Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival of the Greeks in the classical age. It offers an extraordinary portrait of political ambition, talent, and their ultimate limits.The writings of Xenophon are increasingly recognized as important works of political philosophy. In The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon confronts the vexing problem of political instability by exploring the character and behavior of the ruler. Impressive though his successes are, however, Cyrus is also examined in the larger human context, in which love, honor, greed, revenge, folly, piety, and the search for wisdom all have important parts to play.Wayne Ambler's translation captures the charm and drama of the work while also achieving great accuracy. His introduction, annotations, and glossary help the reader to appreciate both the engaging story itself and the volume's contributions to philosophy.

    He shows how to manage your own psychology and your operations, be it working with co-founders, building a culture, or managing a board of directors. Brian also reveals the secrets of scaling a business and best practices for raising venture capital in Latin America. You will develop an understanding of the most critical parts of an investor term sheet, and gain perspective into the inner workings of the venture capital game.

    Talking about all those leaders who were not honored in their conventional domain, but their ideologies certainly proved them otherwise is the subject around which the book has been written. Pointing out that anyone can be a leader, this book is written in a business fable style, which makes it all the more interesting and engaging. Centered on Blake and his conversation with four unorthodox leaders, each conversation picks out some important and essential principles that will help ordinary people in becoming a true leader and attaining a position in their organizations. The book is targeted at product managers and sfor omeone who wants to improve his leadership skills, it gives a brief insight on the styles of leadership and also increases your ability to understand the difference between where as a leader do you stand. Pointing out what one essentially needs in a mandate to excel, both personal and professional lives, it is kind of a self-help book that quintessentially talks about achieving success in life. About the author: Robin Sharma: Bestselling author of 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' is an International Leadership Professional Guru who is credited with having written 15 books on leadership. He has been guiding people to live a better life by drawing inspiration from his own life experiences and that of others. The Leader Who Had No Title, The Greatness Guide and The Saint, The Leader Who Had No Title and The Saint are among his best books. He heads the Sharma Leadership International Inc, a firm that trains people in leadership. A former litigation lawyer, Robin holds a law Degree from Dalhousie Law School, Canada.

    

    

    

    

    Wagner) But most books on new church development are either too general (telling us why to do church planting but not how to do it) or too specific (telling us how to reproduce just one particular kind of church model.)This manual is to equip the reader to think creatively about how to start churches in any context, culture or people group.

    

    

    Tony Robbins, who has been paid more than $1 Million for his personal coaching by international leaders and the world's top power brokers, uses the strategies of Mastering Influence in his own business. So no matter how much you have already achieved, Mastering Influence will help you get even more out of your business and your life.

    

    Create targeted development plans.Each chapter is dedicated to one of the 38 Korn Ferry Leadership ArchitectTM competencies, as well as chapters on 10 career stallers and stoppers. In these chapters you'll find:Competency definitions(CARS) - skilled, less skilled, talented and overused skill contentPossible causes of lower skillTips to develop each competencyJob assignmentsSuggested readings, deep dive learning links and recommended search terms

    But what makes someone a good leader? And how does each and everyone of us measure up against the leadership standards set by the Prophet? This book presents a well researched leadership framework combined with extensively applied contemporary practitioner case studies for the first time to readers interested in a Sirah (prophetic life) based universal model for good leadership. Drawing upon scholarly findings from eastern and western sources, and having examined an extensive range of works on Sirah, an original framework of eleven prophetic leadership qualities are presented with an entire chapter devoted to each. Well known and lesser known events from the Sirah are explored and analysed like never before, and viewed with a specialist leadership lens, extracting insights on effective people management, authentic leadership and succeeding against the odds. Each chapter on leadership qualities offers not only what the quality means and where it can be found in the life of the Prophet, but how one can develop those qualities within themselves as well.

    The Certified B Corporation, benefit corporation and Conscious Capitalism movements all reflect a global shift in business consciousness from an egocentric focus on profits to an altruistic, triple bottom line orientation that balances the interests of the environment, society and shareholders. The economic data suggests that businesses built this way outperform their conventional peers. Great from the Start not only sets the context for a more sustainable and humane economic system like Conscious Capitalism, Firms of Endearment, the B Corporation Handbook and Reinventing Organizations but also shows you how to build a purposeful and soulful business that is a force for good, With this book, you can create a business that reflects your values, embodies the tenets of Conscious Capitalism as a Certified B Corporation and acts appropriately as a responsible global citizen. Finally, if you are a leader who aspires to operate from the heart, believes in abundance and plays power with instead of power over, Great from the Start suggests how you can leverage neuroscience and the science of consciousness to inspire and lead your corporation so that it is optimized for the people that work there.In Great from the Start, John Montgomery brings three decades of experience as one of California’s preeminent corporate lawyers to offer the business secrets of Silicon Valley as an essential blueprint for any entrepreneur wishing to start a successful company. As counsel and trusted adviser to almost 1,000 startups and dozens of venture capital firms, he developed this blueprint from working with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and stress tested it with dozens of startups and his law firm, Montgomery & Hansen, LLP. From raising venture capital to building a balanced team, from designing your culture to managing a board of directors, this book will help you experience the joy of building a successful company.

