Business Management

Once, there was a remarkable person who led with love. Her company succeeded where its competitors struggled. Its customers were loyal, its employees loved to work there, and it was profitable year after year, for decades. This loving leader began her career as an executive secretary, yet the company's founder chose her to succeed him as president. When asked why, he said, "Because she knows how to love people to success." She is Colleen Barrett, President Emeritus of Southwest Airlines. Lead with LUV is an extraordinary, wide-ranging conversation between Barrett and the legendary Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager. Drawing on personal experience, Barrett and Blanchard reveal why leading with love is the most powerful way to lead and how it can help you achieve truly amazing levels of performance. Discover:

• What "love" really means in the organizational context.
• Why leading with love is not "soft" management!
• How to use redirection and tough love to handle inappropriate behavior or performance.
• Why "servant leadership" is love in action, and how to make it work.
• How to build the compelling vision and culture that sustains leadership with love.

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step 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.

HE SAYS, SHE SAYS: “How Can We Do Business?”

It’s no surprise that communicating with the opposite sex can be tricky. Hidden in the glitches are often misleading assumptions about each gender that beg for help. Finally, help is here.

Learn the secrets to accurately reading between the gender lines, and uncover a new edge for your business—the power to effectively talk business and successfully network with the opposite sex.

See the research at BusinessNetworkingandSex.com:
12,000 + business professionals weigh in on the opposite sex—see what they had to say.

”Ivan Misner’s insightful work explores how to best understand the similarities and differences between the sexes and what that means for your business relationships. Don’t let your gender hinder your networking ability!”
Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

”Networking is about relationships, plain and simple. Understanding the opposite sex in a new and positive light is the key to building lasting business relationships for increasing success. The sooner you read Business Networking and Sex, the sooner you will achieve success.”
John Gray, bestselling author of Men are From Mars and Women are from Venus

”Impeccably researched, backed up by hard-hitting statistics, filled with laugh-out-loud humor, and packed with cutting-edge information on how to take your networking results to the next level—Business Networking and Sex is the must-have networking guide for the 21st century.”
Jack Canfield, bestselling author of the Chicken Soup series and The Success Principles

”Wow! This book shows you how to build and maintain quality business networking contacts with the other 50 percent of the population.”
Brian Tracy, author of The Power of Charm

"There's something I love about Ivan Misner's approach to business -- he's so focused! In this wonderful new book he takes yet another new and novel look at networking, and tells us why it works, how it works, and why it is so necessary for all of us to take it as seriously as we do the most important functions in our businesses…or live to pay the price. Read this book, and send a copy to a friend. Important stuff for all of us determined to grow in this difficult, difficult world. Thank you, Ivan, for your focus. We all need it!" -- Michael E. Gerber, author of the world's #1 small business book, The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What To Do About It.

"I've never been one to mix business with pleasure but with this book it's impossible not to--whether you're reading for business or reading for pleasure, Business Networking and Sex delivers a thoroughly informative, thoroughly entertaining experience from cover to cover." -- Lisa Nichols, Featured teacher in The Secret and author of No Matter What!

"You've heard the phrase 'sex sells,' but have you ever heard anyone explain how to sell to the opposite sex? No matter what your product or service, your business depends on sales and increased sales depend on how effective you are at building relationships and networking--with women and men alike. Business Networking and Sex outlines the key similarities and differences between the genders when it comes to networking so you'll never have to guess again about the best way to sell to the opposite sex." -- Dr. Tony Alessandra, author of The Platinum Rule and Non-Manipulative Selling

"A wonderfully revealing look at the way men and women interact in the world of business and beyond." -- Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason

• How to set up shop on Amazon and generate worldwide sales volume with no up-front cost, risk or advertising.
• Run your Amazon store from home, a warehouse or a walk-in store-or outsource everything to Amazon's fulfillment center.
• Find bargain inventory; target niche markets for big profits.
• Get tax deductions and write-offs for business use of your home.
• Use Amazon as a stand-alone business or a lead generator for an existing busines.
• Pay lower sales commissions on Amazon.
• Sell your inventions, crafts or intellectual property on Amazon.
• Guard against scammers and rip-off artists.
• Automate your business with easy-to-use tools

"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?

Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover their top five talents.

In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.

Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself--and the world around you--forever.

Available exclusively in StrengthsFinder 2.0:
(using the unique access code included with each book)

* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)

To succeed, leaders must understand and apply the core principles of leadership--but that’s not enough. You need to shape your approach for any unique situation. Too many leaders don’t know how to do that--and that’s why they fail. Ultimate Leadership shows how to adapt the principles of leadership to different challenges, contexts, and organizations.

Russell E. Palmer--who has had three very different, highly successful careers as head of one of the world’s largest accounting firms, Dean of the Wharton School, and an entrepreneur--helps you identify the leadership model most appropriate for your environment, and how to lead accordingly. You’ll learn better ways to lead your equals, help an organization weather crises, transform its culture, lead entrepreneurial organizations, lead global organizations...even lead non-profit and academic institutions.

Then, drawing on interviews with an extraordinary spectrum of outstanding leaders, Palmer helps you master the attribute every leader must have: the ability to inspire your unique organization, even in the face

of the most daunting challenges.

Exercising strong authority without falling victim to ego or closed-mindedness

Driving changes in a strategic direction when key power centers disagree

Mastering the art of rapid, focused, hands-on execution for organizations in crisis

Reconnecting structures, processes, and strategies with the new realities you face

Succeeding in an environment with widely diverse, highly influential stakeholders