Free Book - Business Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid (K/N)

Update: 3/8/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

Business Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid, a collection of titles by Stuart L. Hart, Eric Kacou and Ted London, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
3 extraordinary eBooks show how to build “bottom of the pyramid” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and profitable!

Three remarkable eBooks help you overcome the pitfalls of “bottom of the pyramid” business, learn from the pioneers’ successes and failures, and build “BoP” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and consistently profitable! In Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation, Eric Kacou shows how to escape the “survival trap” that keeps many BoP businesses small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Drawing on his unique on-the-ground experience in Africa’s most challenging business environments, Kacou identifies new business models, operational techniques, and leadership approaches that can help BoP businesses grow rapidly and successfully. In Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, Ted London and Stuart L. Hart share proven, “on-the-ground” insights for building “Base of the Pyramid” businesses that really are sustainable and green, really will help alleviate social ills, and really can scale. Finally, in Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, Third Edition, Hart offers an up-to-the-minute primer on sustainable business for today’s executives, practical insights into what’s working and what isn’t, and expert insights for crafting and executing your company’s optimal sustainability strategy.

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Free Book - The Personal Credibility Factor (K/N)

Update: 3/8/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back, by Sandy Allgeier , is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.

Book Description
You'd trust your life with some people. Others, you wouldn't trust for an instant, even when the stakes are low. Why? What builds the personal credibility that some people simply exude? What do they do differently? This book shows you and helps you build your own personal credibility, the #1 attribute in earning trust and achieving success. Renowned personal coach Sandra K. Allgeier begins with a set of powerful stories that demonstrate what personal credibility really consists of, how it's earned, and how easily it can be destroyed. You'll discover how small daily actions, together with specific communication techniques and decisions, shape others' view of whether you can be trusted. Next, Allgeier illuminates three oft-neglected, crucial secrets of personal credibility. You'll find a hands-on assessment tool designed to help you bring more personal authenticity and transparency to your interactions; as well as practical guidance on suspending judgment and really listening, thereby earning others' trust even if you ultimately choose to disagree. Allgeier concludes with seven specific steps you can take every day to increase your personal credibility, and rebuild credibility you may have already lost. Following her easy-to-understand, easy-to-use guidance, you can live a life that's not just more successful, but happier and more fulfilled, too.

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5 Free Books from Infinite Ideas (K)

Infinite Ideas has added another small batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to be free all month. List prices on these are all over the place, ranging from under two dollars to about $8 (presumably for longer materials). These are the one that are new (there are a number of duplicates from past freebie lists - click the cover image to get the full list).

1. Extreme sports (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Steve Shipside
2. Perfect weddings, by Lisa Helmanis
3. Healthy pregnancy (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
4. Instant body conditioning
5. How to solve Sudoku (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Robin Wilson

33 Free Books from Infinite Ideas (K)

Infinite Ideas has another batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to be free all month. List prices on these are all over the place, ranging from a couple of dollars to nearly $20 (presumably for more novel length material). These are the one that are new (there are a number of duplicates from past freebie lists - click the cover image to get the full list).

1. Plan your dream wedding
2. Speak Easy (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Barry Gibbons
3. Live Organic (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
4. Inspired Creative Writing (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Alexander Gordon Smith
5. Downshift to the good life (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
6. Create your dream garden, by Jem Cook, Anna Marsden and Mark Hillsden
7. Knockout Interview Answers (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Ken Langdon and Nikki Cartwright
8. Instant vitality
9. Instant golf
10. Instant golf 2
11. Instant beauty
12. Pass Your Exams (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Andrew Holmes
13. Instant yoga
14. Instant rock climbing
15. Cellulite Solutions, by Linda Bird and Cherry Maslen (previously Penguin published)
16. Look after your heart, by Dr Rob Hicks and Dr Ruth Chambers
17. Decorate!, by Giles Kime
18. Healthy Heart (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Ruth Chambers
19. Stress-free living, by Elisabeth Wilson
20. Create your dream house and garden
21. High Impact CVs (52 Brilliant Ideas), by John Middleton
22. Little Goddess book of big beauty ideas, by Elisabeth Wilson
23. Instant dance workouts
24. Relax
25. Instant career progress
26. Sort out your money
27. Save the Planet (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Natalia Marshall
28. Little Goddess book of big love ideas, by Elisabeth Wilson
29. Skiing and Snowboarding (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Cathy Struthers
30. Instant surfing
31. Robert Collier's The Secret of the Ages (Infinite Success Series), by Karen McCreadie
32. Instant scuba diving
33. Instant sailing

9 Free Books from Vook (K)

Vook has another batch of free books in the Kindle store; generally their books stay free for a few days.

