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  Covert Processes at Work -...

  Robert J. Marshak

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  The first and only guide to diagnosing and dealing with the hidden or covert factors that can ruin even the most meticulously planned change processes.Organizational change initiatives often fail because they focus exclusively on the rational, overt aspects of change, overlooking the powerful role played by concealed or irrational factors. It’s well known that these covert processes—such as hidden agendas, blind spots, office politics, tacit assumptions, secret hopes, wishes and fears—frequently sabotage change efforts, but up until now nobody has offered a rigorous, consistent way of identifying and dealing with them. Drawing on over thirty years of experience as an organizational change consultant to global corporations and government agencies, Robert J. Marshak shows precisely how to bring these hidden processes to light and deal with their negative impact. Marshak identifies five different dimensions of covert processes, presents an integrated model to explain the ultimate source of all of them, and shows how to diagnose whether any covert processes might be at work in your organization. He then offers specific tools and techniques for engaging and managing these “under-the-table” processes and for creating the kind of organizational environment in which such hidden dynamics are unable to flourish. Covert Processes at Work is a comprehensive and practical guide that managers, leaders, and consultants can use to deal with the hidden dynamics that are often at the root of many organizational problems.“Adding these tools…will take both your practice and your clients to a whole new level of capability and impact.” —Karen Boylston, PhD, Managing Director, Duke Corporate Education

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  Your Marketing Sucks

  Mark Stevens

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  This Business Week best-seller from esteemed marketing guru Mark Stevens is an entertaining and useful guide to improving the way businesses promote themselves. Stevens attacks conventional marketing strategies with infectious zeal, making it crystal clear that most companies might as well throw their money away. Whether you work for a small store or an international manufacturing conglomerate, this may be the most important book you'll ever encounter.

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  Creating Business Magic - How...

  David Morey, Eugene Burger, John...

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  Business strategies from the world's greatest magicians: This book takes everything that three remarkable authors—a corporate strategist, the former acting director of the CIA, and a world-renowned magician—have learned about magic and packs it into a unique framework that captures the best of this art form and relates it directly to key lessons applicable to a wide variety of business enterprises. The authors' objective is not to create a new generation of magicians, but to adapt nine strategies of the world's greatest magicians and inspire boundless imagination, bolster innovation, energize leadership, and spark success in any business. At the core of Creating Business Magic is the belief that imagination can make magicians of us all. 
  Magic and disruptive innovation: Each chapter opens with a scenario depicting a pivotal historic moment in magic—from Harry Houdini to Doug Henning to Penn and Teller to David Copperfield—and uses it as a starting point to explore how the magical technique employed can create a fertile environment for industry disruptive innovation and propel a company light years ahead of the competition.

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  Leading Through Uncertainty -...

  Raymond P. Davis

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  Since 2007, the country and financial sector have faced an  extraordinary economic crisis. Countless banks have failed and many  more continue to struggle. However, Umpqua Bank has emerged from  the crisis stronger than before. Drawing on Umpquas unique  culture and approach to leadership, Leading for Success  shows business leaders in any industry how to build successful  companies in even the most challenging times.  Chapters include:      Its a Different World: A new set of principles  that will help leaders prepare themselves and their people to  capitalize on the tremendous opportunities that are possible as we  emerge from the recent economic crisis.  The Truth, Nothing But The Truth: Why the truth  demonstrates respect and inspires trust.  Motivate t.  Revolutions s All About Your Customers:  What are  you doing to set yourself apart?  Reputation Counts: How to become a unique organizations  within your industry  Problems s impossible to predict exactly what the next 10  years will look like, there is no doubt they will be an era of  rapid change, presenting extraordinary opportunities for  innovation and growth  and challenging business leaders to  lead differently. Applying the lessons in Leading for  Success will help any leaders at any level to help his or  her team leverage the opportunities ahead.

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  The Wise Investor - A Modern...

  Rich Fettke, Robert T. Kiyosaki

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  What does financial freedom mean to you?The Wise Investor is an inspiring parable about building what author Rich Fettke calls Real Wealth, the foundation of financial freedom. It tells the story of Ryan Brooks, a husband, father, and CaptivSoft’s hard-working lead coder who, with the help of a new friend and mentor, finds a different path to financial security for himself and his family and becomes wealthy in more ways than he thought possible. In it you’ll learn: • Why working endless hours to climb the corporate ladder in search of "enough" may never give you the financial security you want.• The true cost of a life lived on someone else’s terms—your time—which no amount of money can ever buy back.• How to shift the limiting beliefs that might be keeping you stuck and blind to what’s possible for your finances and your life.• An actionable,  play-by-play guide to transforming your financial situation by taking charge of your habits so you can live your best life now, not in some far-off future.Whether you seek an investment path that allows you to overcome the fear and overwhelm or are struggling just to start, the advice and wisdom in this book will help you get on track to financial freedom. If you’ve ever sought  to build wealth, secure your financial future, and live a life that aligns with your values and dreams sooner rather than later, this heartwarming story about one family’s financial transformation will help shine the way. Are you on the right path to financial freedom?In Rich's words: "In writing The Wise Investor, I dedicated myself to creating a story that would inspire and educate — and help you believe that you can live life on your own terms. Real wealth is having the money and the freedom to do what you want, when you want, with the people you want to be with. Each of us has the power to secure financial freedom by believing in what is possible in our lives and taking action to achieve it. If you agree… your transformation has already started."  

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  Teach Yourself How to Learn -...

  Saundra Yancy McGuire, Stephanie...

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  Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these "secrets" direct to students.Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college and secondary school, the author introduces her listeners, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This framework and the recommended strategies that support it are useful for anyone moving on to a more advanced stage of education.In a conversational tone, and liberally illustrated by anecdotes of past students, the author combines introducing listeners to concepts like Bloom's Taxonomy, fixed and growth mindsets, as well as what brain science has to tell us about rest, nutrition and exercise, together with such highly specific learning strategies as how to read a textbook, manage their time, and take tests.With engaging exercises and thought-provoking reflections, this book is an ideal motivational and practical text for study skills and first year experience courses.

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