Power and Influence: Mastering the Art of Persuasion by Robert L. Dilenschneider

Power and Influence: Mastering the Art of Persuasion by Robert L. Dilenschneider

Firnando Chau Review


From Publishers Weekly
"What do people know who are able to exert influence and advance their careers? What is the secret that they understand so well? I would say that they grasp a very simple relationship: the connection between communication, recognition, and influence," contends Dilenschneider, CEO of the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, in this authoritative handbook on leadership strategies. He argues that heightened competition and corporate takeovers have created an extremely volatile and challenging business climate, and draws on his own experiences in coping with crises (e.g., the cyanide contamination of shipments of Chilean grapes to the U.S. in March 1989) by cultivating good relations with the "iron triangle" of press, government and special interest groups. Quality work and accountability, Dilenschneider stresses, are an executive's basic responsibilities, while open, ethical communication remains a crucial skill. Executive Program/Macmillan Book Club dual main selection; Fortune Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
The highly acclaimed national bestseller, now in paperback, Power and Influence is an invaluable primer for those already in power and those who desire it. "Bob Dilenschneider...a man who has been on the front lines where expertise and experience are all that counts."--Larry Speakes, White House Press Secretary, 1981-87. "The authoritative handbook on leadership stategies."-- Publisher's Weekly. Index.

The 110% Solution by Mark H. McCormack (Paperback - Jan 10, 1992)

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pan Books (January 10, 1992)
• ISBN-10: 0330318829
• ISBN-13: 978-0330318822

Product Description

For the businessperson who wants that promotion, the housewife who needs to manage time more efficiently, the student who hopes to study more effectively...here is an invaluable guide to maximizing your personal and professional potential.The message from Mark McCormack, owner of the billion dollar management group I. M. G., is simple: achieve peak self-esteem, peak performance and peak success by putting forth peak effort. Giving even 100% is just not enough -- you must learn how to give that extra 10%. The key, according to McCormack (who cites clients such as Martina Navratilova and Jean Claude Killy as examples), is the successful management of every aspect of your life -- your time, your talent, your creativity. Learn how to identify your strengths and use them to their greatest advantage. And discover that, while there are no shortcuts to getting ahead some paths are easier -- and more rewarding -- than others. --This text refers to theAudio Cassette edition.

From the Inside Flap

For the businessperson who wants that promotion, the housewife who needs to manage time more efficiently, the student who hopes to study more effectively...here is an invaluable guide to maximizing your personal and professional potential.


The message from Mark McCormack, owner of the billion dollar management group I. M. G., is simple: achieve peak self-esteem, peak performance and peak success by putting forth peak effort. Giving even 100% is just not enough -- you must learn how to give that extra 10%. The key, according to McCormack (who cites clients such as Martina Navratilova and Jean Claude Killy as examples), is the successful management of every aspect of your life -- your time, your talent, your creativity. Learn how to identify your strengths and use them to their greatest advantage. And discover that, while there are no shortcuts to getting ahead some paths are easier -- and more rewarding -- than others. --This text refers to theAudio Cassette edition.

Life Lessons: Book of Luke by Max Lucado

The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals by William J. Bennett (Paperback - Sep 6, 1999)

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Free Press, The, New York, NY, U.S.A. (1999)
• ASIN: B002JMQUYC

Amazon.com Review

Don't look for President Clinton's picture in The Book of Virtues; bestselling author and former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett considers Bill Clinton uniquely unvirtuous. In the wake of the White House intern sex scandal, Bennett accuses Clinton of crimes at least as serious as those committed by Richard Nixon during the Watergate imbroglio. Rising above anti-Clinton polemics, The Death of Outrage urges the American public--which initially displayed not much more than a collective shrug--to take issue with the president's private and public conduct. Clinton should be judged by more than the state of the economy, implores Bennett. The commander in chief sets the moral tone of the nation; a reckless personal life and repeated lying from the bully pulpit call for a heavy sanction. The American people should demand nothing less, says the onetime federal drug czar. In each chapter, Bennett lays out the rhetorical defenses made on Clinton's behalf (the case against him is "only about sex," harsh judgmentalism has no place in modern society, independent counsel Kenneth Starr is a partisan prosecutor, etc.) and picks them apart. He may not convince everybody, but this is an effective conservative brief against Bill Clinton. --John J. Miller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

