A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right.Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent years than the notion of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose, or a reason for being, as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about what purpose is and conflate it with strategy and other concepts like mission, vision, and values. Even well-intentioned leaders don't understand purpose's full potential and engage half-heartedly and superficially with it. Outsiders spot this and become cynical about companies and the broader capitalist endeavor.Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. Moreover, he shows how companies can embed purpose much more deeply than they currently do, delivering impressive performance benefits that reward customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and communities alike. To get purpose right, leaders must fundamentally change not only how they execute it but also how they conceive of and relate to it. They must practice what Gulati calls deep purpose, furthering each organization's reason for being more intensely, thoughtfully, and comprehensively than ever before.In this authoritative, accessible, and inspiring guide, Gulati takes readers inside some of the world's most purposeful companies to understand the secrets to their successes. He explores how leaders can pursue purpose more deeply bynavigating the inevitable tradeoffs more deliberately and effectively to balance between short- and long-term value;building purpose more systematically into every key organizational function to mobilize stakeholders and enhance performance;updating organizations to foster more autonomy and collaboration, which in turn allow individual employees to work more purposefully;using powerful storytelling to communicate a reason for being, arousing emotions and building a community of inspired and committed stakeholders; andbuilding cultures that don't merely support purpose, but also allow employees to link the corporate purpose to their own personal reasons for being.As Gulati argues, a deeper engagement with purpose holds the key not merely to the well-being of individual companies but also to humanity's future. With capitalism under siege and relatively low levels of trust in business, purpose can serve as a radically new operating system for the enterprise, enhancing performance while also delivering meaningful benefits to society. It's the kind of inspired thinking that businesses--and the rest of us--urgently need.
“Garden Marcus is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the chaos happening in the world.”—Vogue“Bridgewater’s planting tips are just as valuable when applied to life.”—The RootIn this transformative guide, TikTok’s most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater—aka Garden Marcus—offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul.Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his soothing TikTok videos that relate botany to humanity. A gardener “who shares tips about caring for one’s plants and oneself” (New York Times) and “is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the pandemic-induced chaos happening in the world” (Vogue), his soothing observations on plants and life have made him a social media star. In caring for over 600 plants, Marcus has gained invaluable wisdom. Life inside us yearns to grow; like plants, humans maximize their potential when presented with the right conditions. Through care and attention, he reminds us, we can successfully cultivate growth. Centered on a trinity of wellbeing—Mental Health, Physical Fitness, and Spiritual Awareness, How to Grow weaves together insights from the garden with stories from Marcus’s life to help you foster personal development. With lessons rooted in his experiences gardening—from how a replanted flourishing sweet potato vine is a reminder that all living things benefit from a change of scene, to how to embrace patience to foster growth—this inspiring guide helps you do “the dirty work” (pun intended) to discover kindness, patience, and positivity within. “We cannot make anything grow,” he advises. “But we can foster an environment where it may grow.”How to Grow isn’t a gardening book. It is a self-help book that draws inspiration from the garden. Original, timely, and filled with nurturing wisdom, it takes perennial knowledge from plants to teach us about ourselves and opens our eyes to what we are capable of achieving.
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Written for anyone who wants to grow at work--from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs deciding whether to sell their company--Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century. The audiobook also includes a brief introduction written and read by Tony. Each quick 5-20 page entry builds on the previous one, charting Tony's personal journey from a product designer to a leader, from a startup founder to an executive to a mentor. Tony uses examples that are instantly captivating, like the process of building the very first iPod and iPhone. Every chapter is designed to help readers with a problem they're facing right now--how to get funding for their startup, whether to quit their job or not, or just how to deal with the jerk in the next cubicle.Tony forged his path to success alongside mentors like Steve Jobs and Bill Campbell, icons of Silicon Valley who succeeded time and time again. But Tony doesn't follow the Silicon Valley credo that you have to reinvent everything from scratch to make something great. His advice is unorthodox because it's old school. Because Tony's learned that human nature doesn't change. You don't have to reinvent how you lead and manage--just what you make. And Tony's ready to help everyone make things worth making. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be.We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease--prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.That's because the anxiety-as-disease story is false--and it's harming us.In this radical reinterpretation, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although it's related to stress and fear, it's uniquely valuable--allowing us to imagine the uncertain future and compelling us to make that future better. That's why anxiety is inextricably linked to hope.By distilling the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, including her own, combining it with real-world stories and personal narrative, Dennis-Tiwary shows how we can acknowledge the discomfort of anxiety and see it as a tool, rather than something to be feared and reviled. Detailing the terrible cost of our misunderstanding of anxiety, while celebrating the lives of people who harness it to their advantage, she argues that we can--and must--learn to be anxious in the right way.Future Tense blazes the way for a paradigm shift in how we relate to and understand anxiety in our day-to-day lives--a fresh set of beliefs and insights that allow us to explore and leverage even very distressing anxiety rather than to be overwhelmed by it. Through this new prism of thinking, even anxiety disorders can be alleviated. Achieving a new mindset will not fix anxiety itself--because the emotion of anxiety is not broken; the way we cope with it is. By challenging our long-held assumptions about anxiety, this book provides a concrete framework for how to reclaim it for what it has always been--a gift rather than a curse, and a source of inner strength, joy, and ingenuity.
An accident, a suicide, a gruesome murder, a natural death, and a murder mystery are all reopened in this story, and the connection between them is surprising.
