W. Chan Kim

Renée A. Mauborgne

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

Argues against common competitive practices while outlining recommendations based on the creation of untapped market spaces with growth potential.

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition

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Anthony Kennada

Brian Halligan

How to Build a Brand That Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love

Lessons from HubSpot, Salesforce, Gainsight and Other Iconic Brands "The Uber of this" "The Salesforce of that" "It's like Instagram, but for..." There is no such thing as an original idea anymore – right? Actually, it turns out that the world’s most innovative companies have created so much more than just brand new products and technology. They've created entirely new market categories. The challenge is that successfully building new categories requires a perfect storm of luck and timing. Or does it? Category Creation is the first and only book on the topic written by executives and marketers actively building new categories. It explains how category creation has become the Holy Grail of marketing, and more importantly, how it can be planned and orchestrated. It's not about luck. You can use the same tactics that other category-defining companies have used to delight customers, employees, and investors. There’s no better strategy that results in faster growth and higher valuations for the company on top. Author Anthony Kennada, former Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight, explains how he led Gainsight in creating the “customer success” category, and shares success stories from fellow category-creators like Salesforce, HubSpot and others. It requires much more than just having the best product. You have to start and grow a conversation that doesn’t yet exist, positioning a newly discovered problem in addition to your company and product offerings. The book explains the 7 key principles of category creation, including the importance of creating a community of early adopters who will rally around the problem they all share—especially if someone will lead them. · Identify the “go” and “no go” signals for category creation in your business · Activate customers and influencers as brand ambassadors · Grow a community by investing in live events and experiences · Prove the impact of category creation investments on growth, customer success, and company culture Written for entrepreneurs, marketers, and executives from startups to large enterprises, Category Creation is the exclusive playbook for building a category defining brand in the modern economy.

Category Creation

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Mark Divine

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level

Strengthen your thinking, mental-state, and self-development with tools and techniques not easily found anywhere else. Achieve your maximum potential in any career, business or just in life through Mark's integrated plan of warrior development.

This Book Will Help You Develop...

 * Mental clarity: to make better decisions while under pressure.
 * Concentration: to focus on the mission until victory.
 * Awareness: to be more sensitive to your internal and external radar.
 * Leadership authenticity: to be a heart-centered leader and service-oriented teammate.
 * Intuition: to learn to trust your gut and use your mental imagery to your advantage.
 * Offensive "sheepdog" mindset: to avoid danger and stay one step ahead of the competition or enemy.
 * Warrior spirit: to deepen your willpower, intention, and connection with your spiritual self.

A Sneak Peek into Unbeatable Mind

You are capable of twenty times more than what you believe. Are you living in your 20X factor?  Or have you settled for a lesser productivity taught by society, your upbringing, or the things you believe about yourself?  I want to wake up the authentic, connected warrior within you.

But waking up to a bigger reality is only the first step.  The next step is learning to win in your mind before you ever enter the battlefield of life.  Unbeatable Mind will teach you to starve your fear, overcome negativity and connect with a deeper and heightened sensitivity to what's going on around you.  You'll clear emotional blocks, step into the shoes of self-mastery, and become the leader of others you know you were made to be.

This isn't just about you.  Unbeatable Mind has helped coaches, professors, therapists, doctors and business professionals worldwide are making breakthroughs in their own lives and the lives of others.  None of us get where we're going alone.  I've learned these skills from incredible mentors on my 30+ year journey through martial arts, NAVY SEALs, athletics and business. They've worked in my life.  I want you to apply them to yours, and then radically reshape our world.

Decide now whether you're going to read it and forget it, or practice and commit to living an uncommon life. I can't do it for you.  But I believe you've got what it takes.  Let me help you forge your Unbeatable Mind.

