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Timothy King

King T: Why Smart People Struggle

Why Smart People Struggle

Processing Speed, Meaning Attachment, and the New Path to Success

True intelligence lies in the ability to pause and think before speaking. In a world where AI can write your emails and efficiency trumps everything else, that human skill has never mattered more. Drawing on his own successes and failures as a consultant, Yuya Adachi reveals how genuinely intelligent people think, how they approach problems and how they earn the trust of others, offering practical tools anyone can use to become a naturally smart person. Ranked in Japan's top 10 bestseller lists for two consecutive years alongside the enduring phenomenon The Courage to Be Disliked, Adachi's book explains the difference between people who merely pretend to be smart and those who truly are. It teaches readers how to combine critical thinking with consideration for others: a skill-set essential for success in life.

What Smart People Think Before They Speak

Independently published

Build the English you need for job search, interviews, and workplace communication.Professional English for Career Development is a self-learning textbook for ESL learners, multilingual professionals, international students, job seekers, and early-career adults who want to communicate clearly in real career situations.This practical course teaches professional English through short lessons, worked examples, guided practice, mistake repair, review, and portfolio-building tasks. Instead of only memorizing vocabulary, you will learn how to use English for resumes, cover letters, professional profiles, networking messages, workplace emails, meetings, presentations, and job interviews.Inside the book, you will practice how to: <ul><li>describe your skills, experience, education, and career goals with clear evidence</li><li>write stronger resume and CV achievement bullets</li><li>draft cover letters and job application messages</li><li>send professional emails, follow-ups, updates, and clarification messages</li><li>participate in meetings and explain ideas with useful workplace phrases</li><li>prepare structured interview answers using real examples</li><li>repair common mistakes in tone, grammar, vocabulary, and organization</li><li>complete a Career Communication Portfolio for job search and career growth</li></ul>Designed for independent learners, this book combines business English, career English, workplace communication, and practical writing practice in one guided course. Every chapter helps you learn the skill, practice it, fix common mistakes, and add useful language to your final portfolio.Learn it. Practice it. Fix the mistakes. Build the portfolio.

A Self-Learning Textbook for Resumes, Interviews, Workplace Communication, and Career Confidence

Professional English for Career Development

In The New Rules of Closing Sales Deals: How Global Winners Influence Decisions, Dominate Markets and Win Premium Customers in the AI Economy, readers discover a powerful modern business strategy playbook built for founders, CEOs, sales leaders, consultants, entrepreneurs, startups, and ambitious professionals competing in today's fast-moving global economy. This high-impact business book reveals why traditional sales methods, outdated negotiation tactics, and relationship-driven selling no longer work in an AI-driven world shaped by attention scarcity, digital competition, executive decision fatigue, and collapsing customer trust. Through sharp commercial insights, strategic communication frameworks, premium positioning psychology, AI-era influence tactics, modern buyer behavior analysis, authority-building strategies, high-ticket sales approaches, executive persuasion techniques, and real-world global business scenarios, the book equips readers to control strategic conversations, shape market perception, build commercial authority, accelerate decision-making, win premium clients, and create lasting competitive advantage. Blending sales psychology, leadership, influence, negotiation, branding, business growth, and future-ready execution into one globally relevant guide, this book delivers actionable systems for dominating markets, increasing pricing power, attracting high-value customers, and becoming commercially impossible to ignore in the modern AI economy.

The New Rules of Closing Sales Deals

Articulation for Adults: A Practical Guide to Clearer Speech, Better Communication, and Workplace Confidence is a practical, modern communication guide designed specifically for adults who want to improve the way they speak in professional and everyday situations - without clinical speech therapy, complicated jargon, or unrealistic motivational fluff.Whether you're speaking in meetings, participating in Zoom or Teams calls, interviewing for jobs, networking professionally, giving presentations, or simply trying to feel more confident in conversations, this book provides realistic and actionable techniques you can begin using immediately.Inside, you'll discover: <ul><li>Practical articulation exercises for clearer speech</li><li>Techniques to reduce filler words, mumbling, and rushed speech</li><li>Strategies for speaking calmly and confidently under pressure</li><li>Communication skills for meetings, presentations, and workplace conversations</li><li>Methods for organizing your thoughts and expressing ideas more clearly</li><li>Verbal confidence techniques for professional and social settings</li><li>Listening and conversation skills for stronger everyday communication</li></ul> Written in a calm, approachable, and professional style, this book is designed for adults who want to sound more articulate, feel more confident speaking to others, and improve the way they communicate at work and in everyday life.

