Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life

Success is an inside job. EQ Fit leaders know that the emotional health of their organizations is key to their economic health, and it all begins with tending to one's own emotional fitness. Packard's accessible guidebook has arrived just in time, since the landscape of business and leadership is changing at a blinding clip. As technological advances increase efficiency, old-school hierarchies are fading fast, and instead of top-down bravado, there's a new path forward. She teaches an "inside out" practice of self-discovery, which helps readers uncover unproductive emotions and dispel them. Packard shows how the most successful companies are rich with "connector" emotions like hope, empathy and trust building. She tackles unconventional topics, like how workaholism keeps us emotionally adolescent and how forgiveness belongs in the workplace, too. No one knows these truths better. Packard shares her EQ Fit-catalyzed success at HGTV and the stories of the executives she coaches in mindfulness and other out-of-the-box techniques. The best leaders balance power with grace, and everyone can effectively use both resilience-an ability to endure tough situations and make tough decisions-and vulnerability-a willingness to open up, change, and admit when we need help-to be more effective. Packard offers us exciting new tools so we can bring our best selves to all we do.

Fully Human

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention

A nine step-guide to mastering viral content, branding and outwitting social media algorithms for marketers, entrepreneurs and aspiring celebrities from the CEO of Shareability.

Break Through the Noise

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Illinois

Silver Medal Winner, Business and Leadership, 2012 Nautilus Book Awards

Respected former CEO, professor, and speaker examines what it takes to become a values-based leader

In this highly-anticipated book, Harry Kraemer argues that today's business environment demands values-based leaders who, in "doing the right thing," deliver outstanding and lasting results. The journey to becoming a values-based leader starts with self-reflection. He asks, "If you are not self-reflective, how can you know yourself? If you do not know yourself, how can you lead yourself? If you cannot lead yourself, how can you lead others?" Kraemer identifies self-reflection as the first of four principles that guide leaders to make choices that honor their values and candidly recounts how these principles helped him navigate some of the toughest challenges he faced in his career.

 * Offers a framework for adopting the principles of values-based leadership--self-reflection, balance, true self-confidence, and genuine humility--to lead organizations effectively
 * Based on Kraemer's popular Kellogg MBA course on values-based leadership
 * A recognized expert in values-based leadership, Kraemer is a sought after speaker on the subject

Lively and engaging, Kraemer's book comes at a critical time when true leadership in every facet of society is desperately needed.

All of Harry's proceeds from the book sales are donated to the One Acre Fund in Africa.

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A Strategy for Progress and Leadership in Times of Change

Humanity Wins is a thoughtful and affirming examination of how we can adapt systematically, as individuals and as a society, to the staggering changes occurring in the world around us.

As global change accelerates, our political and social systems are barely keeping pace. Venerated institutions at every level, from the family to national governments, are struggling to operate under rules designed for a world that no longer exists.

Reinhard Mohn, the innovative entrepreneur who built Bertelsmann, Inc., into the fourth largest media company in the world, argues that the new world we are creating demands new rules, new strategies, and new systems. Just as business has undergone a radical transformation in the last twenty years, moving from centralized corporate hierarchies to decentralized dynamic organizations, so must society. Mohn shows how social institutions can adapt the best of what business leaders have learned -- and avoid repeating their mistakes.

Ultimately, Mohn, an elder statesman of the global economy, makes a moving case for a new, ethics-based, dynamic world order and provides concrete models for putting his ideas to work. We can adapt to the changes we have wrought, Mohn writes. This is how humanity will win.

Humanity Wins

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Betsy Myers

Warren Bennis

David Gergen

John David Mann

“Why is it that some people challenge us and motivate us to rise to our best abilities, while others seem to drain our energy and spirit? What is that particular quality certain people have that causes those around them to engage fully and feel connected?” 

You are a leader. You do not need to be in a boardroom, on a battlefield, or on a ballot to have a profound impact on everyone around you. In this life-changing book, Betsy Myers—senior adviser to two US presidents and former executive director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership—demonstrates how each of us has opportunities to take the lead every day and shares seven core principles that will enable us to be more productive, engaged, and successful. 

