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The pressure surrounding the sales manager is intense. Given the task of recruiting, managing, and motivating a top team of high-performing sales professions, so much of the sales manager's success is dependent on others. Or is it?Sales expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying the most successful sales managers and professionals in every industry. In this indispensable pocket-sized resource, he has encapsulated 6 key characteristics of a winning sales team. In Sales Management, he distills these simple but powerful strategies so that sales managers can learn how to:* Select and recruit sales champions* Establish clear objectives* Inspire singleness of purpose* Motivate people with the right incentives* Develop winners through continuous coaching and training* Conduct game-changing performance reviews* De-hire poor performers* And moreDon't leave your success as a sales manager in the hands of others. Learn today how YOU can increase your sales team's effectiveness, improve their bottom line, and advance your own career in the process.

The hallmark of an exceptional career is the ability to devise innovative solutions for work challenges. Therefore, creative thinking skills are vital for your professional advancement.Recent research has revealed a direct causality between ideas and profitability, which means that in today's competitive and technology-rich work environment, the most crucial element separating an extraordinary career from an ordinary one is creative thinking skills.As one of the world's premiere success experts, Brian Tracy knows anyone can become more creative by practicing with a few helpful tools. This concise, easy-to-read book guides you to immediately begin generating a stream of productive ideas.In Creativity & Problem Solving, Tracy reveals 21 proven techniques that will help you:Stimulate the three primary triggers to creativityInspire a creative mindset in staff through recognition, rewards, and environmentUse methods to solve problems, improve systems, devise new products, and come up with fresh, exciting marketing anglesAsk focused questions to generate elegant solutionsUnderstand the difference between mechanical and adaptive thinkingRigorously evaluate new ideas without shutting down the creative impulseContaining mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earth strategies, Creativity & Problem Solving will help you tap into the root source of their own intuitive genius--and gain the winning edge they've been missing all this time.

The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation is a practical, detailed roadmap to building a fair compensation system by creating motivating incentives that produce positive outcomes.

Fire Your Creativity and Fuel Your Career! What if you could brainstorm innovative solutions to your company's challenges? What if you could dream up new businesses that capture emerging markets? What if you could tap your own creativity and ignite your career? The truth is, you can! Analytical thinkers, numbers people, non-artists--everyone can generate imaginative ideas. All it takes is letting go of the "I'm-not-creative" mindset and putting a proven process to work for you. Using his CreativityWorks framework, creativity and innovation expert Bernhard Schroeder explains how to break out of your mental box, adopt a growth mindset, reignite natural curiosity, and move step by step through a set of exercises that help individuals and teams: - Fuel creativity through a proven framework - Create more relevant ideas in brainstorming sessions - Radically improve existing products or services - Find inspired solutions using IdeaGen, SCAMPER, Observation Lab, Tempero, the Phoenix List, and other tools From changing the physical workplace to spur interaction . . . to nurturing a culture that promotes creativity . . . to applying tools that generate more and better ideas, Simply Brilliant opens the door to spark your imagination and ignite your creativity.

A blunt wake-up call to salespeople and sales leaders that debunks the myths of the latest miracle solutions and refocuses your sales strategy on a proven approach that will drive the results you want.

Taking control of your company's destiny starts with planning strategically from the beginning.How will you determine if your company has succeeded if you can't base its performance on a well-defined business strategy? A strategic plan, established at your venture's birth, helps crystalize the future of the organization--mapping a clear path from where the company stands today to where you wish it to be.Setting a business strategy enables you to develop absolute clarity on priorities, organize resources, and get better results than ever before. Renowned business author Brian Tracy has provided a simple path to creating the specific business strategy needed for your company's success.In Business Strategy, Tracy will help you discover how to:Ask the five key questions vital to any strategic planDetermine a corporate mission that lifts and inspires peopleDefine themselves in relation to their competitionReposition their business with new products, services, and technologyAnticipate crises, and more!Incorporating wide-ranging examples--from Alexander the Great to IBM to General Electric--this concise, practical guide gives readers proven ideas for increasing their company's bottom line and maximizing their strengths and opportunities. The path to success starts at the beginning!

