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The Rules to Break by Richard Templar
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A personal code for living your life your way.
From a very young age you’ve been inundated with other people’s well-intended rules. Whether from teachers, friends or parents, these helpful principles and bits of gracious advice are supposed to help you get on in life. The trouble is, many of these rules aren’t true (at least not all the time) and yet they have a major influence on your life whether you realise it or not.
How do you sort the gold dust from the sawdust?
In The Rules to Break, international bestselling author Richard Templar exposes the most common phoney rules, explains what’s wrong with them and then offers a refreshing alternative and a new way of thinking. Above all, he’ll help you master the ability to truly think for yourself, so than you can follow a path that you’ve chosen, rather than blindly following someone else’s.
It’s your life. Why not live it your way?
The Reading Life The Joy of Seeing Ne...
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The revered teacher and bestselling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings.
More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis continues to speak to readers, thanks not only to his intellectual insights on Christianity but also his wondrous creative works and deep reflections on the literature that influenced his life. Beloved for his instructive novels including The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, and The Chronicles of Narnia as well as his philosophical books that explored theology and Christian life, Lewis was a life-long writer and book lover.
Cultivated from his many essays, articles, and letters, as well as his classic works, The Reading Life provides guidance and reflections on the love and enjoyment of books. Engaging and enlightening, this well-rounded collection includes Lewis’ reflections on science fiction, why children’s literature is for readers of all ages, and why we should read two old books for every new one.
A window into the thoughts of one of the greatest public intellectuals of our time, this collection reveals not only why Lewis loved the written word, but what it means to learn through literature from one of our wisest and most enduring teachers.
When Helping Hurts How to Alleviate P...
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Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. Don't let this happen to you, your ministry or ministries you help fund! A must read for anyone who works with the poor or in missions, When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel.
"Initial thoughts" at the beginning of chapters and "reflection questions and excercises" at the end of chapters assist greatly in learning and applying the material. A situation is assessed for whether relief, rehabilitation, or development is the best response to a situation. Efforts are characterized by an "asset based" approach rather than a "needs based" approach. Short term mission efforts are addressed and economic development strategies appropriate for North American and international contexts are presented, including microenterprise development.
Now with a new preface, a new foreword, and a new chapter to assist in the next steps of applying the book's principles to your situation, When Helping Hurts is a new classic!
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. How to manage money, invest it, and make business decisions are typically considered to involve a lot of mathematical calculations, where data and formulae tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world, people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet.
They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.
In the psychology of money, the author shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important matters.
The Three Box Solution A Strategy for...
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How to Innovate and Execute
Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it?
Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”:
• Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability
• Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation
• Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses
The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.
The Economics of the Latecomers Catch...
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This book examines the spectacularly successful economies of East Asia, Japan and South Korea. The comparison of the 'catching-up' process in Japan and South Korea includes studies of the iron and steel and semi-conductor industries.
The author shows the difficulties involved in trying to detect general patterns of development, as both countries appear to respond to different technological imperatives.
As a result general models of development should be treated with caution, given the need to consider different historical and institutional contexts.
When Women Pray by TD Jakes
When Women Pray: 10 Women of the Bible Who Changed the World through Prayer.
In a time when women carry more influence than any other generation, the power of prayer has never been more important to remind us that we do not have to bear our crosses alone. We need prayer to stand guard over our hearts and minds and over the hearts and minds of our families.
Women today are shattering glass ceilings and forging new paths in the world. What Happens When a Woman Prays is a clarion call for women to continue their progressive march of empowerment by dreaming like their daughters and praying like their grandmothers.
Through exploring the lives of 10 prayer-filled women of the Bible, Bishop Jakes emphasizes the life-changing power that women have when they find their identity, their strength, their healing, and their voices in Christ.
Maajabu Hungry Animals by Zuri Kaloki...
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“Maajabu - Hungry animals” is a fictional story about animals in the wild in the land of Maajabu in Africa, where wonders and adventures happen daily. The animals all have beautiful Swahili names. They live in harmony and play all day, until a time when the rains fail.
One day during the drought, fox sets out early in the morning, in search of food, he encounters the donkey, the wolf and three birds. Will he find food to eat? The moral of this story is that it does not pay to trick others. We should always be kind; we all need good friends.
Zuri Kaloki is a young author from Kenya, Africa Zuri is 11 years old. She likes to inspire others through storytelling.
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
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Following the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria, this debut novel tells the story of each sibling’s search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy but also endless life
“I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.”
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth.
Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power.
Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.
Godmothers Why You Need One How to Be...
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There is a role unique to women that we abandon easily. We live near each other, but not with each other--and not for each other. We don't want to intrude or judge and, maybe, we don't want to see each other truly succeed. And the world is happy with this unhappy state for women--one that pushes us to conform to a pattern of distrust, disengagement, and competition. It's no wonder we've lost ourselves, and our way.
