The Best Motivational Business & Money Books 2024

1. Blind Ambition: How to Envision Your Limitless Potential and Achieve the Success You Want

9780071833820. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 240. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. A goal-setting guide to top achievement from an award-winning engineer, champion paratriathlete, and IRONMAN world record holderDiagnosed with a pediatric brain tumor, Patricia Walsh became blind at the age of five. As a teenager, she lost what little vision remained due to surgical complications,and the straight-A student began a downward spiral into depression and hopelessness. But Walsh eventually had an epiphany: if she didn't do something--and fast--she would doom herself to a life devoid of meaning. Today, Walsh is an award-winning computer engineer and champion paratriathlete. She has raced in more than a dozen marathons and ultra-marathons and competed in two IRONMAN triathlons. In 2011, she set the world record for blind triathletes, shattering both male and female records by over 50 minutes. How did she do it? Patricia Walsh refused to be defined by any limits. In Blind Ambition, Walsh both inspires and educates by relating her unforgettable personal story while detailing her proven Fuel / Fire / Blaze approach to achieving any goal: Fuel: Set your base goals--those small, day-to-day tasks designed to collectively build toward your final goal Fire: Map important milestones on your journey to keep yourself on track and motivated Blaze: Your highest goals, your most burning desire made real--this is what happens when you add fuel to fire . . . Drawing on her experience of great adversity--and even greater success--she shows you how to set realistic milestones and describes a simple and effective process for mapping these milestones to daily tasks that will help you achieve what you previously thought unachievable. Every path has obstacles, but you can overcome them. Apply a champion's hard-earned lessons to achieve your goals and live a personally enriching and professionally rewarding life. All it takes is Blind Ambition.

ISBN: 9780071833820 Condition: New Hard cover Language: English Pages: 240 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. A goal-setting guide to top achievement from an award-winning engineer, champion paratriathlete, and IRONMAN world record holderDiagnosed with a pediatric brain tumor, Patricia Walsh became blind at the age of five. As a teenager, she lost what little vision remained due to surgical complications,and the straight-A student began a downward spiral into depression and hopelessness. But Walsh eventually had an epiphany: if she didn't do something--and fast--she would doom herself to a life devoid of meaning. Today, Walsh is an award-winning computer engineer and champion paratriathlete. She has raced in more than a dozen marathons and ultra-marathons and competed in two IRONMAN triathlons. In 2011, she set the world record for blind triathletes, shattering both male and female records by over 50 minutes. How did she do it? Patricia Walsh refused to be defined by any limits. In Blind Ambition, Walsh both inspires and educates by relating her unforgettable personal story while detailing her proven Fuel / Fire / Blaze approach to achieving any goal: Fuel: Set your base goals--those small, day-to-day tasks designed to collectively build toward your final goal Fire: Map important milestones on your journey to keep yourself on track and motivated Blaze: Your highest goals, your most burning desire made real--this is what happens when you add fuel to fire . . . Drawing on her experience of great adversity--and even greater success--she shows you how to set realistic milestones and describes a simple and effective process for mapping these milestones to daily tasks that will help you achieve what you previously thought unachievable. Every path has obstacles, but you can overcome them. Apply a champion's hard-earned lessons to achieve your goals and live a personally enriching and professionally rewarding life. All it takes is Blind Ambition.

2. Boom! : 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual (Hardcover)

In "Blow the Doors Off Business-as-Usual!," the authors draw upon their practical, hands-on experience to show how to become indispensable on the job, engage in work that really matters, stop making excuses for ones circumstances, and become the people God intended. You are DESIGNED to choose and DEFINED by your choices. In front of you are seven choices waiting to be made. Whether you are the leader or those being lead, these choices will determine the quality of your life and the significance of your contribution to the world in which you work. In BOOM the Freiberg's have distilled 20 years of collective wisdom into 7 essential choices that cause culture, service, success, and business to BOOM Choice #1: Be a Player Choice #2: Be Accountable Choice #3: Choose Service Over Self-Interest Choice #4: Focus Forward Choice #5: Play to Your Genius Choice #6: Get It Done Choice #7: Risk More - Gain More These 7 choices are your wake-up call to freedom, and it's your invitation to create a community of like-minded people who - together - will create organizations that can blow the doors off business as usual and cure the Dead People Working(TM) syndrome Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg are two of the most influential voices on the professional-speaking circuit today. Their mission: to create corporate cultures where impassioned people exercise the freedom to make a difference and change the world! The Freibergs have coauthored the international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success and GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-As-Usual. They have been interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes and appeared on CNBC and the CBS Morning News for their insights on the links between gutsy leaders, passionate employees, cultures of accountability, and loyal customers.