1. Yogic Meditation: Its Meaning from the Yogic Masters, by Michael Solis and the Charles River Editors
2. American Legends: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), by the Charles River Editors
3. American Legends: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Illustrated), by the Charles River Editors
4. American Legends: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr., by the Charles River Editors
5. Everything You Need to Know About Atlas Shrugged, by the Charles River Editors
6. The ABCs of Marketing: Introduction to Marketing, by the Charles River Editors
7. The ABCs of Marketing: Marketing for Small Businesses, Startups, & Non-Profits, by Quentin G. Love and the Charles River Editors
8. The ABCs of Marketing: Media Advertising, by Quentin G. Love and the Charles River Editors
9. The ABCs of Marketing: New Ways to Market with Social Media, by Quentin G. Love and the Charles River Editors

Free Book - My Kindle Fire (K/N)

My Kindle Fire, by Jim Cheshire, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. I bet we can all guess why it has only a single review and it's only one star at B&N, while it has numerous 4 and 5 star reviews at Amazon....

Book Description
My Kindle Fire is the most comprehensive one-stop guide to the all-new Kindle Fire tablet device. With this book you will learn how to tap into every Kindle Fire feature, including many of the hidden ones not discussed in other books. From setting up your Kindle Page, managing your music, watching movies, and downloading content - this book covers everything. The task based full-color format allows you to quickly and easily find the exact task you want to accomplish and walks you through it in a delightfully concise and visual manner.

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Free Book - Marketing Strategy from the Masters (K/N)

Marketing Strategy from the Masters, a collection of titles by Philip Kotler, Nancy R. Lee, Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, David J. Reibstein, Larry Light, and Joan Kiddon, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

Breakthrough marketing: revitalize brands, optimize investments, link marketing to performance, even apply winning marketing strategies in the public sector

Three full books of proven marketing strategy principles and actionable solutions! Discover how to revitalize any brand, and drive it to unprecedented success… apply the right metrics to all your marketing investments, get accurate answers, and use them to systematically improve ROI... tightly link marketing with business performance… bring powerful marketing strategies to the public sector… and much more!

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Free Book - Business and Competitive Analysis (K/N)

Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods, by Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Business success begins with deep clarity about your competition and your business environment. But, even as data gathering has improved dramatically, few business professionals know the state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing their data. Now there’s a comprehensive, immensely practical guide to today’s best tools and techniques for answering tough questions and making actionable recommendations.

Business and Competitive Analysis begins with end-to-end guidance on the analysis process, including defining problems, avoiding analytical pitfalls, choosing tools, and communicating results. Next, the authors offer detailed guides on 24 of today’s most valuable analysis models: techniques that have never been brought together in one book before.They offer in-depth, step-by-step guidance for using every technique–along with realistic assessments of strengths, weaknesses, feasibility, and business value.

You are flooded with data. This book will help you transform that data into actionable insights and recommendations that enterprise decision makers cannot and will not ignore. Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan begin with a practical primer on the process and context of business and competitive analysis: how it works, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to communicate results. Next, they introduce their unique FAROUT method for choosing the right tools for each assignment. The authors then present 24 of today’s most valuable analysis methods.They cover “classic” techniques, such as McKinsey 7S and industry analysis, as well as emerging techniques from multiple disciplines:economics,corporate finance, sociology, anthropology, and the intelligence and futurist communities. For each, they present clear descriptions, background context, strategic rationales, strengths, weaknesses, step-by-step instructions, and references. The result is a book you can rely on to meet any analysis challenge, no matter how complex or novel.

