Due to the nature of their work and personalities, many professionals prefer to do things on their own, in their own way. A firm’s best talents may not take too kindly to being told what to do and when to do it. They may resist being managed , and be unenthusiastic about working in a team. Whatever category they fall into—highly...

–Daniel Goleman, Author of...

Recent history of excess and misdeed to the contrary, being principled in business and making a profit are not...

Life coaching empowers people to make lasting, positive, inspirational change in their working life and life outside work. As such, coaching is a proven highly successful management technique. Many people seek coaches from within their organisation or visit a professional life coach. But many more still feel uncomfortable asking another...

One of the reasons why it is so hard to improve your racing is that sailing is such a time-intensive sport. If you are running, you can start your training session fi ve minutes after you’ve shut your front door, whereas it may take a sailor fi ve hours (or more) to drive to the venue, fully rig the boat and get on the water. This is...

The job of the sales manager is to recruit, manage, and motivate a top team of high-performing sales professionals. This book shows you how to do it. World-renowned sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying what sets the most successful sales managers and professionals apart from the rest--and now in this pocket-sized guide, he...

Practical Programming offers a different approach to exercise programming than that typically found in other exercise texts. Based on a combined 60+ years of academic expertise, elite-level coaching experience, and the observation of thousands of novice trainees, the authors present a chronological analysis of the response to exercise as it...

Have you recently been blindsided by an unexpected layoff? Do you wake up every Monday morning already looking forward to quitting time on Friday? Do you hear the call of a more satisfying career but are afraid and unsure of how to make the transition to it?...