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In Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura, CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a design firm that finds creative solutions for iconic brands and institutions such as GE, Nike, Citibank, Nikon, and Warby Parker and also West Point and the White House, offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new business book and way forward. Applied Empathy presents real strategies, based on Sub Rosa’s design work as well as the popular class Ventura and his team have taught at Princeton University, on how to make lasting connections and evolve your business internally (your employees, culture, and product/services) as well as externally (your brand, consumers, and value).

Mining the sacred from the mundane, Karen Kinney offers a treasure trove of jeweled truths intended to bolster both your creativity and your larger life. Drawing from her experience as a professional artist and writer who has engaged in contemplative spiritual practice for over 20 years, she leads you on a liberating journey of greater self-awareness and expansion.

When life’s got you down and things aren’t going your way, who better to turn to than Edgar Allan Poe? Discover how to say "nevermore" to your problems in this darkly comedic and refreshing self-help guide.

Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and wellbeing. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once, increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance.

In a world where success often feels like a game with no clear rules, how do you unlock the secrets to winning? How do you navigate life's challenges and business obstacles with confidence and clarity? "The Art of Power" isn't just another self-help book—it's your ultimate guide to discovering the hidden levers that will help you master both business and life.

The purpose of this book is to provide you with a thorough picture of what Parkinson’s Law is, what effects this are being placed on our minds that this law shines a light on, how those effects manifest themselves in the physical world through our actions, the limits this can place on us, and what you can do to harness the power of those mental tendencies to benefit you.

Evelyn Rysdyk explains, from the shamanic perspective, how creativity—or creative energy—is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to use the shamanic technologies of spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life.

In this new book from the best-selling author of Drive, Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives and identifies the three personal qualities and four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes and analysis instead of exhortation, Dan builds on his own sales experience and on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople - and makes us look again at our own sales skills.

In conclusion, becoming a well-rounded presidential candidate requires a combination of meeting the necessary requirements and possessing a diverse set of qualifications. As outlined in this book, there are 15 key requirements to being eligible to run for the highest office in the United States. From citizenship and age eligibility to residency and background check requirements, it is essential for potential candidates to understand and fulfill each of these criteria.

Identify your creative mission and fulfill your purpose, guided by an inspiring road map of enthusiastic pep talks, artistic exercises, writing prompts, and a unique archetypal framework.

In 10-Minute Time Management: The Stress-Free Guide to Getting Stuff Done, best-selling author Ric Thompson gives you tips, strategies, and skills to help you manage your time in 10 minutes or fewer. He will help you reduce the amount of stress you are under because you feel like you have too much to do and not enough time to do it. This book will provide you with a simple plan designed to improve your productivity and give you more time to do the things you want to do.

Storytelling acts as a fantastic teaching tool that imparts life lessons to people of all ages. Storytelling has proved its durability and importance beyond any shadow of a doubt, beginning with the dawn of civilization and continuing in this era of almost immediate access to all knowledge. It has influenced our world in a number of ways, some of which are boringly simple to see and understand, and some of which remain more mysterious and enigmatic in meaning.

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients from reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development. Accessible and personable, Rahti Gorfien interweaves stories from her personal life and private practice to alleviate the burden of blockages creatives generated by their own divergent thinking, unconscious conditioning, and memory.

Nearly all of today’s major innovation workshops and programs call on organizations to drive innovation. What they miss is that innovation comes from the personal creativity of individuals. And creativity doesn’t require an advanced education or technical skills. All employees can be creative. Often, all they lack is a fitting mindset and the right skills.

Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this audiobook is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. It offers a more dynamic and integrative way to adapt and innovate, one that allows us the freedom to access our full human selves.

Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique, funny, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider, to short humor pieces, conversations, and memorable one-liners. Jonny's honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression, will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. It also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry.

When two unrelated things come together, something new springs into existence; they form a third thing, and that becomes a new idea. That’s Crossover Creativity. The more you read, watch, observe, and consume, the more fuel for ideas you have in your brain and the more crossover creativity will happen for you. In this latest collection of stories about creativity in real-life situations, Dave Trott presents examples of crossover creativity in action–as a guide for those who have to generate ideas in advertising, business, sport, or anywhere in the wider world.

Perfectionism is on the rise, and it has dire consequences for how we think and feel about ourselves and others as well as how we think, live, and work. Perfectionism has been seen to cause overthinking, overworking, burnout, sleeplessness, and mental health problems like depression and anxiety. We can’t keep going like this! But what’s the alternative if it’s not perfect? Lynne Cazaly uncovers how to think, work, and achieve in clever ways adapted from the productive and creative worlds of software development...and improvisation.

Prototyping is a way to test an idea to see if it can be successful before investing too much time and too many resources. But it's not only designers who "prototype" as they work. A skateboarder tries a new trick; that's a prototype experience. A chef experiments with a new dish and new ingredients; that's a prototype experience, too. Once a prototype is made, the creator gains knowledge about what worked and what didn't, what should be used again and what should be trimmed from the experience.

You don’t have to be brilliant to produce brilliant work. Many of the characters you will meet in this book failed at school, lacked natural talent, were not especially gifted or were repeatedly sacked. But their methods produced brilliant work - and they will work for you, too. Make Brilliant Work is the essential book from Rod Judkins, author of the international best seller The Art of Creative Thinking.