This book is important because it is about finding your pathin life. As you know, most people are programmed early in life to"Go to school and get a job."

CON TRICKS is a unpque insider's guide to this booming business which will appeal to anyone who is or has ever wished to be a consultant.Written by an ex-consultant,is lifts the veil on what consulting is really like and what you need to succeed with the major firems.It also asks why consultants are so expensive,why they can be so had at running their own businesses and whether the loss of mid-line expertise in our corporations is making them dangerously reliant on outside advisers.

The man who helped set the management agenda for the 1990s now brings us into the twenty-first century with the national bestseller Leading the Revolution. In this newly updated edition, Gary Hamel rays out an action plan for any individual or company intent on becoming--and staying--an industry revolutionary and a relentLess innovator. By drawing on the success of "gray- haired revolutionaries" Like Charles Schwab and GE Capital--companies that are always one step ahead of the rest--and profiling pioneering individuals, Hamel explains how companies can continue to grow, innovate, and achieve success, even in a chaotic world market.

At 29, Shellie Anderson-Tazi lost her baby to premature labor. Nine months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and given less than five years to live. And just when she thought it couldn't get any worse, her husband walked out on her. But rather than admit defeat, Shellie decided to take matters into her own hands. Through hard work and perseverance, a little exercise and a lot of prayer, she was able to overcome her sorrows-and her cancer. Today, she's happily married with a beautiful son. Everyone goes through hard times. What's easy to forget is that the experiences we call tragedies can lead to unexpected blessings-if we know how to overcome them. In Soul Beginnings, Shellie uses her own experiences to show readers how to triumph over tough times and emerge victorious. She outlines an eight-step program that will teach people how to put winning strategies into play, including: - Step 1: P.U.S.H.-Pray Until Something Happens - Step 2: Rally up support - Step 3: Give it up, tu

Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job--and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor and your entire company. Your boss depends on you for cooperation, reliability, and honesty. And you depend on him or her for links to the rest of the organization, for setting priorities, and for obtaining critical resources. By managing your boss--clarifying your own and your supervisor's strengths, weaknesses, goals, work styles, and needs--you cultivate a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship--including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expect

An update of one of the most popular Essential Managerstitles, Leadership will show you how to guide and mentor your staffin order to get the best out of them. Part of the best-sellingEssential Managers series, this book will carry the same livery onthe jacket, but will have new text and a completely modern, updateddesign.

In this companion to their upcoming PBS series, Dobyns and Crawford-Mason survey "continuous improvement" programs in America's private and public sectors. They note that organizations have shifted away "from a focus on technical aspects . . . to a focus on the complete interface between . . . a business and its customers." Their most interesting chapter compares the major U.S. quality gurus, including W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran, and profiles their Japanese disciples. The authors also subject the much-ballyhooed Baldrige Quality Award to some needed scrutiny. Several companies described (Motorola, Federal Express) have been treated elsewhere, and readers must wade through tedious recitations by top managers. However, a visit to Mount Edgecumbe High School in Alaska adds some perspective on the educational realm's quality movements. While general readers will gain a useful overview of the U.S. push to regain international competitiveness, there are few new revelations. An optional purchase for business

Salka, a 25-year veteran of the New York Fire Department, compiles the best leadership strategies of the FDNY into a practical, battle-tested guide for leaders in any field After twenty five years in the most dangerous of all occupations, John Salka, Battalion Chief of The New York City Fire Department, offers tough and tender lessons in leadership. Salka masterfully leverages examples from fire fighting--"where lack of leadership can kill people"--to create values for leaders in every organization. He alternates vivid summaries of historic and terrifying fires (the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory, the 1993 World Trade Center explosion and ground zero) with metaphors from the firehouse to describe three commitments for decisive leadership. "Follow the smoke," is an imperative to uncover reality in yourself, your organization and your industry. Next, Salka counsels, "know their names before you send them into the flames," and encourages leaders to identify the contributions of each employee. The

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, aredesigned to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the seriesfocus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to amanageable page count for on-the-go readers. Specific strategies for understanding the 10 types of problempeople and influencing them to adopt positive behaviors.

Stephen R. Covey has helped millions of readers attain professional success and personal fulfillment. With penetrating insight Dr. Covey reveals a pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. Now, as a succinct introduction to Dr. Covey's revolutionary thinking or as a reminder of key principles, Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People provides an inspirational recharge that will bring you closer to a holistic sense of personal effectiveness and purpose.

Learn all you need to know about successful team management,from building up a team that functions effectively to achieving thedesired results. Managing Teams shows you how to establish aproductive environment and exploit group dynamics, and it alsoprovides practical techniques to try in different settings. Powertips help you handle real-life situations and develop thefirst-class team-management skills that are the key to a productiveand informed workplace. The Essential Manager have sold more than1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alikecan benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into abriefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every workenvironment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concisetreatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, andproblems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, anddiagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach tobusiness and self-improvement available.

