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The 4-Hour Work Week
A new, updated and expanded edition of this New York Times bestseller on how to reconstruct your life so it's not all about work Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: * How Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week * How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want * How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs * How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist * How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent 'mini-retirements'. This new updated and expanded edition includes: More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled their income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point * Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating email, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than £5 a meal * How lifestyle design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times * The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either.
Give and Take
A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and OriginalsFor generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.
Social Functions of Emotion and Talking About Emotion at Work
Despite how much we know about emotion, Social Functions of Emotion and Talking About Emotion at Workuniquely examines the utility of emotion in organizations against the ways in which both individuals and groups talk about them. Drawing on psychological and sociological research, this book provides groundbreaking insights for understanding how emotions are used in the workplace. Bringing together contributions from leading emotion researchers, this book features chapters focusing on 10 emotions, ranging from awe to shame. Through its exploration of the ways each emotion functions in relation to how we talk about them, this book injects fresh theoretical and practical momentum into how our discussions of workplace emotion can affect how emotional events are appraised over time and place. This, in turn influences the causes, expressions, and consequences of emotions in the workplace. With its novel approach, this book will be an invaluable tool for academics researching emotion, as well as postgraduate students working in the social sciences seeking reference material on emotion. HR managers and general readers seeking greater insight into emotions at work will also find this book to be a useful tool. Contributors include: N.M. Ashkanasy, R.A. Baron, S. Connelly, M. Dasborough, C.D. Fisher, D. Geddes, P. Harvey, M.L.A. Hayward, P.J. Jordan, S. Kiffin-Petersen, H.C. Lench, D. Lindebaum, K.E. Moura, K.A. Perez, R.H. Smith, R.K. Smith, P.N. Stearns, A.C. Troth, M.R. Turner, K.L. Tyran, T.S.H. Wingenbach
Essential Managers Management Handbook
Are you looking to take the new step in your career? Can you manage yourself with ease, but need more confidence when managing others?Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and The Essential Manager's Management Handbook provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the seven key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, negotiating, and flexible working.With key quotes, bright visuals, and breakdowns by subject, this ebook is accessible and easy-to-use. Interactive tips and checklists will encourage you to note down your thoughts, examining past and present workplace experiences that you can learn from. Expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions will help you understand how to deal with challenges and gain valuable management skills for life.This accessible and clear guide is packed with practical, no-nonsense information covering everything you need to know about acquiring and developing management skills. Download The Essential Manager's Management Handbook for quick reference when you're in need of guidance, or work through each section at your own pace to become the best manager you can be.
Death by Meeting
A straightforward framework for creating engaging and exciting business meetings Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch. “How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered. In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary. Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings. Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen. As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams and create environments of engagement and passion.
How the Best Leaders Lead
The world’s greatest business leaders make it all look easy because they keep it simple: measurable, repeatable methods that generate exceptional results in both strong markets and weak, good economies and bad.Leadership expert Brian Tracy has guided countless thousands of professionals, executives, and leaders of all stripes to truly startling results through his business books, seminars and consulting work.In How the Best Leaders Lead, Tracy breaks down the art and science of business leadership into the seven fundamental responsibilities that outstanding leaders master. Essential for success in any organization and every leadership position, they are:Setting and achieving goalsFostering innovationProblem solving and decision makingSetting prioritiesSetting high standards and leading by exampleInspiring and motivating othersPerforming and achieving resultsThis book will take you through a thorough self-analysis with which you will discover what is truly important to you—and identify the specific steps you must take to achieve it. You’ll then listen Tracy’s life-changing lessons culled from the leading edges of business, the annals of history and military strategy, and the wisdom of the world’s most powerful leadership and management thinkers past and present.Leadership is an exact science but a simple one, born of clear vision and courage, self -knowledge and integrity, focus and confidence. With acute insight and Tracy’s accessible guidance, How the Best Leaders Lead brings those powerful attributes and leadership greatness easily within your reach.
Motivation (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
As a manager, your overall goal for each day with your team is to maximize the productivity and quality that they are capable of producing. And despite a thorough hiring process, training that is second to none, and competitive compensation, you probably still find yourself at times with an underperforming lackluster group of paycheck collectors, with absenteeism and turnover levels too high to maintain any kind of consistent progress.But perhaps the problem is not in your team or their capabilities . . . but in you. How are you intentionally motivating them to greatness?As a manager, one of your most important responsibilities is to motivate your employees to do their absolute best. Managers who create positive, rewarding, high-energy environments will find their employees longing to excel at work and to contribute to the overall mission.In Motivation, success expert Brian Tracy draws on his decades of experience bringing out the best in others to provide 21 of the fastest, most powerful methods ever discovered for increasing the effectiveness of any individual or group. Inside this efficient, easy-to-read guide, managers will learn how to:Ensure employees look forward to coming to work and feel passionate about what they doChallenge them with tasks that allow them to stretchSatisfy their need to feel both autonomous and part of a greater wholeReduce their fear of failure while increasing their desire to take risksRemove obstacles that suppress promising employeesProvide the regular feedback they need to succeedAnd much more!More than likely, you already have the team you need to take your company to the next level of success. They are just waiting for someone to come along and inspire them to greatness. Packed with proven tools and strategies, this essential guide helps any manager deliver a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart of his or her work team.