In her most personal, powerful book yet, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Bevere offers a catalytic, transformative vision for women of a different way to live--one that embraces the presence of a godmother--the older, wiser women you can go to and learn from, the strong women who partner with us through life. And everyone needs one! Drawing from her own life, biblical women, and the world of fairy tales, Lisa will show you how to transform what you have into what God wants you to have, push you forward during seasons of doubt, and love you enough to speak truth about God's larger, expansive view of your life.
Lisa's candid, compassionate words are your best first step to living as a daughter of God, surrounded by strong relationships and confidence in your calling.
High 5 by Maryana Munyendo
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Does your child have a safety network? The safety network has been used as a training tool for protective behaviors on body safety for a long time.
The adventures of Kito & Lulu mirror children’s everyday experiences, through which we can teach them about the Safety Network while helping them to identify adults who can listen, believe and help, whenever there is a problem.
Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal.
When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a- kind method to raise more than $400 million--and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation.
Whether you're selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, "Pitch Anything "will transform the way you position your ideas.
According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn't an art--it's a simple science. Applying the latest findings in the field of neuroeconomics, while sharing eye-opening stories of his method in action, Klaff describes how the brain makes decisions and responds to pitches. With this information, you'll remain in complete control of every stage of the pitch process.
"Pitch Anything" introduces the exclusive STRONG method of pitching, which can be put to use immediately:
- Setting the Frame
- Telling the Story
- Revealing the Intrigue
- Offering the Prize
- Nailing the Hookpoint
- Getting a Decision
Selling to Win by Richard Denny
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Updated and revised, this third edition of Selling to Win is even more effective, highlighting the important changes needed to sell and win business in an evermore sophisticated and competitive marketplace. It gives practical advice on how to:
- Get a sale when your service is not the cheapest
- Turn your customer into an ambassador
- Build a positive attitude
- Beat the competition
- Close a sale
This is a valuable book, recognized as an effective and powerful sales-improvement guide.
How to Sell Anything to Anybody by Jo...
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In his fifteen-year selling career, author Joe Girard sold 13,001 cars, a Guinness World Record. He didn't have a degree from an Ivy League school -- instead, he learned by being in the trenches every day that nothing replaces old-fashioned salesmanship. He insists that by building on basic principles of trust and hard work, anyone can do what he did.
This bestselling classic has helped millions of readers meet their goals -- and you will too. Joe will show you how to make the final sale every time, using the techniques he has perfected in his record career. You too can:
- Turn one sale into 250 more
- Create a winning game plan from losing sales
- Know the five ways to turn a prospect into a buyer
- Move past the customer's last hurdle to close the sale
- Sell at a loss and make a fortune
Selling in Tough Times Secrets to Sel...
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Tough Times can be brought on by any number of factors: a down economy, Mother Nature, shifts in customers' needs, national tragedy--the list goes on and on. These types of changes can be extremely disruptive, even paralyzing, when we're not prepared for them. While many see no other option than to "sit tight" and "ride things out" when crisis strikes, true career professionals in selling understand that the only way to deal with adversity is to meet it head-on.
That's why a positive attitude and a proactive approach to problem-solving are two of the most essential ingredients for success in selling--and why those who embrace them not only to survive but thrive, even in the most difficult of circumstances.
Now, in his latest book, Selling in Tough Times, world-renowned selling expert Tom Hopkins puts his real-world , in-the-trenches experience to work and shares his plan to reverse the momentum of tough times--and even capitalize on them. With exercises to help you discover previously overlooked opportunities and eliminate waste, along with out-of-the-box methods for recruiting new customers and key tips on how to solidify your existing business, Hopkins gives you powerful ways to spur sales now and for years to come.
Learn how to: Mine your client list to generate new leads Keep--and reward--your current customers so that they're loyal for life. Reduce the sales resistance that plagues tough times with tactics that overcome consumers' fears.
Woo clients from your competition with 12 new strategies specially tailored for tough times. Cycles will come and go, but the principles of great selling and those who live by them stand firm. Find out how you can achieve your maximum selling potential, whatever the business climate, in Selling in Tough Times today.
Marketing 4.0 Moving from Traditional...
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Marketing 4.0: Moving from Traditional to Digital is the much-needed handbook for next-generation marketing. Written by the world's leading marketing authorities, this book helps you navigate the increasingly connected world and changing consumer landscape to reach more customers, more effectively. Today's customers have less time and attention to devote to your brand―and they are surrounded by alternatives every step of the way. You need to stand up, get their attention, and deliver the message they want to hear. This book examines the marketplace's shifting power dynamics, the paradoxes wrought by connectivity, and the increasing sub-culture splintering that will shape tomorrow's consumer; this foundation shows why Marketing 4.0 is becoming imperative for productivity, and this book shows you how to apply it to your brand today.
