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Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive commentary. The practical guide to go from “drowning in work” to freeing up an extra business day per week for everyone on your team. “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? Forget the old concepts...

From a serial entrepreneur who has closed over $100M in sales and founded two eight-figure companies, including one of LinkedIn’s top 50 startups, comes a no-BS guide to getting everything you want out of your business, relationships, and life. No matter who you are or where you come from, your education, or your network, you can defy the odds to create the life you want and build the business you’ve only dreamed about.

From the bestselling author of THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, an audiobook of daily advice to help you live better for less effort 80/20 DAILY is million-copy bestselling author Richard Koch's most accessible exploration to date of the potential of 80/20 to transform your life. It features a year's worth...

Use ChatGPT to revolutionize your small business and leave competitors in the dust. Does running your business sometimes feel like a never-ending uphill climb?But what if you had a secret weapon to not just get by but actually flourish in this challenging environment? The answer might be right at your fingertips—yes, we're talking about tech, but not just any tech. We mean ChatGPT, a specific kind of AI. We're looking at a major shift in business operations, from top-notch customer service to streamlined content creation, savvy social media campaigns, and insightful data analysis.

No matter how you entered the car business, you know the frustrations that come with the job. Customers are savvier than ever, so without knowing how to negotiate and close deals, you'll find yourself selling out of desperation instead of inspiration. You know selling is a zero-sum game—either you sell them or someone else does. You want to improve your selling skills; unfortunately, available training is outdated or irrelevant. You just need someone to show you the proven path to negotiate and close deals more effectively so you can maximize your earning potential.

"People don't leave an organization; they leave a boss" has become a truism in the workplace. The most common issue is that employees who get promoted from supervisor to manager or from manager to senior executive don't have adequate leadership and communication skills for the job. As a result, they are stuck in micromanagement mode. This audiobook addresses the micromanagement problem by providing principles to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, and meet strategically to deliver results.

Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and short-tempered at work—and at home? Then you may have too much stress in your life. Stress is a serious problem that impacts not only your mental and physical health, but also your loved ones and your organization. So what can you do to address it? The HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work will help you find a sustainable solution. It will help you reach the goal of getting on an even keel—and staying there.

Dive into the transformative world of systems thinking, where you'll learn to analyze complex scenarios, identify hidden connections, and anticipate unintended consequences. This practical guide provides actionable strategies to apply systems thinking in your everyday life – from improving personal productivity to tackling global challenges.

Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestsellers, such as The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans, have made him a globally recognized business legend. Now, he has joined with noted business author Steve Gottry to explore one of the most common and insidious problems plaguing the workplace --...

Are you aspiring to become a certified insurance adjuster and take your career to new heights? Look no further! "Mastering the Insurance Adjuster Exam" is your ultimate companion on the journey to passing the insurance adjuster exam with flying colors.

Decision intelligence (DI) has been widely named as a top technology trend for several years, and Gartner reports that more than a third of large organizations are adopting it. Some even say that DI is the next step in the evolution of AI. Many software vendors offer DI solutions today, as they help organizations implement their evidence-based or data-driven decision strategies. But until now, there has been little practical guidance for organizations to formalize decision making and integrate their decisions with data. With this book, authors L. Y. Pratt and N. E. Malcolm fill this gap.

La vida no es lineal, pero nos empeñamos en fijarnos metas lineales: títulos universitarios de cuatro años, planes de carrera a diez años, hipotecas de treinta años. ¿Y si pensáramos en la vida como en un gran campo de juego para la experimentación? La neurocientífica y emprendedora Anne-Laure Le Cunff propone desarrollar una mentalidad experimental para convertir los desafíos en autoconocimiento y la incertidumbre en oportunidad.

Turn your good intentions into action. "This book contains a ton of practical and easy-to-implement techniques and strategies for getting yourself to do whatever needs to be done." --Jack Canfield, coauthor of The Success Principles and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Whether...

Sentir-se confuso, atarefado e desencorajado se tornou o novo "normal" nos dias atuais. Talvez você até se pergunte: Por que tenho tantos recursos a meu favor e, ainda assim, procrastino tarefas importantes? Por que os meus dias parecem cada vez menos produtivos? Note-se que as questões suscitadas fazem sentido para quem vive "apagando incêndios" de última hora.

Now, for the first time ever, the time-tested, proven techniques perfected by the world-famous Dale Carnegie sales training program are available in book form. The two crucial questions most often asked by salespeople are: "How can I close more sales?" and "What can I do to reduce objections?"...

Now you can learn how to give a TED-style talk to achieve your personal and business goals. How to Deliver a TED Talk provides more than 100 invaluable tips - everything from opening with an explicit statement of audience benefits to framing your idea as an action-outcome response to a question worth asking. Whether you're presenting to an audience of one or 1,000, this book is an indispensable resource for any public speaker.

Trying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. By collecting all of your tasks in one place, you can reserve your mental energy for work that drives significant results, both in your professional life and your personal life. To start, productivity expert Maura Thomas takes us through an exercise called "brain dumping", which will clear your mind of all the things you're trying to remember you have to do - all the things that are distracting you or keeping you up at night. 

Covering sources of stress in every area of life: work, exams, relationships, social pressure, money, and more, this practical audio guide incorporates self-analysis questionnaires to make information easy to access and apply. This dynamic program, founded on cutting-edge psychological research...

High achievers definitely approach their workday differently. This book gives access to the secrets and strategies they've found for making things work. Time Wise goes deeper and unveils some of the more counterintuitive but effective methods that boost your productivity. Some of the high achievers featured, along with their personal strategies, include Adam Alter setting systems instead of goals, Rita McGrath who consults her own personal board of directors, Jake Knapp who focuses on the one important thing of the day and Oliver Burkeman's approach to beating the to-do list.

Do you ever look at the clock and wonder where the day went? You spent all this time at work and didn't come close to getting everything done. Tomorrow try something new. Use the Pomodoro technique to work in focused sprints throughout the day. In Pomodoro Technique Illustrated, Staffan Noteberg shows you how to organize your work to accomplish more in less time. There's no need for expensive software or fancy planners. You can get started with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pencil, and a kitchen timer.