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  Level Up - How Managers Learn to...

  Maree Burgess

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  As a mid-level leader, it’s likely that you’ve been promoted into your role because of your exceptional technical skills. There is no doubt that, in your field, you are an expert. But now you’re leading a team of people and struggling to keep up with all their demands on your time and attention.You start doing more because you don’t trust your team to do it as well. You’re finding that your team isn’t paying attention, making suggestions, or coming up with new ideas.The result? You’re on an endless cycle of busyness, trying to control everything and everyone around you, and it’s starting to impact your life, your relationships, and your health.So, what to do?You need to learn to lead at the right level – you need to level up your leadership.This book will change how you do things in small ways that will have a huge impact on you and the people you interact with daily. It will help you become a better leader, so you can work better together.

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  Work without Stress - Building a...

  Nick Petrie, Derek Roger

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  FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT STRESS. 
   
   
  If you’re like most people, you probably think that stress is an inevitable part of life. The truth is: it’s not. In a groundbreaking 30-year study, Dr. Derek Roger has discovered that everything we think we know about stress-and how we should “manage” it-is just plain wrong. 
   
   
  STRESS IS A CHOICE. 
   
  It is not a natural response to the pressures of work. It’s a choice that you make, consciously or not, to worry and fret and agonize over the work you need to do-instead of just doing it. 
   
   
  WORK DOESN’T HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL FOR YOU TO BE SUCCESSFUL. 
   
  This book offers a radically different approach to stress. It’s about being resilient. Flexible. Mentally awake and in the moment. It’s about changing your mindset to keep things in perspective instead of adding fuel to the fire with negative thoughts. The techniques you’ll find in this book are powerful, practical, and proven to work-without stress. 
   
   
   
   
  A revolutionary approach to preventing stress that is evidence-based, life-changing, and scientifically proven to work  
   
   
  Why do some people get stressed while others stay calm, cool, and collected under pressure? According to renowned stress researcher Dr. Derek Roger, the answer lies in resilience-your ability to cope with challenges and thrive under adversity-rather than ruminating and obsessing over them. In lab-controlled studies, he discovered that the key to “managing” stress is to stop it before it starts. To be resilient, flexible, and ready for anything. 
   
   
  The culmination of three decades of research, this book presents a practical and proven program of simple step-by-step techniques that you can use to: 
   
  * Adjust your mindset and work more efficiently 
   
  * Control your response to any kind of pressure 
   
  * Detach and let go of negative thoughts 
   
  * Put things in perspective and focus on what matters 
   
  * Develop a stress-free leadership style 
   
  * Build more resilient teams and organizations 
   
  * Give constructive feedback and communicate effectively 
   
  * Differentiate between caring (useful) and worrying (useless) 
   
  * Open your mind to new approaches and ideas 
   
  * Reach higher levels of success-without all the stress 
   
   
  Warning: This is not another stress management book. It’s not about finding time to relax. It’s about cultivating resilience-the ability to negotiate the rapids of life without being swept away. It’s about reprogramming your emotional responses to high-pressure situations and breaking the self-defeating habits that do nothing but increase your levels of stress. In this book, you’ll find case-by-case studies and day-to-day techniques to help you readjust your attitude from the moment you wake up. You’ll discover essential tools for a stress-free life, including 3 questions to ask in a crisis, 4 steps to handle everyday pressures, and 8 behaviors that alleviate stress instantly. Best of all, the book shows you how to instill a no-stress approach to work in your fellow employees, throughout your organization. 
   
   
  Remember: You are not genetically programmed to experience stress. You have a choice. You can make your success the hard way-or you can Work Without Stress.

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  Strategy Discovery - Achieving...

  Graham Kenny

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  Personal, useful, actionable, and grounded in research, this book will shift your thinking from "strategy development" to "strategy discovery" to enable you to deal with today's business challenges, engage your staff, and boost your business performance. 
   
