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Here is the fascinating story of the making of the high-tech business revolution and the birth of the Digital Age. Journalist Jeffrey Young chronicles six decades of unbridled technological innovation, taking you inside today's business empires and introducing you to the dreamers, the schemers, the entrepreneurs, and the inventors who built them...

Going beyond just handling nerves and presenting PowerPoint slides, Develop Your Presentation Skills provides you with a practical toolkit for developing a belting presentation and improving your confidence along the way. It includes practical help with unpicking the original brief, understanding just what the audience wants, facing your performance demons and constructing compelling content that will keep your audience rapt with attention.

In this multisession audio program, you'll get strategies from experts to supercharge your career, gain practical skills for moving up and securing job promotions, discover the key elements of an effective elevator speech, create a personal vision statement to guide your daily actions, and develop the self-discipline for exceptional performance.

International voice coach Joanna Gray's latest book, Voice Training for Business, is a comprehensive guide to using your voice to best effect in the business world, whether you work for a company or are a sole trader or business owner.

Say goodbye to tax overwhelm: Learn to leverage simple tax planning strategies and maximize deductions, even if you've been intimidated by tax season for years! Are you a small business owner, overwhelmed by complex tax codes and fearful of costly financial audits? Have you been struggling to handle your tax planning, unsure if you're taking advantage of every available deduction? Or perhaps, you're just starting a business and feel way out of your depth when it comes to the tax side of things?

Project management is an essential skill for anyone who needs to get things done in any organisation, and is absolutely critical for anyone leading strategic change. In Lead Successful Projects, the Penguin Business Expert guide, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, introduces a simplified but strategic approach to project management developed over the last 20 years coaching executives, managers and MBAs. Learn how to break down your project into manageable elements, define smart goals and meet them in this concise and practical guide to project success.

Learn to overcome your difficulties with a boss who is uninterested in your concerns, or resistant to giving needed support. Or discover how to win the cooperation of senior managers who are hard to reach, and hard to sell on your ideas, products, or services. In their classic book, Influence Without Authority, Allan Cohen and David Bradford provided a universal model of how to influence someone you don't control. Influencing Up applies those ideas to problematic bosses and other powerful people, with sophisticated tactics for building partnerships with them.

Do you want to get a step ahead, and not just spend your life stuck behind? Do you want to conquer procrastination - forever? Are you struggling to get your projects done on time? Or are you tired of being the "one big move" from changing your life? Writers, entrepreneurs, and business owners - you need to listen to Procrastination - as soon as possible!

Life is built one conversation at a time. Learn which conversations matter, how to transform those conversations, and balance them all while leading change. Human beings are conversational animals. Every day we're in constant communication with ourselves, other people and the world around us, and while not all conversations may seem important, they all have the potential to transform our personal, professional and cultural lives for the better. This book explains how conversations work and offers practical advice on how to improve the quality of our exchanges.

Imagine your advantage in negotiations, decision-making, and leadership if you could teach yourself to see, and evaluate, information that others overlook. The Power of Noticing provides the blueprint for accomplishing precisely that. Max Bazerman, an expert in the field of applied behavioral psychology, draws on three decades of research and his experience instructing Harvard Business School MBAs and corporate executives to teach you how to notice and act on information that may not be immediately obvious.

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.

Soft skills are the personal qualities that make you a great communicator, problem solver, and leader on the job—and in your personal life. Soft Skills For Dummies helps you hone in on the traits you already have—or fine tune the ones that may need some extra attention—to market yourself as a workplace leader who's in touch with what today's employers are looking for: people who can lead and inspire through interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, time management, teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Quante volte ci siamo detti che vorremmo avere più tempo per noi stessi, le nostre passioni, le nostre ambizioni? E quante volte abbiamo accantonato i nostri sogni perché "non abbiamo tempo" per inseguirli? In questo audiolibro chiaro ed efficace Andrea Giuliodori - ingegnere, ex-manager e autore del seguitissimo 2EfficaceMente.com" - ci accompagna lungo una giornata immaginaria, e ci svela, ora dopo ora, strategie pratiche e concrete per riconquistare il nostro tempo.

Do work that matters. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done - the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. In our current era of massive overload, this is harder than ever before. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? When we take God's purposes into account, a revolutionary insight emerges. Surprisingly, we see that the way to be productive is to put others first.

Master Todoist: How to Use a Simple App to Create Actionable To-Do Lists will help you rethink your to-do lists. It's easy to begin each day with a lengthy list of tasks without a clear direction of what to focus on first. The truth is: Most to-do lists are a distraction that often cause you to procrastinate on important tasks. Todoist is different because it's specifically designed help you manage all your day-to-day tasks - even if you have to juggle dozens of projects.

A marvel of evolution is that humans are not solely motivated by their desire to experience positive emotions. They are also motivated, and even driven to achieve, by their attempt to avoid or seek relief from negative ones. What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success explains how anxiety is like a highly motivating friend, why you should fear failure, and the underpinnings of shame, distress, and fear in the pursuit of excellence.

Listen and be inspired by the soothing baritone of award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti as he reads George Samuel Clason's classic The Richest Man in Babylon. Unless you were born wealthy or hit the lottery, this audiobook can be your path to financial security and success. The parables set in ancient Babylon and originally published in 1926 are as applicable today as they were in ancient times.

Everyone complains about time speeding up, so we've done something fast, easy, and simple to solve this problem for entrepreneurs around the world. The 25-Year Framework is a single solution for dozens of the most irritating and energy-draining time pressures that plague the business and personal lives of even the most successful entrepreneurs and their teams. What's even better, the transformation from "time scarcity" to "time abundance" begins to occur in the 60 minutes it will take you to listen to this book.

This time management book contains proven steps and strategies on how to quickly and effectively organize your life and schedule. You will learn how to stop dragging your feet and get productive, regain balance in your life, develop new habits, and much more.

Do you struggle to write every day? Many people dream of becoming a successful author, but can't *find* the time to write. The truth is this: Great writers don't have more time than you do. They make time to write. Not only do they make time, they also follow specific routines that help them avoid writer's block altogether. By developing the "writing habit" you'll have the confidence to sit down in front of a computer every day, knowing the words will come. Your Goal:: Write 2,000 Words a Day - Every Day!