Ergebnis für "The Trap" in Wirtschaft & Karriere

In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small.

The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behavior, so you stay curious a little bit longer. It sounds like it should be easy, but it’s not. To get there, leading coach and trainer Michael Bungay Stanier offers specific coaching strategies, particularly on how to focus on what matters most. The audiobook of The Advice Trap gives you tools to make your conversations, coaching, and otherwise, irresistible.

How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.

Most of us approach ambition from a place of pain and proving ourselves, while trying to fit into outdated corporate structures that don't represent who we are, or who we want to be. In The Ambition Trap, Amina AlTai encourages you to move from an ambition driven by our core wounds, aka 'wounded striving' towards 'healthy ambition' which rewards a life of balance and integrity.

Humans, it turns out, are intrinsically wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term prosperity. Kristian Rönn, an entrepreneur formerly affiliated with the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, calls these deeply rooted impulses “Darwinian demons.” These forces, a by-product of natural selection, can lead us to act in shortsighted ways that harm others—and even imperil our survival as a species. If this evolutionary glitch is left unchecked, the consequences will grow in magnitude as the power of technology accelerates.

Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education.

A mediocre category designer will beat a world-class marketer every day of the week. The reason is because all marketing sits within a context. "He or she who frames the problem owns the solution." Without this context—without a category—your marketing becomes nothing but screaming, shouting, and pitching customers with deals, discounts, and other short-term tactics in the hopes of landing a sale.

In The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed, a distinguished team of finance and accounting researchers and practitioners delivers a practical and up-to-date exploration of the shortcomings of managerial mergers and acquisitions decisions.

Freedom is on the decline around the world. Autocrats in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are undermining our open societies, human rights, and the rule of law. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call for the West, but the biggest threat remains China. For two generations, Americans and Europeans have believed that change will come through trade, but instead of dictatorships becoming more like Western democracies, unfettered free trade has strengthened our enemies and undermined our countries.

In this eye-opening book, The Retention Trap, Butterball Farms CEO Mark Peters challenges leaders of small and mid-sized businesses to break free from a cycle that prioritizes costly wages and benefits without addressing the deeper issues that lead to employee turnover. For thirty years, Peters focused on traditional methods, only to discover that they often miss the mark and fail to deliver lasting results.

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm.

The Ponzo Trap offers a deep dive into the fascinating world of human perception and decision-making. Inspired by the well-known visual illusion, the book uses the Ponzo metaphor to explore how our minds often misinterpret the world around us—leading to flawed judgments, unconscious biases, and distorted thinking.

Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising listeners to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases.

In today’s noisy, digitally crowded sales environment, prospects are overwhelmed with endless information and options—leading to inaction, stalled deals, ghosting, and lost opportunities. The reasons behind these breakdowns aren’t always obvious, making it difficult to know what to change or how to keep deals on track. How can sales leaders help their teams break through the digital noise and build momentum with prospects? What communication missteps or behaviors are causing deals to stall or die?

Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition Trap, leadership coach Amina AlTai shows you how to break the cycle of overwork once and for all—and finally create the greatest, most joy-filled work of your life.

Are you stuck in the burnout trap, feeling overwhelmed and unfulfilled despite your best efforts? What if you could reignite your passion, rediscover your purpose, and redesign your life with a proven system? After a near-death experience at 47, author Eddie Lawrence developed the Life Calibration system—a powerful framework endorsed by entrepreneurs and professionals nationwide—that provides the tools, mindset, and strategies to escape burnout and achieve lasting fulfillment.

The Villain Trap is a leadership book that doesn’t pull punches. It’s a callout and a call forward for anyone who’s ever felt misunderstood, frustrated, or quietly disconnected in their leadership, and blamed someone else for it. This book introduces the concept of the Villain Trap, a common but often invisible cycle where leaders, under pressure, discomfort, or emotional fatigue, begin to assign blame instead of taking ownership. It’s not about toxic behavior or dramatic blowups.

This book is primarily hinted to all those who want to live a prosperous life both mentally and financially. The author provides an in-depth analysis of some essential life decisions along with the advices from his peers that helped him tackle difficult situations. Life is not a bed of roses and unexpected problems are inevitable. It’s in these times that you need a mentor, someone who guides you through all the options and select the best one of all. Stop searching, this book is your holy grail to build a life of success, contentment and prosperity.

After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry's story is not an anomaly. In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment.

It’s time to say, “Hell no” to the status quo! If it feels like the zombie apocalypse has invaded your career, it doesn’t have to become your ultimate fate. No one prepared you for your mid-career funk or how to avoid it. If you have a massive case of “I-don’t-give-a-shit-itis,” you are not alone! It sneaks up on you until one day you look around and wonder, How did this happen to me? If you dread Mondays, find yourself wondering “What’s the point?” and worry it’s too late for you to make a change, then look no further.