Kenneth Carnesi

This book is written for the person who manages real properties with real budgets, real tenants or guests, and real accountability to owners, boards, or government oversight committees. It's written for someone who doesn't have an IT department on speed dial and doesn't want to need one. Every concept in here gets explained in plain English.

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Bent Danholm

The Architecture of Demand helps homeowners and real estate professionals understand what makes buyers want a home—and how to use that insight before the first showing. Readers consistently highlight the book’s practical approach to buyer psychology, pricing, presentation, positioning, and the critical digital first impression. Rather than simply focusing on a home’s features, it explains how buyers form perceptions of value and emotional connection, and how sellers can deliberately influence those perceptions.

The strategies are practical and easy to understand, giving sellers a clearer framework for decisions about staging, marketing, photography, pricing, and overall presentation. Readers say the book changed how they think about preparing and presenting a property and gave them strategies they could actually apply. Ultimately, the book helps sellers move beyond simply putting a home on the market toward creating the conditions that make the right buyer genuinely want it.

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Todd L. Greenwald

This book addresses a critical vulnerability in the commercial real estate sector which is the "normal" reliance on antiquated, reactive emergency protocols. My comprehensive guide introduces a sophisticated framework for transforming facility management and operations using several different strategic pillars of asset resilience. My goal was to create a blueprint that can be used to integrate Critical Event Management into the day-to-day business operations of commercial properties. The book moves beyond basic life-safety procedures to tackle the complexities between operational continuity, reputation management and Net Operating Income protection. I believe readers will find actionable strategies to leverage PropTech, manage communication, and minimize structural downtime. This is a fantastic resource for property leaders seeking to safeguard their portfolios against the escalating threats of the modern workplace ensuring both human safety and financial solvency.

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Ted Hart

The DAF Revolution: Making a Difference in Our Modern World helps people make better, more effective decisions about charitable capital, resources already committed to the public good but often underutilized. As the first comprehensive book focused on donor-advised funds (DAFs), the fastest-growing vehicle for philanthropic support of nonprofit organizations, it provides practical guidance that directly influences financial planning, charitable strategy, and social impact.

This book helps donors and advisors use DAFs to improve tax efficiency, integrate philanthropy into estate and legacy planning, and align giving with personal values. It helps nonprofits understand how to engage DAF donors sustainably and responsibly. It also provides frameworks for vetted global giving, impact-oriented investing, and the use of emerging technologies to increase transparency and access. This book defines success as better stewardship, smarter planning, and greater societal impact.

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James Reed

Many reasons make the time right to change capitalism for the better not least that governments can no longer solve society's problems. Karma Capitalism: Why Being a Good Business is Good Business – part call to arms, manifesto and guide – shows that businesses everywhere can step forward to make positive lasting societal change by becoming a Philanthropy Company (PhilCo). Being a PhilCo is not just a different way of doing business, it is a different karma way of being a business. Author James Reed notes: We need to reclaim the narrative that business can be an engine of progress and can be good for society as a whole. And we can take hope from the fact that there are many people who see the potential for business to be a positive agent for change through a new battalion of firms [PhilCos] dedicated to this new form of ownership.

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Patricia Rachel Schwartz

Would you like your nonprofit organization to flourish, and for you and the others involved to experience increased wellbeing in the process? Have you ever wondered how to engage the right people to support your good work? This book focuses on building and leveraging relationships for long term success. It is a step-by-step guide to igniting the energy of your board, catalyzing donor prospects and capturing the power of the community – a win for everyone involved, especially those you are committed to serve! Draw everyone closer to your mission and reap the benefits of financial support and participation through the story-based approach, Relationship Building for Prosperity®, upon which the book is based.
The practical tools provided guide you in authentic, strategic ways to invite your prospects to invest, create partnerships and recruit new board leaders while increasing empowerment, wellbeing, and resilience for future challenges.

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Jerry White

Whether you are an aspiring leader, a nonprofit changemaker, or a philanthropist seeking meaningful impact, BE SEE DO offers an extraordinary guide and practical compass for turning vision into meaningful change. When he was twenty, the author Jerry White lost his right leg to a landmine explosion and went on to share the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. He is recognized for leading high-impact strategies and negotiating treaties that have improved millions of lives. Who will benefit most from learning to Be-See-Do? Entrepreneurs struggling to scale their innovative ideas for impact; nonprofit leaders experiencing burnout and lack of focus; policymakers looking for new approaches to intractable problems; and philanthropists who don't want to waste resources on naive "well-meaning" initiatives. Learn to BE yourself, SEE what's possible, and DO something useful, by helping yourself and others to flourish.

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Ryan Alexander

Protect Your Mission helps nonprofit CEOs, executive directors, and boards build the financial infrastructure necessary to sustain and scale their work. The book introduces the IMPACT Framework for Nonprofits™, a practical model developed from more than two decades of experience working with organizations across the sector. The framework provides guidance for strengthening internal controls, improving grant management, aligning budgets with strategy, and producing reliable financial reporting. By organizing these financial functions into a structured approach, the book helps nonprofits strengthen oversight, reduce operational risk, and build the systems that support greater stability, transparency, and long-term impact.

