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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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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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Equipo 101 – (Spanish)
$11.99Add to cartOtro gran librito repleto de sabiduria e instruccion para anadir a la exitosa serie Maxwell 101.
John C. Maxwell cree que “trabajar en equipo se encuentra en el corazon de los grandes logros”. La pregunta no es si los equipos tienen valor. La pregunta es si nosotros reconocemos ese hecho y nos convertimos en mejores trabajadores en equipo. En Equipo 101, Maxwell hace uso de la sabiduria sobre liderazgo de sus libros Las 17 leyes incuestionables del trabajo en equipo, El talento nunca es suficiente, Desarrolle los lideres que estan alrededor de usted, Lider de 360, Como ganarse a la gente, Las 21 leyes irrefutables del liderazgo y Las 17 cualidades esenciales de un jugador de equipo. Esta estrategia poderosa y concisa puede ayudar a lideres a crear un ambiente que produzca victoria y satisfaccion a todo el equipo. -
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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Zig Ziglar Ventas – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartLleno de consejos practicos y motivacion para todo profesional de ventas, Zig Ziglar Ventas es una completa guia de referencia para cualquier profesional en este campo.
Sirviendose de sus mas de cuarenta anos de experiencia en ventas, el experto motivador Zig Ziglar ofrece un caudal de informacion practica e inspiradora para triunfar en el acelerado mundo actual de ventas. El principal objetivo de Ziglar es ayudar a los profesionales de las ventas a persuadir a sus clientes de forma mas eficaz, etica y !con mayor frecuencia! En este estimulante libro, analiza:Donde, cuando y como hallar clientes potenciales
Como tratar con personas groseras, enojadas y de mal humor
Por que el 70% de las ventas se hacen entre 7:00 a. m. y 1:00 p. m.
Como manejan el estres los profesionales de mayores ventas
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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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Put Your Dream To The Test
$16.99Add 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
$17.00Add 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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Business For The Common Good
$32.00Add 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)
$29.00Add 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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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
$26.00Add 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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Autosuperacion 101 – (Spanish)
$11.99Add to cartAnother great little book packed with wisdom and instruction to add to the successful Maxwell 101 series.
Drawing from the wisdom in his books El mapa para alcanzar el exito, El talento nunca es suficiente, Desarrolle los lideres alrededor de usted, El lado positivo del fracaso, Lider de 360, Como ganarse a la gente, and Liderazgo, principios de oro, John C. Maxwell provides in Autosuperacion 101 the essentials all leaders need to keep striving for excellence no matter where they are or what they are doing. After all, great leaders who are growth oriented rather than goal oriented never “arrive,” they just keep building upon what they are learning.
Otro gran librito repleto de sabiduria e instruccion para aadir a la exitosa serie Maxwell 101.
Haciendo uso de la sabiduria de sus libros El mapa para alcanzar el exito, El talento nunca es suficiente, Desarrolle los lideres que estan alrededor de usted, El lado positivo del fracaso, Lider de 360, Como ganarse a la gente y Liderazgo, principios de oro, John C. Maxwell ofrece en Autosuperacion 101 los principios esenciales que necesitan todos los lideres para seguir esforzandose en alcanzar la excelencia independientemente de donde se encuentren o que esten haciendo. Despues de todo, los grandes lideres que estan orientados hacia el desarrollo en lugar de las metas, nunca “llegan”, ellos simplemente se mantienen edificando a base de lo que estan aprendiendo.
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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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Habilidades De Comunicacion Es – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartEscribir para ser leido.Para un liderazgo mas asertivo y de alto impacto, hay que empoderar a los profesionales en la competencia de la comunicacion. Empoderar al funcionario en la asertividad de su comunicacion lleva a la empresa a un mayor nivel de impacto en la rentabilidad de su negocio. Durante quince anos como consultora de empresas del sector financiero y de multinacionales, Sonia Gonzalez ha desarrollado una metodologia muy practica para lograr la claridad, fluidez y concrecion de la forma de comunicarse de los profesionales. Este libro, numero uno de la serie Comunicacion inteligente, ofrece claves practicas para eliminar los bloqueadores comunes de la expresion escrita, tales como claves para ordenar las ideas; profundizacion para una transmision de ideas mas asertiva y persuasiva; puntuacion como clave de oro para alcanzar ritmo y armonia de los textos; y casos concretos para apreciar el efecto sorprendente “antes y despues” de los textos.
