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Good Leaders Ask Great Questions
$37.00Add to cartIn GOOD LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, John C. Maxwell delves into the process of becoming a successful leader by examining how questions can be used to advantage. What are the questions leaders should ask themselves? What questions should they ask members of their team? He then responds to the toughest problems leaders have presented to him. Using social media, Maxwell offered the floor to followers with unanswered questions about what it takes to achieve their professional best, and selected seventy questions on the most popular topics, including:
— How can I discover my unique purpose as a leader?
— What is the most effective daily habit that any leader should develop?
— How do you motivate an unmotivated person?
— How would you work with a difficult leader who has no vision?This book is a thorough, insightful response to those readers and anyone who feels they have plateaued on their journey to develop their ultimate potential. Every leader has room to grow, and the advice in these pages will help readers assess their current position, and structure an effective plan to achieve their goals.
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1 Plus 12
$24.99Add to cartVisionary Leadership. Many people talk about it. Some have written about it. A few have been called visionary leaders. But only one man embodied its full meaning-Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Crucified and risen over 2,000 years ago, his visionary leadership continues to draw multitudes of followers today. Most writings about Jesus focus on what he did-proclaim the kingdom of God-and why-to save the world from its sin-but have neglected how he did it. How did his vision for establishing the Christian faith become so successful? How has Christianity lasted longer and grown larger than any other organization in history? In his ground breaking work “One Plus Twelve,” Lee Bartolomei delves into the how of Christianity through a detailed examination of who Jesus Christ is and his simple, yet multi-layered vision for making disciples. Bartolomei then shows how any organization-business, non-profit, religious, and more-can become successful and enduring in just three short years! Bartolomei shows you how to:
* Establish core ideology, values, and purpose that make up a vision
* Find and develop like-minded leadership who can carry out a vision
* Confront the brutal facts that hinder a vision
* Develop a culture of discipline to continue a vision …and much more! -
Redefining Operational Excellence
$22.99Add to cartThe old definition of operational excellence is a relic. Our world is too complex, too interconnected, and too fast-moving for organizations to achieve dramatic results simply by eliminating waste and increasing standardization. After all, no company ever cut their way to sustainable growth. True operational excellence is not about “lean” or six sigma or any other methodology. Operational excellence is a mindset, and it achieves breakthrough results. It requires a company culture that questions current models and focuses on adding value, making improvements, and increasing speed. Operational excellence is about finding money and performance boosts in areas businesses don’t normally look. Redefining Operational Excellence covers it all–processes, people, and operations–and shares specific strategies to: ? Drive innovation and collaboration ? Engage customers ? Attract and retain top people ? Align strategy and execution ? Optimize speed ? And more Operational excellence is the relentless pursuit of doing things better. This revelatory guide presents a groundbreaking way of doing things that will benefit organizations and their customers.
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Organizational Leadership : Foundations And Practices For Christians
$35.99Add to cartPreface
Section 1: Theological Foundations For Christian Leadership
Chapter 1: Called To Lead: How Do I Know? Timothy G. Dolan
Chapter 2: Leadership In The Context Of A Christian Worldview Gayne J. Anacker And John R. Shoup
Chapter 3: Towards A Biblical Theology Of Leadership Rick Langer
Section 2: Theoretical Foundations For Christian Leadership
Chapter 4: The Leadership River: Historical Currents Of Management And Leadership Theory John S. (Jack) Burns
Chapter 5: The Sea Of Complexity: Emerging Understandings Of Management, Leadership, And Organizations John S. (Jack) Burns
Section 3: Key Skills And Practices In Christian Leadership
Chapter 6: A Christian Context For Interpersonal And Organizational Communication
Ronald K. PyleChapter 7: Conflict And Negotiation John S. (Jack) Burns
Chapter 8: Decision-Making Theory, Strategies And Skills John R. Shoup, Chris McHorney
Chapter 9: Christian Leadership And Financial Integrity: Temptation, Transformation And Transparency R. Scott Rodin
Chapter 10: Sustaining The Leader Timothy G. Dolan
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Kingdom leadership does not begin and end at the church door. Christians are called to conduct leadership in government, commerce, schools, neighborhoods, families, para-church ministries and a myriad other contexts. God has given us many gifts, and our responsibility is to be stewards of those gifts, and use them to do the King’s work. In that context, this comprehensive text explores key facets of leadership from a Christian worldview so as to equip people to conduct leadership more authentically than would be possible under alternative paradigms. The book begins with the seldom considered theological foundations of leadership while also tracing the historic roots of management, organization and leadership theories. All of this leads to a robust discussion of five essential challenges and practices–communication, negotiation, decision-making, financial stewardship and personal development. The combined efforts of these experts in the field provide a practical theology of leadership from a Christian worldview for emerging and established leaders. Here is the foundation needed for those who want to conduct leadership in a manner consistent with their faith in both religious and nonreligious organizational contexts. -
Jesus Career Counselor
$17.99Add to cartWritten to help readers get, find, and keep the work they love, “JESUS, Career Counselor “weaves together practical self-help concepts, intriguing stories, relevant statistics, and Bible scriptures.
Divided into four sections centered on the four natural giftings or personalities of people, this book explores twelve dreams that God has for each individual–including rise, risk, roar, renew, regenerate, rejoice, relate, and more. It then instructs readers in how to realize each one of these dreams, no matter their natural inclination.
As individual personalities of Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind are explored, the book explains how the “Fire” of excitement translates to Leadership Skills, how the “Earth” of grounding translates into Good Habits and Character Development, how the “Water” of life-giving becomes Relationship Skills, and how the “Wind” of release becomes the Creativity and Innovation, which are in high demand in every industry in the world today.
Readers will learn how to discover their four greatest talents and create their personal Talent Shield, which will help them choose a meaningful career based on their Lifels Mission Statement.Each chapter serves as a free-standing career guidepost, and includes Career Exercises, pertinent Word Definitions, Career Choices for individual gifting, Self-Quizzes, and Reader Study Guides.”
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Real Estate Success
$13.49Add to cartA detailed guide that will help you create a specific personalized plan to achieve a high level of success as a Real Estate Agent
Creating your Business Plan
Value of a Mentor
Developing your Marketing Systems
Referral Based Marketing
Balance between work and family
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Nehemiah Effect : Ancient Wisdom From The Worlds First Agile Projects
$28.99Add to cartThe rapid convergence of technological and knowledge growth is resulting in disruptive change unlike any in human history. So why go back 2,500 years for a business leadership and project management model?
According to today’s experts, Nehemiah’s building the 4.5-mile wall around Jerusalem in 445 BC should have taken years with a huge labor force. But he accomplished it with 150 leaders and an enormous volunteer team in 52 days. His book is a roadmap on how to accomplish seemingly impossible goals using a Business Agile framework.
The Nehemiah Effect combines new mindsets, methodologies, and technologies with proven, ancient wisdom to deliver surprising results for today’s business leaders and project managers.
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Leaders Guide To Speaking With Presence
$9.99Add to cartA leader’s most important job is to communicate. Every day, whether in a meeting or a presentation, a water-cooler conversation or a formal speech, his or her ability to craft and deliver a clear message, one the audience will believe, is the tipping point between forgettable and transformational. The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence is a concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority. Readers will discover how to: * Present their ideas clearly and provide context * Radiate confidence and put the audience at ease * Refine their delivery * Use stories to inform, involve, and inspire * Leverage the energy of any room * Convey optimism tempered with reality to gain buy-in * Turn PowerPoint presentations into performances * And more To be truly effective, a leader’s words need to ring true, and his or her delivery needs to be authentic. This handy little guide helps readers achieve the kind of genuine presence that leads to lasting trust and quantifiable influence.
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Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Learn (Large Type)
$39.00Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to turn every loss into a learning experience.
John Maxwell believes that the greatest lessons we learn in life are from our losses. Everyone experiences loss, but not everyone learns from it. In Sometimes You Win–Sometimes You Learn, Dr. Maxwell explores the most common lessons we learn when we experience loss. He then explains how to turn a set-back into a step forward by examining the eleven elements that make up the DNA of Those Who Learn:
1. Humility – The Spirit of Learning
2. Reality – The Foundation of Learning
3. Responsibility – The First Step of Learning
4. Improvement – The Focus of Learning
5. Hope – The Motivation of Learning
6. Teachability – The Pathway of Learning
7. Adversity – The Catalyst of Learning
8. Problems – The Opportunities of Learning
9. Bad Experiences – The Perspective for Learning
10. Change – The Price of Learning
11. Maturity – The Value of LearningLearning is not easy during down times, it takes discipline to do the right thing when everything is wrong. This book provides a roadmap to doing just that. As John Maxwell often points out–experience isn’t the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
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5 Levels Of Leadership
$19.99Add to cartJohn C. Maxwell’s Wall Street Journal bestseller shares the steps to becoming an effective leader.
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. In his seminal work, leadership guru John Maxwell presents readers with the five stages of leadership and explains how to maximize each one to become more influential, respected and successful:
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. -
How To Be Team Player And Enjoy It
$13.99Add to cartMatt Williams has been an associate pastor, Christian college administrator, and has worked with church ministries around the country for over 40 years. He combines his experiences as a secular business manager, church staff member, and Christian leader with ministries to present practical principles that are invaluable in serving the Lord. How To Be A Team Player and Enjoy It is the result of working with pastors, staff members, and ministries across the country and seeing the problems faced in churches and Christian school ministries. Matt takes principles from God s word and applies them to our relationships and working with others as leaders. Christian leaders have encouraged Matt to relate these principles in printed form. This book reflects Matt s heart for people and the Lords work. How To Be A Team Player and Enjoy It should be required reading for all Christian leaders and workers.
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Secrets Of Dynamic Communications (Revised)
$16.99Add to cartWhat is the most important ingredient for an effective speech or presentation?