That the author of the Book of Virtues (1993) is appalled by the Clinton-Lewinsky affair is certainly no surprise. Nor is it surprising that Bennett's take on the affair was rushed into publication just after the president's short speech on the matter. After all, if the president was to resign, the book would be moot. Bennett's stated objective is to put the presidential sex scandal into a larger perspective; he hopes to shows that if Americans accept the arguments made in Clinton's defense, "we will have committed an unthinking act of moral and intellectual disarmament." To make sure that doesn't happen, Bennett sets out all Clinton's defenses and attempts to shoot them down. His topics include sex, character, politics, Ken Starr, law, and judgment. Anyone who has heard Bennett (or any of his fellow talking-heads) on the unending television shows that are tracking the scandal will find nothing new here. On the other hand, Bennett's organization is crisp, and his arguments, unlike those of so many on both sides of the issue, are cogent. That doesn't mean a bit of demagoguery here and a bit of disingenuousness there doesn't creep in. For instance, he baldly states that Clinton or Reno could simply fire Starr if they feel he has performed his job so poorly. Surely he's old enough to remember the Saturday Night Massacre and how well that worked out for Nixon. Whether this book will change anyone's mind is doubtful, but there can be no doubt about one thing: Bennett will continue to turn up on the talk shows. Ilene Cooper --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

U.S. News & World Report A piercing commentary on the Moinca Lewinsky scandal and a defining event within it. -- Review

Product Description

In this new, updated edition of a book heralded as a clarion call to the nation's conscience, William Bennett asks why we see so little public outrage in the fade of the evidence of deep corruption within Bill Clinton's administration. The Death of Outrage examines the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it unfolded, from Clinton's denials that he had had sex with a young White House intern, to his testimony before the grand jury, to the nation's decision not to remove Clinton from office. Brick by brick, Bennett dismantles the wall of defenses offered by Clinton and his apologists, and casts the clear light of moral reason and common sense on a shameful chapter in American history.

About the Author

William J. Bennett served as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bush, and as Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan. He is the editor of The Book Virtues and is currently co-director of Empower America in Washington, D.C.

From The Washington Post

...a slim book with a correspondingly slim premise ... Bennett displays contempt for average Americans, calling us fools because we do not view the president the same way he does. Rather than seeking to understand the moral underpinnings of positions others take, he dismisses them as debased, lacking in morality. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract

Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner by Phillip C. McGraw

Relationship Rescue: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner by Phillip C. McGraw (Hardcover - Aug 31, 2001)

Amazon.com Review

As a follow-up to his bestselling book Life Strategies, Oprah acolyte Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., moves from aiding the aimless individual to coaching the disconnected couple. McGraw has distilled his more than two decades of counseling experience into a seven-step strategy he calls "Relationship Rescue.""I'm prepared to kick a hole in the wall of the pain-ridden, unhappy maze you've gotten yourself into, and provide you clear access to action-oriented answers and instructions on what you must do to have what you want," says Dr. Phil. His aim is to expose and eliminate the saboteurs that cause senseless damage to already-fragile marriages, and, like an emotional root canal, to replace them with values he says provide positive results. If you follow Dr. Phil's strategy, he will lead you on a precise journey to uncover your heart and then share it with your partner as part of taking the "risk of intimacy."
Dr. Phil leads you to "reconnect with your core" in the first five steps of his seven-step strategy. By no means a quick fix, there are in-depth and rigorous questionnaires, surveys, tests, and profiles that require a "brutally candid" mindset, with such fill-in-the-blanks as "List five things that today would make you fall out of love with your partner." With this internal work accomplished, you'll then move on to reconnecting with your partner during a two-week, half-hour-a-day short course. As a "dyad," you and your loved one take turns giving monologues on topics such as "The most positive thing I took away from my mother and father's relationship was..."
Once the "reconnection" has been established, Dr. Phil says the work shifts to a management role, as relationships are always a work in progress. Dr. Phil humorously refers to his own marriage throughout the book, sharing his mishaps and victories in learning to accept and enjoy what he sees as fundamental but complementary differences between men and women. --John Youngs --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Oprah's relationship expert and the author of the hugely popular Life Strategies, McGraw offers a challenge to readers in troubled marriages. (Though he refers to "relationships," his comments about the roles of men and women make it obvious that McGraw has mostly traditional marriages in mind.) With typical frankness, the Dallas psychologist declares that the underlying reason that "your relationship is in trouble [is] because you set it up that way." Traditional relationship counseling doesn't work, McGraw says, so he dares readers to follow his multistep plan for "reconnecting," which demands honest exploration, through exhaustive self-tests and questionnaires designed to define each partner's needs and expectations. The last step of McGraw's program is probably the most difficult and rewarding: 14 days of structured reconnection exercises in which the partners share their deepest feelings. By participating with the required level of commitment, candor and seriousness, couples would seem to guarantee enhancing their relationships. Despite the strengths of his program, McGraw's compelling television presence doesn't translate well to the page. He reminds readers so often that the "reconnecting" process will not be easy or fun that at times he seems more hectoring than persuasive--not that this is likely to matter to his viewers and fans. One-day laydown on February 8; television and radio satellite tours. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