Where do you want to be in one, three, or five years? Even small adjustments can bring about enormous results to your personal success.Where does that ';winning edge' you've heard so much about come from? How do some people seem to find success simply from waking up and getting out of bed? World-renowned performance expert Brian Tracy has spent decades studying uncommonly high achievers.Instead of finding commonalities such as Ivy League educations, gold-star connections, and a dash of blind luck, Tracy discovered that the keys to their success were more often small adjustments in outlook and behavior. In this easy-to-follow guide, Tracy lays out a simple, clear plan for anyone to be able to unlock their potential and find the success they previously thought was unattainable for them.In Personal Success, you will learn to:Change your mindset to attract opportunityBanish self-limited beliefsBuild your self-confidencePractice courage and taking risksSharpen your natural intuitionContinually upgrade your skills and more!Packed with simple but game-changing techniques, Personal Success is the answer you've been searching for to gain that winning edge and turn your dreams into realities.

The next generation of consumers is rising up fast. Will you know how to reach them?

Find your company's niche in the marketplace when you discover what your customers want, need, and can afford--and then give it to them!Too often, businesses create a product or service and then focus their marketing efforts on trying to convince customers that they need it. However, the key to successful marketing and a successful business is already knowing that what you are offering is what the public has been searching for!Renowned business expert Brian Tracy has provided 21 powerful and proven ideas any business can use immediately to improve their strategic marketing results.In Marketing, Tracy helps you discover how to:Build your customer baseSet yourself apart from the competitionUse market research and focus groups to fuel better decisionsFulfill a basic emotional need for buyersDetermine the correct price point for your offeringsMake the most of your distribution channelsGive customers a reason to switch from your competitors, and more!Complete with time-tested marketing strategies and Tracy's trademark wisdom, Marketing is a practical pocket guide that shows you how to overcome the competition, increase sales and profitability, and dominate your market niche.

An administrative professional's job requires a diverse range of abilities. From managing schedules, coordinating meetings, and fielding calls to planning events, deciphering legal documents, and creating PowerPoint presentations, today's administrative assistants are expected to effortlessly and efficiently juggle it all. Professionals looking to improve their performance-and enhance their value to employers-should turn to the fourth edition of Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook. With 250 pages of new or completely revised material, the handbook provides thorough, practical instruction on: Web conferencing * Creating graphics, charts, and presentations * Microsoft Office 2010 * Business math * Managing e-mail and schedules with Outlook * Organizing computer files * Research skills * Time management * Customer service skills * Troubleshooting computer problems * Event planning * and much more. Administrative jobs are constantly changing, but with the latest edition of this best-selling guide, professionals everywhere can stay ahead of the curve.

With mortgage stories dominating the front-page news, people-whether they're buying a new house or refinancing-increasingly have questions about the complicated issues at stake. Arranged in an easily accessible question-and-answer format, Mortgages 101 provides readers with essential lending formulas, as well as important information on lending requirements and application procedures. The book shows readers how to save money by:¿ understanding key terms like ARMs and hybrids-and reading what's in the fine print ¿ improving their credit scores to increase their borrowing power ¿ using technology to get the lowest interest rates ¿ maximizing their return on investment, and cutting the cost of mortgage insuranceThis revised edition includes up-to-date material on new loan and government programs, as well as changes to the law regarding tax deductions, down payment assistance, reverse mortgages, bankruptcy, negative amortization and more-in short, all the answers readers need, in one must-have reference.

Life after work no longer conjures up images of couples wandering the malls, playing golf, and taking endless Caribbean cruises. As baby boomers reach their 50s and 60s, they are redefining what it means to retire. Many of them are still choosing to work or create a whole new life entirely. What they crave is vitality, joy, and meaning in their lives. Author David Borchard has been helping adults rejuvenate their careers and lives for 30 years. In The Joy of Retirement, he shows readers how to reinvent themselves and achieve the kind of fulfillment and meaning in their lives they have always dreamed of. Now, readers can start crafting their future and discovering their passions with advice on topics such as:¿ finding new interests that make the most of their unique talents¿ planning their lifestyle at 50+¿ assessing what transitions they are ready and willing to make¿ defining priorities and goals¿ establishing their criteria for success¿ mastering the seven steps to maintaining vitalityRevealing and hopeful, this book will reshape how people look at the next phase of their lives.