Whether you are one who speaks only on rare occasions or you find yourself addressing an audience every day, this book will be an invaluable tool. Beneficial to the experienced pro as well as the new beginner,Secrets of Dynamic Communication is a practical and effective handbook for powerful presentations of all kinds. It takes the reader through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience. The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery.
Author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and he is now bringing those concepts to the wider community as well. No abstract theories here, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results! You’ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field.
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Little Black Book Of Project Management 3rd Edition
$18.99Add to cartFor nearly twenty years, The Little Black Book of Project Management has provided businesspeople everywhere with a quick and effective introduction to project management tools and methodology. The revised and updated third edition reflects the newest techniques, the latest project management software, as well as the most recent changes to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Readers will find invaluable strategies for: * Organizing any project * Choosing the project team * Preparing a budget and sticking to it * Scheduling, flowcharting, and controlling a project * Preparing project documentation * Managing communications * And much more A fast-read solution for both seasoned and first-time project managers, The Little Black Book of Project Management can help any professional achieve on-time results, superior organizational ability, consistent profit generation, and a reputation for both quality and dependability.
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Entrepreneurial Leadership : Finding Your Calling Making A Difference
$26.99Add to cartIntroduction
1. The Essence Of Entrepreneurship
2. The Essence Of Entrepreneurial Leadership
3. Humanist & Christian Models Of Entrepreneurship
4. Soul & Spirituality
5. Meaning & Work Ethic
6. Risk & Reward
7. Finding Your Calling
8. Practicing Entrepreneurial Leadership
9. Sustaining Entrepreneurial Leadership
10. Making A DifferenceAdditional Info
The church today faces a leadership crisis, what Richard Goossen and R. Paul Stevens call an “entrepreneurial black hole.” Churches are not seeking out the skills and talents of the entrepreneurs in their midst, and consequently entrepreneurs are disengaging from church life. The result is that Christian entrepreneurial leaders are not being equipped to aid the mission of the church and impact their communities for the sake of Gods kingdom. As founder and co-chairperson, respectively, of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Organization, Goossen and Stevens bring years of teaching and training experience to tackle this problem. Their timely and informative book develops a Christian model of entrepreneurship–rooted in a biblical worldview and a theology of calling–in order to overcome the entrepreneur-church dichotomy. Entrepreneurial Leadership addresses both the “how-come” and the “how-to,” not only grounding the entrepreneurial calling in its proper source in the triune God but also providing practical guides for how to be an effective leader. This book is not merely for those in business. It is for entrepreneurial leaders in every context and in any organization. Both theologically rooted and practically oriented, Goossen and Stevens have written what should prove to be the essential resource for Christian entrepreneurial leadership training. -
17 Indisputable Laws Of Teamwork
$19.99Add to cartThe go-to guide for building and maintaining successful teams.
People who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field often have difficulty recreating what accounted for their successes. Is it a strong work ethic? Is it “chemistry”? What tools can you wrap your hands around to build-or rebuild-your team? In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in your business, family, church, or organization.
In his practical, down-to-earth style, he shows how:
The Law of High Morale inspired a 50-year-old man, who couldn’t even swim, to train for the toughest triathlon in the world.
The Law of the Big Picture prompted a former U.S. president to travel cross-country by bus, sleep in a basement, and do manual labor.
Playing by the Law of the Scoreboard enabled one Web-based company to keep growing and making money while thousands of other Internet businesses failed.
Ignoring the Law of the Price Tag caused one of the world’s largest retailers to close its doors after 128 years in business.The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork empowers readers-whether coaches or players, teachers or students, CEOs or non-profit volunteers-with the “how-tos” and attitudes for building a successful team.
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ReVision : 13 Strategies To Renew Your Work Organizaton And Your Life
$19.99Add to cartLooking back at the twists and turns of the administrative landscape of his twenty-two years as a University president, John Bowling recognizes a set of strategies that have defined him as a leader. These 13 strategies will allow you to continually and effectively relate to and motivate the men and women with whom you work as you ReVision your work, your organization, and your life.
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Intelligent Leadership : What You Need To Know To Unlock Your Full Potentia
$21.95Add to cartIn today’s business environment, leaders at all levels are facing enormous challenges when it comes to achieving and sustaining breakthrough operating results. Globalization, economic change, more stringent regulation, and tougher governance make realizing shareholder value increasingly difficult. Intelligent Leadership is written for leaders who want to become more effective, strategic, operationally focused, and balanced. It is for leaders who are striving to take control of their destiny and become the best they can be. In this groundbreaking book, leadership coach John Mattone-recently named to the “guru radar” by the prestigious Thinkers50-taps into his years of experience working with high-achieving professionals to give readers a roadmap for developing and mastering their executive maturity. Supplying three unique tools-the Wheel of Leadership Success, Map of Leadership Maturity, and the Leadership Enneagram-the book helps readers calibrate their abilities so they can simultaneously focus on their strengths and address their weaknesses. The goal is to improve key tactical competencies (such as critical and strategic thinking, decision-making, talent and team leadership, and communication) and integrate them with equally important inner traits like values, character, and beliefs in order to achieve their leadership potential. Featuring best practices, authoritative research, practical assessments, and enlightening examples of both good and bad leadership, this book equips readers with the knowledge, skills, and passion they need to become the leaders they were meant to be.
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Power Of Strategy Innovation
$24.95Add to cartStrategic planning sounds business-as-usual dull, while innovation conjures up images of corporate vision and risk-taking. The truth is, the two must be brought together for companies to excel in dynamic markets. The Power of Strategy Innovation presents a five-phase Discovery Process for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping the paths between analytical, numbers-oriented, day-to-day planning and market-centric, discovery-driven innovation that focuses on the future. This edition updated in 2013 to include a new Preface and Epilogue, describing the emergence of Enterprise Innovation.
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15 Invaluable Laws Of Growth (Large Type)
$30.00Add to cartAre there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . .
*The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
*The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
*The Law of Modeling: It’s Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
*The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
*The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop OthersThis third and final book in John Maxwell’s Laws series (following 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets “used up.”
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108 Skills Of Natural Born Leaders
$18.95Add to cartSome people appear to be “natural born leaders.” But are they literally born that way? Or have they been taught, coached, rewarded, and reinforced in ways that enable them to be leaders? According to The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders, no one is born a leader. But everyone has the natural born capacity to lead. We label people “”natural born leaders”” because they consistently and frequently model qualities that inspire others to commit to their direction. This book identifies the skill set that causes others to see people as natural born leaders, helps readers assess their current level of these skills, and coaches readers to master their weak areas. Readers will learn: * Foundation skills, including self-awareness and the ability to establish rapport * Direction skills, including the ability to set a course and develop others as leaders * Willing follower skills, including the ability to influence others and create a motivating environment.
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Derailed : Five Lessons Learned From Catastrophic Failures Of Leadership
$18.99Add to cartWhat causes a leader to fail? What can we learn from those who have fallen? How do we avoid failure of our own?
These are just a few of the questions answered in Derailed: 5 Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership, a book for leaders and aspiring leaders of all levels by Tim Irwin, Ph.D. Derailed chronicles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs, the factors that drove their downfalls, and the lessons that we can learn to stay on track and avoid derailing our own lives and careers.
The story of the fallen CEO has become a cultural fixture: veering off course with the force of a train careening off its tracks, leaving fiery wreckage and devastating injury throughout the organization. These executives are often the smartest and most respected individuals in their industries, with glittering resumes and histories of successful leadership. Yet they astonish us by driving the train dramatically off course, blinded by unchecked power and arrogance.
Dr. Tim Irwin believes that these leaders suffer from failures of character that are common to each of us–even the most capable individuals. Deficits in authenticity, humility, self-management, and courage become more dangerous as we take on more leadership, and can cause us to ignore glaring signals that might otherwise save us from catastrophic demise. Derailed profiles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs (Robert Nardelli – Home Depot, Carly Fiorina – HP, Durk Jager – Proctor and Gamble, Steven Heyer – Starwood Hotels, Frank Raines – Fannie Mae, Dick Fuld – Lehman Brothers) and the factors that drove their downfalls, finding that derailment actually happens long before the crash and can be avoided. Derailed explains the character qualities that are essential for successful leadership and how to cultivate them so that we can avoid being derailed.
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7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave
$19.95Add to cartPeople are four times more likely to leave a job because of something going on in the office than for an outside opportunity. Yet most managers blame employee turnover on the lure of other companies. . . even when the real factors are well within their control. Based on research performed by the prestigious Saratoga Institute, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave provides readers with real solutions for the costly problem of employee turnover. Now incorporating the results of the author’s “Decision to Leave” post-exit survey, the second edition features new research in employee engagement as well as innovative best practices for engaging and retaining in a down economy. Readers will learn how to align employee expectations with the realities of the position, avoid job-person mismatches, and provide feedback and coaching that breed employee confidence. The book examines factors such as manager relationships, lack of trust in senior leadership, company culture and integrity, salary and benefits, and more-revealing what can be done to hold on to the people who provide the most value to the organization.
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Giants In The Marketplace Davids In The Pew
$19.99Add to cartWelcome to destiny. Yours.
Whether you feel destined to change the world or not, it is possible. If you’ve tried and failed, succeeded here and there, or never even given it a shot – that doesn’t matter. What counts is knowing there is a path which leads from wherever you are, smack into the inspired future you dream of. Some call it Road of Destiny.
Finding destiny changes everything.
But when you do, beware! Opposition also turns up. There are roadblocks, giants and unexpected setbacks guarding the way. That’s when things get interesting. While God has made special provision to give his kids an edge in life’s battles – and to accomplish great things – too often we miss the mark despite help. Why? Fortunately, with a few well-combined secrets all that can change. And when you partner with God, so will the world.
