Arts Management

With Amy Herman's Fixed., we now have access to what the FBI, NATO, the State Department, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and many more organizations and their leaders have been using to solve their most intractable problems.

This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.

As a sales engineer these days, are you afraid of software making parts of your job obsolete? If not, you should be. So, how do you avoid becoming obsolete? The Social Sales Engineer shares timeless principles that will shape your sales engineering future on social media and as a trusted advisor in your client's organization. Armed with this audiobook's principles, you will sell more solutions and do it confidently with original ideas, all while building your brand.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

HOW TO STOP OVERTHINKING understands the struggles you are going through. The author of this book understand that you can't sleep at night, you overreact, and you appear to be sensitive. That you are plagued with self-doubt, you often feel no self-value, and that things are just too hard for "someone like you."

Mastering the Art of Oral Presentations is your expert guide to delivering memorable and effective speeches and presentations. Whether selling a product, offering a service, or bidding for a contract, your oral presentation skills can often determine success or failure. This invaluable resource delivers real-world advice and proven strategies to elevate your game and close the deal. Comprehensive coverage of preparation procedures, delivery techniques, and presentation strategies provide you with the tools and knowledge to motivate and persuade your audience.

Le 13 octobre 1960, Nikita Khrouchtchev lance à l'assemblée générale de l'ONU cette phrase d’un humanisme éprouvé : "Ce qui est à nous est à nous, ce qui est à vous est négociable." C'est montrer qu'en négociation on peut tomber sur des coriaces avec lesquels l'improvisation talentueuse ne suffira pas. Il faut toujours être prêt à négocier mais jamais négocier sans être prêt. Comme M. Jourdain faisait de la prose, chacun négocie chaque, parfois sans même y prêter attention.

Do you sometimes find yourself consumed by worries and doubts in your relationship? Do you feel like toxic thoughts are starting to take over and ruining what was once a beautiful connection with your partner? I would like you to take a peek at the book Stop Overthinking to Fix Relationships. This book is the solution you have been looking for.

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, Todd Whitaker helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organization.

Be honest, are you running your dojo like a business person? Or are you just holding the keys to the building and nearly everything else feels out of your control? Martial Arts triple-world-title holder and entrepreneur Gordon Burcham is finally sharing his insider secrets that led his MA school to become one of the leading dojos in the UK. Combining his personal MA journey and business acumen, he is pulling no punches in this straightforward guide. The Business of Martial Arts is second-to-none and lays out the exact methods he used to achieve his incredible success.

Creative people tend to see the world a little differently from everyone else. But that doesn't mean they can't zero in on their goals, get focused, get organized, and not only accomplish what they want to achieve but earn money doing it. In Get It Done, a beloved teacher and successful writer, actor, and comedian helps you get a handle on your own particular - even peculiar - creative process and harness your energies in positive, productive, and income-generating ways.

Imagine you're hanging out with friends on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Everyone's showing off their latest purchases — the newest iPhone or that exclusive Taylor Swift concert ticket. But while your friends flash their cards or Apple Pay, your heart sinks. With every tap, cha-ching, or swipe, you're confronted with a grim reality — financial FOMO.

John Perry’s insights and laugh-out-loud humor bring to mind Thurber, Wodehouse, and Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit. This charming and accessible audio educates, entertains, and illuminates a universal subject. Procrastinators will be relieved to learn that you can actually accomplish quite a lot while procrastinating. In fact, the book itself is the result of Perry avoiding grading papers, refereeing academic proposals, and reviewing dissertation drafts. It also has a practical side, offering up advice that listeners can put to use.

L'art de ne pas travailler... mis à part quelques surdoués de naissance, le commun des mortels a souvent hélas ! vite fait d'en oublier les secrets ! Et paradoxalement, à une époque où la valeur sociale du travail est au cœur de bien des débats, ceux qui travaillent trop, ceux qui ne travaillent pas ou plus, finissent par se retrouver dans des difficultés telles que gérer leur temps libre.

One of today's most in-demand leadership consultants, Harrison Monarth, has coached executives and CEOs in various industries, from technology, medicine and law, to hospitality, and consumer products. They have come from companies as large and wide-ranging as Hewlett-Packard, P&G, General Motors, Deloitte Consulting, PepsiCo, and Standard and Poor's. Monarth has now updated his classic groundbreaking guide to give you the edge on the competition in today's dog-eat-dog business landscape.

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out, and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

There is a massive amount of shame that comes with negative thinking. You blame yourself for the intrusive thoughts that blindside you. You feel guilty for not being more optimistic. It’s time to stop. Negative thinking isn’t as simple as looking at the glass half empty. It is a debilitating mindset that seeps into every area of your life. Negative thinking happens automatically–it’s not your fault. You tell yourself that today will be a better day, but your brain tells you the opposite, and you slip back into old negative habits.

Être plus efficace et plus détendu, avancer dans ses projets professionnels tout en ayant du temps pour soi et pour les êtres qui nous sont chers, jouir des plaisirs de la vie tout en remplissant ses obligations... Le secret ? Simplifier sa vie, se fixer moins d'objectifs et obtenir plus de résultats. Ce livre vous initie à l'art d'aller à l'essentiel : il vous transmet le pouvoir d'une vie simplifiée. En apprenant à identifier les choses indispensables de votre vie et à sélectionner le nécessaire, vous déplacerez des montagnes.