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Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others (The John Adair Leadership Library)

John Adair transformed our understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Here he explores the nature of motivation, individual needs and how they relate to the key tasks facing leaders and managers.  Positive motivation, he argues, can create, maintain and improve the performance of any team.

In Leadership and Motivation John Adair also puts forward his own theory of motivation – the fifty-fifty rule – and then identifies the eight key principles for motivating others.

Motivation increases efficiency and productivity, and makes reaching targets more likely. Leadership and Motivation will stimulate readers’ thoughts and ideas on how to inspire others, and offers some practical ways to motivate oneself and others to achieve.

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Stop the Coming War: The Savage Truth – Library Edition

CAN AMERICA SURVIVE ANOTHER CIVIL WAR?

According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have been sown.

Not between the states – but between true patriots who believe in our nation’s founding principles and those he believes are working every day to undermine them and change the very nature of the country.

Not a war of bullets and blood – but one of commitment to freedom and courage of conviction. Michael Savage is convinced that we face more than just political differences now. He believes the split between right and left is possibly irreparable – unless we understand what’s really happening and how we must act to stop it.

Savage has been raising his voice for over 20 years as America’s most outspoken and incisive talk radio host, and bestselling author. He argues that the situation is urgent and he is raising his voice even louder telling his Savage Truth in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. Savage wants to galvanize every liberty-loving American and warn the enemies of our way of life – that, difficult as the path ahead may be, the time has come, the facts are clear, the line must be drawn.

Savage cut his teeth exposing the political left’s goals, tactics and actions as they attempt to tilt the country’s axis ever closer to socialism. In these pages he lays out his belief that lefties don’t want some to know… connecting the dots between their many frightening moves hiding in plain sight, and raising the not-so-obvious questions they don’t want people to ask:

-How are recent changes to the Senate’s filibuster rules a thinly- veiled extension of big government’s limits on our civil rights?

-Why have so many of our top military commanders been summarily pushed aside, after years of brave service?

-When will the nefarious strategy of “purposeful incompetence” underlying Obamacare be exposed for what it is?

-How is Obama’s feckless foreign policy not just weakening us in the world, but actually endangering our security at home as well?

STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR is a no-holds-barred tale as gripping as any movie script in which some super hero or secret agent saves the day. Except no one but We the People can save the country we love. A page-turner from start to finish, this [intelligent and principled] fervent warning offers the Savage truth — a call to action in the voting booth – in order to defend the freedoms our Constitution so brilliantly established.

Read it and be ready to play your part in helping STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR!

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You Can, You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner; Library Edition

In YOU CAN, YOU WILL, Joel Osteen shares eight undeniable qualities of winners that can help you to reach your potential and achieve new levels of success in your life. You are created to be a winner. Get these eight principles deep down on the inside and boldly go in the direction of your destiny.

Keep Your Vision in Front of You – Dare to dream big dreams.

Run Your Race – Focus on your unique course and goals. Expect Good Things – Anticipate great opportunities. Have a Positive Mind-set – Take control of your thoughts and attitudes. Commit to Excellence – Do your best and maintain high standards. Keep Growing – Be proactive, be intentional, build on your gifts, and continually improve. Serve Others – Invest yourself in others. Stay Passionate – Light the fire within and approach life with enthusiasm.

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Motivation: The Brian Tracy Success Library

One of your most important responsibilities as a manager is to motivate your employees to do their absolute best. Managers who create positive, rewarding, high-energy environments reduce absenteeism and turnover while dramatically increasing productivity and quality. In Motivation, success expert Brian Tracy draws on his decades of experience bringing out the best in others to provide 21 of the fastest, most powerful methods ever discovered for increasing the effectiveness of any individual or group. He reveals how to:

Ensure employees look forward to coming to work and feel passionate about what they do Challenge them with tasks that allow them to stretch Satisfy their need to feel both autonomous and part of a greater whole Reduce their fear of failure and increase their desire to try Remove obstacles that hold people back Provide the regular feedback they need to succeed And much more!

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The Oxford Handbook of Work Engagement, Motivation, and Self-Determination Theory (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that is being increasingly used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers. It argues for a focus on the quality of workers’ motivation over quantity. Motivation that is based on meaning and interest is showed to be superior to motivation that is based on pressure and rewards. Work environments that make workers feel competent, autonomous, and related to others foster the right type of motivation, goals, and work values.

The Oxford Handbook of Work Motivation, Engagement, and Self-Determination Theory aims to give current and future organizational researchers ideas for future research using self-determination theory as a framework, and to give practitioners ideas on how to adjust their programs and practices using self-determination theory principles. The book brings together self-determination theory experts and organizational psychology experts to talk about past and future applications of the theory to the field of organizational psychology. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: how to bring about commitment, engagement, and passion in the workplace; how to manage stress, health, emotions and violence at work; how to encourage safe and sustainable behavior in organizations; how factors like attachment styles, self-esteem, person-environment fit, job design, leadership, compensation, and training affect work motivation; and how work-related values and goals are forged by the work environment and affect work outcomes.

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The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation (Oxford Library of Psychology)

Motivation is that which moves us to action. Human motivation is thus a complex issue, as people are moved to action by both their evolved natures and by myriad familial, social and cultural influences. The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation collects the top theorists and researchers of human motivation into a single volume, capturing the current state-of-the-art in this fast developing field. The book includes theoretical overviews from some of the best-known thinkers in this area, including chapters on Social Learning Theory, Control Theory, Self-determination theory, Terror Management theory, and the Promotion and Prevention perspective. Topical chapters appear on phenomena such as ego-depletion, flow, curiosity, implicit motives, and personal interests. A section specifically highlights goal research, including chapters on goal regulation, achievement goals, the dynamics of choice, unconscious goals and process versus outcome focus. Still other chapters focus on evolutionary and biological underpinnings of motivation, including chapters on cardiovascular dynamics, mood, and neuropsychology. Finally, chapters bring motivation down to earth in reviewing its impact within relationships, and in applied areas such as psychotherapy, work, education, sport, and physical activity. By providing reviews of the most advanced work by the very best scholars in this field, The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation represents an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners, as well as any student of human nature.

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An Inspiration to All Who Enter: Fifty Works from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.


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Motivation (Brian Tracy Success Library)

As a manager, one of your most important responsibilities is to motivate your employees to do their absolute best. Managers who create positive, rewarding, high-energy environments reduce absenteeism and turnover while dramatically increasing productivity and quality.

In Motivation, success expert Brian Tracy draws on his decades of experience bringing out the best in others to provide 21 of the fastest, most powerful methods ever discovered for increasing the effectiveness of any individual or group.

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The Angel Library

John Ronner on Angels — as Seen on National TV:The Angel Library, contains 500-plus pages of globally searchable information. Fast-paced, clear and comprehensive, this book is the result of decades of research. It contains hundreds of stories, facts and figures. Included are modern and historical sightings, famous people who saw angels, deathbed visions, legend and folklore, who’s who in heaven and hell, angels and coincidences, angels in different religions, the near-death experience, polling statistics, and much more. Perfect for pleasure reading or research projects. Great class text or Christmas or Easter gift. The book can be instantly downloaded at Amazon.com for Kindle readers, PCs, Macs, smartphones and other devices. If you don’t already own a standalone Kindle e-reader, then quickly and easily download Amazon’s free Kindle software to your computer, tablet or smartphone.