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By bestselling author Brian Tracy, a revised and updated edition of this indispensable field guide to using military strategies to win in business and life. The modern world can be a battleground, but key strategies that have helped history’s great leaders triumph in military campaigns can also be used to achieve business and personal success. Brian Tracy is a leading authority on success and achievement, authoring bestsellers including Eat That Frog!, and raising millions toward advancement with his guidance. In this fully revised and updated edition of a classic, Tracy presents 12 core principles of successful military commanders and how to apply them in almost any situation and emerge victorious, including proven methods to: · Concentrate your strengths in the most effective way to reach your goals · Gather game-changing intelligence to determine the best approach · Decide when to go on the offensive vs. cover your bases · Exploit the element of surprise for maximum benefit Packed with Tracy’s transformative advice, Victory! arms readers with powerful skills and a practical road map to unlock their potential for greatness in business and in life.

When I enter the Most Valuable Playboy charity auction, my goal is simple be the player who goes for the most dough. But when trouble shows up at the auction, I need a whole new play. Enter Violet she's my best friend's sister and she's my close friend too. With a smile as sweet as cherry pie and a mind that runs quicker than the 40-yard-dash, Violet saves the day with the highest bid. I don't even give her a two-minute warning before I kiss her in front of the whole crowd and then announce that she's my girlfriend.

We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls–Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle–took the oath to join Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she’s a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Mel Robbins has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-depth understanding of the psychological and social factors that repeatedly hold you back, and more important, a unique set of tools for getting you where you want to be. In Stop Saying You're Fine, she draws on neuroscientific research, interviews with countless everyday people, and ideas she's tested in her own life to show what works and what doesn't. The key, she explains, is understanding how your own brain works against you. Because evolution has biased your mental gears against taking action, what you need are techniques to outsmart yourself.

Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect.

A partir de ahora, la leyenda se hace realidad. El universo creado por Frank Herbert en su aclamada serie Dune, seguida por millones de lectores en todo el mundo, se amplia para descubrirnos, por primera vez, el episodio que le dio origen.Diez mil anos antes del nacimiento de Paul Atreides, del derrocamiento de un imperio, los ultimos humanos libres se rebelaron contra el dominio de las poderosas maquinas que los habian esclavizado. En Dune, la Yihad Butleriana se revela la historia de Serena Butler, la mujer que prendio la llama de esa rebelion. Se destapa la traicion que convertiria en enemigos mortales a la Casa Atreides yla Casa Harkonnen. Se desvelan los origenes de la hermandad Bene Gesserit, de los doctores Suk, de la Orden de los Mentat y la Cofradia Espacial. Y aparece un planeta olvidado, Arrakis, donde acaba de descubrirse la melange, la especia que puede cambiar el destino de miles de planetas...

«Yo digo que la vida perfectamente puede estar hecha de la misma materia de las películas.» Cuando al poblado llega una de Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper o Charlton Heston, en casa de María Margarita se juntan las monedas exactas para una entrada y la mandan a ella a verla. Debido a su talento especial para contarlas como si fueran «en tecnicolor y cinemascope», al poco tiempo todo un público la espera impaciente tras cada proyección. «Comencé a fijarme en detalles que la mayoría pasaban por alto: el modo acanallado de pintarse los labios de la rubia amante del mafioso, algún tic casi inadvertido del pistolero en los instantes previos al saque, la forma en que los soldados encendían el cigarrillo en las trincheras para que el enemigo no viera el resplandor del fósforo.» Tan sencilla como poderosa, esta novela encierra un homenaje al arte de narrar historias, al tiempo que traza la mágica historia de los cines en los pueblos en sus tiempos de esplendor y decadencia.