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Growth is everyone's business, not solely the concern of the sales force or top management. Just as everyone participates in cost reduction, so must everyone be engaged in the growth agenda of the business. Every contact of each employee with a customer is an opportunity for revenue growth. That includes everyone from the people working in a company's call center to the CEO.

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest tools for understanding and resolving conflict ever. But how do you translate its military insights into practical tactics you can use in the corporate boardroom, the PTA meeting, or the family reunion? James Gimian and Barry Boyce take the principles born on ancient Chinese battlefields and show you how to relate them to the situations of your everyday life. By learning to identify the underlying dynamic of a situation, you can transform conflict into victory.

Tom Peters has, for the past 12 years, been telling American business that the rules have changed. Now he goes farther in The Tom Peters Seminar, the first in an exciting new series aimed at helping everyone, Fortune 500 chairmen, middle managers trying to hold onto their place on the ladder (a mistake!), and hotel housekeepers, thrive in the brave new world of business in the 90s.

Leaders People Love features a host of accessible leadership lessons. Undergirded by a contemporary and relevant mindset, these strategies consistently yield excellent results and prove a point: becoming an effective and well-loved leader is possible if you know how.

Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial, The Courage to Be Rich addresses the rites of passage we all must face - marriage, divorce, death; spending (and overspending) on life's necessities and luxuries; taking control of our financial tomorrows today. Orman shows us how to find the clarity, conviction, and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities of a lifetime.

From the best-selling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness". A malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond", a need-everything-yesterday sphere dominated by cell phones, computers, faxes, and remote controls. Yet for all the hours, minutes, and even seconds being saved, we're still filling our days to the point that we have no time for such basic human activities as eating, sex, and relating to our families.

Are you trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits? You are not alone - we all have unique barriers that get in the way of making permanent changes to our health. Psychologist Dr Amantha Imber steps away from the one-size-fits-all approach and brings together: the specific psychological barriers stopping you from achieving better health; cutting-edge research into what we should eat, how to get fit, and how to sleep better; the latest behavioural science that helps us make these changes stick for good; and an easy method to create your own personalised and actionable plan to change your habits.

Hey there! Are you a parent struggling with anger? This audiobook will teach you how to control your temper and work past your emotions to reach resolutions with your child. Anger and emotional outbursts are a pathway to raising an angry and aggressive child, which is why they are ineffective for parenting. The information provided can guide you towards ending your child's temper tantrums and meltdowns while helping you strengthen your emotional bond with them.

Do you want to become a more clear-minded person? Do you struggle with feeling overwhelmed at times? People just like you all over the world have changed their marriages, careers, personal lives, and overall satisfaction with life through learning how to live a minimalist lifestyle. Maybe you've "tried" living below your means, and it didn’t work or didn’t last very long. This is a common problem for many people who have struggled with living a simple life without clear direction. Don't miss out. Start your minimalist journey today!

Power Principles by Dr. Dale C. Bronner guides you into the countless benefits of the wisdom-driven life. The time-tested principles in this volume, gleaned from four decades of experience, study, and application, lead you step-by-step into foundational wisdom for building a strong and prosperous life and creating a concrete plan for both personal and professional success.

The corporate masks we wear hide many a secret. The most potent are not the secret financial numbers or confidential strategy documents hidden away in locked drawers or in safes but the simple ones—good filter coffee generosity and thirty minutes of me-time. This book offers a selection of fascinating and useful secrets that can help you be far more successful at your workplace. As a bonus they can make you happier as well. Harish Bhat wields his pen with his signature insight to delight inspire provoke and change the way you see offices forever.

What's the secret to wowing your customers while maintaining a loyal and dedicated workforce? Drawing upon time-tested strategies that have propelled Enterprise, the nation's number-one car-rental company, from a single location in St. Louis to a $9-billion global powerhouse, noted business author Kirk Kazanjian reveals how your company can consistently outperform and outsmart the competition.

Believe it or not, recessions make millionaires! Will you be one? In Start Over, Finish Rich, America's best-loved financial expert, David Bach, explains that 2010 will be the best opportunity for building wealth we have seen in decades. And as the economy recovers, you must be set up to recover with it. Bach's easy, take-action plan will show you how.

We are in the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions ever, and it's a brave new world indeed. Who better to guide us through it than Michael Lewis, whose subversive, trenchant humor is the perfect match to his subject matter. Here is an audiobook as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, and as entertaining as its best selling predecessors.

Jim Rogers and his fiancie, began their "Millennium Adventure" on January 1, 1999. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, and Angola. They saw the real world from the ground up - the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood - economically, politically, and socially and have saw the world and understood it as it really is.

Minimalism is not for everyone. It requires discipline and an open mind. Living a minimalist lifestyle means getting out of your comfort zone and taking action. Many people are overwhelmed with all the things going on in their lives and cannot seem to to find a clear path to getting started. This book provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to declutter your home, office, computer, smartphone, and ultimately your mind in less than a day. This is the book I wish I had when I first started on the minimalist journey and it probably would have saved me more than $5,000.

After revolutionizing the digital desk-log and then running some of the best performing dealerships in the country, Philip Cheatham returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your dealership and accelerate your path to a top-performing store. No matter your product, your dealership size, or how well you're operating, this book will provide the processes to help you achieve your sales goals more rapidly than you ever thought possible.

Too many times, people rush into building and they don’t focus enough energy on the most important step for sustained success in the non-profit field. What’s that secret? We’ll tell you...It’s a business plan. We know, we know, it sounds boring, right? Well, guess what? It is the lifeblood of a true, long-lasting and impactful non-profit org. This audiobook will show you how a business plan can lead to more investors which means a greater chance to make an impact.

En los negocios, como en la vida, si tú le das al Universo, éste te regresará el doble. Con esta filosofía Roberto Palazuelos dirige sus empresas y ha alcanzado el éxito: la Alquimia Espiritual. Aquí encontrarás consejos para realizarte como ser humano, lo que te llevará a revolucionar tu entorno financiero, a forjar una empresa feliz, eficiente y sustentable. Construye un andamiaje legal, económico y mercadológico; aprende a negociar un contrato, conviértete en un emprendedor y realiza tus sueños en cada nivel de tu vida. ¡Encuentra tu alquimia para el éxito!

A partir de ocho conceptos clave que van desde la motivación y el establecimiento de objetivos hasta la toma de decisiones, Charles Duhigg nos enseña en Más agudo, más rápido y mejor por qué algunas personas y empresas consiguen ser más productivas que otras, y cómo deberíamos actuar para mejorar y conseguir nuestros objetivos con menos estrés y esfuerzo. En definitiva, ser más agudos, más rápidos y mejores en todo lo que hacemos.