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From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success. Most business books provide a one-size-fits-all approach to career advice that overlooks the unique barriers that women of color face. In The Memo...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and performance expert Josh Cavalier shares his in-depth knowledge and skills to help L&D professionals master learning experience design by using generative AI in their employee learning and development efforts. More than just a technical manual on generative AI or a collection of best prompt practices, this book explores how AI is reshaping jobs, skill development, and human performance. Cavalier provides his Learning and Development AI Ecosystem framework as a practical road map for integrating AI into your day-to-day work and your organization.

Nonprofits are in a leadership crisis. According to the Harvard Business Review, one-third to one-half of new CEOs fail in their first eighteen months on the job. The Ultimate Guide for New Nonprofit CEOs is a must-have for nonprofit CEOs and their boards to defy those dismal odds and succeed. In this audiobook, Brian Quail unlocks the secret to long-term leadership excellence.

Unleash your leadership potential within weeks, even if you’re a young professional struggling with confidence and seeking real-world strategies for career successDo you often wonder how you can conquer imposter syndrome and establish your unique leadership style? Are you looking for strategies to navigate office politics while maintaining your authenticity? Have you ever struggled with balancing authority and approachability in your leadership role? If any of these questions resonate with you, you’re not alone.

If you are standing at the edge of a big life change and wondering how to make money after walking away from the very thing that used to make you rich, this book is for you. I wrote this in the middle of my own uncertainty, not from the finish line. After making millions of dollars online through courses, videos, and a massive internet audience, I deleted the systems that had made me rich because I could not stand what they were doing to my soul. What looked like success from the outside had started to feel empty, exploitative, and out of alignment with the kind of life I actually wanted.

Imagine if you could start your dream business, work from home, and make a real difference in people's lives. When you become a life coach, all of this is possible. The authors of Make Money as a Life Coach get it. They know what it’s like to navigate the world of online business and coaching. After considerable learning and several wrong turns, they’ve both gone on to create successful coaching businesses.

This is not a traditional coaching guide. It's a coaching manifesto born from struggle. Good Coach Bad Coach reveals that our relationship with success and failure is the key.

We've seen the negative impact of self-serving leaders in every sector of our society. Not infrequently, they end up bringing down their entire organization. But there is another way. Servant leaders lead by serving their people, not by exalting themselves. In this collection, edited by legendary business author and lifelong servant leader Ken Blanchard and his longtime editor Renee Broadwell, leading businesspeople, best-selling authors, and spiritual leaders offer tools for implementing this proven - but for some, still radical - leadership model.

What does your name attract? How much fortune, fame, and career advancement have you achieved? No matter how well you may have done in the past, until you develop your own unique personal brand, you will only be skimming the surface of the true potential that lies within you.Welcome to a brand-crazed planet.

In Ego at the Helm: How Narcissistic Leaders Sank Billion-Dollar Empires, cybersecurity engineer and leadership author Rickardo Stupart uncovers the hidden thread running through some of the most shocking corporate collapses in recent history: toxic leadership at the very top. From WeWork’s wild ride to Theranos’ calculated deception, from Kodak’s fear of innovation to Blockbuster’s stubborn denial—this book explores how narcissism, micromanagement, arrogance, and poor executive decision-making brought industry giants to their knees.

Get the real guidance you need to create and build your first start-up company from founders who have been there many times before. 

The consistently best-selling What Works on Wall Street explores the investment strategies that have provided the best returns over the past 50 years - and which are the top performers today. The third edition of this BusinessWeek and New York Times best seller contains more than 50 percent new material and is designed to help you reshape your investment strategies for both the post-bubble market and the dramatically changed political landscape.   

El libro sobre coaching más vendido de la historia en Estados Unidos, escrito por «el pensador más influyente del mundo» en este ámbito según la prestigiosa institución Thinkers50. El liderazgo de equipos y organizaciones está en plena transformación. Muchos de nosotros no queremos ni mandar ni que nos manden; preferimos trabajar en equipo, empatizar con los demás, enseñarles lo que mejor sabemos hacer y ayudarles a crecer, y esperamos que ellos hagan algo parecido con nosotros. El coaching es una aptitud fundamental para impulsar esta transformación.

In your career and work, finances, and indeed all areas of life, experience the transformative power of a key relationship—the friendship you have with yourself. In a world obsessed with building self-esteem—doing activities to improve our reputation with ourselves—our sense of well-being hinges on performance, the whims of good luck and positive outcomes. But when we don’t measure up to our own tough standards, things don’t go our way or life falls apart, we are called to access a deeper source of resilience, that of self-worth.

Solutions Focus Practice is transforming coaching, consulting and leadership in organisations all over the world. A powerful yet simple approach to positive change, a solutions focus approach to people problems explores what works in a given situation and aims do more of it. The Solutions Focus...

Former consultant Dr. Paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the best-selling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations. The result is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual. 

Leadership is both a challenge and an opportunity. It’s a balancing act between personal growth and a responsibility to ensure the growth of those you lead. This is why it requires courage, determination, and a willingness to take risks. In short, you must be fearless.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

Did Wall Street cause the mess we are in? Should Washington place stronger regulations on the financial industry? Can we lower unemployment rates by controlling the free market? Answer: no. Not only is free-market capitalism good for the economy, it is our only hope for recovery. As the nation’s longest-serving CEO of one of the top 25 financial institutions, John Allison has had a unique inside view of the events leading up to the financial crisis.

Like any established profession, coaching is full of unexamined assumptions. These need to be regularly questioned and tested to keep the profession vital and valuable. Coaches need to engage in the same kind of scrutiny and self-examination that offers such powerful benefits to their clients.