How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk - Paperback (Aug. 22, 2006) by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

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Living with teenagers can be overwhelming. Overnight, it seems, the children you were once so close to turn into independent strangers with thoughts, tastes, and values all their own. And today's teens are growing up in a popular culture that is meaner, ruder, cruder, more materialistic, more sexualized, and more violent than ever before. What's a parent to do?

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk

Internationally acclaimed parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish have helped millions of families with their breakthrough, best-selling books How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Siblings Without Rivalry, and Liberated Parents, Liberated Children. Now, they return with a lively, down-to-earth guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. After years of research, lecturing, and feedback, Faber and Mazlish have developed an innovative approach to maintaining a candid, open, mutually respectful dialogue between parents and teens. It's a strategy that curbs conflict, reduces frustration, and promotes thoughtful communication about everything from curfews and drugs to schoolwork and sex.

Written in Faber and Mazlish's trademark accessible style, How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk takes you inside their acclaimed workshops where you will hear -- in the words of both parents and teens -- what's on the minds of families today. Packed with suggestions that are easy to implement, and reinforced with stories, line drawings, and "reminder" pages, this indispensable volume will help build a foundation for a healthy relationship that puts the emphasis on rapport rather than reprisals. From age-old concerns about cliques and dating to contemporary worries about binge drinking and cyberbullying, Faber and Mazlish help parents tackle problems before they get out of hand. In their warm, lucid, unpatronizing manner, the authors show families how to be supportive and stay connected during the challenging teenage years.

About the Author

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are internationally acclaimed, award-winning experts on adult-child communication. Both lecture nationwide, and their group workshop programs are used by thousands of groups throughout the world to improve communication between children and adults.

Do You Want Fries with That?: An Indispensable Guide to: Career (Indespensable Guides) by Christopher D. Hudson

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated (March 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593106629
• ISBN-13: 978-1593106621
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces

Do You Want Fries with That?: An Indispensable Guide to: Career (Indespensable Guides) by Christopher D. Hudson (Mar 20, 2005)

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Choosing and getting the right job is one of the most important and challenging steps a person will take-which is why the process is often fraught with anxiety. That's precisely where The Indispensable Guide. . . can help! Reading this handbook is like talking with a calm, funny, and worldly-wise aunt: It brings the blood pressure down and allows the job-seeker to focus on the real issues. Encouraging self- reflection in light of personal desires, the market, and God's Word, Do You Want Fries with That then addresses the actual job search-resume writing, the interview process, and much more. Invaluable grads or anyone looking to change a career.

Book Description

Reading this handbook is like talking with a calm, funny, and worldly-wise aunt. It brings the blood pressure down and allows the job-seeker to focus on the real issues--resume writing, the interview process, and much more.

Mom's Needs, Dad's Needs by Willard F. Harley, Jr.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Revell (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800731018
• ISBN-13: 978-0800731014
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces

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It isn't easy to keep a marriage passionate. Every parent knows how quiet dinners and romantic evenings seem to disappear in the wake of school projects, potty training, and middle-of-the-night feedings. In fact, with children underfoot, it can seem downright impossible. Mom's Needs, Dad's Needs guides both new and seasoned parents through specific, practical steps to help them sustain a great marriage while raising happy and successful children. Dr. Harley, best-selling author of His Needs, Her Needs, gives expert advice on everything from romance and values to emotional needs and time constraints. How should parents approach child-training methods? How can household tasks be divided fairly? How can you maintain a romantic marriage after kids? It's all here. Dr. Harley's insightful and practical advice shows parents what it takes to stay in love with each other and raise happy and successful children at the same time. Previously published as His Needs, Her Needs for Parents

From the Back Cover

Passion after kids? It's not impossible! Finding time to laugh together, talk with each other, and enjoy each other's company came easily when it was just the two of you. But then you had children. Suddenly, quiet dinners and romantic evenings disappeared in the wake of school projects, potty training, and middle-of-the-night feedings. In Mom's Needs, Dad's Needs, Willard F. Harley Jr. will show you how to restore the passion in your marriage, keep your marriage healthy, and keep your children happy, by making your relationship with your spouse your top priority. With everything from dividing household tasks fairly to meeting intimate emotional needs, the advice in this book will help you do what it takes to build a love that lasts a lifetime. If marriage and parenting leave you feeling overwhelmed, know that you're not alone. The truth is, it isn't easy to keep a marriage passionate. And with children underfoot, it can seem downright impossible. But if you take Dr. Harley's advice, you can have it all-a terrific marriage and happy children.