As you enjoy a story-like experience, you’ll discover:
* Secrets to knowing your true identity and special assignment from God
* How to partner with God to do what is otherwise impossible
* Why all believers are potential thought leaders, problem solvers and difference makers
* Four strategies which help any Christian accomplish greater things
* An interesting truth about church as we know it that changes everything
* How to hear God more clearly
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Life On The Wire
$17.99Add to cartImbalance is natural.
The key is to make it purposeful.
In Life on the Wire, New York Times best-selling author Todd Duncan challenges the status quo in search of a better, smarter way to work and live. He profiles several people striking out to find “balance.” You’ll meet an entrepreneur, a bartender, and an accountant, among others. You’ll hear their stories, their challenges, their insights, and the critical lessons they learned. Duncan contends the last thing we need amid life’s inherent imbalance is another attempt at a how-to formula for perfect balancea*equal parts work and life. In fact, he argues that such a holy grail does not exist. Instead, he has issued a more pragmatic formula he calls purposeful imbalance: the process of purposefully leaning toward work without sacrificing life and purposefully leaning toward life without damaging your career. It is precisely the way a tight-rope walker makes his way across a one-inch rope without falling.
“I’ve always believed that when you’re at work, you should work hard, and when you’re at home, you should play hard. That’s easy to say, but for a lot of people it’s hard to do.
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Trump The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received
$17.99Add to cartDonald Trump has gathered in one book the best advice on real estate from the brightest and most experienced people…
“Don’t try to take the last penny off the table; make sure that the people who buy from you also make money. If not, they won’t buy from you again.” -Michael Shvo, Founder of the Shvo Group and “the most successful young real estate broker in New York”
“Mom said, ‘If you don’t have big breasts, put ribbons in your pigtails.’ Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative. Although your competition might offer something you can’t match, that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you identify and play up what you’ve got.” -Barbara Corcoran, Founder of the Corcoran Group, New York City’s leading real estate company
“Real estate can be so much fun you almost feel guilty earning money at it!” -Monda Bassil, President of Prestigious Properties of New York
“When you sell real estate, pay tax only if you want, when you want, and in the amount you decide.” -Gary Gorman, Founder of 1031 Exchange Experts, LLC, and author of Exchanging UP!
“Whether it is a real estate deal or any other venture, the key is to find something you enjoy doing, and then do it better than anyone else-because success comes easier to people who follow their passion.” -Donald Trump, J r., Executive Vice President of Development and Acquisitions for The Trump Organization
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Upside Down In America
$14.99Add to cart“If you are ‘upside down’ and/or facing foreclosure of your home, life can seem like a runaway train careening toward disaster. During the process of completing this book, I noticed the laws are changing rapidly. But real options are open to you-and it’s time you knew them……
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Best Practices For Effective Boards
$16.99Add to cartA local pastor.
A long-standing member of not-for-profit board.
A former president of a university.
These three authors share their wisdom and experiences from decades of board leadership. With specific areas of expertise, they bring 3 distinctive voices and perspectives to the 12 essential principles every leader needs to develop and maintain a healthy governing board.
Best Practices for Effective Boards challenges your board to become the most effective, God-honoring body to ever serve your organization. Regardless of the size of your board or the organizations that you serve, you can benefit from the principles outlined in this book. The starting point is clear and the path is systematically laid before you, helping to transform your vision, strategy, and future. No matter where you start, you can develop your board into a strong and effective body working toward a future of growth and development.
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Trainers Tool Kit Second Edition
$18.95Add to cartThe Trainer’s Tool Kit has long been a valued guide for trainers and managers in need of a quick refresher. Now completely updated with hundreds of ready-to-use techniques, the book is still the perfect resource for new trainers, managers who are suddenly asked to train, and training professionals in need of a quick refresher. Comprehensive and arranged in an easy-reference format, The Trainer’s Tool Kit, Second Edition, supplies instant guidance specifically designed to make any training task easier and more efficient. The book gives you concise, easy-to-digest nuggets of information you can put to use even at a moment’s notice. You’ll find here’s-how-to-do-it information on need-to-know training topics including: * the principles of learning * budgeting for training * when to use case studies * handling difficult participants * icebreakers * facilitation tips * flipchart do’s and don’ts * learning contracts * overcoming resistance * rewards and recognition Now even easier to use, completely updated, and containing all the practical information included in the first edition, the book also includes expanded coverage of retention programs such as mentoring and career and succession planning. Taking a fresh look at a broad range of ideas, The Trainer’s Tool Kit, Second Edition, shows how to achieve significant performance improvements through effective training.
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21st Century Keys To Employment
$35.99Add to cartThis book is the result of 14 years working directly with people who have lost jobs, homes, financial freedom, and hope. “21st Century Keys to Employment” will guide you through the steps necessary to stand out from the competition to land that next job!
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21st Century Keys To Employment
$22.99Add to cartThis book is the result of 14 years working directly with people who have lost jobs, homes, financial freedom, and hope. “21st Century Keys to Employment” will guide you through the steps necessary to stand out from the competition to land that next job!
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Brand Real : How Smart Companies Live Their Brand Promise And Inspire Fierc
$18.95Add to cartCompanies are forever being more creative in their branding strategies, building identities ranging from the warm-and-fuzzy to the ultra-cool and edgy. But it seems that many of these enterprises forgot that a brand, at its heart, is a promise to deliver. If the brand experience does not live up to that promise, customers will take their business elsewhere. Brand Real is a business strategy guide for making a brand’s promise stand up at every customer touch point. Packed with proven, repeatable management practices, the book shows how to establish a clean brand architecture while avoiding the needless complexity that has tripped up many promising companies. Author Laurence Vincent presents cautionary tales of supposed brand superstars as well as instructive case studies of genuine brand giants like American Express, Apple, Cisco, Google, Qualcomm, Virgin, and others. Readers will learn how to connect the outward-facing elements of their brands-logos, advertising, imagery, communications-directly to the core elements of business strategy and forge a powerful and lasting connection with their customers.
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Pillars Of Prosperity
$27.99Add to cartIf you grew up in the country, you may have once or twice seen a turtle perched atop a fence post. The first thought to cross your mind upon seeing this unusual sight would probably be that the turtle did not get on top of that fence post by itself; it had help.
This analogy is meant to represent just that – something accomplished that would not normally be possible without the assistance of someone or something more capable. That is the message of this book: how to accomplish more with less; how to go higher financially (and in other areas of life) than your talents and abilities would otherwise take you; how to position yourself to be propelled by God Himself to heights you may have never thought possible; and why God wants to prosper the people who attend their ears to His methods. -
Pillars Of Prosperity
$17.99Add to cartIf you grew up in the country, you may have once or twice seen a turtle perched atop a fence post. The first thought to cross your mind upon seeing this unusual sight would probably be that the turtle did not get on top of that fence post by itself; it had help.
This analogy is meant to represent just that – something accomplished that would not normally be possible without the assistance of someone or something more capable. That is the message of this book: how to accomplish more with less; how to go higher financially (and in other areas of life) than your talents and abilities would otherwise take you; how to position yourself to be propelled by God Himself to heights you may have never thought possible; and why God wants to prosper the people who attend their ears to His methods. -
Rhinoceros Success : The Secret To Charging Full Speed Toward Every Opportu
$19.99Add to cartAn energetic, high-octane call to take com-mand of life with energy and optimism.
If you have ever thought I can do better. If you’ve ever felt the stirrings of rhino blood in your veins and felt your heart quicken at the scent of success, then you are ready to read Rhinoceros Success and get charging! -
Dave Ramseys Complete Guide To Money
$31.99Add to cartIf you’re looking for practical information to answer all you “How?” “What?” and “Why?” questions about money, this book is for you. Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money covers the A to Z of Dave’s money teaching, including how to budget, save, dump debt, and invest. You’ll also learn all about insurance, mortgage options, marketing, bargain hunting and the most important element of all-giving.
Topics Covered: Super Saving, Relating With Money, Cash Flow Planning, Dumping Debt, Credit Sharks In Suits, Buyer Beware, Clause and Effect, That’s Not Good Enough, The Pinnacle Point, From Fruition To Tuition, Working In Your Strengths, Real Estate and
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Resolving Conflicts On The Job Second Edition
$14.99Add to cartConflict, misunderstandings, and contrary points of view are all a part of the workplace — and employees who can’t effectively deal with these differences may be stunting their career growth. Now, in a newly updated second edition, Resolving Conflicts on the Job gives succinct and clear guidelines for dealing with conflict on both interpersonal and organizational levels. The book explains proven methods for resolving differences and suggests specific techniques that aid in: * giving and receiving criticism * handling disputes at different levels of an organization * resolving disagreements within a team * managing different personality types Completely updated with a new chapter on keeping cool in a conflict and exercises to determine whether disagreements are constructive, this timeless guide will enable managers to lead their teams without starting an argument.
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Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership
$30.95Add to cartWith today’s tough economic environment and declining trust in leaders, companies are in desperate need of leaders who can provide the vision, goals, and direction needed to develop and maximize the full potential of their people and the business results.
The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership was written to help organizations and leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage depends on how people are treated-and the best way to create a competitive advantage is by developing an environment of caring, mutual trust and respect between the leaders and their people.Servant leaders have learned that focusing their efforts and strategy on developing the full potential of their associates helps create a winning partnership for the people and the business.
To help leaders develop this collaborative environment, the author shares his own leadership journey both the successes and struggles. He compiles the lessons of a lifetime into one comprehensive document that can help point the way for leaders to the fulfilling life of “servant leadership”-that powerful, almost mystical capability to help people achieve beyond their fondest dreams, while living a life of faith and making priceless contributions to the people God brings into their life. He takes a highly ethical and moral approach to developing employees, leading your business and balancing your life. He provides practical examples of how to build a business of which you can be proud by helping people succeed and achieve their goals which is a time proven way to ensure that you too will succeed.If you are seeking to improve your career, be a leader in all you do, build a business of integrity, or balance your life with better relationships – this book is for you!
