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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Don’t trade your 40-hour workweek for an 80-hour-a-week side hustle. The promise of entrepreneurship is to create a lifestyle of freedom—but the pursuit often leads to a time-bankrupt life. If you’re an overworked employee who’s done with the 9-to-5, a serial entrepreneur who has yet to realize the American dream, or a burned-out side hustle owner who’s tired of the grind, this book was written for you.

Understanding narcissism has never been easy. As a person who is struggling to come to terms with the reality of a narcissist in your life, it can be a shocking realization that even mothers can be narcissists. If, however, you find yourself in a situation where you are dealing with a narcissistic mother, then do not worry, there is hope. It is likely that your life is or has been hell on earth with your narcissistic mother, but with this book, this is bound to change.

Leading a real estate business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems real estate agents in large businesses don't seem to face. The E-Myth Real Estate Agent offers you a road map to create a business that's self-sucient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your company to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

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.

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.

Most of us wonder: Is there something more to life? Finding More tells the stories of 10 people who asked that question, and found the answer. These compelling profile pieces introduce you to people from all kinds of backgrounds who became Christians when they encountered the only one who gives us more: Jesus Christ.

In this easy-to-digest, straight-to-the-point book, Rachael will teach you about the best most powerful crystals that will take you from down-and-out to living your best life possible, with relatable real-life situations and real-life solutions, in five easy steps. Follow her journey as she turned her life around in the most epic way with crystals - from absolute rock bottom to having mind-blowing business opportunities land in her lap, huge improvement in health, and blitzing her way through mental trauma to become an absolute warrior.

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.

Bob Roberts Jr. shows how present-day disciples of Jesus can find in their daily work the resources they need to transform the world for Christ. Roberts explains how ordinary Christians can embrace a kingdom perspective and watch their global connections become opportunities for fulfilling Jesus' Great Commission.