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Linchpin by Seth Godin
In bestsellers such as Purple Cow and Tribes, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. But this book is about you—your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose.
There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team: the linchpins. These people figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. They may not be famous but they're indispensable. And in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.
As Godin writes, "Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must."
Do not say yes when you want to say no
Brief Summary
Don't Say Yes When You Want to Say No: Making Life Right When It Feels All Wrong
Yes, you can learn to say what you mean and mean what you say. This best-selling guide has already transformed thousands of lives--and can change your as well.
The authors' pioneering Assertiveness Training Technique can help you gain recognition and promotion on the job, renew your marriage, put more zing in your sex life, deal with your children more effectively, and make new friends.
Change your life as you learn how to:
• Target your own assertiveness difficulties and set your own goals.
• Follow your progress with a workshop that gives you step-by-step reinforcement.
• Visualize and actualize through exercises designed to perfect new behavior patterns.
• Develop self-control that comes from within.
• Change habits that keep you from getting what you want in every area of your life.
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ISBN:9780440154136
Author:Herbert Fensterheim and Jean Baer
The Utility of Force
Brief Summary
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
"War no longer exists," writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies, the system of war since Napoleon, will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves and our way of life.
General Smith draws on his vast experience as a commander in the 1991 Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, to give us a probing analysis of modern war and to call for radically new military thinking. Why, he asks, do we use armed force to solve our political problems? And how is it that our armies can win battles but fail to solve the problems?
From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechnya, Smith charts a stream of armed interventions that have failed to deliver on promises of resolution. He demonstrates why today's conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events.
He makes clear why the current one-size-fits-all model of total war, fought out on battlefields, that politicians still cling to must be abandoned in favor of new strategies that take into account the fact that wars are now fought among civilian populations. And he offers a compelling new model for how to fight these battles and secure our world.
Clear, incisive and provocative, The Utility of Force will fundamentally change the way we understand war
ISBN:9780307265623
Author:Rupert Smith
What Made Jack Welch Jack Welch
Brief Summary
What Made jack welch JACK WELCH: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders
Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch—and lots of other people like him—are smart and talented, but there are countless people even smarter and more talented who stall out on the way up. Something else is going on. What is it, and what can the rest of us learn from such people to improve our own chances of accomplishment?
Stephen Baum uncovers not only the business secrets of prominent CEOs but their inner stories as well. He ferrets out the real men and women behind the public personas, learning about life-shaping experiences they all have in common that turn out to be the foundation for true success in career and in life. Baum has gotten them to recall key moments that they hadn’t thought about for years, as well as the fears, emotions, and learning they’ve experienced during moments of challenge and doubt.
These seminal events are "archetypal shaping experiences”—critical and often unexpected learning moments when future leaders take advantage of challenges thrown in their path:
• When you take calculated personal risks without the safety net of specific instructions on how to proceed.
• When you are clueless about how to solve a knotty problem but dive in and prepare yourself to work through it.
• When you learn to swim in water over your head, make the tough choice, get good on your feet, or
are forced to take a hard look in the mirror.
These character-building moments engender an inner core of toughness and confidence that is the real key to leadership in any business or endeavor—they are what made jack welch . . . JACK WELCH.
Stephen Baum provides an entirely new way of thinking about how to fulfill your dreams and aspirations. You’ll come away with the feeling that "if they can do it, so can I” . . . and that is the first step on the journey to becoming extraordinary, awakening the JACK WELCH that lives in each of us—just waiting to take us further than anyone could have predicted
ISBN:9780307337207
Author:Stephen H. Baum and Dave Conti
The World Until Yesterday
Brief Summary
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steelsurveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence.
Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
ISBN:9780670024810
Author:Jared Diamond
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Brief Summary
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.'
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures.
A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.
How to Think Like Bill Gates
Brief Summary
Follow the career path that took Bill Gates from being a Harvard drop-out to one of the wealthiest men in the world, and learn how to think like the genius businessman himself
A household name for his role in the founding of ubiquitous computer software company Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the world's great businessmen. Brought up to compete rigorously in all areas of his life, he dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to follow his dream of starting his own firm.
He formed "Micro-Soft" and set about coding his way to the top. But creating software language was just the beginning of a journey that would eventually see Gates become the wealthiest man in the world. He not only knew how to develop a product, but was great at selling it too, becoming a figurehead of the staid but booming corporate America.