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Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership
$13.95Add to cartWith today’s tough economic environment and declining trust in leaders, companies are in desperate need of leaders who can provide the vision, goals, and direction needed to develop and maximize the full potential of their people and the business results.
The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership was written to help organizations and leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage depends on how people are treated-and the best way to create a competitive advantage is by developing an environment of caring, mutual trust and respect between the leaders and their people.Servant leaders have learned that focusing their efforts and strategy on developing the full potential of their associates helps create a winning partnership for the people and the business.
To help leaders develop this collaborative environment, the author shares his own leadership journey both the successes and struggles. He compiles the lessons of a lifetime into one comprehensive document that can help point the way for leaders to the fulfilling life of “servant leadership”-that powerful, almost mystical capability to help people achieve beyond their fondest dreams, while living a life of faith and making priceless contributions to the people God brings into their life. He takes a highly ethical and moral approach to developing employees, leading your business and balancing your life. He provides practical examples of how to build a business of which you can be proud by helping people succeed and achieve their goals which is a time proven way to ensure that you too will succeed.If you are seeking to improve your career, be a leader in all you do, build a business of integrity, or balance your life with better relationships – this book is for you!
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Harvesting Intangible Assets
$24.95Add to cartWhether you call it “harvesting intangible assets” or “intellectual property management,” organizations must make the most of everything they have to offer if they want to remain competitive. Yet, the majority of companies are oblivious to the wealth of revenue-producing opportunities hiding just below the strategic surface. In this thought-provoking book, author Andrew J. Sherman shares insights and expertise gleaned from his work with some of the world’s leading companies who have capitalized on intellectual assets such as patents, trademarks, customer information, software codes, databases, business models, home-grown processes, and employee expertise. Featuring instructive examples from organizations including Proctor and Gamble, IBM, and Google, the book reveals how companies large or small can implement IP-driven growth and licensing strategies, foster a culture of innovation, turn R&D into revenue, and much more. Smart companies reap what they sow. This book gives readers the tools they need for a profitable harvest.
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360 Degree Leader
$19.99Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell shows anyone how to lead, regardless of their level in any organization. In his nearly thirty years of teaching leadership, John Maxwell has encountered this question again and again: How do I apply leadership principles if I’m not the boss? It’s a valid question that Maxwell answers in The 360 Degree Leader. You don’t have to be the main leader, asserts Maxwell, to make significant impact in your organization. Good leaders are not only capable of leading their followers but are also adept at leading their superiors and their peers. Debunking myths and shedding light on the challenges, John Maxwell offers specific principles for Leading Down, Leading Up, and Leading Across. 360-Degree Leaders can lead effectively, regardless of their position in an organization. By applying Maxwell’s principles, you can expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.
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Enemy Of Engagement
$21.95Add to cartThere are a lot of frustrated people in most workplaces today. We’re not talking about the incorrigible office grump or the permanent slacker. Instead, we’re referring to dedicated workers who are being prevented from achieving their peak potential by organizational obstacles. Better enabling these employees to succeed represents an untapped avenue for radically improving productivity. Packed with the latest research findings from the prestigious Hay Group, The Enemy of Engagement uncovers the hidden impediments to performance-excessive procedures, lack of resources, overly narrow roles, and more-and outlines best-practice solutions for eliminating them. This is not an insignificant issue facing businesses today. According to Hay Group’s study, depending on the industry, between one-third and one-half of employees report work conditions that keep them from being as productive as they could be. The Enemy of Engagement gives managers powerful new insights and research-based tools for ensuring their teams are both willing and able to make maximum contributions.
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Duct Tape Marketing Revised And Updated (Revised)
$18.99Add to cartDuct Tape Marketing is the small business marketing road map – A collection of proven tools and tactics woven together in a step-by-step marketing system that shows small business owners exactly what to do to market and grow their businesses. This guide combines insights gained from over twenty years of successfully working, in the field, with real-life small businesses. There are no theoretical complexities presented in Duct Tape Marketing – just simple, effective and affordable marketing that sticks.
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Managers Guide To Virtual Teams
$22.99Add to cartWith an increasing number employees working remotely, it is more difficult than ever to ensure that team members are working smoothly and productively together. A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams is a practical roadmap for bridging the logistical, cultural, and communication gaps that can prevent any virtual team from reaching its full potential. The book explores the four most critical elements to team success: * Trust and Accountability. Ten tips for creating trust within and across virtual teams * Communication. The particular challenges of the virtual world, especially in cross-cultural collaborations * Conflict Management. Examples, case scenarios, and resolution strategies * Deliverables. How virtual teams can get their work “out the door” faster and better A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams features the author’s proprietary Trust Wheel model, which includes powerful tools to help teams develop and ensure trust without face-to-face interaction. Filled with self-study exercises, activities, and advice based on the author’s 20 years’ consulting experience, this book can help any organization realize the promise of professionals working closely together-even if they’ve never met.
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Becoming An Exceptional Executive Coach
$32.99Add to cartCoaching is more than simply learning a process and set of skills. Exceptional coaches draw on their professional experience, knowledge of organizationally relevant topics, strong helping skills, coaching-specific competencies, and most important, their ability to use their own intuition in the service of the client. Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach is the first book that brings all of these elements together to guide readers in developing their own personal model of coaching. The book begins with the foundation for executive coaching: definitions, competencies, and topics. Readers will examine the core content areas crucial in any coach’s work, from engagement and goal setting to needs assessment, data gathering, feedback, and development planning-and then learn how to combine that knowledge with the unique perspective they bring to the table as individuals in order to achieve maximum coaching effectiveness. Each chapter includes a case study that brings the practice of coaching to life. Tools include charts, development plans, contracts, and more, plus ongoing discussion of the role of coaching in organizational contexts.
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Outwitting The Devil
$16.95Add to cartNapoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale has never been published, considered too controversial by his family and friends.
Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed.
Annotated and edited for a contemporary audience by Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Three Feet from Gold co-author Sharon Lechter, this book is profound, powerful, resonant, and rich with insight.
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Conflict 101 : A Manager’s Guide To Resolving Problems So Everyone Can Get
$19.99Add to cartWe all know conflict is unavoidable-especially in the workplace. Whether it’s a fight over resources, a disagreement about how to get things done, or an argument stemming from perceived differences in identities or values, it’s a manager’s role to navigate relationships, and build compromises and collaborations. Conflict 101 gives readers the tools they need to ensure not only that employees get back on track, but that disagreements breed positive results. Readers will learn how to: * Build trust * Harness negative emotions * Encourage apologies and forgiveness * Use a solution-seeking approach * Say what needs to be said Incorporating anecdotes taken from the author’s twenty years of experience as a conflict resolution professional, the book helps readers more deeply understand how conflict is created, how to respond to it, and how to manage it more effectively.
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Critical Thinking Toolkit
$39.99Add to cartUnimaginative. Risk-adverse. Prone to group-think. These are not just empty complaints about today’s employees. A recent article in Newsweek found solid data that proves a “creativity crisis” is plaguing America. Yet critical thinking, the ability to approach a problem both analytically and creatively, is the bedrock of success for companies and their people. Fortunately, it’s a skill that can be learned. The Critical Thinking Tool Kit aims to get employees thinking better and faster with 35 hands-on activities and ready-to-use assessments. Team members work on challenging assumptions, brainstorming divergent ideas, and then pinpointing the ones that best benefit an organization. And they’ll learn to do it in real-life speed-quickly! The training exercises in The Critical Thinking Tool Kit offer an invigorating departure from the everyday-with the potential for big payoffs in the form of enhanced “on-your-feet” thinking, innovative problem-solving, and profitable idea generation from everyone on the team.
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Ill Make You An Offer You Cant Refuse
$18.99Add to cartYou gonna make money being a sucker? Fuggedaboutit! Here’s a tip: You’ve got to get a plan, work it hard, work it smart, and surround yourself with people who know how to help you reach your goals-people like Michael Franzese.
Franzese was a capo in the Colombo crime family. He ran rackets that earned millions a week. And then he walked away and went straight. He served his time and now schools everyone from executives to small business owners about how to get the most from their businesses-and how to do it on the level.
Filled with hard-won experience, street smarts and a just a pinch of philosophy, I’ll Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse delivers the goods:
*Strategies for winning
*What kind of people you need in your crew
*Ethical pitfalls
*Coming out ahead in negotiations
*And a lot, lot moreBusiness is business. Let your friend Franzese give you a tip or two about how to run yours better.
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Beyond Talent : Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results
$22.99Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell shows that talent is just the starting point for a successful impact in any organization. It’s what takes you beyond your talent that matters. People everywhere are proving him right. Read the headlines, watch the highlights, or just step out your front door: Some talented people reach their full potential, while others self-destruct or remain trapped in mediocrity. What makes the difference? Maxwell, the go-to guru for business professionals across the globe, insists that the choices people make–not merely the skills they inherit–propel them to greatness. Among other truths, successful people know that: Belief lifts your talent. Initiative activates your talent. Focus directs your talent. Preparation positions your talent. Practice sharpens your talent. Perseverance sustains your talent. Character protects your talent. . . . and more! It’s what you add to your talent that makes the greatest difference. With authentic examples and time-tested wisdom, Maxwell shares thirteen attributes you need to maximize your potential and live the life of your dreams. You can have talent alone and fall short of your potential. Or you can go beyond talent and really stand out.
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Put Your Dream To The Test
$19.99Add to cartNew York Times and Business Week best-selling author John C. Maxwell helps people answer ten powerful questions to reveal a future where their dream is fulfilled. Most people John Maxwell encounters have a dream. In fact, he’s asked thousands about their greatest aspirations. Some describe their dream with great enthusiasm and detail. Others are reluctant, almost embarrassed, to talk about it. Regardless of their zeal or fear, the same question drives every person with a dream: Can I achieve it? Sadly, most people have no idea how viable their dream is. They hope to achieve it, yet hope is not a strategy. What people need is a way to test their dream. In Put Your Dream to the Test, Maxwell brings the subject of a personal dream down to earth. He gives readers practical and powerful direction for their lives by leading them through ten questions that will help them create a clear and compelling pathway to their dream.
