Author: David Lavender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870814761
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprints the 1970 biography (originally published by Doubleday) of a railroad mogul whose family supplied the author with material never before made public. The book explains how Huntington operated, how he accumulated his great fortune, and how his dealings with Standford, Hopkins, Scott, Durrant, Ames and Gould resulted in the creation of a national railroad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Great Persuader
Author: David Lavender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870814761
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprints the 1970 biography (originally published by Doubleday) of a railroad mogul whose family supplied the author with material never before made public. The book explains how Huntington operated, how he accumulated his great fortune, and how his dealings with Standford, Hopkins, Scott, Durrant, Ames and Gould resulted in the creation of a national railroad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870814761
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprints the 1970 biography (originally published by Doubleday) of a railroad mogul whose family supplied the author with material never before made public. The book explains how Huntington operated, how he accumulated his great fortune, and how his dealings with Standford, Hopkins, Scott, Durrant, Ames and Gould resulted in the creation of a national railroad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Excellent Persuader
Author: Steve J. Havemann
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales, meaning that each day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. The Excellent Persuader has the unique ability to reach sales professionals, sales managers, and organizational leaders at every level. All sales professionals, whether entry-level, veteran, or manager, will be guided through the ART of how to become an excellent persuader by utilizing the techniques and specific strategies outlined in this resource. Through the use of sales, human resource development, management, and leadership techniques, The Excellent Persuader provides the tools in a reader-friendly manner to alter the paradigm through which struggling, average, above average, or overeager sales professionals approach their professions. Concerns voiced by sales leaders are addressed throughout, as well as specific techniques to educate, re-frame, or re-invent individuals' approaches to sales. ""The content is superb, writing is superb, and there is a mixture of a story and great information . . . I suggest you read it!"" --Art Bauer CEO of Media Learning International ""The acorn does not fall far from the 'Batten Tree'! I think this book is going to do exceptionally well."" --Lance Farrell CEO of Farrell's Extreme Body Shaping ""You have in your hands a collage of the best practices in sales, service, leadership, and a host of other lessons, all told in a highly readable fashion. Coupled with a series of self-assessments, you possess a vast array of proven tips and techniques. You are already well on your way to the artistry of your own excellence."" --Edward E. Scannell, CMP, CSP Co-author of Games Trainers Play series ""A modern guide founded on time-tested principles. Steve Havemann hits the mark in expounding upon the nuggets of wisdom originated by Joe Batten. Whether you are a seasoned sales professional or starting out in a new sales role, take the story of Bryce Norman slowly and reflect on the insight that is masterfully woven into the mentor-mentee storyline."" --Matthew Michalak Sales Professional Joe D. Batten, MS, CPAE was the author of fourteen books, over forty training, management, sales, and leadership films, presented to over three thousand audiences in seventeen countries, and was the first speaker inducted in the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame. His New York Times best-selling book, Tough-Minded Management, was the first management book to reach #1 in America. Mr. Batten worked directly with over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and gave the United States Army the phrase ""Be All You Can Be."" Mr. Batten was widely considered the ""Sales Training Dean of America."" Steve Havemann, MS brings an expertise in education, training, and development. Through his programmatic work, Mr. Havemann excels at the art of persuasion and business development. He is a recognized leader within his community and serves on a variety of Boards of Directors. He holds his MEd from Drake University, with a focus in Training in Development.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales, meaning that each day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by persuading someone else to make a purchase. The Excellent Persuader has the unique ability to reach sales professionals, sales managers, and organizational leaders at every level. All sales professionals, whether entry-level, veteran, or manager, will be guided through the ART of how to become an excellent persuader by utilizing the techniques and specific strategies outlined in this resource. Through the use of sales, human resource development, management, and leadership techniques, The Excellent Persuader provides the tools in a reader-friendly manner to alter the paradigm through which struggling, average, above average, or overeager sales professionals approach their professions. Concerns voiced by sales leaders are addressed throughout, as well as specific techniques to educate, re-frame, or re-invent individuals' approaches to sales. ""The content is superb, writing is superb, and there is a mixture of a story and great information . . . I suggest you read it!"" --Art Bauer CEO of Media Learning International ""The acorn does not fall far from the 'Batten Tree'! I think this book is going to do exceptionally well."" --Lance Farrell CEO of Farrell's Extreme Body Shaping ""You have in your hands a collage of the best practices in sales, service, leadership, and a host of other lessons, all told in a highly readable fashion. Coupled with a series of self-assessments, you possess a vast array of proven tips and techniques. You are already well on your way to the artistry of your own excellence."" --Edward E. Scannell, CMP, CSP Co-author of Games Trainers Play series ""A modern guide founded on time-tested principles. Steve Havemann hits the mark in expounding upon the nuggets of wisdom originated by Joe Batten. Whether you are a seasoned sales professional or starting out in a new sales role, take the story of Bryce Norman slowly and reflect on the insight that is masterfully woven into the mentor-mentee storyline."" --Matthew Michalak Sales Professional Joe D. Batten, MS, CPAE was the author of fourteen books, over forty training, management, sales, and leadership films, presented to over three thousand audiences in seventeen countries, and was the first speaker inducted in the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame. His New York Times best-selling book, Tough-Minded Management, was the first management book to reach #1 in America. Mr. Batten worked directly with over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and gave the United States Army the phrase ""Be All You Can Be."" Mr. Batten was widely considered the ""Sales Training Dean of America."" Steve Havemann, MS brings an expertise in education, training, and development. Through his programmatic work, Mr. Havemann excels at the art of persuasion and business development. He is a recognized leader within his community and serves on a variety of Boards of Directors. He holds his MEd from Drake University, with a focus in Training in Development.
