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  Design Your Meaningful Retirement

  Charlie Baker, Larry Wofford,...

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  Are you retired or soon-to-be retired? Did you wake up and wonder what the heck to do with the rest of your life? Do you worry about being fulfilled? 
  You're not alone in your quest for meaning in retirement life. Newly found free time can be hard to fill, and most retirees at some point feel a loss of purpose, value, and connection. 
  Through relatable stories of actual coaching experiences, retirement coaches Charlie Baker, Larry Wofford, and Craig Bothwell highlight common retirement challenges, present habits to overcome them, and help you define your retirement "type". 
  Hear stories from:A workaholic CEO, who retired and struggled to build back her routineA meticulous planner, who had no clue how to account for all his free timeA former business owner, who missed the fast-paced nature of his job and had to find new ways to use his strengthsAnd several other retirees just like you 
  Find your purpose, then make retirement the dream chapter of your life!

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  The Locust and the Bee -...

  Geoff Mulgan

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  How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas, its utopias and dystopias, as well as its contradictions and possibilities. Drawing on a subtle framework for understanding systemic change, he shows how new political settlements reshaped capitalism in the past and are likely to do so in the future. By reconnecting value to real-life ideas of growth, he argues, efficiency and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to promote better lives and relationships rather than just a growth in the quantity of material consumption. Healthcare, education, and green industries are already becoming dominant sectors in the wealthier economies, and the fields of social innovation, enterprise, and investment are rapidly moving into the mainstream—all indicators of how capital could be made more of a servant and less a master.This is a book for anyone who wonders where capitalism might be heading next—and who wants to help make sure that its future avoids the mistakes of the past. This edition of The Locust and the Bee includes a new afterword in which the author lays out some of the key challenges facing capitalism in the twenty-first century.

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  Winning the Room - Public...

  Jonathan Pease

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  Win in every room. Cultivate an authentic connection with your audience, no matter what. Conquer your public speaking fears, learn how to be likable, how to present for work, how to give compelling pitch meetings, and how to be a person who wins through highly effective communication techniques. Winning the Room teaches public speaking skills applicable to everybody, in any situation. 
   
     
   
  Become a great public speaker with guidance from an expert. Do you get nervous before a presentation? Do you find yourself rambling and losing your point? In Winning the Room, award-winning creative and communications director, thought leader, and author Jonathan Pease (JP) uses road-tested techniques to take you on a fun, yet practical journey to becoming a fearless storyteller people buy from—emotionally and financially. 
   
   
   
  In Winning the Room, find: a tight, actionable, and memorable system for how to build trust and be great at different types of public speaking moments; how to turn nervous energy into passion and charisma that people engage with; and how to apply these skills to various settings like keynotes, pitch meetings, presentations, and everyday conversations with friends and family. If you liked Cues, Everyday Business Storytelling, or Your Story Well Told, you'll love Winning the Room.

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  Career Confidence - No-BS...

  Robynn Storey

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  Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path 
   
   
   
  In Career Confidence, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You'll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path. 
   
   
   
  Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you're really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she's helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want. 
   
   
   
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  ● Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking 
   
   
   
  ● Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers 
   
   
   
  ● Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life

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  My Journeys in Economic Theory

  Edmund Phelps

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  Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. 
   
   
   
  In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys in Economic Theory charts two major phases of Phelps's work, illuminating the breadth of his contributions to the field. First, introducing the expectations of wage setters and cofounding the "equilibrium" rate of unemployment, he built the microeconomic foundations for the employment theory pioneered by Keynes and Hicks. More recently, he conceived a theory of "mass flourishing" in which individuals' creativity and society's dynamism fuel grassroots innovation and generate job satisfaction in the process. 
   
   
   
  Phelps recounts his vivid experiences in the world of economics as well as his relationships with luminaries such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Paul Samuelson, and Paul Volcker. At its core, this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one's own ingenuity instead of applying or developing others' models.

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  Dynamic Reteaming Second Edition...

  Heidi Helfand

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  Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos. 
   
   
   
  Based on research into well-known software companies, the patterns in this book help CTOs and team managers effectively integrate new hires into an existing team, manage a team that has lost members, or deal with unexpected change. You'll learn how to isolate teams for focused innovation, rotate team members for knowledge sharing, break through organizational apathy, and more. 
   
   
   
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  ● Real-world examples that demonstrate why and how organizations reteam 
   
   
   
  ● Five reteaming patterns: One by One, Grow and Split, Isolation, Merging, and Switching 
   
   
   
  ● Tactics to help you master dynamic reteaming in your company 
   
   
   
  ● Stories that demonstrate problems caused by reteaming anti-patterns

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