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  Message Received - 7 Steps to...

  Mary Donohue

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  According to social scientist and award-winning CEO Dr. Mary Donohue, we communicate ineffectively at work a staggering 80% of the time! From the tone of an email to the almost-but-not-quite eye contact of a video conference app, today's tech has increased the speed and scope of our communications—as well as the opportunities to misunderstand each other completely. This lack of effective communication is a leading cause of workplace stress.In this widely anticipated and deeply researched book, Dr. Donohue, a victim of workplace stress herself, lays out a seven-step solution to give you the tools you need to make communication a cure for workplace stress, not a cause—even (especially) when you're working with a generationally diverse team. Discover what's at the root of the problem—from misunderstood emails and misinterpreted texts to misconstrued social media posts and missed social cues on Zoom—and learn how to respond to different communication preferences now. Through case studies, evidence-backed research, and more, you'll walk away with the tools you need to ensure everyone on your team—yourself included—is heard and understood, so there's less time clarifying and more time for everyone to be their best, most productive selves.

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  Home Fires - How Americans Kept...

  Sean Patrick Adams

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  “Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States . . . authoritative.” —The New England Quarterly 
   
  Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the “industrial hearth” appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans responded to these overtures. 
   
  Adams depicts the problem of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives; the hazards of cutting, digging, and drilling in the name of home heating; the trouble and expense of moving materials from place to place; the rise of steam power; the growth of an industrial economy; and questions of economic efficiency, at both the individual household and the regional level. Home Fires makes it clear that debates over energy sources, energy policy, and company profit margins have been around a long time. 
   
  The challenge of staying warm in the industrializing North becomes a window into the complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging consumerism. Readers will understand the struggles of urban families as they sought to adapt to the ever-changing nineteenth-century industrial landscape. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. 
   
  “This smartly written and well-informed book focuses on a subject that very few people think about—the history of home heating in America.” —Choice

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  Brilliant Crazy Cocky - How the...

  Sarah Lacy

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  Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky is the story about that top 1% of people whom Lacy calls true entrepreneurs, and upon whom she has bestowed the title of Outside Entrepreneurs. This group is a complex, cultural mash-up, comprised in part of those 19th century, old-world immigrants who started fledgling businesses because they had no other options, as well as the 21st century Silicon Valley whiz kids backed by millions in sophisticated investor cash. They are a product of their own cultures and our own turbulent economic times.  Outside Entrepreneurs are those who are taking local turmoil and turning it into opportunities--earning billions in U.S. cash.  To tell this story, Lacy spends six weeks in six different cities around the world -- London, England; Tel Aviv, Israel; Kigali, Rwanda; Mumbai, India; Beijing, China and Guadalajara, Mexico -- that are standing on the brink of economic and political opportunity and volatility. The individuals that she follows are distinct products of their own cultures, yet they share that same unmistakable cocktail of delusion, ambition, and brilliance thats driven Bill Gates, Fred Smith, Donald Trump, and every other iconic American entrepreneur of the last few decades.

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  Never Go With Your Gut - How...

  Gleb Tsipursky

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  “This book is Moneyball for management. It will help you understand your subconscious biases that can lead to bad decisions, and it will teach you the techniques to help you make better decisions.” —Gordon Tredgold, author of Fast“This well-written, go-against-the-grain book is full of practical ways to tap into your very best mental resources to make better and better decisions.” —Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Eat that Frog!Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns—what scholars call “cognitive biases”—and are preventable.Unfortunately, the typical advice for business leaders to “go with their guts” plays into these cognitive biases and leads to disastrous decisions that devastate the bottom line. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Never Go With Your Gut will help you make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters.The leading expert on avoiding business disasters, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organizations—many of them his clients—avoid business disasters. Reading this book will enable you to:Discover how pioneering leaders and organizations address cognitive biases to avoid disastrous decisions.Adapt best practices on avoiding business disasters from these leaders and organizations to your own context.Develop processes that empower everyone in your organization to avoid business disasters.

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  Recruitment Made Simple By Maria...

  Maria Angeles

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  Fierce Competition for Talent? 
  Learn 7 Life-Changing Methods to Achieve Success in Healthcare Recruiting. Packed with real-world examples, practical advice, and actionable strategies Recruitment Made Simple by Author Maria Angeles will show you 7 easy-to-implement methods to navigate the complexities of healthcare recruitment and get impressive results fast. Discover the hidden obstacles that are getting in your way, so you can easily identify, attract, and retain top talent for your organization. Here’s what you’ll discover inside this book:Decoding the Dynamics of Healthcare. Learn why most hiring methods won’t work.Things You Wish You Knew About Building a Strong Employer Brand.Secrets of the Interview and Hiring ProcessEquips you with the tools you need to streamline your recruitment process.Discover the Most Common Mistakes in Job Listings, and How to Avoid Them.Tips and Lessons to Overcome Any Challenges in Healthcare Recruitment. Cultivating a successful strategy that works. 
  And more! Perfect for HR professionals, administrators, leaders, or anyone interested in professional development—even if they're not directly involved in healthcare. “Recruitment Made Simple: 7 Key Strategies for Success in Healthcare Recruitment” is a brilliant and thought-provoking book that comes with a wealth of tips, methods, and strategies that demonstrate that eliminating time-consuming processes, attracting and retaining top talent is more accessible than you think. Are you ready to elevate your recruiting game, build a high-performing team, and propel your organization to new heights of success? Click the link-start building a robust & capable team!

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  The Law of Small Things -...

  Stuart H. Brody

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  The Law of Small Things begins with an IQ (integrity quotient) test designed to reveal the casual way we regard our promises and the misconceptions we have about acting truthfully. The audiobook shows how most people believe integrity is something we “just have” and that we just do, like a Nike commercial. It depicts these and other deceptions we deploy to appear to act with integrity without actually doing so. The Law of Small Things also exposes how our culture encourages breaches of integrity through an array of “permitted promise-breaking”, a language of clichés that equates self-interest with duty, and the “illusion of inconsequence” that excuses small breaches with the breezy confidence that we can fulfill integrity when it counts.Brody challenges the prevailing notion that integrity is a possession you hold permanently. No one “has integrity”, and no one is perfect in practicing it. What we have is the opportunity to uphold promises and fulfill duties in each situation that faces us, large and small. Integrity is a practice and a habit of keeping promises, the ones we make explicitly and the ones that are implied in all our relationships.Ultimately, developing skill in the practice of integrity leads us to knowledge of who we are — not in the way the culture defines us, but in the way we truly know ourselves to be.

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