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Today, the very word ‘meeting’ conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit, airless offices. People sitting around tables unsure why they are there and wishing they were somewhere else. Hour after hour. Day after day. ‘Will There Be Donuts?’ is business expert David Pearl’s first book and he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings and, crucially, how to make them great.

A woman, her cat, and a murder. Who will crack the case? Sheila and her amateur sleuth friends or Whiskers and his animal friends?" Paradise Cove is, well, paradise. Pretty cottages line the quiet beach where waves wash gently onto sugar-white sand. Sunsets paint the sky each evening and gentle sea breezes blow across the dunes into the quaint downtown. Whiskers wears a shiny police badge on his pet collar, and he earned it, but when he tries to tell humans what he’s uncovered in his investigations they think he wants food or a belly rub.

We are about to enter a new age of creativity that will require a new set of superheroes to help the world thrive. This audiobook will make you one of those creative superheroes by unleashing new creative superpowers to help you solve your biggest business problems. This is the modern skillset for creative problem solving.

We’re living through a time when fiction seems more powerful than fact - when tales trump truth. Storytelling is a power-tool of leadership but it’s one that can both build and destroy. That’s why it’s more important than ever for leaders to master the art of story; not just telling stories about what happened but creating authentic stories that shape what happens next. In Story for Leaders David Pearl outlines the must-have techniques to create a compelling story and deliver it with power.

If you've ever set a goal and not achieved it, don't panic. You are not alone, and help is at hand. In this refreshing two part book, business inspiration specialist David Pearl shares some refreshing new ideas which will help you set and realise your goals. In Part 2 we look at how you turn the people around you into allies and supporters who help you make your vision real. You will also learn how to manifest your goals as much by what you think as what you do.

If you've ever set a goal and not achieved it, don't panic. You are not alone, and help is at hand. In this refreshing two-part book, business inspiration specialist David Pearl shares some refreshing new ideas which will help you set and realise your goals. In Part 1, David guides you on a journey through your own life, looking at why goals are so important and how the complexities of modern life can so easily distract us from reaching them.

Winner of the Susan Smith Backburn Prize honoring women writers worldwide, Emma’s Child explores the idea of commitment in a marriage as a parent. Told gently, lovingly, and with unexpected humor, this is the story of a childless couple struggling to decide whether to continue the adoption process when the baby they had hoped for is born severely disabled.

If you are already ‘full’ how will you find more time and space for more? It’s time to work smarter not harder. No-one won a school cup or got a good school report for working smart. Working hard is what we have traditionally been rewarded for. But working smart is what we need. Especially now when more needs to be done, in less time, by people like you who are already busy! Working smart often means working less dumb, that is doing less of what we know doesn’t work but keep doing anyway.

If you are already ‘full’ how will you find more time and space for more? It’s time to work smarter not harder. No one won a school cup or got a good school report for working smart. Working hard is what we have traditionally been rewarded for. But working smart is what we need. Especially now when more needs to be done, in less time, by people like you who are already busy!