields - from corporate CEOs to politicians and revolutionaries. He uses their stories to explore how leadership works in practice.

The essential book on management from the man who invented the discipline. Now completely revised and updated for the first time.

If we live long enough, life will knock us around. Relationships will fail. Loved ones will die. Injury, illness and disease will all take their toll. Our suffering might seem unbearable at these times, but there is hope. The Reality Slap is a compassionate, wise and extremely practical guide to handling the anxiety, grief and suffering that inevitably follow such major life blows.

More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn't tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your "emotional expense" - the toll your actions and attitudes take on the people around you.

In his comprehensive Starting a Business QuickStart Guide, Ken Colwell concisely presents the core fundamentals that all new entrepreneurs need to know to get started, find success, and live the life of their dreams.

How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again. Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the forces of community.

One-Size-Fits-All Leadership is Dead! Leadership is personal and personalized. What does that mean and why is it important to embrace that ethos now? The Covid pandemic exposed, in ways that no one could have ever imagined, that people are looking for something entirely different than they have been receiving from their companies and leaders. What motivates and inspires one person may be very different from what motivates another. UnCommon Leadership® for the New Reality: 3 Principles that Drive Greater Awareness, Engagement, and Psychological Safety will provide the roadmap to evaluate ...

Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it.

Land the deals you want and develop your instincts with million-dollar negotiation techniques. After selling over $3 billion in real estate, including the most expensive one-bedroom house in history, Josh Altman, costar of the hit show Million-Dollar Listing Los Angeles, wants to teach you the real estate sales and negotiation tactics that have made him one of America's top agents. Buying or selling a house, whether for a client or yourself, is one of the most important and stressful deals anyone can make, demanding emotional intelligence and a solid set of negotiating skills.

In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.

Are you overwhelmed, scattered, or stuck in cycles of distraction? In The Law of Focus, Dr. Vincent Oppong fuses ancient biblical wisdom, quantum physics, and spiritual truth to reveal one powerful principle: what you focus on expands. Jesus said, “If your eye is single, your whole body will be full of light.” (Matthew 6:22) Science echoes this truth through the Observer Effect—your attention literally shapes your reality. In this transformative book, you’ll discover: How to harness your attention as a creative force The spiritual cost of a divided mind—and how to overcome it How ...

Who Do We Choose to Be? is a book that offers a path for leaders to engage wisely with the destructive dynamics of this time that manifest at every level, from individual to organizational to global. We enter the path by facing reality, wanting to see with clarity and discernment where we are and how we got here. Because of her own studies and experiences, Wheatley has chosen to use the lens of new science to understand where we are and why we ended up here.

We have been talking about ‘leadership at all levels’ for over a century – let’s make it a reality for today’s world. This completely updated second edition of the award-winning The Inner CEO provides the tried and tested blueprint to make distributed leadership a reality and tap into the potential of the many.

Dr. Joey Faucette discovered that while owners and executives can shape a work environment, it’s the managers and their teams who best create a positive workplace. Work Positive in a Negative World, Team Edition helps influence those on the front lines of increasing team productivity and company profitability. Written in a story-driven style that unpacks the five core practices of a work positive environment in an easy-to-access way Dr. Joey shares what he’s learned in the nine years since his previous best seller that managers and team members can implement starting today.

Are you tired of setting goals and making changes that don't stick? The problem isn't your willpower – it's your nervous system. In "Rewiring Your Reality," wellness expert and transformation coach Mike Gingerich reveals why lasting change feels so elusive and, more importantly, how to finally make it happen. Drawing from his extensive background in nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and personal transformation, Mike shares groundbreaking insights into how your body's operating system secretly controls your life. This practical guide shows you: • Why traditional self-help ...

Every sign points to a collapsing worldwide population by the end of this century. In his new book Dennis Marx uses statistical and evolutionary analysis to show… That the population explosion of the 20th century has turned into the population implosion of the 21st century That worldwide human fertility is falling Humans are currently evolving exponentially faster than at any time in the past How these new trends will effect business, politics and culture. How business and investment practices can best take advantage of these trends. By examining the demographic details across the globe, ...