McGraw does a wonderful job of examining practical steps that can help to rescue floundering intimate relationships. From the beginning, he acknowledges that only one partner may be inspired to take the action he recommends. He says the core causes of relationship collapse include believing in relationship myths; failing to take personal responsibility for the relationship; and ignoring one's own "core consciousness" (i.e., that which is integral to one's own belief systems). He then helps the listener learn how these blocks can be identified and overcome. McGraw's acknowledged belief in a "Higher Power" might also bring comfort to users who desire a religious basis for healing. The advice itself, however, is mainstream, obviously based on McGraw's broad experience as a counselor, and will almost certainly inspire someone looking for help for a relationship in crisis. Librarians acquiring this program must be aware of limitations that may make it a secondary purchase. First, this tape is meant to be used over an extended period of time. Second, a "relationship test booklet" is included in the packageAa small pamphlet that will soon be lost in most libraries. Finally, the author indicates that use of this book alone is enough to save a failing relationship. Most patrons, after reviewing the audiobook, will decide if they want to have their own copy or not. In the meantime, it may offer hope to anyone struggling to make a relationship work.AKathleen Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Description

As a follow-up to his bestselling book Life Strategies, Oprah acolyte Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., moves from aiding the aimless individual to coaching the disconnected couple. McGraw has distilled his more than two decades of counseling experience into a seven-step strategy he calls "Relationship Rescue.""I'm prepared to kick a hole in the wall of the pain-ridden, unhappy maze you've gotten yourself into, and provide you clear access to action-oriented answers and instructions on what you must do to have what you want," says Dr. Phil. His aim is to expose and eliminate the saboteurs that cause senseless damage to already-fragile marriages, and, like an emotional root canal, to replace them with values he says provide positive results. If you follow Dr. Phil's strategy, he will lead you on a precise journey to uncover your heart and then share it with your partner as part of taking the "risk of intimacy."Dr. Phil leads you to "reconnect with your core" in the first five steps of his seven-step strategy. By no means a quick fix, there are in-depth and rigorous questionnaires, surveys, tests, and profiles that require a "brutally candid" mindset, with such fill-in-the-blanks as "List five things that today would make you fall out of love with your partner." With this internal work accomplished, you'll then move on to reconnecting with your partner during a two-week, half-hour-a-day short course. As a "dyad," you and your loved one take turns giving monologues on topics such as "The most positive thing I took away from my mother and father's relationship was..."Once the "reconnection" has been established, Dr. Phil says the work shifts to a management role, as relationships are always a work in progress. Dr. Phil humorously refers to his own marriage throughout the book, sharing his mishaps and victories in learning to accept and enjoy what he sees as fundamental but complementary differences between men and women. --John Youngs

About the Author

Dr Phillip C. McGraw is the person Oprah Winfrey credits with helping her win the Amarillo 'mad cow' trial. A trial scientist with over 15 years' experience in the psycho-legal system, he is president of a litigation consulting firm and leads a team of experts from many fields. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From AudioFile

Plain and simple, this is the best audio on fixing romantic relationships that's ever been made. It's not perfect (Dr. Phil's cowboy omnipotence is not everyone's taste), but it covers every aspect of rediscovering and nurturing a long term connection. He urges listeners to first become integrated by finding their "core consciousness" and then to make a decision, if possible, to do whatever their partner needs to make the relationship work. The advice is well organized and supported by fabulous exercises, and it's mainly for couples who want to succeed with each other. Intuitive and sensible by anyone's standards, the program gives specific advice on how to get away from unhealthy ways of connecting and find satisfaction in unconditional commitment and giving. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Bloomberg by Bloomberg by Michael R Bloomberg

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471208884
ISBN-13: 978-0471208884

Blown to Bits

My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico

• Hardcover: 656 pages
• Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (September 9, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679432965
• ISBN-13: 978-0679432968

Amazon.com Review

General Powell may have undertaken this book as a form of paid political test marketing, but it turns out to be a success of an altogether different kind. We don't learn from this book if Powell is presidential material, but his recounting of the various steps of his career give us an unrivaled view of the ins and outs of military bureaucracy and shows how the modern American military, with its consistent emphasis on can-do attitudes and actual results, is a much more congenial place for realizing one's talents than our still-alarmingly pigeonholing general society.

From School Library Journal

YA?The eminently readable journey of one African American boy from a close-knit neighborhood in the South Bronx through his rise to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to civilian retirement. Powell was neither an athlete nor a scholar; his childhood centered around his home, friends, and church. Later, in college, he found his niche. ROTC offered structure and purpose. A recounting of his army career and the support offered by family and friends are the primary focus of this work. Challenges, lessons learned, and opportunities opened by each posting are shared. Commanding officers, selected business contracts, and four presidents are introduced and evaluated, almost all in a positive light. Powell's involvement with and analysis of national and international affairs, from Vietnam to the Clinton administration, are succinctly and objectively recounted. Scattered throughout the book are personal rules of conduct and occasional incidents of particular kindnesses and of racism. Teens are given an opportunity to spend some time with a thoughtful, positive leader. They can share one participant's view of recent history and gain one perspective on our country's current needs.?Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

