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A guidebook for anyone looking to comprehend and prosper in the new world orderIn the age of autonomy, two parallel revolutions are unfolding. The first is a technological uprising, in which machines and algorithms achieve an unprecedented level of independence. Automation and AI will transform industries, altering the fabric of our economy and society. But this technological tide is more than a force of disruption; it's a harbinger of a new way of thinking and living.The parallel revolution is deeply human and even more profound. As traditional structures crumble, a new sense of human autonomy emerges, allowing us to find meaning and direction in unexpected ways. Perspective Agents delves into this complex dance between machine and man, challenging us to adapt to and thrive in this new era.Drawing from extensive research, interviews, and personal experience, communications consultant Chris Perry explores:¿ The problem with using conventional wisdom to make sense of new realities¿ How the predominant technologies of an era shape new values, norms, and behaviors¿ The pioneering mindsets, models, resources, and strategies vital to future successThrough an unflinching examination of both technological and human evolution, this book encourages readers to harness the potential of the Autonomous Age, see the world anew through new sources, and forge a path for professional and personal growth.

Money Lessons from the First Gen MentorCultura and Cash is a practical and jargon-free money guide to help you tackle your finances as a First Gen Latina. In this valuable book, The First Gen Mentor, Giovanna "Gigi" González, uncovers cultural and systemic barriers First Gen face in their financial journey and provides actionable solutions on how to overcome them. Through storytelling and real-life examples, she'll go into depth and explain best practices for creating a solid financial foundation through emergency funds, credit building, budgeting, debt payoff, and investing. This book will improve your money mindset and give you the information you need to create financial success on your terms with family in mind. You will learn how to balance family expectations while prioritizing your own financial wellness and that money does not control you and limit you. Instead, it's a powerful self-care tool you use to your advantage to support you and those you care about. Read this book and you will be empowered to take action and start designing a life you love.

Spark your personal creativity, fuel your creative leadership skills, and set your organizational culture ablaze The employee experience has dramatically changed, catalyzed by emerging technology, remote-first and hybrid work structures, and rapidly changing business environments. Well-being at work has become an essential strategic priority, while the pressure and demands on teams to deliver results have never been greater. Leaders crave guidance to ignite more connection, innovation, and belonging at work to attract, develop, and retain top talent and discover deeper purpose at work. Creativity is the essential ingredient in today's workplace to be more effective, joyful, and authentic. Born to Create illustrates the power skills often developed by artists and applies them to corporate environments in a way that's engaging, memorable, and high impact. Through highlighted stories of artists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, each scene delivers examples to build creative confidence and resilience, lead others in the creative process, and foster a thriving creativity culture to achieve business value and personal fulfillment. At the end of each scene, you'll get practical exercises and assessment tools you can carry with you. ​As we search for more meaning in our work and lives, Born to Create shines a light on the potential we each hold to imagine and realize the creative life we were destined to lead.

Career Planning for a Happier LifeTake ownership of your career path. This is your unique journey. The upheaval marking the early 2020s has created the "great opportunity"-an unprecedented chance to prioritize your life and decide what you really want from your career. You can now create a strong personal brand and pursue career activities that are authentic to your goals, not your employer's. It is within your reach to have autonomy and control over your career, have greater clarity of your priorities, and align your career around the life you want to live.Live for a Living is a guide to designing a life that leverages your personal values, motivators, and goals in your career. With inspiring case studies, accessible exercises, and online self-assessments, authors Caligiuri and Palmer reveal how to identify your ideal career, then purposefully expand and create career-related activities to do more of what you love.Distinguished business professor, speaker, and author Paula Caligiuri joins forces with award-winning serial entrepreneur Andy Palmer to bring you a timely resource on crafting income-producing career activities that result in more professional excitement, personal fulfillment, and financial security. Are you ready to take control of your career?

This important work from debut author Jessica Galica blends narrative, research, and pep talk to empower women to reclaim control of their career trajectories and define success on their own terms. "A must read for working women and parents, whether you need inspiration to take the leap or simply comfort to know that you are not alone" (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play and Find Your Unicorn Space)More than three million women left the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, and even more are considering leaving or downshifting. Corporate women feel misled. Told they could "have it all," women instead feel dissatisfied and exasperated. They have not lost ambition or dreams for their career, but they are reckoning with their corporate reality: environments that are designed for men, the burden of caretaking labor at home, and bias in hiring and promotions. These factors leave many women stuck-feeling unfulfilled but fearful about making a leap to reinvent their careers.If this describes you, then Leap will give you the guidance and confidence you need to pivot toward fulfillment and authenticity. Intrigued by other women who have made gratifying career shifts, career strategist Jessica Galica embarked on a series of interviews and discovered that her story-building a career by doing everything "right" but waking up lost-is not unique. Leap encourages women at a similar crossroads to let go of stale and rigid narratives around work and instead focus on purpose. Drawing from the stories of courageous women who took the leap and Galica's own career journey, Leap examines:The feelings that lead women to yearn for something different in their careerThe strategies that help women to embrace new possibilities and pivotsThe fulfillment that comes from making the leap

"Before her husband's sudden death, Regina Lawless was at the height of her corporate career as head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Instagram and seemingly had it all. Then tragedy struck, forcing her to rediscover who she truly was inside and what she wanted moving forward. On her journey to live and thrive again after loss, Regina realized that the outdated rules for success--to grind incessantly and sacrifice yourself to get ahead--weren't serving her or any women, especially Black women and women of color. So Regina wrote this book to encourage people, particularly high-achieving women, to investigate their own states of happiness and fulfillment and to build more meaningful lives, both personally and in the workplace."--Provided by publisher.

