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The 4 disciplines of execution : achieving your wildly important goals / Covey, Sean
Four disciplines of execution
"Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organisation? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no-one even noticed. What happened? The whirlwind of activity required to keep things running day to day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. The 4 Disciplines of Execution can change all that forever. The 2nd Edition, with more than 30 percent new content, presents a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing your most important strategic priorities. Used by more than 100,000 teams around the world in business, government, and education, the 4 Disciplines are forever changing how teams and organisations achieve their most important goals."--

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The age of outrage : how to lead in a polarized world / Ramanna, Karthik
How to lead in a polarized world
"Outrage is everywhere-on the left and on the right-and many companies are finding themselves in the crosshairs. Go Fund Me was pressured to cut off funding to protesting truckers in Ottawa. Disney's CEO was dragged down for mishandling both sides of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law. Facebook and other tech companies have been accused of manipulating elections in many countries and by many parties. People are angry with the world-in some cases, rightfully so-and now view companies as they do governments: as targets of their ire and potential forces for social change. Managing outrage has moved from being an occasional leadership challenge, such as handling a PR crisis, to a necessary and critical leadership capability, like strategic thinking or financial acumen. Based on his popular Oxford leadership program and deep-dive case studies on organizations such as IKEA, Nestlé, the London Metropolitan Police, the Vatican, and others, Karthik Ramanna offers a set of practices for leaders to navigate this age of polarization-steps leaders can take to make sense of the outrage they encounter, work with relevant stakeholders to progress through it, and emerge stronger for it. Ramanna's practical framework, developed through years of experience with organizations, helps leaders "turn down the temperature," analyze root causes, develop and implement distinctive organizational responses that are mission consistent, and build individual and organizational resilience. Just as governments have systems for managing regular adverse-weather events such as hurricanes, organizations and their leaders now need an equivalent for managing the stakeholder hostilities that contextualize nearly all their decisions. This book is the essential guide for managing in the age of outrage"--

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The art of Danish living : how the world's happiest people find joy at work / Wiking, Meik
"Meik Wiking has been called the Indiana Jones of Happiness. He is globally revered as an expert in happiness and has spent the last decade researching the factors that impact on our happiness after setting up the world's very first Happiness Research Institute. It is well known around the world that the Scandinavian countries have a fantastic work-life balance, that working late is discouraged, parental leave is split equally, and long summer holidays are the norm. They even have a word meaning "happiness at work"-arbejdsgl{aelig}de. All of this is true, and more, while most people at work in western countries are struggling to strike a balance between home and work, which has led to a burn-out epidemic. This has fascinated Meik and his team at the institute in Copenhagen and they have teamed up with a global tech company to run a huge piece of research, collecting data from thousands of people across multiple countries, to look at how our work is affecting our happiness. Meik's next uplifting book will be based on the results of that research, revealing what actually makes us happy at work, how we can all learn from that to reduce stress, increase positivity, and work like the happiest people on earth."--

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The freedom shortcut : how anyone can generate true passive income online, escape the 9-5, and live anywhere / Mikkelsen, Christian
The Freedom Shortcut is your step-by-step guide to creating your own income online so you never have to rely on a job to get paid.

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The great crashes : lessons from global meltdowns and how to prevent them / Yueh, Linda Y. (Linda Yi-Chuang)
"The global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in modern financial history. Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. From the currency crises of the 1980s and 1990s, to Japan's housing crash, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis, and the COVID pandemic, The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten of these historic events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales, each with their own set of lessons to be learnt. With clear-eyed analysis, renowned economist Dr Linda Yueh extracts a three-step framework to help recognise the early signs of a crash and mitigate the effects, all with the hope of preventing the worst mistakes of the past from being repeated in the next inevitable financial crisis."--

