Payam Zamani

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys

USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller At the age of 16, he escaped persecution and made his way to America as a refugee. At 28, he secured a billion-dollar IPO. Today, he’s redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur by building a new model of capitalism. In the summer of 1987, Payam Zamani fled Iran. As a member of the Baha’i Faith, he had already survived years of religious persecution at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Taking the only path available to him, he escaped to Pakistan through the Emptiness Desert: a harrowing five-day trek through one of the hottest, driest, and most hostile regions on the planet. Twelve years later, he and his brother set records when the company they founded hit a $1.2 billion valuation on Wall Street. He was rich—on paper. But in the wake of yet another Wall Street meltdown, he learned the hard way that modern capitalism can be harmful to the human soul. In 2015, Payam set the example he wanted to see by merging his business acumen with his spiritual beliefs and founding a new company—One Planet Group—this time without letting Wall Street or the venture capital world dictate the terms. Today, One Planet Group is proving that it’s not only possible but necessary to build strong businesses while taking care of our employees, customers, communities, and the planet. Crossing the Desert gives readers an intimate look at how the paths we choose, the values we embrace, and the systems we decide to participate in (or not) can make or break us, not only financially, but spiritually. Payam’s story is a timely reminder that enduring and embracing life’s most difficult journeys can lead us to a brighter future—not only for ourselves, but for the people around us, and even the world.

Crossing the Desert

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Bill Birchard

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

8 Secrets from Science That Will Fire up Your Readers' Brains

Learn the keys to energizing your writing, engaging readers, and breaking out with influence.

Writing for Impact

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Killing Sacred Cows 

Be The Bird 

Michael Bungay Stanier

Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They're just too busy, and it's too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide an answer, or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. It can also mean unlearning our ''fix it'' habits. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And, he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. -Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how---by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results. - Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question - Stay on track during any interaction with The AWE Question - Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question, and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question - Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question - Finally, ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question A fresh, innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Dynamic question-and-answer sections help identify old habits and kick-start new behaviour, making sure you get the most out of all seven chapters. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great.

The Coaching Habit

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Jill Carnahan

Sara Gottfried

Finding Resilience Through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith

In Unexpected, Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her story of facing life-altering illness, fighting for her health, and overcoming sickness using both science and faith so that others can learn to live their own transformative stories. There have probably been times in your life when you’ve felt all alone and unsure where to turn for answers. It may come with the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, the loss of a job, a death of a loved one, or an unexpected circumstance that threatened to change everything you know to be true in your life and relationships. In Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith, Dr. Jill Carnahan introduces a new paradigm for readers who are going through or want to prepare for those uncertain times. Dr. Jill’s riveting and compassionate exploration of healing through functional medicine helps replace darkness and fear with hope, resilience, profound healing, unconditional love, and unexpected miracles. Unexpected reveals practical advice that can be readily used for conditions like mold toxicity, cancer, autoimmune conditions, Lyme disease, and more. Dr. Jill’s raw and honest account of her own challenges in facing a life-threatening illness, living with autoimmunity and mold toxicity, and working in a medical system that has no tolerance for stepping outside the lines, offers a new path of empowerment for taking control of our own health and wellbeing. For the skeptic or the faithful, Unexpected is a valuable guide for living an extraordinary life of love and resilience.

Unexpected

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Karena Kilcoyne

Free Yourself from Past Trauma and Create the Life You Want

USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller "Prepare to be captivated, moved, and ultimately uplifted by a tale that reminds us that we are stronger than we think.” —Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, author and OPI co-founder “[Karena] shows us how to liberate ourselves from the grip of those experiences that all too often limit our chances to live life to the fullest. This book is . . . truly a gift of love.” —Mike Love, lead singer and lyricist of The Beach Boys "When you open Rise Above the Story, be prepared for a demanding journey. And be open to a fresh and joyful destination.” —Richard Celeste, former governor of Ohio and author of In the Heart of It All What do we do when the pain of the past is too much to bear? When trauma and shame overwhelm us? When we feel empty and worthless despite our success and daily triumphs? We rise above our story. Before Karena Kilcoyne was a successful criminal defense attorney, trauma defined her early life. Her mother tried to give her away at birth. Her father went to a federal penitentiary when she was 12, leaving the family poverty-stricken and Karena to care for her siblings and her mentally unstable mother. After her mother died, she adopted her 9-year-old brother and graduated from law school at the age of 24. She fought for the freedom of others while imprisoning herself in self-doubt, depression, and anxiety. Existing only in survival mode, she repeatedly recounted the stories she’d written about herself: that she would never be enough, that she could never be happy. In Rise Above the Story, Karena shares with raw vulnerability how she rose above her stories of abandonment, worthlessness, and shame. She’ll help you let go of your own past by embracing every beautiful, imperfect piece of yourself—no matter what your story looks like. She’ll teach you how to: Acknowledge your story. Identify the story that’s limiting your life. Release your story. Discover how your story took over your life by unearthing your repressed fear and shame. Rise above your story. Explore how your hardships can serve you and learn how to finally love yourself unconditionally. Rising above your story will empower you to live the life of your dreams. Karena’s beautifully simple, yet powerful, formula offers emotional freedom and unfettered joy when you’re ready to embrace the vibrant, worthy, and lovable person you truly are. Your past doesn’t define you—you do. It’s time to rise above your story and live the authentic life you deserve.

