Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Random House On Sale: December 27, 2005 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-6417-5 (1-4000-6417-1)
In this life-transforming book, Larry Ackerman shows readers how to crack their identity codes. With more than twenty years of experience helping organizations and individuals identify their purpose, Ackerman reveals the Laws of Identity and the Eight Essential Questions they contain. As readers answer these questions, their identity will gradually become...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: August 20, 1989 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-26542-3 (0-385-26542-5)
"You are the message." What does that mean, exactly? It means that when you communicate with someone, it's not just the words you choose to send to the other person that make up the message. You're also sending signals about what kind of person you are--by your eyes, your facial expression...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Signal On Sale: May 8, 2012 Price: $27.99 ISBN: 978-0-7710-0747-7 (0-7710-0747-7)
Ask leaders in any country this essential question: “What is your most valuable asset?” and they may suggest one of three traditional forms of capital — financial, human, or intellectual. These are intelligent, well-meaning answers but they are also completely wrong. More valuable than money, human resources, and intellectual property, Passion...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: January 27, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38455-0 (0-553-38455-4)
From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, here is the action plan that women all over the country requested—a guide to negotiating anything effectively using strategies that feel comfortable to you as a woman.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: February 27, 2007 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38387-4 (0-553-38387-6)
By neglecting to negotiate her starting salary for her first job, a woman may sacrifice over half a million dollars in earnings by the end of her career. Yet, as research reveals, men are four times more likely to ask for higher pay than are women with the same qualifications. From...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: October 19, 2004 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-50773-8 (0-385-50773-9)
In Managing Up Rosanne Badowski offers a straightforward, entertaining, no-holds-barred account of what it takes to make your relationship with your boss work to your advantage, no matter where you stand in the corporate hierarchy.
Told through rich, colorful anecdotes about her years spent working with one of the smartest, most...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: March 1, 2011 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45253-5 (0-307-45253-0)
In THE 10 LAWS OF ENDURING SUCCESS, Maria Bartiromo offers a candid look at her life and career, sharing what she learned from her close-knit family and her upbringing, along with insight gained from pivotal moments in her professional life. Bartiromo synthesizes her hard-earned wisdom with important lessons she’s learned interacting daily...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: August 21, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-33720-7 (0-307-33720-0)
Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch—and lots of other...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books On Sale: October 26, 2010 Price: $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-57687-549-0 (1-57687-549-0)
In 2009 for “Earth Hour,” Leo Burnett moved over a billion people to action–that’s slightly more than one out of every seven people on the planet, the largest mass participation event ever.
For the first time in Leo Burnett’s history, the company responsible for building some of the most beloved and popular...
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: October 23, 2007 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-35110-4 (0-307-35110-6)
Cathie Black is the wise, funny mentor that every woman dreams of having. She was a pioneer in advertising sales at a time when women didn’t sell; served as president and publisher of the fledgling USA Today; and, in her current position as the president of Hearst Magazines, persuaded Oprah to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press On Sale: November 1, 2005 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-1-58008-729-2 (1-58008-729-9)
Richard Nelson Bolles presents an updated version of one of the most widely acclaimed exercises from PARACHUTE, the Flower. This highly effective tool, reproduced here in handy workbook form, helps readers target their ideal work situation. Simple step-by-step worksheets focus on translating personal interests into marketable job skills as well as...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: October 19, 2004 Price: $27.50 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5084-0 (1-4000-5084-7)
"These busy authors have managed to bring fresh insights into a matter that's high on the corporate agenda. What's more, Confronting Reality is even more readable than its predecessor [Execution]." --Businessweek
The fundamentals of how a business makes money are being rapidly and permanently altered by sweeping structural changes. In Confronting Reality, noted...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: January 1, 2013 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-88769-6 (0-307-88769-3)
For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and achieve spectacular success.
How is it that individuals who are not...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype On Sale: December 27, 2011 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-88768-9 (0-307-88768-5)
In countless studies, psychologists have discovered a surprising fact: For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant percentage are able to overcome their life circumstances and achieve spectacular success...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: May 17, 2005 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51163-6 (0-385-51163-9)
A thirty-year-old mother of two, Marion Luna Brem had just been given a death sentence: terminal cancer. She had no job. No health insurance. Her marriage would collapse under the stress of her treatment. And her most pressing concern: How do I pay next month’s rent?
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: December 26, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-51849-9 (0-385-51849-8)
Using the no-nonsense, results-oriented boot camp approach, Brodow drills readers on the basic skills needed to master the art of negotiation including conquering our fear of confrontation and overcoming the negative behaviors that hold us back, and identifying and developing our personal negotiation style.
Using a wealth of examples from real-life encounters...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: December 30, 2003 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-75898-0 (0-375-75898-4)
“What should I do with my life?” Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book–an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves. With humor, empathy, and insight, Bronson probes the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: July 18, 1995 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-449-90958-4 (0-449-90958-1)
From better decision-making to improved teamwork, the authors present proven, step-by-step techniques for surviving—and thriving—in today’s complex workplace.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: January 29, 2013 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-35215-6 (0-307-35215-3)
An ALA Notable Book of 2012 Named a "Best Book of 2012" by Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal Selected for Common Reading at Case Western Reserve University
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who invent and create but...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: June 19, 2007 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-34574-5 (0-307-34574-2)
As Jim Camp's first book, Start with No, gained attention from publications like Harvard Business Review and Fortune, he became a tireless proselytizer for his ideas. During interviews many people wanted to know how his system of negotiating could be applied to their personal lives including day-to-day problems encountered at work...
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Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: August 5, 2003 Price: $13.99 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5135-9 (1-4000-5135-5)
What is different, and consequently extraordinary, about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM, senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have...
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: August 5, 2003 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-4794-9 (1-4000-4794-3)
What is different, and consequently extraordinary, about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM, senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Crown Business On Sale: March 5, 2013 Price: $19.99 ISBN: 978-0-7704-3560-8 (0-7704-3560-2)
Lee Cockerell, the former executive vice president of operations at Walt Disney World, offers his thirty-nine rules for optimizing customer service. By implementing these strategies, managers and employees will ensure that their interactions with customers are characterized by consistency, efficiency, creativity, sincerity, and excellence. Each of the thirty-nine chapters in this book...
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Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: December 1, 1982 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-553-28109-5 (0-553-28109-7)
Claiming that the world is a giant negotiating table, renowned negotiator Cohen teaches the art of negotiation with dozens of concrete examples.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: March 2, 2010 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45152-1 (0-307-45152-6)
In this revised and updated edition of Your First Year in Sales, professional speaker and sales veteran Tim Connor offers simple, proven strategies to overcome those first-year obstacles and position oneself for lifelong success. Readers will find step-by-step techniques for learning how one's skills and talents—motivation, strengths, willingness to sacrifice, and...
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