Unbeatable Mind

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Claire Wasserman

The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career

From career coach and founder of the startup Ladies Get Paid—the eponymous organization leading the fight for equality in the workplace—comes an empowering guide to provide you with the tools to strategically navigate the workplace, achieve success, and become a true leader. Claire Wasserman has one goal for women: Rise up and get paid. As the founder of Ladies Get Paid, Claire has worked her entire adult life to promote gender equality in the workplace. If you’re looking to navigate a promotion or break the glass ceiling, Ladies Get Paid is your essential toolkit for achieving success. Filled with straightforward advice and inspiring stories, Ladies Get Paid encourages self-advocacy and activism as a way to advance your career and make more money. Covering topics as crucial and varied as how to find the perfect mentor, how to negotiate a raise, and how to become a leader, Ladies Get Paid is a reminder that you are valuable—both as an individual woman and as part of the female community. And ultimately, it’s about more than your wallet—it’s about your worth.

Ladies Get Paid

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Noam Wasserman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

The Founder's Dilemmas examines how early decisions by entrepreneurs can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, including quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders as well as inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them.

The Founder's Dilemmas

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Jeneva Rose

A Completely Gripping Psychological Suspense

The Perfect Marriage

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Nir Eyal

How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." --James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

"If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice." --Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind

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GOODREADS BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY OF 2019 FINALIST


You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold.

What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become "indistractable?"

International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book.

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.

Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals:

   * Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture--and how to fix it
   * What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management"
   * Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable
   * How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world

Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention--helping you live the life you really want.

Indistractable

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Laura Briggs

The Complete Guide to Starting and Scaling from Scratch

Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business provides actionable, step-by-step advice on how to build and sustain a freelance writing business. The book explores practical applications for identifying the appropriate business model, the mindset required to achieve consistent high-grossing months with ideal clients, the right marketing tools, setting rates, and negotiating retainers and upsells with high-value clients.

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Joanna Kimbrel

Stefanie Boyles

Growing in Grace - Knowing and Loving God Through Spiritual Disciplines

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The Daily Grace Co.

Even If a Study of Habakkuk

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Come and See: a Study on the Gospel of John

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Heidi Stark

Zeke, Skyler, Dom and Rake-they grew up on this island and are in charge of protecting its various interests. They're used to being in control of everything here. Including the surf. I've been kidnapped by a dangerous man, and am being used as collateral while my father comes up with the funds to pay off his debt (sadly not the worst thing he's ever done although it's up there), and if he doesn't come up with the cash soon I'll be auctioned off to the highest bidder. In the meantime, these four gorgeous men are tasked with keeping me in their control and protecting me, and they take their role very seriously. But they're not the only people to be concerned about. I'm tough in my own way. I can tell that they want all of me, to take me over like they do everything else. But five can play this game, and I'm not good at losing. **Sea of Snakes is a full-length dark new adult romance containing themes of violence, love-hate and enemies-to-lovers.

Sea of Snakes

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Josephine Angelini

Overmedicated and shipped off to live with her grandparents, Magda just wants to forget what happened at her old school. Wandering the woods, she discovers a wild boy who sees the real her. But there's also a nightmare lurking--and it's coming for her... Perfect for fans of books featuring unreliable narrators and mental health books for teens!

This is Magda's last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw life into a tailspin, she's shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer.

Medicated and uninspired, Magda spends her days in a fog wandering the forest behind the house. But then she stumbles upon Bo. He's wild and free, and he can see the real her. Magda starts believing she might be able to move on from her past and feel something again.

But there's more to this sleepy town than she thought. And what Magda finds in the woods near Bo's forest home is the beginning of a whole new nightmare...

