Stand on the Shoulders of Top Producing Industry Giants Featuring Ginger King
Stand on the Shoulders of Giants(TM) is a premium hardcover book series inspired by the timeless words of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."This volume, Stand on the Shoulders of Top-Producing Industry Giants, features today's modern-day giants. Elite performers who have mastered their craft, built exceptional results, and risen through discipline, vision, and execution. Through their stories, strategies, and hard-earned wisdom, these leaders extend their shoulders to you.When you connect with their insights, your thinking expands. Your perspective sharpens. Your possibilities multiply. You begin to see farther and believe bigger.This is more than a book. It is an invitation to rise, to grow, and to awaken the giant within you!
The Hidden Stakeholders of Artificial Intelligence
The people most harmed by AI systems are usually the ones no one thought to include.Artificial intelligence now shapes hiring decisions, loan approvals, fraud detection, healthcare, and law enforcement. When these systems fail, responsibility is rarely clear. Projects end, teams move on, and the individuals affected may not even know that an algorithm influenced the decision.The Hidden Stakeholders of Artificial Intelligence identifies the root cause: passive stakeholders - people who may be seriously affected by an AI system but have no influence over the project that created it. Their interests are invisible during early design decisions. Yet they are the ones who bear the consequences when systems fail.This book provides project leaders, executives, and governance teams with a practical method for finding those stakeholders before harm occurs. At its center is the Four Tests framework - power, legitimacy, urgency, and harm - which extends classical stakeholder theory to surface the groups most projects overlook. Supporting tools include a stakeholder responsibility workshop, a harm taxonomy, impact-harm scoring, and a lifecycle-weighted governance model, all ready to apply.Five real cases - involving a pharmacy's facial recognition system, AI training data and copyright, an automated trading algorithm, an auto loan case, and AI-generated court citations - demonstrate exactly how governance gaps emerge and what they cost.Written by a researcher and practitioner with more than twenty years of AI project experience, this is not a book about the risks of artificial intelligence in the abstract.It is a guide for the people building it.
Playbook for Project Janitors
Project RecoveryPlaybook for Project JanitorsHow Quiet Leaders Take Over, Clean Up, and LeadEvery project has a story. Some run smoothly. Most don't. Real recovery takes more than a plan.This book was written by heart and hand, forged through decades of real project recoveries. It is for the quiet leaders who step in when the plan has slipped, the code is incomplete, the concrete is late, or the team has burned out. The ones who are asked, without ceremony, "Can you fix it?"Playbook for Project Janitors is not a guide to frameworks or certifications. It is a practical field manual for those who inherit chaos and are expected to restore order. Whether you manage software, construction, or operations, you will find proven methods to stabilize, realign, and finish what others could not.You will learn how to enter a failing project and establish calm, how to observe before acting, and how to name what is and is not done. You will learn to realign scope, re-sequence work, rebuild trust, and speak truth to leadership without igniting conflict.Inside you will find: - A strategy for stabilizing stalled projects- A method for identifying root cause without blame- Risk patterns that quietly sink delivery- Scripts for leadership briefings and replan meetings- Modern parables and lessons from real recoveriesIf you have ever been asked to take over a project already off track, if you have ever cleaned up what others ignored, or finished what no one else could, this book is for you.Readers have reported earning PDUs for self-directed learning relevant to their professional certification.
Odds Are It's Marketing
Want marketing that works? Stop selling and start connecting.Forget the buzzwords and the hot new tactics. Good marketing is choosing the message and channel that actually land with audiences. So what do you say, and how do you know it will work? The marketing that wins is rooted in simple principles: Be authentic, speak to a real audience, and make it resonate. The challenge is turning those principles into a narrative strategy that performs in the real world. Because marketing shifts. People shift. Platforms shift. You need a framework that's built to adapt.Enter the O.D.D.S. Method: a fail-safe four-part framework from marketing consultant and entrepreneur Shanise Ling, EMBA, that will dramatically simplify and fundamentally change how you go about creating a marketing strategy that works. The O.D.D.S. Method teaches you how to: Observe: Start with analysis, then use insights to make meaningful connections.Distill: Define a clear point of view from which to build a brand that resonates.Differentiate: Determine and fine-tune the channels and tools that best fit your market.Scale: Amplify your message strategically.Blending real-world stories with actionable marketing strategy, Odds Are It's Marketing is an exploration of what it means to build visibility, credibility, and impact-especially for those who've been underestimated, overlooked, or undervalued. To build brands that can't be ignored, you need clarity, confidence, and purpose. But most of all, you need a great story. What will yours be?