A Practical Guide to Clearer Speech, Better Communication and Workplace Confidence

Articulation Training for Adults

A guide to communicating professionally and authentically in today's workplace. Whether you are a leader, manager, or ambitious young professional, this book provides strategies you can use to communicate effectively and professionally without losing your own voice, command a room without dominating it, and inspire action without forcing it. Drawing on the author's experience teaching Business Communication courses and working for both international organizations and startups, you'll be equipped with proven techniques you can apply right away. Grounded in real-world examples, including how to write a persuasive email, how to navigate a difficult conversation with a colleague, how to craft an engaging virtual presentation, and how to effectively use AI as a support tool, Buxton covers all you need to know about written, spoken, and digital forms of communication.

Speaking and Writing with Professional Impact

Magnetic Communication

<div>Learn how the world’s most memorable brands find the words that make them impossible to ignore. Visual identity has its canon. Logos, typefaces, color systems, and design principles have filled bookshelves for decades. But behind every successful brand is another system that shapes perception, builds trust, and creates emotional connection: language. In How Brands Find Their Voice, brand writer and Brand Impact Awards founder Nick Carson gives verbal identity the visual design-book treatment it has long deserved. With a foreword by John Simmons—the acclaimed writer who coined the term “verbal identity”—and built on unprecedented access to leading branding agencies and in-house creative teams, this richly illustrated volume reveals how brand language is developed, expressed, and sustained across every touchpoint. Through in-depth case studies spanning hospitality, technology, consumer goods, and nonprofits, from global institutions to challenger brands, Carson explores how language becomes part of a brand’s DNA. Readers meet the people who do the work and discover how verbal identity emerges from collaboration, research, and craft. Inside, you’ll discover: <ul><li>The evolution of brand voice from advertising copy to modern verbal identity</li><li>How leading agencies develop language systems alongside visual identity</li><li>The strategic thinking behind memorable brand voices</li><li>Different approaches to tone, personality, storytelling, and communication</li><li>How organizations embed verbal identity across teams and touchpoints</li><li>What separates effective brand guidelines from documents that are never used</li><li>The opportunities and challenges that AI presents for brand language</li></ul> Featuring brands such as Ben &amp; Jerry’s, Mailchimp, Virgin, Liquid Death, Innocent, Oatly, and many others—and world-renowned agencies including COLLINS, Wolff Olins, and JKR—the book demonstrates that successful verbal identity is not about clever taglines or isolated campaigns. It’s about creating a coherent language system that shapes every interaction people have with a brand. Filled with photography, packaging, digital experiences, environmental graphics, annotated guidelines, and expert commentary,&nbsp;How Brands Find Their Voice presents language in context, where words and visuals work together to create meaning. For brand strategists, designers, copywriters, marketers, students, and business leaders, this book offers both inspiration and practical insight into one of branding’s most important—and least understood—disciplines.</div>

Why Brands Should Watch Their Language

How Brands Find Their Voice

When pressure rises, your presence becomes the message. In high-stakes moments, leaders do not rise to the occasion. They default to their patterns. When It Counts is a practical mini-book for entry and mid-level leaders who want their executive presence to hold under pressure, not because they learned a new persona, but because they built alignment. This is not a book about charisma. &gt;Inside, you will learn how to: <ul><li></li><li>Recognize the signals your behavior sends when stakes rise</li><li></li><li>Identify the small credibility leaks that erode trust over time</li><li></li><li>Strengthen clarity, tone, and follow-through so people know what to expect from you</li><li></li><li>Use simple prompts to turn insight into decisions you can repeat</li></ul>If you have ever felt capable, but not fully trusted, the issue is rarely competence. It is coherence. When It Counts helps you align who you are with how you show up, so your leadership becomes easier to trust when it matters most.