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Free Book - The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition (K/N)

The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success (2nd Edition), by Richard Templar, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Some people are simply great at their job. They always seem to say the right thing; do the right thing. They are mentioned in every conversation. Everybody likes them. They get promoted. They get pay raises. They get along with the boss. And somehow, they do all these things without being unpleasant, breaking much of a sweat or seeming to put in excess effort. And when they are offered another step up the corporate ladder or a fabulous new job, no one is surprised. After all, they have 'potential' written all over them. How do they do it? Do they know some secret we don't? Yes, they know The Rules of Work. These rules aren't about how to do your job, day-to-day (assuming you are pretty good at that already). The Rules of Work are about how you are seen to be doing it. They are about how you appear to others. And they are about helping you to achieve the success you richly deserve.

The first edition of The Rules of Work became a global phenomenon, topping bestseller charts around the world. This new, even better, edition includes 10 brand new rules to take you further, faster. These rules are the guiding principles that will improve both what you do and how you do it, giving you the unmistakable air of confidence that will win you admiration, respect, and the next promotion. With The Rules under your belt you'll have the edge in everything you do, without having to compromise your principles.

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Free Book - Make More, Worry Less (K/N)

Make More, Worry Less: Secrets from 18 Extraordinary People Who Created a Bigger Income and a Better Life, by Wes Moss, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Make More. Worry Less. Everyone wants to do that–but how? And how can you do it within the organization, where most people will spend their entire working lives? This book has the answers. No academic theory here: Make More, Worry Less brings together 18 riveting stories from people who’ve achieved both of these goals, gaining surprising wealth and real peace of mind along the way.

These aren’t superheroes. They’re ordinary people who’ve done the extraordinary: from fast-food worker Linda Robb, now earning a six-figure income at Aflac, to once lowly telemarketer Steve Hudson, now running business development at one of the most promising start-up companies in the nation. Author and radio host Wes Moss reveals the powerful lessons these individuals have learned. Better yet, he shows how you can use those lessons to take ownership of your life and career, earning more money than you ever thought possible.

But that’s only half the equation! Moss also shows how to handle your increased success with less stress, fewer worries, and greater happiness.

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Free Book - In the Line of Fire (K)

In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, by Jerry Weissman, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face. Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that have destroyed political careers and ruin credibility. Learn to control your entire exchange with a hostile questioner: the question, answer, interactions with questioner and audience, timing, and above all, yourself. Whether an executive, politician, fundraiser, interviewee, teacher, student -- or even a family member at Thanksgiving dinner -- you're judged on how you handle these moments. Get this book: handle them brilliantly.

25 Free Books from New Word City (K)

New Word City has another batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to only remain free for a day or so.

1. The Great Small Museums of Europe, by Tony Perrottet
2. How Zappos Shoes in Success
3. What You Can Learn from Lego, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
4. How to Fire an Employee
5. What I Learned at the Naval Academy, by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
6. The Hollywood 10, by Richard Schickel
7. Here We Are: The History, Meaning, and Magic of GPS, by Jim Carrier
8. Map Your Processes, by Robert Hiebeler
9. Civil War Homicide: The Murder of Major General Nelson, by Thomas Fleming
10. What You Can Learn From Steve Jobs, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
11. How to Conduct a Great Meeting
12. What You Can Learn from Ronald Reagan, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
13. Who Sank the Maine, by Thomas Fleming
14. Capitalist Adventures in Red Square, by Dean LeBaron
15. What's Your Customer's Problem?, by Fred Wiersema
16. The Fall of the House of Herzl, by David Zax
17. How The West Was Toured, by Tony Perrottet
18. The Lost Buddha, by Joshua Hammer
19. Wolves of War, by Tracy Ross
20. John Wooden's Winning Ways (repeat)
21. 7 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People (repeat)
22. What You Can Learn from Dwight D. Eisenhower (repeat)
23. What You Can Learn from Sam Walton (repeat)
24. Margaret Thatcher: A Life (repeat)
25. John F. Kennedy, A Life (repeat)

Free Book - Hire Me, Hollywood! (K/N)

Hire Me, Hollywood!: Your Behind-the-Scenes Guide to the Most Exciting - and Unexpected - Jobs in Show Business, by Mark Scherzer, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
The secret to Stan Lee's writing process
The story behind Elmo's giggle
What's for lunch on the set of The Walking Dead
Squirrel training with Johnny Depp

Think you know what it takes to get your favorite TV show on the air every week? (You'd be surprised.) Or what all those people whose names in the credits of the latest blockbuster actually do? (Including the Supervising Digital Colorist?) What better way to find out than from the who's who of Hire Me, Hollywood!