About the Author

Willard F. Harley Jr. is a nationally acclaimed clinical psychologist, marriage counselor, and best-selling author. His popular web site, www.marriagebuilders.com, offers practical solutions to almost any marital problem. Dr. Harley leads Marriage Builders Weekends across the country and lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, with Joyce, his wife of forty years.

1001 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; 2nd edition (June 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761136819
• ISBN-13: 978-0761136811
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

1001 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson Ph.D. (Jun 13, 2005)

Review

“The most interesting and inventive business book on the market today . . .a publishing phenomenon.”
—Training magazine (Training magazine )

“Welcome to Bob’s World: A place of above-average managers and workers, all committed to personal excellence, good will and, of course, company profits. [This book] details how a little praise goes a long way.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Inquirer )

“There’s a difference between having someone show up for work and bringing out the best thinking and initiative in each person. To do that requires treating employees more as partners, not as subordinates. Being nice isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also the economical thing to do.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle Post-Intelligencer )

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Why is 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, with over 1.4 million copies in print, such an extraordinary bestseller? Because a little over ten years ago Bob Nelson took the seeds of an idea and turned it into something indispensable for business. The idea? That it’s not a raise that motivates an employee, and it’s not a promotion—what really sparks a person to perform are those intangible, unexpected gestures that signify real appreciation for a job well done.

Now, after having worked with thousands of organizations in the years since 11001 Ways to Reward. . . was first published, Bob Nelson presents a second edition packed with hundreds of new ideas and examples of how companies are using rewards and recognitions to boost productivity and keep their valued employees happy. Airplane mechanics are rewarded with balloons and pinwheels. Another manager calls his employees’ mothers and thanks them for raising such industrious children. There are ideas from the offbeat (The Margarita Award) to the company-wide (a quiet room) to the embarrassingly simple (a hand-written thank you note) to the wacky (the Laugh-a-Day challenge) to the formal (a two-week promotion to special assistant to the president). Each section includes no-cost rewards and low-cost rewards, both public and private, making this new edition an indispensable resource for making the person/achievement/reward equation work.

From the Publisher

Empowerment. Self-Directed Teams. Continuos Improvement. Achievement Awards. Case Studies. It would be impossible to do justice to the enormous wealth of ideas that Bob Nelson, in his remarkable 1001 WAYS series, has elucidated for both employers and employees. This bestselling series points to a new way of looking at employee-employer relations, offering practical advice and evidence along side indispensable and clear business theory. Also in the series: 1001 WAYS TO ENERGIZE EMPLOYEES, a practical handbook chock full of ideas for increasing employee involvement and enthusiasm; 1001 WAYS EMPLOYEES CAN TAKE INITIATIVE, turning its voice towards the ambitious employee who wants to develop self-leadership, set goals, and build a team; and the 365 WAYS TO MANAGE BETTER Page-a-Day Perpetual Calendar, with daily advice for the consciencious manager. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within them." So sums up Bob Nelson about the philosophy of motivation that makes1001 Ways to Reward Employees the million-copy bestseller that is indispensable for business. Now completely revised and updated, with hundreds of new, real-world examples, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees is a chock-full guide to rewards of every conceivable type for every conceivable situation.

About the Author

Bob Nelson, Ph.D., is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a founding board member of the National Association for Employee Recognition (NAER), and bestselling author, including the 1001 Ways series and Managing for Dummies. Dr. Nelson lives and works in San Diego, California.

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DAY-TO-DAY RECOGNITION
In my doctoral research on why managers use or don’t use recognition with their employees, I found the top variable distinguishing those managers who use recognition was that they felt it was their responsibility—not corporate’s or human resources’—to create the motivational environment for their people. They truly believed that recognizing their deserving employees played an integral part in how those workers felt about their jobs.

This finding coincides with what my research shows are the most important ways that employees prefer to be recognized when they do good work—that is, simple day-to-day behaviors that any manager can express with their employees, the most important of which is praise. The best praise is done soon, specifically, sincerely, personally, positively, and proactively. In a matter of seconds, a simple praise conveys, “I saw what you did, I appreciate it, here’s why it’s important, and here’s how it makes me feel”—a lot of punch in a small package!

