Taming Technology is one of the brilliantly written books by Brian J. Nichelsen, Ph. D. that enable us to deal and cope with technology 24/7 each day of the year.

This book gives us an in-depth understanding that technology need not be feared but with common sense savvy should enable us to harness its potentials to make us more productive and efficient.

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Getting organized is not an easy task. Everyday, you are forced to deal with mountains of paper that contain both crucial information and useless garbage. This scenario is common to anyone who dares thrive in the workplace.

Without realizing it, you may have bred your very own paper tiger. Although paper can serve a great purpose, a huge amount of it can literally wreak havoc and harm productivity.

Barbara Hemphill, a well-known professional organizer, shares her expertise on how to effectively manage your files, take control of your time and produce effective results.

Whether working with a small group of five people or a big organization of 100 or 1,000 people, one major challenge facing today’s leaders and business managers is how to get their team to deal with change in a fast-moving environment.

“Teaching An Anthill To Fetch” by Stephen James Joyce provides a key concept and tool for this – collaborative intelligence or CQ. The book argues that in today’s world, IQ and EQ are no longer enough – we must also need CQ or the capacity to harness the intelligence and energy of people.  This book teaches tools on how to attract and retain high quality employees, create meaningful participation and effective collaboration, instill a strong sense of purpose to teams, and balance leadership with “followship.”

In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. The idea itself is a simple thing. The process of generating the idea, however, is what can be both tough and circuitous. How then can you make yourself capable of coming up with noteworthy ideas?

This book reveals creative-thinking techniques for approaching and solving problems in unconventional and thought-provoking ways. In addition, it also teaches you to create original ideas to improve both your personal and business lives.

This book is a collection of principles for the attainment of wealth and financial independence.  It was written by Napoleon Hill at the behest of American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who was fascinated with success and wanted to understand why some men became successful while others in very similar circumstances did not.

Over two decades, Hill interviewed 504 people, including such luminaries as Ford, Wrigley, Wanamaker, Eastman, Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Woolworth, Darrow, Burbank, Morgan, Firestone, and three United States Presidents.  Most of those interviewed began in poverty, with little education and influence. Yet, they all managed to become very successful at amassing staggering amounts of wealth.  Hill distilled his findings into a 13-step formula that begins and ends with very basic principles. 

The relative economic superiority and power of the United States is quickly slipping away. This is mainly brought about by the rise of new superpowers, particularly China and India, which are ushering a third wave of globalization, one that is characterized not by corporations but by highly educated and skilled individuals - the three billion new capitalists. The continuous rise to power of countries such as China and India threatens to undermine the six-hundred year old dominance of the west, particularly that of the United States. 

This book serves as a shocking wake-up call for Americans and the rest of the world as it projects the world's economic future if the current trends continue. These trends include increasingly unsustainable trade deficits, the equally unsustainable and dangerous buildup of massive dollar reserves in some countries, the end of the U.S. position as the leader in science in technology, the outsourcing of jobs and the demographic meltdown in major parts of the world.

Towards the end of the book, the author offers practical suggestions on how the U.S. can avert a totally disastrous scenario.  

A business and science writer presents a book that is full of brilliant, fascinating and groundbreaking ideas that should affect the way every thinking person sees the world around him. It is a must-read material for educators, parents, marketers, business people and policymakers. It shows how small changes can make a big difference.

The book contains an analysis of the strategies people apply to influence and mold its direction. It is a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. It is a road map to change, with a profoundly hopeful message--that one imaginative person applying a well-placed lever can move the world and shape and engineer the course of social epidemics.

How do you become a Top Performer? If you are a manager or leader, and you want to become more effective, “Top Performance” by Zig Ziglar is for you. It shows how to maximize your leadership abilities and management skills.

It offers dynamic principles that are applicable for business as well as family life, on managing people effectively, overcoming and correcting poor management practices, developing a healthy self-image, and improving people’s energies, relationships and communication.

