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The Coaching Habit "un-weirded" coaching and made it practical and accessible to everyone. Ten years on, and that skill has never been more relevant. It's not just for coaches. It's for managers, leaders, parents... anyone who works and lives with other people.Being more coach-like and staying curious longer helps you connect more deeply, focus on what matters, and bring out each other's best. Discover what more than a million readers have already learned about unlocking potential through seven essential coaching questions. Its practical wisdom is grounded in neuroscience and behavioural economics and enhanced with video support.In this special hardcover edition: A new chapter on four essential coaching paradoxes; two "secret chapters" on how to create your own coaching questions; and delightful illustrations that bring lessons to life. The Coaching Habit helps you master one of the most powerful human skills: staying curious just a little longer.His 10th anniversary hardcover edition features new content that goes beyond the questioning technique to help you become more coach-like in everything you do. Playful illustrations by Eric Klein offer fresh insights into applying coaching across contexts. Combining neuroscience and behavioural economics with interactive training tools, this edition transforms practical advice into lasting habits, taking your workplace from good to great.

The essential guide for every patient and family The doctor's office called. It's not good news. What comes next? When you are diagnosed with a life-changing illness, it can be overwhelming. While your diagnosis cannot be changed, the way you experience your illness can. In Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest, Dr. Seow and Dr. Winemaker have combined their decades of palliative care research and experience in caring for seriously ill patients. They have harnessed the advice of thousands of patients to create a roadmap that every patient and family will benefit from. In it, they share the 7 keys to unlock a better illness experience and reveal stories, tips and exercises to improve your journey right from diagnosis. These two compassionate experts empower you with practical tools to take charge of your life-changing diagnosis and navigate the health care system with confidence, knowledge, and calm. This book is about hope in the face of uncertainty. It's about how to live well, be fully informed, and be activated. How to feel more like a person, not a patient. But most of all, how to be hopeful and prepared at every step along the way.

You keep being told to do more marketing. More complex, more specialised and more expensive marketing. Chasing the latest bright shiny object is exhausting. Following charismatic business and marketing "gurus" keeps leading to disappointment. The overwhelm for entrepreneurs, marketers and business leaders is real. There is a better way.The Lean Marketing movement has been quietly gathering momentum. Small, medium and large businesses are getting bigger and better results by actually doing less marketing. Implementing Lean Marketing in your business will help you punch above your weight.In this book, you'll discover: The exact tools and tactics you need to build a devastatingly effective marketing system; How to simplify, systemise and scale your marketing; How to develop your own marketing capabilities so that your team of mere mortals can achieve big marketing results; How to create marketing so valuable to your audience that they'd actually be willing to pay you for it; How the Lean movement transformed Japanese manufacturing from the worst in the world to the best in the world and how it's now transforming marketing; How to massively remove waste and increase the efficiency of your branding efforts; How to achieve product/market fit so that your marketing will cut through the noise; How "program" your market to bend to your will; How to do marketing that you'll be proud of and that will actually build your brand without hype, scams and pressure; How to make your marketing part of your value proposition rather than an afterthought that's boring, difficult and ineffective; How to win with systematic and structured marketing rather than failing with random acts of marketingLean Marketing is a follow-up to the international bestselling phenomenon The 1-Page Marketing Plan. The 1-Page Marketing Plan gave you a simple, clear and structured framework to create a marketing plan and strategy. This book is packed with tools and tactics that enable you to put your marketing plan into action.Stop trying to outshout the other guy. Stop the ineffective random acts of marketing. Stop wasting time with theoretical claptrap that has you trapped in endless meetings. Get immediate traction by implementing Lean Marketing in your business.

In the follow-up to his bestselling Profit First, author and money expert Mike Michalowicz reveals how to achieve financial freedom by working with your natural habits rather than trying to change them. His Profit First model helped over a million businesses and entrepreneurs achieve financial independence. Now, with The Money Habit, he brings that proven system to personal finance, aimed at anyone who wants to take control of their money.Most financial advice demands strict budgets and cutting back on life’s joys, yet only 9% of people stick with these approaches. Other systems rely on complex tools or require adopting new behaviours, leading to grim results. Michalowicz offers a radically simple alternative. He provides clear steps to align your finances with your goals—whether that’s getting out of debt, spending wisely, saving for a big purchase, or planning for the future—illustrated by his journey from losing a fortune to regaining financial freedom. All you need to do is activate your money habit.