Flexible Projects
Projects fail not because leaders lack intelligence or effort - but because uncertainty is treated as a problem to eliminate rather than a condition to manage.Traditional project models assume stable plans and predictable outcomes. Reality is different. Markets shift, technology evolves, regulations change, and stakeholder priorities realign. When uncertainty rises, rigid execution destroys value.This book gives project leaders, portfolio executives, and governance professionals a practical framework for designing flexibility into investments from the start. By integrating Real Options Analysis with project governance, it shows how to stage capital commitments, expand when evidence supports it, limit downside exposure, and make disciplined stop-or-scale decisions without requiring a financial modeling background.A structured implementation process, worked valuation model, and full illustrative case make the framework immediately applicable.Projects do not fail less because uncertainty disappears.They fail less because uncertainty is structured and governed deliberately.
Beneath the Transaction
We live in a world obsessed with strategies, productivity hacks, and leadership techniques. Yet despite endless books, seminars, and plans, lasting transformation remains rare.Why? Because transformation cannot be forced. It must be invited.In Beneath the Transaction, leadership strategist Dr. Chris Pineda reveals a powerful insight: meaningful change does not begin with strategy-it begins with conditions. When the right conditions exist, people grow, cultures shift, and communities' change. Drawing from Indigenous Asia-Pacific wisdom, modern psychology, and real-world leadership experience, Pineda introduces the Seven Conditions that consistently unlock transformation: Purpose, Commitment, Common Language, Vulnerability, Consistency, Deep & Trusting Relationships, and Safe Space.This book is not about quick fixes. It is about designing environments- within our lives, families, organizations, and communities-where people can become who they are capable of being. Because beneath every transaction lies something deeper. And that is where transformation begins.Many organizations settle for transactional leadership and then wonder why trans- formation never arrives. In Beneath the Transaction, Chris exposes that gap with clarity and compassion. His invitation to move from the "handshake" to the "breath of life" mirrors what I have witnessed for decades: joy and purpose are born when we treat people as human beings, not functions. This book is not just about leadership-it is about reclaiming the sacred space between us. Read it slowly. Practice it intentionally. Transformation will follow. -Richard Sheridan, CEO, founder, and chief storyteller at Menlo Innovations; author of Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear Real transformation requires intentionality. I've learned throughout my life that some- times the most subtle truths carry the greatest wisdom, and this book is full of them. What makes it even more powerful is that it's written by someone who lives it. Chris is one of the most genuinely kind, humble, and thoughtful people I know. He doesn't just teach these principles, he embodies them. Whether you're a parent, leader, coach, or just someone who wants to become better and help others do the same, this will both challenge you and equip you. It's practical, deeply human, and it works. -Colby Bauer, CEO and co-founder of Thread and Carry On
Games Without Thrones
In Games Without Thrones, entrepreneurship professor David Lingelbach and oligarch researcher Valentina Rodr穩guez Guerra show how we can all learn from oligarchs, even if we don't like them. These masters of uncertainty have found their moment again in the early 21st century, when several existential threats have overturned our ability to predict the future. Paradoxically, oligarchs hold the intellectual keys that will enable the rest of us to exploit the coming storms. This book describes these keys as eightleadership lessons that can become a new playbook, enabling all of us to play and win the newgames without thrones.This book makes three major points: - Oligarchs are at the center of our worlds now, shaping the global economy in which we allwork and the politics that help determine our life choices. Understanding their centrality iskey to understanding how the world works.- Oligarchs provide us with eight lessons to enable us to be more effective leaders. The firstthree lessons comprise their distinctive Weltanschauung or worldview. They see the worldvery differently than the rest of us.- Oligarchs offer us five specific strategies--four of which were first elaborated in our TheOligarchs' Grip and developed further in our forthcoming The Oligarchs of the Americas--tolead during times of crisis and turbulence. Those times are likely to dominate ourprofessional lives, no matter where we live.
