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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most people don't fail to solve their problems because they lack discipline. They fail because they never correctly identified what needed to be solved in the first place.You've put in the effort. You've tried the advice, followed the plan, done the work. And the problem is still there, sometimes in a slightly different shape, sometimes exactly as before. The usual response is to conclude you didn't try hard enough. This book argues for a different explanation: you solved a problem, just not the one you actually had.The Problem Behind the Problem is a diagnostic method for capable, disciplined people whose sincere effort keeps landing on the wrong target, in health, finances, relationships, and career. Drawing on behavioral psychology and decision theory, it identifies the specific, ordinary ways a problem gets misread before any solution is even chosen: - Mistaking a loud, visible symptom for its underlying cause- Borrowing a ready-made explanation that was never built for your specific situation- Letting the words you use to describe a problem quietly rule out the right answer- Addressing a problem at the wrong level, when a structural issue gets treated as a matter of willpower- Reaching for a familiar tool that reshapes the problem to fit it, rather than the other way aroundIn place of vague encouragement, this book offers a structured, repeatable method: a five-pass diagnostic sequence for tracing a problem back to what's actually driving it, a way to build a genuine test into your diagnosis so a wrong turn gets caught in weeks rather than years, and a framework for recognizing when two distinct problems have been mistaken for one.This is not a book about motivation. It assumes you already have that. It's about the layer that comes before it, the one most books skip entirely: figuring out what's actually broken before you try to fix it.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Most people don't fail to solve their problems because they lack discipline. They fail because they never correctly identified what needed to be solved in the first place.You've put in the effort. You've tried the advice, followed the plan, done the work. And the problem is still there, sometimes in a slightly different shape, sometimes exactly as before. The usual response is to conclude you didn't try hard enough. This book argues for a different explanation: you solved a problem, just not the one you actually had.The Problem Behind the Problem is a diagnostic method for capable, disciplined people whose sincere effort keeps landing on the wrong target, in health, finances, relationships, and career. Drawing on behavioral psychology and decision theory, it identifies the specific, ordinary ways a problem gets misread before any solution is even chosen: Mistaking a loud, visible symptom for its underlying causeBorrowing a ready-made explanation that was never built for your specific situationLetting the words you use to describe a problem quietly rule out the right answerAddressing a problem at the wrong level, when a structural issue gets treated as a matter of willpowerReaching for a familiar tool that reshapes the problem to fit it, rather than the other way aroundIn place of vague encouragement, this book offers a structured, repeatable method: a five-pass diagnostic sequence for tracing a problem back to what's actually driving it, a way to build a genuine test into your diagnosis so a wrong turn gets caught in weeks rather than years, and a framework for recognizing when two distinct problems have been mistaken for one.This is not a book about motivation. It assumes you already have that. It's about the layer that comes before it, the one most books skip entirely: figuring out what's actually broken before you try to fix it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Motivation is a mood. Architecture is a system. Only one of them survives a bad week. Most success advice asks you to become a different person - more disciplined, more driven, more consistent. The Architecture of Achievement asks something more useful: what if you didn't have to Drawing on peer-reviewed research in behavioral psychology, neuroscience, and organizational science, this book reframes achievement as an engineering problem rather than a character trait. You are not broken. Your systems are undesigned. Across nine research-grounded chapters, you'll learn how to: - Protect your attention using the real cost of interruption (and why 'just focus' was never the answer)- Build an identity that survives a bad week through small, verifiable evidence - not willpower- Engineer your environment so the right behavior becomes the easy behavior- Build feedback loops tight enough to actually get better, faster- Work with your energy cycles instead of fighting them- Set goals that are hard to game and easy to calibrate- Protect your time from the slow erosion of other people's requests- Turn your network into leverage without becoming someone you're not- Process failure like data, not verdict Each chapter pairs rigorous science - including a candid look at where the research holds up and where it doesn't - with real-world case studies and a concrete, no-fluff Implementation exercise you can start today. No hype. No 5 a.m. mandates. No pretending talent doesn't matter. Just a clear, evidence-based blueprint for building a life that compounds - one decision at a time, whether or not you feel like it on a given Tuesday. If you've read Atomic Habits, Grit, or Thinking, Fast and Slow - this is the next book on your shelf.