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Habilidades De Comunicacion Ha – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartVale mas saber poco pero decirlo bien, que saber mucho y no tener idea de comunicarlo. Para un liderazgo mas asertivo y de alto impacto, hay que empoderar a los profesionales en la competencia de la comunicacion. Empoderar al funcionario en la asertividad de su comunicacion lleva a la empresa a un mayor nivel de impacto en la rentabilidad de su negocio. Durante quince anos como consultora de empresas del sector financiero y de multinacionales, Sonia Gonzalez ha desarrollado una metodologia muy practica para lograr la claridad, fluidez y concrecion de la forma de comunicarse de los profesionales. Este libro, numero dos de la serie Comunicacion inteligente, ofrece una metodologia practica, de comprobados resultados, que permite corregir las debilidades comunes de los lideres en sus presentaciones. Con claves sencillas y aplicables, se efectuara un cambio extremo a la comunicacion hablada, tanto en el fondo de que se dice como en la forma de como se lo dice.
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Habilidades De Comunicacion Y – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartHablar para ser escuchado.Para un liderazgo mas asertivo y de alto impacto, hay que empoderar a los profesionales en la competencia de la comunicacion. Empoderar al funcionario en la asertividad de su comunicacion lleva a la empresa a un mayor nivel de impacto en la rentabilidad de su negocio. Durante quince anos como consultora de empresas del sector financiero y de multinacionales, Sonia Gonzalez ha desarrollado una metodologia muy practica para lograr la claridad, fluidez y concrecion de la forma de comunicarse de los profesionales. Este libro, numero tres de la serie Comunicacion inteligente, expone la virtud superior de la gente inteligente, el escuchar. El escuchar es la capacidad de atender en forma dinamica, de desarrollar el “musculo” de guardar silencio o callar los pensamientos, para atender y entender al otro. Es mucho mas que apenas oirlo, es poder escuchar no solo lo que dice, sino lo que no dice pero lo transmite con el metalenguaje de sus actitudes, expresiones y gestos.
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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.
* We have placed too much of the work of ministry on the pastor of the local church. -
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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Everyone Communicates Few Connect
$29.99Add to cartThe world’s most respected leadership expert gives five principles and five practices for breaking the invisible barrier to leadership and personal success. You have a good idea but can’t convince your peers of its merit. You crafted a groundbreaking strategy, but the team trudges on in the same old way. Certain people move forward in their career while you seem to be stuck. If this describes you or someone you know, the problem is not the quality of what you have to offer. The problem is how you connect with people to create the results you desire. In Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, John Maxwell takes readers through the Five Connecting Principles and the Five Connecting Practices of top-notch achievers. He believes that a person’s ability to create change and results in any organization-be it a company, church, nonprofit, or even a family-is directly tied to the ability to use the teachings of this book.
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Poder De Las Conexiones – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartThe world’s most respected leadership expert gives five principles and five practices to expose and break the invisible barrier to leadership and personal success.
You have a good idea but can’t convince your peers of its merit. You crafted a groundbreaking strategy, but the team trudges on in the same old way. Certain people seem to moving forward in their career while you seem to be stuck. If this describes you or someone you know, the problem is not the quality of what you have to offer. The problem is how you connect with people to create the results you desire.
In The Irresistible Power of Connection, John Maxwell takes readers through the Five Connecting Principles and the Five Connecting Practices of top-notch achievers. He believes that a person’s ability create change and results in any organization, be it a company, church, nonprofit, or even a family, are directly tied to their ability to use the teachings of this book.
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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
$55.00Add 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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21 Leyes Irrefutables Del Lide (Workbook) – (Spanish) (Workbook)
$19.99Add to cartWhat would happen if a top expert with more than 40 years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can.
?Que sucederia si un gran experto con mas de cuarenta anos de experiencia en liderazgo estuviera dispuesto a compilar todo lo que ha aprendido acerca del tema en unos cuantos principios innovadores y todo por usted? Su vida cambiaria.John C. Maxwell ha hecho eso exactamente en Las 21 leyes irrefutables del liderazgo. Ha combinado varias observaciones de mas de cuarenta anos de exitos y fracasos personales en el liderazgo con historias del mundo de los negocios, la politica, los deportes, la religion y los conflictos militares. El resultado es un estudio revelador acerca del liderazgo como solo un comunicador de la talla de Maxwell lo puede hacer.
