Make the ultimate teenage success guide part of your life every daySean Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" has helped hundreds of thousands of teens find a path toward success and personal fulfilment. Now, with "Daily Reflections for Highly Effective Teens, " comes a book that will inspire teens to understand, appreciate, and internalize the power of the 7 Habits. With this day-by-day success guide, teenagers will learn how to improve their self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, make important decisions, and live healthier, more self-confident lives. Packed with great quotes, excellent ideas, and inspiration, Sean Covey's warm, insightful, and humorous guide gives teens a road map for surviving and thriving in adolescence and beyond.
An innovative business book positioning ethical practice asthe cornerstone of success “Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer inethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School ofManagement and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, LeighHafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t mix.In The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics inBusiness, Hafrey draws on fifteen years of conversations withbusinesspeople at all stages of their careers, from MBA to Chairmanof the Board, to articulate five steps that generate ethicalpractice: 1. Speak Up, Speak Out: define your managerial style 2. See the Big Picture: recognize the forces that affect yourpractice 3. Break the Rules, Make the Rules, Absorb the Costs: drivechange, and know it 4. Tell Good Stories: find stories that bring out the best inyour people and yourself 5. Test for Truth: distinguish fact from fantasy in yourstory-telling Hafrey illust
12 ESSENTIAL BUSINESS PRINCIPLES TO CREATE MEANING, HAPPINESS, AND TRUE SUCCESS ROBERT MICHAEL FRIED After years of focusing on our career, it's easy to lose sight of what's important in the rest of our lives. Fortune 500 marketing strategist, Robert Michael Fried shows how the same skills and principles you've used to achieve professional success can help you reach your personal goals too - by creating A Marketing Plan for Life (Perigee Trade Paperback; January 2005; $15.95 U.S.). Fried advises us that the same strategies that result in having a good career can help us define what really matters most in our personal lives as well. Fried's twelve-point system helps the reader achieve a fuller, more balanced life/work plan: * Define the business you're in ( Figure out who you are and who you want to become. * Assess the market (Capitalize on your strengths. * Create "targets of opportunity" (Make your dreams a reality. A Marketing Plan for Life provides a definitiv
The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author ofCatch Me if You Can now reveals the mind--boggling tricks of thescam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's mostsought--after fraud--prevention experts. "I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning themechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and othersimilar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison, I'd oftenfelt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels, Icould help people a great deal. Every time I went to the store andwrote a check, I would see two or three mistakes made on the partof the clerk or cashier, mistakes that a flimflam artist would takeadvantage of. . . . In a certain sense, I'm still a con artist. I'mjust putting down a positive con these days, as opposed to thenegative con I used in the past. I've merely redirected the talentsI've always possessed. I've applied the same relentless attentionto working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetuatingfraud."
Too many people assume the timeless principles of trueleadership—of helping others achieve their full potential—don’tapply Monday through Friday during work hours or in anycircumstance where a paycheck is involved. In GREATER THAN YOURSELF, Steve Farber proves them wrong: in thispowerful and inspiring story, Farber shows that the goal of agenuine leader is to help others—teammates, employees, andcolleagues—become more capable, confident, and accomplished thanthey are themselves. Through the actions of a forward-thinking andextraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys toachieving this: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and ReplicateYourself. Filled with actionable principles and innovative ideas, GREATERTHAN YOURSELF is perhaps the most powerful message today’s businessleaders can learn.
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time.
