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Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming—but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly.

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 of powerful daily insights to inspire you to identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it - and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

This is a quick reference guide. Once you’ve identified why your deal is stuck you can jump right to that chapter for solutions. This book is for book for all those entrepreneurs, business leaders and sales professionals that want to close those bloated pipelines and prevent deals from getting stuck in the first place. This book will teach you how to unstick deals, shorten your sales cycle and prevent deals from sticking to begin with.

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 of powerful daily insights to inspire you identify the 20% in your life that works so brilliantly you should be doing more of it - and far less of the 80% that is taking you nowhere.

In The Giving Game, thought leader, executive coach, and CEO James Turk, provides an essential guide for new managers navigating the transition from team member to team leader. Focusing on the critical first year, with an emphasis on the first 45 days, The Giving Game offers practical, easily implemented strategies to set new managers on the path to lasting success.

In this book, you'll discover how Napoleon Bonaparte mastered the use of the pregnant pause to grab attention, how Lady Margaret Thatcher punctuated her most serious speeches with the use of subtle props, how Ronald Reagan could win even the most hostile crowd with carefully timed wit, and much, much more. Whether you're addressing a small nation or a large staff meeting, you'll want to master the tips and tricks in Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln.

In Content-Based Networking, you’ll learn a proven three-part framework to consistently connect with potential customers, investors, referral partners, industry influencers, and anyone in between. Using this framework, you’ll develop thought leadership in your industry, while simultaneously creating meaningful relationships with the exact people that can help you reach your goals and dreams.

The Darwinian struggle of business keeps getting more brutal as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything you invent today will soon be copied by someone else - probably better and cheaper. Many companies thrive during the early stages of their life cycle, only to fall slack during periods of inertia and die out while others surge ahead. Geoffrey Moore shows, some notable companies have figured out how to deal with Darwin in their mature years - making changes on the fly while fending off challenges from every quarter.

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas - but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks listeners through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. The 22 exercises in this hands-on book help you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership.

You see, most people make the same mistakes when it comes to getting things done, as well as getting the right things done. But with this audiobook, you can learn about Kanban methodology so you can optimize the workflow to serve a specific purpose, ensuring customer satisfaction. This audiobook is organized in such a way that anybody, even a complete beginner, can learn from it. This guide is also perfect for experienced people, those who are looking for a new system to add quality to their work.

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential listening on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do.

Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must.

For the last two years, Brandon Bornancin has interviewed hundreds of world-class sales performers for his number-one podcast Sales Secrets. The guests range from infamous celebrities like Gary Vaynerchuk, Jordan Belfort, and Ryan Serhant to legendary sales performers like Heather Monahan, Trish Bertuzzi, Anthony Iannarino, Jeffrey Gitomer, Jarrod Glandt, and others. This book contains the secret strategies, tools, and tactics that you won’t find anywhere else.

A rapid and massively disruptive shift from centralized to distributed organizations has already begun. But current leadership practices were designed for large centralized organizations, making them increasingly obsolete. Bob Johansen, who has been projecting future trends from Silicon Valley since 1968, outlines five literacies leaders need to develop to cope with this brave new world.

Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics.

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.

Marco Ryan, a Cyber Leader in Residence at a leading UK Business School and with over 25 years of Digital and Cyber Senior Leadership experience with companies such as bp, specializes in making the world of Digital, AI, and Cyber simple, jargon-free and easy to understand for Leaders, even if they have no background in technology or IT. This book is like no other in Cybersecurity. Each term is arranged alphabetically making it easy to find, with a formal definition, then a simple jargon-free explanation and then a real-life example.

Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips.

Charm is good business. It can increase your income, boost your status, and establish and maintain your reputation. Most businesspeople don't fully understand the concept of charm. It ought to be a reflex, a conditioned response, to "turn on the charm" when dealing with customers, clients, associates, and employees, but it isn't. Charm draws customers. Charm gets noticed. But charm is only partly innate. Much of it is learned.