This is the "story so far," as General Powell tells it, from the Bronx to Vietnam to the White House, from the common to the regal. His account is one of captivating extremes, tales that span from peeling potatoes with the Soviet General Staff to conversing with the Queen of England. When Powell is not working on world crises-Panama, Iraq, Haiti-he's doing normal things like normal people, courting, quitting smoking, fighting calories. As a White House Fellow, National Security Advisor, and then the "youngest officer, the first African American, and the first ROTC candidate" to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell dealt with "every issue from arms control to Bermuda tax treaties." It's all very personable: Powell's Rules for running a meeting, his political philosophy, working for a chocoholic Defense Secretary, getting caught by Pentagon security with an antique rifle. But will he run for president? No clear answer is given here. For popular biography collections.
--John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recalls his youth in the South Bronx, his military service in Germany and Korea, his experiences with discrimination, his tours in Vietnam, and his rise to the heights of America's political and military elite. 500,000 first printing. First serial, Time. Tour.

From the Publisher

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, he himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness. He writes of the anxieties and missteps as well as the triumphs that marked his rise to four-star general, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, mastermind of Desert Storm, and now the man the country would most like to draft as President just as it drafted General Eisenhower before him in 1952. We see Powell growing up, getting into mischief, going to church with his father, working in a bottling plant, joining the ROTC. We follow him as a green young lieutenant on his first foreign posting in Germany, where his ascent is nearly aborted by a blunder on the day he is assigned to guard an atomic cannon. We go on patrol with him into the jungles of Vietnam, where he is wounded, and then, in the first surprise turn of his career, into the every-bit-as-dangerous thickets of Washington bureaucracy as a Pentagon aide in the Carter administration. We see how he handled the humiliations inflicted on him as a black soldier traveling in the Deep South and the unnerving challenges he faced as a battalion commander in Korea, where the army guarding the border with North Korea was plagued by drugs, drinking, a lack of discipline, and racial tension. We are edge-of-the-seat spectators to some of the great international dramas of our time - Desert Storm, the invasion of Panama, the dark dealings of Iran-contra with Ollie North and Bill Casey, the climactic meetings with Gorbachev. And we are present also at the encounters with President Clinton on the controversial question.

From the Inside Flap

"A GREAT AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY . . . AN ENDEARING AND WELL-WRITTEN BOOK."
--The New York Times Book Review
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness.
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders, General Powell's passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, "the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers" inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision.
"The stirring, only-in-America story of one determined man's journey from the South Bronx to directing the mightiest of military forces . . . Fascinating."--The Washington Post Book World
"Eloquent."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"PROFOUND AND MOVING . . . . Must reading for anyone who wants to reaffirm his faith in the promise of America."
--Jack Kemp
The Wall Street Journal
"A book that is much like its subject--articulate, confident, impressive, but unpretentious and witty. . . . Whether you are a political junkie, a military buff, or just interested in a good story, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY is a book well worth reading."
--San Diego Union Tribune
"Colin Powell's candid, introspective autobiography is a joy for all with an appetite for well-written political and social commentary."
--The Detroit News




From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

One of the most prominent figures in American public life, General Colin L. Powell served as the twelfth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both President George Bush and President Bill Clinton. He was a major architect of Desert Storm, the dramatic Allied success in the forty-three-day Gulf War, which began in January 1991.


General Powell was born in New York City in 1937 and raised in the South Bronx by his parents, who had immigrated to America from Jamaica. He came up through the New York City public school system and received a commission as an army second lieutenant upon graduation from the City College of New York in 1958.


Early in his career, General Powell was stationed in Germany and in a number of posts in the United States, and served two tours in Vietnam, 1962-1963 and 1968-1969. He was also a battalion commander in Korea from 1973 to 1974 and later commanded the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and V Corps in Germany.


General Powell was appointed Deputy National Security Advisor by President Ronald Reagan in January 1987 and in December 1987 became National Security Advisor, a post he held until January 1989. He served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1989 until his retirement on September 30, 1993.


General Powell has received numerous U.S. military awards and decorations, as well as civilian awards honoring his public service, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he was awarded twice. He has also been decorated by the governments of Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, and received an honorary knighthood (Knight Commanders of Bath) from the Queen of England.

What You Feel You Can Heal by John Gray

About the Book:-
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: John Gray's Mars Venus LLC; 2nd edition (December 16, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0931269016
ISBN-13: 978-0931269011

Firnando Chau Review


About the Book


The author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus updates his guide to enriching relationships with members of the opposite sex. Gray explains how differences between women and men often lead to unnecessary clashes and offers new ways to understand, avoid, and resolve conflicts. Line drawings.


About the Author


John Gray, Ph.D., is the author of Mars and Venus on a Date, a follow-up to his phenomenal bestselling book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, which has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and millions more in 40 languages around the world. Gray is also the author of the bestselling Mars and Venus in the Bedroom, Mars and Venus Together Forever, Men, Women and Relationships, What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know, the recently published Mars and Venus in Love, and the star of a new CD-ROM version of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.
An internationally regarded expert in the field of communication, relationships and personal growth, Dr. Gray's focus is assisting men and women in understanding, respecting and appreciating their differences. Over the past quarter century he has conducted public and private seminars with a total of more than a million participants. In his highly acclaimed books and in his popular weekend seminar, "Men, Women and Relationships," Gray entertains and inspires his audiences with practical insights and easy-to-use techniques that they can apply to enrich their relationships immediately.