The Persuaders
Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593319001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist “Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts. In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593319001
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist “Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The System The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts. In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
Persuader
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440333865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season three of the hit streaming series Reacher! “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440333865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season three of the hit streaming series Reacher! “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Author: Bill W.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698176936
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698176936
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Edmund Persuader
Author: Stuart Shotwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984103225
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984103225
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Necessary Art of Persuasion
Author: Jay A. Conger
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In The Necessary Art of Persuasion, Jay Conger describes four essential components of persuasion and explains how to master them, providing the information you need to fulfill your managerial mandate: getting work done through others.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691020
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In The Necessary Art of Persuasion, Jay Conger describes four essential components of persuasion and explains how to master them, providing the information you need to fulfill your managerial mandate: getting work done through others.
The Hidden Persuaders
Author: Vance Packard
Publisher: Ig Publishing
ISBN: 9780978843106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.
Publisher: Ig Publishing
ISBN: 9780978843106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.
The Essential Jack Reacher 12-Book Bundle
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 080418075X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4408
Book Description
“If you’re a thriller fan and you’re not reading the Reacher series . . . you’re not a thriller fan.”—Chicago Tribune Jack Reacher is the most compelling hero in action and suspense today—hailed by Stephen King as “the coolest continuing series character now on offer” and a household name for legions of fans who can’t get enough of Lee Child’s #1 bestsellers. “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Once an elite military cop, Reacher is now a man with no phone, no address, and no ties anywhere. He wanders the land and lives in the moment—a cool-headed righter of wrongs who can’t let the bad guys get away with anything. This addictive eBook bundle features twelve Reacher adventures, which can be read in any order. But fair warning: Once you start, you won’t stop until you’ve finished them all. PERSUADER THE ENEMY ONE SHOT THE HARD WAY BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE NOTHING TO LOSE GONE TOMORROW 61 HOURS WORTH DYING FOR THE AFFAIR A WANTED MAN NEVER GO BACK Also includes the eBook short stories “Second Son,” “Deep Down,” and “High Heat” as well as a preview of the highly anticipated new Jack Reacher thriller, Personal! Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Reacher series “Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly “Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps.”—Associated Press “Lee Child [is] the current poster-boy of American crime fiction.”—Los Angeles Times “Indisputably the best escape artist in this escapist genre.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times “Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was. . . . Reacher is as appealingly misanthropic as ever.”—Esquire “For pure fun, the Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going.”—NPR “Widely admired by other writers as a master craftsman of action thrillers.”—The Wall Street Journal “Implausible, irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit.”—Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 080418075X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4408
Book Description
“If you’re a thriller fan and you’re not reading the Reacher series . . . you’re not a thriller fan.”—Chicago Tribune Jack Reacher is the most compelling hero in action and suspense today—hailed by Stephen King as “the coolest continuing series character now on offer” and a household name for legions of fans who can’t get enough of Lee Child’s #1 bestsellers. “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Once an elite military cop, Reacher is now a man with no phone, no address, and no ties anywhere. He wanders the land and lives in the moment—a cool-headed righter of wrongs who can’t let the bad guys get away with anything. This addictive eBook bundle features twelve Reacher adventures, which can be read in any order. But fair warning: Once you start, you won’t stop until you’ve finished them all. PERSUADER THE ENEMY ONE SHOT THE HARD WAY BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE NOTHING TO LOSE GONE TOMORROW 61 HOURS WORTH DYING FOR THE AFFAIR A WANTED MAN NEVER GO BACK Also includes the eBook short stories “Second Son,” “Deep Down,” and “High Heat” as well as a preview of the highly anticipated new Jack Reacher thriller, Personal! Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Reacher series “Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly “Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps.”—Associated Press “Lee Child [is] the current poster-boy of American crime fiction.”—Los Angeles Times “Indisputably the best escape artist in this escapist genre.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times “Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was. . . . Reacher is as appealingly misanthropic as ever.”—Esquire “For pure fun, the Reacher novels are easily the best thriller series going.”—NPR “Widely admired by other writers as a master craftsman of action thrillers.”—The Wall Street Journal “Implausible, irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit.”—Kirkus Reviews
The Persuaders
Author: James Garvey
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848316984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday Times Includes brand new material covering the US election and Brexit Every day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders. How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass-produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world? Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now.
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848316984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
'A work of engaging pop philosophy and accessible social science [and] a boisterous dissection of the forces jellifying our minds' Sunday Times Includes brand new material covering the US election and Brexit Every day, many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead, you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders. How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass-produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world? Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now.