The Executive Presence Behaviors That Build Trust Under Pressure

When It Counts

Many employees believe they cannot grow because they "don't have the talent." But in today's workplace, success is not built only on talent - it is built on skills. Skill Over Talent is a practical and motivational guide designed to help employees break free from fear, self-doubt, and comfort zones to build successful career paths inside modern companies. This book explains how professionals can grow into Quality, Training, Leadership, Management, and many other positions simply by learning the right skills and continuously investing in themselves. Inside this book, you will discover: <ul><li>Why talent is not the main factor behind career growth</li><li>How employees can develop skills for any position</li><li>The real reasons many professionals stay stuck</li><li>How to build confidence and professional credibility</li><li>The skills companies look for in future leaders</li><li>Practical ways to create your own career growth path</li></ul> Whether you are starting your career or preparing for your next promotion, this book will help you understand one powerful truth: <ul><li>Skills can be learned.</li><li>Growth can be built.</li><li>Your future position is achievable.</li></ul>

How Employees Can Build the Right Skills, Break Out of Their Comfort Zone, and Grow Into Any Career Position

Skill Over Talent

Many employees believe that working hard, staying loyal, and delivering excellent performance will naturally lead to promotion. But in the real world - especially in the call center industry - that is rarely enough.This book reveals the uncomfortable truth behind workplace promotions and explains why many talented, professional, and dedicated employees remain stuck in the same position for years."Why Great Employees Never Get Promoted" explores the hidden skills managers and companies actually look for when selecting future leaders. Through practical examples, workplace scenarios, and professional insights, this book helps employees understand the difference between being a top performer and becoming promotion-ready.Inside this book, you will learn: <ul><li>Why hard work alone does not guarantee promotion</li><li>The difference between employee mindset and leadership mindset</li><li>Communication mistakes that block career growth</li><li>How emotional intelligence impacts promotions</li><li>Why visibility and influence matter more than performance</li><li>The hidden expectations managers never openly explain</li><li>How to develop leadership skills before getting the title</li><li>Common habits that keep employees trapped in entry-level roles</li><li>Strategies to become promotion-ready in any company</li></ul>Whether you work in customer service, call centers, corporate offices, or team management, this book will help you understand what truly drives career advancement in modern workplaces.Success at work is not only about performance. It is about leadership, influence, communication, and strategic growth.

The Missing Skills That Separate Top Performers from Future Leaders

Why Great Employees Never Get Promoted

'This book will make you better at your job' - Jonah Berger, bestselling author of Contagious Discover the psychological biases that shape every buying decision - and how to use them in business. Every day we make hundreds of choices, many of them commercial. What shampoo to pick? How much to spend on a bottle of wine? Whether to renew a subscription? These choices might appear to be freely made, but psychologists have shown that subtle changes in the way products are positioned, promoted and marketed can radically alter how customers behave. In The Illusion of Choice, Richard Shotton, author of the acclaimed The Choice Factory, identifies the 16 and a half most important psychological biases that everyone in business needs to be aware of. Drawing on academic research, advertising campaigns and his own original field studies, he shows how any business can utilise these biases to win and retain customers, sell more products and make money. In this fascinating and highly practical guide, you'll learn to take advantage of the peak end rule, the power of precision, the wisdom of wit - and much, much more. Full of marketing insights, The Illusion of Choice is essential for anyone seeking to understand consumer behaviour. Now part of the Harriman House Essentials Collection, a series showcasing the very best of business and finance books.

Harriman House Essentials

The Illusion of Choice

Mastering the Art of Persuasion

Genuine Influence

The Power of Articulation: Your Path to Effective Communication, Speech and Confidence is a practical and easy-to-follow guide designed to help you transform the way you speak and express yourself. Whether you struggle with pronunciation, feel your speech lacks clarity, or want to communicate more confidently in everyday situations, this book gives you the tools to improve quickly and effectively.Strong communication is one of the most valuable skills you can develop. It influences how others perceive you, how well your ideas are understood, and how confidently you engage in conversations, presentations, and professional settings. This book breaks down the fundamentals of clear speech in a simple and accessible way, helping you understand not just what to improve, but how to improve it.Starting with the foundations of articulation, you will learn how speech is formed and how small adjustments can make a significant difference. As you progress, you will develop stronger control over pronunciation, clarity, and fluency, allowing your speech to flow more naturally and confidently. The book then guides you through more advanced techniques, helping you to sound more engaging and polished in real-world communication.Designed for learners of all levels, this guide is ideal for students, professionals, non-native speakers, and anyone looking to strengthen their communication skills. It addresses common challenges such as mumbling and lack of confidence, providing practical exercises and techniques that can be applied immediately.By the end of this book, you will not only speak more clearly, but also feel more confident expressing your thoughts and ideas. Whether in conversations, meetings, or public speaking situations, you will have the skills to communicate effectively and make a lasting impression.

Your Path to Effective Communication, Speech and Confidence

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Why Smart People Struggle

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