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25 Secrets to Sustainable Success
 by Phil Richards

25 Secrets to Sustainable Success is an in-depth look at the leadership wisdom that has created one of the most successful organizations in the financial services industry. This comprehensive leadership guide incorporates proven practices in business strategy, leadership philosophy, sales psychology and day-to-day management tactics fully customized to the insurance and financial services industry. It will inspire you, excite you and reignite your passion for building your own master field organization.

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The Power of Coaching shares success secrets showing leaders how to coach the people they lead by engaging their excellence.

About the Author
Machen MacDonald is world class coach, author and speakr in the area of provoking brilliance. He is the founder of ProBrilliance Leadership Institute. A firm dedicated to showing leaders how to live a happier, healthier an wealthier life.





Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service
by Ken Blanchard, et al
Kenneth Blanchard continues his trend of writing easy-to-read books with BIG ideas for making your business better. Raving Fans is a book of stories relating how fictional companies have created an environment of delivering awesome customer service. A guy that has just been put in a managment position requiring a turnaround goes on a fictional trip with his "angel"...


Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers...



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Greatest Salesman in the World Part II: The End of the Story
by Og Mandino
This is the classic tale of a little camel boy, Hafid, who becomes the greatest salesman in the world through following the principles discovered in ten special scrolls of success. (From the Publisher)- What you are today is not important...for in this runaway bestseller you will learn how to change your life by applying the secrets you are about to discover in the ancient scrolls.


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Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Joe Slattery
(W. Clement Stone Chairman, Combined International Corporation President, The Napoleon Hill Foundation) ...During our ten-year association, I learned the missing number to my combination for worldwide successful achievement. The Master Mind Principle: two or more persons working together in complete harmony toward a mutual goal or goals...Napoleon Hill's philosophy teaches...


The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America' s Wealthy
by Thomas J. Ph.D. Stanley, et al
How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is...



Adversity Quotient Work: Make Everyday Challenges the Key to Your Success
by Paul G. Stoltz
From the first sip of your morning coffee to the last sheep you count at night, you will face an average of 23 adversities, predicts author Paul G. Stoltz in this follow-up to the best-selling The Adversity Quotient. The key to coping, he says, lies...



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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required listening for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organized and regimented plan...


Attitude Is Everything: Change Your Attitude...and You Change Your Life
by Jeff Keller
This is a "success manual" that gives readers a step by step plan for taking control of their lives and unleashing their incredible potential. The book consists of 12 Lessons...





The Roaring 2000's: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in History by Harry S., Jr. Dent
The world that author Harry S. Dent Jr. presents in his narration of The Roaring 2000s is one you'll want to live in: incredible interconnectivity between electronic devices, superfast jets, and computers...



The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen...




Built to Last by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since In Search of Excellence. The authors, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, spent...




Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation,...