Influence Is Your Superpower


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Rediscover the superpower that makes good things happen, from the professor behind Yale School of Management's most popular class “The new rules of persuasion for a better world.”—Charles Duhigg, author of the bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life. Influence doesn’t work the way you think because you don’t think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential. Discover the one thing that influences behavior more than anything else. Learn to cultivate charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. Along the way, you’ll meet alligators, skydivers, a mind reader in a gorilla costume, Jennifer Lawrence, Genghis Khan, and the man who saved the world by saying no. Influence Is Your Superpower will teach you how to transform your life, your organization, and perhaps even the course of history. It’s an ethical approach to influence that will make life better for everyone, starting with you.




The Mighty Odds (The Odds Series #1)


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From the renowned author/illustrator of the Popularity Papers series, Amy Ignatow, comes the first installment in a new series about a diverse crew of middle school kids who develop very limited superhero powers after a strange accident and manage to become unlikely friends on the adventure of a lifetime. When a sweet nerd, an artsy cartoonist, a social outcast, and the most popular girl in school are involved in a mysterious bus accident, this seemingly random group of kids starts to notice some very strange abilities they did not have before. Artsy Martina can change her eye color. Nerdy Nick can teleport . . . four inches to the left. Outcast Farshad develops super strength, but only in his thumbs. And Cookie, the It Girl of school’s most popular clique, has suddenly developed the ability to read minds . . . when those minds are thinking about directions. They are oddly mighty—especially together. This group—who would never hang out under normal circumstances—must now combine all of their strengths to figure out what happened during the bus accident. With alternating narratives from each of the heroes, including illustrated pieces from Martina, and featuring bold female superheroes and a multicultural cast, The Mighty Odds is The Breakfast Club for a new generation. For more books by Amy Ignatow, check out her critically acclaimed Popularity Papers series: Book One: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham Chang; Book Two: The Long-Distance Dispatch; Book Three: Words of (Questionable) Wisdom; Book Four: The Rocky Road Trip; Book Five: The Awesomely Awful Melodies; Book Six: Love and Other Fiascos; and Book Seven: The Less-Than-Hidden Secrets and Final Revelations.




Superpower in Peril


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Discover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America’s full potential for greatness from one of the country’s foremost conservative leaders: David McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of our country these days, but as McCormick explains, if the true test of a great country is its capacity for self-renewal, the United States of America stands apart. Our country has continually defeated grave threats and overcome domestic divisions when the odds have been stacked against us. That’s the American story, and we can do it again. Drawing on decades of leadership in business, the military, and government, McCormick issues a call for visionary, servant leadership and outlines a conservative agenda for American renewal that would expand access to the American Dream, ensure U.S. technological supremacy, confront China, and revive the restless, courageous, and indefatigable spirit that dwells within the American heart. This book is a must read for those who care deeply about the future of America. McCormick, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, argues the path forward is treacherous and uncertain. It will undoubtedly test our resilience and place in the world. But if we commit ourselves to renewal, America's best days are yet to come.




The Killer's Garden


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Sarah, a recent graduate from law school, moves to New York from Alabama to start her new life away from her toxic, cheating ex husband. With the exciting scenery and an opportunity that will have her set for life, what could possibly go wrong? Shortly after moving into her new home, she suspects her neighbor is potentially a serial killer. With limited options, she has to find a way to get this man caught and live through the horror in the process.




Claim Your SWAGGER


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Claim Your SWAGGER is the first part of a three-book series that guides individuals from merely surviving life to thriving in it. Informed by her work with almost fifty thousand leaders at various multinational and Fortune 500 companies, her experience with cancer survivors, and her personal journey, Jennifer Sukalo’s SWAGGER approach shows readers what makes them not only unique, but extraordinary. Claim Your SWAGGER gives readers exclusive access to what companies have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for—Jennifer’s expertise. Claim Your SWAGGER helps readers develop a new relationship with their self-worth and learn to appreciate their strengths and limitations. Jennifer Sukalo explains how to find gratitude for the way one’s life experiences have shaped them and clarifies how to become grounded in their core values. Readers will learn to step into their power to overcome the self-limiting beliefs that hold them back and experience a sense of renewal through a greater focus on their passion and purpose. In Claim Your SWAGGER, readers will learn by doing. Jennifer Sukalo designed the SWAGGER process to guide motivated individuals as they take exploratory steps into the next phase of their personal development. The content and activities in Claim Your SWAGGER will help readers develop new knowledge and skills that enable them to respond to situations differently and create lasting behavioral change.