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Unleader : The Surprising Qualities Of A Valuable Leader
$17.99Add to cartWhat kind of leader would you be if you were suddenly handed more power? What if you got that promotion you wanted or a headhunter called tomorrow offering you your dream job? Would your leadership be an example of servanthood and justice, or would you give in to the temptations that power always presents?
In the time it took Samuel to pour oil on each of their heads, Saul and David both moved from unknown kids to kings of Israel. Their responses to that promotion had radically different outcomes. Saul made God sorry he had made him king. David brought joy to God as a man after his own heart.
What about you? What would happen if God suddenly promoted you? A simple way to find out is to evaluate what your leadership looks like right now, and this book gives you the opportunity to do just that. Read about the intriguing similarities between Saul and David and the different choices they made that shaped their leadership. Then compare basic qualities of your leadership to each of theirs. You may be surprised at the qualities God values in a leader.
Leadership development is a lifetime process. No matter your age or leadership experience, there is still time to grow into a leader that brings more joy to God’s heart. Take the journey. It could have some wonderful rewards.
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How To Prepare Stage And Deliver Winning Presentations Third Edition
$24.95Add to cartBusiness growth is becoming increasingly dependent on partnerships, joint ventures, and other strategic alliances. Consequently, the ability of professionals to articulate their ideas well to others has become increasingly essential. How to Prepare, Stage, and Deliver Winning Presentations, now in a thoroughly updated edition, gives readers a proven and practical approach to increase their knowledge, capabilities, confidence, and success. The book provides proven, practical advice on communicating essential information when it matters most. Readers will learn how to: * Make their case using persuasive supporting materials that illuminate and inspire * Win over audiences with sound strategy, organization, and persuasive evidence * Use visual aids using current technologies such as computer graphics, LCD projectors, and Web-interactive methods * Create a positive impression through voice, language, and nonverbal impressions This is an essential book for all professionals seeking to influence decision makers, win contracts, and enhance their careers.
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Business For The Common Good
$32.99Add to cartIs business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others?
Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:
What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?
What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced “as is” and what parts need to be rejected or transformed?
What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures?
How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability?Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you’ll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good.
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Consultative Selling : The Hanan Formula For High-Margin Sales At High Leve
$22.99Add to cartDo you sell products or services? It doesn’t matter: What you’re really selling is customer profit. You help your customers and clients make profitable business decisions, and you are both rewarded with the fruits of a long-term business relationship. For 40 years, Mack Hanan’s Consultative Selling has empowered countless sales professionals to reap maximum success, and the Eighth Edition is here to take them-and you-to the next level, with brand new sections on: Creating a two-tiered sales model to separate consultative sales from commodity sales * Building and using consultative databases for value propositions and proof of performance * Studying your customers’ cash flows to win proposals * Using consultative selling strategies on the Web * Coping with-and reversing-the inevitable “no” Consultative Selling is packed with new partnering strategies, cost/benefit analysis templates, detailed monetized value proposition models, outcome-based branding approaches, and powerful consulting tactics that will make your customers’ competition-and your own rivals-irrelevant.
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Great Commission Companies (Revised)
$29.99Add to cartBusiness as mission has emerged as a significant new model for mission in the twenty-first century. Today’s globalized economy has created strategic opportunities for Christian business enterprises in some of the most unlikely corners of the world. In this landmark book, economist Steve Rundle and missiologist Tom Steffen offer their paradigm for the convergence of business and missions–the Great Commission Company. Such companies intentionally create businesses in strategic locations, pursuing profits while remaining unabashedly Christian in their purpose. By establishing authentic businesses that employ local workers among the least-reached peoples of the world, they contribute to the economic health of the immediate community and also provide avenues for both physical and spiritual ministry.
In an era where multinational corporations have global influence and impact, the Great Commission Company opens up new possibilities for missions-minded entrepreneurs and businesspeople who want to change the world to the glory of God.
This revised and expanded edition provides new and updated case studies of Great Commission Companies in diverse contexts around the world.
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Personality Plus At Work (Reprinted)
$16.99Add to cartFor 25 years, Florence Littauer’s bestselling Personality Plus has been required reading for employees of major companies. Now, Personality Plus at Work takes things a step further and shows readers how to work successfully with anyone by paying attention to basic personality differences. It shows readers what happens when personalities are ignored, how each personality can lead, and how to combine different personalities to maintain a vital and harmonious workplace.
Managers and leaders will especially appreciate the insights found in this book, but anyone who works with co-workers, whether in a paid or volunteer position, will discover how to harness the power of personality.
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Knockout Entrepreneur
$16.99Add to cartBoxing great and business success George Foreman shares his knockout business secrets for entrepreneurs.
Readers remember George Foreman as the former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and the spokesman for the popular George Foreman Grill. What they may not know is that he is also a successful entrepreneur whose portfolio today boasts the George Foreman Grill, George Foreman’s Knockout Cleaner, a line of clothing with Casual Male, fitness videos, Elgin watches, and much more. In Knockout Entrepreneur, Foreman shares his success secrets with aspiring and current entrepreneurs.
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Time Traps : Proven Strategies For Swamped Salespeople
$18.99Add to cartProductivity. It has been a buzz word in the business world for years. But despite our best attempts and countless self-help books, we still fall behind, work late, juggle our schedules, and become swamped. Time Traps addresses the most common misconceptions we have about time and our use of that time in the marketplace. Duncan has proven remedies for universal time troubles, and he shows readers how to set a schedule that works-not just some days but every day. With the principles in Time Traps, salespeople will see a rise in their sales as they experience a drop in their working hours.
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101 Project Management Problems And How To Solve Them
$19.95Add to cartEven with a terrific project management program in place, problems can arise to derail your team’s hard work. The last thing you need in the heat of battle is academic theory. You need field-proven fixes, practical answers to urgent questions, and simple strategies for navigating around obstacles. 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them explores a wide range of these real-world challenges, including how to: * Keep a project on track despite unavoidable interruptions. * Prevent unreliable outside collaborators from jeopardizing the entire project. * Manage project teams who have little or no project management experience. * Make up for lost time without cutting corners. * Succeed in the face of threatened budget cuts. * And many more. Filled with plan-ahead strategies as well as on-the-fly solutions, this helpful guide is the ultimate project adviser and on-the-job troubleshooter in one!
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Equipping Laypeople For Transformational Workplace Ministry
$15.99Add to cartEquipping Laypeople Many Christians fail to see their places of work as their most logical mission field, missing opportunities for both workplace ministry and evangelism. Those who do see their places of work as a mission field are making a tremendous difference where they work. Given the amount of hours typically spent working, the personal trials and dysfunctions many carry with them to work, as well as the poor working conditions of many American workers, there is a tremendous need for Christians to transform their places of work. Even though many pastors tell their church members to go out and reach people, they are not providing them with the necessary training to reach those in the workplace. There is a great need for laypeople to be built up, to be creative, and to live out their faith at work. Pastors have been given the ultimate privilege of equipping God’s people for service. Churches must be intentional about providing laypersons with the theological tools and practical information necessary to understand and effectively exercise workplace ministry. We must begin by accepting that all God’s people are placed in workplace ministry, and seek to know God’s original plan for work, as well as how to integrate work and faith. In EQUIPPING LAYPEOPLE FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL WORKPLACE MINISTRY, Caroloretta Tucker offers her Doctorate’s thesis research results to pastors and churches as a firm foundation for this effort.
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Why Business Matters To God
$26.99Add to cartJeff Van Duzer grew up thinking business was the source of much damage and evil in the world, the work of greedy capitalists polluting the environment. Thirty years later he was dean of a business school. In the course of that remarkable transformation, Van Duzer found cause for both hope and concern. He discovered many business people achieving a great deal of good for society as well as a lot of illegal and unethical behavior. Along the way he found some who thought that merely being honest and kind was what made business Christian. Others said they’d never ask pastors for business advice because they had no interest or experience in their work. After all, wasn’t “full-time Christian service” what the church was all about? This book explores the nature and meaning of doing business and finds it calls for much more than most think. Van Duzer presents a profoundly Christian approach that integrates biblical studies with the disciplines of business and economics. Looking beyond the place of ethical principles and the character of the individual, Van Duzer displays a vision of business that contributes to the very purposes of God.
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Get Em While Theyre Hot
$16.99Add to cartBaby boomers are edging toward retirement, and the U.S. is facing its most critical shortage of skilled workers in its modern history. As the average worker’s skill levels decline, the labor supply is projected to decrease dramatically and exponentially, creating a skilled-labor gap starting in 2005 and growing to 5.3 million in 2010 and to 14 million in 2020. The ability to attract, develop, and retain skilled workers will become a critical skill for both public and private organizations.
Get ’em While They’re Hot is a beneficial manual for employers, managers, HR directors, or anyone concerned with being competitive in the labor market in coming years. It features successful techniques for attracting and nurturing quality, skilled, and productive employees.
The upcoming labor shortage will be at the top of every political list in the coming year. This will be a “must read” for very person concerned about the competitive laber force.
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Navigating Lifes Lost And Found
$15.49Add to cartIt wasn’t supposed to be this way. Life was supposed to be the nice home, good job, the white picket fence…. The American dream. But somewhere along the line something went wrong-drastically wrong. The career that guaranteed the good life fell short. The idyllic marriage that started out full of love, hope and anticipation gradually fizzled out. Your 401-k is now a 201-k. The dream home is under water. The pension that you counted on got cut. The money that you set aside for your kid’s college was supposed to grow, not shrink. What happened? We followed the path that was so deftly portrayed as full of promise and allure, but it has fallen far short of what we believed it would be.