In recent years, Gates turned away from the computer screen to combat injustices in the world, channeling huge amounts of his personal fortune into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a body whose operations are changing the way the charity sector goes about its business.
How to Think like Bill Gates reveals the key motivations, decisions, and philosophies that made Gates a name synonymous with success. Studying how he honed his business acumen, faced down all competitors, overcame adversity, and stood strong in the face of overwhelming odds, with quotes and passages by and about him, you too can learn to think like Bill Gates.
ISBN:9781782433736
Author:Daniel Smith
Why Am I So Tired
Brief Summary
Why Am I So Tired? Is your thyroid making you ill?
An essential guide to how an underactive thyroid could be the root of your health problems.
Why am I so Tired? Questions the problems associated with an underactive thyroid. Mild hypothyroidism affects about 7 – 10 % of the population, but is frequently misdiagnosed because the symptoms are similar to that of ME, chronic fatigue, depression, and menopausal symptoms.
Symptoms can include:
exhaustion * weight gain * mental fogginess * low sex drive * thinning hair * dry skin * poor circulation * aching joints
Why am I so Tired? Offers an essential guide to discovering whether an underactive thyroid is at the root of your health problems with an easy to follow questionnaire, case studies and an excellent question and answer format. The book includes:
1. what the thyroid is and how it functions
2. what happens when it is underactive
3. what tests your should ask your doctor for
4. simple self-diagnosis – temperature testing
5. where to go for help
6. other illnesses which might be confused for hypothyroidism or vice versa
7. how nutrition and naturopathic remedies help
ISBN:9780722539422
Author:Martin, N.D., D.O. Budd
Why Men Do not Listen
Brief Summary
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It
Have you ever wished your partner came with an instruction booklet? This international bestseller is the answer to all the things you've ever wondered about the opposite sex.
For their controversial new book on the differences between the way men and women think and communicate, Barbara and Allan Pease spent three years traveling around the world, collecting the dramatic findings of new research on the brain, investigating evolutionary biology, analyzing psychologists, studying social changes, and annoying the locals.
The result is a sometimes shocking, always illuminating, and frequently hilarious look at where the battle line is drawn between the sexes, why it was drawn, and how to cross it. Read this book and understand--at last!--why men never listen, why women can't read maps, and why learning each other's secrets means you'll never have to say sorry again.
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ISBN:9780767907637
Author:Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Why Men Dont Have a Clue
Brief Summary
Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes: The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex
Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real—and often very funny—differences between the sexes.
Why Men Don’t Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes takes a look at some of the issues that have confused men and women for centuries. Using new findings on the brain, studies of social changes, evolutionary biology, and psychology, the Peases teach you how to make the most of your relationships—or at least begin to understand where your partner is coming from.
They help women understand why men avoid commitment, what drives them to lie, and how to decode male speech to find out what they are really saying. They explain to men why women nag, how they use emotional blackmail, and how to understand (and take advantage of!) The top-secret scoring system all women apply. They also dish about the top turn-ons--and turn-offs--for both sexes. Laced with their trademark humor, Why Men Don’t Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes addresses a host of nitty-gritty battlegrounds as well, from channel surfing and toilet seats to shopping and communication.
Already a #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Holland, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, France, Czech Republic, India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, Why Men Don’t Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes is the answer to understanding the opposite sex.
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ISBN:9780767916103
Author:Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Why Hes So Last Minute
Brief Summary
Why He’s So Last Minute and She Got It All Wrapped Up
As the festive season comes round once more, it can so easily be a time of increased stress for everyone - a time when the differences between men and women are never more apparent!
Renowned relationship experts Allan and Barbara Pease tackle the Christmas Season to give a uniquely informative and fascinating guide:
1. The battle of the sexes, made worse by the festive season
2. Kids at Christmas - how to get them to do what you want
3. Why women get upset at men's solutions to Christmas catering
4. And why men always get lost on the way to the in-laws
Thank goodness Christmas only comes once a year...
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ISBN:9780752882628
Author:Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
Money The Unauthorized Biography
Brief Summary
What is money, and how does it work?
The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in Newfoundland, and that today's financial universe evolved from barter.
Unfortunately, there is a problem with this story. It's wrong. And not just wrong, but dangerous.
Money: the Unauthorized Biography unfolds a panoramic secret history and explains the truth about money: what it is, where it comes from, and how it works.