Rise above the Story

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Caroline Webb

Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.
 
Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes for us to be at our best. But it has not always been easy to see how to apply these insights in the real world--until now.
 
In How to Have a Good Day, Webb explains exactly how to apply this science to our daily tasks and routines. She translates three big scientific ideas into step-by-step guidance that shows us how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Through it all, Webb teaches us how to navigate the typical challenges of modern workplaces--from conflict with colleagues to dull meetings and overflowing inboxes--with skill and ease.
 
Filled with stories of people who have used Webb's insights to boost their job satisfaction and performance at work, How to Have a Good Day is the book so many people wanted when they finished Nudge, Blink and Thinking Fast and Slow and were looking for practical ways to apply this fascinating science to their own lives and careers.
 
A remarkable and much-needed book, How to Have a Good Day gives us the tools we need to have a lifetime of good days.

How to Have a Good Day

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Margaret Graziano

Empowering and Leading a Healthy, High-Performance Organization from the Inside Out

"Margaret is an expert in the field of culture change and development. Her work has helped thousands of people across companies heal trust, mend broken relationships, and create space for people to start working together more effectively. Her real stories and experiences combine with research to create an authentic and powerful resource. This is the book every leader needs to read!" -Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There Sometimes corporate leaders forget that businesses are human systems. Revenue, innovation, and growth are all generated by human beings. Employees left Corporate America in droves during The Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022-an important wakeup call. But even when companies try to "fix" or improve their culture, a whopping 85% of these efforts fail. Why is this statistic so dismal? Because you can't put a bandage on a broken culture. As human systems, companies must heal or align from the inside out-one human at a time and starting at the top. The CEO and leadership team must do foundational work to understand what's driving and shaping behaviors. Only when a culture is intentionally designed can it inspire people to fully engage in strategies and tactics that move the human system forward. What author Margaret Graziano proposes in Ignite Culture is a fundamental shift in leadership's approach to creating an intentional, healthy, high-performance organization. Offering a unique combination of experiential coaching, evidence-based leadership tools, and actionable strategies, Ignite Culture empowers business leaders with the wisdom and insights they need to reshape their company's culture, increase employee engagement, and grow revenue in a supportive, high-performance environment.

Ignite Culture

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Strong Product People 

Radu Palamariu

Knut Alicke

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Stories of Leadership in Supply Chain

Whether you're just setting out in supply chain or are already a seasoned expert in the field, From Source to Sold will equip you with the global perspective and leadership mindset you need to take your career to new heights.

From Source to Sold

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Alok Trivedi

Unlocking Your Brain for Financial Success

Wired for Wealth

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Michelle Seiler Tucker

Sharon Lechter

The 6 P Method to Sell Your Business for Huge Profit

Too many entrepreneurs push off planning for the sale of their business until the last moment. But for a business to sell for what it's really worth--or even more--owners need to prepare for the sale from the very start. In Exit Rich, author and mergers and acquisitions authority Michelle Seiler Tucker joins forces with Sharon Lechter, finance expert and author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, to create a must-have guide for all business owners--whether they're gearing up to sell a business now or just getting started building out their company into something to sell for a profit in the future. Seiler Tucker's twofold approach to selling your business for maximum profit combines two of the most powerful elements of her mergers and acquisitions toolkit: the "ST GPS Exit Model" to help business owners set goals for the sale before their business hit the market, and the "6 P Method" to help them objectively evaluate their business's worth, before their potential buyers do. Combined, these tools provide invaluable insight into the process of preparing a business for sale, finding the right buyers, and staging the sale itself. Throughout the book, Sharon Lechter's wisdom peppers each chapter in the "Mentoring Corner" section, providing forward-thinking entrepreneurs with the perspective that they need to take control of their business's future and exit rich. This book is a rich resource for any business owner looking to: * Objectively evaluate their business before a sale * Improve their chances of finding the right buyer * Sell their business for maximum profit