What She Found in the Woods

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Sandra Ingerman

Mending the Fragmented Self

With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. This revised and updated edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Soul Retrieval

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Navid Nazemian

The Definitive Guide

Would it surprise you to learn that 40% of executive transitions fail during the first 18 months? With more executives facing exponential challenges, a crisis is imminent and the consequences for organizations and executives alike are severe and far-reaching. Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide, by Navid Nazemian, explores the intersection between executive leaders and their career transitions, the research of transitions versus the reality of it, and the increased complexity and demands from executives coupled with shorter tenure and executive overwhelm. This book demonstrates how the biggest transition mistakes can be avoided and provides a proven framework to transition most successfully. It is an invaluable resource for: Executives who are about to transition professionally Human Resources leaders and talent directors who are keen to support their leaders with their transition, and enhance their existing executive transition (onboarding) process Executive coaches who have specialized in leadership transitions Through authentically demonstrated experience and key insights into the challenges that the modern executive faces, Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide aims to bend executive transitions away from failure and towards the masterful and successfully crafted. ﻿

Mastering Executive Transitions

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Todd Unger

The CXO's Playbook for Growing and Retaining Customers in a Digital World

By combining the power of customer experience and marketing, The 10-Second Customer Journey offers a roadmap to getting quickly from 'I see it' to 'I love it' in today's digital environment.

The 10-Second Customer Journey

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Dean Guida

Ready to take your business to the next level? This book is for you. As an entrepreneur growing your business, how will you respond when things don't go as planned? How do you keep up with constant technology shifts? How do you successfully scale your teams and strategy as you scale your product? When Grit Is Not Enough is a tactical playbook that has answers to these questions and more. Its lessons show you how to create a strong culture of organizational learning and agility and build high-performing and engaged teams who will thrive in our ever-changing world. This road map will empower you to compete-and win-against heavily funded and resourced competitors. Author and tech CEO Dean Guida, who took his company from a startup to a thriving multinational business, knows well that entrepreneurial grit can only get you so far. Packed with his knowledge from more than three decades of operating in an unforgiving marketplace, When Grit Is Not Enough covers a wide range of topics, including: - Creating organizational alignment - Setting meaningful measurements and goals - Building a data-driven culture - Running effective meetings - Strategic planning - Leadership and coaching - Having tough conversations - Hiring and retaining valuable team members If you're an entrepreneur whose hard work and grit have gotten your business off the ground and ready for the next stage, this book will get you there, enhancing your chances of success, happiness, and accomplishment with your company and journey in life.

When Grit Is Not Enough

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Kevin Kruse

Too many people think working hard leads to greater productivity. However, managing one's time better is what gives us the energy to succeed in both our personal and work lives. This book provides advice from successful people on managing your time more effectively.

15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management

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Susie deVille

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free

The strongest lifeline is the one that leads you back to the gut of who you truly are. You’re burned out, lost, and rudderless. Susie deVille was where you may be now: drowning in debt, in the grip of unhealthy habits, with a marriage and business that had come crashing against the rocks. Today she is thriving. Not only did she dig out from debt, she paid for her children’s educations in cash, funded her retirement, and embraced a healthy and joyful lifestyle. Most of all, by reconnecting with her creativity, she reclaimed her confident, true self and discovered how to draw her ideal clients right to her. And in Buoyant, she teaches how you, too, can tap into your innate creativity to find your way back to feeling more alive as you effortlessly connect with and captivate your market. In this transformational guide, deVille shares life-changing insights and exercises, along with her personal journey and those of clients, to take you on a Creative Rebel’s VoyageTM. As you travel this path, you’ll discover how to transmute feelings of overwhelm and fear into decisive action and confidence. The prevalent advice to entrepreneurs is broken: go all-in, maximize productivity at all costs, and live to work. There is a much easier path to success, joy, and flow. It’s time to wake up, stir your soul, and reach your intuitive longings. Will you accept the grand adventure of living your inspired, true nature?

Buoyant

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Michael Blank

The Blueprint to Quitting Your Job with Real Estate - Even Without Experience or Cash

"Michael has written a must-read book for anyone who wants to quit their job with real estate investing. Read this book, and learn from one of the best..." -Ken McElroy, Principal of the MC Companies, Best-Selling Author of "The ABCs of Real Estate Investing", International Speaker and Real Estate Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki.


