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Too many restaurant owners and operators are stressed out, exhausted, overwhelmed and struggle to create the profits and freedom that drove them to open their restaurant. Make It Happen explodes the myth that the restaurant business is harder than other industries. It challenges the belief that you must be in your restaurant 24/7 just so things get done right. It defines, what's really needed to run a successful, profitable restaurant and teaches...
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Competent Strategic Thinking is Rare and Valuable.
How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their business acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to "be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, clever, and powerful. It provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action. Through these examples, you'll gain useful lessons that...
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Within every human being, there is, a powerful force, that lies dormant, until it is, brought out by something or someone. I call this force the leadership gene.
Every human being has a primal instinct to survive and flourish, from the moment they are, born until the moment they choose to do something or not with that instinct.
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In this 52-week devotional, Bruce Gordon challenges the idea that youth is the best part of life. He asserts that we make too little of age: You were made for more than the golf course or the rocking chair! These practical devotions, steeped in Scripture, will help all adults transition to a time of life that can be rich with purpose, significance, and hope as you serve God. You'll be encouraged and empowered to build a life that matters for now and...
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The new and updated edition of the classic work on Disruptive HR.
The way we work is changing fast, and traditional HR is no longer fit for purpose.
Equipping our organizations to meet today's demands requires something very different. This book provides HR professionals with:
• a compelling case for changing HR
• practical people solutions for a disrupted world
• strategies to make the changes they need
• ways to equip HR with the right capabilities...
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In a world where true power often seems elusive, The New 18 Irrefutable Laws Of Power: Follow Them And People Will Respect You offers a transformative guide that transcends the traditional notions of authority.This book unveils a dynamic set of principles that redefine what it means to wield influence and command respect. Through a captivating exploration of 18 distinct laws, readers are invited to embark on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth,...
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The must-read summary of Shep Hyken's book: "The Amazement Revolution: Seven Customer Service Strategies to Create an Amazing Customer (and Employee) Experience".
This complete summary of the ideas from Shep Hyken's book "The Amazement Revolution" shows that customer service isn't a department within a company — it's everything the company does. If you can amaze your customers, they will become addicted to doing business with you or, more specifically,...
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Fortress Press's Foundations for Learning series prepares students for academic success through compelling resources that kick-start their educational journey into professional Christian ministry.
In this introductory volume for the series, Black asserts that while the primary subjects of seminary and professional church work training may dominate the interests of students, students must engage in the principal pursuit of understanding, then applying,...
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In the years surrounding WWI, the basic models of many technologies we use today were invented and introduced en masse. The western world moved from an agrarian rural society to an industrialized urban one. The changes were fundamental, monumental, and revolutionary. Some organizations anticipated these changes and were able to adapt, but other organizations ignored them at their peril. The iconic British television series Downton Abbey provides a...
3450) The Leader Architect: The Right People in the Right Place Doing the Right Stuff at the Right Time
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Business books fall into two categories: theory and impractical protocols. Both provide either ideas without applications or applications without proven theoretical frames. They are like concept cars that no one expects to drive to work.
The Leader Architect provides the bridge to proven solutions based on sound theory. These solutions are being used successfully by expert leaders at some of the best companies in the world, without the elaborate...
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Being able to connect deeply with other people will help you succeed and flourish at work and enhance your career or business development.
And more than this, meaningful connection with other people is what gives most of us true joy and a sense of purpose in our personal lives.
But connecting and communicating isn't always easy. Perhaps we're fearful of being judged or rejected, or we lack the confidence to speak out in a group, or to approach what...
3452) Winners
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How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve the ambitions? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mindset something we can all develop?
In the tradition of The Talent Code and The Power of Habit, Campbell draws on the wisdom of an astonishing array of talented people-from elite athletes to media mavens, from rulers of countries to rulers of global business empires.
Alastair Campbell has conducted in-depth interviews...
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The must-read summary of Peter Senge's book: "The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization".
This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Senge's book "The Fifth Discipline" shows how important it is to learn faster than the competition. In his book, the author explains how you can get rid of obstacles that stop your company from learning and create a learning organisation. By mastering the principles detailed by Serge,...
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"Unlock the transformative potential of your IT Organization with 'Achieving Excellence: Optimizing Information Technology Operational KPIs for Success.' This comprehensive eBook is your essential guide to harnessing the power of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive unparalleled efficiency, innovation, and success in your technology operations.In today's fast-paced digital landscape, IT departments play a pivotal role in an organization's overall...
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There is no question that the American education system is in crisis. There is a significant risk that the mainstream school system will cheat children out of some, if not all, of the education they deserve because a pervasive, hidden curriculum utterly fails to support the well-being of students and educators. Students are expected to act like data-processing machines, but real human beings do not act like machines. In his groundbreaking book "Schooling...
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Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in the church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament.
Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the...
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Speaking out of twenty-seven years of pastoral ministry, Ian Stackhouse writes a series of letters to a young pastor just starting out. Responding to the various challenges his young charge faces in the first few years of congregational leadership, Letters to a Young Pastor is something of a spiritual reflection on leadership in the context of Christian ministry. To say that the letters are addressed to a fictitious pastor is not to say that the issues...
3458) Déclic insolite
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Déclic insolite offre une série de réflexions approfondies visant à soutenir la pérennité spirituelle, morale et sociale de l'Église instaurée par Jésus-Christ sur les fondements solides de la parole de Dieu, représentée par Pierre. Cet ouvrage dévoile également les observations de l'auteur concernant la dégradation de l'Église évangélique de « réveil » ou « réveillée ». Il nous invite à méditer sur l'essence et le rle de...
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WHAT MAKES A LEADER?
"Leadership is an elusive concept. Nearly everyone is certain that he or she would like the mantle of leadership-whether at home, at work, in competitive events, or all three-but we rarely think through the implications. One of the first questions that requires asking is: Who do you seek to lead and why?"
With the opening words of his introduction, popular voice of alternative spiri¬tuality Mitch Horowitz begins his journey...
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To be successful in the new age of uncertainty, organizations must make the right decisions. The margins of error are narrowing, and the wisdom of those decisions will determine their future.
The Wise Enterprise brings together a set of capabilities essential for professionals who want to contribute to the wisdom of their organisations. In this timely book you'll learn about:
• Systems thinking and emotional intelligence
• The real meaning of...
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