Exit Rich

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Allan. Dib

More Leads. More Profit. Less Marketing

Bigger Results with Less Marketing You keep being told to do more marketing—more complex, more aggressive, and more expensive marketing. Chasing the latest bright, shiny object is exhausting. Increased efforts keep leading to disappointment. The overwhelm for entrepreneurs, marketers, and business leaders is real. There’s a better way. The lean movement has transformed manufacturing and is now revolutionizing marketing. Small, medium, and large businesses are getting bigger and better results with less marketing. In this book, you’ll discover: ● Why many existing marketing techniques have stopped working and what to do instead. ● The exact tools and tactics you need to build a devastatingly effective marketing system. ● How to win with a simple, structured, and systemized approach rather than failing with random acts of marketing. ● How to pivot from bloated, ineffective, and wasteful marketing activities to ones that compel prospects to take action. ● How to create a strong product-market fit so that your target market intensely desires what you have to offer. ● How to do marketing you’ll be proud of that works without hype, scams, or pressure. ● How to build a strong brand that creates goodwill and attracts ideal customers. Lean Marketing is a follow-up to the international bestselling phenomenon, The 1-Page Marketing Plan. Stop trying to outshout the other guy. Stop blunt-force conventional marketing tactics that annoy, interrupt, and repel. Stop wasting time with theoretical claptrap that doesn’t work in the real world. Get immediate traction by implementing lean marketing.

Lean Marketing

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Stephanie Harrison

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong

Well-being expert and social media sensation Stephanie Harrison of @newhappyco reveals the counterintuitive secrets to happiness and provides a practical guide to help us all learn how to live a happy life. We all want to be happy, but happiness always seems to be out of reach — until now. In New Happy, happiness expert Stephanie Harrison draws upon hundreds of studies to offer a life-changing guide to finding the happiness you have been looking for, all based on a decade of research and brought to life with beautiful artwork. It’s not your fault if you are unhappy. You have been told three lies: you’re not good enough; you need to achieve fame, wealth, and power; and you need to do it all on your own. This is Old Happy, our society’s false definition of happiness, and it’s making us miserable. In this book, you’ll learn the truth: you are enough, you have unique and important gifts, and using them to help other people leads to your happiness. New Happy is your step-by-step guide to building the life you want. Accompanied by revelatory artwork that explains key concepts, Harrison takes you through the process of unwinding Old Happy, uncovering your own gifts, and using them to both improve your life and the world at the same time. If you have ever asked yourself, “Who am I really?” “When will I be happy?” or “What am I supposed to do with my life?” this book is for you. Through an inspiring blend of art and science, New Happy will forever change the way that you see yourself and the world. Whether you’re wondering what career you should choose, navigating a life transition, going through a difficult time, teaching your kids what matters most, or simply hoping to experience more joy every day, New Happy offers the proven path to a happier life and a better world.

New Happy

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Read once and this is the book of the month version 

BOTM version 

House of Glass 

RJon Robins

Transform Your Law Firm from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

This Book Will Make Your Law Firm More Profitable By following the simple advice in this book, one day not long from now, you will wake up to find you are taking more profits from your law firm: -Without spending more money on marketing. -Without hiring more staff. -Without increasing overhead. Notice the absence of "hedge" words. Following just about any of the advice in this book will make your law firm more profitable. Plus, you will enjoy more professional satisfaction and feel more confident about your future as your personal bank account begins to swell. This is a must read for any law partner or law practice manager that wants to run a firm like a business instead of a bunch of lawyers sharing overhead. RJon gets you focused on best practices instead of industry myths with a simple playbook for success. Greg Crabtree, CPA, Author of Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! Profit First for Lawyers is all about understanding the same simple principle that you are also taught on every airplane flight you will ever take. If you are really going to take care of your clients, of your employees, you have to take care of business ... first! Christopher T. Anderson, Esq., Founder of Sunnyside Legal Services, and the New Leaf family of Law Firms

Profit First for Lawyers

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Marta Hobbs

A Woman's Search for Freedom and the Journey of Coming Home

For far too long women have been told to get in line, follow the rules, be good girls, lower our voices and play small. So we twist ourselves into pretzels abandoning our true selves for the acceptance of others. No more. We are here to rise up, speak our truth and share our hearts. This is my story... It is a journey towards what's underneath the facade I presented to the world for so long - the unspoken pain so many of us carry and run from for most of our lives. It's about the trauma in my body and what it looks like to finally face it and heal it. My very own unraveling, which happened after I chased all the things the world told me would make me happy. The emptiness and disappointment of "having made it" shattered my heart. And the crisis, the burn out, the exhaustion, the shock of it all led me to a sacred doorway - the path within - breaking open, breaking through and eventually breaking free. In my search for answers, I found myself. If you are longing for a life filled with meaning, purpose, peace, intimacy, trust and love it all starts with reconnecting to your soul. This is coming home. May this book guide you along your way there.

