In this FUN and data rich book, you will discover how you can WIN BUSINESS through cultivating meaningful RELATIONSHIPS, nourished by listening, respect, trust, and cultural sensitivity. This business development “guidebook” illustrates relationship building and leadership strategies with quotations from entrepreneurs, communication theories, business case studies, Taoism metaphors, and real-life stories. Businesspeople and students can apply ideas from this book for career success and work-life harmony.

What do Procter and Gamble, Microsoft, McDonald's and The Department of Energy have in common? They have all recently implemented a vested relationship with their partners and suppliers, leading to innovation and a better bottom line. Here authors Vitasek and Mandrodt show how P&G partnered with Jones Lang LaSalle to manage over 14 million feet of facilities in 60 countries and how the Minnesota Department of Transportation turned tragedy into success after the I35 bridge crumbled into the water by rebuilding the bridge with state-of-the-art design under budget in less time than anticipated, and much more. Working with partners is the future of business, and in this timely and original work, the authors show companies how to create vested agreements that brings success to everyone involved.

An arsenal of powerful questions that will transform every conversation Skillfully redefine problems. Make an immediate connection with anyone. Rapidly determine if a client is ready to buy. Access the deepest dreams of others. Power Questions sets out a series of strategic questions that will help you win new business and dramatically deepen your professional and personal relationships. The book showcases thirty-five riveting, real conversations with CEOs, billionaires, clients, colleagues, and friends. Each story illustrates the extraordinary power and impact of a thought-provoking, incisive power question. To help readers navigate a variety of professional challenges, over 200 additional, thought-provoking questions are also summarized at the end of the book. In Power Questions you’ll discover: The question that stopped an angry executive in his tracks The sales question CEOs expect you to ask versus the questions they want you to ask The question that will radically refocus any meeting The penetrating question that can transform a friend or colleague’s life A simple question that helped restore a marriage When you use power questions, you magnify your professional and personal influence, create intimate connections with others, and drive to the true heart of the issue every time.

Do you ever ask yourself why dating has become so damn hard? Do you wonder what makes some marriages last and others fall apart? Is your marriage struggling despite your best efforts to keep it together? Women who win at love don’t have a gift you don’t have. What makes them unique, explain author and relationship coach Suzanne Venker and anthropology professor John M. Townsend, Ph.D., is that they aren’t at war with the men in their lives. Women who win at love reject the concept of sexual equality and embrace male and female nature instead. Whether you’re still single and mapping out your life, or you’re divorced or unhappily married, Women Who Win at Love will permanently alter the way you view men and marriage, thus leading to your success in love. But you must be willing to step outside your comfort zone and accept countercultural truths. If you can do that, you’ve found the key. You know how to win at almost everything else. Isn’t it time for you to win at love? In Women Who Win at Love, you will learn: · the eight dating rules that lead to marriage · why super successful women struggle in love · what men want and what women want (hint: they’re not the same) · why love is not a reason to get married · how to avoid the green grass syndrome · why acting like a man lands women in a ditch

Do you want your business relationships to do everything possible to help make your company as successful as it can be? Do you want to significantly increase your ability to become seriously wealthy so you can take care of the people you love and support the causes that matter to you? And do you want to achieve those results without having to manipulate or deceive others? If so, Everyone Wins! is for you.Let's face it: Business success and business relationships are inextricably connected. In so many cases, entrepreneurs' accomplishments can be traced back to their business relationships. That's exactly why Russ Alan Prince, Frank Carone and John Bowen are sharing a proven process for creating, enhancing and even optimizing powerful business relationships. You can then harness these relationships so they do as much as possible to help you and your company excel.With the Everyone Wins Process, all the people engaged in it can come out winning. As you'll see, when everyone wins, you win. This book will provide you with a foundational understanding of the highly learnable, highly ethical Everyone Wins Process-along with actionable strategies and tools you can implement immediately to start getting results in your business right away.

You have a three-year business plan. You're channeling all of your energy into it. But while you're hyperfocused on work, your health will deteriorate, your partner will leave you, your relationship with your kids will become toxic, and your business will suffer because everything else is falling apart. To achieve all your goals, you need to stop neglecting the stuff that happens outside the office.The 4 Keys reveals how devoting equal time to work, body, relationships, and mindset will bring your life into balance. Drawing on his work with C-suite clients-and his own hard-learned lessons-business psychologist Andrew Sillitoe shows you how to: - Implement a unique system that brings balance back to your life.- Achieve professional and personal goals with a ninety-day game plan- Feel more energized, focused, and healthy- And much moreTackling the keys head-on will yield dramatic results. Commit yourself-and rebuild your life