Toyota first caught the world’s attention in the 1980s when consumers started noticing that Toyota cars lasted longer and required fewer repairs than American cars. Today, the company is the world’s most profitable car manufacturer, consistently producing high-quality cars using fewer man hours and less on-hand inventories. To this day, Toyota continues to raise the bar for manufacturing, production development and process excellence.

The Toyota Way explains the management principle and business philosophy behind Toyota’s success. It narrates Toyota’s approach to Lean Production (known as the Toyota Production System) and the 14 principles that drive Toyota towards quality and excellence. The book also explains how you can adopt the same principles to improve your business processes, while cutting down on operations and production costs.

Donald Trump is everywhere.  No matter where you are and what you do, you’re bound to have heard of him. 

Much has been said about the man behind the empire, but what really stands out is that although Donald Trump was a millionaire’s son, he was no slacker.  He was not content to live a life of leisure off of his father’s money, a choice he could have easily made.   Instead, he chose to improve upon his status through sheer wit, hard work, and acumen for business that borders on the mythological. 

Few people know that the billionaire has suffered setback after setback, and was once on the brink of bankruptcy.  But this book shares all, stepping stones and building blocks alike, in the life of Donald Trump, making him more human… and therefore all the more remarkable.

What is the key to professional success? According to three of the most popular financial advisors today, the one sure way of gaining business success is to master the ability to earn the trust and confidence of your clients.

David Maister, Charles Green and Robert Galford provide anecdotes and real-life examples that demonstrate the importance of trust in business relationships. They offer readers the chance to learn from their mistakes and to use their successes to jumpstart their own businesses and careers.

In this book, Dr. Karen Otazo reveals 60 principles and techniques that allow you to take control over your career. This is the truth about how to get and keep the job that you really want-- a helpful practical guide to effectively manage your career. 

Businesses are run mostly on auto-pilot and any problem areas are only dealt with when they are already critical, but by then it may already be too late. Most business managers are too busy with the day-to-day work to sit back and look at the business critically in terms of its context and the direction it is going. Brian Tracey's Turbo Strategy provides a checklist of areas that should be regularly examined by all businesses to ensure that it remains on the right path towards success and profitability.

Today’s fastest-growing human resource development process is coaching. Coaches are the sort of people who see the greatness in others, challenge them to live up to their own high standards, and hold them accountable for outstanding performance on a daily basis.

However, what used to be the purview of HR or even external professional coaches is more and more becoming a responsibility of leaders at all organizational levels, who are being asked to be more coach-like with the people they work with. Many of those who are asked to do so are however ill-equipped to provide such coaching.

This is where this book comes in. It provides a unique model and approach to help the managers and leaders of today overcome this challenge and win the war for talent within their organizations.

The Way of the Shepherd presents the story of a young, inexperienced reporter who meets and interviews the most respected CEO in America, and walks away with the lessons of a lifetime – the keys to exceptional leadership. In the course of the interview the CEO shares with the reporter seven proven management principles that are ancient in origin but which are nevertheless very applicable in today’s fast-paced world.

A great number of people today venture into real estate the way millions of people flocked to the gold rush at the beginning of the century. We've seen and heard how many of them dramatically made millions, even billions, after some time. Interestingly enough, we've also seen and heard about how some of them emerged from the business, broke and practically wiped-out. It was inevitable that hearts would go out to those unfortunate souls. The question remains, “What went wrong?”

This inspiring new book is for all those who have dreamed of becoming a pro in real estate and make millions. This book is also for those people who merely wish to do something profitable and worthwhile during their spare time. Based on the ideas and techniques gathered in real estate investing, and conducting seminars, authors Mike Summey and Roger Dawson offer step-bystep, doable, and practical guidance on how to become a hapless victim in the game of real estate investing. No matter what age group or class would-be investors belong to, Summey and Dawson believe that with right knowledge and the right attitude, it is never too late to get started on the way to becoming the next weekend millionaire and eventually achieve financial freedom.

From making a pitch to building a brand, designing a logo to closing the sale, this is a field guide to take with you to the front lines of today's “business battles.”