DISCOVER THE (SURPRISING) SECRET TO LIFELONG FINANCIAL FREEDOM WITH REAL ESTATE INVESTING

Real estate has always been a powerful tool for investing, and many people believe that a single-family home investment strategy will help them achieve their goals. However, the true path to financial freedom using real estate is found in apartment buildings.


Real estate investing expert and author Michael Blank learned that once investors did their first deal, the curious "Law of the First Deal" led to the second and third deals in rapid succession. Most were able to quit their jobs within 3-5 years of getting started.


Of course, when most people hear "apartment buildings" they immediately assume they need years of investing experience and money saved up to be able get into the game. This simply isn't true.


Michael has compiled the results of his research into his new book, Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing: The Blueprint to Quitting Your Job with Real Estate - Even without Experience or Cash. He's outlined the "Financial Freedom Blueprint" that guides you through your first multifamily deal, even if you have no prior experience or your own cash.


In this book, you'll learn the secrets of being a successful apartment building investor, including:


 * How to raise all the money you need to do your first deal.

 * How to get your offers accepted even if you're new to the game and don't have proof of funds.

 * How to analyze deals and make offers in as little as ten minutes.

 * The #1 way to find the best deals.

Apartment building investing is the only true way to achieve financial freedom with real estate. And the best part? You can get started today, even if you don't have prior experience or your own cash. You just need to follow the Financial Freedom Blueprint.


Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing is your guide to the world of apartment building investing. By the end, you'll have all the information you need to do your first apartment building investment within the next 3-12 months - placing you just a few deals away from permanent financial freedom.


Take that first step today! Scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button.

Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing

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Alison Gaylin

A Novel

The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the driving narrative of Then She Was Gone with the breathtaking twists of The Chain and the violent fury of Kill Bill. "Alison Gaylin's The Collective is an astonishing feat. In the tradition of Ira Levin's unforgettable social thrillers (Rosemary's Baby, Stepford Wives), it's a nerve-shredding, emotionally harrowing ride that also speaks volumes about our current moment, the dangers of our digital world, the potency of female rage. Don't miss it." --Megan Abbott Just how far will a grieving mother go to right a tragic wrong? Camille Gardner is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions attract the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability and perpetrators emerge unscathed. Fueled by mutual rage, these women orchestrate their own brand of justice through precise, anonymous, complexly plotted and perfectly executed revenge killings, with individual members completing a specific and integral task in each plan. As Camille struggles to comprehend whether this is a role-playing exercise or terrifying reality, she must decide if these women are truly avenging angels or monsters. Becoming more deeply enmeshed in the group, Camille learns truths about the collective--and about herself--that she may not be able to survive.

The Collective

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Payam Zamani

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

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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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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W. Chan Kim; Renée A. Mauborgne

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition

Anthony Kennada; Brian Halligan

Category Creation

Mark Divine

Unbeatable Mind

Claire Wasserman

Ladies Get Paid

Noam Wasserman

The Founder's Dilemmas

Jeneva Rose

The Perfect Marriage

Nir Eyal

Indistractable

Laura Briggs

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Joanna Kimbrel; Stefanie Boyles

Growing in Grace - Knowing and Loving God Through Spiritual Disciplines

The Daily Grace Co.

Even If a Study of Habakkuk

The Daily Grace Co.

Come and See: a Study on the Gospel of John

Heidi Stark

Sea of Snakes

Josephine Angelini

What She Found in the Woods

Sandra Ingerman

Soul Retrieval

Navid Nazemian

Mastering Executive Transitions

Todd Unger

The 10-Second Customer Journey

Dean Guida

When Grit Is Not Enough

Kevin Kruse

15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management

Susie deVille

Buoyant

Michael Blank

Financial Freedom with Real Estate Investing

Alison Gaylin

The Collective

Payam Zamani

Crossing the Desert

Bill Birchard

Writing for Impact

Michael Bungay Stanier

The Coaching Habit

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