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Combining his personal insight with wisdom from the greatest minds in history, the "Dean of Personal Development" Earl Nightingale provides original and creative commentaries on life and the ways of successful living. Just as the success or failure of any business depends on its management, so the success or failure of a person depends on the way he or she manages himself or herself. The Direct Line will teach you how to take control of your life and find happiness and contentment from the journey of striving toward your goals and cultivating a meaningful existence.

Are you adequately rewarded for your efforts? If you answered no, The Dale Carnegie Leadership Mastery Course can help you! It can put you in total control of your life and make your dreams a reality. It can move your career onto the fast track and bring you high levels of prestige. It can make you a powerful communicator with a vast influence over others. Plus, it can improve your relationships, your decision-making ability, and your peace of mind about the world and where it's headed.

This is a fast-paced customized series of 14 management seminars that have been designed to convey the greatest amount of useable information in the shortest possible amount of time. The material in each program is based on management seminars that have been developed for and presented to leading corporations for several years. Each program is a condensation of 21 valuable ideas, methods, and techniques drawn from years of practical experience.

As a manager, you face growing pressures to improve productivity, decrease expenses, and motivate employees. Being a leader in today's workforce has never been tougher. Virtually all managers make mistakes along the way, including working harder, working longer, and demanding more from their employees. If you ever dreamed of accomplishing twice as much, twice as fast, and with half the budget, it's time you discovered the remarkable secret of today's top managers.

Almost everyone involved in the hiring process understands why it is so critical to find the very best candidate for a particular job. But few understand how to do it. People base hiring decisions on gut reaction or on a largely irrelevant set of criteria. All too often, the resulting employee is ineffectual, unmotivated, or simply not a good fit with the job they were hired to do....

For most managers and professional recruiters hiring qualified employees is a difficult and often frustrating task. In today's constantly changing job market, traditional hiring practices are no longer effective. But according to a recent survey, over 5000 CEOs ranked hiring and retaining top people as their top priority. With the help of Power Hiring, your quest to secure the best will be met with amazing results and professional recognition.

We've been told all our lives that whether you win or lose isn't important; it's how you play the game that matters. This is true in sports, business, or any other endeavor. But how you "play the game" has a lot to do with its outcome. And a good coach - one who places respect and conviction above popularity, who is firm yet open to the players' individual needs - can inspire their team to greatness, whether it is a football team, a work group, a committee, or a family.

This inspirational audio, Success Is an Attitude of Mind, is the most enjoyable, to-the-point “how to” program you’ll ever experience! Success Magazine Publisher Darren Hardy’s in-depth interview of Ed Foreman, one of America’s greatest, most successful business speakers, brings out the thinking necessary to achieve robust health, financial independence, and lasting happiness.

"The Ultimate Career Survival Master Course" is designed to transform you into an irreplaceable asset in your field. More than a mere guide, this book equips you with the strategies and mindset required to become the most valued individual in your career. Amid a shifting work landscape and rapidly advancing technology, equip yourself with the tools to not just survive but thrive. It's time to future-proof your career and shine in any circumstance.

Widely considered the best NFL quarterback of all time, Joe Montana personifies performance excellence and personal integrity both on and off the field. Yet the word most closely associated with him is not winner - it's leader. Since his retirement a decade ago, he has become a popular motivational speaker sought out by corporations nationwide, speaking to capacity audiences as large as 20,000.

This all-time classic is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.

According to Marvin Davis, "No one ever expects to get into crisis management. But once you do, there's an exhilaration that comes from seeing an unhealthy business become profitable again." Administratively, Marvin Davis has been involved with companies in the management and direction of turnaround situations and in the reorganization, planning and implementing of programs that guided operations from large losses to extreme profitability.

There's a revolution going on in today's workforce. A new generation of talent is coming onto the scene with incredible creativity, innovation, and insights. This is the generation that has been raised with knowledge of the leading technologies. It's ingrained in them. They are the ones who can use their knowledge to make your business stand out and possess the leading edge over all the others.

When you have a group of people strongly united and motivated to reach a common goal, almost nothing can stop you from achieving it. In High Performance Teamwork, Doug Jones describes how the nation's top performing corporations are using the team approach to restructure their organizations to make startling improvements in productivity, quality, and profit.

In Achieving Credibility: The Key to Effective Leadership, you'll find a truly human approach to leadership, one that identifies and focuses on the traits we all admire in other people. Kouzes helps you put your finger on the intangibles that make some people simply stand head and shoulders above their peers. And most of all, you'll come to understand why building credibility is such a fundamental aspect of the leadership process.

Because more of our time today is spent in meetings, it's essential that we spend that time well. And Jim Cathcart can help you and your associates do just that. As a busy consultant, public speaker, author, producer, and president of his own sales and management training firm, he's found ways to lead and adjourn any group discussion with tangible and profitable results. Jim is one of the most sought-after speakers in the training and development profession.

In today's complex roller-coaster business world, it's good to know that there's a proven system out there that can stop the profit leaks and bring your business profitability in a very short period of time. Whether you're a business that's struggling to stay afloat or a business that's highly profitable but still strives to add more to its bottom line, The Cycle of Success is a turnkey breakthrough system developed to transform your business into a money-making machine, no matter what size or shape it's in.

Using real life examples, Deal Maker reveals the behavioral and psychological dimensions of deal making and gives practical advice on planning a negotiating strategy to achieve the best possible results. This book, authored by a venture capitalist with experience structuring deals for entrepreneurial firms and Wall Street takeovers, tells you what skills are needed for successful deal making. It describes how to develop a negotiating strategy explaining the behavioral and psychological dimensions of deal making.