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THE INFLUENCE EDGE: How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your Goals

by Alan Vengel

The ability to influence people isn't something you're born with, it's a skill anyone can acquire. In his new book, The Influence Edge, experienced organizational consultant Alan Vengel teaches the influence skills needed to enlist t...he cooperation of others, inside and outside the organization, to achieve your professional goals.


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THE COMPROMISE TRAP: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul

by Elizabeth Doty

Full of candid firsthand stories from Doty’s interviews with over fifty businesspeople as well as her own experiences as a consultant and manager, The Compromise Trap offers sympathetic guidance for individuals striving to live with gr...eater integrity, courage, and purpose at work, as well as the executives, coaches, consultants, and loved ones who support them and senior leaders who want to expand what it means for organizations to act with integrity in the world.


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STANDING IN THE FIRE:Leading High Heat Meetings with Clarity, Calm, and Courage

by Larry Dressler

High heat meetings seem to be happening in more and more organizations these days. Situations where participants are polarized, angry, fearful, confused. If you facilitate meetings for a living, all your well-learned techniq...ues won’t help you in volatile and unpredictable situations like this. If you lead meetings as simply one part of your job, you probably feel even less able to cope.

The answer is not another technique—not something you do to people. Veteran facilitator Larry Dressler has learned the hard way that when stakes are high, outcomes uncertain, and emotions running wild what makes the crucial difference is the leader’s presence. To work with people in high-heat meetings you have to work on yourself.

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