Gray is happily married to Bonnie Gray and has three daughters -- Laren, Julie and Shannon. He not only understands first-hand the principles of successful marriage, he's also experienced the serious problems that can trouble any union, having previously married and divorced.


Gray lived as a monk for nine years, which helped him to learn about solitude and serenity. He studied for many years with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and received both his B.A. and his M.A. in Creative Intelligence from Maharishi European Research University. In 1982 received his doctorate in psychology and human sexuality from Columbia Pacific University.


John Gray is a popular speaker on the national lecture circuit and makes frequent appearances on television and radio programs to discuss his work. Gray has been interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Donahue, Good Morning America, Eye to Eye With Connie Chung, CNBC and CNN, as well as on countless local television and radio programs across the country. He has been profiled in USA Today and People magazine, and is regularly quoted in Cosmopolitan , Glamour and other popular magazines. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Paperback: 208 pagesPublisher: Harvest House Publishers (January 1, 2007)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0736919244ISBN-13: 978-0736919241

The Power of a Praying® Wife by Stormie Omartian (Paperback - Jan 1, 2007)

Product Description

Stormie Omartian’s mega bestselling The Power of a Praying® series (more than 8.2 million copies sold) is re–released with fresh new covers to reach a still–growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.
Bestselling author Stormie Omartian inspires women to develop a deeper relationship with their husbands by praying for them. This encouraging resource is packed with practical advice on praying for specific areas of a husband’s life including his

• decision–making
• fears
• spiritual strength
• role as father, leader
• faith and future

Every woman who desires a closer relationship with her husband will appreciate the life illustrations, select Scripture verses, and the assurances of God’s promises and power for their marriage.

The Bamboo Network, How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia by Murray L. Weidenbaum and Samuel Hughes

Product Description

The Bamboo Network shows how a remarkable group of ethnic Chinese families has been the driving force behind China's transition from communism to capitalism: the economic miracle" that took the Western business world by surprise. Murray Weidenbaum, a leading international economist, and Samuel Hughes trace the history of these enterprising leaders, who fled the mainland after the Communist takeover in 1948 and settled through out Southeast Asia. Following in the tradition of generations of expatriate Chinese merchants, they began establishing small family businesses. Today, the authors show, these have expanded into conglomerate business empires. Entrusting corporate divisions almost exclusively to relatives, and dealing extensively with fellow expatriates, these entrepreneurs have formed close-knit and formidable business spheres throughout Southeast Asia -- a "bamboo network."

Members of the bamboo network were well-positioned to do business in China when this first became possible: since they "speak the language," both literally and culturally, they were favored as business partners by the both the Chinese government and the emerging private sector. They have been financing and often managing the development of manufacturing, banking, and other key industries in China.

Western investors and entrepreneurs seeking to enter the Chinese market are a step behind the members of the bamboo network. This book evens the score. Weidenbaum and Hughes show how private enterprise can thrive in China, providing unrivaled insight into the philosophy and culture that inform doing business there. The Bamboo Network will be indispensable reading for those who wish to crack the world's largest market and investment opportunity. For, despite the serious domestic problems likely to arise within the region, overseas Chinese business families will no doubt continue to take advantage of changing threats and opportunities in the fastest-growing and most competitive economy in the world. Whether as friends or rivals of the bamboo network, Americans must learn more about this exotic sector of the global marketplace.

The Entrepreneur's Creed: The Principles & Passions of 20 Successful Enterepreneurs by Merrill Oster & Mike Hamel

The Entrepreneur's Creed: The Principles & Passions of 20 Successful Entrepreneurs by Merrill J. Oster and Mike Hamel (Feb 2001)

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Hardcover: 226 pages
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers; illustrated edition edition (February 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0805423575
ISBN-13: 978-0805423570


The son of Italian immigrants, Jerry has become one of the most powerful men in sports. One of only a handful of "triple aces" in World War II, Ken returned from a POW camp to start a business he later sold for $139 million. A mother of seven, Noel has been called "the third most powerful businesswoman in L.A." At a time when people are looking for spiritual meaning and purpose in their work, stories of people with depth and balance in their lives who have overcome remarkable obstacles yet achieved remarkable success are more inspirational than ever. Authors Oster and Hamel tell twenty such inspirational stories outlining these entrepreneurs' commitment to God, genuine love of people, willingness to take risks, and ability to learn and adapt to change. The Entrepreneur's Creed combines sage counsel on how to be spiritually and ethically grounded with sound wisdom on success.


