Motivation

Work Like You're Showing Off: The Joy, Jazz, and Kick of Being Better Tomorrow Than You Were Today by Joe Calloway. Showing off is a good thing. Showing off is a mindset. Showing off is about living life and doing work in a way that creates joy, jazz, and a kick in our lives and in the lives of those around us. This is a business book for almost everyone–from executives and managers to receptionists and sales clerks. Here's the key: success is an inside job. After 26 years of studying and working with top performers, Joe Calloway shares the key factors in creating success–without pulling any punches. Work Like You're Showing Off! isn't for sissies; it's a tough, realistic approach to getting the most out of life by giving more to others. This book proves that not only is "working like you're showing off" the smartest way to get ahead in a career, it's also the most joyful and rewarding way to live.

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy by Jon Gordon. It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. But this is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big new product launch coming in two weeks for the NRG-2000, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique kind of bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. In the style of other bestselling business fables, The Energy Bus takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment -- at work and at home. Everyone faces challenges. And every person, organization, company, and team has to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success. No one goes through life untested and the answer to these tests is positive energy -- the kind of positive energy that consists of the vision, trust, optimism, enthusiasm, purpose, and spirit that defines great leaders and their dreams. Drawing upon his experience and work with thousands of leaders, sales professionals, teams, nonprofit organizations, schools, and athletes, Gordon infuses this engaging story with keen insights, actionable strategies, and a big dose of positive infectious energy. For managers and team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative energy into positive achievement, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus, you'll enjoy the ride of your life.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter. 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 nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith's straightforward, jargonfree advice, it's amazingly easy behavior to change.

The Why Café by John Strelecky. A fable that will inspire readers to think about their "personal reason for being" and that demonstrates allegorically a powerful way to approach life. In a small diner at a location so remote that it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John -- a man in a hurry -- is at a literal and figurative crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, John finds sustenance of an entirely different kind: in addition to the specials of the day, the menu lists three questions that all diners are encouraged to consider: Why are you here? Do you fear death? Are you fulfilled? With the guidance of three people he meets at the café, John embarks on a quest for answers that metaphorically takes him from the executive suites of the advertising world to the surf of Hawaii's coastline. Along the way, he discovers a new way to look at his life and relationships... and just how much you can learn from a green sea turtle. The Why Cafe will get readers young and free and older and entrenched to rethink their personal yardstick for success. Charming, simple, and inspiring, it will change lives.

Revved!: An Incredible Way to Rev Up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results by Harry Paul, Ross Reck. Win them over. Fire them up. But most importantly…get them REVVED! From the coauthor of Fish!, a powerful new management parable that gives you the secret to motivating people. What happens when you, as a manager, discover that you're the cause of poor performance? Fish! coauthor Harry Paul teams up with renowned business psychologist Ross Reck to reveal techniques that will help you overcome common behavioral obstacles and reach ever-increasing levels of success in today's workplace. These techniques include ways to engage employees, control negative emotions, and develop a contagious positive attitude that will spread through your company.

Unstoppable Women: Achieve Any Breakthrough Goal in 30 Days by Cynthia Kersey. Want to secure a promotion, write a book, go back to school, lose weight, set up a business? Whatever the goal, Cynthia Kersey's new book, Unstoppable Women, can help readers achieve it. Based on the same principles that Kersey has taught in her training programs for such companies as Tupperware®, Mary Kay®, and Jafra Cosmetics®, the book shows how to identify a goal, create a winning mind-set, and break the goal down into daily actions that will lead to success. Each day, a reader discovers a new characteristic of an unstoppable woman. And for inspiration, she'll read the true story of a woman who possesses this quality. She will then learn how to apply these skills to her own life -- creating unstoppable success in just 30 days.

Good Luck: Create the Conditions for Success in Life and Business by Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes. A whimsical fable that teaches a valuable lesson: good luck doesn't just come your way - -- it's up to you to create the conditions to bring yourself good luck. Written by two leading marketing consultants, this simple tale is universally applicable and uniquely inspirational. Good Luck tells the touching story of two old men, Max and Jim, who meet by chance in Central Park fifty years after they last saw each other as children. Max achieved great success in life; Jim sadly did not. The secret to Max's success lies in a story his grandfather told him long ago. This story within a story has a tone reminiscent of the classic The Alchemist and shows how to seize opportunity and achieve success in life. In a surprise ending, Good Luck comes full circle, offering the reader inspiration, instruction, and an engaging tale.

