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Nierenberg and Calero challenge long-held beliefs and adapt older techniques to the ever-changing modern business climate. Accessible and thought-provoking, this book is the perfect instructional guide for learning how to negotiate anything.

Terrence Gargiulo and Dr. Gini Graham Scott present 24 short stories designed to help listeners navigate a world full of dishonest and petty characters. Entertaining and thought-provoking, these stories offer blueprints for managing any situation in which difficult people threaten success.

Authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan offer listeners this engaging treatise on achieving business success. Using compelling real-world examples--such as a New Zealand steelmaking company turning their fortunes around in one year, and a Japanese building firm enjoying record profits during a terrible economic environment--Zaffron and Logan illustrate the three laws of performance that will help all entrepreneurs get their businesses back on track.

Development consultants and business scholars Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman attempt to answer one of history's most difficult questions--what makes a good leader? In the course of their research, they discovered five rules to lead by, and here they share them with eager listeners.

A parable illustrates how the goal of a genuine leader is to help others--teammates, employees, and colleagues--to become more capable, confident, and accomplished than they are themselves and to realize their full potential.

Schiff show listeners how to protect assets and invest money when the American economy is experiencing perilous economic downturns. Filled with insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and pre-scriptive advice, this book will help listeners make money under adverse market conditions by using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy.

The Internet has profoundly changed the way businesses communicate with current and potential customers. This one-of-a-kind guide includes a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet, showing you how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, and get those messages to the right people.

Gordon presents an inspiring and enlightening story that reveals a powerful way to tackle the biggest problem in business and life. In this allegory, VP of human resources Hope must overcome the biggest challenge in her company's history. In the process of battling her own adversity, she discovers the no complaining rule and other positive ways to save her company and herself from ruin.

Schiff provides an insightful examination of the structural weaknesses underlying this impending economic meltdown, and shows you how to protect yourself--and profit--during the difficult times that lie ahead. Using common-sense analysis, creative analogies, and easy-to-understand language, Schiff entertains, educates, and outlines a three-step plan so you can preserve wealth and protect the purchasing power of your savings.

In a time when the reputation of an organization or a leader can be shattered by the click of a mouse, transparency is often a matter of survival in a world of global competition. But as stakeholders in different organizations increasingly clamor for transparency, what are they truly asking for? What is the promise of transparency? What are its very real risks? And why is it essential that leaders understand it?