Self Leadership

Whether we realize it or not, we are all brands. We all have qualities that shape and influence how the people in our lives see us - and how we see ourselves. Nationally respected brand experts Jerry Wilson and Ira Blumenthal have helped some of the most exceptional companies and individuals in the world perfect their images. Now, in Managing Brand You, they reveal their proven seven-step process for personal brand building.

Like financial classics The Latte Factor and The Richest Man in Babylon, The Money Tree uses a compelling story with captivating characters to share its core insight: You are never at the mercy of fortune as long as you have an appetite for hard work and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone.

Sales leader and strategist Anthony Iannarino delivers an exciting and effective new take on creating and sustaining powerful sales processes. You'll learn to lead with positivity as you harness negative emotions to make lasting changes for the better and explore the power of gratitude to transform your mental outlook. Discover how to reframe the negative events of your life into the ways they made you stronger and prepared you for future setbacks.

The problem with best-selling leadership, innovation, and business books on the market is that they are geared toward executive leadership. Rebel at Work is for the employee who does the actual work. Change only happens from the inside out. It happens when valuable employees get fed up with leadership's vague direction and conflicting priorities. Rebel at Work will allow you to finally take matters into your own hands.

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

How to Hone Your Emotional Intelligence provides readers with tools and strategies to develop stronger emotional intelligence. Through a mix of research and practical advice, this book discusses the importance of emotional awareness, self-regulation, and empathy, and provides useful tips to develop these skills. This book is an ideal resource for those interested in learning how to better manage their emotions and increase their level of contentment and happiness.

For Hart Evans, being the most popular fifth grader has its advantages: kids look up to him and teachers let him get away with everything. But during one choir practice, Hart zones out too far, accidentally flinging a rubber band at his teacher. Mr. Meinert realizes that if Hart is ever going to discover his musical potential, his punishment must march to a different drummer.

New owner's manual for success! Rewrite the story of your life. How many times have you replayed the disappointing or hurtful moments from your life over and over in your head? Has it shaped who you are? Do you believe your own negative self-chatter? Do you think success is only for the lucky, educated, or connected? Do you long for something you believe you'll never have? If there's one book that will shift that for you, this is it.

The phenomenal international best seller Fish! told the story of a fictional company that transformed itself by applying lessons learned from Seattle's Pike Place Fish market. Now, with Fish! Tales, listeners can learn how people in real-life businesses boosted morale and improved results by implementing these same principles. Here are specific and tested techniques that can be put to use right away in any kind of business or organization, even at home.

Imagine your workplace filled with curious, creative, committed employees. People who take initiative, who are fearless decision makers, who “own” their work. With the right coaching system in place, this dream will soon become reality. With The Extraordinary Coach, leadership guru Jack Zenger and coaching expert Kathleen Stinnett deliver an entire toolbox for coaching your organization to success.

With corporations now associated in the public mind primarily with greed and unethical practices, it's more important than ever for leaders to move the focus back onto integrity, honesty, and doing the right thing. Mort Mandel, a CEO whom Peter Drucker esteemed in the same category as Jack Welch and Andy Grove, has spent the past seven decades mixing business and philanthropy, to the great enhancement of both. In this book, Mandel shows how leaders can create lives of both meaning and profitability.

Former Nike CMO Greg Hoffman shares lessons and stories on the power of creativity drawn from almost three decades of experience within Nike. A celebration of ingenuity and a call-to-arms for brand-builders to rediscover the human element in forming consumer bonds, Emotion by Design is an insider’s guide to unlocking inspiration within a brand and building stronger emotional connections with consumers.

Whether your vision of an ideal career is starting your own business, rising to a different position within your current company, or landing your very first job, Quantum Success will help you make the prosperity and fulfillment of your dreams a reality. Through her accessible, empowering writing, Christy Whitman shares the fundamental principles that she’s discovered after more than 20 years of studying universal forces - such as polarity, alignment, resonance, momentum, and magnetism - and explains how to harness these forces to optimize your wealth and career.

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out, and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.

"I wrote this book because I am passionate about working with business leaders to create work environments that drive positive business results... Given the statistics and the state of the economy, I feel there is a strong need for businesses to work toward changing their corporate culture... I get enormous satisfaction from providing meaningful guidance to leaders at all levels of an organization and from watching them create powerful teams that get things done and contribute to the bottom line. It absolutely thrills me to hear my clients tell me I made a difference in the way they work ...

For 80 years, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has been training people to get the most out of what they put into their careers. The Leader in You builds on the fundamentals of human relationships to help you develop your own innate leadership skills. Learn basic techniques and find the leader in you to succeed.

Discover profound peace of mind and unlock striking success in just 30 days, even if the incessant chatter of your mind has always been your constant companion. Tired of getting lost in the labyrinth of your thoughts? Ever wondered if the reins to a healthier, happier, and more successful self were within you all along? Have you been searching for a truly life-changing guide who understands your struggles and helps you navigate the complexities of mind programming? You have come to the right place. Mastering the mind does not have to feel like you’re trying to solve a Rubik’s cube ...

Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball will dramatically change the way we approach the sales process, replacing the gratuitous complexity advocated by today's sales "experts" with an elegant and very effective simplicity. Studies have shown that the selling techniques of the last two decades have had very little impact on most of the sales population. Why?

In December of 1914, the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, sailed from the island of South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. Its goal: the first overland crossing of Antarctica. Soon trapped in a prison of solid pack ice, the crew became engaged in a legendary fight against brutal cold, impenetrable ice, dwin­dl­ing food, and complete isolation.

Sure! Here’s a compelling Amazon book description for “The Enneagram 1 Leader” that includes both the core message and all the supplemental tools the reader will gain: The Enneagram 1 Leader: Leading with Integrity and Impact Series: The Leader’s Toolbox Do you feel the weight of always needing to do what is right? Are you driven by a desire for excellence, justice, and meaningful change, but often feel exhausted by your inner critic? The Enneagram 1 Leader is a transformational guide explicitly designed for principled leaders who identify with the Type 1 Enneagram profile. This ...