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Born to Win: Find Your Success Code

2012-01-27T15:14:00.001-08:00

Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
Zig Ziglar (Author)
(1)

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Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

2012-01-25T19:14:00.001-08:00

Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business
by Frances Frei, Anne Morriss
(3)
Publication Date: February 7, 2012

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Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works

2012-01-25T11:14:00.001-08:00

Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works
by Adam Lashinsky (Author, Narrator)
(3)

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

2012-01-23T07:14:00.001-08:00

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
(215)

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The 4 Essentials of Entrepreneurial Thinking: What Successful People Didn't Learn in School

2012-01-22T23:14:00.001-08:00

The 4 Essentials of Entrepreneurial Thinking: What Successful People Didn't Learn in School
by Cliff Michaels
(2)
Publication Date: January 23, 2012

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Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

2012-01-16T19:14:00.001-08:00

Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
by Chip Conley
(18)
Release Date: January 10, 2012

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The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

2012-01-15T19:14:00.001-08:00

The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity
by Charles Richards
Release Date: January 17, 2012

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

2012-01-15T11:14:00.001-08:00

How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
(11)

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The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

2012-01-14T07:14:00.001-08:00

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life
Leo Babauta (Author)
(108)

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Live the Dream: No More Excuses

2012-01-14T03:14:00.001-08:00

Live the Dream: No More Excuses
by Larry Winters
Publication Date: April 3, 2012

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Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results

2012-01-11T07:14:00.001-08:00

Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results
John Baldoni (Author)
(6)

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Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own

2012-01-11T03:14:00.001-08:00

Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own
Robert Tuchman (Author)
(13)

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The Hour A Day Entrepreneur: Escape the Rat Race and Achieve Entrepreneurial Freedom With Only One Focused Hour A Day

2012-01-10T23:14:00.001-08:00

The Hour A Day Entrepreneur: Escape the Rat Race and Achieve Entrepreneurial Freedom With Only One Focused Hour A Day
by Henry J Evans
(8)
Publication Date: January 2, 2012

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Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce

2012-01-10T19:14:00.001-08:00

Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce
by Kevin Sheridan
Publication Date: December 19, 2011

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The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew -- Management Lessons for Contemporary Leaders

2012-01-10T15:14:00.001-08:00

The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew -- Management Lessons for Contemporary Leaders
Lorin Woolfe (Author)
(8)

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)

2012-01-10T11:14:00.001-08:00

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
by Timothy Ferriss
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The Trustworthy Leader: Leveraging the Power of Trust to Transform Your Organization

2012-01-10T07:14:00.001-08:00

The Trustworthy Leader: Leveraging the Power of Trust to Transform Your Organization
by Amy Lyman
Publication Date: January 3, 2012

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Understanding Business

2012-01-09T23:14:00.001-08:00

Understanding Business
by William Nickels, James McHugh, Susan McHugh
(19)

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Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals

2012-01-08T23:14:00.001-08:00

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
by Ph.D., Heidi Grant Halvorson, Carol S. Dweck
(19)
Publication Date: December 27, 2011

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The B2B Executive Playbook: The Ultimate Weapon for Achieving Sustainable, Predictable and Profitable Growth

2012-01-08T11:14:00.001-08:00

The B2B Executive Playbook: The Ultimate Weapon for Achieving Sustainable, Predictable and Profitable Growth
by Sean Geehan
(16)

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Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World

2012-01-06T11:14:00.001-08:00

Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World
by Stephen M.R. Covey, Greg Link, Rebecca R. Merrill
Release Date: January 10, 2012

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Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure

2012-01-05T19:14:00.001-08:00

Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure
by Andreas Kluth
Release Date: January 5, 2012

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The Procurement Game Plan: Winning Strategies and Techniques for Supply Management Professionals

2012-01-03T19:14:00.001-08:00

The Procurement Game Plan: Winning Strategies and Techniques for Supply Management Professionals
by Charles Dominick, Soheila R. Lunney
Publication Date: January 3, 2012

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Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works

2012-01-03T11:14:00.001-08:00

Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works
Adam Lashinsky (Author)

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Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All

2012-01-02T15:14:00.001-08:00

Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All
by Bernard T. Ferrari
Release Date: March 1, 2012

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How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life

2012-01-02T11:14:00.001-08:00

How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life
by Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, Geoffrey Lewis
(12)
Release Date: December 27, 2011

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Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

2012-01-01T23:14:00.001-08:00

Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Brian Tracy (Author)
(95)

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The Leadership Muse

2012-01-01T19:14:00.001-08:00

The Leadership Muse
by Linda Yvette Cureton
Publication Date: December 9, 2011

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

2012-01-01T11:14:00.001-08:00

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher (Author), William Ury (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator)
(233)

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Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

2011-12-31T07:14:00.001-08:00

Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
by Roger L. Martin
(8)

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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

2011-12-29T07:14:00.001-08:00

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
by Patrick Lencioni
Publication Date: March 20, 2012

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Time Management Made Simple

2011-12-28T03:14:00.001-08:00

Time Management Made Simple
by Brian Tracy (Author, Narrator)

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Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk

2011-12-26T23:14:00.001-08:00

Market Mind Games: A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk
by Denise Shull
(1)
Publication Date: December 15, 2011

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Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World's Greatest Companies

2011-12-26T19:14:00.001-08:00

Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World's Greatest Companies
by Jim Stengel
Release Date: December 27, 2011

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The Art of War (Oxford University Press)

2011-12-25T07:14:00.001-08:00

The Art of War (Oxford University Press)
Sun Tzu (Author), B. H. Liddell Hart (Foreword), Samuel B. Griffith (Translator)
(151)

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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

2011-12-23T19:14:00.001-08:00

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
by Gary Hamel
Publication Date: January 24, 2012

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The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It

2011-12-23T11:14:00.001-08:00

The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It
by Scott D. Anthony
Publication Date: December 27, 2011

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The Money Class: How to Stand in Your Truth and Create the Future You Deserve

2011-12-22T15:14:00.001-08:00

The Money Class: How to Stand in Your Truth and Create the Future You Deserve
by Suze Orman
(74)
Release Date: January 10, 2012

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Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen

2011-12-19T23:14:00.001-08:00

Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen
by David Novak
Release Date: January 3, 2012

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The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics

2011-12-17T03:14:00.001-08:00

The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics
by Yoram Bauman, Grady Klein
Release Date: December 20, 2011

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The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio: Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them

2011-12-15T11:14:00.001-08:00

The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio: Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them
by Mary Buffett, David Clark
(1)
Release Date: December 13, 2011

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The Leadership Machine

2011-12-14T23:14:00.001-08:00

The Leadership Machine
Robert Eichinger (Author), Michael Lombardo (Author)

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The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management

2011-12-14T19:14:00.001-08:00

The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
by Eric Verzuh
(97)
Publication Date: December 6, 2011

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Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

2011-12-12T15:14:00.001-08:00

Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude
Mark Murphy (Author)
(2)

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It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

2011-12-10T19:14:00.001-08:00

It's Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business
by Bob Burg (Author, Narrator), John David Mann (Author, Narrator)
(23)