In “Navigating Life’s Lost and Found”, you will learn
* Which path you are heading down
* The American Dream is possible-as long as you follow the right path
* How to eliminate worry from your life
* The difference between a follower and a believer
* To live a life of fulfillment and abundanceIf the path that you’re on has left you wondering, “Is this what life is meant to be?”, let this book lead you to the path of the life you were born to live!
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Something More : A Devotional Dimension For The Joseph-Daniel Calling
$14.99Add to cartFor those chosen, the Joseph-Daniel calling requires “something more.” The “something more” marks true Kingdom leadership with a maturity that endures. It demands a cost far beyond spoon feeding, or the good intentions, ambitions, or any other notion of man. While the more easily digestible milk mode referred to in Hebrews comes primarily from absorbing information, the meat or proactive mode to maturity takes time, dedication and a first-priority commitment. It is the dividing asunder between the many who are called and the few who are chosen. This book outlines a pathway to steward your calling. It is not designed for those focused on their comforts, the lusts of the flesh or the love of the world. If taken seriously and acted on; it will release the meat of maturity leading to “something more” than might ever come from the best of human efforts.
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Hidden Power Of Informal Leadership
$14.99Add to cartTap Into a Hidden Gold Mine!
Are you looking for creative ways to improve your team’s performance? Do you have to work harder and smarter, or produce more with the same or less resources? Informal Leadership uncovers a valuable human resource hidden inside your group.
In this simple and practical book you will discover who these influential leaders are and what drives them, and will be able to increase your success by learning how to tap their talents and skills to:
* Increase innovation and performance
* Stay ahead of the game
* Make more impactful changes
* Exceed expectationsInformal Leadership provides a short and effective route to mobilize your people-and produce outstanding results. It also provides fresh insights on how to inspire your Informal Leaders and leverage their strengths to achieve results way beyond what is expected.
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Jesus Was A Capitalist
$15.99Add to cartIn the Ancient Scrolls of His written teachings, Jesus taught very clearly in simple words:
The obligation of all people to have great wealth for the good of all.
How to have great wealth no matter how poor, or small you start.
That it is so easy for the very rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
That it is very spiritual to have great wealth for the right purposes.
That the statement”you can not serve God and money”, actually means to have more money, not less.
That the very rich should generate much more and how.
He told the Apostles and the disciples to keep their wealth, but not take it in their purses, for they were worthy of pay where they ministered.
Also, many wealthy women traveled with Jesus and financed His ministry. One of these wealthy women of great influence was the wife of rich Herod’s business manager. (LK 8:1-3).
These ancient scrolls are labeled Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They originally, accurately recorded all the wealth – Dominion – teachings of Jesus for the benefit of all persons. Over 2,000 years later these scrolls still teach the same simple truths of easy success for all.
These scrolls are now in the Book called the Bible. Here they are for you in this book on the scrolls-to-gold-teachings-of-Jesus, the Master Teacher of true capitalism, etc. -
Grants For Christian Ministries And More
$15.49Add to cartDo you need funds for your ministry? You could take the next few years and spend thousands of dollars to travel the country and to hear what the funding experts who wrote this book have to say. Or you can order this book right now and get all their expert advice in one place at one time. Get their help now to avoid the funding land mines and move more quickly into the harvest field of greater provisions for your ministry. BRIAN KLUTH, Founder of the www.STATEofthePLATE.info giving research and www.MAXIMUMgenerosity.org
Our Lord Jesus has allowed me to serve ministries and generous givers all across the country for almost three decades. Each week during the past nine years, the professional team at Servant Christian Community Foundation has helped me personally and professionally with this important facet of Christian Discipleship. Grants for Christian Ministry and More is a tremendous resource and typical of the excellent support that consistently flows from Servant. DAVID M. DAVIES, Vice President of Gift Planning and Acquisition for Kids Across America
Grants for Christian Ministries and More is a must read for anyone engaged in the work of our Lord. It is the “how to” book for any Christian Ministry that also provides foresight to the challenges ahead. Carl Landwehr, President Vitae Foundation
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Ministry In The Marketplace
$12.49Add to cartBecome a minister in the marketplace!
Ministry in the Marketplace: Joining Your Personal Faith and Professional Life shows how to bridge the divide between calling and career. If you ever wondered whether or not God could work wonders in your workplace, then this is the book for you. Quit leaving the ministry to professional ministers and start reaching people in your sphere of influence!
We were made to represent God and touch people’s lives and when we don’t do what we were created to do we are left feeling empty and dissatisfied. Yet this book is more than just about purpose, but also a practical discussion about how to really walk with God as a minister in the marketplace.
Those that are not called to the full-time ministry still have a real calling to reach out to others on God’s behalf because we were created to touch the world with the love of God. That does not mean we have to be in a pulpit ministry, but that our daily lives are our pulpit, and the people around us our congregation.
Inside this revolutionary book, author Michael Kocurek reveals:
* It is God’s will for us to minister to people around us even while we are on the job.
* A godly definition of success doesn’t exalt work at the expense of God’s purposes.
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New HR Analytics
$22.99Add to cartIn his landmark book The ROI of Human Capital, Jac Fitz-enz presented a system of powerful metrics for quantifying the contributions of individual employees to a company’s bottom line. The New HR Analytics is another such quantum leap, revealing how to predict the value of future human capital investments. Using Fitz-enz’s proprietary analytic model, readers learn how to measure and evaluate past and current returns. By combining those results with focused business intelligence and applying the exclusive analytical tools in the book, they will be able to: Evaluate and prioritize the skills needed to sustain performance * Build an agile workforce through flexible Capability Planning * Determine how the organization can stimulate and reward behaviors that matter * Apply a proven succession planning strategy that leverages employee engagement and drives top-line revenue growth * Recognize risks and formulate responses that avoid surprises * Support decision making by predicting the actions that will yield the best returns Brimming with real-world examples and input from thirty top HR practitioners and thought leaders, this groundbreaking book ushers in a new era in human resources and human capital management.
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Experience Effect : Engage Your Customers With A Consistent And Memorable B
$22.99Add to cartThe decision to pay for a product or service often transcends the commodity itself to the total buying process: message, ads, sales approach, website, interaction, and more. Jim Joseph’s The Experience Effect shows how to coalesce these elements into a seamless consumer experience that resonates deeply, builds brand loyalty, and keeps customers coming back.
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1st Time Trainer 2nd Edition
$22.99Add to cartSuccessful organizations depend on training to keep them viable-but in today’s belt-tightening economy, managers are often asked to become expert training facilitators overnight. Faced with the challenges of diversity, a multi-generational workforce, and the many options made possible by technology and e-learning, even first-time trainers must be ready with the most up-to-the-minute techniques. Thoroughly revised, The First-Time Trainer is a concise, information-packed guide that will quickly transform readers into confident, effective trainers. Filled with real-world examples and dozens of field-tested tools, the book shows readers how to: Select media and delivery methods * Prepare and give effective presentations * Communicate with learners and get them involved * Ask the right kind of questions * Cope with behavior problems * Give and receive feedback * Put objectives to the test * And more Training is still the best way to make certain employees perform at their best. This user-friendly guide gets first-time facilitators training like pros in no time.
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Home Staging That Works
$18.95Add to cartWant to sell your home at a premium price-now? Never mind simply tidying up: an amazing 91% of real estate professionals say professional staging is the way to go. But sure enough, hiring a staging consultant will cost you. Thankfully, you can now get all the secrets and techniques the pros don’t want you to know, from one of America’s most successful staging experts. Home Staging That Works shows you how to turn any home into a showpiece that buyers will be fighting over. With specific recommendations on what to do, keep, chuck, fix, paint, replace, avoid, update, show, hide, highlight, and more, you’ll learn how to: Focus on your potential buyers’ tastes (not your own) * Create curb appeal * Drive Internet interest with photos that flatter your home * De-clutter and pre-pack at the same time * Clean and repair your home without spending a fortune * Keep your home sale-ready-without being afraid to live in it Complete with photographs of real-life before-and-after transformations, Home Staging That Works offers strategies for each room in your home, as well as conceptual approaches to bring the parts together beautifully. Your home is a magical place waiting for the right buyer to fall in love. Make the match happen with Home Staging That Works!
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Training On Trial
$22.99Add to cartWhile upbeat lingo abounds about “complementing strategic objectives” and “driving productivity,” the fact is that most training does not make a significant enough impact on business results, and when it does, training professionals fail to make a convincing case about the value added to the bottom line. The vaunted “business partnership model” has yet to be realized-and in tough economic times, when the training budget is often the first to be cut, training is on trial for its very existence. Using a courtroom trial as a metaphor, Training on Trial seeks to get to the truth about why training fails and puts the business partnership model to work for real. Readers on both sides of the “courtroom” will learn how to stop viewing training as a cost center, and bridge the gulf between what learning functions deliver and what business units need to execute their strategies. A thought-provoking read for trainers and business unit leaders alike, Training on Trial provides a new application of the Kirkpatrick Four-Level Evaluation Model and a multitude of tips and techniques that allow lessons learned to be put into action now.
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2nd In Command
$16.49Add to cartSECOND IN COMMAND addresses the leadership and accountability of any company large or small through the Chief Operating Officer position down the corporate ladder to reach all employees. Through Second In Command, employee value is identified by the employee and the manager so that the employee begins to operate in Excellence thereby producing greater value of the employee to the organization. This additional value to the company generates promotable employees.
This book will guide you in moving with the New Market direction, unleashing the power of the leaders in your organization. This is accomplished through Excellence and Integrity which generates Trust among it’s customers and employees. The Trust that is developed generates Loyalty within and without the organization, therefore producing greater revenues for the company and more satisfied customers. The Board of Directors of these companies are “speechless” when they look at the bottom line profits generated through the companies ran with these core values.