How to Create an Engaged, Empowered, Self-Led Team Imagine a workplace where people can be themselves. Where there aren't hierarchies or power dynamics. Where team members continuously find ways to better themselves and their work because it makes them feel excited and fulfilled. Where everyone supports each other without ego. This type of environment is not only possible; it's the catalyst for a successful company. Nurse Next Door President and CEO Cathy Thorpe inspires leaders to radically change their people practices and organizational culture by leading with kindness. Her leadership and culture philosophy, Bold Kindness, is based on the principle that team members perform best when they feel respected, valued and empowered. People who have the autonomy to pursue their genuine desires are more likely to feel engaged and passionate about their work, helping to create lean businesses with less overhead and greater financial growth. Cathy's innovative leadership approach has disrupted the home care industry and made Nurse Next Door one of the world's fastest-growing home care companies and a globally admired brand. Her learnings will challenge you to reflect on your own leadership and organization, reframe the traditional corporate mindset and accelerate your business by putting people first.

How can your teams meet their true collective potential?Diversity is a hot topic in the business world, but it has been largely restricted to meaning a diversity of experiences based on a person's heritage, upbringing, or gender. As A Hidden Force points out, however, there is another type of diversity that has been overlooked until recently: neurodiversity-the differences in how our brains process information.Through his research, personal experiences, and extensive interviews with global neurodiversity experts and neurodivergent people in the workforce, Ed Thompson convincingly shows:¿ Why neurodiversity has historically been overlooked by society and in business and why it's so relevant¿ Why embracing neurodiversity will help us be part of and build more innovative and effective teams¿ How we can take our new understanding of the topic and neuroinclusive principles into our everyday work and interactionsA Hidden Force makes a timely, apt, and critical contribution to today's business world. Written for business leaders, talent management professionals, and neurodivergent employees, this book shows why and how creating a work environment that welcomes the full spectrum of talent benefits everyone.

Do you know how to make the most of your maintenance and reliability assets?The information embedded in your assets is valuable. Take your asset management to the next level by tapping into technology. Many maintenance and reliability professionals view technology as daunting, frustrating, or merely additive. But get technology-leveraged asset management right, and you can improve reliability while saving your enterprise a significant amount of money.Technology changes at a fast and furious pace. But the human component of technology and the best strategies to use technology to get the most out of a business's assets are tried and true. For over three decades, Projetech founder Steve K. Richmond has helped companies across a variety of industries put technology to work in their maintenance and reliability efforts. In Working SMART, Steve draws upon his experience as the head of the most experienced provider of Maximo as a Service (MaaS) in the world and provides insights on how your organization, regardless of size or purpose, can leverage technology to make the most of what you have today and tomorrow.

"A compact, insightful, and practical guide for leaders and managers to flourish in our coming Exponential Age"-Azeem Azhar, founder, Exponential ViewIn 1798, the influential cleric, scholar, and economist Thomas Malthus predicted that the world would soon run out of food, as linear food production growth would be unable to feed the exponentially growing population. Fast forward 200 years, and the world's population has grown almost 10 times, and we are closer to colonizing Mars than we ever will be to running out of food.The reason? Innovation.Innovation driven by mass digitization and the convergence of exponentially growing technologies. We know that exponential laws often follow predictable patterns, and this allows us to predict when futuristic applications will become possible and economically feasible.In From Malthus to Mars, Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Lars Tvede outline the wild future that we are speeding into. Wild, among other things, in terms of anti-ageing, compact farming, robotics, radically new energy solutions, and a fast, fluid, and flexible world of work. The authors map concrete forecasts for when upcoming technologies will break through and change our world, and they paint a picture of what the future in the coming years will look like.We will learn that while the future is destined to bring a multitude of new opportunities and enhanced abundance, it will also bring increased demands for us as individuals and as organizations. To equip us to thrive in the future, Nielsen and Tvede outline eight key mindsets. These mindsets will help us navigate future trends, reach our most desired future, and give us the ability, as we understand trends, to apply exponentiality and make decisions under uncertainty. The authors also present ten shifts that winning organizations of the future must consider in order to transform themselves and their industries, again and again.Between them, Nielsen and Tvede have founded/co-founded 13 companies, advised more than 30 Fortune 500 companies, developed thousands of leaders, and published 20 books.