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Lider De 360 Cuaderno De Ejerc (Workbook) – (Spanish) (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartIn 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? In The 360 Degree Leader Workbook, Maxwell addresses that very question and takes the discussion even further. 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 will expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.
Durante sus mas de cuarenta anos en ensenar acerca del liderazgo, John Maxwell se ha enfrentado a la siguiente pregunta una y otra vez: ?Como pongo en practica principios de liderazgo si no soy el jefe? En Lider de 360, cuaderno de ejercicios, Maxwell trata esta pregunta y profundiza la conversacion aun mas. Usted no tiene que ser el lider principal para causar un impacto en su organizacion. Los buenos lideres no son capaces unicamente de dirigir a sus seguidores, sino tambien son expertos en dirigir a sus supervisores y sus contemporaneos.John Maxwell ofrece principios especificos para delegar, dirigir y supervisar que acabaran con los mitos sobre el liderazgo y ofreceran una luz mas clara sobre los retos futuros. Los lideres de 360 grados pueden dirigir efectivamente, sin importar su posicion en una organizacion. Si aplica los principios de Maxwell, usted podra ampliar su influencia y poder trabajar en equipo de una manera mas eficiente.
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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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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 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
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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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Camino Hacia La Riqueza En Acc – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartMore people will become millionaires through entrepreneurship in the next few years than in the past 200 years combined. And you can be one of them. Get access to business guru Brian Tracy’s proven formula to start, build, manage, and grow your business successfully. By taking these specific actions that lead to business success, you can achieve your dreams of perpetual wealth.
Topics include:
Selecting the right product or service
Getting ahead of the competition
Closing more sales than ever before
Determing accurate costs and setting appropriate prices
Eliminating unnecessary costs and expenses
Testing your market quickly and inexpensively
Advertising and attracting more prospects
Getting the money to grow your business
Increasing profitabilityEl doctor Charles Stanley ensena a los lectores a confiar en el inmutable caracter de Dios y les muestra como eso puede cambiar sus vidas.Todas las decisiones que tomamos se basan en innumerables detalles, suposiciones y creencias. “?Deberia aceptar el trabajo?”, pregunta ella. “?Deberia mudarse nuestra familia a otro estado?”, se pregunta el. Luego evaluamos los datos y las circunstancias y sacamos nuestras conclusiones. En esta obra, En armonia con Dios, el doctor Stanley anima y desafia a los lectores a enfocar la vida desde un nuevo angulo: conociendo y considerando el caracter de Dios. Si sabemos quien es Dios y lo que esta planeando, ya habremos tomado muchos pasos hacia su respuesta y el plan que tiene para nuestras vidas.
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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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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.
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Jacks Notebook : A Business Novel About Creative Problem Solving
$18.99Add to cartProblems! Jack Huber has his share. But when he is introduced to the creative problem solving process from an unexpected source, life soon changes . . . drastically. Jack Huber dreams of being a professional photographer and starting his own business. He has a few ideas but doesn’t know how to process them to make his dream a reality. That is until an unlikely mentor stumbles upon Jack’s path and shares a whole new way of thinking through problems. In Jack’s Notebook, Gregg Fraley, an innovation consultant to Fortune 500 companies, illustrates a well-kept secret of corporate America: the Creative Problem Solving process. “If you are struggling to move ahead in your career, if you’re an executive with a thorny corporate challenge, someone trying to solve a messy community issue, a family trying to sort through an emotional conflict, or an entrepreneur looking for ways to make the most of limited resources-this book is for you. If you have a ‘mess’ on your hands, you have found a useful tool.” -from the Introduction
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360 Degree Leader Workbook (Workbook)
$19.99Add to cartIn 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? In The 360 Degree Leader Workbook, Maxwell addresses that very question and takes the discussion even further. 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 will expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.
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Integridad – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartDrawing on experiences from his work with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and individual leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist and nationally syndicated radio host, shows how our character can keep us from achieving all we want to (or could) be.