The Book On Artificial Leverage
The Book On Artificial Leverage: How to Use Tools, Technology, and Systems to Outwork Entire Teams Without Burnout is a blueprint for scaling intelligently in a world obsessed with hustle.Most people hit the human-effort ceiling-too many tasks, too little energy, not enough hours. Webb argues the answer isn't more grit but more architecture: systems, automation, and frameworks that let individuals perform at enterprise scale.Inside, readers will discover: Why energy, not time, is the true limiter of productivity.How to shift from operator to architect by asking, "How can this run without me?"The four multipliers of artificial leverage: automation, delegation, content, and AI-augmented thinking.How to build invisible teams of systems that operate without burnout.Frameworks like the Leverage Equation, Infrastructure of One, and the Systems-First Mindset.Case studies of solopreneurs, creators, and founders who built sustainable performance through leverage.This is not another productivity hack book. It's a field manual for creating structural freedom. By mastering artificial leverage, you stop trading hours for progress and start designing systems that work when you don't.Because in the end, the future won't belong to the busiest. It will belong to the best-leveraged.
Employee Relations 101
Build the confidence and capability to manage employee relations issues effectively from day one.Employee Relations 101 is a practical introduction for early-career HR professionals who need to understand how employee relations directly impact organizational performance, culture, and compliance. It bridges the gap between theory and day-to-day HR practice, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to support managers, resolve workplace issues, and contribute to a positive working environment. Designed as part of the Core HR series, this book provides structured, real-world guidance to help you build credibility in your role and understand where employee relations fits within the wider HR function. You'll learn how to: - Manage performance, behavior, and conduct issues with clarity and consistency - Support managers in handling conflict and resolving workplace disputes - Apply employment legislation confidently to reduce risk and ensure compliance - Develop and implement effective HR policies and procedures - Build core workplace skills including: communication, emotional intelligence, and decision-making Packed with practical examples, exercises, and scenario-based learning, Employee Relations 101 helps you apply key concepts in real situations. You'll develop the confidence to handle everyday HR challenges, strengthen workplace relationships, and support a culture of fairness, engagement, and performance. Themes include: employee relations, HR fundamentals, workplace conflict, employment law, performance management, early career HR skills
How People Change Organizations
How People Change Organizations: Transforming Systems through Presence, Practice, and Projects is a timely guide for leaders navigating the human complexity of organizational change.In an era where transformation is often reduced to strategy decks, software rollouts, or restructuring plans, this book offers a deeper view: that real, lasting transformation begins with how leaders show up, in conversation, in reflection, and in relationship. Whether you're leading from the C-suite, a project team, or a change management office, you'll find tools, insights, and language to lead with greater empathy, alignment, and presence.Grounded in systems thinking (Senge, Hamilton, and Kania 2015), adult development theory, and real-world leadership practice, this book introduces a powerful integration model across project, change, and executive leadership roles. Through the ongoing narrative of the WynnTech case study, you'll explore how inclusive delivery, narrative sensemaking, and cultural modeling can transform not only outcomes, but the people and systems behind them. Ideal for project leaders, change agents, and executives alike, this book helps you lead transformation from the inside out, by centering people in everything you do.
Entrepreneurship in Uncertainty
This textbook directly addresses uncertainty, giving students the skills they need to succeed in enterprises. It also helps prospective entrepreneurs and owners of businesses recognize and exploit opportunities, establish unique business models, make measured choices and manage risks. The textbook's practical approach connects theory and practice, setting it apart from competitors. With the book's real-world case studies, engaging exercises, and practical insights, students can apply the ideas they learn. Today's business environment requires critical thinking, problem-solving, creative thinking, negotiation, resilience, and adaptability, which may be learned by doing. This book emphasises long-term success. Sustainable businesses need ethical business practices, responsibility for society, and the capacity to meet ecological obligations. By integrating sustainability into the business process, the textbook prepares students for socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurship. Classrooms in entrepreneurial courses will benefit from the textbook's comprehensive coverage, practical nuances, and long-term emphasis on sustainability. Its widespread use may shape the next generation of entrepreneurs and small business owners by giving them the knowledge, confidence, and novel perspectives to thrive in an increasingly unpredictable and uncertain environment, overcome obstacles, and build successful enterprises that make a difference from the ground up.
