“When you don’t know where you want to go, the wind always blows from the wrong direction.”

Every manager must manage two companies simultaneously: the present firm and the future firm. Neglecting the future firm will cause the organization to become obsolete given the change of the business environment from day to day. Managing only the future firm and neglecting the present day-to-day business will never get the company to its future goals.

The art of balancing the management of the urgent (today) with the important (future) is presented in this book through two detailed case studies of the Swedish car manufacturer Saab and the Spanish financial institution, Caja de Madrid.

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Negotiating is an important skill we use everyday whether for business, political, or personal purposes. This practical guide is based on more than 20 years' experience in real life situations, as shared by one of New York's toughest union leaders.

The driving force of the Strategic Selling approach is a non-manipulative selling philosophy. The key to ensuring selling success is to manage every sales objective as a joint venture. Sales people must create a framework that fosters a win-win situation; a mutually beneficial transaction where both buyer and seller achieve gains.

The New Strategic Selling book works by helping you sort through confusing data and information associated with every Complex Sale; and to give you a reliable method for analyzing the data, for positioning yourself better with your accounts, and for closing business deals.

Quit being a girl. Unlearn the things you were taught with during early childhood about being overly nice. Being polite, soft-spoken, compliant and submissive will not get you to the corner office. Start acting like a woman and see yourself move fluidly forward in your career.

Dr. Frankel clearly identifies the common mistakes –101 in all—that women commit unconsciously to sabotage their careers. This book provides revolutionary guides to help the women of today eliminate the girl-like behaviors they became accustomed with, which hold them back professionally.

Imagine this: You receive a phone call from the estate of a long-lost relative. You have inherited a million dollars in cash! It's waiting for you in a Swiss bank but there is one catch: The key to the safety box is hidden in a silver container at the summit of Mount McKinley in Alaska. The instructions are clear: you must personally climb the mountain within 12 months. If you don't the money is lost forever. Becoming an Enlightened Millionaire may not be nearly as difficult as this task. But it is similar. Almost anyone can be a millionaire, but it takes proper preparation, right mentorship and a time-tested path to being an enlightened millionaire. Read on and find out.

Everyone wants sustained success. Unfortunately, only few are able to attain this so longed for success. This is not because of a lack of effort or lack of determination; if anything, a good number of people even expend large amounts of effort and display overwhelming determination but still don’t quite make it there. A majority of people don’t experience sustained success because they don’t know where to focus their time, energies and resources on.

These focal points are exactly what you need to know to succeed. “The One Thing You Need to Know” will let you in on the single thing you need to know and focus on as a manager, a leader, or simply, as an individual in order to reach great heights and stay there.  

Beginnings are always tough; first times, inexorably fussy. In this tremendously poignant book, Gunn and Gullickson relate the exigencies brought about by a spanking promotion at work. Both authors point to the experience of walking the high wire—venturing into the unknown without a safety net—as a seemingly disoriented stance of newly-appointed managers/leaders who confront the difficulty of transition into bigger responsibilities and who have qualms about their capabilities to pull off the new job.

Explicit and equally provocative, the book is a pragmatic guide for people who have just advanced in the corporate ladder yet find themselves stumped and stuck in an eddy of self-doubt. It spurs optimism and assurance that the unknown can be unravelled, adapted to, and overcome. It inspires a new approach to leadership that goes beyond what a leader does: it is actually about becoming one.

Liz Davenport offers an easy system to help you clean up your act. If you find yourself missing important deadlines, forgetting to return calls, and misplacing papers, then follow these six simple steps to organizational freedom.

Why get organized? The average businessperson wastes 150 hours each year just looking for stuff. If you got organized, you could accomplish more, and take longer vacations, ultimately freeing your workspace, and your mind, of unnecessary clutter.

Successful organizations are those that are capable of achieving their goals and objectives over time; not to mention being respected and admired by employees, stockholders, and the community.  Along with vision and purpose, the external environment, particularly its predictability and compatibility, also plays a crucial factor in the success of any organization.  The emerging business environment, however, has demonstrated to managers the inadequacy of traditional models, methods, and perspectives of doing business in ensuring long-term success for their organizations.  Moreover, globalization and the materialization of a “knowledge economy” make it imperative for organizations to adopt more effective models of the firm and better organizational principles and practices.

It is in this context that Organizational Survival in the New World presents the intelligent complex adaptive system (ICAS), a new systems model for the successful organization of the future.  This book offers a description of the next-generation organization designed to effectively deal with the turbulent business environment of today. It also provides a clear and comprehensive road map towards developing better organizational structures and management systems using the latest research in knowledge management and complexity theory. 

One of the factors to success is the ability to manage tasks efficiently and systematically in a similarly conducive environment. Practicing time management allows you to accomplish the more important tasks on time; and helps you achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

Organized to Be Your Best! gives simple tips on how to get started and maintain good organization practices. Being productive doesn’t have to be difficult. After all, it’s supposed to make life easier for you.