Creativity and Problem Solving (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
The hallmark of an exceptional career is the ability to devise innovative solutions for work challenges. Therefore, creative thinking skills are vital for your professional advancement.Recent research has revealed a direct causality between ideas and profitability, which means that in today’s competitive and technology-rich work environment, the most crucial element separating an extraordinary career from an ordinary one is creative thinking skills.As one of the world's premiere success experts, Brian Tracy knows anyone can become more creative by practicing with a few helpful tools. This concise, easy-to-read book guides you to immediately begin generating a stream of productive ideas.In Creativity & Problem Solving, Tracy reveals 21 proven techniques that will help you:Stimulate the three primary triggers to creativityInspire a creative mindset in staff through recognition, rewards, and environmentUse methods to solve problems, improve systems, devise new products, and come up with fresh, exciting marketing anglesAsk focused questions to generate elegant solutionsUnderstand the difference between mechanical and adaptive thinkingRigorously evaluate new ideas without shutting down the creative impulseContaining mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earth strategies, Creativity & Problem Solving will help you tap into the root source of their own intuitive genius--and gain the winning edge they’ve been missing all this time.
Hiring and Firing (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
Hiring and firing are too crucial to get wrong. Eliminate the guesswork in the two most important tasks you face as a manager.Hiring and firing are difficult to get right and potentially costly to get wrong, both for your career and for the business. Hiring & Firing is the indispensable guide you absolutely must have by your side.Business expert Brian Tracy breaks down the simple but powerful strategies you can use to both bring stronger employees on board and weed out those not up to par. By learning to implement these techniques that Tracy can testify firsthand to the effectiveness of, you will make better leadership decisions that positively effect you and the business.In Hiring & Firing, you will be able to:Write appealing and accurate job descriptionsUse the law of three in interviews to find suitable candidatesAsk the right questionsProbe past performanceListen for the questions that indicate interviewees are qualified and seriousProvide clear direction and regular feedbackDe-hire gracefully, and more!At best, hiring and firing are key to improving your team and reaching your goals.Bringing on and letting go of the wrong people wastes company time and money while also reflecting poorly upon you. At worst, it could be crucial for the business in several ways. Hiring & Firing will ensure that you make the right decisions.
Business Strategy (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
Taking control of your company’s destiny starts with planning strategically from the beginning.How will you determine if your company has succeeded if you can’t base its performance on a well-defined business strategy? A strategic plan, established at your venture’s birth, helps crystalize the future of the organization--mapping a clear path from where the company stands today to where you wish it to be.Setting a business strategy enables you to develop absolute clarity on priorities, organize resources, and get better results than ever before. Renowned business author Brian Tracy has provided a simple path to creating the specific business strategy needed for your company’s success.In Business Strategy, Tracy will help you discover how to:Ask the five key questions vital to any strategic planDetermine a corporate mission that lifts and inspires peopleDefine themselves in relation to their competitionReposition their business with new products, services, and technologyAnticipate crises, and more!Incorporating wide-ranging examples--from Alexander the Great to IBM to General Electric--this concise, practical guide gives readers proven ideas for increasing their company’s bottom line and maximizing their strengths and opportunities. The path to success starts at the beginning!
Full Engagement!
As a manager, it’s your role to achieve the highest possible return on the physical, emotional, and mental efforts your people put forth. A return on investment is a return on energy. How do you light a fire under each employee when most of them are working at only a fraction of their potential?In this essential guide, business leadership expert Brian Tracy shows you how to unlock superstar potential from everyone on your work team. Based on decades of research and thousands of hours maximizing personal and organizational performance, Tracy shares the hard and fast secrets of what you can do (and what you should stop doing) to inspire your employees to reach peak performance.In Full Engagement!, you will learn how to:create a high-trust work environmentdrive out the fears that hold your people backset clear goals and objectivesunlock the potential of each personmotivate and inspire employees to greater heighttrigger the “X Factor” that maximizes productivityrecognize, reward, and reinforce their efforts that energizes each team memberYour ability to channel the human energies of your staff into higher levels of productivity and performance is the yardstick by which your ability as an executive will be measured. In these tough economic times, everyone is expected to produce more with less.The only way to succeed is to consistently inspire your people to perform at their absolute best.?Full Engagement! provides you with the keys to unlocking not just the hidden drive and abilities that exist within every one of your people but also your own.
Leaders Eat Last
The New York Times bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better. Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150+ million views).Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things. In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why?The answer became clear during a conversation with a Marine Corps general. "Officers eat last," he said. Sinek watched as the most junior Marines ate first while the most senior Marines took their place at the back of the line. What's symbolic in the chow hall is deadly serious on the battlefield: Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort--even their own survival--for the good of those in their care. Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside.Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.