The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2007)

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson; 10 Rev Upd edition (September 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418526150
• ISBN-13: 978-1418526153

Product Description

What would happen if a top expert with more than 40 years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life.
John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can.

Age-Proof Your Brain: Sharpen Your Memory in 7 Days by Tony Buzan

Age-Proof Your Brain: Sharpen Your Memory in 7 Days by Tony Buzan

My version is 2007, Paperback, by HarperThorsons ISBN-13 978-0-00-723310-6
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Harper Collins Publ. UK (January 31, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0007233108
ISBN-13: 978-0007233106

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The order of contents in the book are as followed:-
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Be The Master of Your Memory
Part 1
Chapter 1 Get More From Your Brain
Chapter 2 Your Memory Has No Limits
Chapter 3 Quick-Win Memory Techniques
Chapter 4 The 7-Day Get Sharp Plan
Part 2
Chapter 5 Strong Body, Strong Mind
Chapter 6 Feed Your Mind
Chapter 7 Kill Stress, Cure the Mind
Chapter 8 The 7-Week Stay Sharp Plan
Conclusion: Now You've Got It, Keep It
Appendix
Answers
Index

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Their website: www.ageproofyourbrain.com 


About the Book


'Age-proof Your Brain', by multi-million copy bestselling author Tony Buzan, offers revolutionary new techniques to help you develop and maintain the agility of your mind. Packed with quick exercises, brain tools and fascinating facts, you can start to think quicker and remember things more easily in as little as 7 days. Bestselling author Tony Buzan is back with a brilliant new book that offers simple and effective techniques to help you boost your memory and maximize your brain power in as little as a week. Full of fun and practical exercises, information bites and expert advice on nutrition and supplements, this book will change the way you think, forever! / Improve memory and concentration / Remember facts and figures with ease / Understand concepts and think laterally / Unlock the imagination / Achieve more in less time

Grande Expectations: A Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock by Karen Blumenthal

Grande Expectations: A Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock by Karen Blumenthal

The book I read from is a 2007 version.

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 January - A New Year
Chapter 2 February - The Annual Meeting
Chapter 3 March - The Stock
Chapter 4 April - The Growth
Chapter 5 May - Buybacks
Chapter 6 June - The Investors
Chapter 7 July - The Trader
Chapter 8 August - The Coffee Moat
Chapter 9 September - The Stock Split
Chapter 10 October - Same-Store Sales
Chapter 11 November - The Analyst
Chapter 12 December - The Earnings
Chapter 13 January - The Annual Review
Epilogue - Another New Year
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

About the Book


(Courtesy of Barnes & Noble)
Karen Blumenthal, like most people, is mystified by the stock market. Just why is it, she wonders, that seemingly good news can send a stock plummeting and bad news can send it skyrocketing again?


In Grande Expectations, she shows how money is made and lost by following one of America’s hottest growth stocks, Starbucks, through a year of rapid store openings, fancy new drinks, and clever promotions, revealing how the many players—big and small investors, company management, analysts, and the media—propel its shares up and down.

Blumenthal pulls back the curtain on the stock market to expose its quirks and inner workings, from the power of a penny of earnings and the unexpected impact of a stock split to the image-enhancing effects of a brand of bottled water. With a fly-on-the-wall, character-driven narrative, Grande Expectations not only makes investing interesting but also will help you make smarter and savvier investing choices by:

•Understanding how big pension and mutual fund managers decide whether to buy more Starbucks—or dump it
•Seeing the unique ways that analysts and other finance professionals assess an investment—dissecting not only the numbers but also the company’s management, demographics, and global opportunities
•Learning how Starbucks executives manage our expectations and keep excitement percolating about the business—and the stock
•Watching how a stock is traded and how that might affect your buying or selling
•Gleaning how multibillion-dollar private hedge funds make money on infinitesimal changes in a stock’s price
•Entering the dark, strange world of the short sellers
•Realizing how different people can make absolutely opposite bets and all still come out ahead


You’ll come away with new insights into how the stock market really works—the power of expectations, stock buybacks, and profits—and explore Starbucks’ phenomenal growth and whether it is sustainable. By unraveling the market’s mysteries, Grande Expectations shows how investing can be both profitable and understandable. Get ready for the ride of your life—and a lifetime of fruitful stock market success.




