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Power Up Product Management: A Quick Start Guide
by Allison J. Taylor Chris NaunheimerPower Up Product Management: A Quick Start Guide delivers a compact guide with expert guidance, tools, and exercises that empower new product managers to excel in their first weeks in their new position. Learn what it takes to build and sell outstanding products, how to define product value to impact product success, and why real-world product managers have failed or succeeded in gaining market traction. The first in a series, this book helps anyone new to product go-to-market to quickly understand the overall product management function, including common product development methodologies, the criticality of "voice of customer," product stage definitions, and other PM essentials. The authors bring over 20 years of experience delivering software and hardware products globally for Fortune 500 companies and high-tech start-ups. Insights are delivered through real-life PM vignettes and to-the-point structured sections, making the quick start guide practical for both working PMs and new grads, or those considering a future PM or go-to-market career path. Executive leadership also benefits from the curated view into product management, which helps to develop a shared organizational-wide vision to guide improvements in people, process, and technology. The book fills a gap in the market as an essential job companion with a fresh combination of knowledge, fun, and hands-on exercises to rapidly upskill or cross-skill in one of the most in-demand job areas today.
Power Up Your Mind: Learn Faster, Work Smarter
by Bill LucasBill Lucas, a leading international expert on life-long learning, shows that while we have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than we have ever known, only a fraction of this is grasped and applied by most people. Power Up Your Mind applies this practical knowledge for the first time and shows you how to learn. Drawing on research from a wide variety of subject areas, from neuroscience to psychology, from motivation theory to accelerated learning, from memory to diet, this book shows how everyone has the capacity to succeed and how most people use only a very small portion of their talents. For learning to be effective, an understanding of how the brain works is essential and unlike most of the recent thinking on the mind, Lucas connects an understanding of the brain with the reality of the workplace and translates what we know about the brain into useful insights for work. Much work-based training is a waste of time and money because the majority of people are neither emotionally ready nor practically inclined to apply their learning to the way they behave. Power Up Your Mind offers a new model of learning-READY, GO, STEADY-which will revolutionize the way you learn and perform.
Power Up Your Mind
by Bill LucasWhile scientists have learned more about how the brain works in the last decade than ever before, still only a fraction of this knowledge is practical and can be applied widely, according to Bill Lucas. As a leading international expert on life-long learning, Lucas draws on research from every subject-from neuroscience to psychology, memory, and diet.
Power Up Your Pension with Alvin Hall: The Essentials of Retirement Planning
by Alvin HallThe most popular question Alvin Hall is asked is 'where does my money go?'. In this quick and straightforward mini-guide, Alvin helps everyone plan for a comfortable and happy old age. Identifying the need to start saving sooner, Alvin identifies the key choices you need to make in planning your retirement and provides a practical understanding of how to make the most of your personal finances. This is an easy-to-follow advice for a brighter, sounder financial future.
Power Up Your Pension with Alvin Hall: The Essentials of Retirement Planning
by Alvin HallThe most popular question Alvin Hall is asked is 'where does my money go?'. In this quick and straightforward mini-guide, Alvin helps everyone plan for a comfortable and happy old age. Identifying the need to start saving sooner, Alvin identifies the key choices you need to make in planning your retirement and provides a practical understanding of how to make the most of your personal finances. This is an easy-to-follow advice for a brighter, sounder financial future.
Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After
by Hannu Nurmi Manfred J HollerThe developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the themes discussed in the well-known 1982 publication "Power, Voting and Voting Power" (edited by Manfred J. Holler). Thirty years later this essential topic has been taken up again and many of the authors from its predecessor participate here again in discussing the state-of-the-art, demonstrating the achievements of three decades of intensive research, and pointing the way to key issues for future work.
Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy
by Nancy Wang Yuen Deshonna Collier-Goubil, Nancy Wang Yuen Deshonna Collier-Goubilhow parenting and teaching can be mutually enrichingmanaging ambition, identity, and timeaddressing misconceptions about motherhood in the academy, church, and societynavigating gender roles in marriagetaking maternity leaveflourishing as an adjunct professormentoring professor momsresisting imposter syndrome by finding rest in God
Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life
by Lisa SugarLisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at POPSUGAR creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters and she’s the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night. How did she do it? By figuring out what her dream job was, taking risks, and believing in herself. And now she wants to motivate others to do the same. She wants to show them how to live colorful, interesting lives where every second counts. She'll do so by sharing her personal and business story. Lisa knows that creating your dream job requires hard work, patience, and experience. She'll give advice, in big and small ways, about exactly how to do that, from starting a company to ditching a relationship that isn't working to becoming a fabulous boss. And with the great, accessible writing style that has made PopSugar such a hit, she'll make it fun!From the Hardcover edition.
