Be a People Person

by John C. Maxwell

Item Number: 1194

Book -- In Be a People Person, America's leadership expert John Maxwell helps you discover and develop the qualities of an effective "people person."Improve your relationships in every area of life. Understand and help difficult people. Overcome differences and personality traits that can cause friction.Inspire others to excellence and success. Being a leader means working with people, and that's not always easy Whether in your office, church, neighborhood, or elsewhere, your interpersonal relationships can make or break you as a leader. That's why it's so important to be a "people person" and develop your skills in tapping that most precious of all resources: people. Loaded with life-enriching, life-changing principles for relating positively and powerfully with your family, friends, colleagues, and clients, Be a People Person is certain to help you bring out the best in others--and that's what effective leadership is all about.

Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

by John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan

Item Number: 1556

Book -- America's leadership expert teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others. Watch your personal and organizational success go off the charts.

Becoming Brave: How to Think Big, Dream Wildly, and Live Fear Free

by Tracey Mitchell

Item Number: 1518

We've all experienced setbacks that have crumbled our confidence and immersed us in anxiety. But God has more for our lives than this! In this exhortation to cultivate a courageous life, Mitchell urges us to dive out of our comfort zones and into refreshing deep waters where God-inspired risk-taking can propel us toward success.

Before You Hit Send: Preventing Headache & Heartache

by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

Item Number: 1275

Book -- With all of the communication methods we have at our fingertips today---from e-mail to text messages and social media---misunderstandings are a common problem. Exploring the four questions we should consider before we speak or type, Dr. Eggerichs helps us identify our pitfalls and alter our approach so that people don't misinterpret what we're trying to convey.

Believe, Become, Be: Becoming the Man God Believes You Can Be

by Robert Noland

Item Number 1579

Book -- What if God told you He believes in you? How might that divine affirmation affect your daily battle between your faith and your flesh? What if your Heavenly Father said He believes you can lead a life of purity, truth, righteousness, and be a man after His heart? You can effectively lead your family, right wrongs in your world, and influence the culture in His name? God not only has a uniquely designed plan and purpose for your life, but wants to walk beside you as His adopted son, moment-by-moment offering His Spirit to change, transform, and walk in His will and His ways.

Breaking the Bank: The Decline of BankAmerica

by Gary Hector

Item Number: 1137

Book -- The 1904 founding of the Bank of Italy later BankAmericain a converted San Francisco saloon by A. P. Giannini, an immigrant fruit merchant, was intended to serve the "little fellow." Its spectacular rise as the world's largest and most profitable commercial bank, followed by its recent decline, is recounted here in dramatic and telling detail by Fortune writer Hector. Ahead of its time, BankAmerica's chain of diversified banks offering loans, mortgages, insurance and investments backed by holding companies prospered despite conflicts with government regulators and the Federal Reserve, even recouping losses suffered in the 1929 crash, thanks to loyal small investors of the day. The author traces the political, social and economic changes that affected the corporation after Giannini's death in 1949. Although BankAmerica expanded corporate and international operations, a complacent board and incompetent management riven by internal friction proved unable during the early 1980s to deal with deregulation and the first price plunges in 50 years, according to Hector. With losses and bad or shaky loans in the billions, the bank has narrowly escaped takeovers, which the author envisages as a possible option in the early 1990s.

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

by Jerry I. Porras and James C. Collins

Item Number: 1313

Book -- This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies. So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time. Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies -- they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 -- and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies? What separates General Electric, 3M, Merck, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, and Philip Morris from their rivals? How, for example, did Procter & Gamble, which began life substantially behind rival Colgate, eventually prevail as the premier institution in its industry? How was Motorola able to move from a humble battery repair business into integrated circuits and cellular communications, while Zenith never became dominant in anything other than TVs? How did Boeing unseat McDonnell Douglas as the world's best commercial aircraft company -- what did Boeing have that McDonnell Douglas lacked? By answering such questions, Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished out-standing companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies. Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.