From two leaders in executive education at Harvard BusinessSchool, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you needto achieve outstanding results in any negotiation. Whether you’ve “seen it all” or are just starting out,Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiatingskills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral researchplus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authorstake the mystery out of preparing for and executingnegotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals orimproving your next salary offer. What sets negotiation geniuses apart? They are the men andwomen who know how to: ?Identify negotiation opportunities where others see noroom for discussion ?Discover the truth even when the other side wants toconceal it ?Negotiate successfully from a position of weakness ?Defuse threats, ultimatums, lies, and other hardballtactics ?Overcome resistance and “sell” proposals using proveninfluence tactics
Do you think it's possible to truly enjoy your job? No matterwhat it is or where you are? Timothy Gallwey does, and in thisgroundbreaking book he tells you how to overcome the innerobstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on thejob. Timothy Gallwey burst upon the scene twenty years ago with hisrevolutionary approach to excellence in sports. His bestsellingbooks The Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game ofGolf , with over one million copies in print, changed the way wethink about learning and coaching. But the Inner Game that Gallweydiscovered on the tennis court is about more than learning a betterbackhand; it is about learning how to learn, a critical skill that,in this case, separates the productive, satisfied employee from therest of the pack. For the past twenty years Gallwey has taken hisInner Game expertise to many of America's top companies, includingAT T, Coca-Cola, Apple, and IBM, to teach their managers andemployees how to gain better access to their own internalresourc
A Practical Guide to Using the Principles of ServantLeadership Leadership is a calling. And servant leadership—the idea thatmanaging with respect, honesty, love, and spirituality empowersemployees—helps individuals answer that calling. Bestselling authorand former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry reveals the servantleader’s tools, a set of skills and ideals that will transform theway business is done. It helps leaders nurture the needs and goalsof those who look to them for leadership. The result is a moreproductive, successful, and happier organization, and a moremeaningful life for the leader. Autry reveals how to remain true tothe servant leadership model when handling day-to-day and long-termmanagement situations, including how to: ?Provide guidance during conflict and crisis ?Assure your continued growth and progress as a leader ?Train managers in the principles of servant leadership ?Transform a company with morale problems into a great place towork P
If you ever feel: cluttered, scattered, distracted, unfocused, disorganized, preoccupied, overwhelmed, out of control, out of your mind... you can change your life! ConZentrate shows you how to master the art of paying attention, in thirty-five clear, practical, simple ways. Whether it's how to focus on a tedious task when the office is buzzing around you, or how to stop procrastinating, or how to keep your home from being a place of overwhelming clutter-- or ever how to tackle the challenges of A.D.D.-- Sam Horn's user-friendly book will inspire you to learn how to conzentrate, and discover the key to peak performance. 作者简介:Sam Horn, president of Action Seminars, has presented her real-life workshops to more than 400,000 people since 1981. Her impressive client list includes Young Presidents Organization, National Governors Association, Hewlett-Packard, Four Seasons Resort, the Fortune 500 Forum, the US Navy, and the IRS. She was the top rated speaker at both the 1996 and 1998 Internationa
New-media pioneer Pete Blackshaw contends that because anyonewith a computer can broadcast an opinion to millions and derail amultibillion-dollar company or undermine a global brand, companiestoday need to build and maintain credibility on every front.
《的战争:波音与空客的全球竞争内幕》内容简介:10000公里的航程足以覆盖世界上有人居住的所有地方,但是在民用航空领域,还没有一个飞行器拥有如此惊人的续航能力——无论是波音还是空客。尽管如此,在可以预计的未来,只要乘飞机旅行,你十有八九只能选择这两家公司的产品,但是,你知道那些带你飞翔的“大家伙”有怎样的出身与来历吗? 越来越多的人需要飞往更遥远的地方,航空制造商需要回答,究竟是要承载更多的乘客,还是要飞得更远?这永远都是一个难以破解的悖论。可是,哪怕在这一问题上微小的进展也足以让竞争对手多一分忌惮。在这项全球为复杂的商战中,两家公司都竭尽全力企图将对手抛开,尽管事实是各自的市场份额越来越接近50%。 20年弹指一挥间,波音与空客的竞争刚刚上演了序曲。回顾短暂的过去,航空制造业的竞
THE REMARKABLE AND INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF ONE GUY WHOTRANSFORMED HIS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE FUTURE INTO ACTION A year and a half after he graduated from college, Sean Aikenfound himself struggling to answer the question “What should I dowith my life?” His mother suggested teaching. His older sister toldhim to apply for an entry-level corporate position. His fathersaid, “It doesn’t matter what you do, just make sure it’s somethingyou’re passionate about.” Taking his father’s advice to heart, Seancreated the One-Week Job Project and launched himself on an epicjourney to find his passion. His goal: to work fifty-two jobs infifty-two weeks. After the launch of his website, oneweekjob.com, the offers beganpouring in. Sean’s first gig was—literally—jumping off a bridge, asa bungee operator in British Columbia. From there he traveledacross Canada and the United States, reinventing himself as afirefighter, an aquarium host, a radio DJ, a martial artsinstructor, an NHL mascot,
? Stop throwing thousand-dollar bills out the window andcamouflaging spending as marketing—demand that the money spent onmarketing bring in more money in return. ? Cut through the myths that claim marketing is about advertising,public relations, or direct mail—learn that it is about growing therevenue, profit, and valuation of the business. ? Fire your advertising agency if it even thinks about applying fora Clio or other creative award. ? Implement the marketing moratorium—stop all marketing until youknow how each component of your program justifies itself in dollarsand cents.