The poems in 'Chal Mann Chal Uss Aur...'(Oh Dear Mind! Let's Move onto Turiya...) capture everyone's journey touching four milestones, starting from passionate experience of thoughts, ideas, feelings, strong bonding ('Ehsaason Ke Galiyaron Mein') to disgust at the absurdities and follies of human beings ('Sarhadein Zameenon Ki') through attitude of disillusionment, dispassion & detachment, ('Ajab Si Kafiyat Hai') onto desire for total freedom from these shackles ( 'Chal Mann Chal').Use of simple and colloquial language with basic Urdu & Persian words and phrases strikes a chord with the readers.The poems through dialogue of the mind with itself, express a deep desire to set out in pursuit of real happiness and move forward on a journey beyond relations & worldly involvements, beyond 'I' and 'You'...and beyond self onto Turiya...where nothing stirs up the mind and brain - not even that there is nothing.
The character of the story of this book is also named Sumit, whose eyes opened in a deserted desert, he did not know how he got there? He had forgotten everything, even his own name.Sumit is able to complete his journey with great difficulty understanding those desert mysteries but the end of his journey is very surprising.Mukti, a girl he meets in that desert, leads him to the holy wall that Sumit later calls the ""wall of death"".In this journey, he gets knowledge of those secrets of the universe which an ordinary human can never get.
"A magnificently hilarious masterpiece!" Jenny Pearson on Monster Hunting for BeginnersOur hapless monster hunters are back - and this time they're tackling dragons! Readers of 7+ and fans of Mega Monster and Shrek will adore this funny fantasy series from NI-based author Ian Mark and Belgian animator Louis Ghibault
“This is more than a book: It’s a way of being.”—J . Wortham, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and cohost of the New York Times podcast“Deeply honest, compassionate, and wise . . . A Recipe for More is a generous book about breaking cycles of suffering, but also choosing pleasure, offering kindness to self, cultivating an electric network of friendships, and embracing this sweet life. I treasured every page.”—Janelle Monáe, singer, actor, artist, and New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Librarian "Each new day is a singular moment, a singular opportunity. No day is like the last and no day is like what’s to come. We have arrived, and we are simultaneously arriving.” In this expansive debut, A Recipe for More: Choosing a Life of Pleasure and Abundance, creative, host, and "pleasure doula" Sara Elise offers a profound and challenging inquiry into the forces that keep us in a state of survival and limitation and asks us to consider a new way to live. Sara Elise leaves us with what it means to be present to what’s unfolding around us and open to the change that is possible in that empty space.A Recipe for More is a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what it requires to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? In the tradition of Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor, A Recipe for More is a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm, A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving singular moment.With contributions by Fariha Róisín, Tourmaline, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), Naima Green, J Wortham, and more.
Pack your brain with athletic fun and trivia ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games!
Join Dennis, Gnasher and the rest of the Beanotown gang on their mission to combat boredom FOREVER - or at least until the end of this book!
"Even God was somewhat surprised by the wealth of that person, The one who just used to deal in the market without profit!"Rang is a compilation of all such expressions. From mother's innocence to living in the hustle culture, from childhood love to youth's helplessness, from expensive houses to empty soul, from humanity to spirituality, it is an attempt to touch every color of life. At last, there is a small attempt to express the life of transgender community through few lines. There is a request to the society for their employment and social equality.
A substantial volume of favourite poems chosen by 101 of the best known contemporary children's poets.
There are some people who just can't tolerate your success. They may not necessarily be 'others' but may even be your 'own'. Nevertheless they will always highlight some or the other deficiency in you and try to pull you down . If you are capable they will raise the ghosts of your past. If your past is impeccable they shall question your capability and if they find nothing else, they shall make do by making fun of your looks or appearance . Why? because your success challenges their status in the society and proves their worthlessness. And other common people? We believe they are free, but they are not. These so called free men can't even think on their own. Their thoughts, their definitions are decided by others. They live like sheep, move in flocks, shepherded whereever by their butchers. But even though these sheep are the society, each one bleats just me, me, me.Don't just believe, understand. The sooner you understand the faster you will get rid of this delusion of love. Just as getting a job is the most important phase in the life of a man, his means of living, his status; marriage, for an Indian woman, is her means of living and her status. Marriage is 'job' for women. This is still the truth of most of the poor and middle class households in India. Society asks a man, his job and a woman, her husband.
"JEEVANGANE" is a collection of various types of poems which includes Ashtakshari, Abhang, Hyku, Gazal etc. Readers will go through about 150 poems on different subjects such as spirituality religion, festivals, nature, relations etc. eventuallyi introducing Author's journey from 'Charoli to Gazal'.
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the trademark insight and humor readers the world over have come to expect from the purely funniest English writer since Wodehouse (Washington Post Book World), Unseen Academicals focuses on the wizards at Ankh-Morporks Unseen University, who are reknowned for many thingssagacity, magic, and their love of teatimeas they attempt to conquer athletics.
Haunted Hall School,Frettin Forest,Beastshire.Dear Mum and Dad,Listen to this news, it is good. Yeller has just made up a fine advert saying:ARE YOU JUST A SMALL WEAK FLUFFBALL?THEN BE A PUPIL AT HAUNTED HALL.LEARN SECRET POWERS FROM OUR BIG BAD GHOSTSLIKE HOW TO POP UP ALL OF A SUDDENLY LIKE TOASTSO COME TO-DEEAND BRING A LARGE FEE. DO NOT DELAY-EEARRROOOO, look out Richness, we are after you again!Yours chestoutly,L Wolf Esquire"...will cheer the heart of any child... delightful drawings of canine naughtiness... scary and funny." SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY"Hugely entertaining and emphasising the fun of shared reading, it guarantees parental enjoyment." THE BOOKSELLER
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