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Drawing on 30-years of successful change management delivery, this book lays out how to get any business change adopted. Written in an engaging conversational style and brought to life through cartoon character "Change Cat", it gets to the heart of how to design, develop, and deliver change that works.

In Amplifiers, entrepreneur and expert management and technology consultant Tom Finegan delivers an insightful new way to think about human behavior in the execution of corporate transformations. Through an exploration of the career journeys of several leaders and analyses of "True Amplifiers" in action, the book demonstrates how to deliver strategic and transformative change by relying on the efforts of key, exemplary followers. This important book:

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true. One does not just suddenly become a great speaker. Rather, what happens is that we start to give speeches and gradually over time we get better at doing it. However, we'll never get any better at speaking in public if we don't know how to change.

What if the real fight for America didn’t start in Washington—but in a van parked behind a strip mall? When 64-year-old David Mercer, a former nonprofit founder now living in his car, uploads a video declaring he’s suing both major political parties for abandoning the people, he has no idea the spark he’s about to ignite. What begins as a desperate cry for help becomes a national movement—uniting veterans, teachers, mothers, whistleblowers, and coal miners across the country. Led by civil rights attorney Rosa Calderón, the class-action lawsuit shakes the foundations of American ...

Everything you want to achieve in life from a successful career, thriving relationships, improved health, or simply to increase your happiness and well being everything starts with habits. Everything! HABITS AND HAPPINESS combines years of research by experts in the field of habits, neuroscience, traditional and positive psychology, and teaches you how to apply this new information in a very simple and practical way. This book will help you understand your habits: why you have them, why you can or cannot change them, and how they can work to help you live a great life. Implementing habitual...

Is your career strategy holding you back? The Career Masterclass for Women by Becky Heidesch is the essential guide for women looking to take charge of their careers and reach their full potential. With decades of experience, Becky offers unparalleled expertise, making this book a must-have for any woman navigating today’s competitive job market. As the founder of two online career centers and a nationwide boutique executive search firm, she’s placed senior-level women across various industries, interviewing hundreds of executives along the way.

Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) grew up in a home disrupted by poverty, addiction, and family dysfunction. He understands the feelings of fear, lostness, and desperation that overwhelm too many children today - because that was his life. That experience is what drives him to work relentlessly to empower people living in the toughest areas to envision and create a better future for themselves. Disrupt the norm. That is the challenge Hamish, a Nationally Distinguished Principal, calls educators, students, families, and communities to accept.

Break Free and Reach Your Goals: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt Are fear and self-doubt stopping you from achieving what you truly want in life? Do you struggle with procrastination, a lack of motivation, or feel like your goals are always just out of reach? This book is for anyone who knows they’re capable of more but can’t seem to break through the mental and emotional barriers holding them back. Break Free and Reach Your Goals is a practical and encouraging guide to personal growth and lasting change. Inside, you’ll discover how to stop spinning your wheels and start ...

Are You Ready to Make the Leap from Employee to Solo Consultant? Find out with this comprehensive guide designed to help technical professionals evaluate every aspect of the transition. Do you feel overwhelmed by the idea of leaving traditional employment? Are you questioning whether you have the right skills, mindset, or financial stability to succeed as a solo consultant? Is Solo Consulting Right for You gives you the tools, insights, and confidence to make an informed decision about this life-changing career move. Phil Charles, a solo consultant with 25 years of experience and a ...

Hello and welcome to my book Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally. I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes December 20, 2022. It was a shock. It brought a number of thoughts, and fears, to the surface. It brought a sense of my life being at risk. As you will learn from this book, my perspective on diabetes was horrendously negative. My father was diagnosed as diabetic in his later years when I was a young lad, just taller than the knees of a grasshopper. It was the late 1960s. The situation was confusing and stressful for my parents. Information was limited and there was little ...

One-Size-Fits-All Leadership is Dead! Leadership is personal and personalized. What does that mean and why is it important to embrace that ethos now? The Covid pandemic exposed, in ways that no one could have ever imagined, that people are looking for something entirely different than they have been receiving from their companies and leaders. What motivates and inspires one person may be very different from what motivates another. UnCommon Leadership® for the New Reality: 3 Principles that Drive Greater Awareness, Engagement, and Psychological Safety will provide the roadmap to evaluate ...

Are you ready to take your consulting career to the next level? Look no further than this advanced consulting handbook for consultants! This comprehensive guide will provide you great insights and proven strategies to empower you to excel in the complex and dynamic world of consulting! In this book, you’ll discover all the advanced consulting skills! we’ll dive into agile consulting methodologies, design thinking, systems thinking, advanced strategic planning, innovation and creativity techniques, process improvement methodologies, project management and advanced change management ...

We humans crave security. Yet, continual change and adaptation are the lifeblood of a company. Keeping an organization competitive and relevant means regular change, thus shattering the sense of security people have with their jobs and their livelihoods. It’s no wonder people resist change. No matter a global corporation or small business, change is often "done" to a voiceless workforce.

You have already taken enough risk by taking a mortgage. Therefore, the basic purpose of this wonderful book, The Accelerated Mortgage Payoff: Pay Your Mortgage Off in 1/2, 1/3, or even 1/4 The Time with no Change In Lifestyle, is to provide you with an in-depth understanding of debt reduction procedures and super effective strategies for reducing that risk and paying off all your debts, in the shortest possible time. Imagine what you are capable of doing without the burden of your mortgage. You can buy a new home, take one of those long vacations you always promised yourself, send your ...

Culture, leadership and the ability to change determine organizational performance... But 75% of Organizational Change programs fail - being too conceptual, organization wide and command-and-control like. Change consultant Marcella Bremer got frustrated and developed this pragmatic 21st Century approach to organizational culture, change and leadership. The starting point for change is the validated Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument based on the Competing Values Framework by Cameron and Quinn. Next, engage in OCAI-workshops or Change Circles to develop vital change: that is ...

How humans decide what to believe, in their professional and personal lives, is vital. It applies to organizational change, our interest area, but also critically to life, such as health and medical decisions, fake news, politics, and more. Much of the sifting and winnowing of information, of separating wheat from chaff, that turns information into knowledge, however, is done subconsciously using heuristics (mental shortcuts) to decide whom to trust and what to believe. Once people decide which authorities and evidence to trust, they get on with life without returning to questions such as ...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is not a revolutionary new technology. Instead, it is better to think of this as being a new way of organizing computer network functionality. SDN allows the network to be virtualized. That's where the real power of SDN comes from, and that's what we'll be exploring in this book.

This guide is specifically tailored for rural Indigenous communities. We'll explain digital advocacy and its significance in bridging communication gaps between Indigenous communities and decision-makers. Checklists, recommended tools, and easy-to-follow guides will keep you on track to developing skills in amplifying your voice, lobbying governments, and influencing change in the digital age.

The purpose of writing The Role of Resistance to Change in Church Sustainability in Harlem, New York, is to determine the role that resistance to change plays in ensuring that a church continues to survive in the face of the gentrification of the Harlem community.Chapter 1 details a ministry problem that prompted my interest in this project. It expounds upon the community and congregational contexts, hypothesis, scope of the problem, as well as the theological and theoretical foundations.Chapter 2 provides a literature review of works relevant to framing an understanding of the impact of ...

Every speaker would like to become a better speaker. After each speech that we give, we all think to ourselves about the things that we could have done differently that would have gotten a better reaction from our audience. The trick is that we have to remember the changes that we need to make and then we need to make them. That's what this audiobook is all about - helping you to remember how you can become a better public speaker.