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

The secret to work relationships that sing from a top thought-leader in coaching Have you ever had the experience of working with someone . and they just didn't "get" you? For whatever reason, they do all the things that wind you up, put you off and drive you nuts.And have you ever had the experience of working with someone . and you just didn't "get" them? You couldn't figure out what made them tick, and you know you were underwhelming as a manager and leader for them.Of course, you have. We all have.And why, we wonder, do those experiences keep happening? Particularly when we've also experienced the opposite: great working relationships that soar.In How To Work with (Almost) Anyone, internationally bestselling, celebrated author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) shares a tested process that sets up working relationships for the best possible success. It shows you how to communicate about who you are and what brings out the best and the worst in you. It gives you the tools to talk with your colleagues about each of your operating manuals, and to set a social contract for how you'll work together (not just what you'll be working on). It teaches you how to keep relationships strong and healthy, clear and clean.Not every relationship can be rainbows and unicorns and free-flowing ginger beer. But everyone who relates can do a better job at amplifying the best of each other, navigating the dark spots, and staying resilient and generous. With How To Work with (Almost) Anyone, MBS reveals the secret to better, more successful relationships.

In Thoughtload, New York Times bestselling author and business advisor Liane Davey tackles today’s pressing management challenge: overloaded systems, team burnout, and falling productivity—even as leadership demands more. Davey argues the problem isn’t workload but thoughtload—the cumulative cognitive and emotional burden worsened by declining energy. This prescriptive guide lays out steps to reduce thoughtload, helping you and your team focus and get more done. Manage your attention to achieve deep concentration and accomplishment, be more present, sleep better, and control your mood and productivity. Learn to direct energy wisely and coach your team to do the same. Designed for busy managers, with humor and levity, Thoughtload is a potent handbook for leading calmly and effectively amidst chaos.

From the author of the best-selling book The Coaching Habit comes a new daily journal to help you keep moving, keep growing, and make real progress on a goal worthy of your focus, courage, and commitment. With this journal, author and coaching expert Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) leads you to a new kind of practice. One that takes the best parts of a coaching conversation and whittles them into the types of questions that encourage reflection and spark momentum. And all of this with a commitment of just a few minutes each day.Each day presents an opportunity to track incremental movement towards Something That Matters. Weekly reflections and growing awareness bridge your Something That Matters to your work. And every six weeks offer an opportunity to stop, reorient, reset and prepare to start again. This proven design strategy helps you maintain momentum while you stay calm and intent on progress.Based on the work of The Conspiracy, a membership group created by MBS where people work on their STM in community, this journal gives you a framework for realising what’s most important to you.

The Future of Work Is Grey, by award-winning author Dan Pontefract, reveals how we must rethink work amid demographic, economic, and productivity upheaval. For decades, outdated models assumed younger workers outnumber older ones and that retirement at 65 is fixed. This mindset created “Age Debt”—a burden from aging populations, plummeting birth rates, skills gaps, and multigenerational tensions. Pontefract presents the “Experience Dividend,” showing how integrating employees’ diverse skills across ages can transform workforce strategy. His framework of Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies highlights strengths at every life stage. An emergency siren for leaders, this book offers imperative actions to future-proof organisations by valuing age as an asset and building resilience, innovation, and hope in the future of work.

Sensing Ground offers a unique, science-backed approach to healing for highly sensitive people. Vestibular audiologist and neuroplasticity therapist Joey Remenyi teaches readers to decode their body's signals, using techniques like body scanning and intuitive self-connection to navigate physical and emotional challenges.Building on the success of her first book Rock Steady, which helped thousands overcome vertigo and tinnitus, Sensing Ground expands into broader healing for empaths, neurodivergent individuals, and those struggling with unexplained symptoms or trauma. Practical yet deeply insightful, it provides tools for cultivating resilience, restoring vitality, and fostering self-trust.With a growing audience for books on neurodiversity, trauma healing, and mind-body connection, Sensing Ground is well-positioned in the wellness and self-help market, appealing to readers seeking practical guidance and a deeper understanding of their own biology.

