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In 1996, Linda Cruse, a stressed-out single mum working in a job she hated, was driving along a motorway in the middle of the night when she suffered temporary blindness. This terrifying episode led to a blinding insight: what is the point of living if living has no point? Determined to make a difference, Linda began a new life. This was the start of a scary, lonely, but always emotionally fulfilling job: teaching skills and bringing aid – and, above all, love – to war-torn refugees, the poverty-stricken and the victims of disaster. Linda travelled from crisis to crisis wherever she was most needed, visiting 16 countries in 12 years with just one suitcase. In Thailand, after the 2004 tsunami, she developed what was to be her trademark skill: the ability to broker powerful partnerships between large businesses (wanting to offer help in poverty-stricken communities but not always knowing the best way) and local charities (NGOs). This has brought praise from spiritual, commercial, and political leaders all over the world. Linda also helped individual families to battle their feelings of hopelessness and to find new livelihoods. Her work is inpsired by the idea of giving ‘hand-ups’ rather than ‘handouts’.Linda has faced death on more than one occasion, including being held at gunpoint and sufferibng from hypothermia, but she has never given up on her mission. Her ultimate aim is to inspire others to do what they can also. Linda calls it ‘the power of one’.

In today’s commodity-based marketplace it is harder than ever to differentiate even the most superlative services and products. The sales presentation provides the most powerful opportunity to do so. Make It All About Them reveals the truth behind the traditional rules of presentations and offers sales professionals a new way forward. It explains why focusing on three key points trumps a presentation full of details, why plain English always wins over jargon, why the audience doesn’t need to know how important you are but how important they are, and other effective tactics.Turn the conventional approach to sales presentations on its head. Make it all about your audience, and you’ll win every time.

Leading the boss in the mirror delivers tools and techniques that have been tried and tested with clients and encourages you to create calm into your schedule. If stress is a way of life right now, it doesn’t have to be like that for you in the future.
This practical book helps you:
- Identify what’s truly important to you
- Identify the sources of stress
- Recognise when it’s too late
- Handle stressful people and situations (including yourself)
And if you are an employer or manager the book suggests ways of making life better for your staff.

Big butts and fat thighs are simply metaphors for those things that we dislike about ourselves. From cottage-cheese thighs to the belief that we are a failure because our position was eliminated, our big butts too often become our big BUTS. With humor and insight, Big Butts, Fat Thighs, and Other Secrets to Success shows us how to accept our vulnerabilities and actually use them to our advantage in forming the genuine relationships that are the keys to personal and professional success.

Have you been holding yourself back at work by:
• Not speaking up at meetings when you have value to add?
• Failing to promote yourself to seniors in the workplace?
• Shying away from challenges because you lack confidence?
• Neglecting your networking inside and outside the company?
• Living in a state of overwhelm at home and work?

With Ground Floor Quizzes, Elevator Workouts, and Power Profiles of women leaders, this engaging book helps you master the 9 must-have skills that will propel you upward. Pursue your professional aspirations one floor at a time by riding The Glass Elevator.

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In this volatile time, healthcare coverage has become entirely too complex and expensive. Understanding the issues is more important than ever. Lack of good health coverage protection can be financially and emotionally devastating. This book will help you avoid costly traps and gaps.

Maura Loughlin Carley, MPH, CIC, is President and CEO of Healthcare Navigation, LLC, a leading healthcare advocacy and consulting firm. Carley has a Masters in Public Health from Yale University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a Certified Insurance Consultant.

Given today’s continuing economic uncertainty, planning a secure retirement has become a more critical task than ever.

Now, for Americans seeking safety and stability in a time of wrenching economic change, comes investment educator Julie Jason with this no-nonsense guide, a Booklist Top Ten Business Book and the winner of the prestigious EIFLE Award (Excellence in Financial Literacy Education). It offers time-tested, rock-solid retirement advice for people of every income level. In addition to showing those on the verge of retirement how to create their own "personal pension,” Jason deftly guides prospective retirees through the otherwise bewildering process of evaluating their needs, anticipating future expenses (and managing current ones), and converting present assets into future retirement income. To achieve this goal, she assembles—and shares with the reader—an entire tool kit of self-assessments, tables, checklists, and essential questions.

By Jill Flynn

You are your own greatest obstacle to success. Jill Flynn outlines the six rules women are raised on—“play it safe” and “focus on others,” for example—and rewrites them so that you can play by new rules and reach your goals. Women only occupy eleven percent of senior-level corporate leadership—for this to change, women need to push their own boundaries.