   
   
  Management teams and boards are facing disruption on all sides, from morphing customer preferences to the COVID pandemic to climate change. At the same time they are floundering in strategy confusion with too many concepts and not enough clarity. In this book, strategy expert and regular Harvard Business Review author Graham Kenny releases managers and directors from their strategy haze. His simple and effective framework allows managers to navigate the current maze of ideas and approaches and maximize their competitive advantage. Kenny's style is equally effective: each chapter begins with an engaging story, then builds on this with cases, client examples, sidebars, and more, ending with a series of action points to provide a pathway to success. 
   
   
   
  CEOs, senior-level, and middle managers across all functions and sectors, including private, public, and not-for-profit organizations, who discuss and set strategy for their organization or business unit will appreciate the articulated framework, illustrative anecdotes, and positive encouragement this book offers.

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  Get it Done Now! - Own Your Time...

  Brian Tracy

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  There is a quote attributed to that most famous of individuals, Anonymous, "Starve your distraction, and feed your focus." This is the perfect idea with which to open this great new work from Brian Tracy. 
   
    
   
  We live in the most technologically advanced period of history, and in the most technologically advanced country. With the advent of mobile phones, killer apps, broadband internet speeds that stagger the imagination, and nearly any bit of information or products/solutions only one click away, how can it be that remaining optimally productive is such a challenge for so many? 
   
    
   
  In a word: Distraction. Many of us spend precious time focusing on the incessant and numerous emails, texts, notifications, ads, etc. that seem important . . . even urgent . . . to our success and happiness, but in reality only complicate our lives and take us even further from our goals. Brian addresses this challenge of distraction in its many forms and shows you how to "feed your focus" on a daily basis. Learn: productivity promises and pitfalls in our modern age; the psychology of productivity; the best productivity methods ever conceived; how to end procrastination once and for all; and productivity and relationships: where it applies and where it doesn't.

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  How Does the Economy Work

  IntroBooks Team

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  There is no simple way to explain how economy works. Economy depends on various factors. The economy of the USA is not same as the economy of India. Globalization is real but still different countries have different economy even today. Argentina once faced a huge economic crisis, and in time to time, there were global economy crisis. Productivity, transactions, demands decide the economy. There are multiple theories of how the economy work. Economy is the most important aspect of modern civilization. Nothing can be done without a strong economy. Common citizens do not care to know how the economy works, as most believe that only politicians have to worry about country’s economy. It is true that politicians have the power to decide certain factors, but common citizens decide in which way the country’s economy will go. 
  Economy is not just a subject; it is good for every common citizen to understand how the economy actually works.

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  The Little Book of Market Myths...

  Kenneth L. Fisher

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  Everybody knows that a strong dollar equals a strong economy, bonds are safer than stocks, stocks are more volatile now and stop-losses are a smart, money-saving tactic . . . right? These are just a few widely believed but potentially dangerous market myths New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ken Fisher dismantles in this wise, informative, wholly entertaining new book. As a long-term Forbes columnist and CEO of a global money management firm managing tens of billions for high-net-worth individuals and institutions, Ken knows a thing or two about what works and what's bunk when it comes to investing wisdom. Bringing together some of Ken's best myth debunking and market sleuthing of the past twenty-five years, in an easy-to-digest, bite-sized format, The Little Book of Market Myths exposes some of the most common-- and deadly-- myths investors swear by. And he demonstrates why subscribing to the rule-of-thumb approach to investing could prevent you from reaching your long-term investing goals. But this book is more than just a list of myths. One after another, Ken takes each commonly held belief or "surefire" strategy and explains why the myth persists, why it doesn't work and just how damaging it can be to your financial health. And each chapter is a primer on how you can apply the same "debunking" tactics yourself, now and for the rest of your investing time horizon. Whether you're a novice investor or a longtime veteran, this book arms you with priceless insights to help you identify major errors you may be committing and help you see the world clearer-- so you can improve your investing results. Fun, insightful, at times, irreverent, The Little Book of Investing Myths offers vivid proof of the old adage "the truth shall set you free"-- to increase the odds you achieve your long-term investing goals

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