Companies that have successfully automated their procurement negotiations are gaining a wide range of benefits, including cost savings, increased supply chain resilience, and access to an expanded pool of qualified suppliers. However, implementing a new procurement model and a different approach to relationships isn’t easy. Six key practices are needed to address legitimate concerns and overcome resistance from business unit leaders, buyers,...

Even in a turbulent environment where employees are facing job insecurity, leadership changes, or reorgs, managers can take steps to give their team members a sense of stability and help mitigate their anxiety. The author suggests seven ways managers can support their teams during times of instability to help restore employees’ sense of control and maintain their motivation.

In the third volume of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, PEN Award-winning historian and New Thought voice Mitch Horowitz explores the full-range of self-development ideas that appear throughout Hill's work. In Secrets of Self-Mastery, Mitch supplies new insights and updates on the techniques that make you more confident, effective, attractive, charismatic, astute, and creative, including: how to use theatrical techniques to reshape your persona;...

Have you ever helped someone out of instinct, because not helping never even occurred to you? Remember how surprised you were at their gratitude? It is easy to feel like kindness and gratitude are becoming rare in the world today, but the truth is that it is all around you-you just need to learn how to see it. Kindness shows you how to do just that, and inspires you to take part with tips, ideas, recommendations, and advice. You will learn to see...

Successful health? Healthy success? You can have both with Success Starts Within, your guide to science-backed strategies rooted in the principle that outward success begins with inner wealth. Drawing from the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology, mindset and resilience expert Chazz Scott shares practical strategies for what he refers to as radical self-care-an approach to living that helps us transcend negative thinking, gain inner...