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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Timothy Ferris
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Blackstone Audio Inc. (CD) (Release Date: 2007-04-24)

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.

Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street
by W. W. Norton & Company (Hardcover)

In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through the jungle of a powerful investment bank. In two short years he rose from trainee to a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.

Michael E. Gerber
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by HarperCollins (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-03-03)

In this first new and totally revised edition of the over two million copy bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. Next, he walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed -- and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether it is a franchise or not. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

T. Harv Eker
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
by Collins Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-02-15)

SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it! Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in their education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments? The shocking answer is: None of the above! In his groundbreaking SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND, T. Harv Eker states: "Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!" Eker does this by identifying your "money and success blueprint." We all have a personal money blueprint ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint, more than anything, that will determine our financial lives. You can know everything about marketing, sales, negotiations, stocks, real estate, and the world of finance, but if your money blueprint is not set for a high level of ...

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
The Leadership Challenge
by Jossey-Bass (Paperback)

Curt Coffman
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

T. Boone Pickens
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
by Crown Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-02)

With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil DependencyIt’s never too late to top your personal best.Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens became a household name when he executed a series of unsolicited buyout bids for undervalued oil companies, in the process reinventing the notion of shareholders’ rights. Even his failures were successful in that they forced risk-averse managers to reconsider the way they did business.When Pickens left Mesa at age sixty-eight after a spectacular downward spiral in the company’s profits, many counted him out. Indeed, what followed for him was a painful divorce, clinical depression, a temporary inability to predict the movement of energy prices, and the loss of 90 ...

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
The One Minute Manager
by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1982-09-01)

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees.The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits.That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
by Jossey-Bass (Hardcover)

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