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What Got You Here Won't Get You There

How Successful People Become Even More Successful!

by Marshall Goldsmith

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... (more)

Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping (with Booklet - Skilled Helping Around the World)

Skilled Helper: A Problem Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping (with Booklet - Skilled Helping Around the World)

by Gerard Egan

Internationally recognized for its successful problem-management and opportunity development approach to effective helping, Egan's text emphasizes the collaborative nature of the therapist-client relationship and uses a practical, three-stage model that drives client problem-managing and opportunity-developing action. Egan masterfully leads readers step-by-step through the counseling process, while giving them a... (more)

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most

by Douglas Stone

Members of the Harvard Negotiation Project--which brought you the mega-bestseller Getting to YES --show you how to handle your most difficult conversations with confidence and skill. Whether you're dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid... (more)

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

by Rick Kirschner, Rick Brinkman

The international bestseller--more than 500,000 copies sold! With their 1994 international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand, Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner armed a civility-starved world with no-nonsense strategies for dealing with difficult people with tact and skill. Since then, cell phones, the Internet, voice mail, and other technological wonders designed to bring people closer... (more)

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The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated... (more)

Leadership and Self-Deception

Getting Out of the Box

by The Arbinger Institute

Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to identify a single, underlying cause of every form of leadership failure. Through the story of Tom—a “shluck” in his manager’s words—readers discover that identifying and treating individual leadership problems as if they were separate and distinct is not enough to transform people into successful leaders. The authors suggest that the key to leadership lies not in... (more)

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini

Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say “yes” to another's request). Written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research, Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a salesperson, fundraiser, advertiser, and in other positions... (more)

Anna Banana: 101 Jump Rope Rhymes

by Joanna Cole

How many times can you jump rope? This rhyme makes the game of rope jumping even more fun. It's a counting rhyme, and there are lots of others like it. There are also red-hot pepper rhymes for jumping very fast, and rhymes for jumpingin and out of the rope. There are even fortune-telling rhymes that answer questions and help you predict the future! The rhymes in this book began as a way to keep the rhythm while... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

by Kerry Patterson

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history." --Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed... (more)

The Skilled Facilitator

by Roger M. Schwarz

When it was published in 1994, Roger Schwarz's The Skilled Facilitator earned widespread critical acclaim and became a landmark in the field. The book is a classic work for consultants, facilitators, managers, leaders, trainers, and coaches--anyone whose role is to guide groups toward realizing their creative and problem-solving potential. This thoroughly revised edition provides the essential materials for... (more)

Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)

Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)

by Edgar H. Schein

The latest edition to the Ed Schein's well-loved set of process consultation books, this new volume builds on the content of the two that precede it and explores the critical area of the helping relationship. Process Consultation Revisited focuses on the interaction between consultant and client, explaining how to achieve the healthy helping relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the... (more)

Drop the Pink Elephant: 15 Ways to Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say

Drop the Pink Elephant: 15 Ways to Say What You Mean...and Mean What You Say

by Bill McFarlan

"As GMTV anchor, I interview hundreds of people every year. However well they interview, every single person would find it easier to explain their case by following these simple principles." EAMONN HOLMES, GMTV Presenter "<Drop the Pink Elephant>...tackle<s> every aspect of personal communication in a crisp, entertaining style." THE PLAIN ENGLISH SOCIETY "There can be no whitewash at the White... (more)

Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results

Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results

by David Baldwin, Curt Grayson

Influence is an essential component of leadership. Your position in an organization and the power it gives you aren't always enough to motivate people to do what you ask. Developing your influence skills can help you gain commitment from people at all levels: direct reports, peers, and bosses.

Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

by Madelyn Burley-Allen

A proven program for turning effective listening into a powerful business tool Managers and other employees spend more than 40 percent of their time listening to other people but often do it so poorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirected projects, and erroneous actions—millions of dollars’ worth of mistakes just because most people don’t know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic... (more)

UP: Influence, Power and the U Perspective- The Art of Getting What You WantLee E. Miller

UP: Influence, Power and the U Perspective- The Art of Getting What You Want

by Stephanie St. Pierre, Lee E. Miller

Lee E. Miller explores the fine art of influence. Here, he explains and elaborates upon what he terms the "U Perspective:' or seeing the world through the eyes of the people it is your business to influence. By doing so this book argues, you can harness the power of the values and belief systems of others to affect their behavior and arrive at mutually beneficial solutions. With what Miller calls the "3... (more)

The Situational Leader -Dr. Paul Hersey -

The Situational Leader -

by Dr. Paul Hersey -

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping, 8th

Exercises in Helping Skills for Egan's The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity Development Approach to Helping, 8th

by Gerard Egan

Written by Gerard Egan, with assistance from Rich McGourty, this manual parallels the main text, THE SKILLED HELPER, Eighth Edition. The manual allows students to complete self-development exercises as well as practice communication skills and each of the steps of the model in private before using them in actual face-to-face helping interactions with others.

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

by Dan Roam

A bold new way to tackle tough business problems?even if you draw like a second grader When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and- spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and customers. ... (more)

Conversational Power: The Key to Success With PeopleJames K. Van Fleet, Van Fleet James K James K. Van Fleet

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How Successful People Become Even More Successful!

by Marshall Goldsmith

by Gerard Egan

by Douglas Stone

by Rick Kirschner, Rick Brinkman

The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

Getting Out of the Box

by The Arbinger Institute

by Robert B. Cialdini

by Joanna Cole

by Happy Traum

by Kerry Patterson

by Roger M. Schwarz

by Edgar H. Schein

by Bill McFarlan

by David Baldwin, Curt Grayson

by Madelyn Burley-Allen

by Stephanie St. Pierre, Lee E. Miller

by Dr. Paul Hersey -

by Gerard Egan

by Dan Roam

by James K. Van Fleet, Van Fleet James K James K. Van Fleet