Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen, and Ken Blanchard

Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen, and Ken Blanchard (Hardcover - Mar 8, 2000)

The Master Key to Riches (Dover Empower Your Life Series) by Napoleon Hill

The Master Key to Riches (Dover Empower Your Life Series) by Napoleon Hill (Paperback - Sep 22, 2009)

About the Book


Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (September 22, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0486474739
ISBN-13: 978-0486474731


This easy-to-read guide to personal achievement is based on the principles behind the success of Carnegie, Ford, Edison, and other 20th-century tycoons. Millions of readers around the world have adopted its philosophy to attain career advancement; improve friendships and business relationships; build monetary wealth; and lead richer, fuller lives.


From the Inside Flap


Based on the Andrew Carnegie formula for money-making, THE MASTER-KEY TO RICHES describes in step-by-step detail today's greatest practical philosophy of success....This amazing philosophy, culled from the success experiences of hundreds of the world's most powerful and wealthy men, will show you how to succeed in any walk of life.


About the Author


NAPOLEON HILL was born into poverty in 1883. He worked his way through law school and became an eminent attorney and journalist, an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, and a confidant to Andrew Carnegie. Since 1982 the Napoleon Hill Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization, has revived his writings, winning him an immense international audience

How to Write A Winning C.V. by Alan Jones

Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an Uncertain World by Harold S Kushner

Hardcover: 173 pages

Publisher: Knopf (October 6, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0307266648

ISBN-13: 978-0307266644

Contents
Chapter 1 The Eleventh Commandment: Don't Be Afraid
Chapter 2 The Terror That Comes in the Darkness: The Fear of Terrorism
Chapter 3 God Was Not in the Hurricane: The Fear of Natural Disaster
Chapter 4 Suddenly Nothing Is the Same: The Fear of Rapid Change
Chapter 5 A World Without People: The Fear That Humanity Will Destroy Itself
Chapter 6 Loss of Job, Loss of Love: The Fear of Rejection
Chapter 7 Can Seventy Be the New Fifty: The Fear of Growing Old
Chapter 8 The World Is A Narrow Bridge: The Fear of  Death
Chapter 9 Conquering Fear: Hope and Courage Are the Will of God



Amazon.com Review


A Q&A with Harold S. Kushner 


Question: You have written about so many of the issues that every one of us will confront at some point in life--loss, grief, disappointment. When and why did you decide to write a book about fear?


Harold S. Kushner: For some time, I’ve been meeting people who are less happy than they have a right to be because they are afraid--afraid of losing their job, afraid that something will happen to someone in their family, afraid of another terrorist attack. You can’t enjoy life when you feel that way. Now, I can’t guarantee that none of those things will happen, but I think I can show people how to live with those concerns but not let them drain the joy from their lives.


Question: You began working on this book before the events of this past year and the collapse of the economy. Certainly these are times in which people are more fearful than ever and face new challenges in their daily lives. Do you think the nature of our fears has changed, or that these times just magnify the fears we already had?


Harold S. Kushner: More than anything else, we’ve always worried about something terrible happening to us or to our world. What has changed is, with improved communication and 24-hour news channels, we hear about more of such things happening somewhere, not necessarily anywhere close to us, and we worry. As one doctor put it, "anthrax is not contagious, but fear of anthrax is." And of course with what has been happening with the economy, we have more things to worry about. People are worried about losing their jobs, losing their homes, losing their retirement savings. I worry that there is a tipping point beyond which we find ourselves worried about so many things that it virtually changes our personality. We become fearful, timid, helpless people, afraid of trying anything or doing anything at all.


Question: Your book is titled Conquering Fear--not accepting fear or overcoming fear or coping with fear. Why did you choose that very powerful word for your title?


Harold S. Kushner: If it were easy to lower our level of apprehension, we would all do it. But I don’t think it should be our goal to eliminate fear. There are things we should be afraid of--crime, dangers to our health, people looking to cheat us. It would be foolhardy to go through life so confident that nothing bad will ever happen to us because we’re good people. But there is a crucial difference between concern which is good and fear which can be debilitating. We don’t want to let our lives be defined by the things we’re afraid of. I remember the Israeli man whose daughter was badly burned in a terrorist incident, saying "there are worse things in life than dying, and one of them is to live every minute of your life in fear." Our goal should be to make fear our servant rather than our master.


