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In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing - Acumen’s practice of “doing well by doing good”. Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: Impact investment is not only morally defensible, but now also economically advantageous, even necessary.

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious there’s an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it’s a Blamephant—whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In Don’t Feed the Elephants!, Sarah explores how you can address the true elephant in the room: avoidance.

Imagine switching on the television to see a highlight reel of the best moments from your life. Like a professional athlete, with every clip you'd learn how to repeat past successes, pinpoint positive blind spots, and build confidence in your skills. In Exceptional, London Business School professor and expert social scientist Daniel M. Cable reveals how building your own personal highlight reel - a collection of positive memories about yourself from your network - is key to accessing your potential.

If you've experienced long-term or repeated trauma-such as childhood abuse or neglect, domestic violence, betrayal, or prolonged emotional abuse-you may struggle with intense feelings of sadness, anger, anxiety, shame, and distrust toward others.

Amazon FBA was officially launched in 2006, so it is far from the newest selling platform, but it has shaped the path for other platforms of its kind, and it should be considered as the best service possible. But why would you want to get involved with Amazon FBA? Well, Amazon FBA is one of the easiest ways to get started. From its promises of prime delivery to customers to its total management of your products as soon as they are delivered to the warehouse, Amazon has you covered. They provide a service unmatched by any outside company, and they make selling easier every year.

There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.

Have you ever dreaded Sunday night, got a pit in your stomach on the way to work, or had your heartbeat speed up at the sound of your boss’s voice? If so, you may have had anxiety at work. In this empathetic and wise guide, executive coaches and gurus of gratitude Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton explore the causes of workplace stress and anxiety and the management practices that have proven successful in reducing tension and cultivating calm.

How to build muscle and burn fat … without morphing into a big, bulky bodybuilder. Have you failed to get in great shape after weeks and months of going to the gym? Do you lack confidence in the gym, feel too weak, or feel self-conscious about the current shape of your body? Are you put off lifting weights because you don’t want to end up with the bulky, overgrown bodybuilder look? No need to worry. This book is all about strength training NOT bodybuilding - and yes there is a difference.

Are you suffering from osteoporosis or looking to improve your bone health? Dr. Doug Lucas’s book, The Osteoporosis Breakthrough: The Natural Way to Reverse Causes of Bone Loss and Build Great Bone! is the perfect guide to getting you on the right track.

Any organization can win more customers and increase sales if they would only learn to be more strategic with their customer service. This audiobook draws on more than 30 years of research from companies such as 3M, GE, and Chick-Fil-A to teach listeners how to transcend a good business into a profitable word-of-mouth machine that transforms the bottom line.

Running an accounting firm is hard. Because nobody teaches you how to run an accountancy business when you do accountancy training. Nobody teaches you how to price your services, how to win new business, how to lead and manage a team or how to implement systems. The result is working too hard for too little money and never having enough time.

Are you a People Pleaser? Do you always find yourself saying YES? Would you like the confidence to hold better personal boundaries? Then my book is for you! So, you said no, but you paid the price for it. The nagging voice that says, "You should have said yes," coaxes you to treat your brother with kindness and respect. Again, you may ignore the voice. Indeed, that's what this book is about – managing your behaviors and overcoming pleasing others.

You are missing out on so many relationships in your life. Communication is the bedrock of our relationships. But we often don’t know how to express ourselves, or truly hear others. Make sure that you are not letting amazing people pass you by. Increase your social and emotional awareness. Conversations Skills Training is truly about arming you with the tools you need for effective expression, listening, and relationships.

Join the ranks of thousands of smart and savvy women who have turned to money expert and author Bola Sokunbi for guidance on ditching debt, saving money, and building real wealth. Sokunbi, the force behind the hugely popular Clever Girl Finance website, draws on her personal money mistakes and financial redemption to educate and empower a new generation of women on their journey to financial freedom. Lighthearted and accessible, Clever Girl Finance encourages women to talk about money and financial wellness.

We’ve entered an exhilarating new era of self-invention. With access to new resources, technologies, and connectivity, you no longer have to rely on traditional channels to craft an incredible career. But surviving and thriving in this new landscape requires a highly proactive approach. Maximize Your Potential will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.

Intergenerational trauma is a deeply ingrained cycle, affecting countless individuals seeking to break free and establish healthier future paths for themselves and their families. But you can break this cycle and move toward healing with the help of this book.

Brandon Copeland has always been different. His determination to succeed and create the life he wanted launched him from Baltimore to the University of Pennsylvania and then to the NFL. Over his ten-year playing career, he saved and invested the majority of his earnings, created other business opportunities, and motivated his teammates as the locker room’s money professor. He returned to the same Ivy League classrooms midway through his football career to launch his Life 101 financial education platform, reaching thousands of students in-person and online.

Less than three months after retiring from a 30-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their work brings. And this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.

Business Hack is your essential road map to business growth and online marketing success. Author and successful entrepreneur John Lee shares his proven methods to harness the power of online tools, including using social media - offering practical steps to create and implement highly effective cyber-marketing campaigns.

This guide offers a clear, structured path to healthier, more fulfilling connections. It empowers you to overcome toxic patterns and build better relationships using Rational Mindfulness by integrating rational thinking, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness to help you understand and regulate your emotions and rationalize your thoughts and behaviors. Combining principles from the latest behavioral therapies with modernized Stoicism and Objectivism provides a balanced approach to creating healthier relationships.