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Gerente Por Primera Vez: Como – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartThe tools you need to lead your team to success
Gerente por primera vez: Como desarrollar a tu equipo helps you discover your own leadership and management style and shows you how to use it to create and maintain a high-powered, results-oriented team that will get the job done. Designed for immediate use by both you and your team members, the book covers team-building essentials, including decision making, goals and standards, honest communication, clear roles and responsibilities, and celebrating success. Written in the same conversational style and packed with the same brand of practical strategies and sage advice found in the classic best-seller Gerente por primera vez, this guide is essential for any new manager. -
EQ Interview : Finding Employees With High Emotional Intelligence
$18.99Add to cartSmart hiring managers know that emotional Intelligence (EI) is a key indicator of success, but not always how to spot it. The EQ Interview will build your skills in assessing EI to ensure a good fit, with 250 behavior-based questions designed to uncover emotional strengths. You’ll learn to analyze responses to predict success—and even spot “EQ frauds” to avoid bad hires.
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AMA Guide To Management Development
$29.95Add to cartBased on the set of managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association for a new core management curriculum, The AMA Guide to Management Development provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually develop managers throughout their entire organization. The book considers every factor important in management development, and features in-depth information on topics including: * The five major categories of competencies, including business knowledge and the ability to lead and manage change and innovation * The specific skills needed, including communication skills and people management skills * Alternative methods organizations may use to develop managers, including different types of training and evaluation of learning effectiveness Management development is a crucial task for every enterprise. This book gives readers the guidance they need to make sure that both current and future managers have the abilities their organizations need to prosper.
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Strategic Staffing 2nd Edition
$35.00Add to cartCo-published with SHRM. Many organizations understand the benefits of a longer-term approach to staffing: reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. Unfortunately, traditional approaches to strategic staffing are often more effective on paper than in the workplace. Strategic Staffing: Second Edition shows how to identify staffing needs and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative measures, and presents several effective, nontraditional approaches to strategic staffing. Bechet includes factors as diverse as promotions, retirements, “decruiting” (the active management of staff out of an organization), termination, and even retention. Featuring full case studies and dozens of examples, the book is both enlightening and practical. And to help readers create their own staffing plans, the companion site has holds a trove of invaluable tools, including: * PowerPoint(TM) slide presentations * Customizable Excel(TM) spreadsheets * Assessment and evaluation forms * Calculations and analyses * Sample staffing plans, and much more. Integrating a strategic approach to staffing can result in reduced turnover and hiring costs, improved efficiency and morale, and ultimately greater profits. This book is a detailed, process-oriented guide that offers all the tools staffing professionals need.
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Accidental Entrepreneur : The 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About St
$18.99Add to cartLike many business owners, Susan-Urquhart Brown never expected to end up as an entrepreneur. Launching her own business spoke to her passions, but she soon realized there was much more to being a successful owner than she ever expected. In The Accidental Entrepreneur, she takes all the mystery out of going solo. For those who are just beginning to consider starting a venture as well as those who want to take their organization to the next level, she offers advice on what works and what doesn’t. With hard-won wisdom and empathy, she shows readers: * the 8 questions everyone should ask up front * the top 10 traits of the successful entrepreneur * how to obtain a license and sellers permit * the best way to create a business plan * 10 simple ways to get referrals * the 6 secrets of marketing a business * smart tips for investing and finance * ways to avoid burnout * how to avoid the 7 biggest pitfalls in business Starting one’s own business should be exciting, not scary. This is the one book that will show readers how to create a successful and fulfilling venture they can be proud of.
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Managing Online Forums
$26.99Add to cartEvery day, millions of users log on to their favorite online forums and interact with others to get advice and discuss everything from the latest news and trends to their hobbies, professions, and whatever else strikes their fancy. Admin-istrators have to lead these communities, deal with difficult users, and choose moderators. Legal constraints, spammers, and technical issues can turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be a pleasure. Patrick O’Keefe has spent years developing and managing online communities. Now, he shows readers how to make the right decisions about every aspect of their forums, including: * choosing a name and domain name * picking the right software * deciding on user options like avatars and private messaging * setting guidelines and dealing with violators * ensuring that posts stay on topic * settling online disputes among users * involving users and keeping the site interesting Managing Online Forums is the one book that shows site owners and administrators how to create a safe and entertaining community that users will return to again and again.