Question: You write, "I resolve not to let my fears of what might happen prevent me from anticipating with pleasure what I hope will happen." How are fear and hope linked?


Harold S. Kushner: Both are ways of anticipating a future that hasn’t happened yet. One of them, fear, anticipates the worst happening; the other, hope, looks forward to something better. It seems to me that anticipating the worst is likely to paralyze and discourage us, leaving us feeling helpless, while envisioning the more favorable outcome may give us the psychological energy to do the things we have to do to bring it about.


Question: We know what fear does to us emotionally, but what does fear do to us physically?


Harold S. Kushner: What affects us emotionally will inevitably have physical consequences. Stress makes us tense. We don’t sleep as well, we feel tired and we are tempted to overeat. We focus more on ourselves and distance ourselves from other people. We are prone to misunderstand other people’s words and actions.


Question: What made you decide to devote a chapter to fear of rapid change?


Harold S. Kushner: As a man in late middle age, I feel the effect of having been left behind by the rate of change in society every time I have to ask my grandson to program my cell phone or straighten out my computer. I’m not embarrassed to ask for help, but I would be more comfortable in a world where knowledge flowed from older people to younger ones rather than the other way around. I’m also concerned that the sense of disorientation so many people feel at the unprecedented rate of change is feeding into the rise of intolerance and religious fundamentalism and resistance to necessary changes in religion and society.


From Publishers Weekly


Soon after his international bestsellerWhenBad Things Happen to Good People appeared in 1981, Kushner stopped being a congregational rabbi in order to devote full-time to writing and lecturing. Conquering Fear, his 12th book, is the latest result of this concentration. It is a popular theology primer designed to help readers grapple with common problems of suffering, significance, disappointments, guilt, forgiveness and conscience. Although traditional Jews object to Kushner's view of suffering as reflecting God's limited capacity to control the hazards of life, his books have won general acclaim. The fears that Kushner tackles include terrorism, natural disasters, rejection, growing old and death, among others. His recommendations for coping require trust, religion, hope, courage, faith; he also urges living with purpose and differentiating between God and nature. Some readers may find Kushner's prescriptions to be inspiring; others will see them as banal platitudes. A useful idea he offers about fear of terrorism is be alert but not frightened, vigilant but not paranoid.Perhaps his least helpful advice is about the fear of death: The most important thing to remember is not to be afraid. (Oct.) 
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About the Book


From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.


An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book, Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life.


Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, Kushner helps us to see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helplessness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and education. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures, such as working to protect the environment. For those who fear death, he proposes life—lived boldly and purposefully.


In Conquering Fear, we are again inspired by Harold S. Kushner’s wisdom, at once deeply spiritual and eminently practical.


About the Author


Harold S. Kushner is rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, where he lives. His classic work, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, was an international best seller. He was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a better place in the last half century, and by the national organization Religion in American Life as clergyman of the year in 1999.

The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great by Rick Smith

The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great - Hardcover - (Sept. 17, 2009) by Rick Smith

Hardcover: 224 pages

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (September 17, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1616847093

ISBN-13: 978-1616847098

Table of Contents:-
Introduction
Chapter 1 "Great Work, You're Fired"
Chapter 2 The Now Trap: Stuck in the Status Quo
Chapter 3 Breaking Away: The Three Rules
Chapter 4 Primary Colors: Tapping the Energy Within
Chapter 5 What Is My Primary Color?
Chapter 6 Big, Selfless, and Simple: How Ideas Become Contagious
Chapter 7 The Spark Sequence: Stacking the Deck
Chapter 8 Aristotle on a Lily Pad: A Perspective on Life-Work Design
Acknowledgments
Index

