Respect
How to be more respectful and how to encourage others to treat you more respectfully In The Art - and Challenge - of Being Respectful, veteran public relations executive Robert Dilenschneider delivers an insightful and original discussion of how to cultivate respectfulness in every facet of your life. You'll learn how to embody and encourage respectful behavior and speech among work colleagues, family, friends, and others. You'll learn about how respectfulness has life-changing consequences for all who practice it and why it's within reach for us all. You'll also discover why it's so sorely needed in an increasingly fragmented society and how it can transform our interactions for the better. Readers will also find: - Strategies for transcending the inane and unimportant and creating meaning in your life - Tools and paths to improve your self-respect, develop respectfulness, and encourage others to treat you with respect - Techniques to begin mending some of the fences that appear irreparably damaged by increasing societal incivility Perfect for managers, executives, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders, The Art - and Challenge - of Being Respectful is an essential guide to navigating a society, marketplace, and environment that seems increasingly prone to disrespect and rudeness, and how to help make it better.
Fight Less, Win More: How Master Negotiators Influence Hearts, Minds, and Deals
Resurgent
A practical handbook examining how established businesses can use their unique advantages to fight back and win in a digital arena too often dominated by tech start-ups, disruptors and unicorns. The big four tech companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) have had an enormous impact on our everyday lives. A new wave of start-ups in the tech sector has dominated the press and swallowed up huge amounts of investment. But what about those established companies in the traditional parts of the world's economies, from energy, industrial and consumer goods to travel and health? They rarely got a mention. Everyone was talking about the disrupters - the start-ups and the entrepreneurs - and not about the incumbents. This book is a call for a reality check. For at the core of our established companies are capabilities and qualities that remain highly relevant in the digital age. They are often market leaders for very good reasons - they know their customers and markets well, and they have great product, sales and marketing expertise. They are operationally savvy and financially strong, with deep insights into areas of expertise that no one else has, giving them a unique advantage. John Fallon and Julian Birkinshaw have come to a clear conclusion: incumbents are not going quietly into that dark night. Organizations will need to jettison their analogue baggage and infrastructure and embrace digital transformation. They will survive and they will prosper. And this book will show them how to do it.
Collaborate Better
You know you need to collaborate to achieve complex goals. You also know collaboration is a slog. Why is it so hard? Because none of us are ever taught this fundamental business skill.Deb Mashek is here to change all that. Discover how to apply relationship science to make every workplace collaboration less painful and more productive - in just 6 minutes!
Transformational Communication
In a world of profound change and where every message shapes perception, the most influential and impactful leaders are those who communicate with purpose, power and presence. This book is your guide to becoming a truly transformational communicator; one who builds trust, ignites action and leaves a lasting legacy. Inside, you'll discover the secrets of transformational communication, including how to: master high-stakes communication no matter the audience, context or settingharness the power of storytelling to connect deeply and move people to actionshape a bold leadership narrative grounded in identity, purpose and visionleverage proven frameworks to craft resonant messages and narrativesengage stakeholders and lead change with clarity and convictioncommand a room with aligned verbal and non-verbal language Through practical strategies, research-backed insights and real-world examples, you'll learn how to craft messages that resonate, to navigate complex communication landscapes with confidence and to build enduring influence.Whether you're a business, government, not-for-profit or community leader, this book will help you step into your highest potential as a communicator and, in doing so, become the kind of leader the world needs now.
The EQ Prescription
Health-care professionals-clinicians, nurses, students-have dedicated countless hours to and made endless sacrifices for their careers, yet too many face dissatisfaction and exit early due to the overwhelming pressures of the system, many of which are out of their control. Unfortunately, standard healthy habits like eating and sleeping well and exercising aren't enough. The remedy? Putting yourself first using The EQ Prescription.Dr. Mickey Lebowitz, a certified endocrinologist and emotional intelligence expert, offers and guides you through a transformative, groundbreaking concept: the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Zone. This framework provides practical, easy-to-use strategies that can be utilized in real time, especially when the heat is on, and is designed to help you navigate the high-stress demands of health care, allowing you to stay emotionally and physically well so you can be your best and give your best. The benefits are enormous: greater job fulfillment, better patient satisfaction and outcomes, enhanced leadership, and reduced risk of malpractice and burnout. If you're ready to thrive in health care, managing yourself through its inescapable pain points, while delivering exceptional patient care and deservedly enjoying both your professional and personal life, The EQ Prescription is written for you.