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Nehal Gandhi

The Nonprofit Paradox helps donors, nonprofit leaders, and boards make more informed decisions about giving and social change. Drawing on 25+ years in nonprofit finance and philanthropy, Nehal Gandhi reveals how funding restrictions, overhead expectations, compliance demands, and partnerships affect organizations and the communities they serve. Donors gain a clearer understanding of what their gifts need to support, including the people, systems, and infrastructure behind effective programs. Nonprofit leaders gain language to explain financial pressures, advocate for realistic funding, and build more candid relationships with funders. Boards gain perspective on the decisions that shape organizational resilience.
Through accessible stories and reflection, the book encourages readers to ask better questions, recognize the full costs of nonprofit work, and align generosity with community needs, helping create stronger organizations and more thoughtful giving.

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Irene Prizker

The School in the Market demonstrates that business innovation can solve some of the world's most persistent social challenges. Through real-world outcomes in underserved communities, the book provides a roadmap for how financial tools—like microloans and business training—can empower local leaders to strengthen their communities and economy from the ground up. Rather than reinforcing aid dependency, Irene's approach to philanthropy treats underserved schools as small, community-focused enterprises that generate jobs and improve infrastructure while providing better learning opportunities for children.

Irene's book encourages business leaders, philanthropists, and policymakers to rethink how they invest in social change, and to adopt strategies that build economic resilient. The School in the Market creates a strong case for reimagining philanthropy as a catalyst for independence and lasting opportunity.

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Suzanne Naomi Smith

Nonprofits are expected to solve complex problems while often operating with limited capacity, fragile systems and constant pressure to do more. *The Nonprofit Flywheel* strengthens the organizations behind those missions. This field-tested, interactive Playbook helps nonprofit leaders, boards and changemakers assess where their organizations are stuck, identify priorities and turn insight into action. Its six interconnected drivers — Impact, Brand, Revenue, Operations, Culture and Governance — show readers how decisions across an organization can work together to create alignment and momentum. Reflection questions, assessments and practical tools allow teams to apply the framework during staff meetings, board retreats and strategic planning conversations. By helping nonprofits build resilience, sustain their people and adapt to change, the Playbook enables them to serve their communities more effectively over time. Its digital edition is free, removing cost as a barrier.

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Susan Coleman

Collaborative Hardball is both a rallying cry and a practical guide for women—and anyone who supports the rise of the feminine—to reclaim power, redefine negotiation, and dismantle the systems holding us back. In this book, the author outlines how to improve negotiation skills through steps anyone can take. The guidance shared in Collaborative Hardball will help readers to sharpen their voice, ignite their confidence, and equip them to lead with purpose in every arena of their lives—from boardroom deals, to bedroom negotiation. In this way, Collaborative Hardball is strengthening and supporting women as they show up in every area of both their business dealings and personal lives.

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Jonathan B. Smith

Derek Gaunt

Providing qualitative improvements to the reader's negotiating skills from a leading business strategist and a top expert in hostage negotiation, this book reframes day-to-day business as negotiations and equips the reader with skills they need to come out on top with less resistance.

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Tim Vorhoff

Tim Vorhoff’s 'Exit Right: How to Sell Your Company' is transforming outcomes for business owners by demystifying one of the most complex and consequential moments in their lives. Designed as an education-first resource, the book equips founders, particularly those leading family-owned and mid-market companies, with a clear, step-by-step playbook to maximize the value of their businesses. By translating complex financial and transactional concepts into practical, accessible guidance, Vorhoff enables owners to navigate the sale process with confidence, avoid costly mistakes, and maintain control in high-stakes negotiations.

At its core, Exit Right advocates for the often-overlooked seller, helping protect entrepreneurs from predatory deal dynamics and reactive, underprepared exits. The result is tangible impact: better-informed decisions, stronger negotiating positions, and, ultimately, significantly improved financial outcomes for the people who built these businesses.

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Jean-Baptiste Deal

Winning With Ancient Wisdom helps leaders and negotiators handle high‑stakes conversations with more courage, clarity, and respect. Drawing on Aesop’s fables and Asian stratagems, it translates timeless stories into concrete negotiation playbooks that busy professionals can apply immediately in sales meetings, salary discussions, and cross‑cultural deals. Readers learn to negotiate beyond language and cultural barriers, gaining clarity, control, and influence. Practical tools, checklists, and real cases from Asia and Europe show how to defuse tension, protect relationships, and still achieve ambitious business results. The book is especially helpful for rising leaders, entrepreneurs, and experts who were never formally trained in negotiation but now must influence without formal authority. It gives them a shared language and simple frameworks they can bring back to their teams to improve everyday decisions and build long‑term partnerships.

