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Together We Climb: A Community-Driven Approach to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Build Prosperity
Steven C. Taylor & Jason Janz (Advantage Books)
This book illustrates that poverty in America is not a waiting room but a mountain to scale, and no one reaches the summit alone. In Together We Climb, policy leader Steven C. Taylor and CrossPurpose founder Jason Janz, both shaped by childhoods on the economic edge, confront a staggering paradox: the wealthiest country in the world cannot pull its people out of poverty. How can one understand that the country spends $1.75 trillion a year making...
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The Impolite Canadian: Why Playing Nice Is Costing Us the Future
Kumaran Nadesan (Forbes Books)
Canada’s greatest weakness may be the very trait the world admires most— its politeness. In The Impolite Canadian, Kumaran Nadesan, an entrepreneur and former public servant, argues that a national identity built on quiet deference has cost the country its talent, its influence, and its voice on the world stage. He reflects on his journey from war-torn Sri Lanka to a Scarborough apartment block to Team Canada trade missions abroad, and he dismant...
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Super Players
Verne Harnish (Forbes Books)
What separates the employee who merely shows up from the one who becomes indispensable? In Super Players, Verne Harnish and Kevin Daum, with Anne Mary Ciminelli, argue that the difference between the two is not talent. It is habit. Drawing on decades of coaching companies through scaling, they map twelve high-impact habits across the four capacities every organization wants to win at: Will, Values, Results, and Skills. Each chapter opens with a d...
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Tuesday in Trussville: How One Small Town's Lift Up Culture Is Shaping the Future of Business
Robert L. Mason (Forbes Books)
What if the most disruptive business strategy of the century is not artificial intelligence but love? That's the wager behind Robert L. Mason's account of SPOC Energy, the hybrid-power company he built in Trussville, Alabama. The book opens on a Tuesday in Trussville, Alabama, when Mason gathers the entire SPOC Energy workforce beneath the red steel beams of Building Eight to announce a company-wide drug test. He watches a veteran police officer...
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Carry the Weight
Joshua Teixidor (Curtis Publishing)
Most leadership books open with a hero’s story, but Carry the Weight opens with a manager who became the boss he used to hate. Joshua Teixidor is a top sales rep promoted for hitting numbers, but he nearly loses his best people by confusing pressure with leadership. That is, until a rep named Melissa tells him he is not coaching anyone. That moment becomes an epiphany for him: you don't become a leader when you get the title. You become one when...
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Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist’s Inquiry into AI and Consciousness
Sophie Guellati-Salcedo, Ph.D. (SGS Quantum Press)
What happens to a mind that thinks alongside a machine that responds with spontaneity? That question is cleverly explored in Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Inquiry into AI and Consciousness, the third volume in Sophie Guellati-Salcedo’s acclaimed series. She is a practicing health psychologist who approaches artificial intelligence neither as a technologist nor a doomsayer but as a clinician of human behavior, asking not what AI is,...
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The Touchstones of Leadership: Essential Principles for Business Leaders
Joseph Carleone (Forbes Books)
What if everything you needed to know about leadership fit on forty-five index cards? Joseph Carleone's The Touchstones of Leadership delivers exactly that. With a career that ran from rocket motors to pharmaceutical plants, Carleone brings decades of hard lessons into punchy one-liners that are as revelatory as they are thought-provoking, such as “Never mistake activity for achievement” or “Once you get into a hole, stop digging.”He sorts them i...
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Center Stage Confidence: How to Own your Story and Command Any Room
Justin Guarini (Entrepreneur Press)
The spotlight doesn't give you confidence; showing up scared does. That is the key idea behind Justin Guarini’s Center Stage Confidence, a compelling book that's part memoir, part playbook. The book brings you wisdom and insights from experiences that include seven Broadway shows, American Idol, and seven years as Dr Pepper’s Lil’ Sweet. The book quickly shows you the indisputable truth: everything you want waits on the other side of your willing...
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ActualizationOS: A System of Inner Architecture
Sanjay Sabnani (Causal Wisdom)
What if change fails not because you lack willpower, but because your inner system is working against itself? That is the bracing premise of Sanjay Sabnani's ActualizationOS, a field manual for deliberate transformation inspired by the author’s own breakdown. After losing his marriage and business in 2015, Sabnani rebuilt his mind through a simple chanting practice, then spent a decade putting together what actually worked. Stillness is the platf...
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White Coat Leadership: Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders from Bedside to Boardroom
Timothy N. Liesching (Advantage Books)
In White Coat Leadership: Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders from Bedside to Boardroom, Dr. Timothy N. Liesching, a former banker, an ICU physician, and past chief medical officer, argues that American healthcare's compounding crises (workforce burnout, soaring costs, technological disruption, and fragmented care) demand a new kind of leader: the clinician who can “heal, lead, and inspire.” The book is part manual, part manifest...
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