Whether it is a Lone Ranger, Paul Revere, Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan, the myth of the triumphant individual – the lone hero – is deeply ingrained in the American psyche. But in a shrinking world of technological and political complexity, cooperation and collaboration are now becoming the order of the day. Most urgent projects require the coordinated contributions of many talented people.

“Organizing Genius” by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman presents insights on how and why a few groups rise to greatness, as a way of showing how to transform today’s workplaces into Great Groups of collaboration and productivity. It presents 7 examples of Great Groups – Walt Disney, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Apple, the 1992 Clinton campaign, Lockheed’s Skunk Works, Black Mountain College, and the Manhattan Project, which invented the atomic bomb in World War II.

In The Oz Principle, Connors, Smith, and Hickman brilliantly use the analogy of “The Wizard of Oz” to discuss a business philosophy aimed in propelling individuals and organizations to overcome unfavorable circumstances and achieve desired results. This philosophy can be encompassed in one word: ACCOUNTABILITY.

The eponymous principle builds upon the ethos of personal and organizational accountability. It explores the root cause of an organization's impediments to exceptional performance and productivity, and provides great insight on how to re-establish a business from the bottom up, emphasizing on the thin line that separates success from failure. The Above The Line, Below The Line methodology is the driving force behind the Oz Principle.

This tenth anniversary edition supplies the reader with additional and updated examples of Above the Line, Below the Line experiences of various individuals and organizations.

When used correctly, a performance review can be an effective motivational tool.  Unfortunately, a review can also cause defensive reactions and negative emotions.  As a manager, you must be able to find the right way to document employee performance in order to boost morale, increase productivity, and build strong working relationships.

Author and workplace coach Anne Bruce shares with you a step-by-step guide on creating performance reviews.  If you want to learn how to address the most difficult performance issues, this book is a must-read.

From a new breed of motivators, America’s Attitude Coach Ray Pelletier gives you a practical guide for translating your personal mission into concrete action. Make today your January 1st. Say goodbye to negative thoughts and change your life by giving yourself Permission to Win.

Whether it’s asking your boss for a raise, or dismissing an employee as painlessly as possible, this book addresses all kinds of thorny situations, how we can effectively communicate in business situations, and calmly manage potential conflict.

Starbucks Coffee is an example of turning a passion for coffee into a successful business venture. What started as small coffee shop in Seattle is now a global marketing phenomenon that covered the globe with over sixteen hundred stores and with more opening each day. The principles behind the success of Starbucks Coffee are discussed including the importance of passion for an excellent product and the need to infuse tradition and imagination as part of the business venture. Transforming coffee drinking into a whole new experience is just as important as serving it. By combining several of the principles, managers, marketers and aspiring entrepreneurs can discover why passion is just as important as capital and marketing savvy are in any business undertaking.

Dr. Blaine Lee outlines useful methods to overcome powerlessness, emphasizing that in our business or personal lives, we are always faced with a Choice. This is a book for people who need to understand the greatest power is that which comes through integrity, how principle-centered power, or the way you live your life, is the way to getting the kind of power, respect, and honor that outlasts a lifetime.

Dr. Blaine Lee outlines useful methods to overcome powerlessness, emphasizing that in our business or personal lives, we are always faced with a Choice. This is a book for people who need to understand the greatest power is that which comes through integrity, how principle-centered power, or the way you live your life, is the way to getting the kind of power, respect, and honor that outlasts a lifetime.

A study conducted by the author shows that the most financially successful operations have common characteristics. The relationship between these characteristics and financial success is not trivial.

Thousands or even millions of presentations are given by business executives and entrepreneurs to attract investors, creditors and clients. If you are one of those people who need to get their ideas across to an audience, you must remember that every presentation you make is mission-critical.

This book shows you how to turn dry presentations into fascinating narratives that will captivate your target market. Learn how to focus your presentations to what matters most to the audience. Find out how to get your message across to get that much needed reaction and investment.

Understand how a leader’s mistaken assumptions can create gridlock and organizational jams. This must-read for business managers provides real-life stories on companies from Mattel to Procter & Gamble, Daimler-Chrysler, to Coca-Cola. Pam Harper proposes six guidelines of organizational reality to UNLOCK your company from Strategic Gridlock, so you can drive it down the road to high-performance.

Whether your company is in e-commerce, going public/private, going through a merger/acquisition, entering a new market, reorganizing, outsourcing, or introducing new technology, all these situations can bring about strategic gridlock

When things go wrong — whether in your personal or professional life - chances are you resort to quick-fix plans, strategies and techniques for altering and improving your environment. Often, the problem is caused by a misalignment of your actions and decisions with the correct principles. To solve it, you need to alter not the external circumstances but your perspective.