• Author: Kevin Freiberg,Jackie Freiberg • ISBN:9781595551160 • Format:Hardcover • Publication Date:2007-09-16

3. Motivation : Spark Initiative. Inspire Action. Achieve Your Goal. (Paperback)

Create what your customers want! Motivation is one of the most critical drivers in personal and business success. Why? Because, without motivation, nothing gets done. Motivation is a book for doers--and for those who want to be doers. It teaches you how to envision an outcome, define goals, and communicate objectives in a way that drives people to accomplish them. Inside you'll learn: *Which popular methods of motivation do (and don't) work *How to define personal and professional goals in a way that is inspiring *How to recover lost motivation in yourself and in others Motivation outlines the process of motivation and, most importantly, how to apply it to your business and your life.

Create what your customers want! Motivation is one of the most critical drivers in personal and business success. Why? Because, without motivation, nothing gets done. Motivation is a book for doers—and for those who want to be doers. It teaches you how to envision an outcome, define goals, and communicate objectives in a way that drives people to accomplish them. Inside you’ll learn: *Which popular methods of motivation do (and don’t) work *How to define personal and professional goals in a way that is inspiring *How to recover lost motivation in yourself and in others Motivation outlines the process of motivation and, most importantly, how to apply it to your business and your life.

4. 101 for Small Business Series: Motivating Today's Employees (Edition 2) (Paperback)

Motivating Today's Employees recognizes that the priorities of today's employees are changing. A favourable work environment and good benefits have eclipsed salaries as the prime concern of the work force. Offering creative options to increase employee effectiveness, this title tackles the job-satisfaction issue head on. How do I identify effective motivators? Why should my company establish job standards? Is it important to involve employees in goal setting and decision making? How do I know whether I am hearing what employees are really saying? How do I handle problem employees? What non-monetary incentives will benefit my employees? How can I give workers a sense of 'ownership' of their jobs? Today's employers are forced to concentrate on the bottom line. Successful leaders recognize the need to build a team of happy, creative, and satisfied employees who see the success of the company as a part of their personal success and satisfaction."

When you are watching the bottom line, it is easy to forget how your employees are feeling about their jobs. But unproductive staff can be one of the biggest threats to that bottom line, as many business owners have discovered. A favourable working environment combined with good worker benefits has eclipsed salaries as the prime concern of the work force. Here is a book that tackles the job-satisfaction issue head-on. It offers creative options that will help companies increase worker effectiveness. The book answers the following questions: How do I identify effective motivators? Why should my company establish job standards? Is it important to involve employees in goal-setting and decision making? How do I know whether I am hearing what my employees are really saying? --And more!

5. The One Minute Manager, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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The One Minute Manager, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

6. Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - Wall Street Journal best-selling author Jon Acuff reveals the steps to getting unstuck and back onto the path of being awesome. Over the last 100 years, the road to success for most everyone has been divided into five stages that mirror the decades of working life: There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging because things like fear only bother you when you do work that matters. The good news is Start gives readers practical, honest and actionable insights to be more awesome, more often. It's time to punch fear in the face, escape average, and do work that matters. It's time to Start.

Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

7. The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - Fuel your life with positive energy with this bestselling fable It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. The Energy Bus, an international bestseller, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment--at work and at home. Build positive energy with vision, trust, optimism, enthusiasm, purpose, and spirit Learn how to turn negative energy into positive achievement Overcome obstacles and bring out the best in yourself and your team For managers and team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative situations into positive outcomes, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus, you'll enjoy the ride of your life.

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

8. Pre-Owned 100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job (Hardcover 9780399582578) by Chris Guillebeau

9780399582578. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 336. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. "Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chris Guillebeau presents a colorful "idea book" filled with inspiration for your next big idea"--

Pre-Owned 100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job (Hardcover 9780399582578) by Chris Guillebeau

9. Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In today's organizations engagement is vital--more is being required of workers than ever. In this new edition of his classic book, Kenneth Thomas draws on the latest research findings to identify the key to employee engagement: intrinsic motivation. Only intrinsic rewards--rewards that come directly from the work itself--encourage the profound commitment and sense of ownership needed for a truly engaged and innovative workforce. Thomas identifies four intrinsic rewards, explains exactly how and why they build engagement and provides a diagnostic framework to evaluate which need boosting and how to boost them. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with an expanded section on how leaders can identify their own intrinsic rewards and new tools, tips and practices for encouraging intrinsic motivation in others.

Intrinsic Motivation at Work : Building Energy and Commitment, Used [Paperback]

10. One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Harvard Business Review Classics) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. It's a manager's perennial question: 'How do I get an employee to do what I want?' The psychology of motivation is very complex, but the surest way of getting someone to do something is to deliver a kick in the pants - put bluntly, the KITA. This book argues that an employee with an internal generator needs no KITA.

One More Time : How Do You Motivate Employees?, Used [Paperback]