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Lean Machine : How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth And Profitability
$22.99Add to cart2017 Shingo Prize for Literature Some things never change. Harley-Davidson is still the great, iconic American motorcycle. But like many storied companies, Harley has had to evolve to stay on top, even to stay in existence. From near-extinction in the early eighties, it has risen to worldwide recognition for management excellence and innovation. The Lean Machine is an inside look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world and accelerate product development. Rooted in Japanese productivity improvement techniques, Knowledge-Based Product Development helped fuel Harley’s incredible period of sustained growth. Even after the company earned the PDMA Corporate Innovator Award in 2003, Dantar Oosterwal, a Harley-Davidson executive, took the improvement a quantum leap further. By implementing Lean Product Development techniques, Harley realized an unprecedented fourfold increase in throughput in half the time, powering annual growth of more than ten percent. In The Lean Machine, Oosterwal shows the day-to-day transformation at Harley and identifies universal change and improvement issues, so that companies in any industry can incorporate Knowledge-Based Innovation-with predictably excellent results.
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Business As Mission
$55.99Add to cartC. Neal Johnson offers the first comprehensive guide to business as mission (BAM) for practitioners. He provides conceptual foundationas for understanding BAM’s unique place in global mission and prerequisites for engaging in it. Then he offers practical resources for how to do BAM, including strategic planning and step-by-step operational implementation.
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Missional Entrepreneur : Principles And Practices For Business As Mission
$24.99Add to cartBoth an emerging term and a developing concept, business as mission (BAM) has drawn much fascination in both mission and business circles with the concept of strategically using business to accomplish missional purposes.
There has been much talk about BAM theory, and some good textbook research done on this. Based on the author’s firsthand research in more than 70 countries, The Missional Entrepreneur offers a uniquely informative book that helps readers see business as mission in action and understand its reality for today. Readers intrigued by microenterprise, lay leaders interested in understanding the principles and practices that make BAM effective, and students and professionals looking for an in-depth yet accessible source that explores the nuances of BAM will find all of this in the theological reflections and contemporary case studies here. Glossary of BAM terms and list of helpful BAM resources included.
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Girls Guide To Power And Success
$17.99Add to cartEven now, in the 21st century, women continue to be paid less than men, are still notably absent from the executive suites, and among entrepreneurs, receive only a tiny fraction of venture capital. The struggle for equality is not yet over — and its up to women to take positive action for change. The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success shows readers how. It’s packed with frank advice and hard-won lessons including: * It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Learn to strip out the hesitant “buts”; intimate details; and indirect phrasings — and assert yourself effectively. * Develop the confidence to ask for what you want. Learn how to create opportunities for yourself rather than waiting for them to be offered. * Look for companies that “get it.” Learn to pinpoint companies that are committed to women’s advancement. With its frank advice, lively tone, and no-nonsense strategies, The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success is a powerful ally for women who are just starting their careers and those who are well established in their professions. “Even now, in the 21st century, women continue to be paid less than men, are still notably absent from the executive suites, and among entrepreneurs, receive only a tiny fraction of venture capital. The struggle for equality is not yet over — and it’s up to women to take positive action for change. The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success shows readers how. It’s packed with frank advice and hard-won lessons including: * It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Learn to strip out the hesitant “”buts””; intimate details; and indirect phrasings — and assert yourself effectively. * Develop the confidence to ask for what you want. Learn how to create opportunities for yourself rather than waiting for them to be offered. * Look for companies that “”get it.”” Learn to pinpoint companies that are committed to women’s advancement. With its frank advice, lively tone, and no-nonsense strategies, The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success is a powerful ally for women who are just starting their careers and those who are well established in their professions.”
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Obstacles Welcome : How To Turn Adversity Into Advantage In Business And In
$18.99Add to cartRalph de la Vega, President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, shares the lessons learned in business and in life along the journey from Cuba to Corporate America.
Ralph de la Vega arrived in the United States from Cuba in 1962. He was alone. He was scared. He was 10. Separated from his parents by Cuban authorities just moments before they were to board a plane to Miami, de la Vega was baptized early-and abruptly-in the waters of adversity. It would be four long years before his mother, father, and sister gained legal passage to America. But while the boy would never have chosen such circumstance, it’s the man who can look back and say he would not have changed it.
In Obstacles Welcome, de la Vega recounts his journey as a young Cuban immigrant to president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). A frontliner in the converging worlds of technology and communications, de la Vega takes readers behind the scenes of the Internet revolution, shares insights from the nation’s top technology companies, and chronicles the incredible obstacles intrinsic to successfully merging the largest wireless operations in U.S. history-those of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless.
Obstacles Welcome is an innovation manifesto for those committed to bigger thinking and greater results both professionally and personally. He clearly defines how to:
* Create a detailed action plan to boost success
* Identify and take calculated risks without fear
* Create a values-centric, decisive leadership style
* Transform vision into measurable results
* Recognize opportunities and overcome obstacles
* Communicate well and build alignment
* Unlearn thinking that hinders innovation
* Dream big and throw off mental limits once and for allOpening a powerful cache of business strategy and in-the-trenches wisdom, de la Vega illustrates that within each obstacle we encounter, there’s an opportunity that carries the potential to transform our thinking, our organizations, our communities, and our world.
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Program Management Office Advantage
$29.95Add to cartAlready a best practice for the majority of Fortune 500 companies, Program Management Office (PMO) is being embraced by large and small organizations eager to efficiently manage all their projects. This helpful guide introduces readers to the business reasons for having a centralized project department and explains the PMO’s functions and how to set up and run a PMO. Readers will find detailed information on selecting projects, conducting project health checks, providing program management training to the organization, creating and implementing a standardized program management process, and monitoring and controlling the overall status of all current projects. The book includes key definitions as well as sample forms readers can use in completing administrative tasks and producing reports. This book is an indispensable introduction to this important and powerful trend in project management.
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Pricing For Profit
$19.95Add to cartMany small business owners are trapped by industry pricing and market misconceptions, when they could be compensated for the true value of the product or service being offered. The low price they feel compelled to offer limits their ability to generate profits which, in turn, slows their response to changing customer needs. The good news is that a business can command almost any price it chooses by focusing on the value-not the cost-to the customer. Pricing for Profit shows businesspeople how to break out of the stranglehold of industry pricing and charge more for their wares (regardless of the competition) without alienating their customers. Readers will learn how to: * Quantify the value of their products or services * Distinguish between price buyers and value buyers * Bundle their offerings for competitive advantage and increased customer value * Craft a powerful marketing message that communicates value * Generate more unit sales and close more sales overall, at higher prices * Make more money with less effort Filled with easy-to-use formulas, sample scripts, clear examples, instructive exercises, and more, this accessible and practical guide is a must-read for businesspeople who want to be well-paid for the value they provide.
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Building A Firm Foundation For Business Success
$15.99Add to cartDr. Titshaw holds a PhD degree in Business Administration. He has over 20 years experience in the field of Human Resource Management and has owned his own business-consulting firm. He has taught numerous courses in the field of Business Administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He also served as a small business consultant at the University of Georgia, where he advised and assisted prospective entrepreneurs and business owners in all areas of business management including planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Dr. Titshaw also served on the Business School Advisory Council at Lee University, Cleveland, TN. He and wife, Mary Nell, currently reside in Westminster, South Carolina. They have 4 children and 6 grand children. Through this book, Dr. Titshaw provides a great service to small business entrepreneurs, both current and future. Many fail due to lack of preparation, unrealistic expectations and incompetence. This need not be with books like Titshaw’s now available. He provides an overview of all aspects of starting and operating a small business, including sample forms and practical tips from his many years of work and teaching experience. This book is ideal for the individual entrepreneur, small group or large class study. You will find no better help for this worthwhile challenge than this book.
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Smart Selling On The Phone And Online
$18.99Add to cartBecome a true sales warrior by learning how to open stronger, build trust faster, handle objections better, and close more sales. Smart Selling on the Phone and Online pinpoints the 10 skills essential to every salesperson’s high-efficiency, high-success performance.
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Busy Managers Guide To Delegation
$14.99Add to cartDelegation amounts to a lot more than just passing work off onto subordinates. When handled correctly, it gives managers a chance to strengthen their departments by developing the skills and organizational competencies of their people. Filled with quick tips, exercises, self-assessments, and practical worksheets, this book presents an easy-to-master five-step process for effective delegation. Readers will learn how to: * determine which task to delegate * identify the right person for the job * assign the task * monitor progress and provide feedback * and evaluate performance The book shows readers how to set the stage for excellent results, what to do if things go wrong, and how to ensure that all their people benefit from the experience. This is a quick, comprehensive course on an essential-and sometimes overlooked-management competency.
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Fundamentals Of Enterprise Risk Management
$49.99Add to cartUsing examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management takes a fresh look at one of the hottest topics in business today. Showing readers in charge of monitoring operational exposures in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies how they can best determine and balance opportunities against the possibilities of loss, this book provides clear strategies to help readers: * recognize both internal and external exposures * understand important concepts such as risk mapping and risk identification * recognize the weaknesses of current ERM systems * align risk opportunities with their organization’s business model * stay in line with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance The book introduces innovative new concepts such as hierarchical risk structures, alignment of risks with the business model, creation of a central risk function, and the role of an ERM knowledge warehouse. Featuring enlightening case studies and practical exercises, this essential book shows readers how they can implement ERM the right way at their organizations.