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New Human Capital Strategy
$24.99Add to cartIt is often said that the only true source of sustained competitive advantage is people. But what does that mean and how can this be measured and managed? How many organizations know whether their human capital outperforms their competitors’, or even whether it improves year-over-year? And what is the strategy for continually improving that performance? The New Human Capital Strategy is a roadmap for delivering measurable business results by systematically improving the performance of those in roles most important to customers and shareholders. Proposing a radical shift in the way organizations measure and manage their people, the book asserts that competitive advantage is a function of four areas of strength: * effective executive teams * leaders who deliver results * outperforming competitors in key positions * workforce performance Using examples, research, and metrics, this essential guide provides readers with a system for ensuring that their people are more valuable this year than the last.
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Spiritual Enterpreneurialsim : A Story Of Bridging The Sacred And Secular F
$13.49Add to cartThis book is a story of how one small church, aging and in decline, experienced renewal and transformation by bridging the power of the Holy Spirit with business development tools from the small business sector. As the church continues its march through the 21st century it is wise to explore new ways in which we can transition aging and declining small churches into growing centers of vital, life-changing ministry. The approach to small church renewal offered in this book is but one possibility of how small church renewal can take place.
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From Difficult To Disturbed
$19.95Add to cartNationally syndicated career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy’s ten best career books for 2007 How does an already busy manager deal with people whose personalities are difficult or even seriously disturbed? The answer lies in using practical psychology to understand just what it is that makes them tick, whether it’s something as common as being introverted or extroverted . . . or something much more serious. From Difficult to Disturbed helps readers become better managers by providing insight into both big and small people-problems that can seriously disrupt the workplace if they’re not handled correctly. The book contains down-to-earth solutions for dealing with: Personality Types including avoidant, dependent, histrionic, narcissistic, or antisocial workers * Common People Problems such as unproductive, angry, uncooperative, or chronic problem employees * Mental Disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and panic disorders, as well as alcohol and substance abuse Every workplace is filled with a wide range of personalities. This book gives managers the insight, understanding, and tools they need to get the best from those who present the toughest problems.
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Heart Of A Leader (Expanded)
$19.99Add to cartKen Blanchard’s powerful leadership classic is more relevant today than ever. Ken Blanchard – one of America’s best-known leadership experts – helps readers understand and experience the art of influence thorugh the greatest life and leadership lessons he’s learned in his rich career. Arranged for busy schedules, The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard’s most important insights in an accessible format. Thoroughly challenging and deeply inspiring, this classic captures the profound wisdom and valuable insight only Ken Blanchard can deliver.
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Arte De Cerrar La Venta – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartAs one of the top salespeople in the world, Brian Tracy knows that the ability to close the sale is the key skill required by all top sales professionals. Fortunately, closing the sale can be learned by practicing the skills of the highest paid salespeople in every business. When salespeople follow a practical, proven, step-by-step process, they can get more orders, faster and easier than ever before. In El arte de cerrar la venta readers will learn to:
Build value by focusing on benefits and solutions
Lower perceived risk by emphasizing guarantees and assurances
Answer any objection
Bring a sales conversation to a natural and easy conclusion by using some of the best questions ever discovered.Brian Tracy, uno de los mejores vendedores del mundo, sabe que la habilidad de cerrar una venta es la destreza clave que necesita todo profesional experto en ventas. Afortunadamente, se puede aprender como cerrar una venta al poner en practica las mismas habilidades que utilizan los mejores vendedores en cada negocio. Cuando los vendedores siguen paso a paso un proceso practico y comprobado, pueden conseguir mas pedidos, mas rapida y facilmente que nunca. En el libro El arte de cerrar la venta los lectores aprenderan a:
Generar valor enfocandose en los beneficios y las soluciones
Disminuir el riesgo percibido al enfatizar las garantias y los seguros
Responder a cualquier objecion
Hacer que la venta llegue a una conclusion natural y sencilla utilizando algunas de las mejores preguntas que se hayan descubierto. -
21 Indispensable Qualities Of A Leader
$22.99Add to cartIn the tradition of his million-seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell provides a concise, accessible leadership book that helps readers become more effective leaders from the inside out. Daily readings highlight twenty-one essential leadership qualities and include “Reflecting On It” and “Bringing It Home” sections that help readers integrate and apply each day’s material.