Winning With Ancient Wisdom Negotiation Strategies From Asia and Europe
Everything I Want To Tell My Kids About Business, But I'll Be Dead By The Time They Ask
The Common Excuses of the Comfortable Compromiser
Comfortable compromisers block the way of anyone trying to change anything. This is your field guide to their common excuses. Now you can recognise them, understand them and overcome their opposition. We live in the age of the compromiser. Political, business and personal life all echo with the sound of compromise. We know we need to change, but we can't because we fear we have too much to lose. This is a fundamental paradox facing human society. Comfortable compromisers often control the most significant power bases and since the current situation serves them well, they have little interest or incentive to listen to arguments for change. Reading The Common Excuses of the Comfortable Compromiser you will find yourself identifying with both compromiser and advocate for change, and gain a fresh insight into the need for innovative and pristine ideas on which to base our interactions as a society.,
Writing Rediscovered
Reframe Your Ideas About Writing. Reclaim Your Power as a Writer. In Writing Rediscovered, author and writing scholar Elizabeth Wardle invites you to transform your approach to writing through nine powerful "threshold concepts." These foundational ideas will reshape how you think, feel, and act as a writer. Rather than offering generic writing tips, this book dives deep into what's holding you back from seeing yourself as a writer. You'll challenge your beliefs about what writing is, who can be a writer, and what makes writing "good." Dr. Wardle helps you reflect on past experiences with writing instruction and replace damaging ideas with more productive ones. Writing Rediscovered blends decades of research with accessible, interactive methods, offering practical tools to help you reshape your writing identity. Whether you're writing reports, emails, or poetry, this book will change how you approach writing. Inside the Book: Research-based strategies for building writing confidence and understanding your relationship with writing. Insights into how your experiences, emotions, body, and tools influence your writing process. Reflective activities to actively engage you in transforming your writing life. Exercises for developing your personal writing process and toolkit. Guidance for creating a Writer's Manifesto to shape your writing going forward. From the author of Writing About Writing--the groundbreaking textbook that revolutionized college writing instruction--Writing Rediscovered dismantles harmful myths about writing. As Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University, Elizabeth Wardle brings decades of experience helping writers of all kinds redefine their relationship with writing. It's time to reframe your writing. Reclaim your voice. And rediscover the power of your words.
Get That Promotion
Being good at your job is a great way to start your career. But to fulfil your potential and get more senior roles, you need more than technical expertise.Joanna Gaudoin has helped thousands of bright, capable professionals master the essential skills that will take them to the next level of their careers. From making a good impression to dealing with difficult people, from building external relations to acing your online presence, here are all the skills you need to get that promotion - in just 6 minutes!
The Storyteller's Advantage
A practical guide to unlocking the secrets of great storytelling that will give any business leader an edge against the competition For decades, the business world has been content with leaders who drive profits and make strategic decisions. But in today's ultracompetitive world, that is simply not enough. The ability to tell a compelling story about your product or service is no longer just a competitive advantage--it's a requirement. In The Storyteller's Advantage, investor, startup advisor, and former business journalist Christina Farr reveals the secrets of business leaders who inspire, entertain, and empathize through the art of storytelling. Farr offers an inside look at the greatest storytelling CEOs, whose narrative abilities enable them to raise more capital, retain more talent, and make their brands more memorable. With empirical research and candid commentary, Farr explores how these leaders developed their stories, breaks down the narratives that are resonating in today's workplaces, and shares practical advice on how to deliver the most compelling message. Practical and approachable, The Storyteller's Advantage will help any business leader to tap into their ultimate superpower--telling a great story.
Storytelling with Data
How do you turn a forgettable graph into a compelling data story? For more than a decade, the team at storytelling with data has helped leading organizations and countless professionals transform their business communications into action-inspiring narratives. Now, they're bringing the best of those lessons to you--in the beloved before-and-after format synonymous with their popular workshops. Through twenty powerful makeovers, watch ineffective charts evolve into engaging visuals that captivate, inform, and lead to smarter decisions. World-renowned data storytellers Mike Cisneros, Alex Velez, and SWD founder Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guide you through proven methods to strengthen your communications, sharing the thought process behind each redesign so you can confidently apply the concepts to your work. Building on core principles from the international bestseller storytelling with data, refined through thousands of workshops, they demonstrate the straightforward, intentional changes--like simplifying visuals, eliminating clutter, and emphasizing key insights--that will transform your graphs and slides from the expected to the extraordinary. In storytelling with data: before and after, you'll learn how to: Structure stories that connect with your audience Create visuals that clarify complex information Apply color, layout, and design to focus attention on what matters most Overcome common challenges like time constraints and poorly designed templates Craft narratives that make an impact and influence outcomes Every page of storytelling with data: before and after is packed with insights drawn from real-world experience, distilled into easy-to-implement strategies. No matter your role, experience level, or comfort with data, you'll learn practical lessons you can apply right away. Each transformation delivers meaningful takeaways to help you create data stories that resonate--and get results. This book is your ultimate blueprint for turning graphs into persuasive, decision-driving stories.
