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Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognizing that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have.

Gordon presents a powerful business fable about Nancy--the newly anointed CEO of America's Favorite Soup Company. The business has fallen on hard times, but after a fateful lunch experience, Nancy becomes inspired. She then comes up with innovative strategies to turn the company around and get it back on its feet.

Sean O'Neil, CEO of the sales and management training and recruitment company One to One Leadership, teams up with management expert John Kulisek to offer a breakthrough program for managers looking to get the most out of their subordinates. By first identifying the 16 different employee types, O'Neil and Kulisek go on to outline strategies for effectively driving their performance.

Warrillow speaks from personal experience when he chronicles the tale of Alex--the head of a start-up advertising agency looking to sell his profitable business. The key, according to family friend Ted, is to build a successful business that stands on its own once its creator is out of the picture. Ted goes further and outlines strategies designed to build just such a company.

Tracy shows managers how to super-charge their efforts to maximize their employees' output. He presents simple, easily adaptable strategies for motivating and inspiring employees so that productivity and success spread naturally throughout all aspects of the company.

Radically altering the notion of where great ideas come from, Boynton and Fischer present an eclectic group of past and present business leaders who succeeded by looking for new and innovative ideas all around them and then putting those ideas into practice.

Comm shows potential Internet business leaders how to use all of these techniques and more to build a successful, profitable enterprise from scratch.

Konrath shows how to overcome the current selling obstacles to get more appointments, speed up decisions, and win sales with these short-fused, frazzled customers.

Hill outlines the 17 factors that comprise his "Law of Success" philosophy. Successful leaders aren't born--they're made by a simple set of habits.