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21 Most Powerful Minutes In A Leaders Day
$16.99Add to cartWhile a few people appear to be born leaders, the ability to lead is actually a collection of skills, nearly all of which can be learned and sharpened. Based on his New York Times bestseller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell presents a daily plan to help you grow as a leader in your personal, professional, and spiritual life.
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Anatomy Of Persuasion
$18.99Add to cartSome people seem to be able to talk anybody into anything! Do they simply possess a natural talent that the rest of us can never hope to imitate? This refreshing books says “No!” and provides readers with a unique, proven, step-by-step analytical thinking process that anyone can use to analyze, organize, and present information in a persuasive way. The Anatomy of Persuasion literally dissects each step in the persuasion process. Readers will turn their great ideas into tangible realities as they learn how to: * apply the two major principles of communication * perceive the needs of others * present the features and benefits of their idea * understand the subconscious decisions people often make * create a logical, error-free proposal (oral or written) that will win the day.
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Tell Me How Im Doing
$15.99Add to cartJust imagine being completely denied any feedback whatsoever — no guidance, no praise, and no constructive criticism for the things you do. If you received no input at all, how much initiative would you demonstrate? Would your productivity be high, or low? What would your morale be like as time went on? And if you experienced this kind of treatment in the workplace, how likely would you be to turn down a job offer to go somewhere else? The sad fact is that most of us take feedback for granted. But interpersonal feedback is a critical nutrient for everyone, whether at home, at work, or elsewhere — the psychological equivalent of food and water. Without strong, clear feedback to use as a reference point, people are incapable of functioning fully and productively. Yet as important as it is to let people know how they’re doing, most of us lack the skill to consistently deliver good, constructive feedback. Tell Me How I’m Doing illustrates the importance of feedback using a simple fable in which a beleaguered manager recognizes the enormous impact feedback can have in his organization-by experiencing firsthand what it feels like to go without it. The book then provides step-by-step guidance for how you can improve your own ability to relate to the people around you and become more effective in every sphere of your life. The book helps you take a personal inventory of your own feedback style, and introduces you to the four distinct types of feedback — supportive, corrective, abusive, and insignificant — and clarifies when to use the first two, and how to avoid the others. You’ll also learn about the ten essential dimensions of feedback, including how to: Use a Plan — Give your feedback some preparatory thought, and then deliver it with a clear solution in mind. Be Specific — Get your point across by citing particular examples of the behavior you’re discussing. Focus on Behaviors — Target the factors that can be seen or measured, rather than concentrating on personalities, attitudes, or labels. Determine Time and Place — Know when and where to give feedback for maximum effect. Give Balanced Feedback — Provide the right mix of supportive and corrective feedback. By understanding how to interact more constructively with your peers, you can create a positive, productive, and dynamic culture that serves everyone well. Tell Me How I’m Doing is an engaging story and an essential guidebook for understanding how to use feedback to communicate goals, improve per
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Microempresa Megavida – (Spanish)
$17.99Add to cartDon’t let your business run your life; run your business to give you and your family a good life.
Creating and owning a successful business is part of the American dream. Written for “ordinary folk who have more dreams than education, capital or resources,” Microempresa, Megavida promises not just professional and financial success but also a fulfilling life. Louis Barajas shows how to create a business that enriches your life as well as your wallet, that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for yourself and your family.
Barajas has a unique integrated approach that deals with life as well as business. The four cornerstones of getting a big life from a small business are Truth, Responsibility, Awareness, and Courage. The five steps of building a small business that will lead to a big life are the following:
Your life blueprint
*Your vision
*Your business blueprint
*Your business systems
*Your teamEste libro es concreto, facil de leer, facil de aplicar como una guia que ayudara al lector a tomar la chispa del deseo de una vida mejor y convertirla en un fuego abrasador de una microempresa exitosa. Estos negocios proveeran mas libertad economica y personal, mas felicidad y satisfaccion para los empresarios y sus familias. Esto se muestra a traves de cinco pasos, los cuales son: Vida: el proposito de un negocio es darle a usted mas vida. Liderazgo: el precio de la grandeza es la responsabilidad. Su negocio es su negocio, no su producto. Sistemas uniformes: el sistema es la solucion. Su equipo: entre mas grande sea el sueno, mejor el equipo que necesitara.
