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Juice
The Power of Conversation

Author: Brady G. Wilson

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JUICE is an extraordinary resource that introduces you to the principles you need to handle tough conversations - principles that if practiced will yield major improvements in areas like productivity, quality, safety, diversity, change management, and personal relationships.

In Juice: The Power of Conversation, you will discover:

  • How to develop the skills to step up to controversial and heated issues
  • Unique tools to create an environment where people share their best ideas
  • Powerful strategies to professionally discuss issues in a way that makes it safe for everyone to speak

Finding the Sticking Point
Increase Sales by Transforming Customer
Resistance into Customer Engagement
Author: Brady G. Wilson

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"Brady Wilson is the expert on releasing intelligent energy and energizing your customers."
- Brian Stevenson, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, LaserNetworks Inc.

This brief, incisive, and entertaining book will take you to the place where sales are made with energy and flow. Finding the Sticking Point shows you how to converse with your customers in ways that help you: find the point of resistance to a sale in your customer, detect its connection to your customer's emotional needs and energizers, build a relationship based on trust, increase your sales by revealing the Bigger Reality between you and your customers.

As the author puts it: Selling is not about closing sales, it's about opening relationships, engaging relationships that will support many closed sales.


The Trouble with Canada ... Still!
A Citizen Speaks Out
Author: William D. Gairdner

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“... an eloquent plea for liberty and independence by a ... critic who combines singing prose with a gimlet eye.” — ROGER KIMBALL, editor, The New Criterion

“... provocative and stimulating ... indispensable to the national political debate under way.” — CONRAD BLACK

“Gairdner sees bright and clear what Canada so greatly needs, and his mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for a national—binational—celebration.”
— WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. (commenting on the original edition)

Two decades ago The Trouble with Canada sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation. Now, in this completely revised update, William D. Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: top-down collectivism and bottom-up individualism. The result is a regime besotted with high taxation and big government, a welfare culture that rewards laziness, and a hug-a-thug mentality that betrays justice.


Succession Planning for Family Businesses
Preparing for the Next Generation
Author: Michael A. Lobraico

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“That Succession Planning for Family Businesses is a collaborative effort by three authors with vastly different types of family business experience and areas of technical savvy speaks to both the complexity of the subject matter of this book and the value of its message.”
— THOMAS WILLIAM DEANS, Ph.D., bestselling author of Every Family's Business


Whether big or small, global or local, family businesses are the engine of wealth and security for owners, families, employees, and business as a whole. But as this book shows, that engine can easily break down:

-- If the family, ownership, and business circles related to the business fail to hold regular and candid conversations that clarify ownership's intent for the business and the rules for family members' ownership of and employment in the company

-- And if the business fails to run itself on solid, independent business principles
Using an entertaining case study of a composite company, Blooms Floral, the authors coach readers in how to conduct these conversations to ensure that future generations of their family business not only survive, but thrive.


Sheeba's Secret
A Formula for More Success through Greater Self-Awareness
Author: Sheeba Varghese

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Who is she? Sheeba Varghese. What's her secret? That ultimately all success flows from greater self-awareness.

“Sheeba's Secret equips readers to benefit richly from life's pitfalls, pratfalls, and problems. An eye-opening journey into the world of human potential guided by a brave and honest woman.”
—JIM CUDDY, Lead Singer, Blue Rodeo

“Engaging and captivating - a truly impressive book that will rattle personal and business conventions and inspire readers to take a more meaningful and productive journey.”
—DONALD J.P. ZIRALDO, O.C., Co-founder of Inniskillin Wines

“If you are driven, talented, and determined to succeed, Sheeba's Secret is an immediate must-read.”
—RON FOXCROFT, Founder and CEO, Fox 40 International


The Business Transition Crisis
Plan Your Succession Now to Beat the Biggest Business Selloff in History
Author: Wayne Vanwyck

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Wayne Vanwyck is on a mission. A leading Business Transition Coach, he is alarmed that literally millions of Boomer business owners intend to retire in the next ten years but only 7 percent of them have a written succession plan. This means a tsunami of business selloffs is looming on the horizon. Vanwyck points out that business owners who don't plan their business transition now may have to kiss all their creativity, passion, and hard work goodbye as they face a market glutted with businesses for sale and scant few buyers. But he also says that those who do start planning their transition can increase the value of their business, increase their profitability today, and keep their options open. In The Business Transition Crisis he offers practical advice for you, including how you can: Sort out your personal and professional transition options. Prepare your business, your employees, and yourself for transition. Build an "A" team of advisors who will make transition easier and more profitable. Create a business plan that makes sense now and multiplies the valuation later. Take a sabbatical as a test run for retirement. Leave a legacy that you can be proud of.


