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Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life
by Ruth S. PearceUnderstand the valuable insights a professional life coach can bring to your life In Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life, veteran coach Ruth Pearce delivers an incisive set of strategies designed to help you celebrate your wins and focus on the positives in your life. In this “portable life coach,” you’ll learn how to look at problems, challenges, and uncertainties in a way that can lead to deeper meaning in your professional and personal life. The author describes the substantial benefits of working with an actual coach, and how a coach can help you during times of struggle and in times of growth. You’ll discover how: To find the resources you need to live your life better and bring perspective, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge beliefs to everything you do To create generative, expansive, and open solutions to some of life’s most challenging obstacles A coach can benefit you in your work, at home, at school, and anywhere elsePerfect for anyone who is considering working with a life coach to help them understand their professional and personal goals, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious is also a must-read for those curious about the principles underlying professional and life coaching.
Be Less Zombie: How great companies create dynamic innovation, fearless leadership and passionate people
by Elvin TurnerMake innovation more remarkable, inevitable and profitable 'Zombie’ companies cling to what kills them: Obsolete and frustrating ways of working that crush innovation and drain people’s motivation. Be Less Zombie distils 10 years of field research amongst some of the world’s leading innovators into a pragmatic, actionable toolkit. Designed for managers who need more remarkable innovation with repeatable, scalable approaches, it shows readers how to: De-risk bolder, more profitable innovation Make innovation a predictable and measurable capability Equip managers with essential tools and skills for leading innovation and transformation Help teams find new capacity and energy to deliver today’s business whilst discovering tomorrow’s Turner’s research also delves beyond the business world. He brings insights from a wide range of unexpected, expert sources including a guerrilla negotiator, a cage-fighter trainer, an X-Factor coach, a senior emergency room doctor, and a fashion designer. His ‘Turn It On’ innovation framework gives leaders and managers tools, processes and pathways to make bolder and more profitable innovation an inevitability, not an anomaly. This book is for: CEOs who need a better, more continuous pipeline of profitable innovation Senior leaders who need more ideas, collaboration and energy across their divisions Finance executives who want to resource innovation and yet measure it effectively Strategy, change and transformation managers charged with delivering greater organisational agility and differentiation HR executives who are trying to resource and equip leaders and employees with innovation capabilities Organisational development managers tasked with shaping more agile and innovative ways of working Team leaders who need to help their people find new capacity and energy to deliver bolder ideas Individual employees who want their managers to stop blocking their best ideas Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation advisor to global corporations, government bodies, not-for-profit organisations, and start-ups around the world. He is also an associate professor at several business schools. For more information visit www.elvinturner.com “A must-read for anyone - in any business sector, at any career level - who is passionate about the serious business of innovation. A practical guide to curating a culture of innovation and navigating against the headwinds of organizational status quo.” Simon Collins, Senior Vice President, Mastercard “Most leaders struggle to get the innovation performance they need. This is the practical playbook they’ve been waiting for.” Andy Billings, Vice President Profitable Creativity, Electronic Arts “This is an invaluable step-by-step guide to sparking, scaling and sustaining a culture of bold innovation.” Ash Tailor, Global Brand & Marketing Director, LEGOLAND
Be More Pirate: Or How to Take on the World and Win
by Sam Conniff AllendePirates didn’t just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn’t just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn’t just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyf*ckingthing. Pirates faced a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial scale disruption, and an uncertain future. Sound familiar?“I’d rather be a pirate than join the navy.”—Steve Jobs Pirates stood for MISCHIEF, PURPOSE, and POWER. And you can too. Be More Pirate unveils the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates, drawing parallels between the tactics and teachings of legends like Henry Morgan and Blackbeard with modern rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala, and Banksy. Featuring takeaway sections and a guide to building your own pirate code 2.0, Be More Pirate will show you how to leave your mark on the 21st century. 1. Rebel — Draw strength by standing up to the status quo. 2. Rewrite — Bend, break, but most importantly, rewrite the rules. 3. Reorganize — Collaborate to achieve scale, rather than growth. 4. Redistribute — Fight for fairness, share power, and make an enemy of exploitation. 5. Retell — Weaponize your story, then tell the hell out of it. Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, Be More Pirate will revolutionize the way you live, think, and work today, and tomorrow. So what are you waiting for? Join the rebellion.