From the Oval Office to the playground, cabinet meetings to kitchen tables, in public life and private, Betsy Myers has seen firsthand the emergence of a new leadership model where having all the answers up front is less important than asking the right questions, where strength is derived less from the power you wield than from how you make the people around you feel. 

With personal stories from her time in government, in academia, and on the campaign trail, as well as her experiences as a wife, daughter, and mother, Myers helps all of us learn to set the right priorities for ourselves; to connect on a deeper level with the people around us; to uncover problems early when they are still easy to fix; to collaborate with those whose points of view are different from our own; and to push through our fears and live our most authentic lives. Myers demonstrates that more than simply making people feel good, this kind of leadership can have a profound effect on the results achieved: it is how initiatives are launched, profits are made, and work gets done. 

Personal, practical, and profoundly inspiring, Take the Lead is a book for anyone who wonders where all the great leaders have gone. Betsy Myers helps us see that true leadership is all around us—and within us.

Massachusetts

Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You

"Why is it that some people challenge us and motivate us to rise to our best abilities, while others seem to drain our energy and spirit? What is that particular quality certain people have that causes those around them to engage fully and feel connected?"

You are a leader. You do not need to be in a boardroom, on a battlefield, or on a ballot to have a profound impact on everyone around you. In this life-changing book, Betsy Myers--senior adviser to two US presidents and former executive director of Harvard's Center for Public Leadership--demonstrates how each of us has opportunities to take the lead every day and shares seven core principles that will enable us to be more productive, engaged, and successful.

From the Oval Office to the playground, cabinet meetings to kitchen tables, in public life and private, Betsy Myers has seen firsthand the emergence of a new leadership model where having all the answers up front is less important than asking the right questions, where strength is derived less from the power you wield than from how you make the people around you feel.

With personal stories from her time in government, in academia, and on the campaign trail, as well as her experiences as a wife, daughter, and mother, Myers helps all of us learn to set the right priorities for ourselves; to connect on a deeper level with the people around us; to uncover problems early when they are still easy to fix; to collaborate with those whose points of view are different from our own; and to push through our fears and live our most authentic lives. Myers demonstrates that more than simply making people feel good, this kind of leadership can have a profound effect on the results achieved: it is how initiatives are launched, profits are made, and work gets done.

Personal, practical, and profoundly inspiring, Take the Lead is a book for anyone who wonders where all the great leaders have gone. Betsy Myers helps us see that true leadership is all around us--and within us.

Take the Lead

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Business & Economics

How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership from the Keel Up

A former U.S. Navy commander draws on interviews with leaders from every branch of the U.S. military and the business world to discuss how to honor agreements with a staff, develop employees, and work on one's own terms.

Get Your Ship Together

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How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

There are now 26 millennials in congress - a fivefold increase gained in the last midterms. They're governing over Midwestern cities and college towns, sitting on city councils and running for state legislatures. Some of them have been in office for a few years; one of them is running for president. In The Ones We've been Waiting For, TIME correspondent Charlotte Alter defines the class of young leaders who are remaking the nation, and what America will look like when they're in charge.

The Ones We've Been Waiting For

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The Compelling Impact of Financial Wellness in the Workplace

The New Productivity Engine

Lance A. Berger

Martin J. Sikora

A Road Map to Corporate Transformation

The future success and even survival of thousands of companies depends on how well they anticipate and respond to both unexpected and foreseeable change. The Change Management Handbook is a road map that lays out the actions to help you execute change while adapting your organizational goals. This practical, action-oriented guide for change agents and managers shows how to develop the type of flexible and nimble organization that achieves long-term success. It lists specific actions to be taken by senior business managers, the people they assign to implement change policies on the line, and the professional advisors they enlist to assist and monitor the change processes. You'll also find ways to use change processes for competitive advantage; methods to maintain continuous alignment of strategy, operations, culture, and rewards; ways to identify the change agents and managers in your organization; more than 30 contributions by a who's who of change management, all written in a very specific, how-to format; real-world examples from actual corporations that expose both potential opportunities and pitfalls; how to maintain productivity and quality during times of rapid change and even chaos; and an actual change map that leads through all the steps necessary to make successful changes. The Change Management Handbook is uniquely designed as a desktop resource that defines the goals and explains the methods and processes required to manage change. For the first time, this book assembles and integrates all the pieces required to create effective, flexible organizations.