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The little book of bitcoin : what you need to know that Wall Street has already figured out / Scaramucci, Anthony
"Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency (a virtual currency) designed to act as money and a form of payment outside the control of any one person, group, or entity. This removes the need for trusted third-party involvement (e.g., a mint or bank) in financial transactions. It is rewarded to blockchain miners who verify transactions and can be purchased on several exchanges. Bitcoin was introduced to the public in 2009 by an anonymous developer or group of developers using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It has since become the most well-known and largest cryptocurrency in the world. Its popularity has inspired the development of many other cryptocurrencies"--

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The resilient leader : lessons in navigating through crisis and opportunity / Molitor, Brian D.
Discover how to be a resilient leader through vital strategies and keys for achieving success and peace-of-mind at home and work -- even in times of adversity. This book investigates not only what it means to be a leader, but what it means to be a resilient leader. From Fortune 500 corporations to the small coffee shop on the corner, to hospitals and religious organizations, leaders of all kinds will benefit from the lessons presented in this book. Author Brian Molitor, CEO of Molitor International, has distilled decades of his work into actionable guidance that is accessible and impactful. It also includes insightful testimonials from other leaders sharing their own experiences. It is common for "leadership" books to focus on techniques to inform, inspire, teach, train, and develop the talents of team members. This approach ignores the fact that leaders are only human, subject to the same stresses, problems, and storms as any other. Which is why the focus on self-care, personal wellness, and developing resilience is an important aspect of this book. Being a resilient leader can be learned and this book provides everything you will need to get started.

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The skill code : how to save human ability in an age of intelligent machines / Beane, Matt
How to save the human ability in an age of intelligent machines
"A guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots"--

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The work smarter guide to negotiation : the insider's guide to negotiatinng like a pro / Kean, David
"Kirk Kinnell is a hostage negotiator and counter-terrorism expert with decades of experience. Jim Houghton has conducted complex M&A deals worth hundreds of millions. Despite their dramatically different backgrounds, they share the philosophy that negotiation is not a zero-sum game and that trust, integrity and fairness are essential to achieving a successful outcome. This book combines their vast knowledge to show you how to prepare for and conduct negotiations in almost any environment. What holds true for ending a siege or keeping a hostage alive could be the key to getting your toddler off to bed or agreeing a pay rise with your boss. Their invaluable advice will help you be resourceful and calm amid the stress and volatility of real-world negotiations"--

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You deserve to be rich : master the inner game of wealth and claim your future / Bilal, Rashad
"A revolutionary playbook for achieving financial freedom within a broken system, from the founders of the explosively popular educational platform Earn Your Leisure. Growing up as best friends in New York, Troy Millings and Rashad Bilal witnessed both the boundless creativity of young Black men and the systemic barriers that too often kept them from turning that ingenuity and hustle into lasting wealth. It became their mission to level the playing field. So they joined forces on a podcast, mixing "barbershop conversations with Wall Street," that would eventually draw tens of millions of fans, garnering the attention of celebrity moguls from Tyler Perry to Barbara Corcoran. Now, for the first time, Bilal and Millings reveal their blueprint for financial freedom: earning enough passive and residual income to control your time, working conditions, and lifestyle. The key is to see money as a strategic tool for wealth development rather than an end in and of itself. You Deserve to Be Rich breaks down strategies for: Understanding the psychological toll of growing up living paycheck to paycheck, healing from financial trauma, and reframing your relationship with money; Exploring income-building strategies outside of your 9-5, from long-term and short-term investing in often-overlooked sectors to side hustles with passive income potential; Mastering the complexities of the tax and insurance systems and identifying the (legal) loopholes you need to maximize wealth; Navigating the family expectations that can complicate financial planning and finding sustainable ways to support your community. In their signature style, Bilal and Millings funnel finance, investing, and entrepreneurial lessons through the language of pop culture, with chapter titles drawn from hip-hop lyrics and quotes from TV shows--a first-of-its-kind playbook for beating the proverbial money game, whether you grew up knowing the rules or not"--

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