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Today's heads of big companies are as recognizable to us as the most popular entertainers or sports stars, but the heart and soul of every organization are those leaders below the CEO. Today's celebrity CEO has become either a figurehead or an egomaniac, and often too public a personality to get the real work done. That work is done instead by teams of leaders - exceptional deputies who forge great partnerships to maximize both organizational and personal success.

Fresh from her triumph at Lucent, Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in July 1999. Suddenly a woman was running one of the largest technology companies on earth, venturing farther than anyone else dared into traditional men's territory. Perfect Enough is the definitive account of her daredevil bid to remake HP with a record-shattering $20 billion acquisition of archrival Compaq Computer.

Failures are a common phenomena in civilization. Things fail and society responds, often very slowly, sometimes inappropriately. What kinds of things go wrong? Why do they go wrong? How do people and organizations react to failures, and what are the best ways to react? William B. Rouse takes an analytic approach to these questions and addresses 18 well-known cases of high-consequence failures. He employs a multi-level framework to integrate findings across the case studies, and, in turn, uses these to outline a conceptual approach to integrated failure management.

Henry Ford, Automobilpionier: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

The Sprint reflects an experience from life on a scrum team. Walking through the mandatory and optional scrum ceremonies as documented in The Scrum Guide. Experiences of scrum team life will differ across the world. For people who have never been on a scrum team, you will get a clear insight into a singular experience and the everyday runnings. And for those scrum team regulars, you will relate to and perhaps chuckle at what you are about to listen to.

Developing the Leader Within You is Dr. Maxwell's first and most enduring leadership book, having sold more than one million copies. In this classic, you will discover the biblical foundation for leadership that John Maxwell has used as a pastor and business leader for more than 40 years. These same principles and practices are available for everyday leaders in every walk of life.

Create Your Own Future is a powerful book on self-empowerment that offers a wealth of ideas readers can apply immediately to take complete control of their personal and work lives. Intended for anyone who wants to make more money and get more satisfaction from life, the book offers twelve principles for success and real-world action plans that help you reach your goals. Author Brian Tracy is one of the most renowned and successful self-help authors and speakers in the world; Create Your Own Future presents all his accumulated experience in making success happen for others. Now, it can make success happen for you.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed best seller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

While building the Virgin Group over the course of 40 years, Richard Branson has never shied away from tackling seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on many occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola and lost. Now Branson gives an inside look at his strikingly different, swashbuckling style of leadership.

Oleg Tinkov is a legend of Russian business and a bright, charismatic leader. He built five successful companies in various industries, and therefore knows how to start a business from scratch. Can you do it the same way and become as successful? You can, with the help of this book.

Esli vyi esche ne znaete, chto edyat na Marse, kak zakuporit leto v butyilkah i zachem nuzhno chitat knigi, to vyi ne imeete predstavleniya o Ree Bredberi. I eto neobhodimo ispravit. Samyiy nefantasticheskiy iz vseh pisateley-fantastov i samyiy tainstvennyiy iz realistov, Rey Bredberi otkryivaet novyie miryi na zadnem dvore i nahodit staryie vospominaniya na chuzhih planetah. V etoy knige - kratkiy obzor tvorchestva velikogo rasskazchika.

Six Thinking Hats can help you think better, with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. It is an approach that thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world have already adopted with great success. "The main difficulty of thinking is confusion," writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill.

Are you familiar with the concept of NLP? If yes, then you probably know how to use it to succeed in life. If not, this book provides all the information on how to get rid of fears and bad habits, cultivate one's strengths, to control other people and even to copy someone else's success. Get ready to listen to the book "NLP.

Eto samaya zhiznennaya i v to zhe vremya smeshnaya audiokniga, kotoruyu vyi kogda-libo slushali! Znamenityiy zakon MYorfi, bolshe izvestnyiy kak zakon podlosti, byil sformulirovan v 1949 godu. I s teh por, pozhaluy, kazhdyiy iz nas ne raz ubezhdalsya v zhiznennosti i pravdivosti etogo pravila: "Esli kakaya-nibud nepriyatnost mozhet proizoyti, ona sluchitsya". No malo kto znaet, chto na samom dele spisok zakonov MYorfi etim pravilom ne ischerpyivaetsya!

Iz jetoj knigi izdatel'stva AB Publishing Vy uznaete, chto uspeh - jeto postojannaja velichina, kotoraja skryta v kazhdom iz nas. Uspeshnost' - kachestvo, kotoroe mozhno razvit' i vospitat'. My daem mnozhestvo poleznyh sovetov na kazhdyj den', kak organizovat' svoju zhizn' takim obrazom, chtoby uspeh prishel k vam sam i ostalsja s vami navsegda.

From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path toward productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen MR Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust - and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents - is the essential ingredient for any high-performance, successful organization.

Bodo Schaefer - a world-renowned financial advisor, grown rich thanks to rules developed by them. Boris Grundl - vice European champion rugby in wheelchairs, a member of the Paralympic Games in Sydney. Together, these dedicated people who have achieved heights in every kind of activity, have developed a unique system that can help to achieve success in any field - "Simple leadership."

Kniga #1 v mire po upravleniyu myishleniem! Muchitelnyiy poisk resheniya problemyi, tvorcheskiy krizis, tschetnyie popyitki vspomnit vazhnuyu informatsiyu...Vam vsYo eto znakomo? A ved takogo ne proizoshlo byi, treniruy vyi svoYo myishlenie! Kak eto delat pravilno, vyi uznaete iz knigi "Upravlenie myishleniem" znamenitogo psihologa, izobretatelya metoda myishleniya "shesti shlyap" Edvarda de Bono! Nashe myishlenie.

Few would argue with the fact that, on many fronts, we are a world in crisis. And there are two sides to every crisis, be it a leadership crisis, an economic crisis, an education crisis or a moral crisis. The two side to crisis are danger and opportunity. Robert Kiyosaki's new book, Second Chance…for Your Money and Your Life, uses the lessons from the past and a brutal assessment of the present to prepare readers to see – and seize – the future.

Robert Kiyosaki's new book, 8 Lessons in Leadership, draws from his years at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and his service in the United Sates Marine Corps. With compelling stories and examples and an engaging way of comparing and contrasting two very different cultures and value systems, Robert shares the challenges he faced in transitioning to civilian life...where chain of command and team-over-self - once so black and white - were muddy and distorted.