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"Elephants Before Unicorns is for overcoming "elephant" obstacles and building your perfect "unicorn" company culture. Bringing her expertise from HR to EQ, Caroline Stokes offers business owners the actionable strategies they need to gain and retain a quality workforce"--
82) Eat That Frog
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The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life
Stop Procrastinating, Get More of the Important Things Done-Today!
There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list-and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs.
There's an old saying...
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A calm, collected mind is the best defense against stress. In Unclutter Your Mind, Donna Smallin shows you how to address the emotional and psychological clutter that can rob you of a balanced, rewarding, meaningful life. Offering 500 creative ideas to help you clear away unnecessary worries, daily stressors, and unhelpful habits, Smallin helps you clear your head and focus on what's most important to you. Just a few minutes each day is enough to...
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"Procrastination is the reality of countless people, especially today. We are used to living in a more comfortable system as consequence of technological advances. Procrastination consumes a person's life and dreams. But life change is possible and can be achieved. TURN YOUR TIME INTO YIELD teaches the reader the correct and effective way to overcome procrastination and evade the temptations of this curse. The book brings practical strategies that...
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Have you ever driven several miles without noticing anything on the road, or read a page in a book without registering any of it? Do the day's worries and disappointments crowd your mind as you're trying to fall asleep at night? Do you feel stressed much of the time and aren't sure how to find peace? In this book, Amit Sood, M.D., M.Sc., a Mayo Clinic specialist in stress and resiliency, reveals how the mind's instinctive restlessness and shortsightedness...
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"In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline -- the internal strategy to grow leaders -- in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results. They...
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The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn't wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous...
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If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog and turned them into a deceptively light, sneakily serious compendium of sometimes heretical reflections on management. The moral here is this: managers...
89) What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day
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Are you tired of productivity consultants-or worse, your boss-pushing you to do more with less? You're in luck. Laura Stack knows your to-do list is already packed to capacity, so she shows you how to accomplish more by doing less. Yes, you read that right. Stack's innovative time-management system lets you work less and achieve more. Following Stack's step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula, you'll organize your life around the tasks that really...
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Despite the countless books written on the subject of managing Millennials (most often authored by non-Millennials), no one has until now diagnosed the real issue of generational differences in the workplace: generations do not define themselves, their environment defines them. The four main traits entitled, lazy, disrespectful, and disloyal are misguided assumptions made about Millennials that Kadakia argues are actually positive attributes that...
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Your company's data has the potential to add enormous value to every facet of the organization -- from marketing and new product development to strategy to financial management. Yet if your company is like most, it's not using its data to create strategic advantage. Data sits around unused -- or incorrect data fouls up operations and decision making.
In Data Driven, Thomas Redman, the "Data Doc," shows how to leverage and deploy data to sharpen your...
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Stress. It's unavoidable today, it seems. High-intensity workplaces. Nonstop at-home demands. Traffic that follows you wherever you go. Stress is near impossible to avoid, and whether we acknowledge it or not, it's definitely taking a toll on our productivity and well-being. But is that spinach salad at lunch really helping to reinvigorate you at halftime? Is the yoga class on the way to work truly decreasing your mental workload throughout the day?...
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"Employment expert Paul Falcone supplies the tools you need to land top talent. The third edition of his practical and popular book is packed with interview questions, each designed to reveal the real person sitting across the table. What is the applicant's motivation for changing jobs? How well does he handle stress? Does she consistently show initiative? Managers learn to define the key criteria they seek in their next hire and pose strategic questions...
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"Every day, people are promoted into the ranks of management... even if they never intended to become managers. They agree to their new responsibilities either to stay employed or to make more money. It is a universal phenomenon. But for these ""accidental managers,"" it makes more sense to manage well than to manage badly, and this book tells them how. Using examples and real-life case studies, The Accidental Manager gives readers the tools they...
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"Putting Information Technology first and the business second is putting the cart before the horse. In most organisations, there seems to be a disconnect between the business and Information Technology, and in some regards, IT is looked on as the silver bullet that can be used to resolve all problems and issues. This has occurred due to Information Technology becoming so embedded in organisations and being required for the execution of most business...
96) Power play
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Cut off from the outside world at a remote resort for a corporate retreat, Jake Landry, a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation who is filling in for his boss during the annual off-site conference, is forced to draw on the skills of his secret past when the executives are taken hostage by a ruthless group of men out to take the corporation for all it is worth.
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"Trying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. By collecting all of your tasks in one place, you can reserve your mental energy for work that drives significant results, both in your professional life and your personal life. To start, productivity expert Maura Thomas takes us through an exercise called "brain dumping," which will clear your mind of all the things you're trying to remember you have to do --...
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his book guides readers step by step through the process of figuring out what data is important to them; wrestling with the information to clear out what's not useful and organize what they want to keep; and dealing with the ongoing data maintenance aspect that is a necessity in this digital age.
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Project Management for Parents helps families strengthen their relationships and reduce stress by applying techniques, normally used by billion-dollar companies, to streamline their busy lives. In today's day and age, especially amidst the changes brought about by a global pandemic, parents, stepparents, guardians, and caregivers need a set of tools that can be used with children of any age to help them focus on their priorities, get organized, and...
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