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Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? How do you achieve world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? How do you train to win at the highest level? What do you leave behind you after you're gone?

Imagine losing your high-paying job as an executive after almost thirty years at a multibillion-dollar company. How would you react? When it happened to author James Brian Kerr, the answer was simple: Walk more than twenty miles home. In The Long Walk Home: How I Lost My Job as a Corporate Remora Fish and Rediscovered My Life’s Purpose, Kerr invites us to join him on his strange journey from impending unemployment to self-discovery, and reminds us that the only true journey is the journey within.

At 11.56 on 25 April 2015, an earthquake triggered an avalanche that took out Everest Base Camp; 22 people perished on the worst day in the mountain's history. In Nepal, 9,000 people died and 22,000 were critically injured. Three million required humanitarian assistance. Nepal's infrastructure and economy collapsed. Where the Earth Meets the Sky is the epic, elemental account of a seismic event - the days leading up to it, the moment it hits and its impact on those it envelops.

Gli All Blacks neozelandesi sono la squadra più forte al mondo: negli ultimi 100 anni hanno vinto più del 75% dei loro match internazionali. Qual è il segreto del loro successo? E cosa possiamo noi - come individui, squadre o aziende - imparare da loro? Partendo da questa squadra leggendaria James Kerr ci spiega quali sono i principi che guidano tutti i team vincenti, e ci mostra come farli nostri.

A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The audiobook provides a best-practice checklist for eight core areas: strategy setting, technology alignment, business renovation, project management, communications renewal, employee engagement, staff transformation, and organizational design. 

Most podcasts out there today do little more than provide a platform for somebody to promote their latest book. As a person who has been interviewed hundreds of times on these kinds of programs, I know how they work – contrived and pre-planned. In fact, you will likely hear the same messages nearly every time an expert is interviewed. The Indispensable Conversation is different. We host authentic conversations about real topics that impact leaders of all kinds. There are no read ahead questions, no retakes, no BS. Just one guest, one provocative question, one indispensable conversation.