Leadership Motivation

New owner's manual for success! Rewrite the story of your life. How many times have you replayed the disappointing or hurtful moments from your life over and over in your head? Has it shaped who you are? Do you believe your own negative self-chatter? Do you think success is only for the lucky, educated, or connected? Do you long for something you believe you'll never have? If there's one book that will shift that for you, this is it.

As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. His systematic, step-by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storytelling, proven tactics, and reliable insights gleaned from the latest negotiation research.

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.

When successful people begin to feel uncertain or challenged at work, the one thing they want to know most is why things are going wrong after they have gone right for so long. In The Leadership Gap, Lolly Daskal reveals the consequences highly driven, overachieving leaders face when they continue to rely on a skill set that has always worked for them, even when it is no longer effective.

Ambitious but stuck? Ready to take control of your career, your results, and your future? This book will help you take ownership, unlock resilience, and achieve more with less stress.

Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty is Harvey Mackay's last word on how to get what you want from the world through networking. For everyone from the sales rep facing a career-making deal to the entrepreneur in search of capital, Dig Your Well explains how meeting these needs should be no more than a few calls away.

Scott knows firsthand what it’s like to go from out-of-touch boss to team-growing leader. In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you’ll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research, instructional programs, and executive consultancy, and illustrated with real-life experiences shared by someone who’s lived these challenges.

This book is for you if you want to do meaningful work that pays well. If you want to make a big career change without going back to school or taking a step down. If you’ve often wondered if there could be more out there for you. Spoiler alert: There is!

Business leaders in more than 110 countries have benefited from the extraordinary wisdom of Robert Scheinfeld, whose seminars and writings have helped dramatically improve sales and profits. In The 11th Element, Scheinfeld shares the secrets that propelled his grandfather's company, Manpower Inc., into the Fortune 500, the same approach that fueled the success of Microsoft, Starbucks, and Dell.

Hindu mysticism and spirituality offer some of the most powerful leadership and success lessons, which are both practical and profound. These lessons are especially important during tough times and challenging situations. This book condenses Hinduism’s spirituality-based lessons in an easy-to-understand yet insightful format.

Outils, histoires et suggestions pragmatiques pour changer tes affaires différemment. Avec La Joie du Business, il ne s'agit pas d'être hystériquement heureux. Il s'agit de savoir que les choix que tu fais pourraient marcher ou pourraient ne pas marcher et cependant rester prêt à avoir le courage d'avancer, de changer et même de partir si nécessaire. Il s'agit de créer un système harmonieux qui permet chaque jour à plus de se révéler—au-delà de ce que cette réalité.

As an associate of the Gambino family, Ferrante relied on his instincts to pull off some of the biggest heists in US history. By the age of 21, he had netted millions of dollars for his employers. His natural talent for management led Mafia bosses to rely on him. After being arrested and serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence, Ferrante went straight. He realized that the Mob's most valuable business lessons would allow him to survive and thrive in the real world.

In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last 16 years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice. Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success, an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions.

Through a chance meeting with Jack, an elderly patient and former business executive, he learns the keys to success. By working on his own health and leadership, Daniel starts to tackle the main systems that will help him through his business journey, including setting his vision, getting his operations in order, finding the right team members, and learning the financial side of the business. With Jack’s mentorship, Daniel shifts his understanding of what it means to be successful and finds that his business can serve his needs and help him reach his goals.

In an impatient world of infobesity, people don't want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, "How is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?" Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her "secret sauce" for truly connecting with people - whether it's one or one million.

The motivating host of one of the nation's largest leadership conferences offers a collection of inspirational and applicable life lessons through conversations with various high-profile people. One Question invites you to peer over the shoulder of a master interviewer with access to today's best and brightest as he delivers carefully crafted questions and collects answers guaranteed to surprise, challenge, and inspire.

Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone were two of the most inspiring, motivating figures of the 20th century personal development movement. In this, their legendary collaboration, these two icons present a formula for successful living that is unsurpassed in its simplicity, practicality, and power.

Mastering the Seven Decisions guides listeners to a profound understanding of how to fully integrate seven life-changing decisions into their daily lives. The responsible decision, the guided decision, the active decision, the certain decision, the joyful decision, the compassionate decision, and the persistent decision.

Celebrated keynote speaker, trainer, and leadership coach Rene Rodriguez delivers an eye-opening roadmap to using applied neuroscience to improve listeners' communication ability, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and leadership skills. Based in the author's proprietary AMPLIFII system and methodologies he has taught to over 100,000 participants around the world, the book offers practical tips, useful frameworks, guided practice, and simple application exercises to help listeners create new and lasting behaviors that effect change in their life and work.

Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo!, puts forth a wildly original idea: It pays to be nice. Sanders shows how being a "lovecat" will help you accomplish your goals, both in and out of the office.