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Spotting Investment TrendsThis Element is an excerpt from The ETF Trend Following Playbook: Profiting from Trends in Bull or Bear Markets with Exchange Traded Funds (ISBN: 9780137029013) by Tom Lydon. Available in print and digital formats. Use moving averages to predict market trends--and transform your predictions into profits! Buy low, sell high. Sounds easy, doesn't it But if you've tried it, you know how hard it is.
Butterfly Effect, The: Getting Beyond Your Comfort Zone Brings SuccessThis Element is an excerpt from Make More, Worry Less: Secrets from 18 Extraordinary People Who Created a Bigger Income and a Better Life (9780132346863) by Wes Moss. Available in print and digital formats. If it doesn't terrify you... maybe it isn't worth doing! We usually try to avoid that sick, nervous "butterflies-in-the-stomach" feeling. But Ralph Stayer owes his career success-and the success of hundreds of employees-to chasing that butterfly feeling.
From Problem-Solving to Problem-Finding: Great Leaders Know How to Detect Smoke, Not Just Raging FiresThis Element is an excerpt from Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen (ISBN: 9780131568150) by Michael A. Roberto. Available in print and digital formats. You can't solve a problem you don't know exists! Learn how leaders can uncover problems while they're still small enough to solve easily! Great leaders do not simply know how to solve problems. They know how to find them. They can detect smoke, rather than simply fighting raging fires.
Life Balance Is Fiction: Finding Your Passion Will Bring a Life Built to LastThis Element is an excerpt from Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. As conventionally defined, "balance" doesn't matter. Passion does. Learn how to find it--and start living it! CEOs and Nobel laureates don't have "balance." The Dalai Lama doesn't. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa didn't.
How to (Finally) Beat ProcrastinationThis Element is a excerpt from Focus: Your Key to More Productivity at Work (ISBN: 9780137002566) by Jurgen Wolff. Available in print and digital formats. Don't waste another minute: real solutions for overcoming procrastination! Procrastination is the natural enemy of focus. It is the biggest problem almost everyone has with moving toward their goals, and, as you'll see, there are several approaches you can take to overcome it.
Why You Need to Be on the BrandWagon: Brands Are Long-Term MoneyThis Element is an excerpt from Don't Mess with the Logo: Tools to Build Brands with Impact, by Andy Milligan and Jon Edge. Available in digital format. Why brands are even more important than you imagined! Brands do not change the world, heal the poor, cure the sick, or act as ambassadors of international peace. People do all that. But brands are one of the best tools we have created to help people achieve all that. Because they make money. How much money Billions.
Consider Your Goals When WritingThis Element is an excerpt from The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (ISBN: 9780137153152) by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz. Available in print and digital formats. Your communications have more goals than you realize: articulate them all, so you can achieve them all! Suppose you're reporting on the results of an extended project you supervised. Your basic goal is to inform and document. But that's only part of the agenda.
Grabbing Your Audience's Attention Immediately: If You Don't, Your Presentation May Be DoomedThis Element is an ecerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. The world's #1 corporate presentation consultant teaches 7 proven techniques for grabbing your audience from the get-go--and never letting go! Picture your audience at the start of your presentation. Where are their minds Chances are, not on you.
"Pay As You Wish" PricingThis Element is an excerpt from Smart Pricing (ISBN: 9780131494183) by Jagmohan Raju and Z. John Zhang. Available in print and digital formats. What your business can learn from Radiohead's successful experiment with "pay as you wish" pricing. On October 9, 2007, the English alternative rock band Radiohead began an experiment: Rather than price their music conventionally, they let their fans pay whatever they wanted to download their latest 10-song album, In Rainbows.