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Zhengyu Z Huang

Rethinking China helps business leaders, policymakers, educators, students, and engaged citizens make better decisions about one of the world's most consequential relationships by challenging false, incomplete, and oversimplified narratives with rigorous, evidence-based analysis. Drawing on Zhengyu "Z" Huang's experience across global business, U.S. public policy, and international affairs, including service as a White House Fellow, the book provides a practical framework for evaluating trade, technology, supply chains, competitiveness, talent, and national security by their real-world outcomes rather than political rhetoric. Already informing discussions across leading universities, CEO forums, policy institutions, and international media, it fosters critical thinking, helps readers recognize Chinese and Asian Americans as strategic assets for America's innovation and competitiveness, and equips leaders and citizens to reduce the risk of costly strategic miscalculation.

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Eddy Arriola

This book makes a simple but profound argument - leadership is all about relationships. Teams and companies are only as strong as their leaders' connections to their teams. In a time where isolation is an epidemic, this book argues for a better path.

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Phil Le-Brun

Jana Werner

The book helps leaders, teams, and organizations break free from the dysfunction that keeps them stuck—saving them time, money, and the frustration of failed transformation efforts. Most organizations waste billions on top-down change initiatives that deliver little. This book offers a radically different path: instead of expensive, slow overhauls, readers get thirty-six practical "levers" that create meaningful improvement in months, not years. By applying the distributed intelligence model of the octopus—where the whole moves with purpose while each part thinks for itself—leaders learn to unlock the talent already inside their organizations. The result is teams that innovate faster, adapt to disruption more confidently, and build resilience that lasts.

Drawing on real-world experience at Amazon, McDonald's, and hundreds of global companies, this book gives every reader—from frontline manager to C-suite executive—an actionable blueprint to create organizations that truly thrive

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Burl Stamp

Everyone wants to be a leader. But what employees really need is a great boss. Seventy percent of what determines whether an employee is engaged at work comes down to one thing: the person they report to.

"Becoming a Better Boss" helps managers become that boss. Most of us became managers by being great at the technical or tactical parts of our job, only to realize the skills that made us star individual performers can make us a terrible boss. Former hospital CEO Burl Stamp offers a candid playbook for mastering the human side of management that nobody trained you for.

The T.E.A.M. Model (Teach, Empower, Align, and Mentor) addresses the root causes of burnout and disengagement with tools managers can use immediately. Readers learn to earn trust in hundreds of small moments, build a culture where people feel they have a voice, and become the leader people want to work for.

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Carlos Donato Da Silva

Invisible Leadership helps professionals eliminate the hidden, daily friction that causes workplace burnout and costly operational rework.Instead of relying on exhausting motivational speeches, this book shows leaders how to embed a healthy, high-performance culture directly into their ERP systems (like SAP or Dynamics). It helps companies save money and time by replacing frustrating "Shadow IT"—like parallel Excel sheets—with logical, frictionless workflows.

By teaching managers to act as "Choice Architects," the book dramatically reduces employee stress. Using new metrics introduced in the book (ICE and CRR), leaders can design smart defaults and system rules that make doing the right thing the path of least resistance. Ultimately, it helps organizations build a coherent, stress-free environment where people can succeed and high performance becomes a natural habit, rather than a daily struggle.

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Jack Myers

Readers of The Tao of Leadership gain a navigational compass for becoming effective leaders built on 3,000-year-old Taoist principles. With accelerating technology overwhelming traditional structures, the book offers a practical Blueprint for Leadership in the AI Era, focused on embracing AI without becoming subservient to it and pursuing innovation without losing empathy, ethics, or purpose. The Tao of Leadership is grounded in the Taoist principles of harmony, flexibility, balance, simplicity, and integrity, translating them into the FusionFlow Process, a tutorial for breaking down organizational silos, accelerating ideas into action, and building cultures of continuous learning. Readers who are navigating the role and influence of AI in their own lives, their organizations, and in civilization will learn that leadership in the AI age is not about mastering machines. It is about understanding how to embrace change and remain grounded in human judgment, empathy, purpose, and integrity

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Jorge Sá

Magda Pereira

Avoiding the trap of increasing efforts for decreasing returns. Why? There are four distinct/necessary drivers for performance:
- The theory of business: why the company makes sense. The reality assumptions it is grounded upon;
- The business model: what are the basic pillars of a firm’s organization. How it transforms client satisfaction into value for itself;
- Strategy: where the organization competes: geographical areas, industries and segments; and
- Tactics: the how of the nine functional areas - how to organize operations, how to market the product, how to finance, how…

The above constitute the four drivers for organization optimization: the why; what; where; and how. Previous literature has failed in two ways:
- by making the distinction between strategy and tactics fuzzy; and
- by identifying the business model with the theory of business.

But only a clear-cut distinction enables to:
1 – Target them;
2 – Review them; and
3 – Obtain a coherent whole.

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