Four out of the top ten categories of motivators reported by employees in my research are forms of praise, and these categories make up the four chapters in Part I: personal praise, written praise, electronic praise, and public praise. Now, you might say, “Are these really different types of praise? Don’t they all have the same effect?” This was my initial thought, too, but I learned that these types of praise are in fact distinct from one another. Praising someone in person means something different to that person than writing him or her a note, and these forms of praise are both different from praising the person in public. To get the maximum impact out of this simple behavior, vary the forms you use, and use them all frequently.

Research by Dr. Gerald Graham of Wichita State University supports these observations. In multiple studies, he found that employees preferred personalized, instant recognition from their direct supervisors more than any other kind of motivation. In fact, in another survey of American workers, 63 percent of the respondents ranked “a pat on the back” as a meaningful incentive.

In Graham’s studies, employees perceived that manager-initiated rewards for performance were done least often, and that company-initiated rewards for presence (that is, rewards based simply on being in the organization) occurred most often. Dr. Graham concluded, “It appears that the techniques that have the greatest motivational impact are practiced the least, even though they are easier and less expensive to use.” Graham’s study determined the top five motivating techniques reported by employees to be:

1. The manager personally congratulates employees who do a good job.
2. The manager writes personal notes about good performance.
3. The organization uses performance as the basis for promotion.
4. The manager publicly recognizes employees for good performance.
5. The manager holds morale-building meetings to celebrate success.

Ideally, you should vary the ways you recognize your staff while still trying to do things on a day-to-day basis. For example, Robin Horder-Koop, manager of programs and services at Amway Corporation, the distributor of house and personal-care products and other goods in Ada, MI, uses these inexpensive ways to recognize the 200 people who work for her on a day-to-day basis:

• On days when some workloads are light, the department’s employees help out workers in other departments. After accumulating eight hours of such work, employees get a thank-you note from Horder-Koop. Additional time earns a luncheon with company officials in the executive dining room.
• All workers are recognized on a rotating basis. Each month, photos of different employees are displayed on a bulletin board along with comments from their coworkers about why they are good colleagues.
• Horder-Koop sends thank-you notes to employees’ homes when they do outstanding work. When someone works a lot of overtime or travels extensively, she sends a note to the family thanking them for their support.
• At corporate meetings, employees play games such as Win, Lose, or Draw and The Price Is Right, using questions about the company’s products. Winners get prizes such as tote bags and T-shirts.

Other inexpensive ideas Horder-Koop uses to recognize employees include giving flowers to employees who are commended in customers’ letters, having supervisors park employees’ cars one day a month, and designating days when workers can come in late or wear casual clothes to the office.

According to author and management consultant Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “Recognition—saying thank you in public and perhaps giving a tangible gift along with the words—has multiple functions beyond simple human courtesy. To the employee, recognition signifies that someone noticed and someone cares. To the rest of the organization, recognition creates role models—heroes—and communicates the standards, saying: ‘These are the kinds of things that constitute great performance around here.’” Following are some guidelines Kanter offers for successfully recognizing employees:

Principle 1: Emphasize success rather than failure. You tend to miss the positives if you are busily searching for the negatives.

Principle 2: Deliver recognition and reward in an open and publicized way. If not made public, recognition loses much of its impact and much of the purpose for which it is provided.

Principle 3: Deliver recognition in a personal and honest manner. Avoid providing recognition that is too “slick” or overproduced.

Principle 4: Tailor your recognition and reward to the unique needs of the people involved. Having many recognition and reward options will enable management to acknowledge accomplishment in ways appropriate to the particulars of a given situation.

Principle 5: Timing is crucial. Recognize contribution throughout a project. Reward contribution close to the time an achievement is realized. Time delays weaken the impact of most rewards.

Principle 6: Strive for a clear, unambiguous, and well-communicated connection between accomplishments and rewards. Be sure people understand why they receive awards and the criteria used to determine awards.

Principle 7: Recognize recognition. That is, recognize people who recognize others for doing what is best for the company.

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press; 1 edition (February 3, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591396190
• ISBN-13: 978-1591396192

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (Hardcover - Feb 3, 2005)

• Key Points

• Moving into untapped or uncontested markets (blue oceans) is a preferable strategy to fighting it out in saturated markets (red oceans).
• Innovation is the key to creating blue oceans. Create something that is new, and you will reap the rewards.