Power Your Life With the Positive: Life Lessons and Secrets for Success from Luminaries and Everyday Heroes
by Cyrus WebbReal-life people share their inspiring, true stories of life-altering success that prove the power of positivity, even when things are at their lowest.Drawing on his relationships with industry insiders and those in front of and behind the camera in the entertainment industry, author Cyrus Webb has compiled a compendium of encouragement. Power Your Life with the Positive is filled with stories of amazing life turnarounds from real people proves the importance of optimism in an often-negative world. As one of the world’s most positive people, Cyrus Webb is perfectly suited to remind readers that it is possible to find the silver lining in every cloud through the advice and insights in this book. Power Your Life with the Positive is pure inspiration that will lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on positivity and happiness. In these times of economic uncertainty, civic strife and political turmoil, it more important than ever to offer people hope and ideas on how to believe that the best is yet to come.The notables featured in Webb’s book faced their own fears, believed enough in their goals and dreams to pursue them and reaped rewards by sticking to their guns and not allowing their own doubts and those of others to stop them, including: supermodel Tess Holliday, Grammy award-winning singer and actress Stephanie Mills, Prison Break creator Paul T. Scheuring, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, as well as recording artist Keith Sweat, The Walking Dead’s Jeryl, actress Antonique Smith, The Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider, actor Dan Bucatinsky of Scandal and 24, bestselling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Wally Lamb, American Idol’s Ruben Studdard and Taylor Hicks, artist Aubrey O’Day, and many more.
Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business from $10,000 to $10,000,000
by Susie Carder&“The book I wish I had when I was struggling to figure out how to take my business to the next level. Follow Susie&’s strategies and power up your success!&” —JJ Virgin, founder of Mindshare Collaborative and New York Times bestselling author A comprehensive, bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™. In the United States, most people who own small businesses struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder—entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell—has developed the ultimate formula for incredible success. But she didn&’t create it overnight. Susie Carder was at rock bottom financially during the Great Recession of 2008 when she was inspired to dig in and rebuild her fortune from the ground up. Today, she takes what she learned during that difficult time and shares her radical business strategies that have helped countless entrepreneurs and small business owners increase their revenues by more than 3,000%. As the creator of the Predictable Success Method™, Carder has a proven, twenty-year track record that includes building two $10 million companies herself, which she later sold. Filled with clear-eyed and practical advice, Power Your Profits teaches you how to run your daily operations, understand your finances, account for sales, and employ marketing systems that lead to predictable and substantial revenue and profit growth. And now, she&’s sharing her hard-won wisdom—worth $5,000 an hour in coaching fees—with you.
Powered by Change: How to design your business for perpetual success - THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER
by Jonathan MacDonald**THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER**Voted the EMBRACING CHANGE BOOK OF THE YEAR at the BUSINESS BOOK AWARDSWhen the winds of change blow, some build a wall and others build a windmillIn a business environment where change is the only constant, the stark reality is that it has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently or develop successful strategies. This is down to both the increasing speed of change and the prevalent mindset about change, where change is seen as the enemy.Powered by Change presents a radical new methodology for using change as a fuelling mechanism to generate outstanding business success: the Windmill Theory.Power your businessThe Windmill Theory enables leaders and organisations to think and act in a way that capitalises on a constantly changing environment. Constructed of four blades working in perpetual harmony with one another, it creates an empowered business that turns the winds of change into business success.Filled with examples and stories from around the world, from global corporates to start-up ventures, Powered by Change delivers some astonishing insights and clear, actionable steps to achieve the ultimate competitive advantage.Use this book to fuel your business for the future.