Are you ready for the metaverse, and what it will take to be an effective human leader in multiple, immersive, digital-physical worlds?Leadership in the Metaverse will help you transform Web3-also called WebMe-into WebWe.The metaverse-a more immersive internet-is evolving rapidly. Leadership in the Metaverse shares a new playbook to help you develop essential leadership skills needed to bridge our forever-hybrid, digital-physical human life on planet Earth-and build cohesive communities of strategy and impact.While the metaverse is being described "Web3" and "WebMe," Dr. Carol A. Poore addresses head-on both metaverse innovation and expected societal challenges. She provides deep insight about leadership, participative strategy- and community-building, and essential communication skills so you can be prepared to lead in a metaverse world where virtual reality, 3D holograms, and human avatars will fascinate, captivate, and permanently change the way we live, work and play.Leadership in the Metaverse will help you:¿Maximize the metaverse as a human relationship-building tool ¿Bring people and communities closer together, rather than further apart¿Bond, bridge, and link hybrid worlds to build cohesive teams, work groups, organizations, boards of directors, and communities¿Communicate effectively, connecting people with your organization's purpose and future¿Build Big C communities that lead to action and results that matterDr. Carol A. Poore, author, speaker, and strategist, has been delivering effective leadership and transformational strategic planning results for more than 25 years. She has served in corporate, higher education, and nonprofit senior leadership and chief executive positions; led community planning initiatives; and has advised small businesses, nonprofits, local community organizations, and government entities during legacy-shaping times of change through her consultancy, Poore & Associates.She serves on the faculty at Arizona State University. Dr. Poore is the author of Strategic Impact: A Leader's Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan (Fast Company Press), and Building Your Career Portfolio (Cengage Learning) published in English, German, and Korean.

Think. Act. Lead.It seems simple enough. But understanding your desired impact and how it fits into a larger picture, connecting your work to others and finding new collaborators, and bringing those collaborators together and moving them in a unified direction is never easy. Governments, businesses, and nonprofits all have unique approaches and ideas that many of us learn through our work. Yet, we rarely consider the skills needed to create and maintain the partnerships between them. Most of us learn those skills through trial, error, and often, failure. Worse, we typically stay in our self-reinforcing silos, sharing perspectives and frustrations with like-minded people, limiting our vision of what our work can become. By partnering with other sectors, we combine and adapt approaches to solve complex problems, and leaders in any industry can create large-scale change.Cleveland Justis and Daniel Student share a road map for effective partnerships that increase impact and profitability. Using real-life examples and practice exercises, the authors teach how to acquire and use skills to solve complex problems and propel your organization forward by combining a multitude of perspectives, split into three sections:¿Think Like a System¿Act Like a Network¿Lead Like a MovementIt's time to get out of our silos. Don't lead alone.

A tale about strategy done differentlyThe One-Hour Strategy follows Martin, the new sales team lead at Waters & Flows, which attracted him because of their unique way of doing strategy. We shadow Martin as he onboards with his new colleagues, who walk him through each aspect of their One-Hour Strategy, answering his questions and addressing his reservations. Along the way, Martin learns:¿ Why employees at every level in the firm should be involved in strategy¿ How strategic competence creates company agility, which is crucial in disruptive times¿ How this new approach closes the strategy-versus-execution gapMartin's story introduces an easy but valuable tool for integrating strategic planning into your organization's culture. Martin's notes on key takeaways distill the information he learns, and each chapter includes self-evaluation questions to help you consider how this new way of thinking could be integrated at your company. If you're dissatisfied with the traditional way of doing strategy or your company seems stuck in a rut of strategizing that never turns into action, this book offers a solution.

Whether you're looking to move up in your firm or searching for a position elsewhere, this book will show you how to tell your story persuasively at every stage of your professional journey. As a job seeker, you will discover how to create a clear, powerful script that inspires your listeners, gains their support, and lands you that dream job.

Are you a senior executive, board member, emerging leader, or consultant responsible for leading a strategic plan that actually gets implemented and delivers results?Strategic Impact : A Leader's Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan presents a trailblazing method that will help you guide and customize your organization's strategic planning program. Dr. Poore delivers innovation through virtual strategy workshops, digital communication opportunities, and new, accessible cloud-based tracking systems.Strategic Impact provides a reliable, three-step framework, applicable to any organization, regardless of size, scale, or structure, allowing you to:¿ Declutter the typically complicated strategic planning process.¿ Deliver a destiny-shaping program in an efficient, budget-conscious way-including for mission-driven small businesses and nonprofits with limited resources.¿ Plan and lead a life-changing leadership workshop experience culminating in strategic goals.¿ Craft a compelling written strategic plan which can be digitized and communicated through social media.¿ Implement an effective tracking and communication system to monitor progress and ensure accountability.¿ Engage employees, customers, and key audiences in celebrating your organization's strategic impact.Unlike other strategic planning books, Strategic Impact places intense focus on curating a vibrant, life-changing strategic planning workshop that strengthens leadership bonds and commitment for implementation. It simplifies the strategic planning process and ensures a clear, comprehensive, and customizable approach for you and your leadership team.Dr. Poore's emphasis on strategic goal implementation will amplify your organization's ability to get it done, fulfill your mission and purpose, and achieve strategic impact!