“The ultimate mental fitness program” (David Heinemeier Hansson, coauthor of Rework), The Stoic Challenge teaches us how to respond to the challenges of our increasingly unpredictable age. In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses of modern living to its significant crises. The Stoic Challenge uniquely combines insights from ancient Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. The result is Irvine’s surprisingly simple, updated “Stoic test strategy,” which teaches us how to dramatically alter our emotional response to life’s stumbling blocks. Not only can we overcome these obstacles?we can benefit from them, too.

Girls ages 5 to 8 will love reading this Step into Reading Step 3 Comic Reader based on Barbie's hilarious series of webisodes, BarbieTM Life in the Dream House. Barbie is so excited to be a contestant on a cooking show! But with Raquelle as her competitor, will the best chef win?

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Created by Brook Noel as she sought to "make over" her own life in an achievable step-by-step fashion, "The Change Your Life Challenge" program revolves around the theory that most people fail because they attempt to make huge life changes when mental energy and esteem are low. With the theory of "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," Noel shows how simple daily actions can result in an entire lifelong makeover.

13 Challenges was designed with the busy person in mind. Taking timeless strategies and breaking them down into one-at-a-time tasks, 13 Challenges allows readers to manage aspects of their lives in order to make it less overwhelming and complex. This book is for people needing to simplify their lives in order to succeed.

Many teams and managers wonder how to get from point A to point B. In fact, in researching more than 50 organizations and how they plan and execute, not a single one used a similar approach to problem-solving. Each manager would approach a problem differently and in whatever way they thought best. It no longer needs to be that way.The Transformation Challenge is a new approach to winning in business and life. It helps people develop a clear path forward, whether in a large team or solving an individual challenge.The Transformation Challenge will revolutionize the results in your business and personal life.

Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify exceptional opportunities for innovation. An innovation tournament, just like its counterpart in sports, starts with a large number of candidates, with opportunities as the players. These opportunities are pitted against each other until only the exceptional survive. This book provides a principled approach for the effective management of innovation tournaments - identifying a wealth of promising opportunities and then evaluating and filtering them intelligently for greatest profitability. With a set of practical tools for creating and identifying new opportunities, it guides the reader in evaluating and screening opportunities. The book demonstrates how to construct an innovation portfolio and how to align the innovation process with an organization's competitive strategy. Innovation Tournaments employs quirky, fresh examples ranging from movies to medical devices. The authors' tool kit is built on their extensive research, their entrepreneurial backgrounds, and their teaching and consulting work with many highly innovative organizations.