Career Education

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success.

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does growing up in poverty do to children's mental and physical development? How does adversity at home affect their success in the classroom, from preschool to high school?

Parler en public, voilà un exercice que beaucoup redoutent. Entre la peur de ne pas être à la hauteur, de cafouiller et d'être jugé par son auditoire, les sources de stress sont multiples. Pourtant, il est impossible d'y échapper dans le monde professionnel actuel. Alors pour que l'exercice devienne un plaisir, préparez-vous-y sans plus attendre !

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside his own head and heart. He notes that, as teachers, we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents.

Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in finance—a charter school principal and defrocked philosopher—start a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic.

Yes, it’s possible to build a business around your expertise, ideas, message, and personality. But first you need to realize - you are the brand. It’s no secret that more people than ever before are building thriving businesses around their personal brands. But why do some create six- or even seven-figure businesses while so many others strive to make a consistent income? In You Are the Brand, Mike Kim shares his proven eight-step blueprint that has helped build the brands for some of today’s most influential thought leaders - as well as his own personal brand.

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to get a bank loan, find investors, and make it to the top of your industry. Many business owners find themselves overwhelmed in their business planning process, or even worse, they outsource the planning to an unqualified professional.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it also brings alive the anxiety and competitiveness, with others and, even more, with oneself, that set the tone in this crucible of character building.

This is a FlashBooks audio summary of Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff...and It’s All Small Stuff.

These short pieces have been personally selected by Donald Trump for Think Like a Champion, giving his special perspective in what amounts to an "informal education" on how to succeed in business and life. The pieces are engaging, informative and educational, presenting the clearest picture yet into the mind and heart of an extraordinary individual.

As the Self-Love Aficionado, Heather Reinhardt really loves herself. And she wants you to really love yourself, too. Her personal belief is that self-love supports people through their struggles. On a mission to make sure as many people as possible have the proper tools to cultivate self-love, Heather decided to write Go Love Yourself. In this audiobook, she shares her personal (vulnerable, yet humorous) stories with the steps that helped her pave the path to her very own self-everything (respect, worth, and love).

The Student Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner—today's premier leadership experts—demonstrate how anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience. Grounded in the same extensive research as the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, it uses real-life stories and examples exclusively from college students.

AudioEnlightenment is pleased to bring back a metaphysical classic by one of Neville Goddard's top students, Louise Berlay. Out of print for over 30 years, you now have the opportunity to listen to Louise's stories of her time with Neville and her success in life due to the teaching of one of metaphysics greatest teachers. Listen to her stories, and follow her instructions to replicate her success.

Descubra o poder das palavras para alcançar seus objetivos pessoais e profissionais neste curso dinâmico. Explore exercícios e frameworks práticos para expressar-se com autenticidade. Este programa oferece um roteiro completo para desenvolver sua habilidade retórica, capacitando-o a se posicionar com confiança e precisão em seus relacionamentos e no ambiente de trabalho.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Certified Financial Planner Exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the Certified Financial Planner Test. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each section to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

Top-level executives, celebrities, and fast-paced professionals use Denise Lynch's system to create an empowered life, and you can too. This series guides you through the techniques, skills, and attitudes that will activate your best possible life; a life that already resides inside of you and is just waiting to emerge.

An approach to ending psychological suffering based on the ancient wisdom tradition of Advaita or self realization. This is a presentation of the essential teaching of this direct path to freedom that focuses on the recognition and realization of the true self. This audiobook identifies the root cause of suffering as the identification with the mind and the belief that the psychological construct that is considered the "person" is actual.

Here is a practical, useful, and easily understood exploration of the dynamic of choice and how the choices we make affect our everyday lives, for better or worse. Learning the relationship between the choices we make and the experiences we encounter is central to freeing ourselves from the illusion that we are victims of our circumstances. The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice is essential for all of us who wish to take charge of our lives.

World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral." With Positivity, you'll learn to see new possibilities, bounce back from setbacks, connect with others, and become the best version of yourself.

Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda’s audience grew, these messages took on a life on their own. Now Miranda has gathered the best of his daily greetings into a collection. Full of comfort and motivation, Gmorning, Gnight! is a touchstone for anyone who needs a quick lift.