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Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

2011-12-10T15:14:00.001-08:00

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
Joan Magretta (Author)

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Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion (Bk Business)

2011-12-07T15:14:00.001-08:00

Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion (Bk Business)
by Pavithra K. Mehta, Suchitra Shenoy
(10)
Publication Date: November 7, 2011

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Managing Business Analysts

2011-12-06T11:14:00.001-08:00

Managing Business Analysts
by Rick Clare
Publication Date: November 17, 2011

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Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast (TED Books)

2011-12-05T23:14:00.001-08:00

Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast (TED Books)
Alex Tabarrok (Author)
(2)

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Poke the Box

2011-12-05T15:14:00.001-08:00

Poke the Box
by Seth Godin
(202)

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Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast

2011-12-01T11:14:00.001-08:00

Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast
Alex Tabarrok (Author)

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

2011-12-01T03:14:00.001-08:00

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
(71)
Release Date: December 27, 2011

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HBR's Must Reads Boxed Set (6 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

2011-11-30T23:14:00.001-08:00

HBR's Must Reads Boxed Set (6 Books) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
by Harvard Business Review
Publication Date: November 1, 2011

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Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)

2011-11-30T15:14:00.001-08:00

Creative People Must Be Stopped: 6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
by David A Owens
(3)
Publication Date: November 22, 2011

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Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip

2011-11-28T11:14:00.001-08:00

Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip
by Barry Barnes, John Perry Barlow
(4)
Publication Date: November 2, 2011

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Screw Business As Usual

2011-11-26T11:14:00.001-08:00

Screw Business As Usual
by Richard Branson
Release Date: December 8, 2011

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

2011-11-25T15:14:00.001-08:00

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)
(192)

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The Organizational Alignment Handbook: A Catalyst for Performance Acceleration

2011-11-22T11:14:00.001-08:00

The Organizational Alignment Handbook: A Catalyst for Performance Acceleration
by H. James Harrington, Frank Voehl
Publication Date: November 9, 2011

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How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

2011-11-21T11:14:00.001-08:00

How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
Mark Cuban (Author)

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

2011-11-20T15:14:00.001-08:00

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey (Author, Narrator)
(42)

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The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking... Because People Do Business with People They Like

2011-11-20T11:14:00.001-08:00

The 11 Laws of Likability: Relationship Networking... Because People Do Business with People They Like
by Michelle Tillis Lederman (Author), Erik Synnestvedt (Narrator)
(7)

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Screw Business as Usual

2011-11-19T07:14:00.001-08:00

Screw Business as Usual
Richard Branson (Author)

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People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership

2011-11-15T19:14:00.001-08:00

People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in Leadership
by Jeb Blount
(4)
Publication Date: November 15, 2011

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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm

2011-11-14T19:14:00.001-08:00

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm
by Verne Harnish
(48)
Release Date: November 10, 2011

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Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

2011-11-12T15:14:00.001-08:00

Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School
by Andrew Hallam
(23)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011

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Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

2011-11-12T11:14:00.001-08:00

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
by David Rock (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator)
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What Would Drucker Do Now?: Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management

2011-11-09T19:14:00.001-08:00

What Would Drucker Do Now?: Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management
by Rick Wartzman
(1)

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The Best Damn Management Book Ever: 9 Keys to Creating Self-Motivated High Achievers

2011-11-07T15:14:00.001-08:00

The Best Damn Management Book Ever: 9 Keys to Creating Self-Motivated High Achievers
by Warren Greshes
(1)
Publication Date: November 1, 2011

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Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

2011-11-04T07:14:00.001-07:00

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
(5)

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The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct

2011-11-02T19:14:00.001-07:00

The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct
by Francis Cholle
(4)
Publication Date: October 18, 2011

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Principle-Centered Leadership (Stephen R Covey Set)

2011-11-02T07:14:00.001-07:00

Principle-Centered Leadership (Stephen R Covey Set)
Stephen R. Covey (Author)
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The Compound Effect

2011-10-31T15:14:00.001-07:00

The Compound Effect
by Darren Hardy
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Publication Date: November 1, 2011

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No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.

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Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up

2011-10-28T19:14:00.001-07:00

Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up
by Paul Schmitz
Publication Date: November 15, 2011

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Praise for Everyone Leads

"If America is going to continue to thrive in the twenty-first century, we must strengthen our sense of community. In Everyone Leads, Schmitz lays out the challenges for those of us who have a passion to make a difference and, more important, the strategies to spark lasting change from the grassroots up. His unique perspective and experience make this a must-read for community activists."—Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

"This moment in history demands that we stop waiting for others—especially others living in Washington, D.C.—to solve the problems and right the wrongs of our times. Now, more than ever, we must mine the most underutilized resource available to us: We the People. Everyone Leads shows us how."—Arianna Huffington, president and executive editor, Huffington Post Media Group

"Social change has always come from the leadership of the many, not the few. Everyone Leads shows us how we can all step up and contribute to social change."—Tavis Smiley, author, broadcaster, philanthropist

"Every nonprofit can learn from Public Allies' example that the leadership we need to solve problems exists within our communities. Everyone Leads is a guide to inclusion, collaboration, and community building that will inspire readers to see leadership and opportunity in places we don't usually look."—Sterling Speirn, CEO, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

"Schmitz has produced the road map we need for this 'all hands on deck' moment when we need a new spirit of collaborative leadership and action to face the problems of our day. Reading this book, we are not surprised that Michelle Obama learned from Public Allies how to build leaders and build communities."—Harris Wofford, former United States Senator, and CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service under President Bill Clinton

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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

2011-10-28T07:14:00.001-07:00

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
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In this revolutionary bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership—or worse, disappear altogether. And not only does he prove what he says, but he tells others how to avoid a similar fate.

Focusing on “disruptive technology,” Christensen shows why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. Whether in electronics or retailing, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator’s Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

Find out:

When it is right not to listen to customers.
When to invest in developing lower-performance products that promise lower margins.
When to pursue small markets at the expense of seemingly larger and more lucrative ones.

Sharp, cogent, and provocative, The Innovator’s Dilemma is one of the most talked-about books of our time—and one no savvy manager or entrepreneur should be without.

What do the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and hydraulic excavators have in common? They are all examples of disruptive technologies that helped to redefine the competitive landscape of their respective markets. These products did not come about as the result of successful companies carrying out sound business practices in established markets. In The Innovator's Dilemma, author Clayton M. Christensen shows how these and other products cut into the low end of the marketplace and eventually evolved to displace high-end competitors and their reigning technologies.

At the heart of The Innovator's Dilemma is how a successful company with established products keeps from being pushed aside by newer, cheaper products that will, over time, get better and become a serious threat. Christensen writes that even the best-managed companies, in spite of their attention to customers and continual investment in new technology, are susceptible to failure no matter what the industry, be it hard drives or consumer retailing. Succinct and clearly written, The Innovator's Dilemma is an important book that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards Read more

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Goal Setting: 13 Secrets of World Class Achievers

2011-10-26T11:14:00.001-07:00

Goal Setting: 13 Secrets of World Class Achievers
Vic Johnson (Author)
(8)

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Are you ready to achieve virtually anything you want, even if you’ve failed at every goal you’ve ever set?