No Opportunity Wasted by Phil Keoghan. From renowned adventurer and rising television star, Phil Keoghan combines the self-improvement appeal of an inspirational book with the adrenaline-rush of an adventure story. Taking the reader on a series of exciting journeys, Phil sets forth his dynamic and uplifting philosophy, and in a step-by-step manner, shows the reader how to put that philosophy into effect by creating a personalized "List for Life". In dramatic narrative form, Keoghan transports the reader from Yucatan Jungle to the African Congo, from the depths of an underwater cave to the top of an erupting volcano. But this is no armchair traveler book. It is an urgent call to action, inspiring and enabling people to overcome fear and seek out memorable experiences of their own. With his fresh and compelling N.O.W. philosophy, this is a book that will help us all dream more freely and live more fully.

Between Trapezes by Gail Blanke. With record unemployment, divorce rates and financial instability, more people than ever before will find themselves in transition. Most of us are afraid of the in-between times -- those stretches between jobs, between lovers, between a past that is stifling our dreams and a future that is scarily, precariously unknown. We are so reluctant to face uncertainty that often we cling to a view of ourselves that we know can never allow us to soar, that keeps us from leaping headlong into an exuberant life. But what if we could learn to embrace uncertainty and propel ourselves forward with a sense of curiosity and adventure, rather than fear and trepidation? In Between Trapezes, Gail Blanke helps us to do just that. Blanke, the bestselling author of In My Wildest Dreams: Simple Steps to a Fabulous Life, shows us that the "in-between" can be the best of times. She offers a practical and inspirational guide that will enable us to let go without our safety nets beneath, and fly through life's transitions with the daring of the circus trapeze artist.

Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind: How to Empower Your Dream -- A Zentrepreneur's Guide by Ron Rubin, Stuart Avery Gold. The journey continues in the fourth book of the highly acclaimed Zentrepreneur Guide® series, embraced by readers and reviewers everywhere. "There is no path to action -- the action is the path. The Zentrepreneur, like the tiger, journeys by doing no more or no less, than deciding on going where it wishes to be". - -- From Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind. This is a book about waking up every morning with a will and a willingness to practice doing and being. On this Zentrepreneur pilgrimage of practice and expansion, readers will be inspired to actively take responsibility for their lives, reach beyond the horizon to new vistas, and experience their richly deserved dream.

Winning Habits: 4 Secrets That Will Change the Rest of Your Life by Dick Lyles. In the spirit of Who Moved My Cheese and Seven Habits, this business parable teaches you the four personal habits at the heart of success, then shows how to put them to work… live them… and change your life forever. Winning Habits is about making great things happen around you… and for you. This powerful parable identifies the four fundamental habits that lead to success… and helps you apply those habits in your life… your whole life… starting right now.

Leadership Presence: Dramatic Techniques to Reach Out, Motivate, and Inspire by Belle Linda Halpern, Kathy Lubar, the Ariel Group. An innovative, proven approach for helping leaders in every field develop the leadership skills necessary to inspire confidence, command respect, motivate teams to reach higher goals, and build credibility. For over a decade, Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to the work of The Ariel Group, helping to improve the leadership skills of tens of thousands of executives at major companies around the country and the globe, including General Electric, Capital One, and the Coca-Cola company. In Leadership Presence, Halpern and Lubar make their time-tested strategies available to all leaders, from high-profile CEOs to young professionals seeking a way to move up.

Dragon Spirit by Ron Rubin, Stuart Avery Gold. The new inspirational and motivational "zentrepreneur's guide" with a focus on marketing, from the authors of the highly-acclaimed, life-changing Success at Life, the two self-described "zentrepeneurs" who run the unique, socially-conscious company where life and work are an interconnected adventure. Ancient wisdom and timeless philosophies, knotted together with state-of-the-art insights and observations, address the realities of the marketplace, demystifying the fears and terrors of marketing a dream that captures the soul. This fast-paced, witty excursion will encourage and inspire, inspirit and enthuse as never before by moving the reader ever onward, empowering them to experience the wows and the wonders of their richly deserved dream.

Follow this Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential by Curt Coffman, Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina. What do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human -- their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second, and because of that, employees and customers must be emotionally engaged in order for the organization to reach its full potential. Gallup research not only bears that out, but has uncovered the secrets of creating and managing an "emotional economy" that will provide boom possibilities for your company.

Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove. This book provides guiding ideas, tools, and methods that will empower you on your own journey to Masterful Coaching. You will learn to empower people to transform who they are as leaders and at the same time their ability to produce results that were previously considered impossible by applying triple loop learning. This is about ripping the blinders off so that people see that who they are, the goals they set, and the plans they make, and actions they take are often part of historical winning strategies that are the source of their past success but that limit them from achieving what's possible or playing a much bigger game.

The Quotable Coach: Leadership and Motivation From History's Greatest Coaches by Thom Loverro. Using short, inspirational phrases that crystallize the concepts of motivation and determination, many coaches-known and unknown, from high school to the pros-have mastered the fine art of summing up a key point in a single sentence or phrase. Sports coaches, perhaps more than any other profession in America, are the best at delivering these short, pithy quotes. The Quotable Coach is the first book to gather more than a thousand of these inspirational wonders.

Seize the Day: 7 Steps to Achieving the Extraordinary in an Ordinary World by Danny Cox, John Hoover, Robert Schuller. Essential reading for anyone who seeks to make high performance a regular, daily expectation in his or her life. Tapping your reservoir of personal potential has never been explained more clearly. Creating the circumstances for achieving the extraordinary is a daunting and overwhelming prospect to most of us-whether pursuing professional success or high performance in personal goals.

High Performers: How the Best Companies Find and Keep Them by Leon Martel. Leon Martel -- a senior fellow with the prestigious Conference Board -- has identified twenty-five organizations from the United States, Europe, and Asia that have been named by the Financial Times and Fortune as the best places to work and are also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as leading financial performers. Based on extensive research and interviews with senior managers, Leon Martel shows that companies with exceptional practices in core human resource areas produce both superior performance and create an outstanding workplace environment.

A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business by Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham. A refreshingly sensitive and sensible guide to motivating employees, this new volume by Stack and Burlingham (The Great Game of Business) is a standout in its crowded genre. Stack is the president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, an employee-owned supplier of renovated engines to auto companies and a celebrated business success story. In 1983, when it looked like SRC's parent company, International Harvester, might shut down its southwestern Missouri "remanufacturing" plant, Stack and 12 other employees bought the place and fashioned a system of employee ownership that turned SRC into a corporation of 22 companies with more than $100 million in sales.

The Big Book of Motivational Games by Robert Epstein, Ph.D., Jessica Rogers. Packed with over 40 original games and exercises managers can use to motivate their teams -- and themselves. Presents managers with a variety of games that can be customized to suit their specific needs and group size. Provides games designed to Stop Procrastination, Beat burnout, Fight boredom, Boost performance, and Overcome failure.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivating People by Michael Ramundo, Susan Shelly. Can help you get the best performance out of your team -- and even help them enjoy the experience.

Streetwise Motivating & Rewarding Employees by Alexander Hiam. Teaches you that giving someone a jar of candy with their name on it is not what true motivation is all about. It's about making sure employees know what they're doing, why they're doing it, and then giving them some control. It's about giving employees appropriate challenges. And it's about creating a positive, informative feedback network that lets employees judge for themselves how well they're doing.

Liberate the Leader: Giving Every Woman the Guts to Lead by Dr. Claudia Rose. Learn the secrets of successful women. A thought-provoking, spiritually challenging, positive and "user-friendly" book for women. A lifelong resource and companion.

The Best Guide to Motivation by Jean Marie Stine. Discover how to inspire yourself and others with over one hundred classic, time-tested, "in the trenches" motivational techniques, secrets, and principles. Beyond that, you will learn to use the five essential mental tools of self-transformation: visualization, affirmation, self-talk, positive thinking, and self-hypnosis.

Awaken the Giant Within: how to take immediate control of your mental, emotional, physical & financial destiny! by Anthony Robbins. The creator of acclaimed personal achievement programs and the author of the bestselling Unlimited Power reveals the proven steps to self-mastery. Robbins shares the secrets of his exclusive "Date with Destiny" seminars, describing how unconscious beliefs control our behavior and how we can make immediate changes to accomplish our goals.

Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People by Stephen J. Covey. The author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People offers a daily reading program that keys on his guidelines to personal fulfillment and success and offers accessible inspiration, insights, and motivational guidance. 150,000 first printing.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Simply, this is one of the classics. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated.

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement by Anthony Robbins. Anthony Robbins, whose seminars of transforming power have made him an international celebrity on network television and in magazines and newspapers, shows readers how to achieve super success in all areas of their personal and professional lives.

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