Wall Street Journal bureau chief Blumenthal is a seasoned financial reporter, yet she admits that the stock market mystifies her. Her mission: to follow one stock closely for a year (2005) to gain insights on how the market works, and, ultimately, become a better investor. There could not have been a better choice than Starbucks (stock symbol SBUX). A favorite of the growth investing crowd, it's sexy, yet familiar, a phenomenal achiever that tends to go through stomach-churning gyrations. As the year unfolds, we attend the annual shareholders' meeting, learn the history of Starbucks, and find out the significance of stock buybacks, (legal) insider trading, stock splits, and analysts' reports. We get an inside view on how institutional investors, the big players like mutual funds and hedge funds, value a stock, as these big guns trade in and out of SBUX in blocks of 10,000 or more shares. While managing to take some of the mystery out of the market's machinations, Blumenthal provides insights and tools for the individual investor looking to "take the plunge." David Siegfried

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About the Author


KAREN BLUMENTHAL has been a business reporter or editor for nearly twenty-five years, including two decades at The Wall Street Journal. Her previous book, Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for older children. Six Days in October, a book for young people on the 1929 stock market crash, was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book by the American Library Association.

The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results by Michael Bergdahl

The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results by Michael Bergdahl

The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results - Paperback (June 11, 2007) by Michael Bergdahl and Rob Walton


From getAbstract.com

• What 10 rules Sam Walton followed to build the Wal-Mart international retail empire
• How to apply those rules to your business, career and life
• How Sam Walton's personal outreach and communication with individual employees helped build the world's largest retail operation
• What impact Walton's policies and practices have had on the retail industry worldwide

This book is clearly an endearing, uncritical testimonial about Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. Author Michael Bergdahl, a former employee, has written two books on Walton and Wal-Mart. He was a favorite of Sam Walton, who gave him the nickname "Bird Dawg," because Bergdahl drove a pickup truck. Walton was an avid hunter who also had an old truck and owned several bird dogs – appropriately the book's cover shows him patting one. S. Robson Walton, Sam Walton's son and the chairman of the board of Wal-Mart, wrote the foreword, and the author remains close to the Walton family. Thus, it is not a surprise that this content-approved book is effusive in its praise for Walton. Still, the advice is solid, and getAbstract suggests it to anyone who enjoys learning about successful companies and their leaders.

About the authors

Michael Bergdahl worked with Sam Walton as Wal-Mart’s director of the Home Office People Division. He worked with other retailers, and is now a full-time speaker and business coach. He also wrote What I Learned from Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World.

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The Top Ten Mistakes Salespeople Make by Todd Duncan

The Top Ten Mistakes Salespeople Make & How to Avoid Them - Paperback (Feb. 6, 2007) by Todd Duncan

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Thomas Nelson (February 6, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0785287809

ISBN-13: 978-0785287803

Table of Contents

Introduction

Mistake #1: Hyping - Relying on "You Can Do It" propaganda to maintain your sales motivation

Mistake #2: Posing - Trying to sell before training to sell

Mistake #3: Tinkering - Treating the symptoms but not the sickness of poor selling efforts

Mistake #4: Moonlighting - Building a business-based life instead of a life-based business

Mistake #5: Muscling - Taking Lone Ranger Actions instead of a life-based business

Mistake #6: Arguing - Selling your product before knowing your customer

Mistake #7: Gambling - Making unplanned calls on unknown customers

Mistake #8: Begging - Seeking your customers' business before earning your customers' trust

Mistake #9: Skimming - Focusing on surface profitability instead of client satisfaction

Mistake #10: Stagnating - Losing your sales edge by neglecting your growth curve

Notes

About the Author

Acknowledgments

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About the Book

Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author and leader of one of America's top sales training companies, Todd Duncan reveals the 10 most common mistakes salespeople make, and offers insight on how to avoid them.

Some salespeople are very successful, but a greater percentage end up victims of the sales industry-and their own mistakes. Some mistakes are normal bumps in the road toward success. Others are more damaging. But many are fatal to a career.

Duncan addresses these catastrophic mistakes with clarity and directness. Whether you're a seasoned sales professional or someone considering sales as a career, Duncan's wisdom can help you avoid errors in perception, practice, and performance that could not only cost you a sale, but also your career.

About the Author

Todd Duncan, CEO and founder of The Duncan Group in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of America's leading experts in the area of Sales and Life Mastery. His tapes, seminars, and books, including High Trust Selling, Time Traps, and The Top Ten Mistakes Salespeople Make & How to Avoid Them, have helped millions worldwide tap into their potential. He and his wife, Sheryl, and their two boys live in La Jolla, California. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.