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The Leadership Pause: Sharpen Your Attention, Deepen Your Presence, and Navigate the Future
Chris L. Johnson
This book is for anyone looking to deepen their impact on the lives around them, leave a profound mark on their organizations, and build a legacy of intentional focus, pragmatic ambition, grounded compassion, and empathy-in-action.
The Leadership Pause shows how to quiet the noise of the daily hustle so you can hear the still-small voice of purposeful curiosity that lives within you, which breeds wisdom in both work and life.
The Leadership Pause teaches the gift of mindful awareness that leads to clarity of mind and heart, reduced stress, and increased resilience;
a deeper connection to self;
and a clearer vision of the natural leader resting just beneath the surface.
Johnson shares stories from established and powerful leaders about how they’ve used pause practices to transform their previous strategies and ways of thinking and behaving to find greater meaning and purpose in their work.
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A Bridge Not Too Far: Where Creativity Meets Innovation
Deepak Ohri
A Bridge Not Too Far - Where Creativity Meets Innovation, charts Deepak Ohri's rise from the humble-yet-educational streets of New Delhi to the heights of the global luxury business, and is a lesson in instinct, acumen, resilience and hard-won success. In it, Ohri provides a deeply human-centered approach to managing business and life, sharing his insights and expertise on how to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship and the hospitality industry. Ohri provides invaluable lessons and practical tips for anyone seeking to achieve similar success.
With a focus on the importance of creativity and innovation, A Bridge Not Too Far is a powerful tool for entrepreneurs, offering actionable strategies for achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and climbing to the top. Whether you are just starting or looking to take your business to the next level, this book is an essential read for anyone looking to succeed in the competitive world of entrepreneurship.
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The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood
Heather R Younger
Improve communication, engagement, and culture with active listening.
When employees, colleagues, and customers are not being heard, organizational culture, employee happiness, and overall organizational success will suffer. How well do you listen?
Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability, innovation, and so much more. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want. Want to build stronger relationships, avoid misunderstandings, and anticipate problems before they surface at work?
All you have to do is listen.
The Art of Active Listening introduces a 5-step framework that shows you how to listen successfully and act upon what you are hearing. Readers will discover how to:
Recognize the unsaid
Seek to understand
Decode
Act
Close the loop
Backed by her personal review of over 30,000 employee and customer surveys and facilitation of 100’s of focus groups, Younger discovered on
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The Doctor's Voice: Empowering Solutions to Physicians' Frustrations, Burnout and Healthcare Inefficiencies
Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli
Doctors leaving the medical profession is a global problem that can no longer be ignored. In the Doctor's Voice author Dr Garbelli unveils the common sources of physicians' frustrations and reveals solutions that can be adopted at an individual, organisational and national level.
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Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your B2B Business Faster
Louis Gudema
People in many B2B industries need to reach their potential customers, but are overwhelmed with the claims of 10,000+ martech vendors and proponents of the dozens of marketing channels. They also suffer from "short-termism", and don't dedicate enough resources to building their brands. As a result, many companies either don't grow as fast as they could (producing fewer jobs than they might) or fail entirely (leading to bankruptcy and layoffs). Companies in important industries like sustainability and climate tech especially suffer from these failures. Using the book's Bullseye Marketing framework, and its hundreds of tips, examples, and best practices, companies are much more likely to have marketing and business success.
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Venus Genius: The Female Prescription for Innovation
Fabienne Jacquet
Innovation is not the preserve of men. In fact, anyone of any gender identity can be an innovator, with passion, hard work and persistence.
Venus Genius provides a practical formula - literally, as the author is a chemist with a ground-breaking corporate career in research and development as a woman for several decades – to develop successful innovations in business by tapping into the feminine traits essential to serving the rapidly growing female market and sustainably increasing the bottom line.
Recognizing that both the masculine and feminine traits are essential to innovation, the author - who also has experience in marketing and business - provides tools to embrace and develop skills attributed to the feminine side for a greater outcome in innovation, business, and life.
Readers of this book will be empowered to dare to express their unique creative skills to contribute to a more significant future for our world.