The American economic game and the associated stakes have substantially changed over the past couple of years. With seventy-five million children of the baby boom years moving through and past the age of sixty-five, many find themselves in a very precarious situation at just the “wrong” time in their lives. It’s the new NON-RETIREMENT. If they don't wake up to the new reality and do it soon, at some point in the not too distant future they could be brutally blindsided by learning how insec...

What about having the Walmart management team run the business operations of our country? Although the title Walmart for President is, I hope, somewhat provocative, the subject matter is serious. As citizens, we can no longer stand around passively hoping that a new economic platform will somehow spontaneously take shape and raise us out of our economic difficulties. Our government's unapologetic addiction to borrowing and the pervasive financial challenges of many of our citizens are two ...

What about having the Apple management team run the business operations of our country? Although the title Apple for President is, I hope, somewhat provocative, the subject matter is serious. As citizens, we can no longer stand around passively hoping that a new economic platform will somehow spontaneously take shape and raise us out of our economic difficulties. Our government's unapologetic addiction to borrowing and the pervasive financial challenges of many of our citizens are two clea...

Nearly every professional interaction you have during your career will involve a negotiation of some sort. Whether you're closing a million-dollar deal with a client, bargaining over your own terms of employment, or delegating duties among your coworkers, the key to successful negotiation is possessing intelligence. But intelligence doesn't mean just having smarts. It means knowing your opponents inside and out: how they respond under stress, what tricks they try to pull to catch you off g...

Come out ahead when dealing with the IRS, lawyers, ex-spouses, and other potentially unpleasant people.How to Outnegotiate Anyone shows:Why you should never disclose your deadlineHow to get the other side engaged and into a positive mindsetWhen to deadlock (and when not to)How to tell the real final offer from the not-so-final offerAnd much more!

Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues that business leaders need to understand the differences between economic policy on the national and international scale and business strategy on the organizational scale. Economists deal with the closed system of a national economy, whereas executives live in the open-system world of business. Moreover, economists know that an economy must be run on the basis of general principles, but businesspeople are forever in search of the particular...

America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much, our economy creates too little, and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians—Republican and Democrat alike—just don't get it. While once-great cities fall into decay, Washington thrives, living off the hard work and tax dollars of the private sector. It's time for an American comeback—and it starts with innovation.Throughout its history, America's great innovators...

Written by two Fortune 500 Executives (using a pen name to remain anonymous), Negotiation Skills For Life is designed to assist the reader of any skill level - novice to expert - to manage nearly any type of negotiation one might encounter in everyday life and in business.Building on the idea that negotiations are more "art" than "science" Negotiation Skills For Life uses real life examples and building on nearly forty years of experience, the book utilizes practical, easy to imple...

After a quarter century of serving in the credit union movement-industry by this author, this book is more comprehensive than his first book on credit unions in 1994THE CREDIT UNION DIRECTOR: Roles, Duties, and Responsibilities. This work examines the milieu of the credit union world as related to current theory, process, and practice.In addition, fictional, composite cases provide the reader with the opportunity, through the application process,to analyze the performance and beha...

Besides having a business with outstanding products or services, you must negotiate top deals. This book shows you how to plan for your next negotiation strategy to add top value to your transactions. Avoid paying too much, settling too low, or conceding too quickly! Dr Henk Botha invented the E.m.p.o.w.e.r. (tm) technology that reveals the insider secrets and tactics use by the world's best negotiators.In this read-as-you-need book, you will discover how to -- choose the ap...

This is a book on leadership, which uses the many mistakes and failures of Barack Obama's first term as illustrative examples for leadership lessons to be learned. The mistakes and failures during Obama's presidency are nearly all traceable to his fundamental leadership and experience shortcomings.Barack Obama's grand intentions and soaring rhetoric have not translated into effective leadership—and that is the great learning opportunity. Amidst the many differences about ideology an...

Traditionally an avenue for larger firms, exporting is not just for large U.S. firms today, but also for entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Leverage Point Strategy™, and 11 other leverage points like demand-driven exporting and language and culture in this book, will help you explore new pathways for shaping an export strategy which can build cash flow and profits.