Be a People Person
You can bring out the best in people!
In Be a People Person, America’s leadership expert John Maxwell helps you
Discover and develop the qualities of an effective “people person.”
Improve your relationships in every area of life.
Understand and help difficult people.
Overcome differences and personality traits that can cause friction.
Inspire others to excellence and success.
Being a leader means working with people, and that’s not always easy! Whether
Failing Forward New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell
America’s most trusted leadership expert will transform your attitude and belief about failure and empower you to make positive changes in your life to achieve your full potential.
Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? Call them lucky, blessed, or possessors of the Midas touch.
What is the real reason for their success? Is it family background, wealth, greater opportunities, high morals, an easy childhood?
New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Maxwell says that if you are like him, coming out of school, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. But Maxwell has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.
want to help you learn how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway, says Maxwell. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
ReWork
Status Anxiety
Turning to philosophers, historians, politicians and artists, De Botton examines where our anxieties about success and status originate. the hardback edition has spent two and a half months in the )Sunday Times( top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies. This paperback edition will have huge publicity, including nationwide events and features. De Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us live our lives )Independent(In Status Anxiety, Bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure – and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer – to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassment – from status anxiety. For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics – and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries. the result is a book that is not only entertaining and thought-provoking – but genuinely wise and helpful as well. Clever, wise. De Bottons gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might change things the TimesDe Botton analyses modern society with great charm, learning and humour. His remedies come as a welcome relief when most books offering solutions to the stresses of life recommend the lotus position Daily MailMeasured, amused, compassionate . . . de Botton is a surefooted discoverer of the pungent but less well known quote Daily TelegraphA purveyor of serious buy playful manuals for living GQTurned me into a fan, for its range, insight, wit and sheer usefulness Daily Express
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.
He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can.
The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day
While a few people appear to be born leaders, the ability to lead is actually a collection of skills, nearly all of which can be learned and sharpened. Based on his New York Times bestseller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, author John C. Maxwell presents a daily plan to help you grow as a leader in your personal, professional, and spiritual life.
The Happiness Equation
What’s the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a Walmart executive, a New York Times-bestselling author, and a husband and dad. After selling more than a million copies of his Book of Awesome series, he now shifts his focus from observation to application. In The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing, do anything, and have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction, you simply haven’t unlocked the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. Pasricha then goes a step further by providing step-by-step guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles that illustrate exactly how to apply each secret to live a happier life today. Controversial? Maybe. Counterintuitive? Definitely. The Happiness Equation will teach you such principles as: * Why success doesn’t lead to happiness * How to make more money than a Harvard MBA * Why multitasking is a myth * How eliminating options leads to more choice
The Innovator’s Dilemma
A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensens work continues to underpin Todays most innovative leaders and organizations. the Bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the worlds best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller–one of the most influential business books of all time–innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right–yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices. Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, the Innovators Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative–and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time–the Innovators Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.
This is marketing
What is the best way to identify your smallest visible audience? How do you build trust and permission with your target market? From the author of 18 bestselling books including THE DIP and TRIBES comes THIS IS MARKETING, the one indispensable volume that teaches you all you need to know about connection, empathy and making a difference for decades to come.
