Real Work

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organizational lives.

Master DeepSeek AI in Just 2 Hours—No Jargon, No Overwhelm. Ever felt like AI tools were made for techies, not real people? Think again. DeepSeek Made Simple is your fast-track guide to mastering one of the world’s fastest-growing AI tools—without needing a tech background.

To make organizations more fair, many well-meaning individuals and companies invest their time and resources in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. But because inequity is built into the structures, processes, and environments of our workplaces, adding these programs has been ineffective and often becomes a burden passed off to the individuals they are meant to help. In Make Work Fair, behavioral scientist and author of What Works Iris Bohnet and gender expert Siri Chilazi offer data-backed, actionable solutions that build fairness into the very fabric of the workplace.

Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources of problems for which we seek practical advice and solutions.

After speaking out about how weak and insecure men control women in relationships in 2009 on several globally televised shows, Tony Gaskins launched his career as a life coach and relationship counselor. Since then, Gaskins, has become one of America’s foremost experts on love and relationships. Drawing inspiration from the Bible and from his own personal failures and successes, Gaskins offers a framework for how to recognize the right person to settle down with, how to set standards that promote loving relationships, and more.

By summer 2008, James Tripp had been working professionally with hypnosis for 6 years. Whilst he had used what he had learned to great effect with his clients (from manual therapy to coaching and changework), it had become increasingly clear that something was amiss with the traditional trance model—instead of his clients responding to suggestion as a result of entering 'trance', they were apparently entering 'trance' as a result of being given suggestions. The cart seemed very much before the horse.

Whether you're looking for your first rental property or just looking for a better way to manage the ones you have, this audiobook shows you Mike Butler's strategies, mind-set, tools, and technologies to make your rental business a boatload easier while giving you a lot more time to do what you want!

Under the recent advice of social distancing and “stay safe, stay at home”, the advantage in today’s workforce lies with those people who are able to do real work from home. Because, let’s face it, this will not be the only instance in our lifetime where we will encounter the need to lock down and shelter in place. In my book, I show you over 100 ways you can have a successful career working from the comfort of your own home.

The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. Michael Smith reveals how it all began, 80 years ago, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941.

Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most: family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard graft of becoming one's authentic self. In weaving together their everyday while questioning society and its structures, Erin gifts us stories that double as a manifesto on how to disrupt and reinvent narrative, identity, love and community.

Leading a real estate investment business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and constant fires that have to be put out. The E-Myth Real Estate Investor offers you a road map to create a real estate investment business that's self-sufficient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your business to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

In this gripping and remarkable memoir, Peter tells his extraordinary life story in fascinating detail. From removing protestors, including the infamous 'Swampy', from inside dangerous tunnels to the scenes of some of the UK’s most notorious crimes, he describes how he has developed into a highly regarded and highly skilled search specialist, whose job is to assist investigators and police as they search crime scenes and bring serial killers to justice.

Imagine if we could remove from work all stress, exhaustion, and insecurity. Imagine if work became the expression of our deepest, most authentic self. Imagine if it no longer looked as though anything depended on it. Imagine if the idea of work dissolved altogether and became the simple, sheer joy of living. We don’t have to imagine it. We can live it. Ease explores the transformation of self, work, colleagues, performance, success, and money as we come back in touch with reality.

Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

Tired of recycled advice and surface-level tips? Trusts & Asset Protection Strategies That Work offers real solutions for real problems grounded in practical experience—not generic theories.

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. But Justin soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected.

Das "Aufklärungsbuch" für bessere Unternehmensführung Um ein Unternehmen erfolgreich zu führen, sollte man eine Vorstellung davon haben, wie Unternehmen wirklich funktionieren. Da helfen weder Vergleiche mit Maschinen, Schiffen oder sonstig Trivialem, noch reicht es, sich mit simplen Appellen oder moralinsauren Forderungen auf den Weg zu New Work zu machen. Das Buch räumt auf, sowohl mit tradierten Ansätzen als auch mit den vermeintlich besseren, den "neuen" Sichtweisen von Arbeit, Führung und Organisation.

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress with diversity, equity and inclusion, we must focus less on documenting the problem and more on just stopping the transmission of it.

If you are a business owner who wants to be fast at their work and still do it efficiently and effectively, then Work Smarter, Not Harder: 9 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Improve Work Efficiency is for you. You will learn in this book that the secret to running a successful business is not just working harder, but working faster. The nine tips in this book have been a long-time practice of the author, a successful business owner. Your work life will get better, and your business will consequently experience exponential growth.

Real Success Begins When You Let Go of Perfection Is the pursuit of perfection derailing you? Do you feel overwhelmed by everything on your plate? Amy Calandrino has been there—juggling motherhood, entrepreneurship, and personal struggles while trying to appear “perfect” to others.