Marketing 4.0 takes advantage of the shifting consumer mood to reach more customers and engage them more fully than ever before. Exploit the changes that are tripping up traditional approaches, and make them an integral part of your methodology. This book gives you the world-class insight you need to make it happen.
- Discover the new rules of marketing
- Stand out and create WOW moments
- Build a loyal and vocal customer base
- Learn who will shape the future of customer choice
Outspoken 50 Speeches by Incredible W...
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History didn’t listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out …
A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help us see the funny side to life. From Jesus to Winston Churchill to Martin Luther King Jr. and even Donald Trump, we’ve been raised with the words of important men ringing in our ears …
But where are all the women?
Unless you’re the type of person who loves researching suffrage speeches, you are unlikely to know many soundbites from women throughout history. Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women is going to change that. From Joan of Arc and Virginia Woolf, to Oprah Winfrey and Greta Thunberg, this is a celebration of outstanding and outspoken women everywhere.
Inner Glimpse by Idil Ahmed
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Inner Glimpse is about accessing your own inner power. You are the one who already carries the codes, and this book is meant to activate a powerful reminder within you that will ignite your true potential. You will experience many profound realizations that will elevate your state of mind and take your life to a whole new level. Everything found inside this book will allow you to see beyond all limitations. Inner Glimpse will give you a new sense of hope and a vision that is truly unstoppable.
You will tune into your own inner source of energy for greater passion for life, true dedication to the realization of your dreams, and real energy to navigate this adventure you’re on. You will instantly begin to see beyond the illusions, tap into your own inner superpowers, and remember your own greatness. Every single page will provide a surge of energy.
Miracles will start to become natural occurrences. A new you will come alive, and you will remember what has always been there. You now have access to activate your divine spark. What’s Inside?
• Self-Mastery: A 15-day Self-Mastery Program that will automatically allow you to tap into your inner potential and magnify it 100 times over. You will spend five days mastering your mental state, another five days altering your physical experience, and five more days activating your own Inner Glimpse.
• 5 Powerful Methods: Alter how you experience your reality with these five powerful methods: the Look Method, the Speak It Method, the Step Into It Method, and the Edit Method. No matter what is happening around you, you will shift your perspective instantly when you realize that you can respond, change, and see the world in a whole new way. Use these methods daily and watch the miracles begin to happen right away.• Inner Glimpse Affirmations: 100 affirmations that will activate your inner power. These affirmations will awaken a sudden remembrance of all your potential. You will instantly feel the energy of every word, and become empowered and unstoppable like never before.
• Inner Glimpse Daily Thoughts: 30 Inner Glimpse thoughts to use on a daily basis to activate, recharge, and clear your energy. These 30 thoughts are meant to lift you higher and expose your true potential. It’s time to truly see.
Manifest Now by Idil Ahmed
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Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This book is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you turn every page. Everything in your life will begin to shift as you begin to realize that you are a conscious creator.
What's Inside?
The Inner Love Flow: A reminder of your deepest most innate connection to the Source that provides you unconditional love. The Inner Love Flow will help you remember that it all starts with you and that you are never alone. You are divinely guided and connected at all times. The flow of love is constantly pouring into you and this wisdom will free you from every needing to play any games to lower your frequency. You'll activate your divine love, which will raise your frequency to create a healthier relationship with yourself and others. You will feel so full of The Inner Love Flow, that all you'll want to do is give unconditional love without ever seeking or trying so hard to receive it back.
This section will also teach you how to heal your heart from any past pains, form a deeper connection with your partner and even manifest a new relationship. Once you love yourself, the universe begins to open up for you and starts to work in your favor. Manifest Now Technique: A speed manifestation technique that you'll apply on daily basis to get magnificent results. You'll set intentions, follow particular instructions, and stay focused. You'll start to manifest right away. Things will start to shift in your favor. You'll start to notice that you're happier, excited, and more connected with your inner self. This technique is meant to help you open your heart and mind so that you can elevate pass all the noise that's distracting you from your real potential. Once you use the Manifest Now Technique, you will realize how powerful you are and never again will you doubt what lies within you. Release It: 10 powerful techniques you can use on a daily basis to release any mental, physical, or emotional blocks that hinder your manifesting powers.
Think It: 35 powerful thoughts to keep you energized, focused, and excited to manifest.
Affirm It: 100 affirmations that will help you start speaking, feeling, and commanding greatness, abundance, happiness, and financial freedom into your life right now.
Magnetic Money Mindset: Tools that help you discover your purpose, tap into your creative genius, do what you love, and attract financial freedom along the way.
Begin your journey and watch magical things unfold in your life.
The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Hors...
'You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love' Chris Evans
A book of hope for uncertain times.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.
The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. In Charlie's first book, you will find his most-loved illustrations and some new ones too.
'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' Richard Curtis
