When you become a manager, you need proven strategies and advice to ensure your team meets expectations.Two longtime managers draw upon their decades of combined experience in this guidebook to getting the job done during your first year as a manager. Whether youve just been promoted, been transferred, or started a new job, youll learn how toestablish an organized work environment;create stability in the workplace;write a code of conduct for yourself and your ...

What if charisma could be taught?For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the technique...

Drawing from the text of the Business Week bestseller Today Matters, this condensed, revised edition boils down John C. Maxwell's 12 daily practices to their very essence, giving maximum impact in minimal time. Presented in a quick-read format, this version is designed to be read cover to cover in one sitting or taken in as brief lessons in a few spare minutes each day. It covers such topics as:-- Priorities-- Health-- Family-- Finances...

Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business?Instead of wondering, read this book and find out how to become a lovecat—a nice, smart person who succeeds in business and in life.How do you become a lovecat? By sharing your intangibles. By that I mean:Your knowledge: e...

The classic Harvard Business Review articles by renowned thinker Peter Drucker on how to take charge of your own career.Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from Harvard Business Review, Drucker reveals t...

Ready to stand up and create positive change at work, but reluctant to speak up? True leadership doesn’t always come from a position of power or authority. By teaching you skills and providing practical advice, this handbook shows you how to engage your coworkers and bosses and bring your ideas forward so that they are heard, considered, and acted upon.Authors Carmen Medina and Lois Kelly—once rebels themselves—reveal ways to navigate your workplace, avoid common mistakes and traps...

In 1952, W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill joined forces and philosophies. Stone added his Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) concept to Hill's principles, resulting in the classic book, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. The two men spent the next ten years writing and lecturing about achieving success through PMA. Their formula was to become the foundation for virtually all modern motivational writing. Believe and Achieve is not the last word on creating success; that story will co...

MGTOW, Building Wealth and Power is both a celebration of modern masculinity and a practical guide to ensuring that men like us experience long-term contentment and have a better financial future. Inside this book are investing techniques that work; paying homage to the massive social movement of men which is ending entanglements and enhancing happiness through bachelorhood. This book features empowering insights on patriarchy, power, masculinity and the ancient secrets of creativity, as w...

Forget the old-school “motivation” and pop-psychology that fills so many self-improvement books—it’s out of date and, honestly, doesn’t work that well in the first place. What you need to thrive in today’s distracting, fast-paced world are three, fundamental self-mastery skills—cognitive control, emotional self-regulation, and impulse control. Together, these skills are the holy grail of personal development, and Raise Your Inner Game presents the world's first m...

Is the Glass Ceiling Also a Mirror?To create a culture that values what women bring to the table, what comes first: collective change or individual change? Do they have to change first? Or do we?As long as we believe “they” are the problem and the answer is “out there” - above us, below us, beside us - we will never fully embrace the real source of our power.The thing is, we have an enemy far greater than any cultural expectation, organizational bia...

They Just Don't Get It! explores an all-too-common dilemma: when people around us just don't "get" our ideas. Through a charming illustrated fable, it tells the story of Julie Buffet, a hard-charging advertising executive with what she thinks is a fantastic idea for a new campaign. But nobody gets it-not the client, not her boss, and not her coworkers. And Julie can't understand why.We have all found ourselves in this situation at one time or another, and we typically see this probl...

This is the second of in the Residential Care Management series. It is a workbook for residential care managers and aspiring managers. It focusses on how they can use the teachings of Maslow, Herzberg and Alderfer to retain and motivate their staff team, and to be more successful in their own career in an industry notorious for high levels of staff turnover. The emphasis is on developing reflective practice and problem-solving rather than just cascading information to managers. It is based...