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John F Kennedy On Leadership
$18.99Add to cartToday’s business leaders have much in common with President Kennedy. They face monumental decisions in unpredictable times; their actions have implications far beyond their own organizations; and they are judged mercilessly and incessantly by both their constituents and the media. Professionals, then, would do well to study the leadership traits that made Kennedy one of the most respected, beloved, and influential world leaders in modern history. John F. Kennedy on Leadership analyzes what made Kennedy, both before and during his Presidency, a unique and dominant force who would serve as the standard by which future leaders would be judged. Readers will learn the value of: * Planning and decision making: Consult widely, then act. * Crisis management: Don’t let events manage you. * Building a team: Find your own “Bobby.” * Independence: Don’t follow the crowd. * Mistakes: Learn from them and move on. This timely (and timeless) book will be of interest to anyone involved in leadership.
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Wisdom Of Alexander The Great
$18.99Add to cartExceptional leaders are the ones who are able to analyze problems, optimize resources, inspire loyalty, and execute strategy. There is no more stunning example in history than Alexander the Great, whose leadership skills were so immense that they still resonate some 2,000 years later. The Wisdom of Alexander the Great reveals four leadership processes distilled from the life and extraordinary accomplishments of Alexander, King of Macedonia. Readers will learn how he: * reframed problems in order to meet seemingly insurmountable challenges * built alliances by using his strength to generate trust and respect, not just fear * established identity and “branded” himself a unifier, thus keeping the home base secure while continuing to expand his empire * recognized and assimilated the cultures and symbols of different peoples, becoming a powerful and trusted figure everywhere he went The Wisdom of Alexander the Great relates 34 riveting episodes from Alexander’s expansion through Asia Minor, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Middle East, the Persian Empire, and India. Each example, tied to a modern-day counterpart, imparts valuable lessons from the timeless legend of one of the greatest leaders in history.
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Time Power : A Proven System For Getting More Done In Less Time Than You Ev
$19.99Add to cartOne of the world’s premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy has devoted more than 25 years to studying the most powerful time management practices used by the most successful people in every arena. Now, in Time Power, Brian reveals his comprehensive system designed to help readers increase their productivity and income exponentially — in just weeks! Filled with hundreds of powerful, proven tools and techniques, this book shows readers how to: * gain two more productive hours each day * make better decisions, faster! * set clear goals and focus on higher-value activities * manage multitask jobs more efficiently * overcome the people problems that can sap their time * use the five tools and techniques that will make them more productive for the rest of their lives * and much more! Overflowing with quick and effective time-saving strategies, Brian Tracy’s Time Power lets readers in on the secrets to being more productive, earning more money, and getting more satisfaction from life.
