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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $15.27
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Manufacturer: Portfolio Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Geoff Colvin
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Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 153.9
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Publication Date: 2008-10-16
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance.
One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called “What It Takes to Be Great.” Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.
Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business—negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest—obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.
This new mind-set, combined with Colvin’s practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career—and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.89
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Timothy Ferriss
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Publisher: Crown
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
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Publication Date: 2007-04-24
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:
“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”
He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.
Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office
You can have it all—really.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $2.25
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Manufacturer: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Spencer Johnson
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Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Dewey Decimal Number: 155.24
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Publication Date: 1998-09-08
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out. Dr. Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: The cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $6.45
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marcus Buckingham::Donald O. Clifton
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Publisher: Free Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
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Publication Date: 2001-01-29
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it. Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into the authors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice, places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missing from most similar tomes. "You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providing knowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. --Howard Rothman
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.23
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marshall Goldsmith::Mark Reiter
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
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Publication Date: 2007-01-09
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: America’s most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They’re intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith’s straightforward, jargonfree advice, it’s amazingly easy behavior to change. Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
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Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Edition: 2009
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
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Publication Date: 2008-10
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Reading Level: 407
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Description: Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.04
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Manufacturer: Hay House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Esther Hicks::Jerry Hicks
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Publisher: Hay House
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Edition: Pap/Com
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Dewey Decimal Number: 133.93
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Publication Date: 2008-08-12
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical consciousness Abraham, explains that the two subjects most chronically affected by the powerful Law of Attraction are financial and physical well-being. This book will shine a spotlight on each of the most significant aspects of your life experience and then guide you to the conscious creative control of every aspect of your life, and also goes right to the heart of what most of you are probably troubled by: money and physical health. Not having enough money or not having good health puts you in the perfect position for creating more of that which you do not have. This book has been written to deliberately align you with the most powerful law in the universe—the Law of Attraction—so that you can make it work specifically for you. Money, and the Law of Attraction is formatted in five, vibrant essays: Part I – Processing of Pivoting and Positive Aspects Part II – Attracting Money and Manifesting Abundance Part III – Maintaining Your Physical Well-Being Part IV – Perspectives of Health, Weight, and Mind Part V – Careers, as Profitable Sources of Pleasure Also included is a free CD (excerpted from a live Abraham-Hicks workshop) that features the Art of Allowing your physical and financial well-being to come through.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Hay House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bruce H. Lipton
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Publisher: Hay House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 153
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Publication Date: 2008-09-15
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: With more than 100,000 copies sold of his self-published book, The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton teams up with Hay House to bring his message to an even wider audience. This book is a groundbreaking work in the field of new biology, and it will forever change how you think about thinking. Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our thoughts. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of Epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.75
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Walsh
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Publisher: Free Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 640
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Publication Date: 2007-11-06
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: When Peter Walsh, organizational guru of TLC's hit show Clean Sweep and a regular contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show, appeared on national television shows and told people how they could reclaim their lives from the suffocating burden of their clutter, the response was overwhelming. People flooded Peter's website (www.peterwalshdesign.com) with success stories about how his book had changed their lives. Peter's unique approach helped people everywhere learn to let go of the emotional and psychological clutter that was literally and figuratively choking the life out of their homes. With his good humor and reassuring advice, Peter shows you how to face the really big question: What is the vision for the life you want to live? He then offers simple techniques and a step-by-step plan to assess the state of your home, prioritize your possessions, and let go of the clutter you have been holding on to that has kept you from living the life you imagine. The result is freed-up space, less stress, and more energy for living a happier, richer life every day.
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Price: $42.00
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Sale: $26.32
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Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kaplan
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Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650
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Publication Date: 2008-06-03
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Reading Level: 672
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Description: Features: - NEW! Essential math basics review section with practice drills
- 6 full-length practice tests (1 in the book, 1 online, 4 on the CD-ROM)
- Diagnostic test to target areas for score improvement
- Proven score-raising strategies
- Hundreds of additional practice questions
- Detailed answer explanations
- Personalized online progress report that adapts to a student's goals and schedule
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