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The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership

You are going to love this book - whether it is the first leadership book in your collection or the fiftieth - because you can immediately apply the life-changing principles and procedures in your personal, family and business life. "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" is a powerful, definitive statement of the timeless laws you simply must follow if you want to be a great leader - at home, on the job, in church, or wherever you are called on to lead.

Angel Investing

Wealth creating through investments in entrepreneurial ventures. This book is designed to help high net worth individuals become successful Angel Investors.

Apprentice To Business Ace

Your inside-out guide to personal branding is a resource for the corporate or independent professional who wants to succeed in the business world. It shows readers how to go from being an apprentice, or at the first level of business success, to being a leader in their field. The way to do this is through personal branding – differentiating yourself from the competition.

Boundaries Face To Face

Acquire the skills you need for those hard confrontations. All of us need to be able to have a healthy confrontational conversation at one time or another.

Building Resilience At Work

Our resilience, or capacity to bounce back and even thrive in pressured times, is critical in workplaces today. With higher workloads, declining resources and frequent change, together with the hectic pace of personal lives, resilience is almost a key to survival. Based on sound psychological theory, Building Resilience at Work is a practical and easy-to-read book providing a proven path to self-help in developing personal resilience.

Developing The Leader Within You

The key to success in any endeavour is the ability to lead others successfully. Leadership is not an exclusive club for those who were 'born with it'. The traits that are the raw materials of leadership can be taught.

Execution To Die For

This book is about overcoming the barriers to execution; the barriers that frustrate managers the world over as they see their plans and strategies undermined by poor implementation. Execution to Die For identifies 36 barriers to making it happen, explains why they occur and what to do about them. The book draws on the author's forty years of experience developing plans for others to implement and executing the plans of others.

Finding The Money

How to raise venture capital. The purpose of this book is to educate the entrepreneur on how venture capital works.

Fish!

Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. Imagine an environment in which people are truly connected to their work, to their colleagues, and to their customers...

Fusion - The New Way Of Marketing

The development of modern websites, social networking sites, and pay-per-click as the modern face of advertising, have revolutionised the way we communicate with the world around us. Fusion will help you understand this new world order, explain why the old rules of marketing are being broken, and present you with cost effective ways to reach customers and improve profitability.

Get A Life! The World Of The Entrepreneur

This book is a collection of stories from entrepreneurs around the world where they describe their work and their lives.

Hardwired Humans

Leadership is easier when you understand the nine instincts that still drive human behaviour. Hardwired Humans shares a practical framework that helps makes sense of human behaviour and allows leaders to manage more effectively. 

How To Feel F.R.E.S.H. At Work Every Day!

Do you bound out of bed every morning, refreshed and ready for another day at work or do you find yourself thinking "oh no, here we go again!". Being full of energy at work (and in the rest of your life) is easy when you follow the F.R.E.S.H. approach formula.

How To Win Friends and Influence People

This book will help you solve one of the biggest problems you face: how to get along with and influence people in your daily business and social contacts.

If At First You Don't Succeed, Buy This Book

To really have long-term positive effects in your life, you must change the way you think. This book will inspire you to view and react to situations in life differently.

Innovate Or Perish

This book not only assists people to understand what innovation actually is, but identifies the single biggest risk in business and provides the means to mitigate that risk. It then details a simple and practical tool used to generate innovative solutions for the services sector and backs it up with a means to actually measure in quantitative terms service delivery efficiency.

Keep 'Em Keen

It used to be that the biggest staffing problem managers had to deal with was high turnover. Today, the real issue is engagement - finding a way to get staff to do more than just turn up to work physically. It’s about finding ways to engage them mentally and emotionally. In this practical, easy to read guide learn some cost effective ways to engage people of all ages and career stages.

Masterclass For Entrepreneurs

A collection of published articles by Tom McKaskill.  Since November 2004, Professor McKaskill has written more than 50 articles for BRW, Australia’s prestigious weekly business magazine.