About the Author


Merrill Oster is Chairman of Oster Communications, Inc. and lectures widely on world business issues. The author of Vision-Driven Leadership, he and his wife are currently residing in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Mike Hamel is President of EMT Communications, Inc. He also maintains an active speaking schedule. He and his wife are currently residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is the author of The Women's Ministry Handbook.


He is a professional writer with over a dozen books to my credit, including a trilogy of titles dealing with faith and business: The Entrepreneur's Creed, Executive Influence and Giving Back.


His most enjoyable project to date has been an eight-volume juvenile fiction series called Matterhorn the Brave. It's based on variegated yarns I used to spin for my four children. They are now grown and my three grandchildren will soon be old enough for stories of their own.


He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with my bride of 36 years, Susan.

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement Edited by Matthew Sartwell

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement Edited by Matthew Sartwell

Firnando Chau Review



Table of Contents:-
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 What Will PMA Do for You?
2 Step One: Take Possession of Your Own Mind with Conviction
3 Step Two: Keep Your Mind on the Things You Want and off the Things You Don't Want
4 Step Three: Live the Golden Rule
5 Step Four: Eliminate All Negative Thoughts by Self-Inspection
6 Step Five: Be Happy! Make Others Happy!
7 Step Six: Form a Habit of Tolerance
8 Step Seven: Give Yourself Positive Suggestions
9 Step Eight: Use Your Power of Prayer
10 Step Nine: Set Goals
11 Step Ten: Study, Think, and Plan Daily
12 A Man Who Puts PMA to Work Every Day
13 Where Do You Go from Here?
Further Reading
Index

Synopsis
Napoleon Hill summed up his philosophy of success in Think and Grow Rich!, one of the bestselling inspirational business books ever. A recent USA Today survey of business leaders named it one of the five most influential books in its field, more than 40 years after it was first published. Now, in Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success, his broadly outlined principles are expanded in detail for the first time, with concrete advice on their use and implementation.

Compiled from Hill's teaching materials, lectures, and articles, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success provides mental exercises, self-analysis techniques, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking personal and financial improvement. In addition to Hill's many personal true-life examples of the principles in action, there are also contemporary illustrations featuring dynamos like Bill Gates, Peter Lynch, and Donna Karan. No other Napoleon Hill book has addressed these 17 principles so completely and in such precise detail. For the millions of loyal Napoleon Hill fans and for those who discover him each year, Napoleon Hill?s Keys to Success promises to be a valuable and important guide on the road to riches.
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About the Author

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) was born in poverty in rural Virginia, and rose to become one of the world’s premier motivational authors and speakers. An advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and a confidant of Andrew Carnegie, Hill’s philosophy of success has inspired thousands of men and women to aquire untold personal and financial riches.

Managing with Carrots: Using recognition to attract and retain the best people by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

Managing with Carrots: Using recognition to attract and retain the best people by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton

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Managing with Carrots : Using Recognition to Attract and Retain the Best People - Hardcover (Mar. 20, 2001) by Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick


Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1 edition (March 20, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1586850776
ISBN-13: 978-1586850777


About the Book


There’s a crisis in business today," say corporate recognition consultants Gostick and Elton. "The rhetoric we’ve been using for years—about people being ‘our most valuable asset’—has actually come true. Without much warning, we woke up one day and realized that having the right talent in this competitive marketplace is the key to success . . . Go figure."
But there is a way to retain your best employees and win their loyalty and commitment: It’s called Employee Recognition. Managing with Carrots illustrates how to implement a strategic employee recognition program and presents case studies of how North America’s finest companies create powerful recognition experiences.


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A peson entering the workforce today will have eight to ten jobs during his or her working life, and most people will change careers at least once. For a company trying to stay ahead in a competitive world, this decline in employee commitment could be the difference between corporate success and oblivion.
But it is possible to win employee commitment and retain the best employees. Many of the world's finest organizations have carefully built cultures of employee recognition, and their efforts have been rewarded with well-documented increases in employee satisfaction, productivity and profitability. Unfortunately, most organizations have no idea how underappreciated their workers feel, and many wonder why so many of their employees leave for new jobs that pay just pennies more an hour.


Corporations can save thousands, even millions, of dollars and man-hours by keeping their best employees instead of continually recruiting and training new people. Managing with Carrots shows you how. Based on years of practical research focused on the best managers in the best organizations, Gostick and Elton explain how to create powerful, bonding recognition experiences and present case studies from some of North America's finest companies.


Use this book to create your own plan for rewarding employees, and watch attitudes change. Let the experts guide you through the steps to rewarding employees for actions that support your company's goal--without spending a fortune.


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There's a crisis in business today. The rhetoric we've been using for years-about people being "our most valuable asset"-has actually come true. Without much warning, we woke up one day and realized that having the right talent in this competitive marketplace is the key to success. Go figure.