Summary

The authors introduce a “Four Actions Framework” to systematically create blue oceans: Analyzing a business that is competing in a red ocean: 1) Eliminate a part of the offering that is expected 2) Introduce a new offering that is unexpected 3) Reduce an offering 4) Augment an offering

This creates a new offering that is uncontested - at least until it is imitated, which may create a need to apply the same discipline again.

Links

http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/

From Publishers Weekly

Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth." The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that "the dominant focus of strategy work over the past twenty-five years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies"-i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's INSEAD, the second largest business school in the world-aim to repair that bias. Using dozens of examples-from Southwest Airlines and the Cirque du Soleil to Curves and Starbucks-they present the tools and frameworks they've developed specifically for the task of analyzing blue oceans. They urge companies to "value innovation" that focuses on "utility, price, and cost positions," to "create and capture new demand" and to "focus on the big picture, not the numbers." And while their heavyweight analytical tools may be of real use only to serious strategy planners, their overall vision will inspire entrepreneurs of all stripes, and most of their ideas are presented in a direct, jargon-free manner. Theirs is not the typical business management book's vague call to action; it is a precise, actionable plan for changing the way companies do business with one resounding piece of advice: swim for open waters.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review

"Blue Ocean Strategy will have you wondering why companies need so much persuasion to stay out of shark-infested waters." -- BusinessWeek, April 4th 2005

"Blue Ocean raises pertinent questions… and delivers valuable answers." -- American Way, March 2005

"Companies struggling to stay afloat in the market's...red oceans would do well to look into Blue Ocean Strategy." -- Fort Worth Star Telegram, 14 February 2005

"The book is clearly written, offering many examples of blue-ocean strategies and the techniques to develop such a scheme." -- Globe and Mail, June 8, 2005

Product Description

Winning by Not Competing: A Fresh Approach to Strategy


Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet these hallmarks of competitive strategy are not the way to create profitable growth in the future.


In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne argue that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth. Such strategic moves-which the authors call "value innovation"- create powerful leaps in value that often render rivals obsolete for more than a decade.


Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any company can use to create and capture blue oceans. A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this book charts a bold new path to winning the future.


W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD. Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management.

From the Inside Flap

"After reading Blue Ocean Strategy, you will never again see your competition in quite the same light. Kim and Mauborgne present a compelling case for pursuing strategy with a creative, not combative, approach. Their emphases on value innovation and stakeholder engagement alone make this book a must-read for both executives and students of business."-Carlos Ghosn, President and CEO, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
"This is an extremely valuable book to read. It examines the experience of companies in areas as diverse as watches, wine, cement, computers, automobiles, and even the circus to shed new light on the development of future strategies."
-Nicolas G. Hayek, Cofounder and Chairman of the Board, Swatch Group
"I recommend Blue Ocean Strategy to any executive in the private or public sector. It shows how to break from the status quo, create a winning future strategy, and execute this fast at low cost. As much a practical guide as an eye-opener."
-William J. Bratton, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, former Police Commissioner of the City of New York
"Kim and Mauborgne's strategies are not only original but practical. Our company has used them and obtained powerful results. The authors chart a bold new path to winning the future."
-Patrick Snowball, Chief Executive, Norwich Union Insurance

From the Back Cover

Companies have long engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. 
Yet in today’s overcrowded industries, competing head-on results in nothing but a bloody “red ocean” of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements fro strategic success, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne contend that while most companies compete within such red oceans, this strategy is increasingly unlikely to create profitable growth in the future. 
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more then a hundred years and thirty industries, Kim and Mauborgne argue that tomorrow’s leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating “blue ocean” of uncontested market space ripe for growth. Such strategies moves—termed “value innovation”-create powerful leaps in value for both the firm and its buyers, rendering rivals obsolete and unleashing new demand. 
Blue Ocean Strategyprovides a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant. In this frame-changing book, Kim and Mauborgne present a proven analytical framework and the tools for successfully creating and capturing blue oceans. Examining a wide range of strategic moves across a host of industries, Blue Ocean Strategy highlights the six principles that every company can use to successfully formulate and execute blue ocean strategies. The six principles show how to reconstruct market boundaries, focus on the big picture, reach beyond existing demand, get the strategic sequence right, overcome organizational hurdles, and build execution into strategy. 
Upending traditional thinking about strategy, this landmark book charts “a bold new path to winning the future”.

About the Author

W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD. Renée Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Strategy and Management.

Choices That Change Lives: 15 Ways to Find More Purpose, Meaning, and Joy by Hal Urban

• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-10: 0743257707
• ASIN: B000IFS0SQ

Review

"Some readers will cherish Hal Urban's new book for the basic truths it shares, some for the perfectly selected quotations, but all who read it will be enriched by it."-- Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People


"In Choices That Change Lives, Hal Urban expresses the conviction that we can be better, happier, and wiser at any time we choose, and goes on to provide support and inspiration for this important endeavor. Thank you, Hal!"-- Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One-Minute Manager® and The Secret


"Do you love inspiring quotations? Enjoy a story that both enlightens and entertains? Want to improve your character? Hope to deepen your prayer life? Hal Urban's Choices That Change Lives delivers all this and more. Keep it at your bedside; it's food for the soul."-- Thomas Lickona, author of Character Matters --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Hal Urban, author of the much-loved bestsellers Life's Greatest Lessons and Positive Words, Powerful Results, gives us his third book of inspirational and practical wisdom on leading a more meaningful and more joyful life. With Choices That Change Lives, Hal reminds us that our lives are the result of our choices and the most important choices we make become our character traits, the ones that lead to fulfillment and peace of mind. He illuminates fifteen character traits that help us more fully develop our capacity to live rich and rewarding lives. He assures us that it's never too late to change, to break the chains of self-defeating attitudes and habits, and challenges us to dig a little deeper -- to grow in such qualities as humility, patience, empathy, and courage -- and to renew ourselves daily. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Hal Urban was a high school teacher for many years and also taught at the University of San Francisco. He is a well-known leader in the Character Education movement and is in constant demand as a speaker at national conferences and school and community events. He raised three sons as a single father and now lives in Redwood City, California, with his wife, Cathy. 

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

Hardcover: 315 pages
Publisher: Dutton Adult; roughcut edition (October 11, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525948023
ISBN-13: 978-0525948025

From getAbstract.com

• How to identify the harmful impact of your ego and the collective ego
• How to connect with the formless universal energy beyond thought and emotion
• How to experience a spiritual awakening, peace and happiness

If you were to say that this book inspires a completely new way of thinking, you would be wrong. That’s because new-age guru Eckhart Tolle bases his teachings on the existing concept of moving beyond thinking. He explains that you can only connect to the energy that flows through the universe only when you hush the incessant voice in your head. This book made a huge media splash early in 2008 when Oprah Winfrey selected it for her bestseller-making book club and encouraged worldwide discussion of it via live Web seminars. Readers eagerly shared their “aha moments” online, citing points in the book that ignited their “shifts in consciousness.” And yet anyone who is at all familiar with Eastern philosophies will not find Tolle’s messages quite so groundbreaking. For instance, the concept of ego transcendence has been part of the Eastern spiritual lexicon for centuries.getAbstract agrees that Tolle’s guidance fulfills a need for current-day seekers, and recommends it to anyone who relishes the spiritual quest for authentic selfhood and inner stillness, or who is simply curious to discover what provoked all the buzz.

From Publishers Weekly

According to Tolle, who assumes the role of narrator as well, humans are on the verge of creating a new world by a personal transformation that shifts our attention away from our ever-expanding egos. This idea is well realized through Tolle's remarkably well-paced narration. Naturally, the author understands his material so thoroughly that he is able to convey it in an enjoyable manner, but Tolle's gentle tone and dialect begs his audience's attention simply through its straightforward approach. Something about this reading just seems profoundly important, whether one agrees with the material or not, and listeners' attention is sure to be captured within seconds of listening to Tolle's take on the universe in which we live. Originally released in 2005, both book and audiobook were reissued when Oprah Winfrey chose the title for her book club this year. A Penguin paperback. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.
In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.

About the Author

Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace. Tolle travels extensively, taking his teachings throughout the world.

The Four Elements of Success: A Simple Personality Profile that will Transform Your Team by Laurie Beth Jones

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (April 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785208887
• ISBN-13: 978-0785208884

Product Description

Laurie Beth Jones, management expert and business consultant extraordinaire, noticed that none of the personality/temperament profiles in the market today, none of them provided a tool that was simple, visual, intuitive, and powerful enough to create a shift in thinking as well as relating. So she developed The Path Elements Profile (PEP), which can be used in recruitment, placement, retention, team building, and customer relations as businesses transform many individuals into a harmonizing, humming force for good. Within the framework of the book will be scriptural examples as well as modern day business stories.
Based upon the elements of Earth, Water, Wind and Fire, the Path Elements Profile helps determine both individual and team behavioral tendencies that affect everything from career choice to daily "to do" lists. We choose to act on what we value, and each element type values very different things:

• Fire personality types love and thrive on challenge
• Water personality types thrive on harmony and calm
• Wind personality types love chaos and change
• Earth personality types love order and structure

PART I of this book provides an overview of the elements themselves as individual personality types. Jones will explain each element's strengths and challenges and will have the readers identify their own as well as those of their team members.
Then in PART II, readers will assess their teams. There are 28 one-day principles, that, if followed will take readers on a simple yet radical journey to a transformed workplace.
INCLUDES an Assessment Test for Your Team's Elemental Strengths and Weaknesses

The Source of Success: Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Peter Georgescu, Ram Charan, and David Dorsey (Paperback - Aug 8, 2005)

• Paperback: 177 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (August 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787980374
• ISBN-13: 978-0787980375

Product Description

In The Source of Success, Peter Georgescu, former CEO of  the world-renowned advertising agency Young & Rubicam, reveals the nature of the new economic world, and shows what it takes to win in this intensely competitive arena. Georgescu presents a new standard of leadership that focuses on the key source of value in today’s corporation: the relationship between the informed customer and the creative employee—a relationship, he shows, that must be built with honesty and integrity. Georgescu’s vision rests on five crucial principles, which together can unleash a tremendous untapped reservoir of energy within our organizations, and within ourselves:

• Creative capacity and the brand integrity that grows from it are an   organization’s most important assets.
• Enlightened leaders inspire creativity through understanding, cooperation, and respect.
• Competence and execution are as important as ever, but they must be aimed at building intimacy with the customer.
• Alignment is the critical concept for the twenty-first-century organization.
• Great companies don’t happen without leaders who have transformed themselves.

From the Inside Flap

Dramatic change has swept the business world in?recent years, rendering standard paradigms of?leadership obsolete.In The Source of Success, Peter Georgescu, former?CEO of the world-renowned advertising agency Young & Rubicam, reveals the nature of the new economic world, and shows what it takes to win in this intensely competitive arena. Georgescu presents a new standard of leadership that focuses on the key source of value in today's corporation: the relationship between the informed customer and the creative employee—a relationship, he shows, that must be built with honesty and integrity. Georgescu's vision rests on five crucial principles, which together can unleash a tremendous untapped reservoir of energy within our organizations, and within our?selves:

• Creative capacity and the brand integrity that grows from it are an organization's most important assets.
• Enlightened leaders inspire creativity through understanding, cooperation, and respect.
• Competence and execution are as important as ever, but they must be aimed at building intimacy with the customer.
• Alignment is the critical concept for the?twenty-first-century organization.
• Great companies don't happen without leaders who have transformed themselves.

Rich on many levels, the book is filled with stories taken from the author's experience—his early life experiences growing up in communist Romania and his professional career working with the most powerful companies and brands in the world.

From the Back Cover

"In The Source of Success, Peter Georgescu tackles two issues that have special resonance in today's business world: creativity and integrity. At the intersection of the two stands the type of enlightened business leader we need in the twenty-first century. Peter shares important insights forged through a remarkable career—and fascinating life story."
—Bob Wright, vice chairman, GE, and chairman and CEO, NBC Universal"Peter Georgescu gives us all a lot to talk about in The Source of Success. He tells us what's essential for business success and then shows us how to attain it. The core of this values-based business book is the belief that to be a business success you must be a good person. In a time of corporate scandal, his message has never been more right. A great read."
—Bill Bradley, U.S. Senator
"One of the most enduring principles for success is integrity, in both our professional and personal lives. The Source of Success should be considered a leadership compass for new, as well as established, executives to achieve greatness in today's business world."
—Leonard A. Lauder, chairman, Estée Lauder
"Peter Georgescu eloquently articulates a vision of decency, fairness, and humanity in corporate life. A utopian dream? Not at all. What Georgescu is really describing is the optimum recipe for success in the twenty-first century."
—Vernon Jordan
"Peter Georgescu's career has allowed him to work with some of the great companies and great leaders in the world. From this perspective he offers observations and very provocative advice on what it takes to win in today's world of 'excess supply.' This is a book that really makes you think. The views are fresh; and Peter is a wonderful storyteller."
—Shelly Lazarus, chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
"With America still reeling from the orgy of corporate dishonesty and malfeasance symbolized by ENRON, there is already a backlash against more regulation of business. In this climate of cynicism and mistrust, this timely book comes as a breath of fresh air and courage. Corporate leaders may smile at being told they need to be honest and decent to succeed today, but this book should wipe the cynical smiles away. Peter Georgescu, former CEO of Young & Rubicam, warns that global forces have created a brutal new business environment in which productivity outstrips demand, the consumer has won, and every company's survival is always at stake. Georgescu should know: on Madison Avenue he was a master shaper of demand. Now, he argues, to win and keep loyal customers, business will have to adopt revolutionary values: honesty, trust, respect for others, integrity, and accountability. Imagine! Those are the very values business has claimed to be observing all along."
—Robin MacNeil, newscaster, journalist, and author

About the Author

Peter Georgescu is chairman emeritus of EYoung & Rubicam Inc. Under his leadership, EYoung & Rubicam transformed from a private to a publicly held company. The company built the most extensive database on global branding and from its findings developed a proprietary model for diagnosing and managing brands. Georgescu was elected to the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001.David Dorsey is the author of The Force, which was selected as one of the ten best business books of the year by BusinessWeek. He is a freelance writer who has contributed to magazines such as Fast Company, Esquire, and Inc., among others.

The Seventy Great Battles in History by Jeremy Black

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson; illustrated edition edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500251258
• ISBN-13: 978-0500251256

• Product Description

Twenty-five military historians from around the world describe the decisive conflicts that shaped history from the fifth century BC to the present.

Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, the Tet Offensive….The latest book in the popular Seventies series assesses the great battles and conflicts in history from the past twenty-five centuries, and discusses the effects they have had on the development of states and civilizations.

Organized chronologically into seven parts, the book encompasses the ancient and medieval worlds as well as the wars of the past hundred years, including the conflict in Iraq. The contributors analyze not just the greatest land battles of all time, but sieges such as Constantinople (1453) and Tenochtitlán (1521); naval battles such as Actium (31 BC), Trafalgar (1805), and Tsushima (1905); and the crucial conflicts in the air during the Battle of Britain (1940) and the American attack on Japan (1945).

The coverage is truly worldwide in scope, from the battle in Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, where the Germans defeated the Romans, to Hakata Bay in 1281, where the Japanese defeated the Mongols, and the first battle of Panipat in 1526, where the Mughals conquered Hindustan. The reader is presented with a masterly overview of advances in military technology, and of the changing tactics and strategy of battlefield commanders from Hannibal to Napoleon, Montgomery, and Eisenhower.

Richly illustrated in color with hundreds of photographs, contemporary paintings, and specially commissioned battle plans and maps, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in military history. 350 illustrations, 230 in color.

About the Author

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of more than forty books, including World War Two: A Military History and The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution, 1492-1792.

Getting it Right the Second Time by Michael Gershman

Getting it Right the Second Time by Michael Gershman (Paperback - Mar 30, 2005)

• Hardcover: 270 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201550822
• ISBN-13: 978-0201550825

From Library Journal

Anyone interested in marketing new or old products will gain insight from some, if not all, of Gershman's case-study examples of marketing failures-turned-successes. Almost 50 famous products, including Jello, Post-it Notes, and Timex watches, were abject failures when first introduced, but after "remarketing" they all went on to become very big. It is estimated that 93 out of 100 new food products fail. Does the ingenuity, enthusiasm, and determination of their creators make the difference? Each of the 12 chapters highlights a valuable marketing lesson, such as "Don't Quit," "Don't Price It Wrong," and "Don't Skimp on Promotion." Don't miss these fascinating believe-it-or-not business anecdotes. For public library business collections.
- Susan Awe, Natrona County P.L., Casper, Wy.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description

Remarketing strategies that have turned failures into success.