The Change Management Handbook

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John Feinstein

Al McGuire

Minnesota

A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

An unprecedented inside look at America's most controversial basketball coach, Bob Knight. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

A Season on the Brink

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Bob LaMonte

Robert L. Shook

Leadership Lessons from Football's Top Head Coaches

Meet Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, John Fox, Andy Reid, and Mike Sherman -- top NFL head coaches whose careers rest on their ability to lead other men to win in the fiercely competitive world of professional football.

Being an NFL coach is the ultimate high-pressure job. The average life span of a coach is two and a half years, so there is an enormous amount of pressure and scrutiny, from demanding owners, millions of fickle fans, and unyielding media. Every Sunday he makes split-second decisions that will not only decide the fate of a game but also his team's season and, ultimately, his own job.

In an extraordinary collaboration with Bob LaMonte, each of these five coaches shares their leadership principles in Winning the NFL Way. Having spent thousands of hours with these men, LaMonte understands their quirks, superstitions, philosophies, and work ethics. He takes you behind the scenes, where you'll be a fly on the wall in team meetings, on the sidelines, and in the locker room as Holmgren, Gruden, Fox, Reid, and Sherman reveal how to win beyond the X's and O's. You'll find how to pick and choose the right people for an organization. How to communicate with different personalities. How to be an effective disciplinarian. How to develop a vision and execute it. How coaches build trust in their people and win loyalty, overcome adversity, and adapt to change. All while being a person of integrity and high character.

Through their colorful and motivational anecdotes, you'll gain unprecedented insights into the minds of some of the best coaches today and valuable lessons on what it means to be a leader and a champion.

Winning the NFL Way

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Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business

TheLos Angeles Times andUSA Today bestseller!

Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field--from a leading executive, investor, and business founder

More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a workplace--and create a lasting legacy?

Maynard Webb has helped found, fund, and grow dozens of successful companies, and has driven strategic change at Salesforce, eBay, Everwise, and Visa, among other worldwide corporations. Known for offering savvy insight, encouragement, and a dose of reality in the form of engaging personal letters to a select group of business leaders, Webb now shares his lessons with the rest of America's aspiring entrepreneurs--at any age and stage in their careers--in Dear Founder.

Featuring more than eighty inspiring, informative, and instructive letters,Dear Founder is rich with sound advice on an array of business topics, from turning your idea into a reality to building a culture, to reaching key financial goals. This book is an indispensable guide to navigating the realities, risks, and rewards of being your own boss--and founding the company of your dreams.

Dear Founder

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California

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Peter Petre

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf: The Autobiography

The memoirs of the commander of the Allied Forces during the Persian Gulf War detail General Schwarzkopf's life and military service, the events of the war, and the ideals and philosophy that sustain him. 750,000 first printing. $750,000 ad/promo. Tour.

It Doesn't Take a Hero

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A Leader's Playbook for Serial Success

Reinvent

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How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution barrels forward and the pace of disruption accelerates, all organizations must operate withagility. But this urgent priority, now widely-accepted by senior leaders, presents a major challenge: In business, government, and warfare, agility is a buzzword. There is no common understanding of what it means, or of what it takes to be consistently agile.

