In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

About The Author

Recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey has dedicated his life to demonstrating how every person can truly control their destiny with profound, yet straightforward guidance. As an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author, his advice has given insight to millions. He has sold over 20 million books sold (in 38 languages), and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. His most recent major book, The 8th Habit , has sold nearly 400,000 copies. He holds an MBA from Harvard, and doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries. He lives with his wife and family in Utah.

This book presents the situational leader model, which provides a system for managing people that is both conceptual and practical. It has a scope that is broad enough to permit its application to a wide range of situations, and promotes precise language in which managers could both understand and act upon the problems they experience in managing people.

About The Author

Paul Hersey (born in 1931) is a behavioral scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for conceiving Situational Leadership. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard published Management of Organization Behavior- now in its ninth edition. Hersey teaches about training and development in leadership, management, and selling. In addition to his teaching, he is a consultant, on a continuing basis, to industrial, government, and military organizations. Hersey is presently a Distinguished Professor of Leadership Studies at Nova Southeastern University. He is a former faculty member of Northern Illinois University, California State University, Chico, University of Arkansas, and Ohio University. He also served in the roles of Chairman of the Department of Management and Dean of the School of Business. Hersey has also served as Project Director for the Industrial Relations Center of the University of Chicago, Training Director at Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company, and Department Head at Sandia Corporation. Hersey's works include Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources, Organizational Change through Effective Leadership and Selling: A Behavioral Science Approach. His most recent books include The Situational Leader, Situational Selling, Situational Service: Customer Care for the Practitioner, and Situational Parenting.

At last it's here—a proven, easy-to-implement management system that can help every company (big or small) improve its performance, execution, and profitability. The key is an innovative concept called "Vital Factors," a management process that helps companies identify and manage the often hidden components that either hold them back or propel them to success.

The Vital Factors process is the brainchild of MAP, one of the nation's leading management consulting firms. For the past 45 years, more than 12,000 companies have used MAP and its Vital Factors process to transform their organizations and become leaders in their fields. Drawing on the experiences of dozens of MAP clients, Vital Factors gives companies and individuals a detailed blueprint for success, showing them how to clearly define their mission, values, and strategic goals and how to achieve them on a consistent basis. The narrative is driven by real-life stories of people who have used the MAP system to fulfill their highest goals and ambitions.

They include:

• Debra, a mid-level manager who used the Vital Factors process to become a top executive at Wells Fargo Bank
• Michael, a young entrepreneur who used MAP principles to save his business and achieve sustained growth and profitability
• Ted, a self-made leader who used MAP to master one of the toughest challenges in business: managing highly creative people
• Christi, a visionary educator whose nonprofit organization uses MAP to help at-risk immigrant children succeed in American schools

Unique among business books, Vital Factors is a lively and inspiring manual for success in business and in life.

About The Author 

Lee Froschheiser is president and CEO of MAP. He has managed organizations in the private and public sectors, and as a coach and mentor, he has trained many of the premier business leaders in the United States today.

Paul Chutkow is the best-selling author of Visa:The Power of an Idea, Harvests of Joy, Depardieu,and Perrier: The Book. 

Do you want to get ahead in life?
Climb the ladder to personal success?
The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.
In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.
The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.
Ferrazzi's form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with “networking.” He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles.
Among them:

• Don’t keep score: It’s never simply about getting what you want. It’s about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too.
• “Ping” constantly: The Ins and Outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time—not just when you need something.
• Never eat alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you’re working at a corporation or attending a society event— “invisibility” is a fate worse than failure.

In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Katherine Graham to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama.
Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a “conference commando,” and more, Never Eat Alone is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People as an inspirational classic.

About The Author 

KEITH FERRAZZI is founder and CEO of the training and consulting company Ferrazzi Greenlight and a contributor to Inc., the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Earlier in his career, he was CMO of Deloitte Consulting and at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and CEO of YaYa Media. He lives in Los Angeles.

TAHL RAZ is an editor at Fortune Small Business. He’s written for Inc. magazine, the Jerusalem Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and GQ. Raz lives in New York City.