Entertainment insiders Mark Scherzer and Keith Fenimore are here to give you a crash course in all things Hollywood through thirty sometimes funny, occasionally racy, and always revealing interviews with such industry experts.

Whether you've always dreamed of yelling "Action" on a major movie set or you'd be thrilled just to get Matthew McConaughey his morning coffee, this book will give you inside scoop from craft service to the director's chair--and every take in between.

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8 Free Books from New Word City (K)

New Word City has another batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to only remain free for a day or so.

1. Decadent Desserts, by Stonyfield Farm *repeat
2. Alfred Sloan's Way
3. Henry Ford's Way *repeat
4. 7 Steps to a Great Speech, by Nick Morgan
5. The King's Speech, by Nick Morgan
6. How to Tell Great Business Stories, by Nick Morgan
7. How to Read Body Language, by Nick Morgan
8. How to Give a Great Presentation, by Nick Morgan

9 Free Books from New Word City (K)

New Word City has another batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to only remain free for a day or so.

1. Excellence Now: Action, by Tom Peters (normally $10, designed for Kindle Fire)
2. Surviving the (Never-Ending) Downturn, by Tom Peters
3. What You Can Learn from John F. Kennedy, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
4. Gary Cooper, A Life In Film, by Richard Schickel
5. What You Can Learn from Margaret Thatcher, by Donna Sammons
6. What You Can Learn From Ray Kroc, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
7. What You Can Learn From J.P. Morgan, by Donna Sammons Carpenter, Maurice Coyle
8. James Cagney, A Life In Film, by Richard Schickel
9. Walt Disney, A Life

Free Book - Global Banking 2020 (K)

The enhanced Kindle Edition with Audio/Video of Global Banking 2020: Foresight & Insights, by Knowledge@Wharton and Ernst & Young, is free in the Kindle store. You can download the text portion (such as it is) to any Kindle device or app, but if you want the embedded video, you'll need both an iThing and a lot of space - this one weighs in at a whopping 500MB! As you might have guessed, you'll also have to download it via WiFi (and be patient while you wait). I haven't watched the video, but from the description it appears to be at least slightly more than an ad for the CPA/consulting firm (and managed to make it to the official Kindle Limited Time Offers list, which implies it is only free for a while).

Book Description
Global banks face a threatening future. Regulations are getting tougher. Competition from emerging markets and non-banking companies is getting stronger. The need to invest in cutting-edge information technology is growing. And some traditional lines of business are shrinking.

What strategies should executives at global banks use to succeed over the next decade?

To answer that question, Ernst & Young and Knowledge@Wharton undertook a year-long scenario-planning process that identified four possible futures: Business as Usual, Financial Issues, New Markets, and Change, Change, Change. For each scenario, they devised key strategies for banks to undertake now. Global Banking 2020: Foresight & Insights is their report, which includes 17 videos and extensive analysis by Wharton faculty, Ernst & Young executives and high-level participants from major banks.

Top executives at global banks will find a wealth of strategies in this video-enhanced ebook that can be used now to identify opportunity in a quickly changing environment, enabling their firms to emerge from a tumultuous period as winners.

Knowledge@Wharton is the online business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The site, which is free, captures relevant knowledge generated at Wharton and beyond by offering articles and videos based on research, conferences, speakers, books and interviews with faculty and other experts on current business topics. The Knowledge@Wharton network—including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Indian, Arabic and High School editions—has more than 1.7 million subscribers worldwide. For more information about Knowledge@Wharton, please visit http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential. Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. For more information about our organization, please visit www.ey.com.

Free Book - Now You're Thinking! (K/N)

Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Revolutionize Your Career ... Transform Your Life, by Stewart Emery, Russ Hall, Heather Ishikawa and John Maketa, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes and Noble, courtesy of FT Press.