Drawing on stories from throughout human history and around the globe, Money will radically rearrange your understanding of the world and shows how money can once again become the most powerful force for freedom we have ever known.
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ISBN:9781847922335
Author:Felix Martin
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, traveling and the nature of good and evil.
An old woman explains to her grandson how a mere pencil can show him the path to happiness...instructions on how to climb a mountain reveal the secret to making your dreams a reality! The story of Genghis Khan and the Falcon that teaches about the folly of anger - and the art of friendship!
A pianist who performs an example in fulfilling your destiny! The author learns three important lessons when he goes to the rescue of a man in the street - Paulo shows us how life has lessons for us in the greatest, smallest and most unusual of experiences. 'Like the Flowing River' includes jewel-like fables, packed with meaning and retold in Coelho's inimitable style. Sharing his thoughts on spirituality, life and ethics, Paulo touches you with his philosophy and invites you to go on an exciting journey of your own.
Grit by Angela Duckworth
In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, students, and business people-both seasoned and new-that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit.”
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius” Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.
Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not "genius” but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own "character lab” and set out to test her theory.
Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance.
Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers-from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.
Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that-not talent or luck-makes all the difference.
The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
A foreword by Oprah Winfrey and a preface by Maya Angelou update the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic of the New Age category, along with a new introduction by the author, a discussion group guide, and website links for deeper study.
With the same extraordinary skill that he used to demystify scientific abstraction and the new physics, Gary Zukay, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new phase of evolution we have now entered.
With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction.
Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong.
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:
1. Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
2. Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
3. Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
4. The secret ingredient to "grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
5. How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man
By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
Lonely Planet Japan Travel Guide
Brief summary
"Japan is a world apart - a cultural Galapagos where a unique civilization blossomed, and thrives today in delicious contrast of traditional and modern. The Japanese spirit is strong, warm and incredibly welcoming." - Chris Rowthorn, Lonely Planet Writer
Our Promise
You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage, and you can rely on us to tell it like we see it.
Inside This Book…
1. 8 expert authors
2. 167 temples & shrines
3. 357 Japanese restaurants
4. Over 100 onsen (hot springs)
5. Inspirational photos
6. Comprehensive planning tools
7. Pull-out city map
8. Easy-to-read layout
9. In-depth background
10. Skiing in Japan feature
ISBN:9781741798050
Author:Chris Rowthorn, Timothy Hornyak and Laura Crawford
Germany- Country Travel Guide
Brief summary
Nobody knows Germany like Lonely Planet. From Alpine villages to Berlin's clubs, Moselle Valley vineyards to Heidelberg's historic buildings and beer quaffing to sausage savoring, this 6th edition gives you all the information you need to enjoy the best of Germany.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
1. Top insider tips on a perfect day in Munich, Hamburg's harbor sound and Berlin's eclectic highlights
2. Detailed itineraries help you get the most out of your trip
3. Unique Green Index picks out the top sustainable travel options
ISBN:9781741047813
Author:Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Stars and Planets -Handbooks
Brief summary
From the planet Jupiter to a refracting telescope, discover all about the stars and planets in our solar system and the equipment you need to spot them.
Each of the planets is illustrated and described in incredible detail while the complex process of locating planets in the night sky is made simple through charts, maps and diagrams. You'll find star charts to help you to locate and identify constellations and individual stars. Interesting features in the sky are examined in a monthly guide, complemented by absorbing accounts of all 88 constellations and the objects they contain.
Perfect for beginners or intermediate astronomers and pocket-sized so you can take it outside.
ISBN:9781405357968
Author:Ian Ridpath
Swahili Phrasebook & Dictionary
Brief summary
Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!
• Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings
• Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder
• Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips
• Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary
• Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology
• Meet friends with conversation starter phrases
• Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides
Inside Lonely Planet's Swahili Phrasebook & Dictionary:
• Color throughout
• User-friendly layout organized by travel scenario categories
• Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cues
• Convenient features
• Key Patterns
• Sustainable Travel & Responsible Tourism
• Listen For - phrases you may hear
• Look For - phrases you may see on signs
• Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases
• Q&A - suggested answers to questions asked
• Covers
• Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules
• Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport
• Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather
• Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions
• Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Swahili Phrasebook & Dictionary, a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance; great for language students and travelers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.
ISBN:9781743211960
Author:Lonely Planet