Best-selling author Stephen M. R. Covey introduces a new management paradigm that can help you transform, not only your organization, but your personal relationships as well. He reveals how you can achieve effective personal and organizational leadership by centering your actions and decisions on a set of time-tested principles.

Ludy’s five-step process shows how to organize teams with the specific purpose of improving profit. When employees are involved in the cost reduction strategy and are actively seeking creative ways to cut costs and keep their jobs, the result is a win-win situation all around.

Written for managers, supervisors, senior executives, consultants, small business owners, and accountants, this valuable resource addresses the real bottom line –everyone builds profit.

We should focus on profit the same way we focus on marketing, human resources, and operations. It is after all, the reason we stay in business.

How do ideas spread? Why do some charities, movies, architects, politicians, potato chips and cars succeed, while others (just as good apparently) fade away?

Purple Cow is a book about how challenging it is to get your ideas to spread-and how you can do it successfully.

This article is an idea that I hope will spread. After you read it (if you like it!) go ahead and forward it to anyone you think might benefit from the lessons here. It's small enough to just email it to someone. Or post it, print it… I don't care, so long as it spreads!

In a business that has become overloaded with corporate buzzwords, Steve Farber finds that true leadership is best achieved by returning to basic principles that are often overlooked in the cutthroat world of business leadership. In this modern parable, he redefines leadership by asking the reader to see it as an extreme sport – hence the term “Radical Leap,” an interesting acronym for its elements: Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof.

Like any sport, Radical Leadership challenges one to break free from the conventional, and makes you face your own mortality and imperfections in order to turn you into a leader people will follow to hell and back.

While some skeptics may view the LEAP as too touchy-feely and sketchy in principle, it cannot be ignored that they are principles that have inspired countless of others to follow people into wars, fanned religious flames, and built the empires of visionaries who had nothing going for them except vision and the ability to infect others with the same drive.

These principles are, in essence, the fuel that drives people to change the world.

Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager and Sheldon Bowles assert that customers have long been neglected and abused by companies that they have developed very low expectations. Despite unfulfilled promises from companies, cold treatment from staff, long waits, and delayed return calls by customer service desks, customers rarely complain and keep coming back to your business, provided your competitors are not doing any better than you.

What businesses need are not “satisfied” customers who will do business with you only until a better competitor comes along. To convert satisfied customers to ”raving fans” for your business, you have to decide what you want your company to be, discover your client’s needs and deliver consistently on your promises.

The boy wonder of the American travel and hospitality business shares the secrets of his success. The characteristic traits of a rebel – passion, vision, instinct and agility- as illustrated by Virgin’s Richard Branson, The Body Shop’s Anita Roddick, and the author himself, are described here in a guidebook for today’s daring new entrepreneurs.

The principles in this book apply universally to anyone who wants to create a humane and empowered workplace, whether you are from a nonprofit organization, in the government or a private business. A new kind of fast company leader is rising to power in the business world. Rebel leaders are rewriting the rules

It is usually a common belief that having too much organization undermines the development of the corporation and individuals. This notion may be true if the organization is badly established. However, if the organization is indeed good, the effect of having an organized corporation will lead to greater opportunities and harmonious working relationships between the employees and employers. 

Requisite Organization is a theory that focuses on managerial hierarchy.  It is doing business with efficiency and competitiveness, and the release of human imagination.

The lessons provided by revolutionaries George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams – to name a few – need not be confined to students of history. The strategies that made the Founding Fathers succeed in forging a republic can also be applied to the boardrooms of IBM, Nike, Honda, Wal-Mart and other modern corporations. The pitfalls and difficulties they encountered also give a valuable insight on how the attitude, tenacity and pragmatism of the leaders enabled them to overcome tremendous obstacles.

FINANCIAL LITERACY = FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
A true tale of two dads- one a highly educated professor, the other, an eighth grade dropout. Educated dad left his family with nothing, except maybe some unpaid bills. The dropout later became one of Hawaii's richest men and left his son an empire. One dad would say, "I can't afford it" while the other, asked, "How can I afford it?"

Rich dad teaches two boys priceless lessons on money, by making them learn through experience. The most important lesson of all is How to Use Your Mind and Time to create personal wealth. Free yourself from the proverbial "rat race". Learn to spot opportunities, create solutions and "mind your own business". Learn to make money work for you, and not be its slave.

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The letters in each quadrant represent the Employee, Self-Employed, Business Owner, and Investor. Discover how to move from the left side to the B and I Quadrants, where you work less, earn more, pay less taxes and have more free time to spend with your loved ones!

This book is for parents who want to give their children valuable financial lessons which our educational system does not provide.

It may be the greatest gift of knowledge you can pass on to them, arming them with the business and money basics for a more secure future in an ever-changing economic environment.