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From the best-selling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience, and virtue. In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known - and not so well-known - Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it.

All of us are involved in selling every day. Whenever we present a product or a principle, inform a client, or instruct a child, we are engaging in the art of effective persuasion. Allow America's master of the art of selling explain proven, practical sales techniques all of us can use every day.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: Passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom.

People who are good at influencing and persuading know how to get things done. They turn crises into opportunities and opponents into allies, and they achieve much more by doing less. And the good news is that anyone can learn these skills.

Conventional interviewing advice doesn’t work. That’s what Anna Papalia learned through years of experience as an HR professional, consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and teacher at the Fox School of Business. None of the existing tools work for one simple reason: they don’t get to the heart of what actually makes a great interview—self-awareness. At its core, an interview is a set of questions about you. If you don’t know yourself, you won’t do well.

Achieve Any Goal will give you the tools…and the inspiration to unlock and unleash your full potential. A leader in the field of goals training, Brian Tracy has collected everything he has learned over the years into a single system that you will learn in this book. Tracy has now trained hundreds of thousands of people in these principles. His philosophy is "Anyone can do it." Step number one is to have an intense burning desire for your particular goal. If you have that, you are ready to get started.

Jay Shetty, superstar des réseaux sociaux, partage la sagesse intemporelle qu'il a apprise quand il était moine. Des étapes pratiques que tout le monde peut franchir au quotidien pour mener une vie moins stressante et plus riche de sens. Fraîchement diplômé d'une école de commerce londonienne, Jay Shetty a abandonné costume et attaché-case et s'est rendu en Inde pour devenir moine et consacrer sa vie à aider son prochain.

This Working Life is the audiobook you need to navigate your career with courage, openness and a good dose of laughter in these chaotic and uncertain times. Springing off the success of her ABC podcast, Lisa Leong, together with journalist Monique Ross, is bringing a deep curiosity to the world of work.

World renowned psychologist and internationally bestselling author Edith Eger’s powerful New York Times bestselling book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Eger’s second book, The Gift, expands on her message of healing and provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages listeners to change the thoughts and behaviors that may be keeping them imprisoned in the past.

In Great Leaders Grow, a woman named Debbie Brewster becomes a mentor to a young man named Blake, as he embarks on his own career. Together, they explore four ways that leaders must keep growing, both on the job and off. Within their story are valuable lessons for anyone who desires both professional success and personal fulfillment.

In this authentic self-help book, Jordan Tarver, introspective author and world traveler, guides you on a journey of self-discovery. A close call with death at the age of 19 and a soul-searching solo backpacking trip at 21 taught Jordan how to live. Since then, he's dedicated himself to living a life infused with meaning and empowering others to do the same.

Avez-vous parfois le sentiment de passer à côté de votre vie ? L'impression de ne pas donner le meilleur de vous-même ? Tout commence par vos habitudes. Après trois années de recherches et d'écriture, Onur Karapinar explique comment la mise en place de petites habitudes permet de grandes réussites sur le long terme. Quelques minutes par jour permettent alors de sortir des boucles stériles et de réorienter son énergie.

As a single mom living on food stamps, Sarah completely changed her life of poverty to enable her to live her dream in just 18 months. Sarah discovered the tools to change her life after her husband abandoned her and their three small children in 2008. Her story has impacted hundreds of thousands worldwide through her simple eight-step plan for achieving success known as the #HBRMethod.

For decades The One Minute Manager has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book's publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less - including resources, funding, and staff - have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.

David Servan-Schreiber nous convie à la découverte d'une nouvelle médecine sans médicaments ni psychanalyse. Une approche thérapeutique révolutionnaire et accessible à tous pour trouver l'harmonie et l'équilibre intérieur en nous mettant à l'écoute de nos émotions. Il nous présente sept méthodes originales pour devenir pleinement nous-mêmes et vivre mieux, tout simplement.

Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough. In Girl, Stop Apologizing, number-one New York Times best-selling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people - whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee....

Que ce soit les mises en scène sur Instagram, le partage de notre vie privée - ; y compris les moments les plus intimes - ; sur Facebook, ou les émissions de télé-réalités où la caméra n'a d'yeux que pour les candidats les plus scandaleux, notre époque est marquée par la glorification de notre égo. Dans notre vie professionnelle et privée, il est parfois nécessaire de mettre notre égo de côté pour se concentrer sur l'essentiel et d'arrêter de pointer d'un doigt accusateur les éléments extérieurs qui - d'après nous - nous empêchent d'avancer.

Chacun de nous a en soi des ressources puissantes pour avancer, rebondir et atteindre ses objectifs de vie. Être heureux peut aussi s'apprendre ! Vous ne le saviez pas, mais les échecs ont fait partie intégrante du chemin de vie de Fabien Olicard et ne l'ont pourtant pas empêché de trouver ce qu'on appelle le "bonheur". En effet, chacun de nous a en soi des ressources puissantes pour avancer, rebondir et atteindre ses objectifs de vie.

In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular—with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks. Rooted firmly in social-science research, Pfeffer’s 7 rules provide a manual for increasing your ability to get things done, including increasing the positive effects of your job performance.

As CEO, most everything that Rich O'Connor did had something to do with at least one of the four disciplines on his famed "yellow sheet." Rich never suspected that it would become the blueprint of an employee's plan to destroy the firm. Best selling author Lencioni brings us a fable that focuses on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization.