Career Building

This newly revised edition demonstrates how action learning can be used to address today's increasingly complex organizational challenges. Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies, and more strategies to introduce and maintain action-learning programs within an organization, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence - knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more - drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?

Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management presents a holistic approach to performance management, drawing on Michael Armstrong's vast research and experience. Most organizations have performance management processes in one form or another, but these are often based on formal annual reviews, forced rankings and directly linked to pay decisions. These traditional approaches are often at the expense of ongoing, continuous feedback and focus on looking back at what has or has not been achieved rather than looking forward.

This quick guide is straightforward and jam-packed with information. It contains the exact steps thousands of others have followed to achieve their goals. Become the passive millionaire you were born to be.

The question is…how do you get to the treasure? With over thirty years of sales experience—from owning his own business to commission-only roles—Michael Hinkle shares the mindsets and practices he’s used to cultivate a multimillion-dollar sales career. With a refreshingly straightforward and simple perspective on how to build a thriving sales career, he lays out the common-sense strategies for how nurturing relationships and building wealth go hand-in-hand.

How to Start a Blog is your ultimate guide to creating a successful blog that aligns with your passions, attracts an audience, and has the potential to generate income. Perfect for beginners, this audiobook provides practical steps and strategies for bloggers at any stage, whether you're looking to learn how to start a blog for beginners or aiming to discover how to start a blog and make money.

Task-Level Doom takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of quality improvement (QI), a world where facilitators walk the fine line between empowering teams and falling into the all-too-familiar trap of just doing the work for them. Drawing from over a decade of experience as a facilitator, leader, and strategist—plus five transformative years as a director building QI teams from scratch—this audiobook offers a candid look at the challenges and triumphs of creating a sustainable culture of improvement.

Inside sales is the fastest growing sales channel due to its cost effective nature. An inside sales rep can handle far more contacts on a daily basis than their field sales counterpart. If you are a "C" level executive with responsibility for delivering revenue, you cannot afford to overlook the rules contained in this fast-paced, powerful, book.

Brian Carruthers ha construido uno de los equipos más redituables y enormes dentro de redes de mercadeo en la última década. Su sistema de éxito ayudó a que su equipo creciera a más de 400,000 distribuidores, incluyendo incontables historias de vidas transformadas y mejoradas por los ingresos que generan.

This book will show you how to build the skills you need to become a more successful professional, such as developing your skills and competencies, working and partnering with your employer, building strong organizational relationships and increasing your visibility, thriving in your organization's culture, and increasing and applying your business knowledge. It will enable you to achieve peak performance and success by understanding and capitalizing on your strengths and minimizing your weaknesses.

Traditional team building doesn't work and hasn't for decades, if ever. Reimagine Teams highlights why and provides a clear road map to create effective teams that get breakthrough business results. Using a multitude of case studies describing decades of implementations, you will learn how teams around the globe achieved transformational business outcomes and culture change in three-six months. Reimagine Teams teaches how to be accountable and accomplish goals, and how leaders can develop high-performing, positive relationships.

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing you how new ideas are merely the combination of existing ideas.

Are you ready to create a fully designed business that you LOVE and feel confident about? Get the ultimate roadmap with all the pieces that you need to successfully scale a profitable business, which will give you the freedom and abundant lifestyle that you deserve. Are you ready for me to be your fairy “brand” mother and show you the way to a big, successful (and recognizable) beautiful business? Hold up sister, you need help to get your beautiful business moving in the right direction for success and I got you!

Your mental model is not rigid. At any point in life, you possess the ability to change your perspective. Have you found that success does not erase insecurity and self-doubt? Do you know what it feels like to long for a different life? Sleeping Giants provides practical insights into how ordinary people can choose to build lives that matter.

Over the last 60 years, women's lives have transformed from generation to generation. Without a template to follow, women make important decisions blindly, groping for a way forward, winging it, and hoping it all works out. Whether you're deciding if you should pass up a promotion in favor of more flex time, planning when to get pregnant, or wondering what the ramifications are of being the only person in your house who ever unloads the dishwasher, The Ambition Decisions is a guide to the changes that may seem arbitrary but are life defining, by women who've been there.

At some point, every early-stage start-up needs to stop being a secret and start telling people. As your engineering and development work begins to take shape, building fast attention and strong demand become essential—and just buying ads won't be enough. Matthews provides frameworks, examples, and interviews that reinforce the book’s central thesis: Marketing is a discipline, not just an activity. The book offers practical, jargon-free ideas that seamlessly blend marketing fundamentals with the functional realities of fast-paced, growth-focused start-ups.

McKinsey and Company. Lined with bold messages and practical advice, First Things First takes listeners on an insightful journey of how to build a high-performance nonprofit. Listeners learn from the blunders of an organization on the verge of bankruptcy and how Tom Iselin rebuilt it into a national brand. They also learn how to build a set of essential cornerstones most emerging nonprofits overlook when starting out or expanding.

A culture of trust for all companies large and small is invaluable. Trust turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. And what many have learned unfortunately is that no enterprise is too large or too successful to withstand a lack of trust within its walls. In The 10 Laws of Trust, JetBlue chairman and Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Joel Peterson explores how a culture of trust gives companies an edge.

"Start with the end in mind" is probably the most powerful thing you'll ever hear when it comes to creating mega-success in the network marketing arena. If you can grasp what the big boys do very early on then that will be half the battle won because you'll know where you're heading as you build the big machine.

In Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth—CEO of global venture capital firm Next47—describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the listener to understand root causes. Finally, he provides listeners with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success.