Authors: G Ross Lawford.
Paperback, 150 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: 2002-06-15
Edition: 1

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    This book is the most fundamental rethinking of the nature of power. The prevailing view of power is that it is authority, control, strength, and status, whereas this book looks at “authentic power” as the ability to inspire others, the ability to heal, and as “quality of being.”

Power is a fundamental factor in how we live our lives and what outcomes we are able to achieve. So much so that the quest for power is often perceived as both universal and all-consuming. The success of our quest, however, depends on the validity of our going-in assumptions. Having critically examined the commonly-held beliefs about power, G. Ross Lawford concludes that they are largely invalid, that strategies based on them are ineffective, and the resulting power is more illusory and short-lived than authentic. The Quest for Authentic Power shows that by adopting new ways of thinking about power, we can access a life-transforming, ‘authentic’ power that is available within each of us....

Authors: Andrew J. DuBrin.
Paperback, 235 pages
Publisher: Peterson's Nelnet Co
Publication Date: 1997-05

Authors: Jim Mccann.
Hardcover, 244 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 1998-04-14
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Lessons from Business and Life

Everybody knows Jim McCann. He's the "flower guy," the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS, who appears in all those terrific television ads. McCann is actually a unique corporate leader who in less than a decade took his company from the verge of bankruptcy to a $300 million business that ranks as the world's largest florist. Now in this upbeat, engaging book, McCann tells the amazing story of how he bootstrapped his way to phenomenal business success--and how you can do it too.

Forget the hard sell, the killer instinct, the power suit, and the iron handshake. If you want to make a business take off these days, you need to base it on relationships--warm, real, human contact with the people you work with and sell to. McCann says it best: "Like all human relationships, business involves a need to make contact. Satisfy that need and the money will follow."

In Stop and Sell the Roses, McCann shares the secrets he learned along his unique road to success, a journey that began in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods and resulted in a multimillion-dollar business. Learn from McCann how to:


Build invaluable loyalty through emotional bonds
Pick the technology that frees up your creative time
Harness the awesome power of the brand
Prepare for crunch times and stay tough when business is slow
Make money on the Internet by reaching beyond the computer screen
Hire passionate people
Leap-frog from job to job with an eye to your long-term success

And much more!

Funny, insightful, brimming with McCann's irresistible wit and street-smart wisdom, this is a business book like no other you've ever read--a book that will make you laugh as it gives you the tools you need to build your own winning business today....

    In less than a decade, former social worker Jim McCann turned a nearly bankrupt florist into a $300 million enterprise that dominates the field. Stop and Sell the Roses: Lessons from Business and Life is his brightly written story of 1-800-FLOWERS, the failing company he turned around through business savvy and personal insight. Weaving the tale of his firm's odyssey with observations on his own management style, McCann offers a prescription for success centered upon individualized customer interaction that encompasses everything up to and including the Net (where 1-800-FLOWERS now does 10 percent of its business). --Howard Rothman...

Authors: Brian Tracy.
Paperback, 127 pages
Publisher: Career Press
Publication Date: 1997-02


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    Contains delightful quotations on selling that bring common sense and realistic, fresh approach to selling. Paper. DLC: Selling - Quotations, Maxims, etc....

Authors: Carla Harris.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Publication Date: 2009-01-22


Reviews :

    One of Wall Street’s most powerful and lauded women shares her strategies for long-term success in any career

While climbing the corporate ladder, Carla Harris sought career advice from her mentors and superiors but found some of the counsel too nonspecific. As Carla’s career advanced, she discovered the key survival tools to business success and vowed that when she reached senior management and people came to her for advice she would provide them with specific, play-by-play answers about what they needed to do to fulfill their career potential.

Each chapter in Expect to Win includes Carla’s “pearls”— lessons Harris has acquired during her twenty years of working on Wall Street that can help contribute to career success by aiding readers in navigating the day-to-day complexities and challenges of the workplace.

Carla Harris is a Wall Street veteran. She executed the IPOs for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Redback, as well as the $3.2 billion common stock transaction for Immunex, one of the largest biotech common stock offerings in U.S. history. Expect to Win is a must-read for anyone seeking battle-tested tools to triumph over common career challenges and to achieve maximum success in any field....

Authors: R. Didinger.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Edition: 1

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    "For readers with a taste for nitty-gritty management advice and at least a modest acquintance with the game, there is plenty here to cheer." -- Kenneth Labich Fortune magazine Behind every NFL team lies a management structure equivalent to the most powerful of businesses. And behind every NFL team's successful season stands a head coach who has guided the group in the pursuit of excellence. In Game Plan for Success, ten top current and former NFL head coaches explain in their own words just what it takes to run a successful enterprise. They know firsthand that in NFL locker rooms and executive board rooms, winning is the bottom line. From George Seifert's advice on transition management to Marty Schottenheimer's secrets to building a team, from Mike Ditka's hands-on management tips to Bill Walsh's use of innovative strategies, Game Plans for Success is the quinessential corporate playbook. Each coach stresses the importance of preparation and motivation while covering specific issues, including consistency, the role of leadership, and the effects of environment. Like any corporate CEO, NFL head coaches face a demanding workday, as they operate under the pressures of time, public scrutiny, and the ultimate score. As leaders, they must manage, direct, challenge, and inspire their players to achieve established goals as individuals and as a team. Among them, the coaches featured in this book have eighteen Super Bowl appearances and thirteen Super Bowl victories, and five of them--Mike Ditka, Joe Gibbs, Bud Grant, Chuck Noll, and Walsh--are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. When the scene changes from the sports world to the business world, what holds fast is the sound wisdom and truth of the advice of these experts. Game Plans for Success gives those playing the business game a personal chalk talk on attaining success--from coaches for whom winning is a way of life. Ray Didinger is a sports columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News who has covered the National Football League for more than twenty-five years. Didinger has written or cowritten six books on pro football and contributed to numerous national magazines. The winner of six Keystone Press Awards and two Associated Press Sports Editor Awards, he also received the Pro Football Hall of Fame McCann Award in 1995....

