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We All Have a Story to Tell
If a single word could summarize everything Bisila Bokoko conveys it would be "inspiration". Her personal story, is one of a racialized woman who has learned how to grow in the face of adversity, and her business, her wisdom, her love of books, and her philanthropic spirit will act as a guide and a path for those who dive into the pages of We All Have a Story to Tell. Discover how to make our dreams come true, how to learn from failure, how to be happy despite the hurdles, what reading can do for us —as the pages of her parent's library did for her, with which she uncovered Africa for the first time— and how to handle our fears. These are the lessons to be learned from the story Bokoko narrates so we can know how to do the same with our own. The United Nations award winning author, founder of the Bisila Bokoko African Literacy Project and owner of a life full of anecdotes and valuable lessons, reveals a vital trajectory that will help us take that step we all need to go further into the story of our lives.
The curse of intelligence
This is the first book to address the problems faced by this cohort written in simple language and containing completely new ideas. The author, a clinical psychologist specialising in the extremely gifted, explains in this book why being intelligent is a curse for many children and adults. Being extremely intelligent can lead to rejection by those around you, affecting self-esteem, motivation and social development, with possible life-long traumas creating depression or aggression. Using simple, direct language, this book will help parents, teachers, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and highly-gifted individuals themselves to fully understand their needs and improve the attention they currently recieve.
My place in the world
What leads a young lawyer to change his successful career in Madrid for a life dedicated to others in Ethiopia? For Paco Moreno, author of these moving pages, his future was well established: a graduate in law, he set up his own office and from a very young age enjoyed a privileged economic situation. However, by chance, or perhaps motivated by a need to give something back in exchange for his good fortune, he travelled as a volunteer to Ethiopia and was never the same person again. He observed there that the nomadic tribes of the region do not have enough water and that the girls can not go to school because every day they have to travel a long way along the scorching desert sand to fill th...
The talent equation and MAHLER
This book tackles the importance of challenges in our lives and how to accomplish whatever you put forth, no matter how difficult it may be. Luis Conde, founder of Amrop Seeliger y Conde, recounts some of the challenges that he has taken on in his life and the lessons he has learned from them, all while revealing the secret to his success: the talent equation. The latest challenge was nothing less than conducting a symphonic orchestra without knowing basic musical theory. He chose to conduct Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Resurrection," with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra in the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. With a lot of dedication and passion, it's possible to successfully complete a challenge as complicated as this one. The author, in his role as conductor of the orchestra, created the necessary harmony between the orchestra and the audience until the point at which they ultimately became one. Just as Mahler was a martyr consumed in the flames of hard work, Luis Conde gave his all to make this challenge a reality. This determination encourages us to pursue our own dreams.
Falling in love with the future
One of the top experts in business strategy, Miquel Lladó shares with us his professional experience in significant cant executive roles in big, multinational companies. In this book the reader will discover Miquel Lladó's work methodology, and, more importantly, the ideas that have contributed to him creating his own future and reaching high-ranking levels in business leadership. Rich in real-life cases, experienced first-hand by the author –a deep connoisseur of the ins and outs of management in big companies– Lladó offers a truly organic and understandable summary. It enables the reader to become immersed in concepts worth mastering to fully understand the needs of a company and to achieve successful strategy implementation, even in a context such as the current covid-19 pandemic crisis. Indeed, an inspiring text for those current and future leaders eager to play in the big leagues.
The invention of the bicycle
In 1815 the volcano Tambora, in Indonesia, began erupting bringing about an unprecedented crisis throughout the northern hemisphere. Tens of thousands of people succumbed to hunger and disease. Horses, the standard form of transportation at that time, were not luckier, as their owners couldn't afford the luxury of feeding them appropriately. Karl Von Drais, the famous German inventor, realized that this crisis represented an opportunity. He discovered that the laufmaschine, one of his most recent inventions, was the means to go from place to place that the situation required. Today this machine is known as the bicycle. The Covid-19 crisis has made it evident that we are facing one of the most serious challenges we have experienced as a society. Faced with a situation that nobody could have foreseen, there's no choice but to give the best of ourselves, demonstrating our capacity to come to grips with it. With this mindset of living with adversity, Jordi Nadal encourages us to take on the challenges that the future holds, with a measured degree of alarm, with the aim of getting round these difficulties as best possible.
All within reach
A man feels a tender love for a woman. It is simply love. And he waits, he waits patiently until she is ready to love him back. She is hesitant while he remains delicately persistent, but unhurried, despite the desire that transforms him. He trusts that his words, persistent and sweet, will finally convince his beloved. She cannot bring herself to give in. Finally, after thirty encounters – the thirty chapters of his book – the lovers come together. The poetic prose of Jordi Nadal, with echoes of Tagore and Salinas, represents the dialogues, monologues and fantasies of a lover in wait, immersed in the sounds of a twenty-first century man. The work has been translated into Greek, Portuguese, French and Catalan.
Navigating among icebergs
After analyzing this case study with thousands of executives from all over the world, the author proposes the legendary story of the Titanic as a means to draw out practical lessons and highlight important mistakes that should be avoided. Especially valuable for teams that are good at what they do, but that want to ensure the sustainability of their success.
Play from your heart
How do you defy your destiny when others start from an advantage? How can we break through the upper limit of our maximum performance? How can we face life when excellence is not enough? The answer is not in your head, but in your heart: listening to what we want, not just to what we think. Our head analyses, but our heart holds onto our deepest desires, and this is what really makes us act. Although talent is necessary, as it allows us to overcome major challenges, once we have been able to rise above the failures, it is the heart. Xesco Espar is clear that in order to reach excellence you must train for it, but to go further than this, you have to transform yourself: face each problem as a challenge, a way to grow, a test. Using examples from his experience as a professional handball coach, and his particular way of understanding the world, Espar shows us how life harshly punishes those who simply talk, pretend or put on a front. Whereas those who take action, who transform themselves and grow, are showered with rewards... in other words, those who play with their hearts.
The secret art of negotiation
What are the keys to a good negotiation? How can you achieve an effective agreement that benefits everyone involved? What importance should we give to what, to whom and to how to negotiate? To what extent should the parties be involved? To what extent should you compete, cooperate or be complacent with others? What are the Ten Commandments of every good negotiator? The secret art of negotiation answers these and other questions that will help us to prepare for the best result in a negotiation, define a strategy and manage dififcult situations so everyone can get the most out of it. Any reader interested in negotiating effectively, productively and creatively and in reaching agreements that satisfy the interests of all the parties involved will discover the tools to do so within these pages.
