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Presents a fable that unravels how to attract wealth and how to keep it, through the characters of a nine-year-old boy and his carpenter father.

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This book has been developed to provide a structure to a rather diverse set of ingredients that make up innovation. By assessing the potential of any of the nine lives we boost our personal ability to innovate even though all around us there are forces trying to kill our curiosity.

Frank, revealing, motivating and humorous, Stop Bitching outlines self-styled advertising gurus, Marty Kellard and Ian Elliot's nine step programme to success. An essential guide on how to give yourself the best shot at securing that lucrative contract.

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A simple but powerful guide to learning the life skills needed to attract people to listen to you, to act on your suggestions and enjoy doing so.

Let's face it, if you're in need of time management then you probably don't have time to study reams of complicated advise from piles of different books. You need to get in and out.

What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In the course of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath have established what it is that determines whether particular ideas or stories stick in our minds or not, and "Made to Stick" is the fascinating outcome of their painstaking research. Packed full of case histories and through... read more

What conceptual states do you have and "never leave home without?" What attitudes do you seem to take everywhere you go? Do you tend to think optimistically? Do you tend to see the dark side of things?

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Reflecting the spiritual growth approach of the 1990s, an inspiring book offers a ten-point program for career seekers to work at what interests them, apply natural skills and abilities, and reap personal and financial rewards. Original. 30,000 first printing. Tour. IP.

The Virtues Project: An Educator's Guide (K-12) is an excellent guide to empower children to lift each other up instead of putting each other down. It contains virtues honored by all cultures and traditions as "the best within us" and is honored by the United Nations as a model program for children of all cultures. This practical guide, containing 52 virtues, was designed to develop respect, compassion, commitment, and cooperation, (and more!) in children grades K-12. The book offers proven methods for counselors, teachers, caregiv... read more

A gutsy, sincere, scientifically-based business case for bringing more heart into organisations. Presents HeartMath's impeccable biomedical research and highly practical tools for humanising business, building people and organisations that respond gracefully to change, crisis and challenge. Clients such as Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada, Nortel, Cisco Systems, Lucent, BP and Royal Dutch Shell are empowering their talented workforce with these tools. Well-documented examples and organisational case studi... read more

All booksellers will be familiar with this title.(Published in 1995),now revised ed 2006 it was the first and and continues to be the bestselling book on family trusts on the New Zealand market. It has been revised frequently to keep abreast with changes in the law. What distinguishes this book from its competitors is the very clear language and straightforward, practical advice. It is very accessible to the layperson and is often bought by law firms to give away to their clients. Basically the book explains what a family trust is... read more

This book gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today – and where we might be headed. In a book that weaves storytelling with a massive body of research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in society: the growing role of creativity in the economy. Just as William Whyte’s 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organisational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in ... read more

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Craig Lewis is a well-respected sports psychologist, instrumental in the successful 2005 Tri-Nations Rugby League campaign for the Kiwis. Building on his sporting success he has become a corporate motivational speaker and works with leading companies: Les Mills, Price Waterhouse, Deloittes, Team McMillan, Briscoes, CocaCola Amatil and Farmers. Lead to Succeed has been written for sports-people and business-people alike who are looking for strategies to up their game and put into practice the principles of self motivation and pers... read more

A Thought Leader is someone that is operating on the cutting edge. They are admired because of their ability to innovate and implement in ways that earns them the respect and admiration of people as a leader in their field. Ask anyone in any organisation who is 'known' for making things happen and they will point out the Thought Leader. They are the entrepreneur that finds a new product to bring to market, the real internal leader that is not found on any organisational chart or the consultants that others go to time and time again... read more