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No Limits

Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity

by John C. Maxwell

In No Limits, best-selling author John C. Maxwell explains how to identify, grow and apply your critical capabilities.

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The Future-Proof Workplace

Six Strategies to Accelerate Talent Development, Reshape Your Culture, and Succeed with Purpose

by Morag Barrett, Linda D. Sharkey, Ph.D.

The Future-Proof Workplace is a survival guide for the new realities of business. It highlights the changes already taking place: the transition from skills to knowledge, the neuroscience approach to leadership and motivation, galloping technical advances and more.

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Victory Through Organization

Why the War for Talent Is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It

by Wayne Brockbank, David Kryscynski, Mike Ulrich, Dave Ulrich

Victory Through Organization demonstrates that organizational success isn’t just about the talent you have –– it’s about how the collective organization makes the individual talent better.

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52 Essential Habits of Success

by Robert Stevenson

According to Stevenson, if you spend a few minutes in the morning and the evening reviewing and contemplating a single essential successful habit for seven days, then by the end of 52 weeks you will have absorbed and incorporated all 52 habits into your life.

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The Trust Edge

How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line

by David Horsager

Based on research but made practical for today’s leader, The Trust Edge shows that trust is quantifiable and brings dramatic results to businesses and leaders.

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You Can't Lie to Me

The Revolutionary Program to Supercharge Your Inner Lie Detector and Get to the Truth

by Janine Driver

What if you could increase your salary by 15 percent and kick problems and worries to the curb simply by learning how to detect a lie the moment it starts? What if you had an easy-to-use test that tipped you off the instant someone held something back from you? No machine built to date has proven more effective than a well-trained human lie detector, says world-renowned body language expert Janine Driver, a former federal law enforcement investigator who has trained agents at the ATF...

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Idea Agent

Leadership That Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation

by Lina M. Echeverría

There is perhaps no leadership challenge more daunting than managing creativity — and more urgent than delivering breakthrough innovation. How do you harness some of the most passionate, intelligent people in your organization without stifling them? How do you simultaneously unleash their energy and channel it into something tangible? In Idea Agent, Lina M. Echeverría offers seven proven principles through which new ideas come to fruition.

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The Art of Explanation

Making Your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand

by Lee LeFever

You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully — but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea — and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem. The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems. In this summary, author Lee LeFever provides a guide to helping audiences fall in love with your ideas...

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Intelligent M&A

Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield

by Scott Moeller, Chris Brady

Mergers and acquisitions have played a dominant role in shaping and reshaping the global corporate landscape in the last century. If the sheer numbers of deals aren’t grabbing headlines, the size and scope of the deals that are made cannot help but command the attention of investors world over. In Intelligent M&A, Moeller and Brady set forth a solid strategy for thriving in the high-stakes, high-stress environment for corporate mergers and acquisitions.

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