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Seeing Is Believing
$29.95Add to cartTake a look around your workplace and try to find the following items: A statement of business objectives. I think it’s in that pile by the copy machine. A schedule of divisional goals. Everyone got that e-mail last year. Clear performance standards. They’re in the employee handbook. Team workflow documents. On the bulletin board, sticking out from under the first aid sign. Regular communication and motivation from management to employees. We have the quarterly meeting, and we send out memos. Stop. Is the information your employees need every day truly accessible? Just because it’s there doesn’t mean it’s present. When information is hard to find, outdated, nebulous, or incomplete, the effect is profound. If they can’t see it, it’s as good as nonexistent. The fact is, the visual elements in a workplace have a tremendous impact on execution, morale, and productivity. And it’s not just about information access. A visually dynamic workplace energizes employees, builds pride and ownership, and conveys the strength and currency of the organization. Design and graphics, art and color, sculpture and dimension — all have profound effects. Far from simply prettying up the office, your organization needs to create an environment of visual stimuli that convey goals and expectations, that engender a collaborative attitude, and most important, that cannot be ignored. This book represents a milestone in the science of workplace design. Whereas there are countless approaches for improving the comfort factor of work environments through color, lighting, furniture, and spatial flow, Seeing Is Believing is the first book to link visual elements directly to specific organizational objectives and individual tasks. The authors have created a step-by-step plan for creating and implementing a Visual Management program in any environment. You’ll learn how to create a dynamic VM system that: Replaces information overload with information sharing and dramatically improved workflow Seamlessly incorporates clear information exchange into an aesthetically pleasing and energizing workplace that will make people want to come to work Resonates with workers of every generation, whether they identify with Life magazine or MTV Enhances relationships not only among employees, but also with customers, business partners, investors, and the public Ensures uniform understanding of crucial requirements and desired outcomes Seeing Is Believing features many examples of how VM has improved perfor
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Debugging : The 9 Indispensable Rules For Finding Even The Most Elusive Sof
$18.99Add to cartWhen the pressure is on to root out an elusive software or hardware glitch, what’s needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, Debuggingprovides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. This book makes those shelves of application-specific debugging books (on C++, Perl, Java, etc.) obsolete. It changes the way readers think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, the book shows readers how to: * Understand the system: how perceiving the “”roadmap”” can hasten your journey * Quit thinking and look: when hands-on investigation can’t be avoided * Isolate critical factors: why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool * Keep an audit trail: how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day
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Cuando Matas Una Venta – (Spanish)
$15.99Add to cartHay aproximadamente 12.2 millones de vendedores en los! Eso significa uno de cada veintitres personas! Los vendedores estan en todo lado, vendiendo cualquier cosa imaginable. Algunos son excelentes, pero un gran porcentaje de ellos acaban siendo victimas de la industria de las ventas y de sus propios errores. Algunos de estos errores solo son obstaculos en el camino hacia el exito. Otros sin embargo son mas daninos. Y desgraciadamente muchos errores acaban con la carrera de las ventas. Duncan se refiere a estos errores catastroficos con claridad y al punto. Sin importar si eres un vendedor profesional veterano, o alguien que esta considerando la carrera de las ventas, la sabiduria de Duncan te ayudara a evitar los errores en la percepcion, la practica y el desempeno que no solo podrian acabar con una venta sino tambien con tu carrera.
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Write Up The Corporate Ladder
$22.99Add to cartAnyone who wants to succeed in the workplace needs to present ideas clearly, persuasively . . . and in writing. But until now, business-writing books have emphasized rules and mechanics, which often stifle the writing process. Write Up the Corporate Ladder introduces a new, simplified approach to writing based on the way professional writers write, emphasizing the importance of “writer’s intuition” and “message over mechanics” to enable readers to write both faster and smarter on the job. This helpful book spells out the difference between good, bad, and mediocre writing, provides step-by-step instructions for bringing out your own best ideas, and features personal interviews with Fortune 500 executives and best-selling business authors like Ken Blanchard, Michael Lewis, Suze Orman, and others. Valuable tools include: * Tips on how to break the rules that undermine effective business writing * A special chapter on writing content-rich one-page memos and concise e-mails * A custom Action Plan for determining skill level and tracking improvement * A comprehensive list of online writing resources
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Creative Training Idea Book
$44.99Add to cartTrainers have to be creative if they want their participants to feel excited, challenged, and involved. The Creative Training Idea Book is packed with instructions for using activities, games, puzzles, toys, and props to increase energy and active participation in the classroom, and reveals how to think creatively about training in any situation. Based on the author’s nearly three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment. Readers will learn new methods for: * setting the right tone * uncovering participant needs * grouping participants and selecting leaders * avoiding and reclaiming turned-off learners * encouraging and rewarding participation * and much more! Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of “”Bright Idea”” blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and their learners achieve maximum learning results.
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Call To Action
$27.99Add to cartCall to Action includes the information businesses need to know to achieve dramatic results from online efforts. Are you planning for top performance? Are you accurately evaluating that performance? Are you setting the best benchmarks for measuring success? How well are you communicating your value proposition? Are you structured for change? Can you achieve the momentum you need to get the results you want? If you have the desire and commitment to create phenomenal online results, then this book is your call to action. Within these pages, New York Times best-selling authors Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg walk you through the five phases that comprise web site development, from the critical planning phase, through developing structure, momentum, and communication, to articulating value. Along the way, they offer advice and practical applications culled from their years of experience “in the trenches.”
