Are you really secure? With the economy drifting and with corporations in disarray, your financial future is in peril. Here's how to secure a prosperous future by transforming your passion into a profession. Learn how to design a career path that will change your life. TIME & MONEY shows you the map that successful people use to create their fortunes. Everyone can benefit from understanding principles of innovation and entrepreneurship. This book is especially useful for the following: - C...

This Festschrift in honour of Ursula Gather’s 60th birthday deals with modern topics in the field of robust statistical methods, especially for time series and regression analysis, and with statistical methods for complex data structures. The individual contributions of leading experts provide a textbook-style overview of the topic, supplemented by current research results and questions. The statistical theory and methods in this volume aim at the analysis of data which deviate from classi...

**An inspirational and practical guide to leadership from the New York Times–bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.Covey, named one of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential Americans, is a renowned authority on leadership, whose insightful advice has helped millions. In his follow-up to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he poses these fundamental questions:How do we as individuals and organizati...

“I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like ‘bait and switch’ and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers... In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.” — Ron WillinghamIf you’ve tried manipulative, self-focused selling techniques that d...

In this practical guide, an educator shares nine principles aimed at helping readers achieve excellence in their careers and in life.We live in a world that places importance and value on achieving the highest levels of personal, social, and professional performance. Think Excellence was born of a concept used to help motivate others to create a mindset that assesses individual and collective potential and that encourages the pursuit of consistent improveme...

Great Leadership Makes an ImpactBusiness needs great leaders. Of all the skills a top performer can master, this may be the most important.The Top Performer's Guide to Leadership is your essential leadership handbook, giving you the tools and techniques you need to become an authentic, influential leader and come out on top. Discover:--How to inspire and get results--Why integrity is essential to leadership--Tools for developing a clear and powerful ...

Learn to tap your innate creativity to generate ideas and boost your performance.

"A simple yet powerful promise: caring leaders can produce extraordinary outcomes." —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Power of RegretBreaking new ground in the exploration of servant leadership, Bob DeKoch and Phil Clampitt draw on their years of experience and research to describe, with vivid, real-world examples, how leading with care enriches people and transforms organizations in our challenging times.Gallup ...

This book is about knowledgeable leadership: how what you do and say helps you lead others through change. This book is about making a difference.

Bite-sized chunks of information equip managers with the skills to meet new challenges, improve efficiency and be successful. Balancing Work and Life shows how to manage life successfully by creating a healthy balance between personal and working life.

FROM PASSION TO PROFIT FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE.Writers, artists, designers, and musicians–get ready to do what you love and pay the bills! When you're in the right mindset you can knock down your limiting beliefs about being good enough and gain the confidence you need to enter the marketplace. Being YOU is the key.Do you doubt your artistic ability? Does the thought of having to convince people to buy your wo...

Not many people are satisfied with the leaders we have in the public and private sectors. We are suffering from a severe lack of good leadershipeven though billions of dollars per year are spent on leadership training and development.The root cause of this leadership vacuum is that leadership gurus firmly believe, teach, and preach that anyone can be made into a leader with the right training, personal desire, and commitment. With this premise, theyve approached leadership as a com...