CQ: THE LEGACY LEADER’S SUPERPOWER


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From the Foreword: “In this gem of a book, Tony López introduces us to cultural intelligence (CQ) and helps us understand how we go about developing leadership and organizational CQ. Importantly, Tony also explores the roles of the board and executive leadership teams in enabling and measuring CQ. Consider this book a guide, a road map, if you will, but don’t think of it as a recipe. Our personal CQ journeys are as individual as our fingerprints. The good news is this: CQ can be developed, improved, and used effectively; it can be powerful. I challenge all of us to embark on this journey and become high CQ leaders. Our teams, communities, and our families deserve nothing less.” Yvonne Garcia Global Head of Internal Communications, Chief of Staff to Chairman and CEO State Street Corporation “Tony Lopez unlocks the vault on creating positive, enduring, and real change in how leaders and boards of directors must think about diversity, and how they can become culturally intelligent to fully leverage DE&I strategically and competitively up and down their organizations to drive impressive business results.” Esther Aguilera President and CEO Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA) “I have known Tony for many years and when Tony speaks, people need to listen. This book is insightful, and it is right on point, especially in today’s world. Understanding cultural intelligence (CQ) is paramount to any business leader of an organization, at all levels, including the board of directors. An organization that does not embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) will not survive. DE&I and CQ is no longer a “nice to have” but an imperative.” Jose R. Rodriguez, partner (retired), KPMG LLP Independent director, Popular, Inc., Primoris Services Corp., and CareMax, Inc. “I have known Tony for long enough to know that when he writes, I read. This book is a resource that will help us unlock the potential within each of us. Read it, apply it, and change the world around you. It will be time well spent!” Chester Elton Best-selling author of Leading with Gratitude




The Conflicted Superpower


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For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech facilities abroad. In this new world, U.S. technological leadership increasingly involves collaboration with other countries. China and India have emerged as particularly prominent partners, most notably as suppliers of intellectual talent to the United States. In The Conflicted Superpower, Andrew Kennedy explores how the world’s most powerful country approaches its growing collaboration with these two rising powers. Whereas China and India have embraced global innovation, policy in the United States is conflicted. Kennedy explains why, through in-depth case studies of U.S. policies toward skilled immigration, foreign students, and offshoring. These make clear that U.S. policy is more erratic than strategic, the outcome of domestic battles between competing interests. Pressing for openness is the “high-tech community”—the technology firms and research universities that embody U.S. technological leadership. Yet these pro-globalization forces can face resistance from a range of other interests, including labor and anti-immigration groups, and the nature of this resistance powerfully shapes just how open national policy is. Kennedy concludes by asking whether U.S. policies are accelerating or slowing American decline, and considering the prospects for U.S. policy making in years to come.




The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business


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This book enables readers to develop their own creative thinking and their teams' creative problem-solving skills to generate novel, useful and surprising ideas. The vast majority of companies believe that a culture of innovation and renewal impacts performance and ultimately business results. In contrast, many managers feel ill-equipped to promote a culture of creative endeavour for this type of work-environment and lack the know-how to put it into practice. This book covers theory, practice, and impact metrics of both convergent and divergent thinking tools and provide managers with the ideas, tools and guidance to develop a corporate culture conducive to intrapreneurial thinking, idea creation and testing and moving inventions from ideas to viable business concepts, products and profitable innovations. This book includes numerous step-by-step tutorials to help the reader to learn concepts quickly.




My Daily Superpowers


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This is James McLeod's second children's book. In it James encourages children to discover their unique superpowers through daily positive affirmations. This is a perfect book for children dealing with bullying or low self-esteem, or for any child, to teach lessons in kindness, self-love, respect, empathy, compassion and inclusion.




The Soul Solution


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“Vanessa is to women and power what Brené Brown is to vulnerability.” —Andy Dunn, author of Burn Rate, cofounder of Bonobos Are you so busy fulfilling everyone else’s expectations that you’ve lost touch with yourself? Do you find yourself filling up your “free” hours with mundane tasks, soaking up podcasts to improve yourself, and rushing around, never getting it all done? For many women, it’s the same kind of story—we hustle to overachieve at work and at home, all in the hopes that we can “crush it” until we finally feel fulfilled. Vanessa Loder invites you to consider this question: “What if the point isn't to crush it in life, but to savor it?” With The Soul Solution, this sought-after women’s leadership expert shares a powerful and practical guide to help women who feel overwhelmed and exhausted to recover our true selves—and our joy in living. Here she presents a road map for coming home to yourself, including: • The Whispers of Your Soul—the three key steps for tuning out the noise and accessing authenticity • Your Energetic Bread Crumbs—how the universe signals to you when you’re on the right path • Discover Your Superpower—why you’ve been ignoring your most valuable gifts, and how to reclaim them • From Tunnel Vision to Visionary—ways to break out of the “shame cycle” of patriarchal culture and own your destiny • Quieting the Inner Critic—how to retrain your inner voices to encourage and support you • The Upward Spiral—using the SAT method (Surrender, Allow, Trust) to get more of what you want with ease Filled with practical guidance and inspiring personal stories, The Soul Solution is a nonstrategic, nonlinear—but entirely effective—guide to help you reclaim your feminine, intuitive soul power to fulfill your most meaningful and satisfying desires.