We are all familiar with the glass ceiling blocking womens access to top corporate positions. But there is another largely unknown glass ceiling that blocks both womens and mens efforts to achieve optimum results. It is made up of invisible factors such as expectations, beliefs and the energy needed to carry out ones plans and decisions. By now, even kids know the habits of highly effective people, but what about their secret habits?This book is the result of research conducted fol...

Many men dream of living out their James Bond fantasy, the screen version: exotic travel, adventure, hot women, and icy martinis shaken not stirred. Reality proves different as an innocent quest for a simpler, more spiritual life turns into a nightmare as two seekers, ordinary Americans, stumble across the path of the covert operations of two world powers and become unwilling spies.The story takes the reader through the nether world of the shadow government, all governments in fact...

Soulsmiths, Mystery Spot, Reiki, Timeline, Huna, Neuro-linguistic Programming?With humankind anxiously standing on the threshold of a new millennium, the quest we see before us is for the path to a more soulful life. This book narrates an adventure from California and New Mexico to Bangkok in pursuit of the elusive spiritual secret to life.Disappointed by the lack of direction plaguing our times, a group of Western knowledge seekers attend a cultural event in Bangkok conduc...

In their 30-year business experience the authors faced a continuous need to develop people. They found that managers and training professionals encountered difficulties in efforts to critically examine performance improvement opportunities and in exploring the ingredients of individual performance.Traditional approaches such as skills training, even when based on the findings of job analyses and job knowledge surveys, often failed to significantly affect individual performance. Fac...

You have no financial or medical concerns and you get to be Head of State one day, but you got to hand over your kids to their grandparents when they are one year old. How would you like to live in such a paradise, son?Decades after his godfather told him this bizarre story, the author--a businessman and professor of management with no interest whatsoever in metaphysics--felt he could no longer keep to himself such visions of future heaven or hell. To write and publish a book is an...

Many men dream of living out their James Bond fantasy, the screen version: exotic travel, adventure, hot women, and icy martinis shaken not stirred. Reality proves different as an innocent quest for a simpler, more spiritual life turns into a nightmare as two seekers, ordinary Americans, stumble across the path of the covert operations of two world powers and become unwilling spies. The story takes the reader initially through a womans journal from the most complex concepts regarding the m...

2 years on the road. 1 backpack. 15 countries. Banned from one. Stories about Nepal, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, Kenya, Qatar, UAE, Panama and more. This book is about the days, people, stories, ethics and philosophy that bridged the trip. What is modern travel? Why are you not on the road?

An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores.From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone's International Affairs editor in the 1980s and 1990s, and his brilliant, inimitable political journalism and analysis, P. J. O'Rourke has been entertaining and provoking readers with high octane...

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.

WHAT SECRET DID I DISCOVER FROM ANSWERING 5000 WOMEN'S LETTERS ON THEIR LOVE LIVES? "Can you summarize the book for me in a minute?" People have asked me that cheeky question hundreds of times. So here's the 3-word summary: BE THE LIGHT. What does that mean? Well, 5000 or so letters I've received from women readers on their dating woes can all be boiled down to this: "Does my butt look good in these pants?’ Okay, what ...

What's your ONE thing?People are using this simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in their personal and work lives. Companies are helping their employees be more productive with study groups, training, and coaching. Sales teams are boosting sales. Churches are conducting classes and recommending for their members.By focusing their energy on one thing at a time people are living more rewarding lives by building their careers, strengthening t...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic love even as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.“Luminous . . . Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.” —The New York Times Book Review****“The best rendering of erotic politics . . . since D.H. Lawrence. . . . The voice o...