Be More Strategic in Business: How to Win through Stronger Leadership and Smarter Decisions
by Diana Thomas Stacey BoyleTake Your Leadership to the Next Level With This Award-Winning Business BookWinner, 2018 Foreword Indies, Adult Nonfiction/CareerAward Finalist, 2018 Best Book Awards, Business/CareersWinner, 2019 International Book Awards, Business/CareersWinner, 2019 Discovery Award, Best First Book/NonfictionHonorable Mention, 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award, BusinessStrategic leadership is essential to business success: Strong leaders are those who successfully navigate a great shift: from tactical doer to strategic leader. Regardless of your industry, line of business, or sector, your organization desperately needs strategic leaders. A strategic leader is tuned in to the needs of the business, understands how his or her actions impact corporate objectives, and uses data to make smart decisions. Whether you’re leading a department team or running your own company, a strategic leader clearly propels business performance.Building a ladder to strategic leadership: Stephen R. Covey famously explained strategic leadership via the metaphor of workers clearing a jungle. The strategic leader was able to climb a tree and tell everybody they were laboring in the wrong jungle. In this book you will start out on the jungle floor and build a ladder to give you that strategic view over the tops of the trees. You’ll learn how to:Develop your strategic skillsSet meaningful directionBuild a strategic planMake decisions to winProven approach to strategic leadership: You’ll get the training straight from the personal career journeys of two business women who have decades of experience and education. They come together to create a proven approach to understanding the big picture of what your organization is trying to accomplish and how to be an effective leader.
Be More: Find Your Truth. Tell Your Story. And Get What You Want Out Of Life
by Sam Kass Todd Putman Lori SpargerBE MORE: Find Your Truth, Tell Your Story, and Get What You Want Out of Life by Todd Putman offers a straightforward, ten-point exercise aimed at getting people started and helping them answer that simple question in a way that illuminates their strengths and what matters most in their lives. It is an inspiring guide that puts people on the path to a more fulfilled, meaningful, and happier career and life. As Putman attests, too many people fail to fulfill their potential not from a lack of ability, means, or opportunity, but because so very few purposefully pursue it. Some of the most capable people suffer from a lack of understanding of their own capability, a failure of vision, or don't leverage their talents to move themselves forward. The result is a colossal waste of potential--potential for good, for innovation, for change, for value creation, for simple happiness. With an engaging and accessible voice, BE MORE portrays the breadth of opportunity available to those who pursue life with purpose.
Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business
by Marty Strong'Be Nimble, How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business is the testimony of leadership and success written by a highly effective, well-respected Navy SEAL officer and world-class business leader. The book is instructive, full of brilliant ideas, and provides a clear and straightforward approach to decision-making that can be employed regardless of personal or business objectives. Marty Strong&’s vision, his strength of purpose, and focus are clear as he outlines his effective business lessons and principles. He provides the reader with a rare opportunity to gain proven advice, unlike anything available in the conventional business world, that can be utilized by any person or organization approaching significant challenges and/or when building strong and effective teams.' Don Mann New York Times bestselling author of Inside SEAL Team SIX, author of Reaching Beyond Boundaries: A Navy SEAL&’s Guide to Achieving Everything, world class adventure racer, author, retired SEAL, entrepreneurMarty Strong's direct and compelling message is focused on business but in truth, its leadership tenets are agnostic as to industry, marketplace, private or public setting. This is not a textbook. It is a personal conversation between a high-performance business leader and professionals searching for actionable insights that deliver results. Be Nimble provides mentorship, tips, tools, and useful examples to help drive home its valuable leadership insights. Marty Strong has an accomplished leadership career spanning four decades. He worked his way from enlisted SEAL Team member to the SEAL Officer corps, retiring with twenty years service in that highly-decorated and esteemed military unit. He is the author of the Time Warrior Sagas and the SEAL Strike Series.
