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Coaching for Performance is a reference book that describes the principles and practices of developing people’s potential and purpose through coaching and leadership. The book outlines coaching philosophies and teaches coaching skills using the GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options and Will) and cases from the workplace and sports. It’s an excellent tool for leadership coaching in business, but even parents and school teachers will benefit from it.

For the first time, Den of Thieves describes, in detail, how the Big Four of Wall Street created the largest insider trading network in financial history, how they almost stole billions of dollars of illegal gains, and how law enforcement officials overcame all kinds of difficulties under pressure to finally succeed in attaining the sanctions and punishments that the four prime culprits deserved. The book is based on four years of extensive jury review and actual transaction records, as well as ...

Whether you need to buy a house or a car, sell products, ask for a pay raise at work, or even ask your kids to go to bed early and so on, in all of these situations you are in the process of negotiation. Negotiations are everywhere. How can you get the most out of the game of negotiation? The book Everything Is Negotiable, written in simple and understandable language with vivid and intriguing examples, teaches you how to improve your negotiation strategies and skills and can help you achieve yo...

This book, Excellent Sheep, sharply points out the downsides of elite education. By elite education, the author means not only prestigious institutions like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton but also everything related to them. He criticizes elite students for their inability to accept failure, their lack of creative thinking, their disconnection from society, and other failings. Moreover, the book states that prestigious institutions are “soulless,” even though each one of them seems to have a chara...

Negotiation is closely related to our lives. Buyers and sellers bargain over the price of a product. Employees strive for a promotion or a pay raise from the boss. Children debate their parents over what time to go to bed at night. These are all familiar negotiation scenes in our daily lives. Everyone is a negotiator, and those who are better at negotiation meet their needs more efficiently. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In presents the research results of the Harvard Nego...

“What is the most important ingredient of success?” “Talent, of course!”, most people would answer without a doubt. The media and people today love highlighting how talent drives great success, resulting in the notion that we cannot be successful without talent. But actually, the myth of innate talent is wrong. In this book, Angela Duckworth will tell us that success has nothing to do with how gifted we are. What we really need is grit, a trait overlooked by most of us. Grit is the combination o...

Growth hacking is a new business method that’s prevalent in Silicon Valley. People who master this business method are called growth hackers. They not only know about the basic technology of the Internet industry but the psychological traits of users. They are proficient in Internet marketing and skilled at using creative methods and data analysis tools. They can also help a company’s products achieve explosive growth in a short period at a low cost or even no cost at all. This book introduces h...

What kind of childhood did Kurt Cobain, the rock star who shocked the world in the 1990s, have? How did he become famous, and why did he choose to end his life with a bullet? Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain takes you down the path of Cobain’s life. The Los Angeles Times described the book as “One of the most moving and revealing books ever written about a rock star.”

From engraved rocks in ancient caves to sculptures made thousands of years ago and all styles of paintings, humans have been pursuing beauty since the dawn of civilization. We have been making aesthetic explorations since ancient Greece, seeking to define what beauty is. But the definition of beauty is ever-changing. People of different times and places have different ideals of beauty. So, what is beauty, anyway? In this book, On Beauty, the author refers to a wide range of philosophical writing...

Every infant is "smart," full of curiosity, and loves learning. But after going to school, children often lose interest in learning and long to escape from school. Why? Perhaps this shows that the teaching methods used by our schools cause our children lose their extraordinary ability to learn. John Holt is the father of contemporary educational reform in the United States. Through his memos, he showed us how schools cause children who once loved learning to run away from it and gradually "becom...

When Malala Yousafzai was born in Pakistan, she was a normal girl, but she went on to resist terrorists and advocate for women’s right to education. As a result, she was shot in the head by armed militants at the age of 15, but she miraculously survived. Her story moved the world, and she won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at only 17 years old. How did she have the superhuman courage to face death, and how did she maintain such strong convictions in her fight for equality? Let’s experience this brav...

