Showing results by author "Jon Gordon" in All Categories

Have you ever sat down at your desk with an impossible deadline or an insurmountable obstacle staring you directly in the face and an expectation that you'll come up with a groundbreaking idea and solution? In Breakthrough, you'll find a powerful framework for bringing innovation and creativity to the surface not just once, but on a regular, daily basis.

An urgently needed guide for managing the anxiety and ambiguity in our daily lives, this book will help listeners thrive in challenging situations. Through this memorable story, you'll learn: how to embrace uncertainty in all parts of life; why no single response to uncertainty works for every situation; how various personality types typically respond differently to uncertainty; why it's crucial to resist responding negatively to uncertainty; and why it's important to take action, no matter how uncertain you feel.

Der internationale Bestseller von Jon Gordon nimmt Sie mit auf eine aufschlussreiche und inspirierende Fahrt, die 10 Geheimnisse für Erfolg im Beruf und Privatleben enthüllt. Eine Fahrt im "Energy Bus" rettet nicht nur den Job und die Ehe, sondern macht jeden zu einem glücklicheren Menschen. Steigen Sie ein! Eine positive Lebenseinstellung hilft uns auch in schwierigen Situationen nach vorne zu schauen, wie wir am Beispiel der Hauptfigur George erfahren.

Les épreuves de la vie peuvent nous affaiblir ou nous endurcir. Nous pouvons être comme la carotte qui, dans l'eau bouillante, se ramollit ou comme l'œuf qui devient dur. Mais nous pouvons aussi choisir d'être comme le grain de café, qui infuse et transforme son environnement. Abe est un jeune homme apeuré face aux défis auxquels il fait face à l'école. Un jour, après la classe, son professeur partage avec lui la leçon du grain de café qui va changer sa vie.

A lineman with something to prove. A vendetta against a baseball legend. The rise of a real-life NHL all-star. The luckiest grapefruit in sports history. Open up The Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're in for all of this and more. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are 10 stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field. Compiled by kid-lit all-star Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a thrilling collection of brand-new short stories.

Bobby Greystein is a successful entrepreneur whose health concerns and sudden stewardship of a ninety-million-dollar trust dedicated to revolutionizing food leads him to launch Camelot, a sugarless ice cream that can compete favorably with the best super premium full-sugar brands. Camelot gets off to a tremendous start – but the company's good fortunes have put it on the hit list of The Food Mafia. And now the future of Camelot – and possibly Bobby's own life – hangs in the balance.