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1201) Life Affirmations
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Do not be afraid to be different. Do not be afraid to stand up for your beliefs.
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Understand Michael Porter's value chain in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this valuable business tool with this practical and accessible guide.
The Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter has dedicated much of his career to studying competitive advantage. One of his best-known concepts is the value chain, which is used to deliver a product or service to the market and has three key objectives: to improve services,...
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The must-read summary of Daniel Burrus and John David Mann's book: "Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible".
This complete summary of the ideas from Daniel Burrus and John David Mann's book "Flash Foresight" explains how a flash foresight is a "blinding flash of the future obvious". It is the ability to intuitively grasp what will unfold in the foreseeable future and then to understand the hidden opportunities involved. In...
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The must-read summary of Mark H. McCormack's book: "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School and Why They Can't Make You Street Smart".
This complete summary of the ideas from Mark H. McCormack's book "What They don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" demonstrates that a business school can't teach you how to be street smart. This summary highlights what you need to learn and how you can get the necessary experience to be at the...
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Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas, why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action oriented, they have the ability not just to identify...
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre et dépasser son anxiété
La peur est un sentiment normal, humain. Et pourtant, ce sentiment peut être extrêmement handicapant s'il prend le pas sur notre vie et nous empêche de la mener comme nous l'entendons. En contexte professionnel, il n'est pas rare de se voir paralysé dans son travail par hantise de parler en public, par crainte de mal faire ou encore par peur de perdre son emploi. Alors,...
1207) Catch the Fire: An Art-Full Guide To Unleashing The Creative Power Of Youth, Adults And Communities
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Community, youth, nonprofit, education, entrepreneurial, and religious organizations all have exciting ambitions, but they often lack the creative skills to impact people on a deeper level. Catch the Fire is a complete guide to using arts and empowerment techniques to bring greater vitality and depth to working with groups of youth or adults. Based on the premise that you don't have to be a professional artist to use the arts in your work, this unique...
1208) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: A compelling exploration of human thought processes
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It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, explores the fallacies that can impair human decision-making and the biases that may lead us to act in an irrational way. Kahneman posits that the human mind is governed by two systems of thought, which we lean on in different...
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The must-read summary of Mark Eppler's book: "The Wright Way: 7 Problem-Solving Principles from the Wright Brothers that Can Make Your Business Soar".
This complete summary of the ideas from Mark Eppler's book "The Wright Way" tells the story of the Wright brothers, who successfully built and flew an aeroplane in 1903, despite most people believing it was impossible. In his book, the author analyses the keys to their success, highlighting their approach...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Dan Roam's book "The Back of the Napkin" shows that visual thinking is a whole new way of looking at and discussing business. It is harnessing and applying our innate ability to use our eyes and our imagination to discover, develop and share ideas with others. In his book, the author explains how a simple drawing on the back of a napkin can be more effective in visualizing the solution to some business problem...
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Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about overcoming procrastination with this practical guide.
Ever find yourself staring at a constantly growing to-do list that you just can't bring yourself to start? Procrastination could be holding you back and stopping you from working to your full potential. Fortunately, there are a few simple steps that will enable you to finally stop putting things off and unlock...
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The must-read summary of Ian Ayres' book: "Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart".
This complete summary of the ideas from Ian Ayres' book "Super Crunchers" shows that the number crunchers are starting to consistently outperform the experts. Those who rely on their intuition to make good decisions are now starting to get left behind by a new breed of number crunchers — called "Super Crunchers" — who mine huge databases...
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour combattre la procrastination et ses effets négatifs
« Procrastination », voilà bien un mot à la mode. Et pour cause! Ce fléau touche de plus en plus de travailleurs, ralentis dans leurs missions professionnelles par cette manie de reporter continuellement certaines tâches au lendemain. Vous l'aurez compris, c'est un schéma sans fin, qui ne peut avoir qu'un impact négatif sur l'efficacité professionnelle...
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Todos los secretos del test de personalidad más popular del mundo
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para dejar de posponer tus proyectos, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Entender en qué consiste el test Myers-Briggs y conocer sus dieciséis perfiles psicológicos gracias a unas descripciones concisas
• Aprender a aplicar sus resultados dependiendo de...
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Why do some people drive change while others are blindsided by it? Why are some people able to adapt and thrive?
How can we make change easier?
Truly successful people don't merely tolerate discomfort-they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation gurus and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort, but the most successful among...
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Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility.
This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. Cultural competence-knowing what one needs to know to...
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The must-read summary of Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis' book: "Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls".
This complete summary of the ideas from Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis' book "Judgment" shows how what divides average leaders from great ones is the ability to make excellent decisions in the face of ambiguity, conflicting demands and time pressure. By exercising sound judgment, leaders add value to their organization. In their book, the...
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Enhance and Improve Your Professional and Personal Relationships with the Power of Better Listening. In today's fast-paced world full of distractions and a multi-tasking existence, better listening has become a rare commodity. We cut off others, eager to share our opinions, or internally craft our responses while the other person is still speaking. When we fail to hear what others say, it leads to frustration, misunderstandings, and strained relationships....
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What today's organizational leaders can learn from the commanding, colorful US President.
The twenty-sixth president of the United States was a gifted leader. Before he was elected to office, he led the famed Rough Riders during the Spanish-American war, and once in the White House, he succeeded in bringing together workers and business owners to settle their differences as well as greatly expanding the country's priceless national parks. Many historians...
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