In this groundbreaking book, Leo Tilman and Charles Jacoby offer the first comprehensive assessment of the fundamental nature of organizational agility and then describe the essential leadership practices for achieving it. They show that agility is far superior to mere speed or adaptability. Pinpointing its distinctive features, they define agility as the ability to detect and assess changes in the competitive environment in real time and then take decisive action. They demonstrate that agility enables an organization to outmaneuver competitors by seizing opportunities; better defending against threats; and acting as a well-orchestrated collective of teams that are empowered to take disciplined initiative.

Combining their personal experience of building and leading agile organizations, Tilman in the realm of business and finance and Jacoby in battlefield command and homeland security, they present a powerful approach to fostering agility up and down an organization, and out to its very edges. They show how to detect opportunities and threats by fighting for risk intelligence; how to pierce through complexity and unleash creativity by nurturing a culture of honesty and trust; how to meld top-down vision and planning with decentralized execution; and how to enhance strategy by recognizing organizations as dynamic portfolios of risk.

In a world where leaders and their teams must brave the unknown and step confidently forward - or risk extinction -Agility provides a vital roadmap for seizing the unprecedented possibilities of the new age and dominating change instead of being dominated by it.

Agility

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Patrick Lencioni

Iowa

A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees)

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job

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Louisiana

Impact the lives of those around you by becoming a person of influence. Let one of the most revered leadership and management experts in the world show you how!

Leadership Smarts

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Florida

Philosophy

Insights on the Art of Influence

Ken Blanchard is one of America's best-known leadership and business experts. And now he helps you understand and experience the art of influence by revealing the greatest life and leadership lessons he's learned in his rich career as an educator and business leader.

The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard's insight and wisdom on:

Choosing values Aiming for excellence Maintaining integrity Finding the courage to change Helping others reach their potential And much more

Arranged with your busy schedule in mind, this book offers you Blanchard's most important concepts in an accessible format. You can reach for instant motivation and insight on a daily basis or soak it up in one reading.

Powerfully challenging and deeply inspiring, The Heart of a Leader will enable you to develop the courageous heart of a true leader. master key attitudes and actions to impact lives around you. and enjoy the profound wisdom that only Ken Blanchard can deliver.

The Heart of a Leader

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John C. Maxwell





Don't let a bad boss or manager hold you back from being successful!

Every day millions of people with high potential are frustrated and held back by incompetent leaders. New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell knows this because the number one question he gets asked is about how to lead when the boss isn't a good leader.

You don't have to be trapped in your work situation. In this book, adapted from the million-selling The 360-Degree Leader, and now distilled down for busy professionals, Maxwell unveils the keys to successfully navigating the challenges of working for a bad boss.

In How to Lead When Your Boss Can't (or Won't), Maxwell teaches you how to:

 * position yourself for current and future success,
 * take the high road with a poor leader,
 * avoid common pitfalls,
 * work well with teammates,
 * and develop influence wherever you find yourself.

Practicing the principles taught in this book will result in endless opportunities--for your organization, your career, and your life. You can learn how to lead when your boss can't (or won't).

How to Lead When Your Boss Can't (or Won't)

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Nevada

What Every Leader Needs to Know

Guides readers through practical steps to develop true leadership in accordance with qualities ranging from influence and integrity to self-discipline and attitude, in a reference that draws on four of Maxwell's best-selling works including Developing the Leader Within You.

Leadership 101

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#hardcover #biography #leadership #nonfiction

Alabama

A Collection of Favorite Quotations

The former mayor of New York City describes the management, decision-making, and leadership skills that made him a success as a prosecutor and as mayor of New York City.

Leadership Through the Ages

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Elmore

Will include the Interactive Travel Guide for free

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Marching off the Map

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Charles S. Jacobs

Charles Jacobs

Very minor edge wear on jacket. Otherwise very good condition. Pages clean and unmarked. 

Maryland

Why Feedback Doesn't Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science

The founder of the Amherst Consulting Group and managing partner of One Eighty Partners turns current management theory on its head, arguing that organizations that are able to apply brain science to their businesses will overtake the competition and enhance performance at every level. He demonstrates how relying on emotions--rather than logic--leads to better business decisions.

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