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A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. 

A practical guide for those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses.

Drawing on years of first-hand experience, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. From Kim Scott, former manager at Google and Apple, and CEO coach to Silicon Valley.

'Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives' – Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In

If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right?

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In Michael Bungay Stanier’s The Coaching Habit, coaching is reframed as a simple, everyday practice that can be integrated into normal working conversations, enabling managers and their teams to achieve greater impact with less effort.

Drawing on extensive experience training more than 10,000 busy managers worldwide, Bungay Stanier presents practical coaching techniques designed for real-world use. He shows how leaders can unlock the potential of their people by shifting from giving instructions to asking better questions.

At the heart of the book are seven essential coaching questions that help structure more effective conversations. By learning to speak less and ask more, managers can foster clearer thinking, stronger accountability, and improved performance across their teams.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'For anyone interested in becoming a better manager' - Bill Gates

Discover the revolutionary approach to goal-setting behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a small startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. After implementing Doerr's system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the company grew exponentially. Today, that same startup - Google - has a market cap exceeding $600 billion.

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How do you get to what's real? Your organisation's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential.

People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organisational lives. Nine lies, to be exact.

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This engaging business novel follows James Treblid, a consultant recruited by MDL, a global heavy equipment distribution company, to resolve critical sales and service challenges that are limiting the organization's performance.

As James navigates a complex corporate culture, he works to gain the support of senior leadership, build high-performing teams, and empower employees with the skills, tools, and motivation needed to achieve lasting improvements. Through collaboration, effective leadership, and practical problem-solving, he helps transform organizational performance while fostering professional growth among team members.

Blending business principles with an engaging fictional narrative, this book provides valuable insights into leadership, teamwork, organizational change, and continuous improvement. It demonstrates how strong leadership, employee engagement, and a supportive workplace culture can overcome operational bottlenecks, increase productivity, improve profitability, and create opportunities for long-term career success.

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3HAG WAY: The Strategic Execution System that ensures your strategy is not a Wild-Ass-Guess!

Every company needs a 3HAG—a 3 Year Highly Achievable Goal! The 3HAG WAY is a prescriptive framework that takes the guessing out of your strategy and ensures that you and your whole team are confident in where you are going. It breaks your strategy down into a clear and simple picture—so clear and simple that the whole team will be able to see where the company is going and where it will end up in three years’ time. This strategic clarity will align, engage, and empower your team to make confident decisions in order to achieve your 3HAG.

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CULTURE RULES, AND CULTURE HAS RULES.

While everyone is talking about corporate culture and its importance for business success, the core principles and drivers that build, shape and sustain corporate culture are poorly understood. In this timely book, John R Childress shows that most of what we understand about corporate culture is wrong. Corporate culture is a business system, and like any critical business system, is composed of multiple drivers, all of which interact to influence “how things work around here” and ultimately, business results.

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Culture Rules is a clarion call for leaders around the world. The pandemic has magnified the essential role that culture plays in an organization's health, vitality, and sustainability--some passed the test with flying colours while others are seeing with fresh eyes, deeply rooted issues and challenges within their culture.

After completing a global study with over 5,000 participants from ten countries, Mark Miller and his team have exposed the most predominant fissures and their fixes.

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Are you a leader who believes you can make a difference in the world? Are you committed to personal excellence? Are you energized by tangible results?

If this sounds like you, Lead Every Day will help you elevate your performance and improve the effectiveness of everyone around you. Like tens of thousands of leaders who’ve already embraced this content, you will discover and release vast amounts of untapped potential resident in you and your co-workers.

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Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be but first, you ve got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest.

Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more they must be competent but that s just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What s deep inside the best leaders that makes them different.

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Teams are critical to the success of every organization. Departmental, interdepartmental, cross-functional, ad hoc, task-specific--teams do everything from planning the office party to setting the annual budget to establishing performance goals. 

But what separates the teams that really deliver from the ones that simply spin their wheels? What is the secret of high-performance teams?

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The authors of Great Leaders Grow use a fable to lay out what is the secret to great leadership in this internationally bestselling guide.

It's a question that everyone in a position of authority--whether in a multinational corporation or a local volunteer group--wonders sooner or later. Here Ken Blanchard, whose books on leadership have sold over twenty million copies, and Mark Miller, who worked his way up from line worker to vice president of Chick-Fil-A, one of the largest fast-food restaurant chains in the country, uncover the secret that great leaders already know and detail what you need to do to truly inspire and motivate others.

