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Everyone wants to live meaningfully and understand that time has not passed in vain and important goals have been achieved. However, we rarely make any special efforts to this, rather, we rely on chance. Imagine that engineers designing some complex device would act in the same way. It is unlikely that they would have succeeded. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, in their fast-selling Amazon best-seller book Design Your Life, draw an analogy between the work of planners and designers and building your own life. They show how to make it interesting, productive and meaningful. This book will teach you about design thinking and how to use it to consciously choose the future and achieve it with confidence.

Companies are adjusting their business models to keep up with the changing environment. However, this is not enough: changes that occur outside of companies put too much pressure on organizations. The only solution is to radically change the business model. It means completely rethinking the way we do business. Of course, such a transformation is associated with difficulties and high risk. But, if you want to keep your success for a long time, you have no choice. The authors analyzed the experience of more than 380 companies and now talk about how to understand that you need change, which business model to choose and how to implement these changes.

You can't change people, you can only change yourself. This widespread opinion, as the authors of the book show, turns out to be fundamentally wrong. The ability to inspire others and help them change for the better is not just a useful talent, but an essential professional skill for leaders of all levels, from CEOs of large companies to school teachers. How to encourage conflict employees to work in a team? How to unlock the potential of an insecure person for the good of a common cause, support a partner, help get rid of false beliefs and become happier? The world's number one business coach Peter Bregman and his colleague Howie Jacobson believe this can be achieved in four steps: first transform from critic to ally, together define the desired outcome and opportunities to achieve it, and then build a detailed plan. After reading their book, you will learn how to act to gain the trust of relatives, colleagues and partners, inspire them with self-confidence and help them change for the better.