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  No Nonsense: Time Management -...

  Keith Bailey, Karen Tiber Leland

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  Defeat distraction: “Karen and Keith’s easy-to-implement advice will maximize your efficiency and enable you to find more time in your day.” —Tory Johnson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Shift 
   
  Written by a longtime consultant who has served clients in over fifty countries, No Nonsense: Time Management helps you overcome overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. You’ll find smart solutions, powerful habits, and proven time hacks for improving everyday work situations:  
   
  •Harness the power of completion 
   
  •Stay sane when dealing with social media 
   
  •Get a procrastination inoculation 
   
  •Play the 80/20 game of accomplishment 
   
  •Set goals 
   
  •Make lists 
   
  •Have more efficient conversations 
   
  •Organize your inbox 
   
  •Retool your priority system 
   
  •Identify your interruptions 
   
  •Overcome multitasking madness, and more

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  Etsy - Step-by-Step Guide on How...

  Christopher Kent

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  Discover the Money-Spinning Secrets to Turning Your Handmade Arts and Crafts into a Thriving Business with this Definitive Guide to Selling on Etsy 
  Have you ever thought about starting a craft business on the side, but don't know how to start? Or do you have a passion for handmade arts and other vintage collectibles, but have no idea how to make money from them? 
  Would you like to sell your handmade creations and build an Etsy empire while doing the things you love? If yes, then this guide is for you. 
  Etsy is a global platform where craft entrepreneurs like you make thousands, even millions of dollars selling handmade crafts. The problem is, with thousands of sellers on this marketplace with active listings, how are you going to stand out? This guide provides the answer. 
  In this guide, you're going to learn everything you need to know about starting a profitable Etsy store. With tips ranging from branding and setting up your processes, you're going to discover strategies that will help you sell your creations consistently and make bank! 
  Here's what you're going to learn in this comprehensive guide to selling on Etsy:How to create a solid business plan for your storeThe 8-point checklist to complete for a successful Etsy storeHow to choose the right business structure for your store5 easy-to-make but deadly mistakes that are going to cost you sales on EtsyHow to run the "backend" of your Etsy store without losing your sanity: Finances, pricing, customer service, packaging, shipping and taxes...and tons more! 
  Designed with beginners in mind, this guide is the only resource you're ever going to need for building and running your own successful crafts business.

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  Develop Your Leadership...

  Dietmar Sternad

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  Boost your confidence, inspire others, become a better leader! 
  Whether you are new to a leadership role or want to take your existing leadership competencies to a higher level—here’s the most practical guide for you. 
  This audiobook provides a fast track to learning the 50 key leadership skills that will really make a difference for your success as a leader. Based on state-of-the-art leadership knowledge, learn how to:get into the right leadership mindset and become a confident leadereffectively communicate with others (including handling tough conversations)set the right priorities to focus yourself and your team on the things that really matterbuild and lead a winning team (including leading a virtual or agile team)help other people grow and achieve outstanding performance levels 
  No leadership blah blah! Just clear and actionable advice on how to master the challenge of becoming a successful leader. With 50 practical exercises that will help you grow as a leader right away. 
  “This remarkable book is packed with actionable wisdom for new and experienced leaders alike. Do not be daunted by its inclusion of 50 (!) leadership skills—each clearly described, with practical tips and room for notes—because Develop Your Leadership Superpowers offers not so much a list as an integrated set of mindsets and behaviors that can transform your work and your life.”  
  --Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School; Author, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Atria 2023)

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  Agile Leadership

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  Agile leadership is the art for self-organizing to create the right sense. It is an atmosphere where agile teams are working together, learning from each other, getting users quick feedback and concentrating on quality and continuous learning. Agile leaders neither micro-manage people, nor do they establish complete privilege. In modern management modules, to strike a balance between instability and stern discipline is critical to deal with. It is often challenging to develop and maintain a congenial environment with due adherence to cultural heritage, taking onus, mindset, suggestions and expectations for the long term objectives. 
  In a vast array of situations, especially in fresh, evolving and uncertain situations, the leader needs to handle with exemplary abilities. It is associated with four leadership styles (Leadership models) adopted by people who have the capacity and agility to operate in any mode (the thought process framework) and most significantly they are able to observe the proceedings from the viewpoints of other models. It is this kind of ability to deliberate in various ways that reflects the versatility of such leaders. It is also implemented as the main management paradigm for adaptive and progressive organizations in the perceptions of Agile Business Management. 

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  Genius - How to Thrive at the...

  Bruce Whitfield

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  'South Africa and its fraught political economy provide a fascinating case study into how it takes a particular brand of genius to thrive in a difficult domestic environment and to take the ideas and the businesses that deliver them from local to global. Genius tells the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, companies and industries whose ideas, products and raw materials solve problems and add value across the globe.Greatness comes from acting on purpose, and there is a generation of South Africans solving problems for the future. Learn how Pratley beat Armstrong to the moon, how a former Eskom quantity surveyor capitalised on Britain’s obsession with meerkats to create the UK’s most visible price comparison website, how to take a Mediterranean-style food concept to the Mediterranean, and how a device designed to beat diamond smuggling made it from the set of a popular US hospital drama into emergency rooms and pathology labs across the US.

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  Crucial Accountability - Tools...

  Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny,...

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  Hold anyone accountable. Master performance discussions. Get RESULTS.
  
   
  Behind the problems that routinely plague our organizations and families, you'll find individuals who are either unwilling or unable to deal with broken promises. Colleagues break a rule, coworkers miss a deadline, friends fail to live up to commitments (or just plain behave badly), and nobody says a word. Nobody holds anyone accountable. With repeated infractions, individuals become increasingly upset until they finally do speak their minds, but they do so poorly--often creating whole new sets of problems.
  
   
  Research proves that mishandled disappointments aren't just morale killers, they're institution killers--diminishing organizational performance by 20 to 50 percent and accounting for up to 90 percent of all divorces.
  
   
  Drawing from 10,000 hours of observations, Crucial Accountability teaches you how to deal with common infractions such as:
  
   
   An employee speaks to you in an insulting tone that crosses the line between sarcasm and insubordination. Now what?
  
   
   Your boss just demanded that you meet a deadline you know you can't meet--and he clearly doesn't want to hear complaints about it.
  
   
   Your son walks through the door sporting colorful new body art that raises your blood pressure by 40 points. Speak now or pay later.
  
   
   Family members fret over how to tell Granddad that he should no longer drive his car. This is going to get ugly.
  
   
   A nurse worries about what to say to an abusive physician. She quickly remembers "how things work around here" and decides not to say anything.
  
   
  Everyone knows how to run for cover, or, if sufficiently provoked, step up to problems in a way that causes a real ruckus. Crucial Accountability teaches you how to deal with violated expectations in a way that solves the problem at hand without harming the relationship--and, in fact, even strengthens it.
  
   
  Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior--they don't just make others’ lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. Crucial Accountability offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems--permanently.
  
   
  PRAISE FOR CRUCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY:
  
   
   "Revolutionary ideas ... opportunities for breakthrough ..." -- Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  
   
  "Unleash the true potential of a relationship or organization and move it to the next level." -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager
  
   
  "The most recommended and most effective resource in my library." -- Stacey Allerton Firth, Vice President, Human Resources, Ford of Canada
  
   
  "Brilliant strategies for those difficult discussions at home and in the workplace." -- Soledad O'Brien, CNN news anchor and producer
  
   
  "This book is the real deal.... Read it, underline it, learn from it. It's a gem." -- Mike Murray, VP Human Resources and Administration (retired), Microsoft

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