    Description:- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a crazy, idealised notion. In many successful organisations, great leaders are creating environments in which teams trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other.Yet other teams, no matter what incentives were offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? Today's workplaces tend to be full of cynicism, paranoia and self-interest. But the best organisations foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a Circle of Safety. It separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Turn The Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules Captain David Marquet was used to giving orders. In the high-stress environment of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, it was crucial his men did their job well. But the ship was dogged by poor morale, poor performance and the worst retention in the fleet.One day, Marquet unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. He realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they were all in danger unless they fundamentally changed the way they did things. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People In THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

    Supported by dozens of studies over twenty years involving tens of thousands of donors, Donor-Centered Fundraising paints a candid picture of why donors stop giving, and what it will take to preserve their ongoing loyalty in the future. In clear language and backed by statistical evidence, the book explores the pitfalls of the fundraising industry’s traditional approaches to donor communication and recognition, and clarifies what donors want but seldom get from not-for-profits they support. Donor-Centered Fundraising features straightforward and accessible forecasts that illustrate how much money charitable organizations are failing to raise by employing an approach to fundraising designed for another time and a different donor sensibility. It then goes on to offer readers a step-by-step guide that transforms any not-for-profit into a Donor-Centered organization. Filled with eye opening, humorous and often poignant anecdotes from donors and fundraisers, Donor-Centered Fundraising is the authoritative text for fundraisers, executive directors, board members, donor relations professionals and any staff or volunteers who interact with donors or deal with the financial support of not-for-profits. Donor-Centered Fundraising is today's essential fundraising methodology for the not-for-profit sector.

    The theory of "Buy Term and Invest the Difference."

    

    Description : Start With Why Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it.Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why. Find Your Why With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why. Leaders Eat Last Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a crazy, idealised notion. In many successful organisations, great leaders are creating environments in which teams trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other.

    

    It's written for Leaders, Assistant Leaders, scout parents -- anyone interested in training Scouts to lead. Leadership training in a Scout troop is simple: trust and respect your Scouts, use the Patrol Method to give your Scouts real responsibility, mentor, motivate and recognize results. But while the basics are simple, the devil is in the details. This guide offers practical advice about the "Why" of the Patrol Method; the Patrol Method from a Scoutmaster's perspective; techniques that support the Patrol Method, team-building and shared leadership; how to create your personal leadership legacy, and much more. Are you deeply concerned about America's future leadership? Are you having trouble getting your Scouts to take responsibility? Have you always wanted a Scout-run unit but can't seem to get there? Do you want to kick-start Troop Leadership Training but aren't sure how to go about it? Do you need a readable resource to help orient other adults in your unit? Are you a new Scout parent who wants to understand what the Patrol Method is all about? Through storytelling, Baden-Powell's own words, clear explanations and interesting illustrations, this guide will help you make a difference and deliver the promise. Published independently by four Eagle Scouts.

    

    It’s not about pleasing people, and it’s certainly not about titles. Great leadership is about making the contribution only you can make for your family and friends, your community or organization, your country or the world. But having that influence requires us to “grow into-and take ownership of-who we are and what we stand for.” The journey isn’t automatic. Leadership maturity isn’t the natural byproduct of aging. It requires wisdom, courage and effort. Too many people find themselves stuck under the weight of their circumstances, so they don’t realize their potential. Based in decades of research on adult development, The Map explains how we can take control of our growth and accelerate progress in leadership, life, and legacy.

    The good news it brings is that organizing work as though it were a game-making it interesting for employees by providing scorekeeping, feedback, goal setting, coaching, choice, and so on-will lead to increases in productivity and much better morale in the workplace. Among the companies that have benefited from the author's "game of work" approach are Pepsi Cola, The Chicago Tribune, Browning Ferris Industries, Wendy's, Quaker Oats, and Ralston-Purina.

