Faves
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Books
Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design
by Cathy Moore
"Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real difference. You'll learn how to:
- Help the client identify what's really causing the performance problem.
- Determine the role (if any!) of training.
- Create realistic activities that help people practice what they need to do, not just show what they know.
- Choose the best format for each activity -- online, projected to a group, on paper, as a small-group activity, over email...
- Provide each activity at the best time -- in the workflow, available on demand, spaced over time...
- Let people pull the information they need to complete the activity -- no more information dumps!
- Enjoy creating challenging activities that people want to complete.
- Show how your project has improved the performance of the organization.
Using humor and lots of examples, Map It walks you through action mapping, a visual approach to needs analysis and training design. Organizations around the world use action mapping to improve performance with targeted, efficient training."
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath
New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers.
The Vision-Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business
by Michael Hyatt
In The Vision-Driven Leader, New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt offers six tools for crafting an irresistible vision for your business, rallying your team around the vision, and distilling it into actionable plans that drive results. Your business will never be the same.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
by Liza Mundy
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
by Brené Brown
Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to Your Job
by Bruce Daisley
After decades of management experience at top Silicon Valley companies like YouTube, Google, and Twitter, Bruce Daisley shares in his debut book what he’s discovered, offering practical, often counterintuitive, insights and solutions for reinvigorating work to give us more meaning, productivity, and joy at the office.
Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
by Michael Hyatt
New York Times best-selling author Michael Hyatt has created a total productivity system that's much more than endless box checking. Proven by more than 25,000 professionals, this system helps overwhelmed leaders achieve what matters most so they can succeed at both work and life.
The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms
by Paul Napper PsyD
Introducing The Power of Agency, a science-backed approach to living life on your own terms. Grounded in extensive psychological research, The Power of Agency gives you the tools to help alleviate anxiety, manage competing demands, and help you live your version of success.
Radical Candor
by Kim Scott
The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time.
Digital Minimalism
by Cal Newport
Choosing a focused life in a noisy world. Great guidance for uncluttering your technology gadgets and using most valuable apps.
Traction
by Gino Wickman
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? In Traction, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment.
Mastering the 5 Tiers of Auditor Competency
by Ann Butera
Risk-based operational audits and performance audits require a broad array of competencies. This book provides auditors and risk professionals with the understanding required to improve results during risk-based audits.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Dividing this book into two parts, Cal Newport first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules", for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.
The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
In riveting stories, Gawande, follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from homeland security to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
by John C. Maxwell
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 has updated the foundational principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others from any type of leadership, and promises to provide for both new listeners as well as longtime fans of the original book the necessary wisdom to help any leader and organization succeed in fostering integrity, self-discipline, and effecting positive change.
Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement
by Buster Benson
Why Are We Yelling? will shatter your assumptions about what makes arguments productive. You'll find yourself having fewer repetitive, predictable fights once you're empowered to identify your biases, listen with an open mind, and communicate well.
Software
TextExpander
Your time is valuable. Don't spend it typing the same thing over and over. TextExpander uses abbreviations to expand simple things like your phone number, email, or address to be used in emails, forms, and more. This productivity hack will AMAZE you! Click below for a 20% discount on TextExpander's Life Hacker Subscription.
Miro
Team collaboration software. Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 10M+ users from around the world.
Kajabi
Kajabi's tech support, tutorials, user groups, and communities make it easy to build a beautiful and professional website. Kajabi also helps you build online courses and membership programs to have an all-in-one platform. The integrations really help streamline the customer experience.
AppSumo
The tools you need to grow your business shouldn't put you out of business. AppSumo partners with popular software companies and startups to bring you insane deals on software. Get access to highly discounted software and worthwhile freebies. Their selection changes regularly, so don't wait too long.
Productivity
Rocketbook Beacons
Turns any white board into magic -- live connect and take glare-free photos to upload.
Rocketbook Notebook (Executive Size)
Rocketbook Smart Reusable Notebook - Dot-Grid Eco-Friendly Notebook with 1 Pilot Frixion Pen & 1 Microfiber Cloth Included - Infinity Black Cover, Executive Size (6" x 8.8")
Frixion Pens for Rocketbook Notebooks
PILOT FriXion ColorSticks Erasable Gel Ink Stick Pens, Fine Point, Assorted Color Inks, 10-Pack (32454). Remember that ink might disappear when your journal gets really hot but just put your notebook in a freezer for ink to reappear like magic.
Michael Hyatt Full Focus Planner
Full Focus Planner that turns your yearly goals into daily and weekly actions to achieve them. Celebrate your wins with the weekly review and build momentum for next steps.
Rocketbook Wave Notebook
Nice companion and same size as the Full Focus Planner. Rocketbook Wave Smart Notebook - Dotted Grid Eco-Friendly Notebook with 1 Pilot Frixion Pen Included - Executive Size (6" x 8.8")
Cozi
Create a Cozi account for the whole family today, and keep your family's schedules and lists organized in one shared calendar. It's FREE!
Office Supplies
Logitech K780 Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard
Multi-device Bluetooth (or USB) keyboard: Universal keyboard for typing on all your computing devices. Easy-Switch: Connect up to three devices simultaneously and switch between them at the touch of button.
The best part? It has a spot to hold your phone or tablet upright while you type!