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We justsaid we were going to publish a few books on the side at random.Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in thiswonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishinghouse. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible witand an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokesthe heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers whorevolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helpedusher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality,whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer,radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge ofthe Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line? )helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy andenthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company andto his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of bookpublishing and
Bill Strickland has spend the past thirty years transformingthe lives of thousands of people through Manchester Bidwell, thejobs training center and community arts program he founded inPittsburgh. Working with corporations, community leaders, andschools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids andadults the opportunities and tools they need to envision and builda better, brighter future. In Make the Impossible Possible, Bill Strickland shows how eachof us, by adopting the attitudes and beliefs he has lived by everyday, can reach our fullest potential and achieve the impossible inour lives and careers--and perhaps change the world a little in theprocess. Through lessons from Strickland's own life experiences andthose of countless others who have overcome challengingcircumstances and turned their lives around, Make the ImpossiblePossible teaches us how to build on our passions and strengths,dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success,and inspire the lives of others.
The bestselling guide to seizing opportunity in the workplace,from the woman at the pinnacle of the Hearst magazine empire Every woman dreams of having a wise, funny mentor who understandsthe challenges she faces. Now, Cathie Black—one of Forbes's "100Most Powerful Women" and Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women inBusiness"—offers invaluable lessons that will help you land thejob, promotion, or project you're vying for. You'll find out how tohandle interviews, which rules to break, and why you should makeyour life a grudge-free zone. Filled with surprisingly candid,personal stories and advice, this is the only career guide you'llever need.
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing i
Creative folks often know all too well that the muse doesn’talways strike when you want it to, or when the deadline for yournext brilliant project is creeping up on you like an ill-fittingturtleneck. Originality doesn’t follow a time clock, even when youhave to. While conventional time management books offer tons ofinstruction for using time wisely, they are traditionally organizedin a linear fashion, which just isn’t helpful for the right-brainmind. In Time Management for the Creative Person , creativityguru Lee Silber offers real advice for using the strengths ofartistic folks—like originality and resourcefulness—to adoptinnovative time-saving solutions, such as: * Learning to say no when your plate is just too full * How to know when a good job, not a great one, is goodenough * Making “to do” lists that include fun stuff, too—that way youwon’t feel overwhelmed by work * Time-saving techniques around the house that give you more timeto get your work done and more time to spend with your
Jesus Built an Inspired Team. You Can, Too. Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of businessreaders insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhanceperformance. In Teach Your Team to Fish , Jones focuses onone of the most critical areas for anyone in business: teamwork.Leaders today face their greatest challenges not only in definingstrategies and getting updated information but also in gettingdiverse human beings to pull together without falling apart. Jesus is a role model for team leaders everywhere. Teach YourTeam to Fish offers dozens of stories from the Bible, showinghow Jesus managed his team of disciples and other followers, withsuggestions for how to apply these lessons to real-worldteambuilding and management problems. It offers guidance andinspiration on: ? How to excite your team members in order to motivate them ? How to ground them so they’ll be realistic about what can beachieved ? How to transform them into a truly well-functioning team ? How to release them int
How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learninghow to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known,unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in businessand in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts. The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highlyeffective people and organizations. Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers accountfor 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accountsfor 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle showshow we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, andresources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has longinfluenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals howthe principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic andpractical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve ourcareers and our companies. The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 princip
Written for anyone who suffers from "time famine," thisessential handbook provides simple, effective methods forsuccessfully taking control of one's hours--and one's life. Smithshows how, by managing time better, anyone can lead a happier, moreconfident and fulfilled life.