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Rob Hartnett

As a companion to the game changing book It’s All Possible – how to lead an epic life by Rob Hartnett, this daily journal will help you take your first possible steps to your impossible on a consistent basis. It is the small things done on a regular basis that allow us to achieve amazing things over a lifetime.

Gratitude, happiness and attitude when reflected on regularly become habits and habits change behaviour, which in turn leads to incredible personal growth, resilience and the energy to achieve what is most important to you.

Byron Reese

“The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it manages to do all this in a way that is both entertaining and engaging.” —The New York Times

As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species.

In The Fourth Age, Byron Reese makes the case that technology has reshaped humanity just three times in history:

– 100,000 years ago, we harnessed fire, which led to language.

– 10,000 years ago, we developed agriculture, which led to cities and warfare.

– 5,000 years ago, we invented the wheel and writing, which lead to the nation state.

We are now on the doorstep of a fourth change brought about by two technologies: AI and robotics. The Fourth Age provides extraordinary background information on how we got to this point, and how—rather than what—we should think about the topics we’ll soon all be facing: machine consciousness, automation, employment, creative computers, radical life extension, artificial life, AI ethics, the future of warfare, superintelligence, and the implications of extreme prosperity.

By asking questions like “Are you a machine?” and “Could a computer feel anything?”, Reese leads you through a discussion along the cutting edge in robotics and AI, and, provides a framework by which we can all understand, discuss, and act on the issues of the Fourth Age, and how they’ll transform humanity.

Allison Shapira

Your voice matters, especially as a leader. Every day, you have an opportunity to use your voice to have a positive impact—at work or in your community. You can inspire and persuade your audience—or you can distract and put them to sleep.

Nervous, rambling, robotic—these presentation styles can ruin a talk on even the most critical topics. And with each weak performance, career prospects dim. To get ahead and make an impact, you need to deliver well-crafted messages with confidence and authenticity. You must sound as capable as you are.

Public speaking is a skill, not a talent. With the right guidance, anyone can be a powerful speaker. Learn to conquer fear, capture attention, motivate action, and take charge of your career with Speak with Impact. Written by an opera singer turned CEO, speaker, and executive communication coach, the book unravels the mysteries of commanding attention in any setting, professional or personal. Whether it’s speaking up at a meeting, presenting to clients, or talking to large groups, the book’s easy-to-use frameworks, examples, and exercises help you

  • Kickstart the creative process
  • Compose a clear and concise message
  • Engage your audience through storytelling and humor
  • Banish filler words and uptalk
  • Strengthen and project your voice
  • Use breathing techniques to overcome stage fright
  • Use effective body language
  • Build your executive presence
  • Deliver presentations with confidence and authenticity

Heather F. Lutze, CSP

Marketing Espionage is essential to understand why your competitors enjoy web success and your own online efforts don’t deliver. Leverage the marketing budgets of your competitors and reverse engineer that data to grow your business FAST and EASY!

-SPY On Yourself to Manage Your Online Brand Reputation
-SPY On Your Prospects to Create Content that Sells & Converts
-SPY on your Competitors to Leverage Their Marketing Efforts to Your Advantage
-Does Your Online Presence Make these Massive Mistakes?

Beautiful design without Internet marketing don’t attract the right visitors or convert them
Egocentric marketing makes the business owner happy, but doesn’t serve or attract prospects
Out-dated digital brochure site doesn’t engage visitors or provide information they need to buy now

Accept this Internet Marketing Mission and Learn How to:
-Leverage multi-million dollar online marketing campaigns to your advantage
-Learn the Competitive Intelligence Tools of the online professionals to reverse engineer a marketing plan that beats the competitors with much higher budgets.

Apply Marketing Espionage, a holistic approach with SEO, blogging and social media to dominate page one of search results
Find and use the right keywords for your ideal prospects and customers
Integrate videos, images and social media to boost and your site’s Findability
Build a new website or fix your current site to get found online and dominate your market

Daniel T. Bloom

In an environment where many organizations think of human capital assets as little more than expense items that impact the bottom line, this book will help human resource (HR) professionals initiate a shift toward a new culture in which management views employees as true partners in achieving organizational success.

The Field Guide to Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma provides detailed guidance on how to utilize the Six Sigma methodology and the TLS Continuum to achieve the business model that is required to thrive in today’s business environment. The book demonstrates a clear path to continuous improvement that is based on the practice of spreading quality throughout the organization so that it becomes everyone’s responsibility.

This book is the sequel to Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma. In this book, Daniel Bloom provides a road map on how to implement the concepts found in the first book.