These 13 “secrets” are the proven formula used by world-class achievers across the ages.

We live in a time where many people have lost touch with the qualities that produce extraordinary lives. Imagination, ingenuity, drive, and a no-fear, no-quitters allowed mentality often seem to be disappearing from our culture and our world.

This is a book for everyone who has ever had a dream. This book will teach you how to set goals and achieve that dream, step-by-step and day-by-day.
You’ll discover some great news! If you’ve been struggling, if you’ve ever felt like you were going “nowhere fast,” you’ll learn that it’s not because there’s something intrinsically wrong with you.

You’ll learn, instead, that it has a lot to do with ways of thinking that you’ve adopted in the past. This is great news because you can change the way you think, speak, and act.

Success isn’t the result of winning some sort of lottery. It’s the result of applying the right principles with the right action and the right mindset.
Do you feel like you’re stuck? Do you feel like you’ve been watching life pass you by? Then this book is written with you in mind.

About the Author

Despite being totally unknown in the personal development industry when he launched his first website in 2001, Vic Johnson has gone on to become an international expert in goal setting and host of the popular TSTN show Goals 2 Go. He is the Founder of Goals2Go.com .

Evicted from his home in 1996 and his last car lost to repossession a year later, his story has become an oft-quoted source of inspiration to the more than 300,000 subscribers he serves worldwide. He is the author of the bestselling book Day by Day with James Allen and has appeared in numerous video programs with Bob Proctor, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley and Mark Victor Hansen.

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Are you ready to achieve virtually anything you want, even if you’ve failed at every goal you’ve ever set?

These 13 “secrets” are the proven formula used by world-class achievers across the ages.

We live in a time where many people have lost touch with the qualities that produce extraordinary lives. Imagination, ingenuity, drive, and a no-fear, no-quitters allowed mentality often seem to be disappearing from our culture and our world.

This is a book for everyone who has ever had a dream. This book will teach you how to set goals and achieve that dream, step-by-step and day-by-day.
You’ll discover some great news! If you’ve been struggling, if you’ve ever felt like you were going “nowhere fast,” you’ll learn that it’s not because there’s something intrinsically wrong with you.

You’ll learn, instead, that it has a lot to do with ways of thinking that you’ve adopted in the past. This is great news because you can change the way you think, speak, and act.

Success isn’t the result of winning some sort of lottery. It’s the result of applying the right principles with the right action and the right mindset.
Do you feel like you’re stuck? Do you feel like you’ve been watching life pass you by? Then this book is written with you in mind.

About the Author

Despite being totally unknown in the personal development industry when he launched his first website in 2001, Vic Johnson has gone on to become an international expert in goal setting and host of the popular TSTN show Goals 2 Go. He is the Founder of Goals2Go.com .

Evicted from his home in 1996 and his last car lost to repossession a year later, his story has become an oft-quoted source of inspiration to the more than 300,000 subscribers he serves worldwide. He is the author of the bestselling book Day by Day with James Allen and has appeared in numerous video programs with Bob Proctor, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley and Mark Victor Hansen.

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The 48 Laws of Power

2011-10-26T07:14:00.001-07:00

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
(649)

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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers.

Some laws teach the need for prudence ("Law 1: Never Outshine the Master"), the virtue of stealth ("Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions"), and many demand the total absence of mercy ("Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally"), but like it or not, all have applications in real life.

Illustrated through the tactics of Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, P. T. Barnum, and other famous figures who have wielded--or been victimized by--power, these laws will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control."Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us."

The laws cull their principles from many great schemers--and scheming instructors--throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand, from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit," or "Discover each man's thumbscrew." Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power," potential "reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless. Read more

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Emotional Intelligence 2.0

2011-10-25T11:14:00.001-07:00

Emotional Intelligence 2.0
by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Patrick M. Lencioni
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In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.

By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:

1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Management
3) Social Awareness
4) Relationship Management

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here’s what people are saying about it:

“Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way.”
—The Dalai Lama

“A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve.”
—Newsweek

“Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ.”
—Stephen R. Covey

“This book can drastically change the way you think about success…read it twice.”
—Patrick Lencioni

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The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

2011-10-23T03:14:00.001-07:00

The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
by John C. Maxwell
(3)
Release Date: October 4, 2011

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True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than "the boss" people follow only because they are required to, you have to master the ability to invest in people and inspire them. To grow further in your role, you must achieve results and build a team that produces. You need to help people to develop their skills to become leaders in their own right. And if you have the skill and dedication, you can reach the pinnacle of leadership-where experience will allow you to extend your influence beyond your immediate reach and time for the benefit of others.

The 5 Levels of Leadership are:
1. Position - People follow because they have to.
2. Permission - People follow because they want to.
3. Production - People follow because of what you have done for the organization.
4. People Development - People follow because of what you have done for them personally.
5. Pinnacle - People follow because of who you are and what you represent.

Through humor, in-depth insight, and examples, internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell describes each of these stages of leadership. He shows you how to master each level and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader.

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The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

2011-10-22T19:14:00.001-07:00

The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results
by Subir Chowdhury
(1)
Publication Date: September 23, 2011

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Outperform the competition with Subir Chowdhury’s next-generation management system

“Nobody knows quality like Subir Chowdhury, and The Power of LEO reveals the elegant new approach he has pioneered with the world’s top companies. I couldn’t recommend this book more.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“The Power of LEO will be beneficial to any organization that utilizes its principles and incorporates them into their culture. Subir Chowdhury’s LEO is guaranteed to produce results.”
—Michael King, CEO and National President, Volunteers of America

“A no-nonsense book full of real-life case examples, practical tips, and proven strategies. If you’re looking to make quality a way of life, this is definitely the book for you.”
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge

“We have applied LEO in my hospital and it works. Subir Chowdhury’s book will serve as a powerful reminder to the healthcare industry that its primary goal is to develop, enhance, and delight its most important customer: the patient.”
—Mark L. Rosenblum, M.D., Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Health System, and Vice President of Clinical Programs, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

“Most management strategies are great in theory. But how does a line executive put it to use? The Power of LEO shows us how in practical, down-to-earth terms and anecdotes. A most useful read!”
—Jim Lawrence, CEO, Rothschild North America and former Vice Chairman and CFO, General Mills

About the Book:

Hailed as “the Quality Prophet” by BusinessWeek, Subir Chowdhury is the long-established global authority on the critical importance of quality and how to achieve it with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). Now, he takes it to the next level by showing you how to build quality into the DNA of your entire organization.

In his bestselling book , Chowdhury introduced his next-generation management system—LEO. In The Power of LEO, he describes how continuous focus on quality improvement can revolutionize any process—from manufacturing operations to managerial decision making. The secret is to cease delegating the responsibility of quality to specific teams or departments and permanently lodge it within the core of an organization’s culture.

