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Not everyone might think a book about getting what you want by a former top FBI negotiator as a beach read, but I say it absolutely is. Full of real-life, high-stakes situations and practical tips you can implement immediately at work and with your family, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss should be on your summer reading list. If you’ve read negotiation books written for a business audience, be prepared: Never Split the Diff

We’ve reached the unofficial halfway point of summer with the Fourth of July behind us. As a student, it was the point in the summer when you realized you were behind on summer reading if you hadn’t started yet. For businesses, it means employees are still in-and-out of the office on vacation and the slower summer pace is in full swing. Whether your summer vacation is behind you or still on the horizon, we’ve rounded up some tips and takeaways from past blog posts to get in y

As you may have read on our blog in December (and if you haven’t, SPOILER ALERT) the concept of The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly of Floyd Consulting can be, well, dreamy. To recap, a Dream Manager helps individuals to actualize dreams by formulating a plan to achieve them. The goal of the program is to help employees become the best versions of themselves – which will in turn make the company more effective and profitable. But you may wonder how likely it is that businesses

The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly, is written as a fable about the CEO of a janitorial company whose HR operations were in crisis – they had a 400% turnover rate. Yes, you read that right. Their average employee only worked for three months before moving on to another job. The CEO hired a consultant, Simon, to come up with a solution. Simon distributed a survey to employees and went back to the CEO with shocking findings. He found that people weren’t leaving because they wer