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From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path toward productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen MR Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust - and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees, and constituents - is the essential ingredient for any high-performance, successful organization.

This is the story of a man battling cancer, in which cancer itself is a man. What if cancer were a man and it was up to you to track him down and kill him? This book travels through all of the darkness and the light that make up that very journey. It is sad, but funny, and heartwarmingly [sic], tragically, hopeful. It goes there, and then comes back, but you will not forget that you have been. Unless, of course, you do forget.

A proposal for making black lives matter in addition to the lives of other Americans.

Deseaba hacer una contribución distinta - ser un maestro, dedicar su vida a liberar el potencial humano. "Todo ser humano es precioso," escribió, "dotado de unas capacidades y un potencial enorme, casi infinito."Con la publicación de Los 7 Hábitos de la Gente Altamente Efectiva, considerado por muchos como el libro más influyente de nuestro tiempo, el Dr. Covey tuvo-y sigue teniendo-un impacto mundial.

Lead Big: Discovering the Upside of Unconventional Leadership defines and describes the paradigm shift needed to move away from the command and control style of managing people toward a more proactive unleashing of talent. Ward Clapham's own inspiring stories and results, coupled with scientific research, anecdotes, quotes, and historical accounts, lead to powerful break-with insights in each chapter, applicable for leaders in all areas of the public and private sectors.

This book is a collection of quotations and aphorisms from Stephen Covey, whom Time magazine named one of the 25 most influential people in the world. They are taken not only from his books but also from his speeches, articles, and interviews. The author formulated the rules of life you will need for self-improvement and professional success. Stories and quotations, grouped in accordance with Stephen Covey's principles of life, teach you how not to waste life in vain and how to truly succeed.

Warum kommen die wesentlichen Dinge in unserem Leben oft zu kurz? Und warum klagen so viele Menschen über Zeitmangel und zu viel Stress...

Jeder kann mit seinem Beruf einen wertvollen Beitrag leisten und damit seine persönliche Erfüllung finden. Das ist die Botschaft...

In schwierigen Zeiten zeigt sich, wer wirklich gute Führungsfähigkeiten besitzt...

Wir leben im Zeitalter der Wissensarbeit.Doch wir verwenden immer noch das Führungsmodell des Industriezeitalters. Wir managen Menschen wie Dinge, betrachten Mitarbeiter als Kostenfaktor und motivieren mit Zuckerbrot und Peitsche. Und wundern uns, warum unsere Mitarbeiter und Unternehmen in der Mittelmäßigkeit verharren. Dabei ruft unsere Gegenwart nach Sinnhaftigkeit und leidenschaftlicher Umsetzung.

So erbringen Sie und Ihr Team gemeinsam Höchstleistungen! Der Covey- Klassiker "Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität" nun speziell angewandt auf Führungskräfte und Manager. Effektive Manager zeichnen sich durch folgende Prinzipien aus: Sie zeigen Initiative und sind pro-aktiv, haben eine Vision, welchen Beitrag sie leisten wollen, priorisieren wichtige Ziele, verfolgen stets eine Win-win-Strategie, sind hervorragende Zuhörer und fördern ihre Mitarbeiter kontinuierlich.

Vertrauen ist einer der Schlüsselfaktoren erfolgreicher Unternehmensführung. Covey räumt auf mit der Vorstellung, Vertrauen lasse sich wirtschaftlich nicht messen...

In der heutigen, so stark verzahnten Wirtschaft ist Vertrauen eine Schlüsselkompetenz, die wirtschaftliche Vorteile bringt...

In seinem Weltbestseller "Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität" vermittelt uns Stephen R. Covey seine zentrale Botschaft: Nicht angelernte Erfolgstechniken, sondern Charakter, Kompetenz und Vertrauen führen zu einem erfüllten und erfolgreichen Leben. Privat und im Business. In dieser zweisprachigen Hörbuchausgabe (Deutsch/Englisch) erläutert Stephen R. Covey, wie die 7 Wege nicht nur Ihnen selbst zu mehr privatem und beruflichem Erfolg verhelfen, sondern auch Ihrer Organisation den Weg zum Gipfel des Erfolgs ebnen werden.

Cohen and Cogan portray U.S. involvement in Congo in the 1960s as necessary and relatively benign. Weissman replies.

An Edenesque garden, a haunted tower, a forest shrouded in twilight wherein dwell Centaurs, Elves and a myriad of creatures fantastic and mysterious; this is the setting in which Babb’s "Lirazel" comes to life and where the tragedy of her life must unfold. Her doom is fixed, deadly, unavoidable and all the more tragic because of the choices Lirazel makes as she spurns wisdom for folly in a desperate gamble for love.

On Palm Sunday 1964, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, a group of black and white students began a "kneel-in" to protest the church's policy of segregation, a protest that would continue in one form or another for more than a year and eventually force the church to open its doors to black worshippers. In The Last Segregated Hour, Stephen Haynes tells the story of this dramatic yet little studied tactic which was the strategy of choice for bringing attention to segregationist policies in Southern churches.

The manatee has been swimming the oceans for ages. But today this ancient animal faces an uncertain future. Stephen Swinburne takes young readers into the underwater world of manatees as he assists marine biologists who monitor the health of manatees in Homosassa Springs, Florida, and snorkels in the Crystal River with a dozen fourth-graders to observe manatees in the wild.

From the Arctic Circle to Costa Rica, from Maine to the tip of Baja, California, the coyote thrives like no other animal in North America. It roams the Canadian wilderness and prowls the Arizona deserts and beyond. Over time this highly intelligent animal has learned to adapt to big cities, such as Los Angeles. It has even been sighted in Bronx, New York. But the coyote is not always welcome.

Three species of bear inhabit North America: the grizzly, the polar bear, and the black bear. But the American black bear is truly North America's bear, found only in North America. Black bears range from Canada to Mexico, from New England to California.