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Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

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WALL STREET JOURNAL AND BUSINESS WEEK BESTSELLER
RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND IMPACTFUL STRATEGY BOOKS EVER WRITTEN

The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 49 languages and is a bestseller across five continents - now updated and expanded with new content. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. A strategy classic.

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...You are holding a workbook with 100+ upgrades and enhancements for all those who desire better

Meetings, by Default or by Design is a workbook with 100+ upgrades and enhancements for all those who desire better meetings & events. It describes 40 different default meeting practices in 40 chapters and analyses the potential for improvement for each of them. It does so in 4 areas of possible improvement.

Area 1: Reasons and Objectives

Area 2: Production

Area 3: Participants

Area 4: Content

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Business leaders often draw insights from a wide range of books covering strategy, leadership, execution, finance, organizational culture, and people management.

While each offers valuable frameworks and proven techniques, the real challenge lies in integrating these ideas into a single, practical system that drives consistent success across the entire organization.

Metronomics brings together decades of hands-on business experience with the best concepts from leading management thinkers to create a comprehensive growth framework for organizations of all sizes. The book presents a structured approach to building high-performing teams, aligning strategy with execution, and creating sustainable business growth.

Readers will discover practical methods for strengthening leadership, improving accountability, enhancing team performance, and connecting employees to a shared vision and strategic objectives. Whether leading a startup or an established enterprise, the principles in Metronomics provide a clear roadmap for improving productivity, accelerating growth, and achieving long-term business success.

Built on more than twenty years of proven application, Metronomics offers leaders a repeatable system for developing resilient organizations, empowering their teams, and creating lasting competitive advantage. It is a practical guide for transforming business performance while enabling leaders to focus on sustained growth and operational excellence.

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The modern workforce is evolving rapidly as more professionals embrace freelancing, contract work, and flexible employment arrangements.

As a result, organizations are increasingly relying on a blend of full-time employees and independent professionals to achieve their business objectives.

Independent workers are no longer simply external service providers - they have become a vital source of expertise, innovation, and agility. In an increasingly competitive talent market, organizations must recognize the value of integrating freelance and contingent talent into their long-term workforce strategy.

To succeed in this changing environment, businesses need to move beyond traditional workforce management models. New approaches are required to effectively recruit, engage, develop, and support a diverse workforce that includes permanent employees, contractors, consultants, and gig workers. By adopting a more flexible and inclusive framework, organizations can build resilient, high-performing teams that are equipped to meet the demands of the future of work.

Welcome to OpenHR™: The Human Capital Framework for the Blended Workforce

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In The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber challenges many of the common misconceptions about starting and running a successful business.

This bestselling classic explains why technical expertise alone is not enough to build a thriving company and offers a practical framework for creating a business that can grow consistently and sustainably.

Gerber guides readers through the different stages of business development, from startup and early growth to building a mature, well-structured organization. Along the way, he demonstrates how proven systems, standardized processes, and the principles behind successful franchise businesses can be applied to virtually any organization, regardless of industry or size.

A central theme of the book is the critical distinction between working in the business and working on the business. By focusing on systems, leadership, and long-term strategy rather than day-to-day operations alone, business owners can create organizations that operate more efficiently, scale effectively, and deliver predictable results. The E-Myth Revisited remains an essential resource for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and managers seeking to build businesses that are productive, sustainable, and capable of long-term success.

©1955, 2001, 2003, 2004 Michael E. Gerber (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

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Thousands of business leaders have used Metronomics to build stronger companies through a proven approach to growth, balance, and long-term success.

In The M Game, entrepreneur and CEO leadership coach Shannon Susko presents a clear and accessible introduction to the Metronomics system. This practical guide simplifies complex business ideas and provides a structured framework for achieving sustainable growth, improved execution, and innovation in today's competitive global environment.

Through engaging case studies and real-world examples, Susko demonstrates how organizations can create greater alignment, accountability, and momentum by establishing the right rhythms and systems. The book shows how Metronomics helps teams perform at a higher level while supporting both business growth and organizational balance.

Whether you are a founder, executive, manager, or team leader, The M Game offers actionable insights for navigating modern business challenges and building a resilient organization positioned for long-term prosperity.

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