Chowdhury’s profoundly simple yet extraordinarily effective management system is based on three basic principles:

Listen—Seek input from all stakeholders within your organization, from suppliers to employees to customers
Enrich—Create new ideas for improvement and solutions for problems using simple techniques
Optimize—Select the best improvement idea or solution, subject it to testing in the real world, and correct all shortcomings

Quality methodologies like Six Sigma and Lean can be highly effective but are used narrowly and by limited personnel within an organization. LEO is the encompassing strategy that can be easily embraced by everyone within an organization, resulting in measurable improvements in your operations, products, and bottom line.

If you’re serious about competing in the global marketplace, join Subir Chowdhury on his quest for overall quality and transform your organization from a company that does some things well into an established industry leader.

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GRASP The Solution: How to find the best answers to everyday challenges

2011-10-19T19:14:00.001-07:00

GRASP The Solution: How to find the best answers to everyday challenges
Chris Griffiths (Author), Melina Costi (Author)

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower
…..Which do you want to be?

GRASP The Solution is a refreshingly pragmatic and straight-talking guide to making decisions and solving problems creatively. If you’ve always thought creativity was all fluff and no substance, this book will make you think again.

How to find the best answers to everyday challenges

➢ Struggling to come up with new and innovative ideas?
➢ Got the idea but can’t make it happen?
➢ Frustrated trying to find the right answers?
➢ Fed up of failed group brainstorming sessions?

Chris Griffiths (head of ThinkBuzan, the organisation behind Mind Mapping – the thinking tool used by millions worldwide) compels you to let go of what’s killing your creativity. In just four clear steps, he shows you how to unleash bold, fresh ideas and solutions in a systematic way to help you triumph innovatively over any challenge.Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower
…..Which do you want to be?

GRASP The Solution is a refreshingly pragmatic and straight-talking guide to making decisions and solving problems creatively. If you’ve always thought creativity was all fluff and no substance, this book will make you think again.

How to find the best answers to everyday challenges

➢ Struggling to come up with new and innovative ideas?
➢ Got the idea but can’t make it happen?
➢ Frustrated trying to find the right answers?
➢ Fed up of failed group brainstorming sessions?

Chris Griffiths (head of ThinkBuzan, the organisation behind Mind Mapping – the thinking tool used by millions worldwide) compels you to let go of what’s killing your creativity. In just four clear steps, he shows you how to unleash bold, fresh ideas and solutions in a systematic way to help you triumph innovatively over any challenge. Read more

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The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else

2011-10-19T15:14:00.001-07:00

The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else
by George Anders
(4)
Release Date: October 18, 2011

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One of the nation's biggest music labels briefly signed Taylor Swift to a contract but let her go because she didn't seem worth more than $15,000 a year. At least four book publishers passed on the first Harry Potter novel rather than pay J. K. Rowling a $5,000 advance. And the same pattern happens in nearly every business.

Anyone who recruits talent faces the same basic challenge, whether we work for a big company, a new start-up, a Hollywood studio, a hospital, or the Green Berets. We all wonder how to tell the really outstanding prospects from the ones who look great on paper but then fail on the job. Or, equally important, how to spot the ones who don't look so good on paper but might still deliver extraordinary performance.

Over the past few decades, technology has made recruiting in all fields vastly more sophisticated. Gut instincts have yielded to benchmarks. If we want elaborate dossiers on candidates, we can gather facts (and video) by the gigabyte. And yet the results are just as spotty as they were in the age of the rotary phone.

George Anders sought out the world's savviest talent judges to see what they do differently from the rest of us. He reveals how the U.S. Army finds soldiers with the character to be in Special Forces without asking them to fire a single bullet. He takes us to an elite basketball tournament in South Carolina, where the best scouts watch the game in a radically different way from the casual fan. He talks to researchers who are reinventing the process of hiring Fortune 500 CEOs.

Drawing on the best advice of these and other talent masters, Anders reveals powerful ideas you can apply to your own hiring. For instance:

* Don't ignore "the jagged résumé"-people whose background appears to teeter on the edge between success and failure. Such people can do spectacular work in the right settings, where their strengths dramatically outweigh their flaws.
* Look extra hard for "talent that whispers"- the obscure, out-of-the- way candidates who most scouting systems overlook.
* Be careful with "talent that shouts"-the spectacular but brash candidates who might have trouble with loyalty, motivation, and team spirit.

Each field that Anders explores has its own lingo, customs, and history. But the specific stories fit together into a bigger mosaic. In any field, there's an art to clearing away the clutter and focusing on what matters most. It's not necessarily hard, but it requires the courage to take a different approach in pursuit of the rare find.
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Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception

2011-10-16T07:14:00.001-07:00

Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
Pamela Meyer (Author)
(23)

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GET TO THE TRUTH
People--friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople--lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day.
Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines--facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field--into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception and get the information they need to successfully conduct their most important interactions and transactions.
Some of the nation's leading business executives have learned to use these methods to root out lies in high stakes situations. Liespotting for the first time brings years of knowledge--previously found only in the intelligence community, police training academies, and universities--into the corporate boardroom, the manager's meeting, the job interview, the legal proceeding, and the deal negotiation.

WHAT'S IN THE BOOK?
Learn communication secrets previously known only to a handful of scientists, interrogators and intelligence specialists.
Liespotting reveals what’s hiding in plain sight in every business meeting, job interview and negotiation:
• The single most dangerous facial expression to watch out for in business & personal relationships
• 10 questions that get people to tell you anything
• A simple 5-step method for spotting and stopping the lies told in nearly every high-stakes business negotiation and interview
• Dozens of postures and facial expressions that should instantly put you on Red Alert for deception
• The telltale phrases and verbal responses that separate truthful stories from deceitful ones
• How to create a circle of advisers who will guarantee your success

GET TO THE TRUTH
People--friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople--lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day.
Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines--facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field--into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception and get the information they need to successfully conduct their most important interactions and transactions.
Some of the nation's leading business executives have learned to use these methods to root out lies in high stakes situations. Liespotting for the first time brings years of knowledge--previously found only in the intelligence community, police training academies, and universities--into the corporate boardroom, the manager's meeting, the job interview, the legal proceeding, and the deal negotiation.

