Ethics 101 or Set Your Voice Free

Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Author: John C Maxwell

Bestselling author and expert on leadership John C. Maxwell shares the only rule that matters—in business and in life.How does a person judge what is ethical? Sometimes it's clear. In the past year or two, ethical lapses in corporate America have been well documented. But is it always easy to see where the line is in life? What's the standard? And can it work in all situations? Maxwell thinks it can. In ETHICS 101, he shows how people can live with integrity by using the Golden Rule as their standard—regardless of religion, culture, or circumstances. Along the way, he delves into the desires of the human heart, reveals the five most common pitfalls that throw people off the ethical track, and teaches how to develop the Midas touch when it comes to personal integrity.

Author Biography: John C. Maxwell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Interesting textbook: How Nations Grow Rich or South Western Accounting with Peachtree Complete 2005

Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want

Author: Roger Lov

"Roger Love, vocal coach of the Beach Boys, the Jacksons, Chicago, and Hanson, among many other singing superstars, and voice coach to celebrity speakers such as John Gray, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Tony Robbins, reveals in this book and CD package the secrets to getting the singing or speaking voice you want. Now you can love the sound of your voice on your answering machine or be ready to speak or sing in front of any size audience with absolute confidence. Anyone can achieve a powerful speaking voice or beautiful singing voice with Roger Love's simple techniques. Love helps the reader set personal vocal improvement goals and find and eliminate all recognizable flaws. He introduces the revolutionary concept of middle voice and asserts that by mastering it, you can connect to incredible parts of your voice you have never used before. Love promises that almost anyone can navigate smoothly through several octaves without pressure or strain, and he shows how and why that will improve the quality of your life.
Love's approach is comprehensive. He offers breathing exercises and a step-by-step practice routine. By listening and following along with the CD (instructional CD included) and practicing at your own comfort level, you will learn the techniques Roger Love has usedM successfully with his world-famous clients, whose achievements provide inspiration throughout the book. Love encourages readers to personalize his lessons to fit them into individual schedules and lifestyles, and focuses on finding a personal style of singing or speaking that is right for you. His easy and enjoyable program will enable you to speak or sing fearlessly and deliver a message powerfully and effectively. "

Steven W. Vannoy

This collection of Bauer's essays will become one of the most treasured books in your library. Brew a fine cup of tea and sit back to relish every single word.

Allison St. Claire

Read them and weep. Read them and laugh. Catherine Bauer's words are like magic wands that elevate everyday events into the heartsong we all long to hear and enjoy.

What People Are Saying

John Gray
Roger Love has found a way to train the voice and free the heart, mind, and spirit.
—Author, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Laura Schlessinger
I had never realized how much our ability to speak comfortably and correctly matters to our psyches and our effectiveness in communication.
—From the Foreword

Anthony Robbins
Over the years, I have worked with more vocal coaches—and tried more vocal techniques—than I care to remember. It wasn't until I met Roger Love that I gained 100 percent certainty that my voice would perform the way I expect and need it to. With Roger Love's new book, you too have the opportunity to learn from a truly amazing vocal master.
—Author, Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power

Joe Elliott
I study with Roger and you should too.
—Lead singer, Def Leppard

Robert Lamm
If you want to sing like the stars, Roger Love is the way.—Singer/songwriter, Chicago

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Your Best Voice	3
Ch. 2	How Do I Sound?	18
Ch. 3	Breathing	33
Ch. 4	The Miracle of Middle Voice	50
Ch. 5	How to Practice	67
Ch. 6	Staking Claim to Middle	79
Ch. 7	Making Your Speaking Voice Sing	93
Ch. 8	Songs without Fear	108
Ch. 9	The Care and Feeding of Great Voices	125
Ch. 10	Essential Extras for Singers	145
Ch. 11	Essential Extras for Speakers	167
Ch. 12	The Healing Power of Voice	187
	Epilogue	197
	Appendix	199
	Acknowledgments	209
	Contact Information	211
	Index	213

New Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids Revised and Updated Third Edition or Coping with Toxic Managers Subordinates and Other Difficult People

New Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids, Revised and Updated Third Edition

Author: Arthur Bochner

This first-of-its-kind book for young entrepreneurs is now completely revised and updated for a new generation by one of the original authors (now an adult) and his 14-year-old sister.

Originally written by Arthur Bochner when he was just 13 with his mom, financial planner Adriane G. Berg, this was the first book to take kids step-by-step through the process of starting their own businesses. Now 24 and a successful political speechwriter, Arthur teams up with his kid sister, Rose, on a completely revised, updated edition to the basics of becoming an entrepreneur, offered in a smart, entertaining style just right for kids age 8-14.

This fun and fact-filled volume includes:
• cartoons, quizzes, games, and stories about starting up a business and making money from it
• How to use eBay and other Internet resources
• Ideas for donating to nonprofits and helping the environment.
• Descriptions of 20 super businesses to start right now (such as lemonade stands, lawn mowing, garage sales)
• Ten basic business skills kids need to know: Speaking up for what you want; Business budgets; Record keeping, research, and filing; Telephoning; Negotiating; Putting it in writing; Marketing, advertising, and publicity; Networking; Working with others, even parents.