Become Truly Great
Be Virtuous, Discover Effectiveness, Become Truly Great! Recognize why 'efficiencyism' robs an organization of its potential; Find out why dysfunction is an emergent phenomenon when you set arbitrary goals; Discover how manual workers & knowledge workers become productive; Understand effectiveness, then verify it in the field through direct observation; Adapt offerings to changes in the external environment; Join in with other organizations to manage capitalism for the common good. The effective organization understands its environment, serves it in innovative ways, and is rewarded in return. It is not about maximizing shareholder value, but about providing customer value, and creating products and services that elicit favorable customer responses. The demand-side always remains in control of whether any given transaction will be completed. The supply side cannot run full steam ahead unless the demand side agrees. The achievement of effectiveness is a win-win for both the organization and its environment. In a wide-ranging story that weaves together threads from history, economics, engineering, biology, and organization and management theory, Charles Chandler derives a new approach to management for both practitioners and scholars. He revisits pioneers such as Adam Smith, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Alfred D. Chandler, Milton Friedman, and Peter Drucker, among others, to tell an epic story in an engaging way. The aim is nothing short of fixing management (and saving capitalism from itself).
Thriving Talent
About the BookHow many people do you know that are happy at work? As in genuinely happy?We'll wait...You've seen the data and heard the advice - happy employees are more productive, better engagement equals better retention, and culture eats strategy for breakfast. You know the theories. But translating these ideas into action can feel overwhelming.Does that ring a bell? If so, this book was written for you. It's for the people leaders who want to do things differently - who dream of creating workplaces where both individuals and businesses can thrive.After 20 years of working in the corporate world, Aoife O'Brien is on a mission to help people and teams to become happy at work.Drawing on her experience, her research, and insight from her award-winning podcast, Aoife sets out a deceptively simple, yet powerful, model for building genuine, lasting, and inclusive happiness at work, to allow your talent not just to survive, but to thrive. You don't need endless budgets, perfect conditions, or a complete overhaul to make a meaningful difference. You need psychological safety, three pillars, and a leadership style which aligns your efforts with your values. And that's exactly what this book will provide. Let's get started. Who is it for?If you're a leader looking to build a thriving team, seeking to create more meaning and satisfaction at work, this book will help you understand what truly drives happiness, engagement, and performance, and how to create a workplace where people want to stay and grow.
Chaos to Clarity
Chaos to Clarity: Making Sense of Complex Business Transformation is an essential guide for leaders who must navigate the intersection of strategy, people, process, and technology change.Written in clear, executive-level language, this book demystifies complex business transformation as a holistic reinvention of how an organization creates value, engages customers, and operates in today's volatile and fast-moving business environment.Through practical frameworks that the author has applied in real-world situations, readers explore the key dimensions of transformation- process redesign, technology modernization, organizational structure, and cultural evolution- while addressing common challenges such as workforce readiness, change resistance, governance, and risk.This book is intended for executives and senior leaders, to help them understand the "why," "what," and "how" of complex business transformation. It provides advice on preparing for implementation success and establishing governance to promote accountability and strategic alignment.Finally, this book enables leaders to lead with clarity and confidence to reshape their businesses not just for today's competitive pressures, but for a sustainable and resilient future.
Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear?
Have you ever opened your wardrobe, filled with clothes, and felt you had nothing to wear? Have you ever bought a jumper that only lasted a few washes? Have you ever wondered if an item of clothing was actually worth the price for the quality? Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear? holds the easy solutions to these questions. In her five-step programme, Andrea Cheong will teach you how to break free from damaging shopping patterns, helping you to save money, shop smarter and create a wardrobe that works effectively for you. This simple guide will give you the tools and knowledge to confidently assess whether a garment you want to buy is value for money or a rip-off. Filled with fun interactive quizzes, checklists and decision trees, Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear? will help you understand: - How retailers can play mind games - The difference between sustainable buys vs sustainable brands - The value of the secondhand and rental market - The different types of materials - How to shop less to shop better, and so much more.
