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Dan Ariely explores the hidden mechanisms of motivation and how understanding them can improve choices in work, education, and personal life.

Steve Chandler’s 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself provides practical, research‑backed techniques to break negative habits, boost confidence, and create an action plan for success in business and life.

The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic, The Practice of Management. The earlier book was chiefly concerned with how management functions; this volume shows what the executive decision-maker must do to move his enterprise forward. One of the notable accomplishments of this book is its combining specific economic analysis with a grasp of the entrepreneurial force in business prosperity. For though it discusses "what to do" more than Drucker's previous works, the book stresses the qualitative aspect of enterprise: every successful business requires a goal and spirit all its own. Peter Drucker again employs his particular genius for breaking through conventional outlooks and opening up new perspectives--for profits and growth.

Inspire, instruct, encourage—and blow away the competition.Motivating groups to work together is not easy. Fortunately, leadership can be learned. In this comprehensive new guide, a management expert shows how to lead a team. You will come to understand what makes a leader; think and act like one; develop a personal leadership style; see opportunity amidst crisis; understand organizational behavior; use discipline, encouragement, and promotion; prioritize; develop trust; resolve conflict; and earn respect and recognition.—A hard-hitting, straightforward approach that provides honest, accurate information—For anyone in a position of leadership, from project manager to Little League coach