Be Obsessed or Be Average
by Grant CardoneFrom the millionaire entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author of The 10X Rule comes a bold and contrarian wake-up call for anyone truly ready for success. Before Grant Cardone built five successful companies (and counting), became a multimillionaire, and wrote bestselling books...he was broke, jobless, and drug-addicted. Grant had grown up with big dreams but friends and family told him to be more reasonable and less demanding. If he played by the rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else's version of middle class success. But when he tried it their way, he hit rock bottom. Then he tried the opposite approach. He said NO to the haters and naysayers and said YES to his burning, outrageous, animal obsession. He reclaimed his obsession with wanting to be a business rock star, a huge philanthropist, live in a mansion, even own an airplane. Obsession made all of his wildest dreams come true. And it can help you achieve massive success too. As Grant says, we're in the middle of an epidemic of average. The conventional wisdom is to achieve balance and take it easy. But this has really just given us an excuse to be unexceptional. If you want real success, you have to be obsessed and know how to harness that power to rocket to the top. This book will give you the inspiration and tools to break out of your cocoon of mediocrity and achieve your craziest dreams. Grant will teach you how to: · set crazy goals--and reach them, every single day · feed the beast: when you value money and spend it on the right things, you get more of it · shut down the doubters--and use your haters as fuel You can be obsessed...or you can be average. It's your choice. Why not start going full-throttle towards your obsession today?From the Hardcover edition.
Be Our Guest (A Disney Institute Book)
by Theodore KinniExceeding expectations rather than simply satisfying them is the cornerstone of the Disney approach to customer service. Be Our Guest specializes in helping professionals see new possibilities through concepts not found in the typical workplace, revealing even more of the business behind the magic of quality service.
Be Our Guest, Inc.
by Dwight B. Crane Penny JosephBe Our Guest is a rapidly growing equipment rental company with substantial seasonality in its revenues and profits. In the spring of 1998, the senior management team is reviewing its financial plans in preparation for a meeting with the company's bank. The case provides an opportunity to forecast financial needs and consider the appropriate structure and amount of bank borrowing.
Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service
by Disney Institute Staff Ted KinniWhether they are called clients, customers, constituents, or, in Disney-speak, guests, all organizations must best serve the people who purchase their products and services or risk losing them. Now, for the first time, one critical element of the methods behind the magic that is the Walt Disney World Resort-quality service-is revealed in Be Our Guest. Even before Tom Peters and Bob Waterman profiled Walt Disney World Resort in their groundbreaking book In Search of Excellence, the most popular resort destination in the world enjoyed a reputation as a company that sets the benchmark for best business practices. Be Our Guest outlines proven Disney principles and processes for helping your organization focus its vision and align its people and infrastructure into a cohesive strategy that delivers on the promise of exceptional customer service.
Be Prepared: The Complete Financial, Legal, and Practical Guide to Living with Cancer, HIV, and Other Life-Challenging Conditions
by David S. LandayBe Prepared offers the most comprehensive and accessible guidebook ever assembled to help people with a life-challenging condition, as well as their families and friends, cope with the financial, legal, and practical issues of illness, disability, and death.If you are confronting a life-threatening condition and facing challenges to your finances, work, and future, you no longer need to struggle alone. In Be Prepared, attorney David Landay, a leading authority with more than thirty years' experience in this field, assembles and explains the most up-to-date financial, legal, and practical information. He will help you focus on the questions to ask, how to find the information you need, and where to locate the resources to assist you. Topics covered include:- How to obtain access to the best medical care- Surprising ways to pay bills with existing assets- Work issues, disability, and going back to work- Legal issues such as estate planning and the Americans with Disabilities Act- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid- New Investment strategies- How to maximize your income and manage your expenses and debtsBy showing you, in simple steps, how to understand, organize, and manage your affairs, Landay provides you with the practical know-how and emotional confidence to face the future without fear. Be Prepared is the ideal book to help you make the best of some of life's most difficult situations.