The Residue of Progress The Fall of a Factory, the Hidden Game Behind It, and the Town It Left Behind
'Durgapur was once a symbol of pride-of industry, growth, and human ambition.Now, it stands as a graveyard of abandoned factories and shattered public sector dreams.When a management consultant is sent to revive a failing plant in the town - he expects broken processes and bad management.Instead, he finds perfection.Metrics are green. Processes are optimized. Teams are performing.And yet-the factory is falling apart.As he struggles to explain the contradiction, another story begins to unfold beyond the factory gates.In the crumbling townships and deserted quarters of Durgapur lie the secrets of a collapse-of a once-mighty industrial ecosystem that disintegrated, leaving behind lost identities, fractured communities, and unanswered questions.A past shaped not just by bad decisions, but by forces far beyond it-Cold War alliances, geopolitical trade-offs, and betrayals at the highest levels that were never acknowledged.As the consultant digs deeper, he uncovers layers of uncomfortable truth-and something far more unsettling lurking in the rusted industrial ruins.The Residue of Progress is a gripping geopolitical-management mystery set in the shadow of India's industrial decline - where global power games, corporate systems, and human survival collide... and the past refuses to stay buried.
The Practical AI Guide
Artificial intelligence is everywhere-promising speed, income, and opportunity. But alongside the excitement comes confusion, hype, and more than a few questionable shortcuts. How to Use AI cuts through the noise with a calm, practical approach to what actually works-and what doesn't.This is not a book of hacks, overnight success stories, or technical overwhelm. Instead, it offers a clear, grounded understanding of AI as a tool-one that supports your thinking rather than replaces it. You'll learn how AI really works, how to use it effectively in everyday tasks, and where its limits matter most.Designed for freelancers, creators, small business owners, and the quietly curious, this guide shows how to use AI to organise ideas, improve writing, streamline workflows, and support income-without losing your voice, your judgement, or your integrity. It explores how to work with AI, not hide behind it, and how to build something sustainable rather than chasing trends that quickly collapse.Importantly, this book also sets boundaries. It makes clear what should never be outsourced-decision-making, relationships, accountability-and why these human elements remain the true source of value.Written in a straightforward, no-nonsense style, How to Use AI is less about technology and more about clarity-helping you think better, work smarter, and use AI in a way that fits your life rather than consuming it.There are no secrets here. Just practical insight, honest guidance, and a steady reminder: AI is the assistant. You are the one in charge.
How to Build Your Network Marketing Travel Business Fast
Most people love vacations.Most people hate sales pitches.This book shows us how to offer better travel options and get a travel income without rejection, pressure, persuasion, or awkward conversations.The secret?People decide fast. Whether it is a luxury vacation or starting a part-time business, most people know within seconds if they want the outcome we describe.No more boring sales presentations.Discover how to: Relax our listenersGet instant decisions with simple opening sentencesEasily introduce our travel business in everyday conversationsCreate happy travel volunteers on demandTalk about outcomes instead of overwhelming detailsUse fun icebreakers that open exciting conversationsGive people great options they loveUse the simple "Benefit + Permission" phrases that get instant "yes" decisionsGive the tiny two-question opening that gets commitmentUse simple online and offline messages to build instant interest in travelGet instant appointments with our simple four-word replyStop chasing and start helping people get what they want. Give them great travel options and shortcuts to exciting experiences.Now we can get paid to follow our travel passion, and get paid to help others do the same.So smile. Relax. Offer great options and shortcuts. Take the volunteers.Let's build our travel business now.
The Prince Interpreted for Real Estate Investors
The Prince Interpreted for Real Estate Investors explores how power, negotiation, and control shape outcomes in property markets. While real estate is often viewed through financial metrics, success is frequently determined by influence, leverage, and the ability to manage perception.This book applies Machiavelli's principles to real estate investing, revealing how investors gain control in negotiations, manage relationships, and position themselves within competitive markets. It examines how authority is established, how deals are secured, and how power shifts between stakeholders.Rather than focusing solely on transactions, this work reframes real estate as a system of power-where those who understand leverage and control maintain long-term advantage.
