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Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life
Nil Demircubuk
Down to Earth offers a rigorous, practical framework for harnessing intuition to make better decisions, improve relationships, and enhance self-care, setting it apart from typical books that simply advise readers to trust their inner wisdom. Author and intuition teacher Nil Demircubuk delivers actionable, research-informed methods for identifying and cultivating intuition, while encouraging readers to question and critically evaluate their insights, just as they would advice from a wise friend. The book features techniques tailored to diverse learning styles and demonstrates their application in real-world business and personal scenarios. By advancing intuition from a vague concept to a repeatable, teachable process, Down to Earth makes intuitive skill a strategic advantage for professionals navigating today’s fast-paced, complex world.
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Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI
Leslie Grandy
The book is an enduring reference that readers can return to whenever they need to revitalize their creative spirit. In this book, readers will learn about:
-Non-linear thinking methods and how to use them to explore novel possibilities
-Trigger mechanisms that can jump-start new trains of thought and spark disruptive ideation
-Different forms of play that stimulate creative thoughts, critical thinking skills, and flexibility
-Achieving a state of flow and how it helps identify groundbreaking discoveries.
An expert guide to sharpen and revitalize your creative spirit in any business environment
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Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI
Faisal Hoque
This book provides readers with the road maps they need to tackle the most important questions of our generation.
-It offers a unique perspective that emerges at the intersection of philosophy, humanity, business, and technology, providing powerful and practical frameworks to guide readers in understanding and utilizing AI.
-The OPEN framework offers a guide to unlocking the potential of AI, while the CARE framework focuses on protecting against its dangers.
-Structured approaches are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, businesses, and government agencies, offering comprehensive strategies for navigating the evolving AI landscape.
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Business Warfare
Paulo Cardoso do Amaral
Keeping pace with a constantly shifting business environment underpinned by evolving technology and economic and information warfare is far from easy. In fact, many established strategies are no longer fit for purpose. In the search for a new approach to remaining competitive and profitable, could the answers be found in military strategists penning their insights long before the digital age? This is the thesis of Paulo Cardoso do Amaral within Business Warfare, expertly applying military strategy to the modern business climate. Accessibly written with each part carefully building on the previous section, Amaral weaves four thinkers (Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Ferdinand Foch, and Niccolò Machiavelli) into a cohesive, practical business strategy toolkit. Paulo demonstrates to leaders that, by drawing on core military principles, such as situational awareness and recurring tactical appraisal, their organisation is in a far stronger position to withstand unpredictable environments.
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The Through Line: How understanding who you are empowers how you lead.
Archana Mohan
The Through Line redefines how leaders approach growth, resilience, and impact. In an era overwhelmed by leadership “hacks,” this book offers a sustainable alternative: a framework that starts not with tactics, but with truth. Archana Mohan introduces the concept of a “through line", a narrative that connects identity to action, helping leaders align who they are with how they lead. Drawing from cross-sector experience in operations, education, and finance, The Through Line applies to multiple industries. It fosters clarity, care, and cohesion in organizations. Practical, personal, and psychologically grounded, the book offers a blueprint for navigating uncertainty, rehumanizing work, and building cultures of meaning. Its impact is real: readers report increased engagement, more intentional decision-making, and deeper connection within their teams. The Through Line is not just a business book. It's a call to lead differently!
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Inner Development Goals: Stories of Collective Leadership in Action, Volume 1: From “I” to “We”
Mauricio Campos Suarez
Eleftheria Egel
At a time when the world demands profound change, transformation begins within. As part of a two-volume work, this first volume explores the personal journeys that fuel collective leadership, weaving together research, art, case studies, and practices from the global Inner Development Goals (IDG) community. Through deep reflection and shared wisdom, it invites readers to embrace a new paradigm of interconnectedness—where individual insight, systemic understanding, and empathy drive meaningful action. The book explores many diverse tools and methods co-created by an intentional and purposeful global community and encompasses contributions of different genres and styles.
Finalist
Reimaginative Leadership: Concepts and Applications
Canute S. Thompson
The book helps organizational leaders manage organizational challenges more effectively and reduce the time spent on solving avoidable problems, which could result in work stoppages and chronic suboptimal performance.
One of the most important needs workers express is to be heard and involved in making decisions that affect them. Many organizations overlook the need to facilitate power-sharing and workers' involvement in decision-making. This book offers insights into approaches that incorporate workers in the decision-making process, and also shares stories of companies that have done so successfully.
The book also examines how narrow-minded thinking denies organizations opportunities to gain ideas on ways to reduce costs and increase income by examining the issue using "Alternatives-Thinking." The book shares success stories of companies and countries that encourage Alternative-Thinking.