Upgrade Your Leadership
LEADERSHIP IS A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATIONBut what if it feels like all you are doing is putting out fires and managing chaos?Seasoned business coach and entrepreneur Eric Pfeiffer knows what leaders want-they want to feel comfortable in their skin and confident in their role. They want a team that works well together to: communicatemake decisionsengage in conflictlearngrowand solve problems.Enter the Leadership Operating System: a collection of tools-or simple, repeatable pathways- that will transform you, your team, and the culture of your workplace. Follow Eric as he teaches each of these proven tools with empathy and wisdom, using memorable visuals and real-life examples. Upgrade your leadership and watch your business thrive!BONUS: This book comes with a free, downloadable companion guide containing actionable worksheets, additional insights, and exclusive resources to accelerate your progress.
Love as a Change Strategy
Learn how to lead and scale meaningful change efforts throughout your organization In Love as a Change Strategy, a team of entrepreneurs, analysts, and designers delivers an exciting and inspiring guide for individual and community revitalization. The authors explain how to lead cultural, technological, procedural, or structural change by starting with change within the business leader themselves. This book follows on the heels of the widely read Love as a Business Strategy, showing you how to manage change using a four-part framework. Separated into four interlocking parts, the book walks you through how to understand the approach, change yourself, change your organization, and change the world. You'll also find: Practical lessons and mindsets you can adopt to encourage and embrace change The structure, operations, tech, finance practices, and compliance procedures you can implement to enact change Personal stories and first-hand case studies about change management and change mismanagement Perfect for business leaders responsible for shepherding their organizations - including corporations, nonprofits, and governmental agencies - through major changes, Love as a Change Strategy will also prove invaluable for employees, board members, and new managers looking for help navigating turbulence in their work.
Tech Confidential
Silicon Valley is not the glossy utopia our promising youth has been sold; it's a modern-day Colosseum where overclocked misfits battle for their shot at unicorn status and glory. Forget the embroidered zip hoodies and free kombucha fantasies--in Tech Confidential, two renegade insiders cut through the buzzwords and bullsh*t. They show that your dreams of changing the world are possible, but success has a high price and the person you were before may not like the person you become. This book dishes out hard-earned strategies to help you not just survive but thrive in a world that chews people up and spits them out in the name of "innovation."Inside these pages, you'll meet brilliant oddballs racing to launch the next big product, engineers treating the next line of code as their personal Everest, and leaders juggling corporate politics while one breath away from the company's last gasp. Along the way, the authors deliver sharp, painfully relatable anecdotes and practical strategies that show you how to: Tame your ego to navigate corporate politics like a proEmbrace the misfits and survive toxic colleaguesMoneyball the market to build products people wantGet money or get outPacked with insights, humor, and hard-won hope, this essential guide is for anyone daring to dream big in the tech world--and still wanting a life left to enjoy.
Over Work
"Brigid Schulte is a vital voice on the future of work, and her carefully researched book lights the way to fewer hours, less stress, and more meaning."―Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the podcast WorkLife From the New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed, a deeply reported exploration of why American work isn't working and how our lives can be made more meaningful Following Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte's groundbreaking examination of time management and stress, the prizewinning journalist now turns her attention to the greatest culprit in America's quality-of-life crisis: the way our economy and culture conceive of work. Americans across all demographics, industries, and socioeconomic levels report exhaustion, burnout, and the wish for more meaningful lives. This full-system failure in our structure of work affects everything from gender inequality to domestic stability, and it even shortens our lifespans. Drawing on years of research, Schulte traces the arc of our discontent from a time before the 1980s, when work was compatible with well-being and allowed a single earner to support a family, until today, with millions of people working multiple hourly jobs or in white-collar positions where no hours are ever off duty. She casts a wide net in search of solutions, exploring the movement to institute a four-day workweek, introducing Japan's Housewives Brigade--which demands legal protection for family time--and embedding with CEOs who are making the business case for humane conditions. And she demonstrates the power of a collective and creative demand for change, showing that work can be organized in an infinite number of ways that are good for humans and for business. Fiercely argued and vividly told, rich with stories and informed by deep investigation, Over Work lays out a clear vision for ending our punishing grind and reclaiming leisure, joy, and meaning.