Weird Wisdom
What if being called "weird" was the highest compliment you could receive?In Weird Wisdom at Work, challenges everything you've been taught about fitting in, playing it safe, and keeping your head down. When author Trish Goodfield she was labelled "weird" in a meeting for asking the questions no one else would, she didn't shrink. She got curious. What she discovered changed the trajectory of her career - and can ultimately transform your workplace too.Rooted in the original meaning of wyrd - destiny - Weird Wisdom is about reclaiming your unique way of seeing, thinking, and solving problems. It's recognising that the perspectives often dismissed as unconventional are frequently the very ones that drive innovation, inclusion, resilience, and real results.Through powerful stories, practical insights, and five transformative principles, Trish shows how to: Get comfortable with uncertainty and use it as a creative advantageReframe failure as feedback and fuel for growthFind harmony in contradiction instead of forcing false certaintyQuestion outdated norms without becoming "difficult"Explore the unconventional within the constraints of workWeird Wisdom at Work is a real-world approach to unlocking diversity of thought - the hidden advantage inside every team. It's time to use your "weird" as your greatest strength.
Mad as Hell: How 60 Minutes Took on the Powerful and Made Television History
A gripping behind-the-scenes story from inside one of the most influential news programs in American history.For almost sixty years, every Sunday night at seven o'clock sharp, America has stopped what it was doing to hear instantly recognizable the tick tock that introduces 60 Minutes. At its peak, this news show was the most powerful hour on television, drawing as many as fifty million viewers a week. Presidents watched. CEOs braced themselves. Ordinary citizens--wronged, ignored, or silenced--found a voice.In Mad as Hell, a producer from the program's golden years takes readers deep inside the broadcast that reshaped television journalism. Working alongside Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and executive producer Don Hewitt, Harry Moses tells how a scrappy news experiment morphed into a national institution, and how television at its best could hold the powerful to account.
The Iliad
The Iliad: What Homer Reveals About Pride and Leadership Failure is a focused interpretation of Homer's epic, examining the human forces that drive conflict, breakdown, and loss. Rather than retelling the story, it analyzes how ego, honor, and personal grievance destabilize leadership and fracture alliances.This book reframes The Iliad as a study of failure-showing how strong individuals and powerful systems unravel when emotion overrides judgment. It explores how leadership decisions are shaped by pride, how conflict escalates beyond control, and how outcomes are often determined long before resolution is possible.By isolating these patterns, this work provides a clear lens for understanding how internal conflict-not external opposition-defines success or failure.
The Prince
The Prince: What Machiavelli Really Says About Power is a focused interpretation of Machiavelli's work, examining how power is actually gained, maintained, and lost. Rather than presenting abstract philosophy, it analyzes the underlying mechanics of authority, control, and political survival.This book explores how legitimacy is constructed, how perception shapes leadership, and why loyalty is inherently unstable. It reveals how leaders maintain control under pressure, how power shifts over time, and how authority collapses when it is not actively reinforced.By stripping away misinterpretation and moral framing, this work presents The Prince as a practical system for understanding power in real environments.
The $100m Push
Scale Your SaaS Company from $10M to $100M with a Proven FrameworkThe $100M Push reveals the SaaS Order of Operations-- a proven framework designed specifically for private equity-backed CEOs who need to accelerate top-line growth and deliver results fast. Drawing on insights from work with over 100 PE-backed software companies, this playbook breaks down the four strategic decisions that consistently drive post-investment performance: Ideal Customer Profile (ICP): Direct your team's focus toward the accounts most likely to convert and stay.Service Level Agreements (SLA): Create alignment and accountability across marketing, sales, and success to improve lead-to-pipeline conversion.Contribution Model: Build a credible, data-driven bookings plan by defining targets across inbound, outbound, partner, and channel sources.Objectives and Key Results (OKRs): Translate growth strategy into focused execution that moves your company toward exit goals.This is the book your investors want you to read. You'll discover when to make each decision, how to lead your team through execution, what " good" looks like, and how to identify early warning signs before they derail momentum. Whether you're in the first 100 days post-investment or steering a mid-hold reset, The $100M Push is your roadmap to predictable, accelerated, and sustained revenue growth--so you can " show well" to investors, hit your exit targets, and own your growth narrative from day one.