The book begins by explaining how to create an HR Center of Excellence and then provides an understanding of the define-measure-analyze-improve-control (DMAIC) process and its implementation for HR. This road map will help you determine where your organization is failing to meet the voice of the customer.

The book presents proven Six Sigma solutions for initiating and sustaining organizational change as well as strategies that allow leadership to make adjustments to processes if your organization falls short of meeting the need of the customer. It includes case studies of organizations that have successfully utilized the Six Sigma methodology to improve workflow and correct HR issues including the actual project documents used to implement the methodology.

A word of caution: If the reason you are looking to improve work flow is to find ways to reduce headcount, then this is not the book for you. Instead, if you are looking for a guide that can help you become a strategic partner, administrative expert, employee champion, and change agent, then fasten your seat belts and begin this worthwhile journey.

Angela Preston

In May 2014, I decided to quit the job that had run through my veins for so long and I loved so much. Up until a few months before, I still woke up every day thankful I had landed the role I wanted more than anything. I had worked my way up from grassroots level and knew the ins and outs of the job. This was necessary if I was to be successful. I felt I had to be effective not just for myself, but also for the divisional manager, who had believed in me and given me my chance. My work ethic had been instilled in me from a little girl, coming from a family of six girls, four of which were older than me. They along with our parents had shown me what you can achieve from working hard, but my hunger to succeed started at an early age. From as far back as I can remember, I didn’t take losing very well, so more often than not, I studied and practiced every game we played, giving me that edge all the time, ensuring I won most of the time, and this still continues today.

John David

The Essential Guide to Avoid Digital Damage, Lock Down Your Brand, and Defend Your Business

With virtually nonexistent oversight, the Internet can easily become the judge, jury, and executioner for anyone’s reputation. Digital attacks and misinformation can cost you a job, a promotion, your marriage, even your business. Whether you’ve done something foolish yourself, are unfairly linked to another’s misdeeds, or are simply the innocent victim of a third-party attack, most of us have no idea how to protect our online reputations.
How to Protect (or Destroy) Your Reputation Online provides a wealth of practical information on how to protect your online reputation and even remove negative content from search results. It will teach you how to:

• Take control of your online voice and build a reputational firewall.
• React and respond to an online attack.
• Understand and manage online reviews.
• Use marketing strategies that will both improve your online reputation and bolster your bottom line.

How to Protect (or Destroy) Your Reputation Online is an indispensable guidebook for individuals and businesses, offering in-depth information about popular review sites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Angie’s List. John also shows you how to deal with revenge porn, hate blogs, Google’s “right to be forgotten” in Europe, the business of online complaint sites, even the covert ops of reputation management.

Jill Griffin

Corporate board seats are scarce and competition is fierce. That’s because board service bundles together a host of rewarding experiences: the opportunity to be an “insider” and view, first-hand, how another company works at its highest levels, and the privilege to work and learn from the brightest, most successful and articulate professionals who will ever likely cross your path.

On the pages of Earn Your Seat on a Corporate Board, Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” author, Jill Griffin, brings two mission-critical skill sets: deep branding, marketing and customer loyalty expertise and over a decade of experience as an Independent Director for beloved restaurant brands, Luby’s/Fuddruckers. (NYSE: LUB). Bottom line, she brings practitioner know-how and insider advice—both essential in finding and winning your perfect board seat. Jill writes through the eyes of seasoned directors and packs each chapter with real-world case studies, detailed examples, and powerful how-to’s.

Don’t sit passively waiting for a corporate board to find you. Take action on your ambition. This book is your perfect guide.

Maribeth Kuzmeski

What makes the world’s most successful individuals so good at their jobs? What do they do that others don’t? The Connectors answers those questions with the kind of straightforward wisdom that business strategists so often overlook. Forget marketing tactics or business school best practices. Those are handy, but it’s really people—and the relationships you build with them—that form the cornerstone of long-term success, sales growth, and excellence. The Connectors shares the tactics of developing profitable business relationships as told to author, Maribeth Kuzmeski, by some of the world’s most successful business people, entrepreneurs, founders of famous companies, politicians and more. Learn how to build the kind of high-quality relationships that lead to c-suite positions, lifelong clients, and endless referrals.

Mark Sanborn

In The Fred Factor, bestselling author Mark Sanborn relates the four principles of injecting passion into our work and life through the story of Fred, his Denver postman, and others like him. No matter where we are in our career, no matter our position in the organization, no matter our current involvement, we can all transform our lives from the ordinary into the extraordinary by bringing fresh energy and creativity to our life and work.