Leonard Cohen was a contemporary artist, poet, writer, singer, monk, lover, and drug addict. He was hailed as the Lord Byron of Rock and Roll and received the 52nd Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. This book narrates the story of his life using numerous primary sources. Rolling Stone magazine once commented: "This is the bio Cohen has long deserved, and it makes every prior Cohen book practically unnecessary." https://www.amazon.com/Im-Your-Man-Leonard-Cohen/dp/0061995002

Almost everyone has all kinds of wonderful ideas about the United States. It's home to the amazing Silicon Valley, well-known Hollywood movies, and interesting TV detectives. It’s also a place where it may take the FBI several months to discover they caught the wrong person, and where over 3.7 million of its citizens believe they’ve been kidnapped by aliens. This book will help you understand the daily life of Americans and learn about the real America.

When we mention Australia, what comes first to your mind? Is it a koala sleeping on the tree, or a kangaroo jumping around? Or is it the journey of Europeans exploring the Outback? This book will show you Australia’s history and unique creatures, take you on a sightseeing tour to famous local attractions, and let you experience Australia's cultures.

We can see around us that some people are always able to sway or motivate other people's behavior, no matter if it's in enterprise management, team leading or family planning. This is the power of influence. This book, "Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change," reveals the principles and skills employed by many successful influencers. It deciphers influence from several aspects covering methodology, strategy and practice. The aim is to provide a set of tools to help readers identify the ke...

In an era when numerous products exist, what kind of product can stand out? The author of Inspired has summarized his twenty years of practical experience in tech product management. He explains how to create products that customers love in great detail from three dimensions: how to assemble an excellent product team, how to use an optimized process to create products that customers love, and how to determine the features of the products customers love.

This book explores methods for addressing conflicts between parents and children by sharing how the authors and other parents have learned and practiced parenting knowledge. It inspires parents to increase their knowledge of scientific and educational concepts while learning practical parenting skills, encouraging parents to help their children while also being kind to themselves. This book won a Christopher Award for its significant contribution to the spirit of humanism.

With technological advances and information updates, our social systems have become increasingly complex. When facing a complex situation, we can hardly give an accurate prediction about what’s going to happen, and it’s also extremely difficult to make the right judgments. But we must do so because a seemingly trivial mistake might eventually snowball into a catastrophe. Fortunately, we still have the chance to stop this from happening. This book, Meltdown, gives a detailed account of why our sy...

This is a classic book that upends the traditional idea of success, and declares that success is determined by mindset instead of talent and ability. The book introduces to us the strengths of the growth mindset, and provides feasible approaches for people to change their mindsets and to better realize their purpose in life. This book has been on Amazon's list of best-selling psychology books for 10 years since its publication, and has also been recommended by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

When something goes wrong, why do many people unconsciously justify their actions to themselves and reject the idea it is their fault? What kind of influences does such unconscious self-justification bring to our work and lives? How can we avoid falling into the trap of self-justification? This book will reveal the mechanism of unconscious self-justification to prevent you from falling into its trap.

In nearly all sci-fi movies, robots share the same conscious feeling of independence as humans, who ironically have lost control of it themselves. Is this an inevitable outcome of robotic development? Yes, the book Out of Control will show you that out-of-controlness is the final destiny and outcome of human development. This prophetic book discusses concepts that are immensely popular today, such as virtual reality and network economy. Also, there are hidden prophecies to learn about the future...

This book is a memoir by Howard Schultz, former CEO and now chairman emeritus of Starbucks. From an insider’s point, he recounts how Starbucks developed from a local business to a multinational enterprise “one cup at a time.” This book illustrates the various approaches that Starbucks took to expand its business and Schultz’s management principles. It aims to demonstrate that a company can lead with its heart and nurture its soul and still make money.

Many would say that it is difficult to build a good corporate culture. Netflix, however, has done an extraordinary job creating its culture, and many companies in Silicon Valley have followed its example. So, what is it about the Netflix culture that makes it so unique? This book examines the key features of the Netflix culture and introduces its revolutionary approaches to building it. Whether you are a business owner or a team leader, this book will surely offer inspiration that can help you b...

From small conflicts among colleagues, relatives, and friends, to significant setbacks such as unemployment and marital breakup; pain and failure often come unexpectedly into our life. It is human nature to run away from pain, hide one's fragile but genuine emotions, and makeup stories and excuses for failure. Drawing on her own experience, Dr. Brené Brown reveals a fact: If you need more love and belonging, you have to be brave enough to look squarely at your emotions in a difficult situation. ...