The Yes/No Ratio
You are not drowning in work because you are lazy or disorganised; you are overwhelmed because your yes and no are out of balance. In a world where every message, meeting, and favour request arrives marked as urgent, it has never been more important to protect your focus and guard your energy with intent. This book offers a clear, practical system for setting boundaries and aligning your commitments with what truly matters now. It is written for managers, founders, and independent professionals who feel stretched thin and want to grow without burning out. Through simple capacity planning tools, real-world examples, and scripts for saying no politely and yes with conditions, you learn how to redesign your calendar, renegotiate expectations, and stop carrying other peoples priorities by default. Instead of vague inspiration, you get grounded guidance on time management for leaders, work life boundaries, and decision making frameworks that fit your current season. You will see how to use focus and deep work as everyday practices, not rare luxuries, and how protecting energy at work becomes a non-negotiable part of your routine. If you are ready for managing requests at work to feel calmer and for productivity for busy people to mean fewer, better yeses, this book shows you how to live by a healthier yes/no ratio.
The Personal Board
Most people let their biggest decisions be shaped by whoever happens to be nearby. In a noisy world of opinions, praise, and performance, the real advantage belongs to those who deliberately curate a small circle of trusted counsel instead of relying on chance conversations. This book is a practical guide to building a personal board that keeps you honest, stretches your thinking, and stops you from believing your own press. Drawing on real situations and clear frameworks, it shows you how to identify the gaps in your current building support network, recruit the right career advisors, and design meeting rhythms that respect everyone's time. You will learn how to frame better questions, invite honest feedback, and turn awkward truths into fuel for professional development rather than reasons to retreat. Along the way, you will see how mentoring relationships and an accountability circle can support genuine leadership growth without becoming stiff or corporate. Whether you are navigating early career choices or leading at a higher level, this book helps you turn scattered conversations into a stable source of wise, ongoing advice skills. It offers a grounded way to treat your life with the same seriousness you would give any important enterprise, guided by a personal board of directors you have chosen with care.
The Decision Ladder
Most people treat big decisions as one-off dramas: long nights, looping conversations, and a final leap of faith. The wealthy are more likely to treat them as a quiet routine, built on a few simple rules that protect them from rushed thinking and hidden bias. This book shows how to build a decision making system that anyone can run, even in a noisy, time-pressed life. Across money, work and family, it turns hazy hunches into everyday decision rules anchored in reality. Readers learn how to bring mental models for decisions into daily use, spot cognitive biases in choices, and design practical decision tools like one-page briefs, regret tests and kill criteria. Instead of chasing perfection, the focus is on evidence based choices made with just enough information, then upgraded through short reviews and a personal decision journal. The pages are written for people facing high stakes decisions who still want space for relationships, health and better life choices, not just income. Each chapter offers examples, prompts and lightweight structures that can be reused across different situations. By the end, readers will know how to move fast when choices are reversible, slow down when they are not, and systematically reduce avoiding decision regret in the moments that matter most.
Kick Ass At Work
Are you looking to reach your greatest potential at work?Do you want to fast-track your career, make more money, or get promoted?Do you wish you could take more pride in your accomplishments?If so, it's time to KICK ASS AT WORK!KICK ASS AT WORK is a collection of critical on-the-job lessons designed to help you master the seven aspects of work and accelerate your career success. It will teach you how to take pride in your work, earn the income you desire, achieve the advancement you seek, reach your full potential, and create the career of your dreams. Packed with insight and humor-on everything from "Making a big win early on" to "Keeping the bitch switch off"-these forty business lessons provide you with clear strategies and actionable steps to take control of your career, perform better at your job, and enjoy your work more.Whether you're entering the workforce, starting in a new role, or working towards a promotion, KICK ASS AT WORK will help you unlock your full potential and build a successful career!Are you ready to kick ass at work?Let's go!
Reverberate!