From the best-selling author of the classic "Selling the Invisible" comes another book filled with lessons learned from real-life stories in the current business environment. Designed for the busy executive (and made to fit nicely in your air travel carry-on) this book explores how the little details really matter in the art of keeping a fruitful and long-term relationship with clients.

The best-selling job-hunter’s bible for decades, this indispensable resource is a complete handbook for people who are on a quest to find their mission in life, or at the very least, the next good job that will put food on the table. Whether you are a fresh graduate, never finished a degree, or are searching for your deeper calling after many years of work, this is the book for you. You may need a temporary job, but the book strongly suggests a major life-changing one!

There are basically two types of job searches: the traditional, and the life-changing. The former requires the usual resume-matched-to-the-employer-formula. The latter begins with a weekend of honest soul-searching and really deep thought. The actual life-changing job hunt may take much longer. You must have adequate reserves of energy and determination to go on this hunt. But the result of the long search is well worth it. Why? Because the search for the “job of your dreams” is really the search for your true happiness…and you have every right to seek this happiness. You may enlist a family member or a good friend for encouragement and support in this major type of job search. This person will be your taskmaster, the one you can trust to follow up on your weekly progress, and will firmly reprimand you whenever you lose focus or give up too soon

Many of us by this time have achieved a certain level of success. In whatever field, you may feel that your hard work is paying off, and you’re nearing the top of the ladder. But you may also think that there is something that’s keeping you from the next level of achievement. Something seems to be missing which holds you back from going even higher.

“What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith gives advice to high achievers and leaders on how they can further their success. An expert on leadership coaching, Goldsmith helps successful people overcome habits, flaws and other traits that keep people from becoming even better in their careers. Written with Mark Reiter, this book lets you tap even deeper into your potential for success. 

Management affects everyone because it is present in every aspect of the world. It applies to managing oneself — focusing our abilities towards our goals. It applies to our working relationships with others because it affects our choices about them. Management is about putting together organizations that work to accomplish a mission.

The basic tasks of the manager are to plan and to execute. The manager assesses the organization’s goals and resources. He defines these clearly for others. The manager formulates a plan of action or a kind of road map. Having the plan, the manager then proceeds to implement it. The manager must constantly keep careful track of where the organization is (Are we heading towards our goal?) and how the organization is performing (Are we utilizing best value from our resources?).

From running a multi-billion dollar business to selling fruit on the street, the CEO and the vendor share the same street-smart instincts or "business acumen" that are the essential skills to running a business. A CEO wants his or her people to understand business basics, from cash flow, to ROI, to sniffing out new opportunities and eventually becoming more involved in the decision-making that leads to bigger profits. The more you get what the CEO wants you to know, the faster your company will grow!

It is amazing to reflect how little systematic knowledge Wall Street has to draw upon as regards the historical behavior of securities with defined characteristics. We do, of course, have charts showing the long-term price movements of stock groups and individual stocks. But there is no real classification here, except by type of business. Where is the continuous, ever growing body of knowledge and technique handed down by the analysts of the past to those of the present and future? When we contrast the annals of medicine with those of finance, the paucity of our recorded and digested experience becomes a reproach. We lack the codified experience which will tell us whether codified experience is valuable or valueless. In the years to come we analysts must go to school to learn the older established disciplines. We must study their ways of amassing and scrutinizing facts and from this study develop methods of research suited to the peculiarities of our own field of work. — Ben Graham, 1946.

What Works on Wall Street, by James P. O'Shaughnessy has been around only since 1998, but has already been hailed as one of the great classics of investment. O'Shaughnessy was the first person not an employee of Standard and Poors to gain access to the S&P Compustat Database, the most important and complete repository of fundamental and technical stock data in the world. The project that inspired this book was to computer backtest the data using various fundamental formula searches in order to find out what styles of investment have actually made profits in the last 50 years or so. It is a huge book, 366 pages long, so this little summary here hardly does it justice. This book is not just good, it is downright momentous, an amazing book that cuts through a century of Wall Street lore to show exactly what techniques pay off, you absolutely must get a copy and read it!!! In very brief form, this is what O'Shaughnessy found.