    It is a force multiplier that makes your marketing more effective and justifies higher rates. But it involves risk.The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms is the only step-by-step manual to help you move from struggling generalist to in-demand specialist with minimum risk and maximum speed.

    

    Use this workbook to get you started and then continue down the right path. Every page in this workbook will put you one step closer to financial freedom. Discover where your money actually goes as you can write in all of your expenditures. Purchase the Financial Fitness Workbook today and get budgeting!

    He has coached three different teams to three World Cup finals, and in the five years in charge of the England rugby union team he has won three Six Nations championship titles, including back-to-back championships and the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup. In this inspirational and straight-talking book, Eddie reveals the secrets behind his extraordinary career and shows how any leader can apply these lessons in any walk of life. He breaks down the cycle of success into five key areas: kick-off, build, test, perform, refresh. Within these areas he identifies the key elements of culture, identity, preparation, pressure, empowerment, responsibility, failure and legacy, to reveal the ingredients for not only making a great team, but for enjoying sustained success. He draws on his own vast experience as well as lessons from other areas including companies such as Uniqlo, a US basketball team that hugely over-indexes on its success relative to its size, and Liverpool under Klopp. Written with Donald McRae, two-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, On Leadership is the book for anyone who wants to learn how to build and lead a team to success.

    

    

    Now, through case studies and lessons from 45 years in media, Bob teaches you how to evolve your business and career. Learn strategies for expanding a brand, leading with integrity, and making big moves—from risk management to the art of negotiation.The Masterclass is accompanied by a guidebook pdf.

    But they lack the solid foundations that will allow you to start at the beginning and will enable to to successfully adopt OKR.I wrote this guide for first-time OKR users, but in my experience many long-time OKR users also find it valuable. Many of them lack the proper concepts to win with OKR.My advice is that you should read this guide cover-to-cover, as each section builds upon the previous ones. Reading it from start to finish will help you understand how the different OKR building blocks fit together and why OKR has been successfully adopted by great companies such as Google, Spotify, Twitter, Airbnb and LinkedIn.

    

    Hyper-productive teams and organizations have always existed, both in the business and military fields. Naturally, they are rare statistical outliers. The main focus of this book is how one can build and manage a hyper-productive knowledge-work organization, by taking as a source of inspiration the experience matured in the field of software engineering. Software development organizations — like Microsoft, Google, Oracle; but also high profile open source organizations like Apache, Ubuntu, Drupal and others — can be considered as archetypal knowledge­based organizations, because the totality of artifacts produced by a software business is purely immaterial. Software development organizations were the first one to confront the challenges of completely immaterial processes, entirely based on knowledge. They were also the first organizations to experience the socio-technological impact of information technology (especially the development of computer networks) on their internal work processes and organizational structures. Due to its frantic and exponential pace of innovation, the field of software development also became a testbed for a variety of approaches and methods for managing immaterial knowledge work, typically under the form of software development processes and methodologies. Numerous alternatives evolved over a relatively short period, with a lot of healthy competition in between them; with vehement “holy wars” between proponents of one approach or another; and with many anecdotes about both successes and failures. Valuable insights can be gained by studying the organizational and managerial approaches successfully adopted by the industry that produced the information revolution — that is, those organizations that engage first hand in software development — and then by extrapolating those organizational and managerial processes to the more general case of knowledge­based organizations. Nowadays, the majority of organizations have become knowledge-based. Even the most resilient and traditional "brick­ and ­mortar" businesses are forced to become knowledge­based organizations. For instance, consider the impact of large­scale 3D printing on the construction industry ("Contour Crafting"), where bricks and mortar literally become software. Or nanoscale technologies, where manufacturing at the sub-atomic level becomes software. The key tenet of this book is that organizational hyper-productivity stems from the two Noble Patterns of "Unity of Purpose" and "Community of Trust." The leaders and the top executives of the organization play a critical role in creating the conditions for these patterns to become effective. Management must play an active role in leading the organization towards these conditions. In the case of software (and knowledge) organizations, management will have to gain a deep understanding of the nature of software or knowledge work; and that nature is rooted in empiricism. Top executives already have that understanding; though they might not be aware of it, and – unfortunately – do not act consequently. Management must create the conditions for the development of a learning organization. Financial responsibility must be exercised differently, and in way that is compatible with the empirical nature of knowledge work. Key roles must be nurtured, while each team needs to develop their own shared vision of their purpose. Practical help comes from many sources, and we will look specifically, into like: Kanban, Scrum and the Theory of Constraints. The Theory of Constraints nurtures Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust in many ways. In particular, the Theory of Constraints squarely addresses the need to arrive at common metrics by which all and everybody are driven; and overcomes the structural impediments (rooted in the use of cost accounting and efficiency metrics for management purposes) which are the sources of divergence of purpose and hidden agendas. Kanban and Scrum are widely used in modern knowledge work businesses. The Theory of Constraint can extend them in powerful ways, bringing more predictability of behavior of the system as a whole, as well as of the individuals. Their combination becomes a powerful breeding ground for the development of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust. Both Kanban and Scrum can be extended with features of the Theory of Constraint, and help creating a hyper-productive organization. The book will present practical ways by which such combination might be realized.

