Bøger af Anna Simpson

The stories you tell are a powerful way to communicate your message and connect with your audience. They can help you to inspire and motivate, or they can make a lasting impression on the people you meet.In this book, you will learn how to: - Develop a compelling and memorable story that attracts your audience's attention in a way that leaves them wanting more. - Use storytelling as an effective tool for creating connections and building relationships with potential customers. - Identify the values at the core of your business or professional services practice and use those values to craft a simple narrative that resonates with your audience. - Use storytelling techniques to transform your business results. This book is your guide to the world of storytelling. It will help you discover the elements that make a good story, how stories are formed, and why some are more powerful than others. You will learn how to use these techniques to create your own compelling narratives, which can be used to build relationships with your audience, communicate ideas, or sell products or services.

Emma never dreamed of being a super-sleuth. In her mind's eye, she's more Scooby Doo than Nancy Drew. When her nosy neighbor, Mrs. Perkins, drags her to an anniversary party to solve a mystery, Emma rolls her eyes, buys a box of chocolates and hops in the car. What's a party without an attack on its host-or more accurately on the host's grandson, sparking an allergic reaction and moving the party to the hospital waiting room. Now, everyone is suspect. Emma and Mrs. Perkins, along with Great-Aunt Alice (a spirit with boundary issues who keeps stepping into Emma's body like a new dress and playing matchmaker), dive into an investigation that almost gets Emma killed along with the man they are trying to protect. With too many reasons to kill him and so much to be gained if he died, Emma and Mrs. Perkins must unravel the tenuous ties that point to every member of his family as potential killers.

Create the life you dream about and discover your inner power to changeThis book is for you if you are a woman struggling with relationships; a job that seems to suck the life out of you; a life that seems lack luster; and ever mounting frustration that you are stuck in a rut.A few years ago I began to question my life's purpose, my worthiness, my potential. The only things I had in abundance were limiting beliefs and I felt crushed!When you see how I turned my life around and take on board and practice the strategies I share with you, you too can discover your inner power to change your life.Remember, these same practices and strategies are available to you right here right now.They took me from poverty in a small Ukrainian town where English was not my mother tongue to realising my dream of coming to the USA and becoming an American citizen, being married to the man of my dreams, living the "pinch me" type of lifestyle and doing what I love which is empowering and inspiring other women.It is my mission in life to help women gain self-confidence and self-belief in their potential, unique gifts and capacities, to help them understand that they can achieve their goals, dreams and aspirations and can enjoy their dream life in personal and professional areas. You don't need to choose just one area!There are so many women who are questioning their worthiness and capabilities, they put their dreams on hold. They settle for less in their careers or jobs they despise, they don't believe they are enough and worthy to attract their dream man, or they have another limiting belief that all great men are taken. It doesn't have to be this way. I will show you how!

This book explores five cultural traits - Diversity, Integrity, Curiosity, Reflection, and Connection - that encourage the birth and successful development of new ideas, and shows how organizations that are serious about innovation can embrace them.Innovation - the driver of change and resilience - It is totally dependent on culture, the social environment which shapes how ideas emerge and evolve. Ideas need to breathe, and culture determines the quality of the air. If it's stuffy and lacks flow, then no idea, however brilliant, will live long enough to fulfil its potential.Creating these innovation-friendly conditions is one of the key challenges facing organizations today, and one that is especially difficult for them - focused as they are on efficiency and control. Innovation, Anna Simpson argues, begins with diversity of thought and attitude: the opposite of conformity and standardisation.Likewise, with ongoing pressures to deliver results before yesterday, how can organizations allow sufficient space for the seemingly aimless process of following interesting possibilities and pondering on the impact of various options? Anna Simpson shows how large organizations can adapt their culture to enable the exchange of different perspectives; to support each person to bring their whole self to their work; to embrace the aimlessness that fosters creative experimentation; to take the time to approach change with the care it deserves, and - lastly - to develop the collective strength needed to face the ultimate 'sledgehammer test'.