Be Quick - But Don't Hurry
by Andrew Hill John WoodenPerhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by ESPN, honoring his ten NCAA basketball championships in a twelve-year stretch. His UCLA teams won with great centers and with small lineups, with superstars and with team effort, always with quickness, always with class. Wooden was a teacher first and foremost, and his lessons -- taught on the basketball court, but applicable throughout one's life -- are summarized in his famed Pyramid of Success. Andrew Hill was one of the lucky young men who got to learn from Wooden in his favored classroom -- though that is hardly how Hill would have described it at the time. An all-city high school player in Los Angeles, Hill played -- a little -- on three national champions, from 1970 to 1972. Hill was left embittered by his experience at UCLA; he was upset at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players and his substitutes. Hill went on to a successful career in television, rising to the presidency of CBS Productions, where he was responsible for the success of such popular series as Touched by an Angel and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Hill's job required him to manage many creative people, with the egos and insecurities that usually go along with such talents. And one day, some twenty-five years after he graduated, he was hit with the realization that everything he knew about getting the best out of people he had learned directly from Coach John Wooden. With no small trepidation, Hill picked up the phone to call and thank his old coach and unexpected mentor. To his surprise, Wooden greeted him warmly and enthusiastically. A strong friendship, sealed in frequent visits and conversations, ensued, and endures. Be Quick -- But Don't Hurry! tells the story of that friendship. But it also shares the lessons and secrets that Hill learned from Coach Wooden, which hold the key to managing creatively in the idea-driven economy of the twenty-first century. Among those lessons are: The team with the best players almost always wins Be quick, but don't hurry: there is never enough time to be sure (and if you are sure, you're probably too late), but you must always keep your balance Failing to prepare is preparing to fail The team that makes the most mistakes...wins! Full of sound advice and warm reminiscence, Be Quick -- But Don't Hurry! is the management book of a lifetime.
Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You
by Gina MartinInspiring and practical, BE THE CHANGE is the essential handbook for the budding activist.'Gina Martin is a sensation' The Secret Barrister'Gina Martin's powerful campaigning and vital activism changed the law, making our country safer for women and girls. This book tells us how she did it - and how you can too' Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London'Gina is a total inspiration - an example of how one person CAN change things' Emma GannonIn June 2017, a man took a photo up Gina Martin's skirt at a music festival. The police told her that this was not a sexual offence; the man would not be charged.The law had let Gina down, and her first reaction was resignation. But something inside her had snapped. Gina was tired of accepting sexual harassment as a fact of life.Eighteen months later, she had changed the law and made upskirting a criminal offence.Now, Gina wants to empower you with the tools and courage to challenge injustice and fight for change, whether it's in your school, workplace or community, or even on a global scale. Filled with practical advice, the book includes guidance on how to write a compelling press release, set up an e-petition, find pro-bono legal support and secure media coverage for your campaign.In BE THE CHANGE you will learn: What activism really is and why it's so important How to use the internet to fight for what you believe in How to pick the cause you truly care about And how to do the hardest thing in activism: get started.
Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You
by Gina MartinBE THE CHANGE is an essential handbook for the modern activist, whether your campaign is big or small, local or global, or somewhere in between.'Gina Martin's powerful campaigning and vital activism changed the law, making our country safer for women and girls. This book tells us how she did it - and how you can too'Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonIn June 2017, a man took a photo up Gina Martin's skirt at a music festival. The police told her that this was not a sexual offence; the man would not be charged.The law had let Gina down, and her first reaction was resignation. It's too big, too scary, too complicated for someone like me to challenge this. But something inside her had snapped. Gina was tired of accepting sexual harassment as a fact of life.Eighteen months later, she had changed the law and made upskirting a criminal offence.Now, Gina wants to empower you with the tools and courage to challenge injustice and fight for change, whether it's in your school, workplace or community, or even on a global scale. In BE THE CHANGE you will learn: What activism really is and why it's so important How to use the internet to fight for what you believe in How to pick the cause you truly care about And how to do the hardest thing in activism: get startedBe the Change also includes plenty of practical advice like how to write a press release, set up an e-petition, find pro-bono legal support and secure media coverage for your campaign. Praise for Gina Martin: 'Gina is a total inspiration - an example of how one person CAN change things'EMMA GANNON, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method'Gina Martin is a sensation. A one-woman whirlwind whose campaigning skills and passion for justice achieved vital legal change which the staid political establishment would otherwise have left unremedied'THE SECRET BARRISTER, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You
