The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective. This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach …

We know everything we need to know to end the needless emotional suffering that many people currently experience. High self-esteem and personal effectiveness are available to anyone willing to take the time to pursue them. It is difficult to translate the spirit of a live presentation into the written word. Stories we tell every day have had to be rewritten five times to work as well in print a…

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become g…

The book would not have been written without the men and women who generously gave their time and shared their career transition experiences with me. While some of them are featured here, many?from whom I learned as much?are not. I deeply appreciate the lessons they taught me and I value the confidence they placed in me by allowing me to tell their stories. I am particularly indebted to Kent Li…

Durham, Marcus write all about succes leadership, organizational structure, orgnizational resources, purpose, vision, planning, Negotiation, global leadership ang ethics and professonal

Why, the world asked, did a group of seemingly intelligent individuals, possessing marketable skills, and comfortably housed in an upscale neighborhood, decide to kill themselves? They did it because of their belief that by committing suicide in this manner, they would shed their bodies, or ?earthly containers,? and be whisked away by extraterrestrials to a spaceship and a higher level of exist…

In the 1950s, as home and work chores became increasingly mechanized and as the electronics revolution hinted at an even more startling efficiency to come, futurists made a bold prediction: by the year 2000, the average person would work only 20 or 30 hours a week. There would be so much leisure time that most of us wouldn?t know what to do with it. We now know that these ?50s oracles were wron…

This book represents the union of the two sides of my professional career?communications and leadership. As a result, this book reflects the sum of the experiences I have had in working to help men and women become better communicators and better leaders. The people who have contributed to this book are many. I want to thank some special people at Ford Motor Company. Anne Marie Gattari allowed …

Think for a few moments about a very specialmachine, your brain ? an organ of just 1.2 kg, containing one hundred billion nerve cells, none of which alone has any idea who or what you are. In fact the very idea that a cell can have an idea seems silly. A single cell after all is far too simple an entity. However, conscious awareness of one?s self comes from just that: nerve cells communicating …

The brain is an organ of communication. Neurons within the brain connect in networks that communicate with each other to provide behavioral function. This network organization is particularly evident with regard to cognitive function, from simple sensorimotor plasticity to attentional, learning and memory processes. Cognitive function involves the participation of diverse brain areas including …