Dirtbag Billionaire
New York Times reporter and bestselling author David Gelles reveals how Patagonia became a global leader in doing well by doing good and how other companies are adopting its principles. This is the inside story of one of the most extraordinary brands in the corporate world, the rare company that is driven by environmental activism instead of cutthroat capitalism. Founded in 1973, Patagonia has grown into a wildly popular producer of jackets, hats, and fleece vests, with a cultlike following among hardcore alpinists and Wall Street traders alike, posting sales of more than $1 billion a year. But it's not just the clothes that make Patagonia unique. For decades, the company has distinguished itself as a singular beacon for socially responsible business, the rare company that can legitimately claim to be doing its damnedest to make the world a better place, while also making a profit. From its early efforts to take exemplary care of its employees, to its extensive work trying to clean up its supply chain, to its controversial activism, Patagonia has set itself apart from its peers with one unorthodox decision after another, proving that there is another way to do capitalism. At the heart of the story is Patagonia's founder, the legendary rock climber Yvon Chouinard. A perennial outsider who forged one of the most impressive resumes in the outdoor world, Chouinard also established himself as a pivotal figure in the history of American business. Guided by his anti-authoritarian streak and his unwavering commitment to preserving the natural world, Patagonia came to exert a powerful influence on other companies, paving the way for a new era of social and environmental responsibility. He started out as a dirtbag--a term affectionately bestowed on poor, itinerant outdoorsmen so uninterested in material possessions they are happy to sleep in the dirt--and he became a billionaire. Chouinard also proved that there was another way to be a philanthropist. In the twilight of his career, he gave away Patagonia, renouncing his wealth and committing all its future profits to fighting the climate crisis. Drawing on exclusive access to Chouinard and the Patagonia team, Dirtbag Billionaire offers new insights into the key moments that informed their priorities, shaped the company, and sent ripples across the corporate world.
The Great Report And Proposal Writing
Writing business reports and proposals to successful ends requires following some very vital and basic rules which are determinants of the life extents of businesses worldwide as mentioned in this book.. There exist numerous principles and guidelines for different business situations. The most important thing is identifying what works for the different situations in their environment of business.In other to plan projects; certain techniques are very vital to the ultimate success of it. These vitals are used in major complex projects of large organizations and also used in time deliverability of jobs. These are valuable techniques which ought to be common to all levels of businesses.
That's Not What I Said
That's Not What I Said: Learn Conversational Competence and Change the Outcome is more than a communication book-it's a field guide for real-life leadership in messy, high-stakes moments.Built on the proven DARE(TM) Model (Describe, Acknowledge, Review, Engage), this step-by-step approach will shift how you show up in every conversation that matters. Whether you're leading a team, navigating relationships, or just trying to avoid yet another workplace landmine, this book will help you stop avoiding, start engaging, and finally get to the real issue. With humor, wisdom, and over 5,000 leaders' worth of lived experience behind it, this book teaches you the skill no one formally taught but everyone expects you to have: how to talk-and listen-when it counts.
The Corporate Jungle
Sometimes possessing great talent, being competent at your job and having a positive outlook are not enough to do well at work. Professional success is not merely dependent on merit; being able to read people and their motives is what keeps one ahead. But organizational politics baffles most people and only the ones who can negotiate it manage to rise to the top. However, you don't need to 'play politics' to survive - just knowing how different workers operate is enough to keep you one step ahead.The Corporate Jungle is a guide to organizational politics. It will help you identify the Jaguars, the Lions, the Cats, the Bears and other types within your organization; let you know of destructive ploys people use, such as the Mustard Gas Strategy or the 3R Strategy; and teach you the right defence techniques. HR professional and expert Seema Raghunath's book is invaluable for anyone negotiating office politics and seeking to understand how interpersonal dynamics in organizations work.
OTP Please
A great shift is underway in how we buy, eat, move, work and sell owing to technological intervention. Tech platforms--whether a Swiggy, Amazon or Uber in India, a Foodpanda in Pakistan or a Pathao in Bangladesh or Nepal--have eased the pressures of modern life. They have freed up our time, provided jobs to grateful millions and delivered guilty pleasures and last-minute necessities to online buyers. But behind the dazzle of the digital, much is opaque. Gig workers live a precarious life while internet retailers cope with the oppressive rules of global behemoths. Consumers wonder if there are are consequences to instant gratification and the extreme ease of living. OTP Please delves into the wondrous new world of electronic commerce by connecting diverse stories and perspectives gathered across South Asia, from Peshawar to Patna and Colombo to Kathmandu. It explores the emotional dynamics between the different actors on this stage, the workings of tech companies and the implications for policy. Deeply researched and breezily narrated, it is essential reading to understand this extraordinary digital age that we inhabit.