The World According to Peter Drucker by Jack Beatty

The World According to Peter Drucker by Jack Beatty

About the Book:-
Hardcover, 204 pages 
Publisher: The Free Press,Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, Jan 1998
ISBN-13: 9780684838014
ISBN: 068483801X


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Table of Contents:-
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. A Singular Education
2. "I Write"
3. In Search of the New Society
4. Inside GM
5. The Basic Disturbance of the Twentieth Century
6. Inventing Management
7. The Age of Discontinuity
8. Bring Your Own Machete
9. "God Does Not Need a Management Consultant"
Notes
Indexed List of Books by Peter Drucker
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About the Boook


Peter Drucker is arguably the most influential architect of today's corporate society. Yet no concise overview of his life and work has ever appeared—until now. Creating a Drucker primer as much as a biography, Jack Beatty has distilled the essence of Drucker's beliefs and strategies into one engaging volume. Spanning Drucker's childhood in Vienna during the first world war, through his first American teaching jobs when raging factions debated the best form of government (if any), to his immersion in modern management theory using General Motors as a model, and finally, to the era of downsizing facing his Fortune 500 clients, The World According to Peter Drucker also captures our own corporate evolution in this century.


About the Author


Jack Beatty is a Senior Editor at the Atlantic Monthly, where he has edited several of Peter Drucker's Articles, and the author of The Rascal King, a biography of the legendary Irish-American Politician James Michael Curley that John Kenneth Galbraith described as "truly brilliant"

Recognizing and Rewarding Employees by R. Brayton Bowen

Recognizing and Rewarding Employees by R. Brayton Bowen

About the Book:
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 28, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071356177
ISBN-13: 978-0071356176


Website: http://www.rbraytonbowen.com/employee_recognition_rewards.htm 



Table of Contents:-
Chapter 1. Understanding the New Workforce.
Chapter 2. The Difference Between Bribes and Flattery, Recognition and Rewards.
Chapter 3. The Human Nature of Work.
Chapter 4. Rewarding Employees by Leading Well.
Chapter 5. Building a Culture for Desired Outcomes.
Chapter 6. Recognition as a "Whole Person" Experience.
Chapter 7. The Many Forms of Recognition.
Chapter 8. Understanding How Rewards Work.
Chapter 9. Intrinsic Rewards.
Chapter 10. Extrinsic Rewards.
Chapter 11. The Reward of Self-Actualization.
Chapter 12. Aligning Strategy and Rewards.
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Index


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Chapter 1. Understanding the New Workforce.

1.1. Moving at the Speed of Change

1.2. Doing More with Less

1.3. Free Agents

1.4. New Entrants into the Workforce

1.5. Combative Cultures

1.6. Teams and Teamworks

1.7. Globalization

1.8. Spans of Control

1.9. Connectivity and the Virtual Workforce

1.10. Search for Meaning

1.11. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 1

Chapter 2. The Difference Between Bribes and Flattery, Recognition and Rewards. 

2.1. Punishing and Piquing

2.2. The Truth About Motivation

2.3. Evidence to the Contrary

2.4. Context, Content and Caring

2.5. Putting the Accent on the Right Syl-la-ble!

2.6. Rewarding as a Matter of Choice

2.7. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 2

Chapter 3. The Human Nature of Work. 

3.1. Interpersonal Relationships

3.2. Boundaries

3.3. Mutual Respect

3.4. Embracing Diversity

3.5. Leadership and Recognition

3.6. Control and Influence

3.7. Self-Esteem

3.8. Organizational Pride

3.9. Vision, Mission, Values and Other Dreams

3.10. When Systems Support People

3.11. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 3

Chapter 4. Rewarding Employees by Leading Well. 

4.1. The Illusion of Power

4.2. Getting Priorities Straight

4.3. Leadership and Stewardship

4.4. Enlightened Interests

4.5. Unlocking Invention

4.6. The Efficacy of Principles

4.7. Leading by Example

4.8. Adding Value

4.9. Inspiring Excellence

4.10. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Building a Culture for Desired Outcomes. 

5.1. Outcomes and Results

5.2. Collaboration

5.3. Job Design

5.4. Planning, Performing, and Measuring

5.5. Taking Time

5.6. Limits, Structure, and Other Symbols of Caring

5.7. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 5

Chapter 6. Recognition as a "Whole Person" Experience. 

6.1. Honoring the Person Within Others

6.2. Rites of Recognition 

6.3. Preparing for “Them”

6.4. Celebrating Life 

6.5. The Whole Person

6.6. Empowerment

6.7. Choosing Collaboration

6.8. Discovery Is a Continuous Journey

6.9. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 6

Chapter 7. The Many Forms of Recognition. 

7.1. Communications

7.2. Personal Development

7.3. Performance Feedback

7.4. Doing What’s Natural

7.5. Enhancing Self-Worth

7.6. Increasing Competence

7.7. Informal Recognition 

7.8. Formal Recognition 

7.9. Celebrating Outcomes

7.10.  Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 7

Chapter 8. Understanding How Rewards Work. 

