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The Leadership Bible: Strategy Secrets From Across Ages on How to Attain and Wield Power Including Works by Sun Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon Hill, and More

Discover the secrets of true leadership, including stealth, self-sufficiency, even-temper, training strategies, and justice. You will learn how to lead from those who actually did.

WHAT MAKES A LEADER?

“Leadership is an elusive concept. Nearly everyone is certain that he or she would like the mantle of leadership—whether at home, at work, in competitive events, or all three—but we rarely think through the implications. One of the first questions that requires asking is: Who do you seek to lead and why?”

With the opening words of his introduction, popular voice of alternative spiri¬tuality Mitch Horowitz begins his journey into some of history’s greatest ideas and insights about what makes a leader—and what is required of you to earn that appellation. These works are designed to help you distinguish between function¬ing as a mere boss and being a true leader, a title to which many aspire but few understand. The insights in The Leadership Bible help place you among the few. In this collection, Mitch assembles:

•“LEADERSHIP” by Major C.A. Bach
•THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu, translated by British sinologist Lionel Giles
•“THE LIFE OF CAESAR” by Plutarch, translated by classics scholar Bernadotte Perrin
•THE PRINCE by Niccolò Machiavelli, abridgement based on the translation by Renaissance scholar N.H. Thomson
•“RULES OF CIVILITY” by George Washington
•“POWER” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
•“INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP” by Napoleon Hill
•“DECISION” by Napoleon Hill
•THE SCIENCE OF BEING GREAT by Wallace D. Wattles
•A MESSAGE TO GARCIA by Elbert Hubbard
•“THE MAJOR ATTRIBUTES OF LEADERSHIP” by Napoleon Hill
•“THE SURPRISINGLY NOBLE PATH TO POWER” by Mitch Horowitz

MITCH HOROWITZ is a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America, One Simple Idea, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, and Uncertain Places. His work has been translated into Italian, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. He is censored in China.

Take Charge of Your Life: The 12 Master Skills for Success

Brian Tracy will teach you the attitudes, mindset, and most importantly, the specific skills that will enable you to overcome any forces that others perceive may hold them back—whether it be your education level, current income level, gender, or socio-economic background.

One of the hallmark’s of Brian Tracy’s philosophy is that you are 100% responsible for the results in your life. While Brian Tracy has discussed this philosophy since the 1980’s, it is increasingly out of place in our current cultural moment. Today there are numerous voices telling you that any of your struggles or challenges are due to other people or societal conditions that are beyond your control. But, as you’ll read in this life-changing book, the philosophy of complaint and “blaming others” is ultimately a dead-end path that leads to despair. In Take Charge of Your Life: The 12 Master Skills for Success, Brian will show you how putting yourself in the driver’s seat of your own life, and not delegating responsibility for your results to others, will separate you from the pack faster than ever before. Brian will teach you the attitudes, mindset, and most importantly, the specific skills that will enable you to overcome any forces that others perceive may hold them back—whether it be your education level, current income level, gender, or socio-economic background.

Here are just a few of the things you will learn:

•Maximum Performance. When you’re firing on all cylinders, nothing can stop you–so why waste any more time at half speed? Get more out of yourself and generate better results than ever before.
•Personal Strategic Planning. Success is inevitable when you have a plan. All you have to do is follow it. I cover how to plan — and how to stay on track, no matter what life throws at you.
•Time Management. Time management is really life management. When you become a super-efficient machine, you complete the highest-value tasks in the least amount of time — and you flourish.
•Personal Dynamism and Energy. When you exude confidence and energy, it’s contagious. You attract other dynamic, energetic people — and together, you experience more. More success, more fun, greater results.
•Creating Wealth. Once you create a personal plan, and then maximize your efficiency, performance and time management, your income will increase automatically. But what do you do with it? To create wealth, you must have a wealth plan — and that’s what we cover here.
•Communication Power. Even if you’re not in sales, you’re in sales. Whenever you talk with someone, you have the opportunity to convince him to think the way you think — and to help you achieve your goals. I teach you my proven, time-tested strategies for communicating effectively.
•And MUCH More.

6 Essentials to Start and Succeed in Your Own Business: What Top Entrepreneurs Know, That Others Don’t

Let Brian Tracy, one of the world’s foremost authori¬ties on the subject, introduce you to 6 Essentials To Start and Succeed in Your Own Business, and expose you to the most innovative, current—and most importantly—proven ideas on how to become successful.

