Real Work

Steady weight loss and improved self-image are not impossible. Anyone can do it. If you're fed up with miracle herbs and fad diets that always fail, try these proven techniques from real people who swear by them.

Each day we deal with the challenges of ordinary life: a series of mundane experiences that could be summarized by the title of this book, Work, Sex, Money. We all hope that these aspects of our life will be a source of fulfillment and pleasure, and they often are. Yet they are also always sources of problems for which we seek practical advice and solutions.

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organizational lives.

The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important. There has to be a better way. And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.

Leading a real estate investment business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and constant fires that have to be put out. The E-Myth Real Estate Investor offers you a road map to create a real estate investment business that's self-sufficient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your business to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

Meet Justin Campbell. He’s a newly minted MBA who’s landed a coveted job in consulting. He’s headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven’t yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state-of-the-art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities. But Justin soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn’t as straightforward as he’d expected.

Running a successful real estate brokerage firm is a juggling act. You need expertise in your practice area to provide services to clients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education or experience for the technical ins and outs of operating a real estate brokerage. Yet what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Real Estate Brokerage fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a real estate company from scratch or maximizing an existing company's performance.

Learn the secret of what really drives sales - and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you.

The Great Commission is not just for professional clergy; it is a charge to every follower of Christ—ordinary Christians like you and me.Bob Roberts Jr. urges disciples of Jesus to reclaim their role in God’s transforming work around the globe. In Real-Time Connections, Roberts illuminates...

The Real Workflows for the AI Era is not another hype-driven guide promising instant riches or “secret prompts.” It’s a builder’s handbook for the new economy—a practical, ethical, and deeply human approach to earning leverage with artificial intelligence. In clear, grounded language, it shows how to turn everyday skills into automated systems that generate real value: workflows that think, write, and produce alongside you.

Your calendar is full, your inbox never ends, and Slack keeps blinking—so why does real work never get done? Deep Work Habits shows knowledge workers how to stop living in constant task switching and start finishing the work that actually moves their career forward. This isn’t about willpower or quitting technology. It’s about redesigning your defaults so focus becomes normal again. You don’t need more time. You need fewer interruptions.

Leading a real estate business can seem like a daunting task, with too few hours in the day, too many petty management issues, and problems real estate agents in large businesses don't seem to face. The E-Myth Real Estate Agent offers you a road map to create a business that's self-sucient, growing, and highly profitable. Take your company to levels you didn't think possible with this unique guide!

Das "Aufklärungsbuch" für bessere Unternehmensführung Um ein Unternehmen erfolgreich zu führen, sollte man eine Vorstellung davon haben, wie Unternehmen wirklich funktionieren. Da helfen weder Vergleiche mit Maschinen, Schiffen oder sonstig Trivialem, noch reicht es, sich mit simplen Appellen oder moralinsauren Forderungen auf den Weg zu New Work zu machen. Das Buch räumt auf, sowohl mit tradierten Ansätzen als auch mit den vermeintlich besseren, den "neuen" Sichtweisen von Arbeit, Führung und Organisation.

In a world yearning for meaning, the path to spiritual renewal may lie through the discipline and freedom that only hard work can show us. Life is hard in Attawapiskat. Outsiders see the poverty and despair, the sagging, mold-filled houses with generations packed into each one. The substance...

Conversations about faith and work often miss an important truth: limitations are not a problem; they're a key part of what it means to be human. Work has always been part of humanity's purpose, but we’re no longer in the perfect Garden of Eden, nor are we in the future new heavens and new earth. To truly address the challenges of work, we need a new theological perspective.

Financial Times Best Business Book of 2025 Winner of SABEW Best in Business Book Award Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organization, immediate, proven, and evidence-based ways...

Deep and meaningful interpersonal connections at work are critical to your career—and to your well-being. Bonds built on trust allow women to help one another, exchange information, and be more productive. But high-quality professional relationships are only possible with emotional openness—and not all women feel they can be vulnerable enough in the office to develop these kinds of ties. Making Real Connections explores the many ways that our working relationships with other women are usually amazing—and sometimes messy.

Whether you're looking for your first rental property or just looking for a better way to manage the ones you have, this audiobook shows you Mike Butler's strategies, mind-set, tools, and technologies to make your rental business a boatload easier while giving you a lot more time to do what you want!

Brought to you by Penguin. If you could change one thing about the way you think, feel or behave today, what would it be? We all have things that hold us back in life, preventing us from achieving true success and happiness. Andrew Parr has written the ultimate guide to escaping, resolving, and...

Wer langfristig seine finanzielle Freiheit erreichen möchte, kommt an Immobilien nicht vorbei. Doch erfordert es oftmals eine Menge Zeit und Know-how, die richtige Immobilie zu finden, sie zu erwerben und dann auch noch Gewinn daraus zu schlagen. Die Autoren zeigen, wie jeder langfristig, erfolgreich und entspannt in Immobilien investieren kann.