Powered by Change: How to design your business for perpetual success
by Jonathan MacDonaldIn a hectic business environment where it is estimated that half of the decisions that C EOs make turn out to be wrong, the stark reality is that it has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently, and develop strategies that are executed in a successful way. This is partly down to the speed of change and also down to the mindset about change that is common amongst large and small companies. To them, change is seen as the enemy. This book proposes a role reversal and gives people a brand new methodology as a practical guide in how to use change as a fuelling mechanism to generate outstanding business success. We all accept that change is the only constant, yet the author believes there is a significant lack of insight into how to think and act in a way that capitalizes on a constantly changing environment.Powered by Change requires leaders to adopt a more radical view about the way business is done. The Windmill is constructed using four blades: Purpose, People, Product and Process. Getting these four blades to work in harmony with one another leads to an empowered business that can use the winds of change to fuel business success. Powered by Change is filled with examples and stories from around the world, including global corporates and start-up ventures, alongside colorful insights and above all, actionable steps to take to achieve competitive advantage. Key topics include change, innovation, leadership, strategy and futureproofing."Test your thinking about how you would disrupt your own business - because somebody out there is already doing it." -Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive, IKEA
Powered by Change: How to design your business for perpetual success - THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER
by Jonathan MacDonald**THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER**There's an ancient proverb that states, "When the winds of change are blowing, some build a wall and others build a windmill". In a business environment where change is the only constant, the stark reality is that it has never been harder to see what's happening around us, interpret information efficiently or develop successful strategies. This is down to both the increasing speed of change and the prevalent mindset about change, where change is seen as the enemy. Powered by Change presents a radical new methodology for using change as a fuelling mechanism to generate outstanding business success: the Windmill Theory. Power your businessThe Windmill Theory enables leaders and organisations to think and act in a way that capitalises on a constantly changing environment. Constructed of four blades working in perpetual harmony with one another, it creates an empowered business that turns the winds of change into business success. Filled with examples and stories from around the world, from global corporates to start-up ventures, Powered by Change delivers some astonishing insights and clear, actionable steps to achieve the ultimate competitive advantage.Use this book to fuel your business for the future.(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Powered by Happy
by Beth ThomasThe only pocket-sized book packed with ways to boost not only workplace happiness, but also your-and your company's-performanceResearch has shown that employee happiness improves the bottom line, but how can a time-crunched, stressed-out employee wedge in a little joy? Instrumental for anyone working, whether in a cubicle or a corner office,Powered by Happyoffers a quick hit of optimism for the workday, which will help your career. Employee engagement expert Beth Thomas has crafted a powerful little book filled with upbeat coaching, practical advice, and proven techniques. "Powered by Happyprovides a step by step, tip by tip strategy for figuring out what gives us joy and how to create an environment in which we can find it-all day, every day, in any situation, no matter what challenges we face. "-Larry Israelite, talent management executive"Here is a practical collection of strategies and approaches that will support and enliven the lives of employees and managers. "-Elliott Masie, chair, The Learning Consortium"Look hard into the mirror, be honest with yourself, follow Beth's advice, and become more productive andhonestly happy!"-Steven M. Lyman, vice-president, American Eagle Outfitters
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
by Patty McCordNamed by The Washington Post as one of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018 When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley. McCord advocates practicing radical honesty in the workplace, saying good-bye to employees who don’t fit the company’s emerging needs, and motivating with challenging work, not promises, perks, and bonus plans. McCord argues that the old standbys of corporate HR—annual performance reviews, retention plans, employee empowerment and engagement programs—often end up being a colossal waste of time and resources. Her road-tested advice, offered with humor and irreverence, provides readers a different path for creating a culture of high performance and profitability. Powerful will change how you think about work and the way a business should be run.
Powerful B2B Content: Using Brand Journalism to Create Compelling and Authentic Storytelling
by Gay FlashmanGlobal audiences are sceptical about advertising content, banner ads and promotional messaging at the best of times. In the B2B space, building an authentic brand is even harder because buying decisions are more complicated and take much longer. Building brand trust and credibility requires time and effort. Addressing these changes, Powerful B2B Content helps readers understand the importance of building a brand narrative, and demonstrates how successful organizations can create brand journalism that has influence and impact. Using the rigour of journalistic practices and constructing content that is developed and crafted with a journalist's sensibility, B2B companies will ensure that stories are engaging and eye-catching, develop trust and attract the attention of the right audiences. Building on many years' experience in award-winning newsrooms, Gay Flashman explains what makes a great story, describes what audiences want to hear and shows the most effective way to deliver it. By demonstrating how to create focused content that is tailored to a B2B audience, Powerful B2B Content will help B2B marketers and communicators listen, observe, understand their customer's goals and deliver an experience that their customers know they can trust.
Powerful Executive Coaching
by John MattoneLeaders can make or break a company—which is why coaches are so crucial. Effective coaching can ensure that executives reach their peak potential and drive organizational results. Powerful Executive Coaching delivers a concise, but powerful look to how to coach current leaders and high potentials. It goes straight to the core components of successful coaching: assessing and enhancing the essential inner-core attributes (i.e., resilience, empathy, creativity) and outer-core skills and competencies (i.e., decision-making, critical thinking, communication) required of excellent leaders. Including carefully selected worksheets and tools, Powerful Executive Coaching explains some of the most critical skills, such as how to: handle a coaching intervention • prepare individual development plans • structure and conduct coaching effectively • interpret feedback • deal with resistance • and promote self-awareness. It’s just what you need, and only what you need, to get started on high-impact coaching that will drive leaders to success.
