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The 80/20 Principle, Third Edition
The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle: that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did...
Born for This
How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Have you ever met someone with the perfect job?
To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery—that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work—and they're getting paid well to do it.
In...
Mind over Money
Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Do you overspend? Undersave? Keep secrets about money from a spouse or family member? Are you anxious about dealing with your finances? If so, you are not alone. Let's face it–just about all of have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money.
As Drs. Brad and Ted...
by Jeff D. Opdyke
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A hands-on, interactive guide to managing your monday and building your financial future
Many of the worksheets in this book are available online and can be saved, printed, and recalculated at any time. Go to: WSJ.com/BookTools
Understanding your money, and getting it to work for you,...
Habit Changers
81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier?
Often, the biggest obstacle to change...
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People
How to Beat Them Without Joining Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
The impossible people who make life’s journey so difficult are everywhere—at the office, in restaurants, on airplanes, living next door, members of your own family. They’re . . .
• your “nothing is ever good enough” boss
• the “no price is ever low enough” client
•...
Organized for Success
Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
In this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston explains how she discovered, after more than two decades as a leading organization expert and bestselling author, that senior executives and CEOs seem to possess unique conceptual skills in the areas of time management and organization that enable them...
The Chaos Imperative
How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In the bestselling tradition of Switch and Made to Stick, Ori Brafman reveals how organizations can drive growth and profits by allowing contained chaos and disruption the space to flourish, generating new ideas that trigger innovation.
In The Chaos Imperative, organizational expert and bestselling...
Confidence
How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.
Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again...
The Talent Masters
Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down, a success or a failure (and it is) . . . do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent? Understand a person's unique combination of traits? Develop that talent? Convert what supposedly are "soft" subjective judgments...
The Power of Small
Why Little Things Make All the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The authors of the national bestseller The Power of Nice once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers.
Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our biggest...
The Six Sigma Fieldbook
How DuPont Successfully Implemented the Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strate gy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The authoritative hands-on guide to putting the Six Sigma strategy into practice, written by Mikel Harry, co-founder of the Six Sigma Academy, and Don Linsenmann, the Six Sigma champion who helped to implement Six Sigma across DuPont’s eighteen business divisions.
The ideal companion to Mikel...
Kinds of Power
A Guide to its Intelligent Uses
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the boldest expose on the nature of power since Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety. Power, we often forget, has many faces, many different expressions. "Empowerment," writes...
Unthink
Rediscover Your Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In the tradition of A Whole New Mind and The War of Art, graffiti artist and corporate thought leader, Erik Wahl explores the power of creativity to achieve superior performance.
Somehow we’ve come to believe that creativity is reserved for the chosen few: the poets, the painters, the writers....