    

    

     I don’t believe! I know of one egg vendor who truly was an exceptionally hard-working person. After ten years, he’s still an egg vendor. The equation should be: “HARD WORK PLUS GOAL equals SUCCESS.”If you don’t have goals in life, you move about like a butterfly. Butterflies fly so erratically you wonder where do they really want to go. They flutter up and down, left and right, to and fro—only to alight sometimes just near or even at the exact spot where they have taken off. I figured why didn’t they just fly straight to where they wanted to go? If you are that person who is yet so young, don’t waste the very limited time God has given us. Know where you’re going. Have goals! And there are ‘SEVEN GOALS OF LIFE!’

    

    motivate your staff and inspire them to achieve goals in the workplace

    

    More than 1 million networkers participated in my seminars. After working hard for years, I could understand, why one person succeeds in this system and why another fails? Why one company survives and reaches the top while an other company has to shut doors?Now I am confident that this is not an easy earning system, neither a shortcut to attain wealth.This system demands hard work and devotion. I personally believe that it.

    

    

    But there are certain half-truths and hidden dangers in this seductively appealing philosophy. This edited volume features a collection of chapters from pioneers who helped create the modern field of development to explain these concerns and provide sound advice for capitalizing on strengths without resorting to hyped-up, dumbed-down, or naïvely simplistic prescriptions. You will learn that... Most managers don t have the leadership strengths their companies need to be competitive Mastering the art of leadership requires learning to do what may not come naturally A focus on strengths can promote stagnation and inhibit learning and development Strengths can, ironically, become weaknesses through overuse and overreliance Ignoring weaknesses is a fatal strategy for managing careers and managing talent You can reap the benefits of talented-but-troubling managers while containing their dark sides Written for HR and T&D professionals, executive coaches, and managers themselves, this book promises no quick fixes, no silver bullets, and no easy roads to success. Instead, it offers balanced judgment along with research-based strategies and road-tested techniques that can help managers truly become stronger leaders.

    All our lives, we’ve been looking for how we can be happy and successful at work and in life, when all along the answer is just there in the attitudes that we use in our daily lives.This explains why there are people who seemed to be already up there in heaven, but because their attitudes are yet so wrong, you will see them still ever complaining.On the other hand, there are people who seemed to be already down there in the dump, but because their attitudes are yet so right, you will see them still ever smiling as if everything is alright.To be happy and successful at work and in life, what we need are “RIGHT ATTITUDES,” not a perfect environment that can only come with the perfection of the heart and mind.Be one of the ATTITUDINALISTS! —“The happiest and most successful employees in the world!”

    With fresh language, powerful inquiries, and a nuanced exploration of the often opposing tensions we hold as leaders, this book is a compelling and insightful guide to improving your leadership and your life.

    

    Prepublication; read for review prior to publication

    Hawkins draws from his years of entrepreneurial experience and organizational leadership to provide instruction that is both credible and insightful to people who want to rethink and redirect their leadership in their marriages, families and careers.

    In his new book, School Culture By Design, Phil Boyte shares what he has learned from countless principals, teachers, superintendents and activities directors across North America. Building school culture isn't easy, but it IS possible! Interested in purchasing in bulk at a discounted rate? Visit our website today: www.learningforliving.com

    Today's student is EPIC: Experiential, Participatory, Image-driven and Connected. Habitudes® enables you to teach leadership in groups in an experiential and memorable way: using pictures and exercises. Suggested for youth ages 16-24.Recommended for staff, advisors and upperclassman.Also available in a Faith-Based Edition for Christian schools and ministries.

     Leaders Eat Last: Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled.This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Start With Why: Because in business it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it.Steve Jobs, the Wright brothers and Martin Luther King have one thing in common: they STARTED WITH WHY.This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others, or to be inspired.

    

    

    

    

    Hill used this interview as the basis of his world famous book Think & Grow Rich.