Powerful Exhibit Marketing
by Barry SiskindA complete guide to successful trade shows and exhibitions Trade shows, consumer shows, product launches, sporting events, and other opportunities to interact face-to-face with customers have become an important part of the marketing mix. Recent studies show that the percentage of the total marketing communications budget spent on event marketing ranged from over 9% to a staggering 29%. In 2003, North America alone hosted over 13,000 trade and consumer shows, each one with hundreds of exhibitors, and thousands of visitors. Beyond traditional trade shows, there are countless other opportunities for exhibitors to interact with their customers directly and improve the bottom line, such as mall displays, corporate events, road shows, and permanent displays. Well chosen and executed events can shorten the sales cycle significantly and put you miles ahead of the competition, but you need to have an exhibit plan that's well thought out, organized, and executed. While some large organizations have a dedicated exhibit staff, often the role of exhibit management lands on the desk of an unsuspecting, overworked, or unwilling sales or marketing person who needs to get results from their exhibit investment, but doesn't know where to start. The Power of Exhibit provides the step-by-step advice you need to exhibit successfully. This definitive guide to trade shows and other event marketing shows how to set objectives, budget for your event and measure its success in ROI, choose the right show and find the right audience, turn leads into business, design booths, work the show, gather information and intelligence, and much more.
Powerful Leadership Through Coaching: Principles, Practices, and Tools for Leaders and Managers at Every Level
by Michael K. SimpsonOn-going coaching and development that can be a “game changer” for all employees! All great coaches know how to ask good open-ended questions and how to give effective feedback. They keep a balanced and honest perspective that separates the person from the problem or issue; coaching to leverage their unique strengths and helping them improve weaknesses with a mindset focused on continuous improvement. This ongoing coaching and development can be a “game changer” for all people and teams with access to it. But what about the teams and players that aren’t empowered—or even allowed—to expand their roles? Or the team members whose careers don’t inspire or play to their natural gifts, talents, and strengths? It’s painful for any organization or manager when people on their team aren’t given the tools to succeed; and more painful still when the team member doesn’t yet realize it. But by coaching through leadership, any manager of any organization can create a supportive structure that helps assign the right roles, resources, tools, and career opportunities that will best leverage their strengths. Determines coachability and readiness for employee change and improvement Builds awareness to deal with the right issues, challenges, and opportunities Offers leaders/managers the tools to help a performer leverage their greatest gifts, talents, and strengths Allows for dialogue and tactics to close gaps in experience, communication styles, and personality Guides managers in how to have dialogue around difficult and important issues with their employees Includes coaching principles, practices, and tools with practical, real-world examples Offers strategies and tools to help employees become more motivated for effective change, action, and accountability Each chapter includes a series of powerful and provocative coaching questions for any leader or manager to use immediately in the workplace.
Powerful Performance Management
by John MattoneTo survive in today's hypercompetitive marketplace, leaders must find ways to elevate the performance of their employees. By continuously setting higher goals to strive for, strengthening employee competencies via coaching, and providing feedback to employees, leaders can create a positive performance cycle that leads to improved individual and team performance and, ultimately, stronger operating results for the organization. This action guide covers the three stages of performance management: goal-setting, coaching, and performance review. It includes step-by-step instructions and tips, the 10 elements of positive performance management, the five steps to preparing for a review, guidance on how to prepare the employees and engage them during the reviews, the most effective steps you can take to improve performance, and more.
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities
by Renèe EvensonIncompetent, lazy, spotlight-hogging, whiny, backstabbing, avoidant--there's no end to the personality challenges that impede workplace relationships. But interacting effectively with employees, colleagues, and bosses is essential for success. With Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People, anyone can confront problems head-on, before they fester and spread. Practical and easy to use, the book helps you identify button-pushing situations and deploy simple phrases to regain control and resolve conflicts--no matter who you're dealing with. Helpful features include: * Thirty common personality traits, behaviors, and workplace scenarios along with the phrases that work best with each * Nonverbal communication skills to back up your words * Sample dialogues that demonstrate how phrasing improves interactions * A five-step process for moving from conflict to resolution * "Why This Works" sections that provide detailed explanations Like it or not, the bulk of our waking hours are spent with people at work. This book's pithy, powerful communication tips will make those hours far more harmonious and productive.
