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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Most entrepreneurs start a business seeking freedom but end up in a prison of hundred hour workweeks isolated from their loved ones This book is a guide to do entrepreneurship differently letting go of the hustle and embracing a family first mindset instead We all want a comfortable life with plenty of time for family and friends This vision is what inspired Steve Chou to strike out on his own over a decade ago But what he found was a nonstop schedule of never ending work that wore him and his family down The hallmarks of modern business are making people miserable and preventing them from enjoying life s greatest gifts Business owners get stuck on the hamster wheel of hustle only to end up burned out and looking for a better way For fifteen years Steve Chou has run two successful seven figure businesses in twenty hours a week or fewer leaving plenty of time for family friends and leisure In The Family First Entrepreneur he shares profound insights and practical advice on business and life demonstrating that you can in fact pursue your dream without sacrificing what matters most Chou offers a series of simple principles that can guide every decision you make helping you establish a solid foundation upon which you can b

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for advice: a peer on another team, your manager, or even the head of engineering. But who do you turn to if you're the head of engineering? Engineering executives have a challenging learning curve, and many folks excitedly start their first executive role only to leave frustrated within the first 18 months.In this book, author Will Larson shows you ways to obtain your first executive job and quickly ramp up to meet the challenges you may not have encountered in non-executive roles: measuring engineering for both engineers and the CEO, company-scoped headcount planning, communicating successfully across a growing organization, and figuring out what people actually mean when they keep asking for a "technology strategy."

Furious customers? Missed deadlines? Failed products? The problems your business faces may stem from a single issue: lack of empathy.Being empathetic at work means seeing the situation from another's perspective, and using that vantage point to shape your leadership style, workplace culture, and branding strategy. Pairing her knowledge as a branding expert with proven research and fascinating stories from executives, change-makers and community leaders, Maria Ross reveals exactly how empathy makes brands and organizations stronger and more successful.Ross shows why your business needs to cultivate more empathy now, and shares the habits and traits of empathetic leaders who foster more productivity and loyalty. She gives practical tips, big and small, for how to align your mission and values and hire the right people, cultivating a more empathetic-and innovative-workplace culture. Finally, she gives you the goods on building your empathetic brand in an authentic and proactive way, and shows how doing so results in happier customers, innovative work cultures and increased profits.

Discover how any brand can drive a winning direct to consumer strategy irrespective of market segments with insight and lessons from the global companies who have made their DTC business a success

Oxford Read and Imagine is a fiction series written for primary and pre-primary students. Young learners follow Rosie, Ben and Grandpa on their adventures and grow up with the characters as they read and learn.Ben and Max have been learning about volcanoes - so they go to see one! But then the volcano erupts. Hot lava is coming to the village, and Rosie's new friend Nani needs help. Ben has an idea but how can they stop the river of fire?

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices.More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greaterwhether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.

The Circular Economy: Case Studies about the Transition from the Linear Economy explores examples of the circular economy in action. Unlike other books that provide narrow perceptions of wide-ranging and highly interconnected paradigms, such as supply chains, recycling, businesses models and waste management, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the circular economy from various perspectives. Its unique insights into the approaches, methods and tools that enable people to make the transformation to a circular economy show how recent research, trends and attitudes have moved beyond the "call to arms" approach to a level of maturity that requires sound scientific thinking.

Unleash the power of storytelling to transform your talks, speeches, and presentationswhether your audience is a boardroom of executives, a classroom of students, or an auditorium full of eager listeners.Everyone, regardless of their background and training, can improve their storytelling abilities. But what is a story? How can you tell it in a way that delights and informs your listeners? Take a journey into the keys to great storytelling with two of the countrys top experts on story presentation and speech writing.In The Art of the Tale, expert storytellers Steven James and Tom Morrisey team up and tap into their lifetimes of experience to show you how to prepare stellar presentations, tell stories in your own unique way, adapt your material to different groups of listeners, and gain confidence in your ability as a speaker. In this book, youll learn why:practice doesnt make perfect.you should never tell the same story twice.there is no right way to tell a story.its best to avoid memorizing your stories.Youll also find helpful hints on:gaining confidence in your ability as a storyteller.connecting with your audience.matching your expectations with those of your listeners.understanding what makes a good story.drawing truth out of stories you wish to tell.crafting and remembering stories.shaping your memories into inspiring stories.Learn how to tell stories more effectively, lead and teach more creatively, and prepare your message in less time by using this unique resource provided by two of the nations premier communicators, who tap into their experience to share a lifetimes worth of insights and expertise.

As relevant today as it was upon its 1880 publication, P. T. Barnum's guide to prosperity offers practical advice for personal success. Rather than schemes for acquiring wealth, the great showman presents 20 rules for the development of character and for cultivating habits that will insure financial security. His timeless counsel ranges from choosing the right vocation and avoiding debt to preserving integrity and maintaining courtesy.

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: I race motorcycles in Europe. I ski in the Andes. I scuba dive in Panama. I dance tango in Buenos Aires. He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the deferred-life plan and instead mastered the new currenciestime and mobilityto create luxury lifestyles in the here and now. Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you: How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements" What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if its beyond repair What automated cash-flow muses are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks How to cultivate selective ignoranceand create timewith a low-information diet What the management secrets of Remote ControlCEOs are How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 5080% off How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office You can have it allreally.

The authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach you how to take criticism productively in Thanks for the Feedback.We get feedback every day of our lives, from friends and family, colleagues, customers, and bosses, teachers, doctors, and strangers. We're assessed, coached, and criticized about our performance, personalities and appearance.We know that feedback is essential for professional development and healthy relationships - but we dread it and even dismiss it. That's because while want to learn and grow, we also want to be accepted just as we are.Thanks for the Feedback is the first book to address this tension head on. In it, the world-renowned team behind the Harvard Negotiation Project offer a simple framework and powerful tools, showing us how to take on life's blizzard of comments and advice with curiosity and grace.

El propósito de este libro es divulgar en idioma español una nueva corriente de literatura económica desarrollada principalmente por investigadores italianos y franceses, que han buscado examinar la relacion que cumplen el territorio y el conocimiento en la generacion de ventajas competitivas dinamicas. Estas, ademas, estan fuertemente asociadas con la intensidad que adquieren los procesos de aprendizaje de los agentes, tanto a nivel global como en espacios locales especificos.

Términos financieros y contables (Inglés-Español, Español-Inglés) realiza una importante contribución para que los usuarios de la información financiera y contable encuentren la respuesta ante términos especializados derivados de estos ambitos, y cuyo significado en ingles puede resultarles ajeno, o para expresar en idioma ingles terminologia de esta naturaleza escrita en español. Sin duda, una herramienta para manejarse adecuadamente en lengua inglesa que facilita el trabajo profesional, permite efectuar labores de traduccion y contribuye a enriquecer el vocabulario profesional. En el libro se pueden consultar unos tres mil terminos vinculados con las areas financiera, contable, fiscal, comercial y economica y de uso comun en las lenguas española e inglesa.Incluye terminologia actualizada que incorporan, al entorno economico-financiero-contable, las International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Normas Internacionales de Informacion Financiera (NIIF). Estas normas contables son adoptadas por el International Accounting Standards Board, Comite de Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad (IASB).