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How To Tell Anyone Anything
$14.95Add to cartNo one likes to be criticized. But when feedback is necessary-whether it’s with a boss, someone we manage, or another co-worker-it takes great communication skills to successfully get the message across with feelings and relationships intact. Drawing from the latest in psychology on how best to connect with others, How to Tell Anyone Anything steers readers away from the common mistake of focusing on what’s wrong, and shows them instead how to provide clear, constructive, positive messages that create real behavior and performance change. Complete with illuminating examples and a unique step-by-step process, the book gives readers powerful insight into how we all react naturally to criticism-and how to transform interactions that might become verbal tugs-of-war into collaborative, problem-solving sessions.
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Survival Guide For Project Managers 2nd Edition
$22.99Add to cartWhile the technical side of project management is important, it’s often “people problems” that derail even the most meticulously planned of projects. A Survival Guide for Project Managers gives you a complete understanding of what it takes to successfully finish a project, giving you not only valuable tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and Network Analysis, but also tools to communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead. This practical, user-friendly guide walks you through the entire project life cycle, and shows you how to: * Develop the managerial and business skills required of a project manager. * Resolve conflicts and improve negotiation capabilities. * Understand and apply the technical tools of project management. * Establish project teams, and foster collaboration among team members, and more. Now in its second edition, the book has been revised to reflect the latest version of the PMBOK Guide, and includes new material on topics including project risk, cost-schedule index, the project management office, and emotional intelligence as it applies to project management. Packed with useful forms, charts, and other tools, this is the ultimate resource for project managers.
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Building Your Leadership Resume
$14.99Add to cartSouthern Baptist Convention president Johnny M. Hunt often shares his unique Christian testimony: a shy, rebellious kid whose alcoholic father left a wife and six children to fend for themselves, he did not embrace faith until after he was married. So when Johnny talks about investing in people, earning respect, living intentionally, daring to dream, and being courageous, his words ring especially fresh and true.Building Your Leadership is Hunt’s presentation of wisdom focused lessons like those mentioned above that will simply yet greatly enhance any business or ministry. Each five-to-six page entry guides the reader toward becoming a selfless leader whose impact on others can be immediately rewarding as well as eternally significant.
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How Successful People Think
$12.00Add to cartThe perfect, compact listen for today’s fast-paced world, How Successful People Think (derived from Maxwell’s previous book, Thinking for a Change) will teach listeners the 11 secrets successful people know. Arranged in an easy-to-follow format, America’s leadership expert, John C. Maxwell, will teach listeners how to expand their thinking and achieve their dreams.
The 11 keys to successful thinking include:
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 – thinking in unique ways 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. -
Improving Employee Performance Through Appraisal And Coaching 2nd Edition
$24.95Add to cartWhen Dick Grote, in the Foreword to this book, writes that nothing’s changed,” he is not speaking to the state of the human resources field or the art of performance management, both of which have evolved continuously, profoundly, and for the better. Nor is he describing the content of the new second edition, which, in fact, contains comprehensive material on a whole new generation of jobs in technology, customer service, and other rapidly changing fields, plus brand new examples and two full case studies. What’s not changed is the fact that author Donald Kirkpatrick is one of the leading voices on human resources and training and development. For more than forty years, Kirkpatrick’s four-level performance evaluation model has been the standard throughout the world, and has revolutionized the way enterprises manage, monitor, and optimize employee performance. The new edition of Improving Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching contains all the wisdom and step-by-step processes of the original, with all the guidance and tools you’ll need to implement a program that gets maximum results. The book starts with a 40-question test about your organization and its processes and attitudes regarding performance appraisal and coaching. Taking the test both before and after reading the first section of the book will highlight exactly where your existing initiatives can be improved and new ones put in place. Kirkpatrick then goes on to describe in detail how a culture of coaching builds and enhances performance, and how to build this culture across the entire organization. Examples and eye-opening Notes from the Field both reinforce and complement the author’s sage recommendations, illustrating how his approaches can be adopted in their entirety or deployed piecemeal, depending on your organization’s specific needs. The case studies, both from major employers, prove the overarching value of a proactive performance appraisal program and vibrant coaching environment. The book is packed with ready-to-use forms and, more important, instructions and observations on their effective use. Plus, every chapter is designed for practical application, featuring accessible charts and figures, lists of key points, specific suggestions, cause-and-effect relationships, and much more. While workplaces and jobs have changed dramatically, some truths seem everlasting. One is that in order to obtain exceptional employee performance, you need to build a thorough and consistent appraisal
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Amazon Top Seller Secrets
$26.99Add to cartThere is a new phenomenon hitting the world of the Internet marketplace. PowerSellers who have made a fortune on eBay are moving their merchandise over to Amazon. After all, the benefits of selling on Amazon are legion-sellers have found that they can charge more for their merchandise, avoid upfront fees, and deal with less-demanding customers. The opportunities for selling are endless-Amazon now sells products in more than 40 categories and is the web’s number one retailer with more than 81 million customers. As the authors of the popular book eBay PowerSeller Secrets, Debra and Brad Schepp are experts at making big money selling products on the web. Now, in Amazon Top Seller Secrets, they show readers why Amazon is the marketplace that will bring them more cash and more customers. Sellers will discover everything they need to: * navigate the Amazon marketplace * set the right price for merchandise * drive more traffic to their product pages * achieve consistently high feedback ratings * become an Amazon Pro Merchant * open more than one Amazon WebStore * source the best products * and more With this priceless advice, readers can increase their profits and build their business without constraints and without all the hassles.
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Driving The Career Highway
$17.99Add to cartAs leaders of prestigious executive search firms and organizational consulting firms, Janice Reals Ellig and William J. Morin have decades of experience working with people who failed to see the signs of trouble in their careers-or to read them right. These two experts have distilled the twenty most compelling problems and situations that can cause a person to detour, stall, get lost, or crash and burn on their career highway.
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Class With Drucker
$18.99Add to cartHailed as “a warm and useful read,” A Class with Drucker brings to life invaluable advice from the world’s greatest thinker and writer on management. From 1975 to 1979, author William Cohen studied under the great Peter Drucker and became the first graduate of his doctoral program. What Drucker taught him literally changed his life. In a matter of a few years, he was recommissioned in the Air Force and rose to the rank of major general. Eventually, he became a full professor, management consultant, multibook author, and university president-all while maintaining a nearly lifelong friendship with the master. In A Class with Drucker, Cohen shares many of Drucker’s teachings that never made it into his countless books and articles, ideas that were offered to his students in classroom or informal settings. Cohen expands on Drucker’s lessons with personal anecdotes about his teacher’s personality, lack of pretension, and interactions with students and others. He also shows how Drucker’s ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today. Enlightening and intriguing, this book will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.
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Building A Winning Sales Force
$29.95Add to cartSales force effectiveness drives every company’s success, but keeping a sales organization at the top of its game is a constant challenge. As experts in the field, Andy Zoltners and Prabha Sinha have helped sales leaders around the world perfect their sales strategy, operations, and execution. Combining strategic insight with pragmatic advice, Building a Winning Sales Force provides current and aspiring sales leaders with innovative yet practical solutions to many of the most common issues faced by today’s sales organi-za-tions. The book shows readers how to: assess how good their sales force really is * identify sales force improvement opportunities * implement tools and processes that have immediate impact on sales effec-tive-ness * attract and retain the best salespeople * design incen-tive compensation plans * set goals * manage sales perform-ance * motivate the sales force With practical advice and case studies of companies that have conquered even the most challenging obstacles, Building a Winning Sales Force will enable every company to drive sales and stay competitive.
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Digital Engagement : Internet Marketing That Captures Customers And Builds
$24.00Add to cartIn an age of overwhelming Internet competition and rampant takeovers, marketers face the very real challenge of understanding how to engage customers online. Leland Harden and Bob Heyman, online marketing pioneers and authors of the popular book Net Results, team up again to teach marketers how to use search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, and all of the Web 2.0 tools they need to compete in the digital marketplace. Filled with up-to-date information on the best venues for online marketing, as well as explanations of social networking, virtual worlds, widgets, wikis, and emerging media, Digital Engagement shows marketers how to: stop burning money on web advertising campaigns that don’t deliver * tweak websites to improve conversions and traffic flow * master proven strategies for consumer-generated media to generate buzz and improve brand recognition Featuring case studies from companies like Toyota and Tommy Hilfiger as well as lists of key vendors for online marketing software, this is the only book that offers a truly comprehensive guide to all of the new online marketing tools.
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Leadership Game : Winning Principles From Eight National Champions
$15.99Add to cartWhether you are coaching football, running a business, leading a charitable organization, or organizing a ministry team, the first step to success is in building a winning team. Author Tom Mullins, a winning college football coach himself, sought input from eight national champion football coaches for their approaches in building balanced and cohesive teams. Their responses are the Key Principles shared in The Leadership Game.Coaches Osborne, McCartney, Stallings, Fulmer, Stoops, Bowden, Coker, and Spurrier share insights, anecdotes, and real-life experiences here. Having won 11 of the last 13 national championships collectively, these coaches have what it takes to equip any leader to strategically build a successful team.
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Real World Time Management 2nd Edition
$14.99Add to cartMost of us dream about having a few extra hours in our day for taking care of business, relaxing, or engaging in the activities we most enjoy. But how can we make the most of our time when it seems as though there aren’t enough hours in the day? This instructive guide to time management is full of tips, techniques, and commonsense advice that will make anyone more productive. In this newly updated edition of Real-World Time Management, Michael Dobson includes invaluable tips on setting priorities, tricks for staying on track, keeping a closed-door policy, avoiding interrupters, and techniques for reducing stress through time management. Readers will also learn how to handle distractions, stop procrastinating, delegate tasks, deal with meetings, and manage time effectively while traveling. Instructive and helpful, Real-World Time Management will help all readers organize their time-no matter how hectic their lives may seem.
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Living A 5 Star Life By Design
$15.49Add to cartThis book will walk you through eight biblical and business principles that will propel you to experience and enjoy a life worthy of living. If you are serious about experiencing all that life offers, this book will challenge you to do what is necessary to enjoy the life God intended for you.