The Choice
Finding Life in the Face of Adversity --
Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook
Author: Jan Hatanaka

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Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning.

Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships that exist between death and grief and the path that can lead to reconciling that grief.

Included in her stories is her own heart-wrenching and dramatic experience following a major health crisis. Hatanaka draws on her personal, clinical, and academic experience as she takes the reader through the Greif Reconciliation Process, describing the actual steps taken by people who manage to build a life of meaning in the face of significant adversity.

The Choice is brilliant in its simple, gentle, and profound exploration of the reality of suffering as part of the human experience. It exposes the hope that can be hidden in affliction.

The Choice will be of great help to those currently in the grips of personal adversity; the loved ones of those who are suffering; and health-care professionals, including medical practitioners , counsellors, therapists, and spiritual advisors.


Community Conversations
Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passions of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People
Author: Paul Born

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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life. At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced by a diverse array of people with different backgrounds and needs, and influencers are drawn from multiple sectors, including community organizations, the various levels of government, and businesses big and small. Full of informative and inspiring examples of collaboration, Community Conversations captures the essence of creating such conversations and offers ten practical techniques to host conversations in your community.


Confessions of a Trauma Therapist
A Memoir of Healing and Transformation
Author: Mary K. Armstrong

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“Trauma therapist Mary K. Armstrong embarks on an illuminating journey into her own secret past and emerges with a renewed sense of personal authenticity and joy in helping others.”
- SYLVIA FRASER, author of My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing

“A brilliant, heartbreaking, and inspiring account of a child's tragedy and a woman's persistent growth toward light, knowledge, truth, and strength. Never has the human spirit shone through more passionately.”
-  JUDY STEED, author of Our Little Secret: Child Sexual Abuse

To her surprise, dismay, and eventually relief, Mary Armstrong, a therapist with over thirty years of experience helping people heal from childhood trauma, uncovered her own history of child sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather and father. As she tells her harrowing but heroic tale, she casts light as never before on the issue of repressed memories and the invisible wounds left by childhood trauma.


Creating Vibrant Communities
How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada
Author: Paul Born

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In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality. Why? Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative, and energetic way. They are doing so courtesy of a new social phenomenon called Vibrant Communities: a network of people who are getting people together - citizens (no matter what their income), community developers, business people, and representatives from all levels of government -- to determine needs, community assets, and strategies. They're putting plans into action with astonishing results. This book tells their story. And perhaps yours, too.


How to Hire the Perfect Employer
Finding the Job and Career that Fit You Through a Powerful Informercial
Author: Jim Beqaj

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In words that are honest, encouraging, and invigorating, Jim Beqaj shows how you can hire the perfect employer ... By uncovering ...

  • What you're good at, based on what you love to do
  • How you're wired, based on who you love to work with
  • Your preferred method of resolving conflicts at work ... and discovering ... * Your Target Rich Environment - the organizations that both need you and want you ... and creating ...
  • Your Personal Infomercial - a clear, compelling statement of who you are, how you like to work, and how you can add value

 


The Human Equation
The Constant in Human Development from Pre-Literacy
Book 1 The Human Equation Toolkit
Authors: Eric McLuhan and Wayne Constantineau

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The first of four books in a groundbreaking new series, The Human Equation Toolkit.

“We are very lucky indeed that Eric McLuhan and Wayne Constantineau are carrying on the McLuhan tradition of fearless investigation into territories that yield extraordinary insight. Strange and fascinating works.”
- Douglas Coupland Mime

Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four possible positions of humans-standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling-as the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity, and media. As McLuhan writes, “Man is the microcosm of the universe. Media are the extensions of man. The Human Equation is the doorway into all three ... The Human Equation deals with the relation between humans and our media, technologies, languages, theories, and ideas.”