Unraveling

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Andy Paul

A Guide to Success on Your Own Terms

Forget everything you learned about selling. Persuasion is not a sales skill—it’s a blunt instrument of last resort that sellers use when they don’t know how to influence the choices their buyers make. It’s the weapon of choice for mindless, uninspired sellers: the sales zombies who have stopped learning and stopped improving. Wouldn’t you rather learn how to master the art of selling in, by listening to what your buyers really want? In Sell without Selling Out, global sales guru, top podcaster, and entrepreneur Andy Paul shows you how to take charge of your own career without selling out to outdated, ineffective sales methods. He reveals the four Sell In pillars that are the indispensable instruments of selling: Connection, Curiosity, Understanding, Generosity. Everything else is mostly a combination of product features, technical specifications and pricing, which your buyers can get from the Internet. What they seek (and deserve) can only come from you: the human seller. If you’ve been told you need to be more “salesy” to get ahead in your career, you need this book. #DeathToSalesy

Sell Without Selling Out

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Mark J. Silverman

Turning High Achievers into Effective Leaders

Advance Praise for The Rising Leader Handbook: "This is the most thorough, transformative and compelling book on leadership I have ever read." - Steve Chandler, author of Time Warrior "The innovative leadership skills in The Rising Leader Handbook will transform and uplevel your own success and self-worth, while generating ripple effects that boost morale and productivity across your organization." - Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President and CEO, TIME100 Nominee

The Rising Leader Handbook

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John Lowry

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Practical Guide for Making Strategic Decisions, Finding Solutions, and Delivering the Best Deal

This book offers a useful and comprehensive approach to negotiation that can springboard a career or a company, one deal at a time.

Negotiation Made Simple

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Val Ries

How to Lead the Team Everyone Wants to Be On

Your playbook for building a team that everyone wants to be on. We all want to lead a team with an inspiring culture - the team that every employee would love to join. When you lead this team, you attract the best talent, get top-producing results and grow individual contributors into future leaders. In Chief Inspiration Officer, Val Ries shows you how to maximize your team's potential so you can boost loyalty, engagement and results. In this leadership playbook, Ries uses dozens of real-life examples to teach critical techniques. Whether you're new to leadership or a veteran looking for fresh insights, this book will help you: Inspire yourself and your people to be the best version of themselves Understand what drives your team to be productive, engaged & loyal. Drive your team towards your goals and vision Know exactly who to hire and when to fire Redirect any difficult conversation with confidence and ease As a Chief Inspiration Officer, you'll be leading a team that is excited to come to work every day. Your journey starts today.

Chief Inspiration Officer

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Heidi Easley

Lessons from a Millionaire Entrepreneur

Your Dreams Don't Die... They Haunt You

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Jesse Mecham

The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-To-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Experience a life free of financial stress and transform your relationship to money with this indispensable guide—the first book based on You Need A Budget’s proven method that has helped hundreds of thousands of people break the paycheck to paycheck cycle, get out of debt, and live the life they want to live. No one should tell you what to do with your money—only you know what’s most important to you. Always guiding you back to your true priorities, Jesse Mecham will fundamentally change the way you think about your money and what it can do for you. His proven method—four, simple rules—will transform money management from a paralyzing burden to a powerful tool, putting you in total control of your life: Give Every Dollar A Job. Be intentional about what you want your money to do before you spend it. Embrace Your True Expenses. Break up larger, less frequent expenses into smaller, more manageable amounts. By saving monthly for insurance premiums, holidays, or car repairs, when the time comes, your money is ready and waiting to do its job. Roll With The Punches. When life changes, so must your budget. Make adjustments and move along. Flexible budgets succeed because they’re guilt-free, realistic, and sustainable. Age Your Money. As you repeat the first three rules, you’ll increase the time between the moment you earn a dollar and the moment you need to spend it. When your money is at least a month old, you’ll have finally broken the paycheck to paycheck cycle for good. This tried-and-true system has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people by teaching them how to take charge, adjust money habits, eliminate stress, and build the life they want to live. Don’t waste another month counting down the minutes until payday....

You Need a Budget

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