WHAT'S IN THE BOOK?
Learn communication secrets previously known only to a handful of scientists, interrogators and intelligence specialists.
Liespotting reveals what’s hiding in plain sight in every business meeting, job interview and negotiation:
• The single most dangerous facial expression to watch out for in business & personal relationships
• 10 questions that get people to tell you anything
• A simple 5-step method for spotting and stopping the lies told in nearly every high-stakes business negotiation and interview
• Dozens of postures and facial expressions that should instantly put you on Red Alert for deception
• The telltale phrases and verbal responses that separate truthful stories from deceitful ones
• How to create a circle of advisers who will guarantee your success

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The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation

2011-10-08T11:14:00.001-07:00

The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation
by Jay Elliot (Author), William L. Simon (Author), Christopher Hurt (Narrator)
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The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success

2011-10-07T11:14:00.001-07:00

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
by Carmine Gallo
(19)

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A "THINK DIFFERENT" APPROACH TO INNOVATION-- Based on the Seven Guiding Principles of Apple CEO Steve Jobs
In his acclaimed bestseller The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs author Carmine Gallo laid out a simple step-by-step program of powerful tools and proven techniques inspired by Steve Jobs's legendary presentations. Now, he shares the Apple CEO's most famous, most original, and most effective strategies for sparking true creativity--and real innovation--in any workplace.
THE INNOVATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS
"Steve Jobs has reinvented music distribution, the mobile telephone, and book publishing. You might want to take a look at how someone creates multi-billion dollar ideas, and turns them into multi-billion dollar products that everyone loves and admires. This book is not an option. Buy it now, bank it tomorrow." -- Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Little Red Book of Selling
“In The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo captures the true mindset of Jobs and Apple. This book is not just for the techie and marketing crowd, although they will gain valuable insight that can be applied to their worlds. It is also for anyone who loves technology and wants to understand how to create simple devices that are easy to use and can impact our lives.” -- Tim Bajarin, president, Creative Strategies, Inc.
"An inspiring roadmap for anyone who wants to live a life of passion and purpose."
-- Tony Hsieh, author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.
"Apple changed the world with the Mac and hasn't stopped innovating since. Carmine Gallo reveals the secrets and gives you the tools to unleash your inner Steve."
-- Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com and author of the national bestseller Behind the Cloud
Learn how to RETHINK your business, REINVENT your products, and REVITALIZE your vision of success--the Steve Jobs way.
When it comes to innovation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is legendary. His company slogan "Think Different" is more than a marketing tool. It's a way of life--a powerful, positive, game-changing approach to innovation that anyone can apply to any field of endeavor.
These are the Seven Principles of Innovation, inspired by the master himself:

Do What You Love.
Think differently about your career.
Put a Dent in the Universe.
Think differently about your vision.
Kick Start Your Brain.
Think differently about how you think.
Sell Dreams, Not Products.
Think differently about your customers.
Say No to 1,000 Things.
Think differently about design.
Create Insanely Great Experiences.
Think differently about your brand experience.
Master the Message.
Think differently about your story.

By following Steve Jobs's visionary example, you'll discover exciting new ways to unlock your creative potential and to foster an environment that encourages innovation and allows it to flourish. You'll learn how to match—and beat—the most powerful competitors, develop the most revolutionary products, attract the most loyal customers, and thrive in the most challenging times. Bestselling business journalist Carmine Gallo has interviewed hundreds of successful professionals--from CEOs, managers, and entrepreneurs to teachers, consultants, and stay-at-home moms—to get to the core of Steve Jobs's innovative philosophies. These are the simple, meaningful, and attainable principles that drive us all to "Think Different." These are The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs.
An enhanced ebook is now available with 10 demonstration videos of Jobs' sure-fire innovation secrets. Select the Kindle Edition with Audio/Video from the available formats.
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I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words

2011-10-06T07:14:00.001-07:00

I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
by George Beahm
Publication Date: November 8, 2011

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Drawn from more than three decades of media coverageprint, electronic, and onlinethis book serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs: more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable to their business, regardless of size.

Jobs, the longtime CEO of Apple, Inc., which he co-founded in 1976, stepped down from that role in August 2011, bringing an end to one of the greatest, most transformative business careers in history. Over the years, Jobs has given countless interviews to the media, explaining what he calls the vision thing”his unmatched ability to envision, and successfully bring to the marketplace, consumer products that people find simply irresistible.

Jobs has made an indelible mark in multiple industries, and played an enormous role in creating others. Consider how Jobs and Apple shaped the following fields: personal computers (laptop and desktop), apps (for multiple electronic devices), computer animation (Pixar), music (iTunes), telecommunications (iPhone), personal digital devices (iPod), books (iBook), and, most recently, tablets (iPad). Jobs is the great business visionary of our era.

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Today We Are Rich

2011-10-05T07:14:00.001-07:00

Today We Are Rich
Tim Sanders (Author)
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The long awaited prequel to global best seller Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends.

Are you just hanging in there? Have life’s curveballs thrown you off balance? Do you feel as if your life is going sideways?

Best-selling author, leadership coach, and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders knows how you feel. His father’s unexpected death put him in a downward spiral for fifteen years—what he calls his “sideways years.” A photo of a dusty water tower in Texas finally woke him up in 1996. That’s when he realized he needed to go home to his rock—his grandmother Billye, who had taken him in as a child to raise as her own.

Rediscovering the lessons she taught him as a child turned his life around and, in less than four years, catapulted him to financial security and an officer-level role at an S&P 500 company at the center of the Internet revolution. Today, his promise to himself is, “I will never forget those lessons. The price is too high.” Join Tim as he rediscovers the classic principles of confident living that some of the most successful and joyful people you know live by:

1 – Feed Your Mind Good Stuff
2 – Move the Conversation Forward
3 – Exercise Your Gratitude Muscle
4 – Give to Be Rich
5 – Prepare Yourself
6 – Balance Your Confidence
7 – Promise Made, Promise Kept

In Today We Are Rich, Sanders updates Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale to tackle a new world, where social media and transparency present unique challenges to our sense of confidence, sanity, and faith.The long awaited prequel to global best seller Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends.

Are you just hanging in there? Have life’s curveballs thrown you off balance? Do you feel as if your life is going sideways?

Best-selling author, leadership coach, and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders knows how you feel. His father’s unexpected death put him in a downward spiral for fifteen years—what he calls his “sideways years.” A photo of a dusty water tower in Texas finally woke him up in 1996. That’s when he realized he needed to go home to his rock—his grandmother Billye, who had taken him in as a child to raise as her own.

Rediscovering the lessons she taught him as a child turned his life around and, in less than four years, catapulted him to financial security and an officer-level role at an S&P 500 company at the center of the Internet revolution. Today, his promise to himself is, “I will never forget those lessons. The price is too high.” Join Tim as he rediscovers the classic principles of confident living that some of the most successful and joyful people you know live by:

1 – Feed Your Mind Good Stuff
2 – Move the Conversation Forward
3 – Exercise Your Gratitude Muscle
4 – Give to Be Rich
5 – Prepare Yourself
6 – Balance Your Confidence
7 – Promise Made, Promise Kept

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Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader (BK Life)

2011-10-04T19:14:00.001-07:00

Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader (BK Life)
by Dianna Booher
(5)
Publication Date: October 3, 2011

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Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, or an organization.
Presence is not something you’re born with—anyone can learn these skills, habits, and traits. Award-winning speaker and consultant Dianna Booher shows how to master dozens of small and significant things that work together to convey presence. She details how body language, manners, and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport. You’ll learn to use voice and language to demonstrate competence, deliver clear and memorable messages, and master emotions. You’ll learn to think strategically, organize ideas coherently, and convey to others genuine interest, integrity, respect, and reliability.
Take her self-assessment to measure your progress. With Dianna Booher’s expert, entertaining advice, you can have the same kind of influence as the most successful CEOs, celebrities, and civic leaders.
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The Zigzag Principle: The Goal Setting Strategy that will Revolutionize Your Business and Your Life

2011-10-04T15:14:00.001-07:00

The Zigzag Principle: The Goal Setting Strategy that will Revolutionize Your Business and Your Life
by Rich Christiansen
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Zigzag Your Way to Success!