8.1. You Get What You Pay for – and Sometimes More

8.2. Pay for Performance

8.3. Understanding Wants and Needs

8.4. Rewarding for the Right Reasons

8.5. Why Rewards Fail

8.6. Making Rewards a Non-Issue

8.7. The Reward of “Choice”

8.8. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 8

Chapter 9. Intrinsic Rewards. 

9.1. Meaningful Work

9.2.  Learning 

9.3. Making History

9.4. Building Value

9.5. Personal Integrity

9.6. Organizational Pride

9.7. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 9

Chapter 10. Extrinsic Rewards. 

10.1. Base Pay and Total Reward Programs

10.2.  Performance Management and Pay for Performance

10.3. Games, Prizes, and Other Forms of Reward 

10.4. Growth and Advancement

10.5. Wealth Creation

10.6. Short-Term Programs

10.7. Longer-Term Programs

10.8. Risk Sharing and Reward Sharing

10.9. Alternative Pay Programs

10.10. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 10

Chapter 11. The Reward of Self-Actualization. 

11.1. Personal Appreciation

11.2.  Competition and Collaboration

11.3. Someone Else’s Wants

11.4. Adding Value

11.5. In the Customers’ Eyes

11.6. Becoming a Free Agent 

11.7. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 11

Chapter 12. Aligning Strategy and Rewards.

12.1. Aligning Strategy, Structure and Systems

12.2.  Visions, Values, and Actions

12.3. Integrating “Doing,” “Thinking,” and “Feeling:

12.4. Build Responsibly: The Rewards Will Follow

12.5. Spend Time on What You Value – This Must Be Kansas

12.6. Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 12

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Book Description

Positive feedback and meaningful recognition are proven and valuable but too often overlooked management tools. In an environment of continued downsizing, corporate mistrust, and employment at will, more than gimmicks and quick fixes are needed to instill commitment and inspire achievement. Recognizing and Rewarding Employees gives managers and leaders solid insight to what truly motivates employees, both intrinsically and extrinsically. Practical business strategies are thoughtfully presented along with hundreds of hands-on tips and ideas for encouraging peak performance.

Preface (from the book)


Managing in today’s complex environment is difficult. The unspoken psychological contract that defines the nature of the relationship between employers and employees continues to evolve. Employees are becoming increasingly “free” to move about—within as well as between organizations. Traditional boundaries of structure, time, location, and authority are blurring. Organizations striving to compete in a global economy are downsizing, merging, transforming, and migrating to newer forms of existence. Managers and non-managers alike are being challenged to do more with less, think “out of the box,” and collaborate in new and innovative ways to achieve common objectives. The old traditions and systems are breaking down, and newer conventions are being tried to achieve breakthrough results.

In the midst of a new global wilderness are pioneers, common and uncommon travelers, managers, stewards, free agents, “virtual” workforces—all converging on some new promised land. If you plan to venture out and — better yet — survive, you’ll need to know how to prepare yourself, what essential tools to take, what travel techniques and strategies to apply, and — ultimately — what “customs,” “language,” and “currency” will enable you to be conversant with the many people of varied interests and abilities you’ll meet — and manage — along the way.

This is a book about a new frontier—the new workplace. It’s a book about the needs and interests of the new workforce — epitomized by the “free agent/employee” — and the tools of recognition and rewards. You’ll learn about:

* The New Workplace - its “free agent/employees” — their values, interests, and goals;
* Work — how to make it personally meaningful and more strategically aligned;
* Motivation — its source and what drives it;
* Collaboration — its importance, along with what promotes and hinders it;
* Recognition — its many forms and its powerful and empowering energy;
* Rewards — what’s hot, what’s not, and the difference between those that are intrinsic and extrinsic; and,
* Stewardship — how it differs from leadership and why it is so important in the new workplace.

This is a book about people at work—and, specifically, about recognition and rewards. It may surprise you. It may excite you. We hope it will inspire you. The insights we lend and the conclusions reached are intended to convey a message — namely, that travel into the new wilderness is not for the “casual” traveler or “half-a-measure” managers. Success will be predicated upon a deeper understanding and mastery of the subjects of motivation, recognition, and rewards.

Chapter Highlights

The subject of recognition and rewards is complex. Rewards have the power to punish as well as compensate. As a manager in the new workplace, you’ll need to know how rewards work. We want you, our reader, to understand:

* The difference between rewarding and manipulating;
* The human nature of work and the relationship that exists between work and its performer/creators;
* The rewards of leadership and the illusory nature of power;
* How cultures shape desired outcomes and foster productivity and collaboration;
* Why recognition is a “whole person” experience;
* What reward systems move people and organizations closer to their goals; and
* How to foster responsibility and accountability naturally.

Special Features

The idea behind the books in the Briefcase Series is to give you practical information written in a friendly person-to-person style. The chapters are short, deal with tactical issues, and include lots of examples. They also feature numerous boxes designed to give you different types of specific information.