VOYA

This third edition of a 1995 publication, written by a brother-and-sister team, takes students to the heart of entrepreneurship-showing that running a successful business takes first an idea and then the know-how to get the business started and to grow. The young authors define exactly what a business is and how it is structured. The next decision is the location of the business, and the skills, capital, and marketing needed. Finally the authors give twenty ideas for businesses that youth might start. These begin with the tried-and-true, such as a lemonade stand, and go on to personalizing T-shirts, leaf raking, lawn mowing, making and selling compost; garage sales, couponing, and so on. For each venture, the steps needed for success are outlined. Several suggestions seem to involve the person selling services to his or her family. But for those with cooperative families, the principles are valid and the skills gained are worthwhile. This book can certainly be thought provoking for young people with an entrepreneurial spirit, as it explains simply the fundamentals of a successful business along with a dash of more sophisticated business concepts. The illustrations are lively and engaging, and the text non-threatening. The book might also serve as supplementary text in a middle or junior high economics class.

Look this: Managed Care and Public Health or Field Guide to Project Management

Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates ... and Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper

Author: Roy H Lubit

In any organization, recognizing and understanding the nature and impact of toxic behaviors can provide for the ability to manage the adverse environment and mitigate the potential risks that we often face in the workplace. In Coping with Toxic Managers, Roy Lubit skillfully tackles this complicated topic by presenting the psychological aspects of toxic behaviors in a manner that is understandable and embraceable. This is not one of those 'flavor of the month' pop-psychology books—it's truly about the science of how and why toxic people think, act, and react. Read this book and you may start looking at the people in your organization quite differently.—Michael Chuchmuch, V.P. Business Transformation and Change Management, UNISYS Corporation

I found this book to be right on the mark and learned a lot from it. Lubit understands the problems people in business face from difficult people above and below them and comes up with very insightful and practical ways to deal effectively with the situations. If all of my managers read this book they would do their jobs better. —Jeff Schindler, President and CEO, Etronics

Executives, and the senior HR officers who counsel them, struggle every day with how to deal with toxic leaders, the ones who try to achieve high performance by abusing, intimidating, mistreating, and demeaning their subordinates. Finally someone has written a book on how to handle the various types of corporate ax murderers, how to help them develop, and when to let them go. —Michael Feiner, Professor, Columbia Business School; formerly Sr. V.P. and Chief People Officer for Pepsi-Cola worldwide

RoyLubit's new book is an exciting breakthrough for anyone who has ever had a boss! It's hard to remember that bosses are only people. This book helps you understand what makes them tick, their different styles, how you can manage them effectively from below, and how to get everyone working on the same team. Lubit's secret ingredient is his incisive knowledge of how people and organizations work. A must read! —Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D., President, WorkPsych Associates, Inc.; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University; and former President, Academy of Occupational and Organizational Psychiatry

To lead and manage effectively, we need to understand the people with whom we work. Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates and Other Difficult People is an excellent and thorough book containing crucial insights into why managers behave as they do, and how to cope with different types of people. It will not only help you to understand and better deal with toxic managers, but it will also help you work with yourself and with the normal vulnerabilities of managers with whom you work everyday. —Ronald A. Heifetz, Co-Founder, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Many managers engage in destructive behavior that does considerable harm to their subordinates, their organization, and eventually themselves. Whether they are narcissistic, unethical, rigid, or aggressive, working with them can be a nightmare. In Coping with Toxic Managers, psychiatrist and organizational consultant Dr. Roy H. Lubit shows you how to develop your emotional intelligence and protect yourself and your organization from the destructive impact of toxic managers.

Drawing on his extensive experience as both a mental health professional and organizational consultant to Fortune 500 firms and large law firms, Dr. Lubit offers concrete advice as well as a way to better understand with whom you are dealing.

The basic premise of the book is that the better you understand how specific types of toxic managers view the world and what motivates them, the better you will be able to influence them to behave in ways that enable you to do your work and survive your hours at work. To borrow a phrase, this is not pop psych advice, it is sophisticated advice served quickly and understandably.

• Handling narcissistic managers. What to do when your manager thinks she's the center of the universe. What senior management can do to recognize narcissistic managers early in their careers.
• Dealing with unethical managers. How subordinates can avoid becoming accomplices and how senior management can decide whether to reform or fire them.
• Handling rigid managers. Understanding the different factors that can lie underneath rigid behavior and how to cope with each of them.
• Dealing with aggressive managers. Practical techniques for handling a variety of aggressive behaviors: when to push back, when to submit, and when to head for the hills.
• The impaired manager. Coping with anxious, depressed, obsessive, bipolar, and chemically dependent managers. Appreciating when one of these underlies aggressive, rigid, or narcissistic behavior, and what to do.
• Using emotional intelligence to develop your career and your organization. How organizations can recognize toxic managers early and decide whether to attempt to reform them or simply fire them. How to create an organization that limits toxic behavior. A guide for improving your ability to cope with the stress of dealing with toxic managers.