by Gina MartinBE THE CHANGE is an essential handbook for the modern activist, whether your campaign is big or small, local or global, or somewhere in between.'Gina Martin's powerful campaigning and vital activism changed the law, making our country safer for women and girls. This book tells us how she did it - and how you can too'Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonIn June 2017, a man took a photo up Gina Martin's skirt at a music festival. The police told her that this was not a sexual offence; the man would not be charged.The law had let Gina down, and her first reaction was resignation. It's too big, too scary, too complicated for someone like me to challenge this. But something inside her had snapped. Gina was tired of accepting sexual harassment as a fact of life.Eighteen months later, she had changed the law and made upskirting a criminal offence.Now, Gina wants to empower you with the tools and courage to challenge injustice and fight for change, whether it's in your school, workplace or community, or even on a global scale. In BE THE CHANGE you will learn: What activism really is and why it's so important How to use the internet to fight for what you believe in How to pick the cause you truly care about And how to do the hardest thing in activism: get startedBe the Change also includes plenty of practical advice like how to write a press release, set up an e-petition, find pro-bono legal support and secure media coverage for your campaign. Praise for Gina Martin: 'Gina is a total inspiration - an example of how one person CAN change things'EMMA GANNON, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method'Gina Martin is a sensation. A one-woman whirlwind whose campaigning skills and passion for justice achieved vital legal change which the staid political establishment would otherwise have left unremedied'THE SECRET BARRISTER, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
Be There When I Return: A Memoir of Epilepsy, Love, and Success
by Michael KingFor fans of rags-to-riches stories, Be There When I Return is not just about overcoming epilepsy and finding success—it is also for those who are looking for a celebration of love in its purest form.When thirty-one-year-old Michael starts to act out of character, it gets the attention of his roommate and a woman he has started dating. After denying anything is wrong with him, Michael finally decides to visit a neurologist. His life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a life-altering diagnosis of epilepsy. What follows is a five-year saga of navigating the unpredictable terrain of seizures and the relentless pursuit of control. During this time, he finds a lifeline in the unwavering support of a new love. This powerful bond fuels his resilience and determination to reclaim his life. At thirty-seven, Michael takes a daring leap to undergo surgery, the first of its kind at the hospital. The procedure's success sparks a profound transformation in his life. Just nine months later, a chance encounter with an old friend opens the door to an unexpected career in Silicon Valley. Leaving behind his bartending job in LA, Michael dives headfirst into the tech recruiting world, where he builds a career against all odds. Be There When I Return is a testament to courage, love, and the pursuit of dreams. It celebrates second chances and the triumph over life's greatest challenges. Michael's journey will inspire you to believe in the impossible and seize the moments that can change everything.
Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
by Alden M. MillsMore than 25,000 copies sold in three languages! Updated and Expanded with New Content However your past has shaped you, your future is yours to shape, and if you want to shape it for success, you’ll find no better coach than Alden Mills. Using the power of a parable and his own experiences as a Navy SEAL and accomplished entrepreneur, Mills shares his proven framework for success as embodied by the action-based acronym UPERSIST: Understand the why; Plan in three dimensions; Exercise to execute; Recognize your reason to believe; Survey your habits; Improvise to overcome; Seek expert advice; and Team up. At the core of Be Unstoppable is the parable of a young skipper who meets a remarkable, seasoned captain. This chance meeting changes the young skipper’s direction in life, setting him on course to identify and achieve his dreams. Each chapter concludes with action steps distilled from the story and from Alden’s experiences as a U.S. Navy SEAL Commander and a business leader and entrepreneur. You see others who have the things you want money, joy, success and suppose that they were born with special talent or into a family which made these things easy to attain. They are just lucky. What you don't know is that there is a methodology to success. BE UNSTOPPABLE contains a system to gain this vital skillset.
Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
by Alden M. Mills25,000 copies sold in three languages! You see others who have the things you want money, joy, success and suppose that they were born with special talent or into a family which made these things easy to attain. They are just lucky. What you don t know is that there is a methodology to success. BE UNSTOPPABLE contains a system to gain this vital skillset. Alden Mills was an uncoordinated asthmatic who went on to become a national rowing champion, three time Navy SEAL Team Commander, inventor of over 20 fitness products and CEO of the #1 fastest growing consumer products company as identified by INC 500 magazine in 2009. Through his own journey to success, Mills identified Eight Actions proven to overcome the bad habits between you and getting your goals. Written in a story format that is easy to remember, BE UNSTOPPABLE opens with a parable of a young skipper who meets a remarkable, seasoned captain, changing the skipper's direction and setting him on a course to fulfill a larger destiny. The allegory, intertwined with Mills humorous, brutally honest personal stories, anchors tools like Plan in 3D, Exercise to Execute and Improvise to Overcome into your memory. You can start at any place in the program, because the momentum gained from using any of the tools will cause you to stop making excuses about why you can t have the life of your dreams, while the stories inspire you to do whatever it takes to ensure that you can. The goal-getting code embedded in BE UNSTOPPABLE will enable you to navigate around challenges, chart a course, and put you on a heading to achieving your dreams. However the past has shaped you, your future is yours to shape, and if you want to shape it for success, you'll find no better coach than Alden Mills. Using the power of a parable and his own experiences as a Navy SEAL and accomplished entrepreneur, Mills teaches you his proven framework for success. BE UNSTOPPABLE is the parable of a young skipper who meets a remarkable, seasoned captain, and this chance meeting changes the young skipper's direction in life, setting him on course for living his dreams. This charming tale illuminates the eight actions to take to succeed at anything in life, and makes BE UNSTOPPABLE a uniquely effective hybrid of Who Moved My Cheese and Vince Lombardi-style coaching.
Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything
by Alden MillsNew and expanded! The successful people around you didn&’t just get lucky—there is a methodology to their success. This updated version of a beloved and powerful parable from bestselling author Alden Mills offers a proven framework for success in any area of life.Regardless of your past, your future is yours to mold. And if you want to mold it toward success, Alden Mills has crafted the ultimate guide. In this latest edition of Be Unstoppable™, Mills draws on his inspiring experiences as a Division 1 athlete, Navy SEAL and award-winning entrepreneur to present his simple but actionable framework to make lasting, pivotal, positive change in your life, illustrated with his easy-to-remember UPERSIST acronym: Understand the Why Plan in 3-D Exercise to execute Recognize your reason to believe Survey your habits Improvise Seek expert advice Team up At the heart of Be Unstoppable™ is a compelling parable about a young skipper who encounters a distinguished captain, altering his life&’s path and guiding him toward never-before-seen success. Each chapter concludes with practical advice inspired by the story as well as Mills&’s own experiences as a captain of the U.S. Naval Academy Rowing Team, a Navy SEAL Commander, and CEO. Featuring a new foreword by Verne Harnish, this revitalized edition of Be Unstoppable™ includes practical advice on how to achieve your goals, boost your confidence, and transform both your mindset and your life&’s trajectory.
Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage, Influence and Ensure Your Research Has Impact (Insider Guides to Success in Academia)
by Inger Mewburn Simon ClewsThe world of the academic researcher is changing; it used to be enough to work hard, do your research and get your results published. Not so these days. Universities now expect researchers to share their work with the world, as widely as possible. ‘Publish or perish’ has been replaced by a new mantra, and the pressure is on. In this insightful book, Inger Mewburn and Simon Clews look at some of the most common presentation scenarios that researchers will face when talking about their work. Starting in academia with the deceptively simple art of writing a good email and working through lectures, conference presentations and lightning talks, the book then moves ‘off campus’ and explores talking to the media, making elevator pitches and creating an effective digital presence on social media. Offering detailed looks at 19 different presentation formats, Mewburn and Clews tap into their vast experience in the field to analyse the challenges and opportunities aligned with each case study and to map out the route to success. With a lightness of touch and an often humorous approach, Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage, Influence and Ensure Your Research Has Impact will show you what it takes to achieve that holy grail of modern academia… impact. This text will be invaluable for students, academics and researchers hoping to effectively communicate complex information in a way that can be understood and appreciated by their peers, colleagues and the wider world. The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.
Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization
by Marty StrongBe Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results - even in uncertain times. More importantly, this book helps leaders to understand that while business operations optimization may have value in certain circumstances, it can also adversely affect a leader's management style, his or her message and replace strategic thought with short-term focus and gratification. For example, even the most efficient wagon-wheel manufacturer in the early 1900s was put out of business by the invention of the automobile - think and lead strategically!
Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving
by Scott M. O'Neil Randal A. WrightScott O'Neil, one of America's most successful sports executives, shares seven principles to keep you present, grounded, and thriving.When we’re moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming. But it comes for all of us and when it does, we grasp for lessons, for meaning, for purpose. Each moment (good or bad) and each win or loss, provides us an opportunity to learn, and if we choose to take it, that opportunity can change our lives-and the world- for the better. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. Belonging. Touch. Gratitude. Purpose. We need to make our interactions count. Whether it’s the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up or the isolation of COVID-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. In Be Where Your Feet Are, Scott O’Neil, CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, offers his own story of grief and healing, and shares his most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. Scott avails his network to share poignant life lessons from an array of people including professional athletes and sports executives, a world-famous Movie Director, Saudi royalty; and his teenage daughters, among many others. Be Where Your Feet Are provides a humbling and vulnerable peek behind the curtain as well as a framework, anecdotes, and exercises to guide the reader towards self-discovery. A gifted storyteller with an uncanny ability and willingness to bare raw emotion, Scott weaves in and out of stories that have left deep imprints on him and are written to lift and inspire.
Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur
by William R SeagravesA guide to help make the most of your mid-career entrepreneurial pursuits...whether they were originally planned for or not.<P><P>Employee to Entrepreneur is the book to help entrepreneurially minded professionals seize the opportunity offered by the current economic environment to begin a "second act" in their careers. This complete guide explores the full range of questions and concerns voiced by mid-career entrepreneurs, including: how to get started after a lifetime of having other bosses, risks and rewards of making the entrepreneurial leap, and the drawbacks to starting a business under the constraints of traditional start-up costs. Aspiring entrepreneurs will learn to: - Recognize why the right business fit is so important.- Understand the impact that proper funding can have on the future success of a business.- Assess the financial risks and potential rewards of funding their business using a self-directed 401(k).- Avoid common mistakes by learning through the experiences of others. - Gain the needed confidence to act on making their dreams a reality.William Seagraves, a seasoned and serial entrepreneur himself, carefully deconstructs each part of the process so that the reader is able to honestly evaluate first themselves and second the unique mid-career business opportunity at hand. The book includes wide-ranging advice from a financial professional who has helped hundreds of clients navigate the tricky waters of this mid-career change. This book will be the go-to resource for the rapidly growing number of mid-career entrepreneurs.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Be Your Customer's Hero: Real-World Tips and Techniques for the Service Front Lines
by Adam ToporekOn the front lines of customer service, every day presents new and unexpected challenges--and even the most dedicated employees can be caught unprepared. They need confidence. They need training. They need help. Be Your Customer's Hero answers the call. The book provides customer-facing professionals with short, simple, actionable advice designed to transform them into heroes in the eyes of the customers they serve. Quick chapters show readers how to: * Achieve the mindset required for Hero-ClassTM service * Understand the customer's expectations--and exceed them * Develop powerful communication skills * Avoid the seven triggers guaranteed to set customers off * Handle difficult and even irrational customers with ease * Become an indispensable part of any frontline team Armed with the tools and techniques in this book, readers will start each workday knowing they can conquer whatever problem comes their way.
Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation
by Dr. Benjamin HardyThis isn&’t a book about BECOMING it&’s about BEING: noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how to imagine the person you want to be, then BE that person now. When you do this, your imagined FUTURE directs your behavior, rather than your past. Who is your Future-Self? That question may seem trite. But it&’s literally the answer to all of your life&’s questions. It&’s the answer to what you&’re going to do today. It&’s the answer to how motivated you are, and how you feel about yourself. It&’s the answer to whether you&’ll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you&’ll eat junk food, and what time you get up in the morning. Your imagined Future-Self is the driver of your current reality. It is up to you to develop the ability to imagine better and more expansive visions of your Future-Self. Your current view of your Future-Self is very limited. If you seek learning, growth, and new experiences, you&’ll be able to imagine a different and better Future-Self than you currently can. It&’s not only useful to see your Future-Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also completely accurate. Your Future-Self will not be the same person you are today. They will see the world differently. They&’ll have had experiences, challenges, and growth you currently don&’t have. They&’ll have different goals and priorities. They&’ll have different habits. They&’ll also be in a different world—a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges.