An estimated twenty million Americans are staying in jobs they hate in order to keep their health insurance, while research indicates that job stress will ensure they use it. We can't all quit our jobs, so how do we cope? Barbara Reinhold offers some excellent solutions for managing stress and taking more control in your life.
You'll Never Be at a Loss for Words Again.
The words you use say a lot about who you are and where you're headed. Whether you want to express yourself clearly to impress a prospective employer during a job interview, or just brush up on those pesky words you encounter every so often reading the newspaper, Kaplan Word Power is the essential tool to help you expand your daily vocabulary.
Energize Your Vocabulary with:
* Must-know everyday words that are the essentials of a good vocabulary
* Engaging lessons to help you utilize words in context
* Hot words often found on standardized tests like the SAT and GRE
* Tips to help you figure out new words, roots, and more
Protect Your Achilles Heel mirrors the immensely successful model created by Roberts in his two previous bestsellers Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun. In that series, Roberts applied Attila's cunning leadership secrets to the modern business world.
Now, he uses the story of Achilles to illustrate how seemingly small character flaws are leading to the downfall of managers the world over - just like Achilles's miniscule vulnerability, his heel, led to his demise. The mythic Achilles offers a fascinating example of how great promise can fall victim to moral failings. Roberts draws convincing parallels between Achilles and the destructive behavior of contemporary managers who have forgotten the fundamental principles of effective business.
This powerful and insightful audiobook serves as the protective armor managers need to transcend the nine character flaws that erode productivity, create a hostile work environment, and - in the extreme - leads to the self-destruction of one's career. Protect Your Achilles Heel is filled with modern-day parables, observations, and real-life examples that validate these nine flaws as timeless forces that managers in every generation must learn to conquer if they are to protect their own Achilles Heels.
On the publication of Andrew Hacker's instant classic and bestselling Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Newsweek described him as a "political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairs. he doesn't crunch numbers: he makes them live and breathe." Now, with the same keen, objective insight and wizardry with numbers, Hacker tackles the other emotionally charged issue that most preoccupies us, wealth and its distribution.
In MONEY, Hacker sifts through reams of data to answer the questions we most frequently ask about money:
Have women made real strides toward economic parity?
Has affirmative action improved the economic status of African Americans?
Does immigration really take jobs away from hardworking Americans?
Hacker's answers are surprising and fascinating, illuminating the financial condition of every strata of America. Shattering all the taboos we have on the subjects of wealth, poverty, and worth, MONEY is essential listening for anyone who wants to know more about their slice of the American pie.
FIRST THINGS FIRST EVERY DAY
Because Where You're Headed is More Important Than How Fast You're Going
STEPHEN R. COVEY
A. ROGER MERRILL AND REBECCA R. MERRILL
A multiple-voice recording with an introduction by A. Roger Merrill
FIRST THINGS FIRST
HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT EVERY DAY...
Stephen R. Covey and the Merrills have shown millions of listeners how to balance the demands of a schedule with the desire for fulfillment. The principles they introduced in First Things First are distilled for everyday listening. Let First Things First Every Day be your guide to the rich relationships, the inner peace, and the confidence that come from knowing where you're headed, and why.
A Proven Program to Maximize Your Sales.
In this indispensable new guide, sales consultant and America's #1 corporate sales trainer Steve Schiffman reveals the methodology of HIGH-EFFICIENCY SELLING. This innovative and solid strategy can lead to greater sales, better time management, and improved long-term business partnerships. The bestelling author of Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) stakes outs new territory by offering a unique approach to the four phases of the sales cycle: prospecting, interviewing, presentation, and closing. Schiffman's breakthrough techniques help you reduce stress, develop a better long-term "fit" with customers, and -best of all- increase sales by focusing on:
Attitude - the single most important factor in holding on to customers.
Creating your personal prospecting plan - making the calls, drafting attention and identification statements, delivering the request.
Executing, refining, and developing the cold call.
The ten commandments of contacting target companies.
The tools, questions, and goals you need for an effective client interview.
Simple - and effective - closing techniques.
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., has done more than win the tastebuds of America -- it has earned the admiration of Wall Street and established a model for business owners and employees eager to earn profits without compromising their principles. In Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield offer the ultimate insider's guide to creating a values-led business that makes money while benefiting the entire community. Using examples from their own company as well as a host of others, these renowned innovators reveal:
How your commitment to worthy social causes will result in unprecedented customer and employee loyalty -- and increased profit
Practical advice on everything -- from hiring employees to choosing suppliers
Nuts-and-bolts information on values-led finance, retailing, and human resources
Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip is essential reading for anyone who owns, works for, invests in, or shops at a socially responsible business.
From Michael LeBoeuf, the bestselling author of Working Smart and the audio programs Working Smarter, Imagineering and The Perfect Business, comes How To Win Customers and Keep Them For Life -- the ultimate guide to building a successful business through customer satisfaction.
The success of any business depends on knowing the answers to these important questions:
Why do some people buy once...and never return?
Why do some people become strong, steady customers?
How do you turn an angry or complaining customer into a happy and satisfied one?
What are the five best ways to keep customers coming back?
How To Win Customers and Keep Them For Life is a hard-hitting, action-ready rewards-and-incentives program fro creating a winning sales team. Created by one of the nation's foremost business consultants, this practical, no-nonsense guide tells you everything you need to know about successful selling -- and most important of all -- how to win customers for life.
For beginners and more experienced investors alike, Wall Street Money Machine is a dynamic and innovative guide to understanding Wall Street and making it work for you.
Wade B. Cook's is a classic rags-to-riches story: he started out as a cab driver, then became a real estate investor, author, and educator -- and he is now a renowned stock market cash-flow strategist. Wall Street Money Machine teaches the listener the secrets of his phenomenal success. In this practical, easy-to-understand program, you'll learn:
How to double your money every 2 ½ to 4 ½ months
How to get 14% to 34% in monthly returns -- consistently
The inside secrets to stock options and how to turn them into a cash-flow machine
Tips about stock splits, dividend capturing, and margin trading
Much more about everything you need to know
With these powerful strategies, you can retire cash-flow rich.
If you're like most people in their twenties and thirties, you don't feel like you're in control of your financial life. But if you want to take full advantage of the best financial opportunities, it's important that you get started right away. Get a Financial Life shows you how to manage your money and make it grow. In it you will learn how to:
Refinance your high-rate credit cards and student loans
Start investing in the right mutual
funds
Find low-cost auto loans and mortgages
Make the most of tax deductions you never knew existed
Use tax-advantaged savings plans to build a serious nest egg
From 401(k)s to health insurance to stocks and bonds, this book focuses exclusively on what you really need to know at this stage in your financial life. Whether you earn $15,000 or $150,000, whether you're single or married, whether you're financially inclined or financially challenged, this book will let you manage your money with the smallest possible investment of time and effort.
The world of big business is changing, and a new management ethic is emerging. Autry believes business is about values and relationships, not just the bottom line, and that's why downsizing, lay-offs and cutting benefits are not producing the results corporations hoped for.
Chris Loving shares a unique and thought-provoking perspective on leadership in business, relationships and life. In this original audio program, we gain insight through the ten essential components of Loving Leadership.
