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by Robert Collier
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In the Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier shares with us the secrets of success. This book gives you the tools to have a happier and more successful life. Collier will show you how the way you think and the decisions you make have a direct influence on how successful and happy you are. With out the...
Getting Unstuck
Break Free of the Plateau Effect
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Just try harder.
Just work harder. Just do more.
But what happens when working harder doesn’t seem to be getting you better results? You’ve got to get unstuck.
In Getting Unstuck, Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson show the different kinds of plateaus that can hold you back and how they can be overcome....
Focus
Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
We all want to experience pleasure and avoid pain. But there are really two kinds of pleasure and pain that motivate everything we do. If you are promotion-focused, you want to advance and avoid missed opportunities. If you are prevention-focused, you want to minimize losses and keep things working....
Peak Performance
Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
**"A transfixing book on how to sustain peak performance and avoid burnout" —**Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Option B, Originals, and Give and Take
**"An essential playbook for success, happiness, and getting the most out of ourselves." **Arianna Huffington,...
Defining You
How to profile yourself and unlock your full potential
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Professional profiling is normally for the privileged few. This book opens it up to EVERYONE who aspires to improve their performance by becoming more self-aware.
Take the online psychometric test and receive a full professional report!
Have you ever wondered what a profiling session...
How to Think Bigger
Aim Higher, Get More Motivated, and Accomplish Big Things
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
How to Get More Motivated, Set Bigger Goals, and Achieve More by Thinking Bigger Have you ever wondered what separates people who think bigger from people who set their bar low? What makes one person accept low standards and another person to constantly raise them? Why does one person strive to...
Habits of Leadership
Discover and Use the Remarkable Connection Between Personality and Habits to Bec ome an Outstanding Manager
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
In his internationally acclaimed book, Smart Thinking, which examines the gap between innate intelligence and acquired mental skills, Art Markman presented a three-part formula to show readers how to develop “smart habits”, how to acquire high quality knowledge, and how to use that knowledge when...
Scarcity
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find...
by Charles Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people
Charles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.
After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living...
Weaponized Lies
How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
**Previously Published as A Field Guide to Lies
We’re surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track....
The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition...
by Charles Wheelan
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that you’ll welcome and enjoy.
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting...
by Angel de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2000
This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year PhD course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in...
Dollars and Sense
How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Why is paying for things painful?
Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past?
Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store?
We think of money...