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For twenty-five years, finding something out online meant the same ritual: type a few keywords, scan ten blue links, click through, compare, decide. That ritual is ending - not because search engines got worse, but because a better product arrived. AI chatbots don't hand you a list of places an answer might be. They give you the answer. The Death of Search argues that this shift is the most consequential change to the information economy since the web itself. It is dismantling the advertising model that funded two decades of free online publishing, gutting the SEO industry built to game a results page that is quietly disappearing, and forcing publishers, brands, and journalists to answer a question none of them are ready for: what do you do when being findable stops being enough This book doesn't chase hype or lean into panic. It traces exactly why users switched - and it isn't because AI is smarter - what happens to advertising revenue when the click disappears, why classic SEO is dying while a less understood discipline takes its place, and the hidden cost of trusting one confident answer over a page of competing sources. It closes with a clear, practical playbook for publishers, brands, and builders who need to stop optimizing for a search engine that no longer decides who gets found. Inside, you'll learn: - Why users abandoned search for AI - and why 'the chatbots are smarter' is the wrong explanation- What happens to advertising revenue when the click disappears- Why classic SEO is dying while a new, far less legible discipline takes its place- The hidden cost of trusting a single confident answer over a page of competing sources- A practical playbook for staying relevant when the destination is no longer a results page The query is dying. The question isn't. This book is about everything in between.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2005, hiring a senior executive meant a four-month search, a six-figure recruiting fee, and a multi-year commitment neither side could easily undo. Today, that same seniority is one warm introduction and a six-week pilot away - and the shift is reshaping how companies build leadership teams and how ambitious professionals build careers.Unbundled is a clear-eyed, evidence-based guide to the rise of fractional leadership and independent consulting. Drawing on real cost data, labor-market research, and the honest experiences of professionals who've made the leap, it explains: - Why finance, marketing, legal, and people-operations leadership are unbundling from full-time roles first - and why product and engineering roles resist it- How AI tools are compressing the workload behind fractional practices, and where that compression genuinely helps versus where it quietly erodes quality- The psychological case against the perceived safety of full-time employment, backed by current labor-market data- A complete playbook for positioning, pricing, client acquisition, and capacity management - including the specific traps that catch nearly every first-time independent professional- What a 'blended' organization actually looks like from the inside, and the new management skill required to lead people you don't employWhether you're an executive deciding whether to make your next senior hire fractional, or a professional weighing whether to leave full-time work behind, Unbundled gives you the structural argument, the practical playbook, and an unflinching account of what the leap actually costs - without the hype.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Motivation is a mood. Architecture is a system. Only one of them survives a bad week. Most success advice asks you to become a different person - more disciplined, more driven, more consistent. The Architecture of Achievement asks something more useful: what if you didn't have to? Drawing on peer-reviewed research in behavioral psychology, neuroscience, and organizational science, this book reframes achievement as an engineering problem rather than a character trait. You are not broken. Your systems are undesigned. Across nine research-grounded chapters, you'll learn how to: - Protect your attention using the real cost of interruption (and why "just focus" was never the answer)- Build an identity that survives a bad week through small, verifiable evidence - not willpower- Engineer your environment so the right behavior becomes the easy behavior- Build feedback loops tight enough to actually get better, faster- Work with your energy cycles instead of fighting them- Set goals that are hard to game and easy to calibrate- Protect your time from the slow erosion of other people's requests- Turn your network into leverage without becoming someone you're not- Process failure like data, not verdict Each chapter pairs rigorous science - including a candid look at where the research holds up and where it doesn't - with real-world case studies and a concrete, no-fluff Implementation exercise you can start today. No hype. No 5 a.m. mandates. No pretending talent doesn't matter. Just a clear, evidence-based blueprint for building a life that compounds - one decision at a time, whether or not you feel like it on a given Tuesday. If you've read Atomic Habits, Grit, or Thinking, Fast and Slow - this is the next book on your shelf. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if the five-day week was never actually correct - just inherited The Four-Day Workweek makes the structural case for one of the most contested ideas in modern work: that a meaningful share of the standard week never converts into real output, and that organizations willing to find out where their own slack lives can reclaim a full day without losing a thing. >Inside, you'll find: - The economic and psychological research behind why a standard week contains reclaimable slack- An honest, sourced breakdown of every major pilot program - including where the headline statistics don't hold up- A clear map of which industries the model fits today, and which need real structural adaptation first- The strongest objections to the four-day week, taken seriously rather than dismissed- Three practical playbooks: for the employee negotiating their own arrangement, the manager running a real pilot, and the company planning a full rollout Honest where the evidence is thin. Confident where it isn't. This is the four-day week argued properly.