Just-in-Time Management
Over 950 Practical Lessons Your MBA Professor Didn't Teach You
Author: Cy Charney

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It's not that Cy Charney opposes MBA and other types of academic training. It's just that he feels academic training doesn’t go far enough - that it fails to prepare people for what life as a manager is really like. Now Charney has published the ninth book in his lifelong campaign to bridge this gap - a gap that he believes is particularly challenging in today's instant, multi-tasking, change-intensive world of work. In Just-in-Time Management, he shares 950-plus pieces of practical advice under the headings of: *Be Productive *Increase Your Influence *Inspire and Motivate Staff *Manage Effectively Every Day *Deal with Employee Challenges *Lead Strategically *Take Care of Yourself


Love at Work
Why Passion Drives Performance in the Feelings Economy
Author: Brady G. Wilson

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Love at Work foments a revolution for workplaces of every description and in every industry: a revolution in which leaders understand that engaging people's hearts trumps engaging their minds. Wilson shows how leaders who love: believe in their people; pull out their highest good; serve their success; and challenge them to stress. "When people's felt needs are met", says author Brady Wilson, "they release the energy that triggers discretionary effort - 400% more effort, according to the Corporate Leadership Council. The principles in this cutting-edge book are sure to change the face of the workplace for years to come."

"A game changer ... provocative, thoughtful, and challenging."
- JIM BROWN, author of The Imperfect Board Member

"... a must read for anyone who interacts with people at work."
- JOSE TOLOVI, Jr., PhD, Global CEO, Great Place to Work Institute

"True love is a competence, a spiritual force, a strategy, a way of life. I challenge you to read this book, think, and engage."
- MARK RIVERS, CEO, Canadian Equity Opportunity Capital


Never Go to the Hospital Alone
And Other Insider Secrest for Getting Mistake-Free
Health Care from Your Doctor and Hospital

Author: Steve Harden

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This year 176,445 patients in the U.S. will die due to preventable errors, infections, and medication mistakes. This book explains the simple steps you must take to avoid being one of them.

“Even physicians and their families should use this book to navigate through the health care maze. Never Go to the Hospital Alone guides patients and their loved ones in finding and getting the best and safest possible health care.”
—MATTHEW COOPER, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery


Steven Harden is a former U.S. Navy TOPGUN pilot who is using the stellar safety measures of the U.S. aviation industry to help hospitals and doctors protect their patients by improving their safety results. His health care safety work has been covered by major publications and media outlets, including the New York Times, Entrepreneur magazine, and PBS NewsHour.

In Never Go to the Hospital Alone, Harden shows you how to pick a great doctor and a great hospital for yourself or your loved ones, and how to be vigilant and prevent the mistakes that plague patient care, including wrong surgeries, blood clots after operations, and inaccurate and sometimes deadly prescription errors.

This wise and practical book includes such topics as:

• Secrets for choosing a good doctor
• Nine questions to ask before you go to the hospital
• Ten keys to taking charge of your health care
• Ten secrets for a safe surgery

Steve Harden is a Memphis-based author, speaker, safety consultant, and airline captain. He is the founder and president of Lifewings — a team of physicians, nurses, pilots, and safety system experts that teaches health care organizations how to eliminate medical mistakes.


The Relationship Revolution
Are You Part of the Movement or Part of the Resistance?

Author: Owen Williams

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Any relationship can work. In The Relationship Revolution, Owen Williams calls on couples to stop working in their relationship and start working on it. When couples work in their relationship, they compete against each other. They justify themselves, play the blame game, and compare each other's level of effort. It's not long before they say, “A relationship that takes this much work isn't worth saving.” When couples work on their relationship, they co-create the relationship they both dream of. Their focus is on the needs of the relationship. Instead of fixating on their individual shortcomings, they concentrate on the potential of what they can build together. Then, as they discover what their relationship needs, each individual is naturally drawn to what keeps them from offering their best to the relationship. Before long the two - individually and together - evaluate their beliefs about themselves and the world. While relatively untroubled relationships can easily fall apart under the first approach, relationships marked by infidelity, loss, betrayal, or long-term disconnection can make the journey back to health under the second. Welcome to the revolution.

Owen Williams is a Relationship Coach and the founder of Inner Directions - The Centre for Relationship Excellence, in Toronto, Canada. He won the 2008 Ron Hering Award in recognition of his service to men in his community. He has co-hosted a radio show on relationships and is a popular keynote speaker, presenter, and facilitator.


Tight Corner
Author: Roger White

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A murder mystery set in Ottawa, Canada, where gothic Parliament buildings dominate a landscape riddled with backstabbers and cocaine sniffers. Conn Anderson, a former public servant, has turned a passion for old English sports cars into owning a shop, Britfit, that repairs them. All he wants to do is run his business - that and get to know his landlady's niece a whole lot better. Everything is going swimmingly until a mysterious government-leased Jaguar is destroyed on the premises by an arsonist, the shop's resident mouse catcher is kicked nearly to death, and someone tries to run Anderson off the road. As the body count mounts, Anderson is drawn deeper and deeper into the dealings of a government document production ring that feeds on the most vulnerable members of Canadian society.

 


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