Reverberate! The Art of Finding Your Voice in a Noisy World offers a practical framework for leadership communication in an age of constant information and competing voices. Many professionals know what they want to say, yet struggle to ensure their message truly connects. When communication lacks alignment, even strong ideas can fall flat.Drawing on decades of experience as a communication strategist, performer, and executive coach, Kate Peters introduces the Communication Alignment Model, built around three essential elements: Intention, Story, and Presence. When these elements work together, communication becomes clearer, more authentic, and more influential.Through engaging stories, insights from psychology and neuroscience, and practical exercises, Reverberate! helps readers develop stronger leadership communication skills, executive presence, and an authentic voice. Readers learn how to clarify their intention, craft meaningful stories, and cultivate the presence needed to build trust and credibility in conversations, presentations, and leadership moments.When Intention, Story, and Presence align, communication doesn't simply reach people-it reverberates.Ideal for leaders, professionals, and anyone seeking to communicate with clarity and impact, Reverberate! provides a powerful approach to authentic communication, storytelling in business, and leadership influence-helping readers ensure their ideas are not only heard, but remembered and acted upon.
Reverberate!
Reverberate! The Art of Finding Your Voice in a Noisy World offers a practical framework for leadership communication in an age of constant information and competing voices. Many professionals know what they want to say, yet struggle to ensure their message truly connects. When communication lacks alignment, even strong ideas can fall flat.Drawing on decades of experience as a communication strategist, performer, and executive coach, Kate Peters introduces the Communication Alignment Model, built around three essential elements: Intention, Story, and Presence. When these elements work together, communication becomes clearer, more authentic, and more influential.Through engaging stories, insights from psychology and neuroscience, and practical exercises, Reverberate! helps readers develop stronger leadership communication skills, executive presence, and an authentic voice. Readers learn how to clarify their intention, craft meaningful stories, and cultivate the presence needed to build trust and credibility in conversations, presentations, and leadership moments.When Intention, Story, and Presence align, communication doesn't simply reach people-it reverberates.Ideal for leaders, professionals, and anyone seeking to communicate with clarity and impact, Reverberate! provides a powerful approach to authentic communication, storytelling in business, and leadership influence-helping readers ensure their ideas are not only heard, but remembered and acted upon.
Finding Freedom
Freedom.Most entrepreneurs begin with purpose, passion, and the desire to build something meaningful. They want to make a difference, create opportunities for others, and design a life defined by freedom.But as the business grows, many founders find themselves trapped inside the very company they created-carrying the weight of every decision and wondering how the freedom they once imagined slipped away.In Finding Freedom, entrepreneur and leadership coach Jean Moncrieff offers a practical roadmap for building a valuable company without losing the life you set out to create. Drawing on decades of experience building and scaling businesses, he shows how entrepreneurs can regain momentum, develop strong leadership teams, and create organizations that generate both impact and independence.This book is inspired by conversations from Jean's podcast, The Freedom Experience, where he speaks with remarkable founders and leaders about building meaningful companies and living intentional lives. Distilling these insights, he reveals the mindset shifts and practical ideas that allow entrepreneurs to build companies that create lasting value and true freedom."Jean offers a thoughtful reminder that great companies are built from the inside out. Finding Freedom encourages leaders to reflect on who they are, what they stand for, and how to build organizations that create real and lasting value." -Paul Spiegelman, cofounder, Small Giants Community & Kintsugi Village "Finding Freedom has the makings of a small-business bible. Jean Moncrieff has written a rare kind of guide-one that blends compelling stories, sharp analysis, and practical advice owners can actually use. It's a book for leaders of stuck companies who want to regain momentum, but it's also the kind of book you'll return to again and again as new challenges arise. What gives it real power is that Jean has lived every lesson he shares. His honesty about his own journey gives this book an authority-and humanity-that most business books lack." -Loren Feldman, founder, 21 Hats Media "The world is full of daring entrepreneurs who were once filled with purpose and passion, who now feel trapped and even embittered by the personal sacrifices they have had to make. In this transformative book, Jean Moncrieff brilliantly reveals how business owners can build and scale a valuable business, and find the freedom to exit without sacrificing the purpose, culture, and impact of what they spent most of their lives building." -Davin Salvagno, #1 bestselling author of Thieves of Purpose "In a world full of business books that tell you what to do, Finding Freedom goes deeper; it asks why you're doing it in the first place. The chapters on intentional growth and purpose alone are worth the price of the book. Whether you're just stepping into leadership or have been in the seat for decades, this book will challenge you in the best possible way." -Eric Rieger, founder & CEO, WEBIT Services, Inc.
