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The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Synopsis: Written in an easily-read fable format, this best-seller highlights the five tradeoffs every CEO faces: trust over invulnerability, conflict over harmony, clarity over certainty, accountability over popularity, and finally results over status.

CEO Tools: The Nuts-n-Bolts of Business for Every Manager’s Success

Synopsis: Veteran CEO Kraig Kramers' unique book equips every manager with 100+ business tools to accelerate their success! Kraig ran eight companies with $1 million to $250 million annual sales that offer an extraordinarily exemplary journey. Includes a CD with 24 tools/templates to use right now!

Customer Mania! : It's Never Too Late to Build a Customer-Focused Company

Synopsis: This might just be Ken Blanchard's finest because it talks about customer focus! Ken identifies examples from many well-known consumer companies that create a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization. And he tells us how to do it — wow! Ken's example company, Yum!, became the world's largest restaurant company. While it's a consumer example, all businesses can benefit from just a little bit of the four critical success factors: Pick the right target, Treat customers right, Treat employees right, and Build the right leadership. Get Ken's book today!

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Synopsis: The all-time, number-one classic on attitude, selling, and getting your point of view accepted by others. Just nothing like it! Kraig reads it again every year or two to keep his attitude from going berserk with the challenges of modern life! There is just no way a modern manager or leader cannot have a copy on his/her desk as a refresher for making real big things happen through people. This is THE ATTITUDE BIBLE. Give it to all your managers to tune up their attitude and will to win!

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don't

Synopsis: Based on studies of successful companies, Collins captures the essential elements for company improvement: company-first mindset, humility, fanatical drive to succeed, persistence, future orientation, and a “buck stops here” mentality. Every manager should read this book.

Pithy Quotes

Synopsis: An eclectic compendium of quotes that capture business today! Bud Carter has a unique skill in finding and categorizing sayings and stratagems from American business — this collection is of immense benefit to those who want to understand current business behaviors as well as those who want material for books and speeches and company meetings. Get this one: it's special! For more information or to order a softback printed copy, please call (770) 992-7419. Or, view a sample chapter right now!.

The Accountable Organization: Reclaiming Integrity, Restoring Trust

Synopsis: Integrity, accountability and trust in business become the focal points for forging a collective employee spirit to drive organizations to profit with principles. Cites examples from the author’s own company on the path to Inc Magazine’s 500 fastest-growth companies while still adhering to genuine values and high standards.

Finders Keepers: Attracting and Retaining Top Sales Professionals

Synopsis: "What causes sales" in most businesses is great salespeople. How to identify the right kind, attract them, and create the environment for keeping and motivating them is the message here, written in a "tools" format we like a lot!

Values-Based Leadership

Synopsis: A great invitation to join the movement to recover business ethics! Written in parable-like format, Ken Majer demonstrates how leadership can reflect solid personal values. Align your organization in an ethically based culture and improve your people's understanding of integrity: you'll create dramatically greater, long-term business performance.

The Code of the Executive

Synopsis: A new look at an ancient set of highly regarded Samurai principles for conducting business in this 21st Century. This outstanding volume on values lays out 47 guiding principles for running your business in an exceptional way – linking the beliefs each of us brings to the workplace with the behaviors we then use to get results. Put this in your arsenal – as well as your managers’ quivers. Highly recommended.

The CEO Chronicles

Synopsis: Fifty CEOs share their struggles with career and family in this unique look inside the minds of top managers — exposing the pressures, stresses, and rewards that come with the job. A top pick for leaders looking to sharpen their leadership skills.

1001 Ways to Reward Employees

Synopsis: In our opinion, recognition pays off 1000-to-1 over compensation. You need both to motivate people, but most companies don’t use recognition or praise at all. This book provides many ideas for putting recognition to work in your organization right now. We like Bob’s “1001 Ways to Energize” too.