The world that we live in today favors the person who organizes and operates a business, and takes on greater than normal financial risks to do so. That person is the entrepreneur.

The average worker holds ten different jobs before age forty, and this number is projected to grow. If you’re in your twenties and thirties, you may forge a second or third career as an entrepreneur; and if you’re in your forties, fifties, or beyond, you will decidedly favor the idea of starting and owning your own business. In fact, fifty-two percent of all small businesses are home-based, and many of those are started and run by people in their mid-career.

So whether you are early in your career or are in mid-career, whether you have ambitions to run a larger business or a very small business, and whether you start a business because it’s your desire or you’re forced to by automation and layoffs, entrepreneurship is more likely than ever to be a part of your future.

Let Brian Tracy, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, introduce you to 6 Essentials To Start and Succeed in Your Own Business, and expose you to the most innovative, current—and most importantly—proven ideas on how to become successful.

Use your knowledge of The 6 Essentials to race ahead of the competition and take advantage of all of the modern options readily available to you . . . and create a busi¬ness that is successful and sustainable for the long term.

Win!: Positive Negotiating and Decision Making for the Real World

Everything is negotiable! Learn the four steps to make sure that Everybody WINS.
Almost everything in life is negotiable. Whether we’re children trying to stay up past our bedtimes, employees who want some time off or a raise, or friends trying to decide where to go for dinner, we use negotiation to get what we want. But, negotiation doesn’t have to be an “I win and you lose” proposition. In WIN! Positive Negotiating and Decision Making for the Real World, Authors Dan Strutzel and Traci Shoblom will teach readers the four steps to make sure that Everybody WINS.

The Everybody WINS Method of Negotiation is:
1. Wait
2. Identify
3. Negotiate
4. Settle on an Agreement

Once you master these steps, you’ll have the power to negotiate:
Better relationships
Getting into better schools and jobs
Higher income
Improved self-image
Helping others get more of what they want

Negotiation is a core element of human interaction. From the bedroom to the board room, the principles of negotiation are at the foundation of our society. Are you ready to learn how to WIN! Let’s go!

The Laws of Luck: The Success System That Never Fails

Learn how to unlock your hidden abilities!
Make Your Own Luck!

Some sav success is based on luck. But high achievers don’t leave their success to chance. They guarantee their future by applying the proven laws of success. When you apply these laws, you will unlock the most potent forces in the universe. You control vour luck.

What’s the key? If you want to succeed, do what successful people do. It’s that simple.

In this book, Brian Tracy shows how to put the laws of luck to work for you. You’ll race forward faster than you ever imagined getting more done, earning more rewards, having more opportuni-ties, and ultimately reaching the goal that everyone wants: happiness.

This is the success method that never fails!

Let Brian teach you the skills you need to achieve success satisfaction in all areas of your life. Learn how to:

1. Use the eternal principles of cause and effect to get what you want.
2. Bring your life into focus by setting clear written goals.
3. Maximize the knowledge you need for prosperity.
4. Use the power of habit to set your life on its best course.
5. Increase your personal magnetism using the unstoppable power of empathy.
6. Make friends with the people who can help you move toward your goals.
7. Achieve financial independence and wealth.
8. Sharpen the miraculous power of your mind.
9. Acquire virtues such as courage and persistence, which are essential to any great life.
Success and happiness are not accidents. By mastering the method that Brian Tracy presents in this book, you can learn how to reach your most cherished goals quickly and with certainty. You’ll be successful-and people will call you lucky.

Unstoppable: Motivation Secrets You Need to Develop Courage, Confidence and A Positive Mental Attitude

Brian Tracy can show you how to develop this kind of motivation on-demand, sustain it through the difficult periods of life, and instill this motivation so intricately into your daily life that you make the very idea of motivation unnecessary.
That’s when you become UNSTOPPABLE!

Master the Art of Motivation!
The idea of being successful is an attractive dream that fills us with positive emotions. However, the actions required to be successful at work, in our relationships, in sports competition, are often difficult and lengthy. Therefore, even though we want to be successful, happy and influential. very few of us take the specific actions that will actually move us directly toward those goals.