From Publishers Weekly


Smith (The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers) examines the commonalities among individuals who transcended their dull day jobs to launch truly extraordinary careers. He is most taken with identifying what precipitated their leap into authentic and meaningful work, interviewing hundreds of people to craft replicable steps that everyone can use to initiate a personal and professional evolution and achieve remarkable success without taking reckless and unnecessary risks. His examples of highly profitable leaps include Sara Blakely, who went from a fax machine sales person to the owner of SPANX, a highly successful women's clothing line; Frances Hesselbein, who went from a stay-at-home mom to the executive director of Girl Scouts of America; and Brad Margus, who channeled his feelings of futility over the rare and terminal disease his two sons inherited to become a genetics expert on the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council. Smith's book—a lively readable romp—motivates without preaching and gently coaxes readers to overcome innate fears and to use their greatest passions to bring about fulfillment. (Sept.) 
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Other Reviews


"This invaluable book leads you around the common traps that so often keep us from pursuing our strengths and passions." - Marcus Buckingham, bestselling author of Now, Discover Your Strengths 


"Finally, a book that kills the myth of the daredevil. This is must- read for anyone who thinks they are a breed apart from Bill Gates or other mavericks deified as risk takers. The truth? To do the impossible-whether as an entrepreneur or an employee-minimizing risk and making small bets is the rule rather than the exception." - Timothy Ferriss, number one New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek


"Rick Smith goes from flat line to the front line of life and shows you how to ignite your career." - Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, author, YOU: the Owner's Manual series


"Packed with actionable insights and inspiring stories, The Leap shows how to not just improve but redefine your career. Rick Smith brilliantly lays out three simple, manageable steps that make it possible for anyone, anywhere, to take the leap and unlock their ultimate potential." - Tony Robbins


"An inspiring book for anyone who has ever looked at his or her life andwondered: Is this it? The Leap will help you discover your true path to personal and professional success." - Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor in chief, The Huffington Post


"Extraordinary! I understand what it feels like to leap into a bold new life. But as Rick Smith explains in this inspiring guide, achieving fulfillment in work and in life doesn't require you to jump off a cliff! The Leap captures the steps anyone can take to achieve his wildest dreams while staying true to himself. Try it out. True success is not as far away as you thought." - Sara Blakely, founder, Spanx Inc.



About the Book


Have you ever asked yourself, "Is this it?"


Maybe you're trapped in a dead-end job that you're afraid to leave. Or maybe you already have a good job-one that gives you room to grow and exercise your talents-but you don't really feel like you're doing your best work. Your life is plain vanilla, yet you know in your heart that you can be a triple scoop banana split. You just don't know how to make that leap.


So what do you do?


Rick Smith knows firsthand what it's like to feel stuck in a career rut. He worked in a midlevel job where he had modest success. Then his life took an unexpected turn and he found himself creating a business that became successful beyond his wildest dreams. He unlocked a level of performance he did not know he had in him. After all, Smith was just a regular guy who didn't like to take chances or even step outside his comfort zone. But as he found out, those qualities don't have to be stumbling blocks. In fact, they're two of the keys to making the leap from good to great.


And after talking to others who had also transformed their careers from mundane to magnificent, he realized that the secret doesn't lie with some mysterious talent, trait, or affinity for risk. And it certainly doesn't require you to quit your job and start from scratch. Rather, it lies with your ability to harness your true strengths and passions-what Smith calls your Primary Color.


You'll meet remarkable people who've made the leap, such as:
• A soft-spoken middle manager who transformed her company, her industry, and her career with a simple-yet groundbreaking-idea.
• A door-to-door fax machine saleswoman who became a global fashion mogul after developing her own line of women's apparel.
• A Florida shrimp farmer who became a globally recognized genetics expert after both of his sons were diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. 
• A software designer who became a leading advocate for the homeless after volunteering part time at a local shelter and realizing his true calling.


Through powerful anecdotes, lessons from brain science, and tools for self-assessment, Smith shows how, with the right amount of passion, determination, and three simple steps, anyone can make the leap to a more successful and fulfilling life. 


About the Author


RICK SMITH is the coauthor of the national bestseller The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers. He left the executive search firm Spencer Stuart to launch World 50, Inc., an elite and senior executive networking company. A serial entrepreneur, he is currently working on the launch of several new ventures.