The only real potential a business has is in its customers. Products, services, location and knowledge are all important, but limited and fairly short term in potential. The potential of customers, however, is only limited by the imagination and expectations of businesspeople and customers.

The people that businesspeople need to build their businesses are out there and waiting to be influenced into becoming customers; they are waiting to experience the good feelings that go with having expectations met. They are constantly searching for satisfaction and recognition of their worth as customers.

True success as businesspeople would result from removing the blinkers preventing us from realizing the enormous potential for growth and increased profits that is within the grasp of those who can focus all their decisions, activities and energies on satisfying their customers.

Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, or spiritual peace of mind. Cheese is what we think will make us happy, and when circumstances take it away, different people deal with change in different ways. Four characters in this delightful parable represent parts of ourselves whenever we are confronted with change. Discover how you can let change work to your advantage and let it lead you to success!

Do you want to build greater customer loyalty? Do you want to know what makes customers keep coming back and apply them to your business? Do you want to know how you make your business even more successful by getting more loyal customers?

If your answer to these questions is yes, then read “Why Customers Come Back” by Manzie R. Lawler. This book helps you discover the motivation and characteristics of loyal customers, and the advantages of dealing with loyal customers. This book is about working with current customers to develop lasting loyalty.

Are you a rule follower, a people pleaser or a paper pusher? Have you been passed over for promotions despite your efforts to be well-liked? Chances are, you are a good girl and this might just be the reason why you are being held back.

Former Good Girl Kate White brings you a 9-step program that is designed to transform you from being a good girl to a gutsy girl. Learn how to change your style and self-image and gain that much needed edge in your career

America’s middle class is disappearing. Today, if you are middle class, you either need to become rich, or you are in danger of suddenly becoming poor. That’s because the US economy is at risk: the dollar is falling, jobs and industries are being exported abroad, wages are decreasing, oil prices are rising, and Social Security and Medicaid are going bankrupt..  Today’s middle class are in danger of losing jobs, retirement pensions, Social Security, and Medicare, and the government cannot protect them.  

Jack Welch has been asked thousands of questions on getting business right.  Even after his retirement as Chief Executive Officer of General Electric, his advice - on just about everything from coping with Chinese competition to devising killer business strategies - has been in great demand. 

Most of the questions, however, come down to this one:  What does it take to win?

First and foremost, winning is achievable.  You must, however, learn what makes winning happen. “Winning” by Jack Welch provides readers with guidelines to follow, rules to consider, assumptions to adopt and mistakes to avoid. 

Alastair Rylatt’s book specifically outlines how businesses and organizations gain excellent performance through sensitivity, interactivity, flexibility, and adaptability.  With these in mind, knowledge is defined as something that is dynamic and can neither be contained nor be spoiled.  However, making use of knowledge is also like planting a seed, in order for it to grow fully; it should be watered, cultivated. It is the way to comprehend what it is to be human in the settings mentioned.

He further describes the approach as the knowledge game, a requirement for winning amidst the demanding, ever-changing cycle of running a venture or leading a group that comprise of members with varied and interesting personalities.

The book is divided into three (3) parts, which are based on three (3) guide posts presented to its reader[s], which they can explore as they further read it:

• Opening hearts and minds
• Growing competitive advantage
• Ensuring lasting success

Many sales professionals find it a daily struggle to understand women customers. The way women interpret behavior, hear unexpected meanings, take in “peripheral” information, and view the overall sales process is very different from how men do so. Needless to say, selling to women is very tough and can often make or break one’s sales career.

As a result, women’s wants, expectations, and needs are far too often misunderstood and/or are not met at the sales professional’s peril. The female market is the largest consumer market out there, and sales professionals can afford neither to ignore nor belittle it.

Most of the successes in businesses and personal life come from initiating relationships with the right people and then strengthening those relationships by using good people skills. Stanley Allyn said that, “Human relation is the most important science in living. The most useful person in the world today is the man or woman who knows how to get along with people.”