Authors: Sharon Cook. Graciela Sholander.
Paperback, 238 pages
Publisher: Planning Communications
Publication Date: 2003-11-05


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    Here's help for everyone who has dutifully listed their New Year's resolutions each January 1 and tried to reach back to revive their dreams. Problem is, few people know how to bring back their dreams and even fewer know what it takes to achieve their dreams once they've remembered them.

"Dream It Do It: Inspiring Stories of Dreams Come True" offers a clear path to reviving your long-lost dreams -- be they career ambitions or altruistic goals -- by embodying the 10 qualities typical of successful dream acheivers: confidence, courage, commitment, creativity, purpose, passion, persistence, resilience, risk, and responsibility.

The authors present inspiring, real-life stories of successful dreamers to show how dream achievers embody each of these ten characteristics to make their dreams come true. They report on both the famous (including Lance Armstrong, Barbara Walters, Maya Angelou, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Gloria Estafan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Harrison Ford, Tiger Woods) and the unknown (including "VeggieTales" creator Phil Vischer, astronaut Eileen Collins, Barbara Vogel whose fifth grade pupils have freed thousands of slave in The Sudan, one-legged championship skier Cale Kinney, Susan Titcomb and David MacKay who created the personal chef industry out of nothing) to show that you, too, can revive your dreams and actually achieve them.

Not only will you learn how embodying each of these 10 elements of "Dream CPR" can help you resuscitate your dreams, these real-life stories will inspire you to incorporate these 10 characteristics into your every effort to actually achieve your dreams. The authors left no stone unturned as they interviewed and researched hundreds of people before settling on the 37 dream achievers profiled in "Dream It Do It." Their experiences will make your spirits soar and inspire even the most discouraged readers to put their lives back together and achieve their most heartfelt dreams....

Authors: James Autry.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Publication Date: 1999-03-01


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    The Tao Te Ching is the world's oldest leadership manual, written, according to legend, by the sage Lao-tzu in the sixth century B.C.E. In this book, premier business consultant James A. Autry and bestselling author and translator Stephen Mitchell present a modern-day guide to business leadership drawing on the age-old lessons of the Tao Te Ching. With simple, evocative essays, commenting on a selection from the Tao Te Ching, they show how its elegant wisdom can transform the workplace from a source of stress into a source of creativity and joy--and make work, at any level of the corporate ladder, more fulfilling than ever before....

    In recent years, visionaries and profiteers alike have attempted to apply the 81 simple but profound poems of the Tao Te Ching to everything from sports training to pet breeding. James Autry, an award-winning author and respected former CEO, and Stephen Mitchell, whose previous work includes the New York Times bestseller Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, have applied these poems in a meaningful way to the world of business. Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching is a stimulating interpretation of this ancient classic that will provide the guidance and inspiration missing from most modern management texts. Addressing contemporary business situations with the wise paradoxes that are the hallmark of Lao-Tzu's 6th-century work (such as "fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill; keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt"), the two propose an ageless approach to the workplace that deals uniquely with various issues of our time like compensation, competition, training, and downsizing. --Howard Rothman END ...

Authors: Thomas Moore.
Audio Cassette, pages
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication Date: 1997-02-01


Reviews :

    Thomas Moore on Meaningful Work Thomas Moore.

The author of Care of the Soul looks at the linchpin of our days – work and career – and sees back into a time when opus (work) was considered to be a mirror of God’s creation of the world. With elegant scholarship, Moore uncovers the sacred roots of work and shows how, in our own age, we can restore fullness and depth to this dispirited dimension of our lives....

Authors: Monique Greenwood.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Amistad
Publication Date: 2002-12-01


Reviews :

   

Now is the time to take your joy off layaway! In this practical and informative guide, Monique Greenwood offers easy-to-follow, down-to-earth advice and anecdotes for creating the life you really want. From financial freedom to finding or enjoying a healthy relationship, Greenwood covers all the bases. She charts her own incredible journey from anonymity to the top of the Essence masthead, from an unfit size-eighteen body to a shapely size twelve, from a cramped rental apartment to a mansion of her own, from countless bad relationships to a sweet union. Her bootstrapping strategies work!

Having What Matters offers:

• Inspiration for defining success on your own terms
• Methods for identifying the illusions that hold you back
• Steps for putting yourself at the top of your-to-do list
• Guidance on how to say no to what drains you and yes to what drives you
• Techniques for accumulating and sustaining wealth
• Tips for finding or appreciating your sexy soul mate ... and more

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