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JUST RELEASED on May 17th, 2006! - As mentioned in our monthly newsletter, Leadership Tools Monthly News, our upcoming book 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life is now available for purchase. We are very proud to be co-authors along with such notable experts as Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy and Dennis Waitley.

You can receive the book plus all the bonus materials at the very affordable price of only $14.95. Check out all the details here:

101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life

Can you believe this offer? I’m sure you realized very quickly that the value of the book and bonus material far surpasses the price. This offer is simply outstanding and we are proud to share it with our valued readers.

May 28, 2006 4:56 pm - Revved Up in the Workplace - Book Review

It's time to get Revved Up!

Just imagine what life would be like if every employee in your organization came to work each day Revved Up! up, and full of energy, committed to do a quality job.

How wonderful life would be, right?

Click here for the entire book review of Revved!

May 29, 2006 8:00 am - Creating Competitive Advantage - Book Review

Do you think you know your company’s competitive advantage? THINK AGAIN!

Creating Competitive Advantage is a book that is relevant, to the point, and extremely useful to any manager or leader of an organization who desired to get to the heart of their organization’s advantage in the marketplace.

Leaders today must be able to succinctly answer the question "Why should I do business with you.. and not your competition?"

For the complete book review go to Creating Competitive Advantage Book Review

May 29, 2006 12:38 pm - Introducing - Loretta Love Huff

A brand new leadership expert has just been added to our Article Directory.

We are proud to introduce Lorretta Love Huff.

Good leadership skill training that transforms and delivers. Here we will provide the seven key components.

In his 1974 book, Working, author Studs Terkel said, "People are doing repetitive stuff - big people in little assignments are grinding away at jobs too small for their souls. People don't want to work for a company; they want to work for a cause that transcends the dullness of their everyday duties."

Most of us know deep down in our hearts that we could be doing more; making a bigger contribution to life than we are currently making. We yearn to have a positive impact on our community and indeed, upon the world. We know somehow that we have much more to give - yet we feel trapped in our ability to harness our inner power in order to really make a difference.

Perhaps we're not convinced that the world is able to change; or we're paralyzed by our own sense of self-doubt in making change happen.

Some people who lack good leadership skill training believe that leaders are born, but I beg to differ. I believe we all have infinite options and opportunities staring us in the face, yet we generally do not recognize or leverage them to our advantage.

There are specific characteristics and behaviors of leaders who really make a difference in the world and I believe they can be learned and practiced.

James MacGregor Burns coined the phrase, 'transformational leadership' in 1978 in describing the ideal leader. While his concepts are valid, I believe brilliant leaders are able to not only empower people to follow a dream, but also to deliver outstanding results. The 7 key components of good leadership skill training listed below describe traits that transform and deliver real results.

To learn more about the 7 key components, read Lorretta's entire article.

May 29, 2006 11:23 pm - Profitable Growth - Book Review

Leadership in organization and in ALL things is EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS! Profitable Growth, the newest book by best-selling author Ram Charan, is a book well worth your time.

For starters, this book provides you with ten terrific tools that you can use first thing Monday morning. Want to know what they are? Keep reading and we’ll provide you with all ten.

Charan coins the phrase "ideation", meaning the flow of ideas in your organization that can be converted into growth mechanisms for maximum results without having to invest huge amounts of resources.

Unfortunately, too often these ideas go to waste and never even surface because the workforce doesn’t believe for a second that management is even interested is his or her ideas. If the leader is all talk and seldom follows up on the results of the team-produced growth ideas, he’ll quickly lose the hearts and minds of his workforce.

Charan is creative and insightful as he presents and fully explains these Ten Tools you Can Use Monday Morning: To learn about the Ten Tools, see the full book review of Profitable Growth.

May 30, 2006 7:15 am - Introducing - Dr. Terry Paulson

Leadership speech expert Terry Paulson uses a lot of well-placed humor to get across some important messages to his listeners.

He is being facetious when he says that in an effort to be less than constructive as a manager, here are ten sure-fire ways to alienate and de-motivate your team. Hit-or-miss approaches don't go far enough; this is your chance to use the best methods of corporate torture and humiliation developed by dictators, steamrollers and other "tough guy" bosses.

As you consider each of these ten sure-fire mis-steps of leadership speech, consider what each one says to your employees, to your bosses, to your co-workers and business partners. What is the “leadership speech” (meaning body language, facial expressions or other outward gestures) that you are making in each mis-step?

To learn the Ten Leadership Speech Mis-Steps of management, read the full article.

May 31, 2006 4:39 pm - Press Release for 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life

The following is a copy of a press release that will go out on June 1, 2006.

As usual, our readers get to see it here first.

{COPY OF PRESS RELEASE}

Now more than ever before, business owners, managers and everyday working moms and dads are actively seeking ways to improve the quality of their daily lives. 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life was co-authored by Richard Gorham, founder of Leadership-Tools.com, along with other notable experts including Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn

Leadership-Tools.com is fast becoming a highly utilized resource center for small business owners and team leaders across the globe. This highly creative online company offers an impressive library of downloadable leadership tools and resources.

Founder, Richard Gorham was recently recognized as a leader in his field by being asked to co-author a new book entitled, 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.

This particular book project was led by personal growth expert David Riklan. Riklan reached out to many of the greatest minds he knew, and asked them to offer up expert advice in virtually all areas of successful living. The results of his findings are truly inspiring.

The book provides 101 insider secrets that promises to reveal the greatest wisdom of our time. Readers get the facts on each "success-secret" directly from a top expert in their field. All of these secrets have now been brought together to finally reveal what you can do to enhance the quality of your life and experience greater success and fulfillment.

While at first being somewhat suspicious of the perceived sales-hype, readers have shared their enthusiasm for this wonderful new book. Some very important secrets are revealed in, 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.

Each life lesson assists the reader to gain greater insight into what he or she might consider changing in order to improve the quality of his or her life experience.

Given the value received in this one book alone, it’s not surprising how the positive news is spreading so quickly about the quality tools and resources provided at Leadership-Tools.com.

Feedback from the new book has been very positive as evidenced by these testimonials:

"It's like buying an entire bookstore for the price of just one book. This is the ultimate how-to-live manual." - David Leonhardt

"The breadth of knowledge in this book is astounding. Every day I can pick up this book and within 10 minutes learn something new to make my day - and my life - even better." - Jeff Griswold

Visitors to Leadership-Tools.com (www.leadership-tools.com) will see a direct link for immediate access to the new book, 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life.

Co-author, Richard Gorham recently said, "Being a part of the making of 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life, was a wonderful experience. Everyone involved in the project took great pains to provide the best information available in order to help the greatest number of people to improve the quality of their lives. I’m very proud of the end result."

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