So what do we need to bridge the gap between what we say we want, and what we must do to achieve it? We need goal-oriented motivation. The specific kind of motivation that is the fuel which can take us across the long and often uncertain bridge to our desired destination in life.

Brian Tracy can show you how to develop this kind of motivation on-demand, sustain it through the difficult periods of life, and instill this motivation so intricately into your daily life that you make the very idea of motivation unnecessary. That’s when you become UNSTOPPABLE!

The Digital Transformation Roadmap: Rebuild Your Organization for Continuous

Today, every business is talking about digital transformation. With the acceleration of new technologies, every organization knows it must adapt to survive. But by their own admission, 70 percent of businesses are failing to transform. Across industries, established companies are held back by bureaucracy, inertia, and old ways of working. How can businesses break through to drive real change?

The Digital Transformation Roadmap provides every leader with the answer. Acclaimed author and C-suite advisor David L. Rogers argues that businesses must transform not just products and business models—they must transform the organization itself. Based on two decades of research and advising companies around the world, Rogers identifies the five biggest barriers to digital transformation: vision, priorities, experimentation, governance, and capabilities. He then shows how any business can evolve by heeding the lessons of companies such as Disney, Walmart, Mastercard, Air Liquide, and the New York Times Company.

The Digital Transformation Roadmap provides a practical blueprint for organizational change, illustrated with real-world case studies and step-by-step planning tools. Rogers shows every leader how to think beyond the churn of new technologies and rebuild their organization for a world of constant change.

Black Money and Tax Havens

Just how much black money is there in India?
Estimates vary from 10 per cent to 20 per cent of our GDP. Conservatively, Rs 15 lakh crore (10 per cent of Rs 150 lakh crore, our GDP in 2016-17).
As for Indian money in tax havens around the world? Around Rs 65 lakh crore. Truly astounding figures.
Black money or kala dhan is a topic that has elicited much debate in recent times. This has been mostly marked by mudslinging and name-calling, and the discussions that have ensued often have no basis in fact. While most people have a hazy notion of black money, only a few understand it in its entirety.
The issue of tax havens is perhaps even more misunderstood. Most people fail to see the connection between tax havens and black money. Black Money and Tax Havens is the first work that discusses both of these issues in depth and offers a 360-degree view to the reader.
In this work, R. Vaidyanathan provides the reader with a brief overview of black money-its generation, its estimates and how and why it is spirited away to tax havens. He also lays bare the danger that is posed to world financial well-being on account of the lack of political will to tackle these issues. A unique and timely work, this book packs in much information in an accessible manner.

Avatars of Brahma

While the Puranas mention that Lord Brahma becomes an avatar whenever Lord Vishnu comes to Earth to establish dharma, it is in the Dasam Granth (one of the holy books of the Sikhs) that the avatars are actually listed. The common point in Hinduism and Sikhism regarding the avatars of Brahma is that they are seen as great thinkers and teachers.

In this book, the authors, who run the popular website, Scientific Monk, delve into the lives of each avatar, their works and the philosophies presented by them. They explain how the avatars of Brahma help us understand the Indian thought process and India’s intellectual heritage, and give readers a view of the works of India’s greatest yogis from a twenty-first-century world view.

Soul and Sword

Political Hinduism was once considered a sort of fringe ideology, shadowy and even misunderstood. Its ideas and narratives seemed, in popular discourse, to lack analytical rigour and were easily dismissed.
But history shows that political Hinduism as an intellectual idea was a pioneering theme in India’s nationhood. In fact, it precedes the Indian republic and has been one of the most resilient political theories of India, which survived many bans, boycotts and decades out of power to become, in the twenty-first century, the predominant political force of India. The adherents of political Hinduism are as determined as its detractors—one complains about facing relentless prejudice; the other throws accusations of promoting continuous religious strife. One believes that India cannot be saved without decimating political Hinduism; the other is sanguine that only political Hinduism can save the future of India.
Soul and Sword traces the journey of political Hinduism from events that are critical to its self-narration, that is, early Indian resistance to invasions, to intellectual definitions by nineteenth-century littérateurs and more contemporary electoral politics. It tries to understand the context and historical sources used to construct and promote political Hinduism’s world view.
From award-winning writer Hindol Sengupta, Soul and Sword is absolutely critical reading to understand India’s present and future.

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