However, most people fall into the trap of taking relationships at work or at home for granted. You may also know of some people who are talented, but who cannot succeed in life because they are difficult to deal with. This means building relationships and winning people is extremely important. But what does it take to win people? “Winning with People” by John C. Maxwell offers the basic principles for building good relationships with others that work every time.

Believe it or not, it is easy to create new opportunities for building wealth. In fact, unseen opportunities are passing you by everyday. The only thing you need to do is to look at these overlooked opportunities with fresh eyes and capitalize on them.

Marketing genius Jay Abraham shares with you a program that will help you reach the pinnacle of success. Using the strategies he has utilized as a top advisor to some of America’s top corporations, Jay teaches you how to spot hidden assets and how to use untapped resources to maximize your career and increase your income.

In this book, author Daniel Goleman reveals the skills that distinguish star performers in every field, from entry level jobs to middle-level to top executive posts. The book shows that the single most important factor is not IQ, advanced degrees, or technical expertise, but the quality called "Emotional Intelligence." This book shows that we all possess the potential to improve our emotional intelligence - at any stage in our careers, as individuals or as team members in an organization.

In a perfect world, businesses would run as they were presented in company brochures and portfolios-- performing as lean, mean, profit-making machines, with all its departments and people united as one mind, moving towards a single goal.  But this is hardly a perfect world, and in reality, an office setting is often far from being serene.  It is a mix of personalities and working styles which sometimes clash, creating friction between people and often creating problems for the company as well.

Because the workplace is such a volatile mix of elements that are often beyond an individual’s control, it is impossible to never to have encountered a person who pushes your buttons.  The resulting tension between you and this person is most likely to interfere with productivity, and since you are unable to reprogram them or delete them from your work experience, you’re more likely to sulk and stress about it, with negative results.  If left unsolved, this often leads to the loss of productivity, and in the end, it may even cost you the job that you love.

In Working With You Is Killing Me, you are taught to take control of the situation, change your outlook and responses to the situation in order to be able to handle it in the most professional way possible.

It’s an exciting time for business people. There have never been so many opportunities in the world of business as there are today. We can all achieve more than ever before and in a much shorter timeframe than we previously could have imagined.

“You Inc.” by John McGrath shows you how you can take advantage of these opportunities by creating the business of your dreams. This book offers major strategies and practical, easy-to-do tips on how to turn your current business – into a world-class success.

The author contends that personal training and coaching can help individuals to gain the "edge" required for them to excel. As other success-minded professionals avail of the services of personal trainers and coaches to gain such an edge, readers can have as personal a training through the author's book. The book can be used both as a stand-alone training manual and as part of a learning system known as the Internal Technology (IT) Training Program. The book is a collection of techniques and principles from various disciplines with accompanying experiential exercises to facilitate understanding and application.

If every dollar that you spend on marketing isn't generating more than that amount, then your marketing sucks. You might as well throw away thousand-dollar bills in spending on marketing. So says author Mark Stevens, creator of the Extreme Marketing process.

Extreme Marketing is based on the premise that you know why and what you are spending for in marketing. In other words, your spending is in context with specific goals. There should be a plan that makes every marketing tactic reinforce the other. What gets back must be more than what you spend.

John C. Maxwell, best-selling author of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, begins this book by sharing an article about how people define success. He reveals that most people who want to be successful misunderstand success, that it is an ideal situation incorporating impossible elements. Some want to have the beauty of a Cindy Crawford or the business acumen of a Bill Gates. He redefines success but stating what it is not. It is not wealth, not a feeling of success, specific possessions, power or achievement. He then cites specific examples of well-known personalities who had achieved all these but could still not consider themselves succesful.

A fictitious character by the name of Bill Ambers is this book's protagonist. Bill is the classic director of customer service in a call center. He faces the challenge set by his new boss, Angela Krafft, the archetype of the results-oriented boss. Angie simply wants him to "turnaround the numbers" and improve the call center's customer service, without the support of a big budget. Together with his HR counterpart Sarah, and with the help of a mentor, Landscaper Michael St. Vincent, Bill learns to systematically dig to the root of the problem, discovering how to Zap The Gaps in his department's performance.