Have you ever set your sights on the top of a mountain and then started your ascent by heading straight through the trees and up the sheer cliffs? Or driven in your car to the other side of town—as the crow flies? Of course not! Because you instinctively know that, just as a river has to wend its way around obstacles, the best route is never actually a straight line!

In The Zigzag Principle, Rich Christiansen applies a foundational law of nature to business management, entrepreneurship, goal-setting, and life in general as he explores why zigzagging toward our intended outcomes is more effective than trying to bulldoze our way through whatever stands between us and our objectives.

Christiansen helps you get started, make your way over the big hill to initial profitability, and minimize risks along the way. A s the head of well-established corporations and as the brains behind numerous start-ups, Christiansen has been through it all, and he’s charted all the zigs and zags you’ll encounter. In The Zigzag Principle, he documents everything he has learned, including how to:

Identify your destination
Create a defined set of values to help you as your business finds its way
Add resources and hire the right people, as you turn the cash you have into fuel for more
Replicate your successes to bring your product to the masses
Protect your resources, your family, and your sanity

The simplicity of a straight line can be seductive. But it’s not a realistic way to go about achieving your goals, because you will always come upon unexpected obstacles in the road. Zigzagging requires you to be nimble and flexible, to “bootstrap,” and to be able to take advantage of multiple opportunities. What it delivers is success—in business and in life—far beyond your initial plans and dreams.

Use The Zigzag Principle to assess your resources, use them to their fullest, and keep yourself and your team motivated—all while living a life of balance.

Praise for The Zigzag Principle

“Rock-solid principles so simple that you will read this book wondering how you could have missed seeing truths that are so obvious.”
—Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Our economy will be saved and grow again through the industry of focused entrepreneurs who will hire thousands of employees to meet the needs of customers. This thoughtful and inspired book will guide creative and energized business men and women to accomplish their loftiest dreams and restore America’s prosperity once again.”
—Alan E. Hall, entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, cofounder of Mercato Partners

“The Zigzag Principle is the new way of doing business. It will increase your chances of success by 90 percent and eliminate so much of the stress that business owners face.”
—Garrett Gunderson, New York Times bestselling author of Killing Sacred Cows

“The Zigzag Principle has revolutionized the way I run my business. It works, it measures, it performs. Every business should know and implement this principle!”
—Curtis Blair, cofounder and general manager, Froghair

“Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical, and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won’t steer you wrong.”
—Roy H. Williams, author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling Wizard of Ads trilogy

”I don't believe entrepreneurship is something you can truly learn from a book. Everyone has to make their own mistakes. Nevertheless, if you've already made some mistakes then you'll find The Zig Zag Principle to be a no b.s. guide to starting, nurturing and succeeding at entrepreneurship.”
—Jeffrey Eisenberg, author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal marketing bestsellers Call to Action and Waiting For Your Cat To Bark?

“Entrepreneurs, you need not fear failure anymore! With The Zigzag Principle in hand, you will have all the tools you need to increase your probability of success the instant you apply the concepts in this book.”
—Rick Sapio, founder and CEO of Mutual Capital Alliance, Inc, Dallas, Texas

“The Zigzag Principle isn’t feel-good fluff—it is a logical and practical formula that you can put your hands on, and it will increase the rate of success of any business you apply it to.”
—Moe Abdou, Principal and founder, 33 Voices

“The Zigzag Principle is more powerful than the ‘release and iterate’ mentality which is so prevalent today. I have adjusted my planning to incorporate this principle in our product launches. Properly executed, The Zigzag Principl will keep folks like me out of financial hot water.”
—David McInnis, founder of PRWeb.com and founder and CEO of Cranberry LLC, Venture Partners

“Most entrepreneurs find it complicated and difficult to build their businesses. Rich has done a masterful job with The Zigzag Principle to make complex things simple and the difficult easy—and it works! It will help you get where you want to be with more confidence and certainty.”
—Murray Smith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Answer and CEO of MainStreetMentor.com

“Whether you are a parent, an entrepreneur, a factory worker, or a middle manger, The Zigzag Principle will provide you with a framework and a formula that will empower you to make changes in your world you had never felt were possible.”
—Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

"The Zigzag Principle delivers the epiphany of the decade for business owners. These strategies are non-intuitive, but proven to be solid and dependable, which is why this is such an important work. Not only will you profit faster than you thought possible, you'll also enjoy greater balance and fulfillment in the process."
—Leslie Householder, Award-winning bestselling author of The Jackrabbit Factor: Portal to Genius

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SPIN Selling

2011-10-04T11:15:00.001-07:00

SPIN Selling
by Neil Rackham
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Written by Neil Rackham, former president and founder of Huthwaite corporation, SPIN Selling is essential reading for anyone involved in selling or managing a sales force. Unquestionably the best-documented account of sales success ever collected and the result of the Huthwaite corporation's massive 12-year, $1-million dollar research into effective sales performance, this groundbreaking resource details the revolutionary SPIN (Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-payoff) strategy.

In SPIN Selling, Rackham, who has advised leading companies such as IBM and Honeywell delivers the first book to specifically examine selling high-value product and services. By following the simple, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques of SPIN, readers will be able to dramatically increase their sales volume from major accounts. Rackham answers key questions such as “What makes success in major sales” and “Why do techniques like closing work in small sales but fail in larger ones?”

You will learn why traditional sales methods which were developed for small consumer sales, just won't work for large sales and why conventional selling methods are doomed to fail in major sales. Packed with real-world examples, illuminating graphics, and informative case studies - and backed by hard research data - SPIN Selling is the million-dollar key to understanding and producing record-breaking high-end sales performance.
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The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

2011-10-04T07:14:00.001-07:00

The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
(1)
Release Date: October 4, 2011

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For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.

As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities.

Yet Sachs goes deeper than an economic diagnosis. By taking a broad, holistic approach—looking at domestic politics, geopolitics, social psychology, and the natural environment as well—Sachs reveals the larger fissures underlying our country’s current crisis. He shows how Washington has consistently failed to address America’s economic needs. He describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. He also looks at the crisis in our culture, in which an overstimulated and consumption-driven populace in a ferocious quest for wealth now suffers shortfalls of social trust, honesty, and compassion.

Finally, Sachs offers a plan to turn the crisis around. He argues persuasively that the problem is not America’s abiding values, which remain generous and pragmatic, but the ease with which political spin and consumerism run circles around those values. He bids the reader to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and one another. Most important, he bids each of us to accept the price of civilization, so that together we can restore America to its great promise.

The Price of Civilization is a masterly road map for prosperity, founded on America’s deepest values and on a rigorous understanding of the twenty-first-century world economy. Read more

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Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

2011-09-29T15:14:00.001-07:00

Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
by Ellen E. Schultz
(2)
Publication Date: September 15, 2011

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"'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the HR representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'"

It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage earned by millions of retirees. Employers blame an aging workforce, stock market losses, and spiraling costs- what they call "a perfect storm" of external forces that has forced them to take drastic measures.