    From 1951 as a medical student to the present day, he has not only witnessed first-hand the avalanche of surgical progress, but has also seen lives saved as a result of these advances, be it a disposable plastic syringe or a liver transplant. In this, his memoirs, he painstakingly maps his journey from his student years through residency, research, surgical practice and surgical teaching with a view to sharing the lessons he has learnt. And what they can teach you.More Than Just Surgery is a warm personal account of people, incidents, mentors, failures and absurdities against the backdrop of surgery. It is also an engrossing historical account through the eyes and hands of someone who has lived through the journey.

    

    Eichinger, Ph.D.

    

    

    

    

    Each chapter is written by a different author with a different style. Legends and stories include John Locke, King David, Nathan Hale, Squanto, Zig Ziglar, Sybil Ludington, Brian Birdwell, Jimmy Robertson, Dicey Langston, Moe Berg, and many others!

    

    Whatever your gap is, there's a test to pass that will build a bridge to where you want to go. This book will equip you to: Stop going in circles and move forward into your full potential. Identify what barriers are holding you back so that you can bust through them to the next level in your personal, professional, and spiritual life. Challenge limiting mindsets as you embrace healthy habits to overcome the tests of life. If you want to move your life forward, God will require you to prove your potential at one level so that you can handle what's next. Let's pass the test, together.

    This work on the art of chairmanship is established as a classic reference for Labour Party and union delegates, committee members and officials.

    

    During that combat tour he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.

    In this engrossing follow-up to The Five Temptations of a CEO, Lencioni again offers up a compelling fable with a profound message to best help readers understand and embrace the importance of building a healthy organization.

    In this 105 minute video program you'll gain not only the insights but the techniques that will help you get better results with all the people in your life.

    No longer is it enough to just have a position within a hierarchy. Today, we need Social Leadership, reputation based authority, granted to us by our community. In 'The Social Leadership Handbook', Julian Stodd outlined a new model for organisational leadership, taken up by many organisations around the world. 'Social Leadership: my 1st 100 days' is a practical series of activities, undertaken over one hundred consecutive days, to develop Social Leadership. It's a workbook that you fill in as you take your learning journey. Each day consists of provocations, conversations, and application, including a dedicated 'action day' in each section. The first ten days act as a foundation, then we spend ten more days on each of the aspects of Social Leadership: curation, storytelling, sharing, community, reputation, social authority, co-creation, social capital, and collaboration. Social Leaders fight for fairness: they help our organisation to become better, to get fit for the Social Age.

    But between our emotion-phobic society and the debilitating uncertainty of modern times, we usually don't know how to talk about what we're going through, much less handle it. Over the past year, Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy's online community has laughed and cried about productivity guilt, pandemic anxiety, and Zoom fatigue. Now, Big Feelings addresses anyone intimidated by oversized feelings they can't predict or control, offering the tools to understand what's really going on, find comfort, and face the future with a sense of newfound agency.Weaving surprising science with personal stories and original illustrations, each chapter examines one uncomfortable feeling--like envy, burnout, and anxiety--and lays out strategies for turning big emotions into manageable ones. You'll learn:- How to end the cycle of intrusive thoughts brought on by regret, and instead use this feeling as a compass for making decisions - How to identify what's behind your anger and communicate it productively, without putting people on the defensive - Why we might be suffering from perfectionism even if we feel far from perfect, and how to detach your self-worth from what you doBig Feelings helps us understand that difficult emotions are not abnormal, and that we can emerge from them with a deeper sense of meaning. We can't stop emotions from bubbling up, but we can learn how to make peace with them.

    

    Talent appreciation is an art, but it is an art you can improve through study and experience.Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the book that will show you how to do that. Talent is both for people searching for talent and for those who wish to be searched for, found, and discovered.

    Instead It Offers A Robust, Systematic Framework To Achieve It. Certain To Win Develops The Strategy Of The Late Us Air Force Colonel John R. Boyd As A Manual For Success. Kw: Leadership, Personality Development, Business, Management, Defence Strategy

    

    

    Preaching Tools - An Annotated Survey of Commentaries and Preaching Resources for Every Book of the Bible

    

    

    His second book, You Can't Teach Vision, builds on that groundwork, expanding upon such issues as maintaining perspective, dealing with competition, learning to take necessary risks, finding and encouraging the right employees, diversifying interests, maintaining forward business momentum, avoiding excessive greed, setting goals and following through, and eventually, bowing out and managing the politics of succession. Drawing heavily upon his own experiences as a serial entrepreneur, Morgan shows you how to do what it takes to get ahead, and stay ahead, in the fast-paced world of business.