Showing results by publisher "Simon & Schuster Audio" in Business & Careers

The Executive Memory Guide uses actual memory situations to show you why you sometimes forget names and faces -- and gives you the tools to begin remembering more accurately and more immediately. With specific memory techniques for numbers, long speeches, lists and names, this audio program will make you more effective at work, in meetings and in all phases of your busy life.

Protect Your Achilles Heel mirrors the immensely successful model created by Roberts in his two previous best sellers Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun. In that series, Roberts applied Attila's cunning leadership secrets to the modern business world.

This is not a collection of jokes for public speakers, but a comprehensive look at how a touch of humor can be applied to everyday business situations: meetings, memos, negotiations, and management. Packed with practical advice that Kushner has already shared with such Fortune 500 companies as IBM, Lockheed, Aetna -- even the IRS -- The Light Tough will make anyone a more effective communicator. And that's no joke.

Using real-life speaking situations to demonstrate vocal characteristics, this step-by-step program will help you develop a richer, sharper, more resonant voice - to make a powerful impression in all phases of your life.

The author of "Getting Organized" now updates "The Organized Executive" to reflect changes in technology—email, the Internet, palm pilots, and a host of other gadgets—as she reveals the best ways to analyze organization needs, optimize performance, combat procrastination, and increase productivity.

Faith Popcorn has seen it coming - and now she tells you how to profit from the enormous transformation that will sweep mainstream America in the coming years. The founder of BrainReserve, the top-dollar trend-spotter for the nation's biggest blue-chip companies, Popcorn now shares her vision of the future for anyone who wants an early look at the products we'll buy (and sell), the careers we'll choose and the lives we'll lead in the coming years.

Job loss. Foreclosure. Relationship woes. Health issues. Dire financial straits. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that nobody goes through life unscathed -- no matter how rich, how smart, how talented, or how fortunate they may be. White collar, blue collar, or no collar, there is an undeniable commonality to the raw emotion that strikes people when they are knocked down.

As a best-selling author and the world's number-one expert on selling, Jeffrey Gitomer knows a thing or two about success. Here he has compiled some of his proven principles for success and tells listeners how to apply these to their lives. While these techniques are most readily applied to sales, the skills that Jeffrey teaches go far beyond that: they are the skills needed to thrive in one's career and life.

In this indispensable new guide, sales consultant and America's number-one corporate sales trainer Steve Schiffman reveals the methodology of High-Efficiency Selling. This innovative and solid strategy can lead to greater sales, better time management, and improved long-term business partnerships. The best-selling author of Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) stakes outs new territory by offering a unique approach to the four phases of the sales cycle.

More than 20 years ago, entrepreneur Stephen Schiffman launched his own business - D.E.I. Management Group Inc. - and built it into a major financial success. Now, Schiffman reveals his innovative business-building strategies in Make It Your Business - a complete and concise guide written specifically for the entrepreneur.

One of the most dynamic and original audio programs to come around in some time, Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up tells the listener how to build a winning business team - how to develop trust, create loyalty, and generate enthusiasm and excitement. It explains how to build or rebuild an organization, lead and energize it, and put it on top and keep it there, year after year.

You've organized, prioritized, delegated, and simplified, and you still don't have enough time for your family, your spouse, your friends, your boss - much less yourself! You're a veteran of the time-management wars, fighting for the life balance ideal - and you're losing. So, short of quitting your job and running away from home, what do you do when you can't keep up?

A clear, result-oriented program offering 12 do's and don'ts of delegation, including how to choose the right people for a job, supplying the right resources, and more.

Radio and television host Glenn Beck has experienced the rollercoaster of life like few others. From the suicide of his mother when he was just 13, to his eventual alcoholism, depression, divorce, unemployment, and health scares - Glenn has weathered life’s darkest storms. Any one of those struggles could’ve ruined him, yet Glenn was able to keep moving forward. He saw past the darkness into the light; past his grief and addictions and into what his life could be.

Self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay knows about life at the top--and knows what it takes to stay there. Now, he tells you how to get there too, with dozens of common-sense lessons from all walks of life. Whether you're selling, managing, or punching the clock, you'll find the questions and the answers you need to questions like: Do you do what you love? (The Mackay self-inventory test will help you find out.); Do you love what you do? Do you deliver more than you promise?

In 2015, when Mohammad Alardhi became the executive chairman of Investcorp, a leading global manager of alternative investments, he arrived with a transformative mindset that would set the company on a path to unprecedented growth. Within three years of Alardhi taking control of the company, their wealth management grew from $10B to $25B, and three years after that, it had grown to a remarkable $42B. After seven years under Alardhi’s leadership, Investcorp was managing an astounding $50B in wealth. Alardhi speaks candidly about the big thinking needed to succeed at such a large scale.

You say something at a meeting and it is ignored; then when someone else says the same thing, everyone embraces it as a marvelous idea. You devote yourself to a project, but don't get credit for the results. You give what you think are clear instructions, but the job is not done, or done wrong.... Now, Deborah Tannen brings to the workplace the same voice, eye, and insight that made That's Not What I Meant! and You Just Don't Understand best-selling classics.

A great American voice narrates a poignant tribute to our most outstanding monument. One of Charles Kuralt's last projects, Our Lady of the Freedoms is a full-scale production of writer-director Norman Corwin's account of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York harbor.