But this so-called retirement crisis is no accident. Ellen E. Schultz, award-winning investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, reveals how large companies and the retirement industry-benefits consultants, insurance companies, and banks-have all played a huge and hidden role in the death spiral of American pensions and benefits.
A little over a decade ago, most companies had more than enough set aside to pay the benefits earned by two generations of workers, no matter how long they lived. But by exploiting loopholes, ambiguous regulations, and new accounting rules, companies essentially turned their pension plans into piggy banks, tax shelters, and profit centers.

Drawing on original analysis of company data, government filings, internal corporate documents, and confidential memos, Schultz uncovers decades of widespread deception during which employers have exaggerated their retiree burdens while lobbying for government handouts, secretly cutting pensions, tricking employees, and misleading shareholders. She reveals how companies:
* Siphon billions of dollars from their pension plans to finance downsizings and sell the assets in merger deals
* Overstate the burden of rank-and-file retiree obligations to justify benefits cuts while simultaneously using the savings to inflate executive pay and pensions
* Hide their growing executive pension liabilities, which at some companies now exceed the liabilities for the regular pension plans
* Purchase billions of dollars of life insurance on workers and use the policies as informal executive pension funds. When the insured workers and retirees die, the company collects tax-free death benefits
*Preemptively sue retirees after cutting retiree health benefits and use other legal strategies to erode their legal protections.

Though the focus is on large companies-which drive the legislative agenda-the same games are being played at smaller companies, non-profits, public pensions plans and retirement systems overseas. Nor is this a partisan issue: employees of all political persuasions and income levels-from managers to miners, pro- football players to pilots-have been slammed.

Retirement Heist is a scathing and urgent expose of one of the most critical and least understood crises of our time.
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The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down

2011-09-28T07:14:00.001-07:00

The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down
by Harry S. Dent, Rodney Johnson
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Release Date: September 20, 2011

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In his most recent New York Times bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent, Jr., predicted that the stimulus plan created in response to the first crisis would hit demographic and debt saturation headwinds and ultimately fail. In 2010, the stimulus plan had started to fail, and it was already stalling by the first quarter of 2011. The Great Crash Ahead outlines why the next crash and crisis is inevitable, and just around the corner—coming between 2012 and 2014.
With incisive critical analysis and historical examples, this book lays bare the traditional assumptions of economics. Dent shows that the government doesn’t drive our economy, consumers and businesses do; that the Fed does not create most of the money in our economy, the private banking system does; and that the largest generation in history is now saving for or moving into retirement, meaning slowing growth. This is the new normal! Our banking system borrowed to lend for the first time in history with unprecedented leverage and debt levels of $42 trillion, way beyond the massive government debt. But the government’s promises and unfunded liabilities take the cake, at an estimated $66 trillion and growing!
These massive debts will have to be restructured in a time of slowing spending, and this means a deflationary crisis, which is very different from the inflationary crisis of the 1970s and requires very different personal, investment, and business strategies. Dent and Johnson outline these strategies in very practical detail. In the coming years, the greatest surprise will be that the U.S. dollar becomes the safe haven and appreciates just when everyone is calling for it to crash, while the gold and silver bubbles burst along with the stock and commodity bubbles. And real estate will see another round of declines just when everyone thought it could go no lower. The Great Crash Ahead is about making smart, cautious investments—avoiding the sort of high-risk, high-profit investment schemes that sank the world economy.
The road to recovery will be filled with challenges and will require massive change, such as debt restructuring, plans for greater employment, the restructuring of social welfare programs such as social security and health care, budget cuts, and higher taxes—in short, a revision of the kind of lifestyle that characterized the “Roaring 2000s.” The good news is this process will eliminate tens of trillions of dollars of debt and can make way for growth again as the echo boom generation ascends. Or we can continue on our present course and end up like the Japanese, with no growth and high debt two decades later. Read more

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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide)

2011-09-26T19:14:00.001-07:00

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide)
by Project Management Institute
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The PMBOK9(r) Guide – Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification.

Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader understanding.
New data flow diagrams clarify inputs and outputs for each process.
Greater attention has been placed on how Knowledge Areas integrate in the context of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing process groups.
Two new processes are featured: Identify Stakeholders and Collect Requirements.
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

2011-09-26T07:14:00.001-07:00

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
John Medina (Author)
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In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rulewhat scientists know for sure about how our brains workand then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Medina’s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You’ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You’ll peer over a surgeon’s shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You’ll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can’t tie his own shoes.
You will discover how:    * Every brain is wired differently
    * Exercise improves cognition
    * We are designed to never stop learning and exploring
    * Memories are volatile
    * Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn
    * Vision trumps all of the other senses
    * Stress changes the way we learn
In the end, you’ll understand how your brain really worksand how to get the most out of it. In Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rulewhat scientists know for sure about how our brains workand then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Medina’s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You’ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You’ll peer over a surgeon’s shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You’ll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can’t tie his own shoes.
You will discover how:    * Every brain is wired differently
    * Exercise improves cognition
    * We are designed to never stop learning and exploring
    * Memories are volatile
    * Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn
    * Vision trumps all of the other senses
    * Stress changes the way we learn
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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice

2011-09-25T07:14:00.001-07:00

The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
by Todd Henry
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Have better ideas, faster, without the stress and burnout.

It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us, regardless of our role, have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand.

Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular podcast, Henry has created a practical method for discovering your personal creative rhythm. He focuses on five key elements:

* Focus: Begin with your end goal in mind. * Relationships: Build stimulating relationships and ideas will follow. * Energy: Manage it as your most valuable resource. * Stimuli: Structure the right "inputs" to maximize creative output. * Hours: Focus on effectiveness, not efficiency. This is a guide for staying inspired and experiencing greater creative productivity than you ever imagined possible. Read more

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End Malaria

2011-09-24T03:14:00.001-07:00

End Malaria
Michael Bungay Stanier (Editor)
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End Malaria is more than a book, it’s a great cause.

At least $20* from each copy sold by us goes directly to Malaria No More to send a mosquito net to a family in need and to support life-saving work in the fight against malaria. Malaria No More, an international advocacy organization, is on a mission to end malaria related deaths by 2015.

In addition to saving lives, buying this book means you can enjoy essays by 62 of American’s favorite business authors, including Tom Peters, Nicholas Carr, Pam Slim, and Sir Ken Robinson. Organized into three main sections—Focus, Courage, Resilience—and eight subsections—Tap Your Strengths, Create Freedom, Love & Be Kind, Disrupt Normal, Take Small Steps, Embrace Systems, Get Physical, Collaborate—all essays in End Malaria share a desire to inspire readers to look within themselves for solutions to their everyday dilemmas and for motivation to realize their desires.