We unlock our greatness by working on the hard things. Coaching expert and bestselling author Michael Bungay Stanier (MBS) is on a mission: to help people achieve their most ambitious, daunting, worthy projects. But how can you get across the threshold so you can make bolder, more courageous choices in other areas of your life? The secret doesn't lie in mastering new habits and hacks; it's about downloading a new operating system for your life. MBS shows you how to regain power and make forward progression on projects and dreams that are meaningful to you. First, figure out The Plan. Be unabashedly ambitious for yourself and the world, commit to the work of hard change, and begin your hero's journey. Then, follow The Threshold Process. Set a worthy goal, weigh the prizes and punishments of acting (or not acting), and then take the first steps toward that goal. Instead of doubting yourself, fearing you'll make a mistake, and feeling like you need to play "small" so you don't disrupt the status quo, start showing up for yourself so you can show up for the world. Don't regret a life half-lived. Stepping up and pursuing your dreams is hard ... and it's exhilarating, and it's important. Let MBS show you how to get clear, get confident, and start anything that matters.

Perfect for fans of Brené Brown and Cal Newport, Today Was Fun challenges the notion that professionalism means being buttoned up and overworked and provides seven key rules for better days at work and in life.Bree Groff weaves together personal anecdotes, research, humor, and practical wisdom, outlining a compelling vision of modern workplaces that make people feel human and alive. Groff provides concrete strategies for implementation, from Do Nothing Days for inducing brilliant work to building a Portfolio Life that ensures work remains only one of many fulfilling things we do.An irreverent guide for a rising generation of leaders, Today Was Fun is poised to spark vital conversations about how we spend our days and to drive real change in organisations - promoting a fuller, more joyful life both in and out of the office.

A practical road map to financial and time freedom—without upending everything you’ve built. Reclaim your time. Reclaim your wealth. Live life on your terms—starting now. Most people chase financial freedom, convinced it’s the finish line. But the real win isn’t someday—it’s time freedom today. And you don’t need to quit your career, sell everything, or gamble it all to get there. In Time Freedom, financial advisor and entrepreneur Brian Herriot shows how to align money and work so they serve you. Through practical strategies for investing, smart money management, and values-based spending, you’ll learn how to reclaim your hours, your energy, and your life. Discover how to: • Escape the 9–5 without risking financial security • Build passive income that works in the background • Align wealth with purpose to create lasting fulfillment Freedom isn’t a fad—it’s the result of strategic, deliberate choices that let you work.

In a world where content is everywhere, consumer attention is a valuable commodity. Every marketer, creator, and communication professional is vying to get eyes on their brand. But the old marketing techniques - paying for ad space and trying to pop up on the “right” platforms - aren’t cutting it to get the attention you require to grow your business. If this sounds familiar, you need to shake up your process and start earning the attention you’re asking for.In Earn It, entrepreneur and innovator Steve Pratt delivers his forward-thinking approach with passion and humour to help you see why your marketing strategy needs to be as unique as your business. Drawing on his own expertise as well as insights from other leading experts in creativity, marketing, and media, Steve outlines the reasons you need to abandon the status-quo and get creative. He warns that there is no shortcut and no hack, but if you’re ready to do the work and find the sweet spot between your Commitment and Creative Bravery then your audience is waiting.The strategies in this book may surprise you. The thinking and the techniques are unconventional. But if you embrace them, you will change the way you market your brand and your business, creating value for your consumers and reaping the benefits.

The harder you grip, the slower you grow. You Can’t Scale What Still Depends on You Let Go to Grow is a practical leadership playbook for founders and CEOs who have become the bottleneck in their own growing company. Founders don’t struggle with vision—they struggle with letting go. The belief that more control creates more results turns them into the biggest constraint in their business, capping growth and fuelling burnout. In this execution-focused guide, Dan Martell introduces a three-part model—Me (lead yourself), We (lead your team), They (lead the future)—to help founders break the Trust–Trauma Barrier and replace control with clear standards, systems, and accountability. With practical tools like scoreboards, delegation language, and performance rhythms, Martell provides a repeatable path to raising standards while empowering others to execute independently. The result is a company that scales beyond the founder, no longer limited by one person’s time or energy.