Men Are Fom Mars, Women Are From Venus

To learn more about the way men and women communicate and miscommunicate, start with "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" - the classic bestseller -- which uncovers the secrets of great communication and how to get what you want in relationships all life long. Chosen by USA Today as the top selling book of the past five years.

Recommended

Recommended shows you new ways of generating referrals which make getting recommended faster, cheaper and more valuable. If you don't have an effective strategy in place you are missing out on the most powerful and least expensive way of generating new business.  

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki teaches people to be millionaires. That's why they call him the millionaire school teacher. ''The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money but never learn to have money work for them.'' says Robert. 

Stepping Stones To Success

With over 200 practical tips on how to succeed in business, you'll find yourself shaking your head in disbelief on how easy it is for a business to succeed. If KPI, CPI, BAS, SWOT, WH&S are just jumbled letters of the alphabet, you will be pleasantly surprised just how enjoyable learning about the business fundamentals can be.  

Speedlights & Elephants

Why do most online businesses fail and what makes the successful ones great? Every entrepreneur who has an online presence or is thinking of a new online venture will want to know the answer to this question. Eddie Yu presents a very personal look into the mindsets and strategies which have worked for him and demonstrates how anyone with a good idea can create an online business worth shouting out loud about.

The Art Of Dealing With People

What is the one quality that all successful people have in common? They have mastered the Art of Dealing with People! Let this book show you how.

The Cashflow Quadrant

Why do some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and feel more financially secure than others? It is a matter of knowing which quadrant to work from and when. This book is for people who are ready to make significant professional and financial improvement and want to move from the Industrial age to the Information age.

The Fred Factor

In The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each of us can take to transform our lives from the ordinary into the extraordinary. Sanborn, through stories about Fred and others like him, reveals the four basic principles that will help us bring fresh energy and creativity to our life and work.

The Magic of Thinking Big

"The Magic of Thinking Big" gives you useful methods, not empty promises.  Dr. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community.  He proves that you don't need to be intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction - but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.  This book gives you those secrets.

The Present

Dr Spencer Johnson's stories of timeless, simple truths have changed the work and lives of millions of readers around the world. Now comes an insightful new tale of inspiration and practical guidance for these turbulent times.

The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts

Get over 220 Brand New Scripts in the new book, "The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts!". This powerful resource is packed with word-for-word scripts to help you overcome all the brush offs, put offs, resistance and objections you get every day. Learn how to get through to decision makers, qualify better leads, set more appointments and close more sales using the FRESH and proven scripts in this best-selling book of scripts!

The Ultimate Deal 1

Selling your business. This book is aimed at those businesses that need to maximise their profits and growth opportunities in a sale to a financial buyer to leverage the best sale price.

The Ultimate Deal 2

Advanced strategies to sell your business to a strategic buyer. This book uncovers the secret of how to leverage strategic value in the business to create a large revenue opportunity for a strategic buyer.

Think Again

A structured roadmap for process innovation. Innovate your processes and harvest untouched wealth. In Think Again, Roger explains what process innovation is, how to do it and how it applies equally to the services sector and many other activities. He details highly successful everyday businesses we take for granted that have done nothing more than process innovate the offering of their forerunners.

Think New

In attempting to become innovative we are usually asked to "think outside the square", and although we do need to search for solutions that may be unique, this does not prevent us from having some structure to our thinking. Roger LaSalle's thinking method is structured and simple. It is based on a matrix of words called the La Salle Innovation Matrix ©. The intersections in this matrix provide a framework of squares. Working within this framework will shape and stimulate your thinking to provide solutions that are "outside the square".

Transform Organisational Human Capital

This book is a must read for executives and HR professionals seeking to address the challenges of managing their human capital more effectively in the post GFC era. It offers five (5) innovative human capital models based on latest research, providing new approaches to the measurement and reporting of human capital.

Who Moved My Cheese

Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.  "Who Moved My Cheese?" is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.