Editor Michael Bungay Stanier envisioned End Malaria as a book that would marry the best writers of the business world to a deserving cause. Michael assembled and edited this collection with a goal to leverage that breadth of expertise these writers represent for an issue of global importance.

At its core, End Malaria is about doing great work including the hard work to save lives. All of the writers in this collection and all of the partners involved have waived fees in order to raise the maximum amount of money.

*In the UK at least £12 from each copy of End Malaria sold by Amazon will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon. In Germany, at least €13 from each copy of End Malaria will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon.End Malaria is more than a book, it’s a great cause.

At least $20* from each copy sold by us goes directly to Malaria No More to send a mosquito net to a family in need and to support life-saving work in the fight against malaria. Malaria No More, an international advocacy organization, is on a mission to end malaria related deaths by 2015.

In addition to saving lives, buying this book means you can enjoy essays by 62 of American’s favorite business authors, including Tom Peters, Nicholas Carr, Pam Slim, and Sir Ken Robinson. Organized into three main sections—Focus, Courage, Resilience—and eight subsections—Tap Your Strengths, Create Freedom, Love & Be Kind, Disrupt Normal, Take Small Steps, Embrace Systems, Get Physical, Collaborate—all essays in End Malaria share a desire to inspire readers to look within themselves for solutions to their everyday dilemmas and for motivation to realize their desires.

Editor Michael Bungay Stanier envisioned End Malaria as a book that would marry the best writers of the business world to a deserving cause. Michael assembled and edited this collection with a goal to leverage that breadth of expertise these writers represent for an issue of global importance.

At its core, End Malaria is about doing great work including the hard work to save lives. All of the writers in this collection and all of the partners involved have waived fees in order to raise the maximum amount of money.

*In the UK at least £12 from each copy of End Malaria sold by Amazon will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon. In Germany, at least €13 from each copy of End Malaria will be donated to Malaria No More by The Domino Project and Amazon. Read more

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Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

2011-09-23T23:14:00.001-07:00

Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
John C. Maxwell (Author)
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At the heart of John C. Maxwell's brilliant and inspiring book is a simple premise: To do well in life, we must first think well. But can we actually learn new mental habits? Thinking for a Change answers that with a resounding "yes" -- and shows how changing your thinking can indeed change your life. Drawing on the words and deeds of many of the world's greatest leaders and using interactive quizzes, this empowering book helps you assess your thinking style, guides you to new ones, and step by step teaches you the secrets of: Big-Picture Thinking -- seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas. Focused Thinking -- removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential. Creative Thinking -- stepping out of the "box" and making breakthroughs. Shared Thinking -- working with others to compound results. - Reflective Thinking -- looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future ...and much more. Here America's most trusted and admired motivational teacher examines the very foundation of success and self-transformation. Illuminating and life-changing, Thinking for a Change is a unique primer not on what to think, but how to best use one of your most precious possessions: your mind.At the heart of John C. Maxwell's brilliant and inspiring book is a simple premise: To do well in life, we must first think well. But can we actually learn new mental habits? Thinking for a Change answers that with a resounding "yes" -- and shows how changing your thinking can indeed change your life. Drawing on the words and deeds of many of the world's greatest leaders and using interactive quizzes, this empowering book helps you assess your thinking style, guides you to new ones, and step by step teaches you the secrets of: Big-Picture Thinking -- seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas. Focused Thinking -- removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential. Creative Thinking -- stepping out of the "box" and making breakthroughs. Shared Thinking -- working with others to compound results. - Reflective Thinking -- looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future ...and much more. Here America's most trusted and admired motivational teacher examines the very foundation of success and self-transformation. Illuminating and life-changing, Thinking for a Change is a unique primer not on what to think, but how to best use one of your most precious possessions: your mind. Read more

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)

2011-09-23T19:14:00.001-07:00

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
by Patrick Lencioni
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In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.

Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.

Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.Once again using an astutely written fictional tale to unambiguously but painlessly deliver some hard truths about critical business procedures, Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy of corporate fables. And like those preceding it, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is an entertaining, quick read filled with useful information that will prove easy to digest and implement. This time, Lencioni weaves his lessons around the story of a troubled Silicon Valley firm and its unexpected choice for a new CEO: an old-school manager who had retired from a traditional manufacturing company two years earlier at age 55. Showing exactly how existing personnel failed to function as a unit, and precisely how the new boss worked to reestablish that essential conduct, the book's first part colorfully illustrates the ways that teamwork can elude even the most dedicated individuals--and be restored by an insightful leader. A second part offers details on Lencioni's "five dysfunctions" (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results), along with a questionnaire for readers to use in evaluating their own teams and specifics to help them understand and overcome these common shortcomings. Like the author's previous books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, this is highly recommended. --Howard Rothman Read more

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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

2011-09-23T11:14:00.001-07:00

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh
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The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.

Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.

Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.

In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine's top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.

In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life. (edited by author)
The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.

Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too.

Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year.

In 1999, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an adviser and investor, and eventually became CEO.

In 2009, Zappos was listed as one of Fortune magazine's top 25 companies to work for, and was acquired by Amazon later that year in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing.

In his first book, Tony shares the different business lessons he learned in life, from a lemonade stand and pizza business through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Ultimately, he shows how using happiness as a framework can produce profits, passion, and purpose both in business and in life. (edited by author)

Amazon Exclusive Author Q&A with Tony Hsieh, Author of Delivering Happiness

1. In the book you say, "I've been an entrepreneur for most of my life." Do you think people are born entrepreneurs or do they become them?
I think usually by the time you're 12 years old, you either have the entrepreneurial spirit or you don't. I would describe the entrepeneurial spirit as a combination of creativity and optimisim.
2. Could you name one particular experience that inspired you to create a company devoted to customer happiness?
For me, it's really been driven by daily examples of bad customer service in my everyday personal life.
3. Was the worm farm really the invaluable catalyst for forming your business and life philosophy?
My parents tell me that as a kid I was always trying to come up with different business ideas. The idea of starting a worm farm is my earliest memory of a business idea.
4. You say that you have always been an avid book reader. What are your favorite books? Which non-business book helped you grow professionally?
Business books: Good to Great, Peak, Tribal Leadership Made to Stick

Non-business books: The Happiness Hypothesis Comedy Writing Secrets The Game
5. What is the ratio between rebelling against conventional wisdom and sticking to the good old truths in building a successful business?
1:10
6. You describe your way to happiness starting with profits, then going through passion and finally getting to purpose. Is that the only path to business happiness?
No, that was just the path that I happened to take. Part of the purpose of the book is to help other entrepreneurs and business owners shortcut the process and encourage them to go straight to combining profits, passion, and purpose.
7. You seem to have taken risks with business ideas a lot while growing up. How do you recognize a risk that you shouldn't take?
I think it just comes down to really breaking down what the worst case scenario actually is. For most of us, we're lucky to live in a time and in a society where we aren't actually ever in danger of dying from starvation or lack of shelter. Most of us have friends whose couches we can crash on in the worst case scenario, so any "risk" we take in starting a company isn't actually that big a risk.

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

2011-09-23T07:14:00.001-07:00

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police.

Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff Read more

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