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to De-stress the Workday, Build Collaboration, and Calm Difficult Customers
by Karin Hurt David DyeAn essential guide to master any workplace conflict with confidence and ease, have less drama, better results, and thrive at work.In many workplaces today, workplace conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology that can feel threatening to job security, or people reexamining priorities and quietly quitting. Take the increase in anxiety, stress, and depression, mix in the loss of human relationships, and you get less tolerance and understanding leading, ultimately, to more unresolved workplace conflict. Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict is an essential resource for all employees (and their managers) who are looking for help on how to navigate frequent workplace conflicts, including with their boss and other difficult people, so they can rebuild trust, collaboration, and ultimately enjoy more influence at work. Leadership and workplace culture experts Karin Hurt and David Dye share practical and easy-to-follow tactics such as:Over 300 actual phrases you can use to deescalate common workplace conflict situations, build trust, and make better decisions.Clear examples and explanations of how phrasing will improve interactions.Critical communication tools to ensure workplace issues are addressed before they fester and become more difficult to manage.Findings, real-world cases, and inspiring stories from the World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey of 5000+ people in more than 45 countries conducted by the authors.
Powerful Phrases for Effective Customer Service: Over 700 Ready-to-Use Phrases and Scripts That Really Get Results
by Renée EvensonDealing with customers isn't easy, they aren't always right or even pleasant. Business author Renée Evenson ensures you&’ll always have the right words to defuse tense interactions.Practical and insightful, this book ensures you&’ll never again be at a loss for what to say to customers.In Powerful Phrases for Effective Customer Service, she covers 30 challenging customer behaviors and 20 common employee-caused negative encounters to teach you:how to assess circumstances,choose one of many appropriate responses,and confidently and consistently deliver customer satisfaction.Helpful sample scenarios and tangible instructions bring the phrases to life, while detailed explanations bolster your confidence so that you&’ll have the right words as tools at your disposal and the skills to deliver those words effectively.By incorporating language that communicates welcome, courtesy, rapport, enthusiasm, assurance, regret, empathy, and appreciation, you&’ll not only be capable of overcoming obstacles--you&’ll strengthen all facets of your customer service.
Powerful Phrases for Successful Interviews: Over 400 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Will Get You the Job You Want
by Dr Phil Mcgraw Tony BesharaThe job market is awash with qualified applicants. Yet employers rarely select based solely on merit. Instead, most hiring decisions are gut-level evaluations made in the first few minutes of an interview. What people say determines who lands a job and who does not. Hiring expert Tony Beshara knows the words that trigger "yes" in the minds of employers--and in his handy new book, he arms candidates with hundreds of ready-to-use responses to even the toughest interview questions. Covering entry-level to executive positions and encompassing all industries, this quick-reference guide propels job seekers through every stage of the process. Readers learn power phrases to: * Get their foot in the door * Clearly communicate their skills, strengths, and experience--and why they would be a perfect fit * Make a great impression at the crucial opening and close * Score high on the likability factor * Dispel lingering concerns about work history * Give follow-up emails real impact * Negotiate a strong job offer * And more After all, when it's time to choose between a candidate who is perfect on paper and one who is persuasive in person, there's no contest. Powerful Phrases for Successful Interviews gives you the right words to make the difference every time.
Powerful Presentations: Selling Your Story on Stage or In The Boardroom
by Stephen HauntsUnlock your potential and understand how you can have an audience hanging on to your every word. Entrepreneurs and business professionals often have to pitch their products and projects to an audience - whether at a conference stage, meetup group, to VC firms or even at the office to their peers and leaders. Through this book, you will learn how to plan, rehearse, and deliver the perfect presentation for your needs. You'll review different presentation styles, how to craft and structure a talk and how to make it engaging for the audience. If you've ever wondered how you can be chosen to speak at a conference, this book will show you how and go in depth on how to craft a winning talk synopsis and proposal to stand out over the competition. You'll also examine many other details that go into giving a presentation such as face and hand gesturing, pre-performance rituals like visualization techniques, time management , addressing technical difficulties, preparing for question-and-answer sessions, gathering feedback, the differences between in person events and online talks/webinars and how to mold your presentation to the medium. Powerful Presentations will show you how to perfect your public speaking and presentation skills.What You'll LearnExplore the design and structure of presentations that retain an audience’s attentionPrepare for a talk, including rehearsal, but also failure contingency planning for things like projectors, Wi-Fi, demo failure, etc.Review all of the useful tools and services available to help you develop and deliver a great presentationWho This Book Is For Professionals who want to design and deliver talks in their chosen fields of expertise, whether that be a software developer or an entrepreneur.