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Are you tired of paying premium prices for simple questions while getting basic answers for complex analysis? Most businesses waste money by forcing every AI request through the same expensive model, regardless of task complexity. OpenAI Meets OpenClaw AI Assistant shows you how to build a hybrid AI agent that automatically routes work to the right model for the job. One assistant, multiple brains, zero coding required.

Achieve authentic leadership and master the balance between career and life, even if you've faced countless challenges in your professional journey! Do you feel undervalued in a male-dominated industry? Struggling to balance career demands with family life or battling self-doubt as you climb the career ladder? You're not alone. Many professional women face these challenges—but they can be overcome. The Power of Women in Leadership offers the tools and strategies to unlock your potential and lead confidently and authentically.

Selling is 85% emotional and 15% logical. Forget everything you've been taught about selling -- forget the hardsell, forget negotiation strategies, forget those closing techniques. In The Inner Game of Selling, Ron Willingham debunks the familiar myths about "sales skills," showing that those...

Not just another book on communication. Adaptive Listening helps you up-level the under-trained side of communication amidst the realities of a hectic workday. Researched and tested exclusively in the work setting, Adaptive Listening moves you beyond active listening, embracing easy-to-remember techniques that strengthen relationships and get work done more effectively.

It Depends: Writing on Technology Leadership 2012-2022, a collection of essays and articles by technology executive Kevin Goldsmith, is a must-listen for current or aspiring engineering managers, directors, and senior technology executives. With over thirty years of experience in leadership roles at industry-leading technology companies like IBM, Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and Adobe, as well as early-stage startups and unicorns like Spotify, Avvo, Anaconda, and DistroKid, Goldsmith shares his knowledge about leading technology teams and larger organizations in this book.

Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today's fast-paced, unpredictable environment: improvisation. In Getting to "Yes And" veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks a form of mental agility with powers far beyond the entertainment value of comedy troupes.

Whether you're an assistant or the CEO, whether you've been in the workforce for forty years or are just starting out, this guide will help you be more productive. You'll discover different ways to motivate yourself to work when you really don't want to; take on less, but get more done; preserve time for your most important work; improve your focus; make the most of small pockets of time between meetings; set boundaries with colleagues—without alienating them; and take time off without tearing your hair out.

Working with difficult people can reduce your morale, threaten your productivity, deplete your energy, and waste your time. But you don't have to be helpless in the face of other people's craziness! Knowing how to handle coworkers' disruptive behavior is one of the most important career skills you can have, allowing you to become a more valuable employee and a more self-reliant person.

Ownership Unlocked: 4 Principles to Build Self-Driven Teams That Take Initiative, Innovate, and Win, gives you a proven framework to transform uninspired teams into passionate "owners" who take initiative and deliver extraordinary results—without micromanaging or burning out. Fortune 500 veteran and PhD researcher Dr. Matthew F. Wilson reveals the secrets behind psychological ownership—the invisible force that motivates people to treat the business like their own.

The authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers. Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our...

The Change Cycle offers a tested, six-stage approach for successfully navigating common work-life transitions so that you not only get through them but emerge stronger and better able to face the next challenge.

Franklin Covey experts Kory Kogon and Suzette Blakemore understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. This updated and revised edition of Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the people and project management Initiate Plan Execute Monitor.

Here's the secret no one has told you until now. Your success as a facilitator has nothing to do with the types of clients you serve, but everything to do with your understanding of the predictable (and repeatable) process of transformation! Shift the Field is the definitive guide for coaches, consultants, healers, retreat leaders, and other service providers who want to facilitate powerful and lasting transformation within their programs and offerings.

Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and a successful consultant who speaks to thousands of people every year, found that most networking advice books assume that to succeed you have to become an extrovert. Or at least learn how to fake it. Not at all. There is another way. This audiobook shatters stereotypes about people who dislike networking. They’re not shy or misanthropic. Rather, they tend to be reflective - they think before they talk. They focus intensely on a few things rather than broadly on a lot of things. And they need time alone to recharge.

Ryan Matt Reynolds is a successful strength coach, business owner, and business mentor. This book is the road map he wished he had many years ago when he felt like he was drowning in urgency. Reynolds’s personal journey as a professional athlete, business owner, husband, father, and mentor lends credence to his practices as he shares his foundational principles.

Life is built one conversation at a time. Learn which conversations matter, how to transform those conversations, and balance them all while leading change. Human beings are conversational animals. Every day we're in constant communication with ourselves, other people and the world around us, and while not all conversations may seem important, they all have the potential to transform our personal, professional and cultural lives for the better. This book explains how conversations work and offers practical advice on how to improve the quality of our exchanges.

Do you want to resolve conflict peacefully without creating awkward tension? To stand up for yourself, set boundaries, and never feel disrespected? What if you could have those tough personal and professional conversations with less stress...and more success? Prevent avoidance and fear from dictating your decisions.

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge fund honchos, All the Money in the World gives us the lowdown on, among other things: the all-time richest Americans, who made and lost the most money in the past 25 years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives.

'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' So said author Douglas Adams - but what if there was a way of making deadlines work for you and using them to ensure others provide you with what you want when you want it? In Christopher Cox's brilliant new book, he looks...

¿Sabes en qué inviertes tu tiempo y energía? Descubre lo que es verdaderamente esencial y obtén los mejores resultados. Esencial no se trata de hacer más cosas en menos tiempo. Se trata de obtener sólo cosas bien hechas. No es una estrategia de gestión del tiempo, o una técnica de productividad. Es una disciplina sistemática para discernir lo que es absolutamente esencial y eliminar todo lo que no es, para que podamos enfocarnos en lo que realmente importa.