Book Description
If you can change the way you think, you can change the world. That’s the theme of Now You’re Thinking! as it tells the story of how a 2-year old Iraqi girl’s life was saved through determination, courage, and critical thinking. The book begins with the heroic story of how a Marine battalion beat the odds to save this little girl, and ends with a model of critical thinking that will help you STOP and THINK to recognize your emotions, evaluate arguments, and draw conclusions to make better life decisions. This book also provides the opportunity for you to take the My Thinking Styles assessment for free to learn your natural thinking preferences, strengths, and biases. This short read will give you a real-life example of great thinking plus tons of resources to guide your further interest in effective thinking.

Living the good life and want to make it great? Desperate to give your career an “extreme makeover”? Either way, the changes you want start inside your own head, with the way you think.

This book is the blueprint you need to build greater success by teaching you breakthrough techniques for thinking far more effectively. That’s the secret of making better decisions: whether you’re working toward a promotion or considering refinancing your house. Some thinking processes simply work better than others, and this book teaches you the ones that are proven to work best.

The authors start with the extraordinary true story of Amenah, just two years old, dying in an Iraqi village and in desperate need of complicated open-heart surgery unavailable in her own country. The authors reveal the extraordinary thinking and courage that saved her life and show how you can use the same approaches to transform every aspect of yours.

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Free Book - Your Brain and Business (K/N)

Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders, by Srinivasan S. Pillay, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes and Noble, courtesy of FT Press.

Book Description
What does neuroscience have to do with leadership? Everything.

Recent advances in brain science and neuroimaging can dramatically improve the way leaders work with colleagues to drive successful change. As the brain is increasingly examined in the context of personal and organizational development, remarkable insights are being uncovered: insights that are leading to powerful new strategies for improving business execution.

In Your Brain and Business, Harvard psychiatrist, brain-imaging researcher, and executive coach Srinivasan S. Pillay illuminates the rapidly emerging links between modern brain science and the corner office. He reveals powerful ways that neuroscientific insights can be used practically by today’s executives and presents new lessons for coaches who want to help their clients overcome common leadership problems.

Discover how leaders and coaches worldwide are already applying this knowledge to dramatically improve personal performance--and learn how you can do it, too.

• How positive thinking impacts the business brain - Building on “strengths-based” approaches that encourage the brain to learn
• Guiding leaders and managers to more effective relationships - Applying the fascinating neuroscience of social intelligence
• Innovation, intuition, and impostors - Overcoming the intangible vulnerabilities in the brains of great leaders
• Transforming the idea of change into execution - Clearing the pathways from thought to “action orientation” to real action
• Coaching the executive brain - Specific interventions that target different brain regions and processes

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Free Book - Know What You Don't Know (K/N)

Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen, by Michael A. Roberto, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes and Noble, courtesy of FT Press.

Book Description
In Know What You Don’t Know, best-selling author Michael Roberto shows leaders how to go beyond mere “problem solving” to uncover and address emerging problems while they’re still manageable—before they mushroom into disaster! Roberto first identifies the diverse, sometimes surprising reasons why problems typically fester in the shadows, ignored and unaddressed. Next, he systematically introduces seven powerful solutions. You’ll discover how to become a business “anthropologist,” observing how your employees, customers, and suppliers actually behave, not just how they’re “supposed” to behave. Roberto shows how and when to circumvent your gatekeepers to see crucial raw data...how to “connect the dots” among issues that seem unrelated, but are really signs of a deeper pattern...how to promote candor among front-line employees...encourage “useful” mistakes, and more. Along the way, Roberto offers powerful insights for overcoming the “isolation trap” so many senior executives face: the trap that can keep you assuming everything is fine, while your company’s problems are spiraling out of control!

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Free Book - The Essential Ken Blanchard Collection (K/N)

The Essential Ken Blanchard Collection, a trio of titles by Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge and Colleen Barrett, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

Extraordinary techniques for “Leading at a Higher Level” — from Ken Blanchard and two of the world’s most successful business leaders!

Get 30+ years of Ken Blanchard’s breakthrough leadership techniques — and see how great leaders apply them! Leading at a Higher Level guides you through developing high-performance organizations and teams. In Helping People Win at Work, Blanchard and WD-40’s Garry Ridge help you Partner for Performance with every employee. In Lead with Luv, Blanchard and Southwest Airlines’ Colleen Barrett help you achieve amazing results by leading with love!

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