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Flight attendants are among the most photographed, least understood workers in the world. Everyone has seen the boarding smile and the safety demonstration. Almost no one knows what's underneath it.Brace Position traces the profession from its 1930 origins - when the first 'sky girls' were hired as much for their nursing credentials as for the image airlines wanted to sell - through the marketing era that built its glamorous public image, the lawsuits that dismantled its most exploitative rules, and the security crisis that finally forced its real identity to the surface.Along the way, it covers what the job actually trains you to do (closer to emergency response than hospitality), what the hiring process is really screening for (a specific psychological temperament, not appearance), what altitude and circadian disruption do to a body that lives in the air for a career, the historical plane crashes that rewired how flight crews communicate, and the pay structure that, for most of this profession's history, has quietly undervalued exactly the work this book documents.Written for the curious reader and the serious one alike, Brace Position is the book that finally explains what the person standing at the aisle door has actually been carrying all along.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - America's power grid and the solar industry racing to plug into it are advancing on two entirely different clocks. One is a century-old system of aging transformers, one-way wiring, and rate-making rules built for a handful of large power plants - a grid where the average transformer is decades past its design life, and where interconnection queues now stretch toward a decade. The other is a technology whose costs keep falling, whose efficiency keeps climbing, and whose deployment keeps setting new annual records - advancing faster than the infrastructure meant to absorb it. The Grid and the Sun is the first book to treat these as a single story. It traces the physical and financial condition of the American grid alongside the parallel, equally fast-moving story of solar technology itself - and grounds every claim in sourced, current data rather than either techno-optimism or alarm. Inside, you'll find: - Why the U.S. grid is straining under aging infrastructure, decentralization, and a storage bottleneck still working through a real long-duration gap- The physics behind silicon's efficiency ceiling - and the perovskite materials racing to break past it- How China came to dominate solar manufacturing, and what the U.S. reshoring effort has (and hasn't) achieved- A Texas grid four minutes from total collapse - and how it rebuilt itself in five years- A California grid where batteries now regularly outproduce natural gas on the evening peak- What it will actually take to close the gap between the grid we inherited and the one the sun demands Written for the policy staffer, energy-adjacent professional, investor, and serious general reader who wants to understand what's actually happening beneath the headlines - not a sweeping climate manifesto, not a technical manual for engineers.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. For twenty-five years, finding something out online meant the same ritual: type a few keywords, scan ten blue links, click through, compare, decide. That ritual is ending - not because search engines got worse, but because a better product arrived. AI chatbots don't hand you a list of places an answer might be. They give you the answer. The Death of Search argues that this shift is the most consequential change to the information economy since the web itself. It is dismantling the advertising model that funded two decades of free online publishing, gutting the SEO industry built to game a results page that is quietly disappearing, and forcing publishers, brands, and journalists to answer a question none of them are ready for: what do you do when being findable stops being enough? This book doesn't chase hype or lean into panic. It traces exactly why users switched - and it isn't because AI is smarter - what happens to advertising revenue when the click disappears, why classic SEO is dying while a less understood discipline takes its place, and the hidden cost of trusting one confident answer over a page of competing sources. It closes with a clear, practical playbook for publishers, brands, and builders who need to stop optimizing for a search engine that no longer decides who gets found. Inside, you'll learn: - Why users abandoned search for AI - and why "the chatbots are smarter" is the wrong explanation- What happens to advertising revenue when the click disappears- Why classic SEO is dying while a new, far less legible discipline takes its place- The hidden cost of trusting a single confident answer over a page of competing sources- A practical playbook for staying relevant when the destination is no longer a results page The query is dying. The question isn't. This book is about everything in between. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In 2005, hiring a senior executive meant a four-month search, a six-figure recruiting fee, and a multi-year commitment neither side could easily undo. Today, that same seniority is one warm introduction and a six-week pilot away - and the shift is reshaping how companies build leadership teams and how ambitious professionals build careers.Unbundled is a clear-eyed, evidence-based guide to the rise of fractional leadership and independent consulting. Drawing on real cost data, labor-market research, and the honest experiences of professionals who've made the leap, it explains: Why finance, marketing, legal, and people-operations leadership are unbundling from full-time roles first - and why product and engineering roles resist itHow AI tools are compressing the workload behind fractional practices, and where that compression genuinely helps versus where it quietly erodes qualityThe psychological case against the perceived safety of full-time employment, backed by current labor-market dataA complete playbook for positioning, pricing, client acquisition, and capacity management - including the specific traps that catch nearly every first-time independent professionalWhat a "blended" organization actually looks like from the inside, and the new management skill required to lead people you don't employWhether you're an executive deciding whether to make your next senior hire fractional, or a professional weighing whether to leave full-time work behind, Unbundled gives you the structural argument, the practical playbook, and an unflinching account of what the leap actually costs - without the hype This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. What if the five-day week was never actually correct - just inherited? The Four-Day Workweek makes the structural case for one of the most contested ideas in modern work: that a meaningful share of the standard week never converts into real output, and that organizations willing to find out where their own slack lives can reclaim a full day without losing a thing. Drawing on the UK's landmark national trial, Iceland's multi-year public-sector program, and the pilots that didn't hold up to scrutiny, this book treats the four-day week as a claim worth testing - not a lifestyle trend to embrace on faith. Inside, you'll find: The economic and psychological research behind why a standard week contains reclaimable slackAn honest, sourced breakdown of every major pilot program - including where the headline statistics don't hold upA clear map of which industries the model fits today, and which need real structural adaptation firstThe strongest objections to the four-day week, taken seriously rather than dismissedThree practical playbooks: for the employee negotiating their own arrangement, the manager running a real pilot, and the company planning a full rollout Honest where the evidence is thin. Confident where it isn't. This is the four-day week argued properly. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. America's power grid and the solar industry racing to plug into it are advancing on two entirely different clocks. One is a century-old system of aging transformers, one-way wiring, and rate-making rules built for a handful of large power plants - a grid where the average transformer is decades past its design life, and where interconnection queues now stretch toward a decade. The other is a technology whose costs keep falling, whose efficiency keeps climbing, and whose deployment keeps setting new annual records - advancing faster than the infrastructure meant to absorb it. The Grid and the Sun is the first book to treat these as a single story. It traces the physical and financial condition of the American grid alongside the parallel, equally fast-moving story of solar technology itself - and grounds every claim in sourced, current data rather than either techno-optimism or alarm. Inside, you'll find: Why the U.S. grid is straining under aging infrastructure, decentralization, and a storage bottleneck still working through a real long-duration gapThe physics behind silicon's efficiency ceiling - and the perovskite materials racing to break past itHow China came to dominate solar manufacturing, and what the U.S. reshoring effort has (and hasn't) achievedA Texas grid four minutes from total collapse - and how it rebuilt itself in five yearsA California grid where batteries now regularly outproduce natural gas on the evening peakWhat it will actually take to close the gap between the grid we inherited and the one the sun demands Written for the policy staffer, energy-adjacent professional, investor, and serious general reader who wants to understand what's actually happening beneath the headlines - not a sweeping climate manifesto, not a technical manual for engineers. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Flight attendants are among the most photographed, least understood workers in the world. Everyone has seen the boarding smile and the safety demonstration. Almost no one knows what's underneath it.Brace Position traces the profession from its 1930 origins - when the first "sky girls" were hired as much for their nursing credentials as for the image airlines wanted to sell - through the marketing era that built its glamorous public image, the lawsuits that dismantled its most exploitative rules, and the security crisis that finally forced its real identity to the surface.Along the way, it covers what the job actually trains you to do (closer to emergency response than hospitality), what the hiring process is really screening for (a specific psychological temperament, not appearance), what altitude and circadian disruption do to a body that lives in the air for a career, the historical plane crashes that rewired how flight crews communicate, and the pay structure that, for most of this profession's history, has quietly undervalued exactly the work this book documents.Written for the curious reader and the serious one alike, Brace Position is the book that finally explains what the person standing at the aisle door has actually been carrying all along This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…