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The truth matters! New York Times best-selling author Mark Murphy returns with the latest science and techniques for delivering tough messages without causing anger or defensiveness. 

Sales is now a team sport, and to win, you have to build and manage selling squads that work in complete alignment - not just during client meetings, but before and after, as well. In Sell Like a Team, Michael Dalis, a senior consultant at the legendary sales training firm, The Richardson Company, guides you through the process of creating and managing selling squads that execute and win in every sales meeting or pitch. 

 The Power of Community provides a step-by-step approach to transforming your organization by tapping into the human need to connect with and feel valued by others. By creating a company culture based on core community values, you'll empower your workforce, build customer loyalty, and drive profits and growth.  

There are three kinds of employees: Some are saints: they're always accountable. Some are sinners: they're never accountable. But most are save-ables: sometimes they make good choices; sometimes they don't. What makes the difference? Leadership Without Excuses has the answers. Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron help you put an end to the save-ables' poor choices and excuse-making - and convert them into saints. The secret is to communicate clear and credible expectations, create compelling consequences, and lead conversations grounded in reality. 

Unlock your company's true potential by eliminating knowledge work waste that's hiding in plain sight. 

Longlisted for the National Business Book Award Where will the world go after COVID-19? CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs Darrell Bricker's prescient and timely new book has the insights and the data to understand what we are going through and why, and who we still are despite the disruption. While...

There's always been that one quiet kid in the back of the class. Perhaps they're a little shy, branded a misfit - maybe they dress a little funny...but they're always watching, always listening. That's me. I'm that kid. I've learned much by playing the role of an avid observer, and feel I must break my silence if only for a spell. Sitcoms have thrived on the silly subject matter of telephone support for decades, exposing the most despicable acts of customers and corporations alike.

Cristina had always been a confident, ambitious, and strong woman, but somehow, she allowed a man to strip her of her sense of worth. For six years, she pledged her love and loyalty to someone who deserved neither, and the result of that was allowing who could have been the love of a lifetime to walk out of her life. Now, she had found the courage to put herself first and leave a relationship that had never served her.

Six years apart didn't change the way he looks at me. Or the way I try not to look back. We were supposed to be friends. Safe. But the night he came home, he stepped into my world like he'd never left—and took something I didn't even know I'd been holding back. Now the rules we lived by are gone, and the line between us isn't just blurred. It's gone. And I'm not sure I want it back.

Locked in a brutal conflict, the Paladin Kingdom and the Ascendant Empire wage a battle for dominance that’s left the world scarred. But far from the frontlines, a different kind of resistance brews in secret. When Locke Maxwell discovers a power buried within him and the truth about his mother’s past, he’s drawn into the hidden war waged by the Knights of Fate, an outlawed order founded to defy both sides. Trained in ancient magic and forbidden truths, Locke must choose where he stands in a world where trust is scarce, power is deadly, and fate can be rewritten.

As the only girl in the Mason family, Taylor has made it her job to make sure everybody knows it's Masons above all. However, as her cousins marry off and have families of their own, she realizes that it's love above all. She's spent the last few years in the wrong dating pool, constantly coming up short. Maybe it's time to broaden her search; maybe she doesn't have far to look either.

Can you tell what's real? Does it even matter? The world is run by corporations. Olympus, one of the largest, most influential megacorporation is kidnapping people with powers and dragging them to secret labs. Sol Barret, a man who has given up on life, has to save himself from them or be lost forever. Barret’s friends are looking for him, but will they arrive in time? Or will they find someone different?

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the...

Packed with actionable insights, personal anecdotes, and industry wisdom, The Mission Driven Coach's Handbook is both a call to action and a masterclass. It's an indispensable guide for coaches ready to transform lives, grow businesses, and fulfill their mission.

Amidst an otherwise routine blink, you have just caught glimpse of a curious and unfamiliar binding - one that promises only to lead you gradually off the wayside. Its destination: past the charming whims of poetic joviality into the snarky silhouette of an umbral fowl.

Most people don’t believe in monsters, assuming people are hallucinating or crazy. A secret organization knows we live in a multiverse. Sometimes the barriers between worlds opens and things slip into ours. Nasty things that prey on us. This group is Project Threshold and it stands between us and the monsters. Direct Contact Teams wade in to contain or kill any threats to humanity. There’s a price, however, and unless these agents are smart and savvy enough, dying comes quick and without warning. And, sometimes dying is in the line of duty is the better option.