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Developing the Leaders Around You takes personal leadership one step further by showing you how to identify and train potential leaders and foster a productive team spirit.

Whatever your vocation or aspiration, you can increase your impact on others by Becoming a Person of Influence. Learn simple insightful ways to interact more positively with others, and watch you personal and organizational success go off the charts. With influence, you can achieve success at home, work, and in every other area of life.

Modern management strategies are valuable--no doubt about it. But too often we ignore or miss the trememdous spiritual leadership and management principles found in the Bible.

That's the reason for Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be. It presents what the Bible says about leadership. And that's a great deal. This book is as down-to-earth practical as your everyday shoes. In fact, it's a must if you feel that God has any type of leadership role in mind for you--or if He has already given you a job of leading people.

First published in 1975 and with more than 300,000 books in print, this newly updated edition of Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be includes a personal and group study guide.

"LeRoy Eims stimulated and encouraged my leadership when he was my leader in teh Navigators. He challenged me to be my best. He trusted God to work through my life. LeRoy instills confidence that you can lead - and helps you to do it."
- Dr. Jerry White

"LeRoy Eims goes beyond the usual principles and techniques of leadership to get to the thing that matters most - the character of the leader. This book isn't just for leaders, it's for every Christian who wants to count for God."
- Jerry Bridges

Studies have shown that 96 percent of Americans fail to achieve financial independence by the age of 65. The number one reason cited? The inability to delay gratification. The hidden cause, as John Cummuta demonstrates, is what he calls the "Coalition of Four," a subtle combination of marketplace forces focused on seducing American income earners into first spending all they make…and then spending far beyond what they make by using debt. The Coalition preys on this human weakness to systematically siphon most of the money Americans earn into Coalition coffers. Made up of Merchants, the Advertising Industry, Media, and the Credit Industry, the Coalition works synergistically to create a sense of need, prey on our naivete, appeal to our pride, and offer us an "easy" way to afford it all.

But the reality is we can't afford it all…at least not early and all at once. The result is that most consumers end up being slaves to the Coalition, and fully expect to be making debt payments till the day they die.

After exposing the Coalition and its intentions, Cummuta helps readers stop succumbing to the seduction and take charge of their own financial future. His purpose is to free readers to be able to live the life they really want to live. The solution Cummuta offers is his "Cascading Debt-Elimination System™," which can eliminate a typical American household's debts to zero - including paying off their home mortgage - in just 5 to 7 years, using nothing more than the money they already make. And the system works no matter the household's income level or debt amount.

Finally, Cummuta explains how readers can achieve permanent immunity from the Coalition of Four by maximizing their income and successfully investing it in assets that will produce more than enough retirement income to live on…with our without working. Most people are trapped in their jobs and lives, "sticking it out" just so they can pay the bills. This book gives them the tools and the opportunity to redesign their lives and start over.

Why do some leaders get and accomplish what they want as a matter of routine, while others seem to regularly experience frustration and setbacks?  Why do some leaders achieve their goals and reach new heights, while others barely "hang in there" and survive?  Based on his groundbreaking psychological study of the ways that successful individuals think and behave, Dr. Henry Cloud presents a simple yet profound roadmap to help leaders-and those who want to become leaders-arrive at greater levels of personal growth and corporate influence than they previously thought were possible.  The good news for all of us is that leadership success is not limited to vague notions of "charisma" nor traditional advantages like graduate degrees and connections, but much more to a pattern of thinking and moving forward that learns from mistakes and stays focused on goals.