Essentials of Organizational Behavior or Its Not Luck

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Author: Stephen P Robbins

This masterfully crafted introduction provides balanced coverage of all the key elements comprising the discipline of OB, in a style that readers will find both informative and interesting. This includes not only traditional topics such as personality, motivation, and leadership; but also cutting-edge issues such as emotions, trust, work-life balance, workplace spirituality, and knowledge management. People participating in any group or organizational activity.

Interesting book: Halloween or Bust or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It's Not Luck: Author of the Goal

Author: Eliyahu M Goldratt

Learn more about the powerful techniques first presented in the best-selling novel The Goal. In this book, Dr. Goldratt, through examples in a variety of industries, shows how to apply TOC to sales and marketing, inventory control, and production distribution. In addition, techniques in conflict resolution are introduced on both a business and personal level.

Wolf of Wall Street or The Art of War

Wolf of Wall Street

Author: Jordan Belfort

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called…

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits–for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them—tothe unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down…

Publishers Weekly

Belfort, who founded one of the first and largest "chop shop" brokerage firms in 1987, was banned from the securities business for life by 1994, and later went to jail for fraud and money-laundering, delivers a memoir that reads like fiction. It covers his decade of success with straightforward accounts of how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, so he and the insiders made large profits while public investors usually lost. Profits were laundered through purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks. There is only brief mention of Belfort's life before Wall Street or events since 1997. The book's main topic is the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. As might be expected in the autobiography of a veteran con man with movie rights already sold, it's hard to know how much to believe. The story is told mostly in dialogue, with allegedly contemporaneous mental asides by the author, reported verbatim. But it reports only surface events, never revealing what motivates Belfort or any of the other characters. (Oct. 2)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

Kirkus Reviews

A cocky bad boy of finance recalls, in much detail and scabrous language, his nasty career as a master of his own universe. At a young age, in an industry with many precocious bandits, Belfort ran a Long Island-based brokerage with the deceptively WASP-y name of Stratton Oakmont. It was a bucket shop habitually engaged in crooked underwritings. Its persuasive boss was a stock manipulator and tax dodger; he details the stock kiting, share parking, money laundering and customer swindles. Many millions poured in, and cash brought with it excess upon excess. Along with compliant women and copious drugs, there were multiple mansions, many servants, aircraft, yachts and, for all the guys on the trading floor, trophy wives. Among his under-the-table and beneath-the-sheets activities, the author's most imperative seemed to be sex and dope-taking, despite his professed abiding love for his (now ex) wife and kids. Belfort's portrait of his family is vivid, as is his depiction of the merry cast of supporting players: sweet Aunt Patricia, a Swiss forger, evil garmentos, Mad Max (Stratton's CFO and his father). The melodrama covers coke snorting, Quaalude eating, kinky sex, violence, car wrecks, even a sick child and a storm at sea. "A cautionary tale," the author calls it. It is crass, certainly, and vulgar-and a hell of a read. Belfort displays dirty writing skills many basis points above his tricky ilk. His chronicle ends with his arrest for fraud. Now, with 22 months in the slammer behind him, he's working on his next book. Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment. Agent: Joel Gotler/Intellectual Property Group

New interesting book: Trading in the Zone or Essentials of Corporate Finance

The Art of War

Author: Sun Tzu

Complexities of meaning and historical interpretations illustrate the timelessness of Sun Tzu's treatise on war.

Library Journal

This year's crop of Penguin "Great Ideas" volumes offers another eclectic dozen works that shaped society from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. The books are fairly no frills, but the price isn't bad. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Tony Soprano
Been reading that-- that book you told me about. You know, The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general, wrote this thing 2400 years ago, and most of it still applies today! Balk the enemy's power. Force him to reveal himself. You know most of the guys that I know, they read Prince Machiabelli, and I had Carmela go and get the Cliff Notes once and -- he's okay. But this book is much better about strategy.

Samuel B. Griffith
"As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic." -- Brigadier General, ret. U.S. Marine Corps, is the author of The Battle for Guadalcanal, Peking and People and People's Wars, The Chinese People's Liberation Army, and editor and translator of Mao Tse-tung: On Guerilla War.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	11
	A Note on the Translation and Pronunciation	21
	Chronology of Approximate Dynastic Periods	25
	General Introduction and Historical Background	29
	Introduction	77
	The Art of War in Translation	163
1	Initial Estimations	165
2	Waging War	171
3	Planning Offensives	175
4	Military Disposition	181
5	Strategic Military Power	185
6	Vacuity and Substance	189
7	Military Combat	195
8	Nine Changes	201
9	Maneuvering the Army	205
10	Configurations of Terrain	211
11	Nine Terrains	217
12	Incendiary Attacks	225
13	Employing Spies	229
	Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	235
	Notes to the General Introduction and Historical Background	249
	Selected Notes to the Introduction	275
	Notes to the Translation	301
	Notes to the Tomb Texts and Lost Writings	331
	Selected Bibliography	337
	Glossary	351
	Index	363