We have suspected for some time that what really drives businesses and their leaders is not money or power. It is the deep andabiding fear that someone somewhere has discovered the elusiveHoly Grail of business--competitive advantage！--and that theseleaders don't have it. Books, seminars, articles, and speeches, alldetail the management secrets of companies whose success sug-gests that the grail of competitive advantage is at last in theirgrasp, and other companies worldwide line up to emulate thepractices of these chivalrous knights. Motorola espouses "SixSigma" quality, and dozens of companies quickly adopt it as theirbusiness mantra. Southwest Airlines soars on no-frills, high-performance transportation, and the skies begin to fill with"wannabes." Rubbermaid makes headlines for its product inno-vation process, and within months identical approaches appear inscores of companies. Everywhere, it seems, companies and theirleadership are looking for someone else's star to hitch their wag-ons to. As the saying

An update of one of the key Essential Managers titles,Presenting gives you the tricks of the trade to make presentationswith confidence. Part of the best-selling Essential Managersseries, this book will carry the same livery on the jacket, butwill have new text and a completely modern, updated design.

In today's fast-paced global business environment, the conventional model of the corporation and its management principles no longer deliver results. Economic upheaval, changing demographics, and technological revolution have forever altered the requirements for running a business today. Now, in response, The Centerless Corporation presents a radical new corporate model -- designed for your organization's survival, growth, and prosperity. Drawing on groundbreaking research they conducted at Booz Allen & Hamilton, Bruce A. Pasternack and Albert J. Viscio offer a comprehensive strategy for managing in turbulent times. To deal with increasing complexity, they contend, leaders must abandon their command-and-control mentality and establish a model in which responsibility and accountability are distributed throughout the organization, employees are regarded as valued resources, and knowledge flows freely. Illustrating their ideas with invaluable real-life examples, Pasternack and Viscio explain how to attr

Book De*ion "A candid andcomprehensive look at how to succeed in business - for everyonefrom college graduates to CEOs." Bill Gates, chairman, MicrosoftCorporation Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career atGeneral Electric, he led the company to year-after-year successaround the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition.His honest, be-the-best style of management became the goldstandard in business, with his relentless focus on people,teamwork, and profits. And now he has written a book that clearlylays out the answers to the most difficult questions people faceboth on and off the job. Winning is destined to become thebible of business for generations to come. Anyone who has a passion for success will find Welch's optimistic,no excuses, get-it-done mind-set riveting. Packed with personalanecdotes and written in Jack's distinctive no b.s. voice, Winning offers deep insights, original thinking, a

Take the brakes off your busi-ness. From management spe-cialist and author of the innov-ative national bestseller 1001 WAYS TO REWARD EMPLOYEES comes a practical handbook chock full of ideas for increas-ing employee involvement and enthusiasm--the key to an organization's success.Weaving together case studies, exam-ples, suggestions, and quotes from hundreds of America's most energized businesses and business leaders, 1001 WaYs TO ENERGIZE EMPLOYEES is a how-to for getting not just the most--but the best--from everyone in the organization.

The motivations behind today's most successful leaders and entrepreneurs come to a simple yet decisive explanation: there are people who give, people who take, people who match, and people who fake. Our world is filled with these givers, takers, matchers and fakers. Amazingly, those who succeed (not only personally but for their clients and companies) don't take or match. They give. (Although they're not necessarily philanthropic.) GIVE AND TAKE presents the fascinating secrets to givers' success. The results are unequivocal: givers gain big. Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman Sr. - all of them are givers. In a world in which so many takers such as Bernard Madoff and Raj Rajaratnam have ruined lives and reputations, this book will reassure readers that the real power lies in becoming a giver. Since the vast majority of people aren't born givers, Grant not only presents the case for why givers win, he also offers their hidden strategies for winning.

Filled with dozens of bite-sized essential survival tips, this journal is a must for any adventurer exploring uncharted terrain or simply navigating another day on home turf. This silver reflective journal (which may be used as a signaling device) features plenty of room to write, plus Morse code and signal flag instructions are at the back, just in case. Includes a fluorescent car sticker!

Business 2.0 magazine publishes an annual cover story called "The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business." Featuring 101 hilarious items about the year’s most unbelievably stupid business blunders, it’s hugely popular with its more than half a million print subscribers—and with the two million people who read it on the Web this year. In The Dumbest Moments in Business History, the editors of Business 2.0 have compiled the best of their first four annual issues plus great (or not so great, if you happen to be responsible) moments from the past. From New Coke to the Edsel, from Rosie magazine to Burger King’s "Herb the Nerd," the book’s highlights include: a Romanian car plant whose workers banded together to eliminate the company’s debt by donating sperm and giving the proceeds to their employer the Heidelberg Electric Belt, a sort of low-voltage jockstrap sold in 1900 to cure impotence, kidney disorders, insomnia, and many other complaints the time Beech-Nut sold "100% pure apple juice"

A famous expert reveals his professional secrets. Learn how to build your willpower, how to waste time for pleasure and profit, and how to work smarter, not harder. A practical nononsense guide to managing your personal and business time. Paper.