Book 2 of The Technology of Success Series. *** Improve your performance and your organisation now! Drawing and expanding on ideas put forth in the critically acclaimed Joy of Success, Susan Ford Collins and Richard Israel, renowned business consultants and motivational speakers, teach you how and when to use the essential Second Success Skill-Shifting Gears-that can literally transform your business approach overnight. When you and your organisation shift Success and Leadership Gears at the right time, your effectiveness, productivity and creativity rise to the next level. And your profitability rises with it. Success Has Gears presents 20 case studies in which leaders and their teams operate in the wrong gear at the wrong time, and reveals the high cost of these gear-shifting errors. It also provides you with tools to recognise and reorient your approach in similar situations. www.TechnologyofSuccess.com. *** "A book ALL present and future business executives should make required reading for ALL their department heads." - George A. Naddaff, Founder, Boston Market *** "A thought-provoking guide to the dynamic process of leading in the modern workplace-even when you are simply leading yourself to higher levels of performance." - Greg Horn, Founder, CEO, GNC

For fifteen years, Susan Ford Collins shadowed successful people from all walks of life and discovered ten skills they were using consistently but unconsciously. In this must-read guide to personal satisfaction and fulfillment, Susan outlines each skill and provides easy-to-learn methods for putting it to use. Whether readers are changing jobs or relationships, starting or managing companies or families, these ten skills will guide them to success.

WHY DO THE BEST RUN COMPANIES OFTEN HAVE THE HARDEST TIME GROWING? Are you running a highly successful company that just doesn't seem to be growing? You may be so operationally focused that you've ignored one of the most important aspects of an expanding business--working from a market-based perspective. In The Growth Gears, Art Saxby and Pete Hayes share their linear method of transforming into a market-focused organization. This book provides a simple framework as well as tools and action steps for identifying and adding these "gears" to give your company a set of repeatable behaviors and processes to fully capitalize on your market potential. Pete and Art bring their years of executive marketing experience, and their years of building a national management consulting firm, to lead you from insight to strategy to execution. In these pages, you will learn how to: - Determine if your business is operationally oriented or market oriented - Identify opportunities for business growth - Understand why marketing execution is sometimes not effective - Assure ongoing market relevance - Increase the returns on your marketing programs Align your organization and your employees behind your market-focused initiatives to lead your organization to new levels of growth!

"Gear Up for Success" provides an overview to many evidence-based practices for teaching students with autism and helps educators tweak the delivery of those interventions based on the intensity of the student's needs, instructional group size, and changing circumstances.--Publisher.

Get in Gear: The Seven Gears that Drive Strategy to Results (978-0-367-47149-1, 335422) Shelving Guide: Business and Management/Leadership/Strategy Only 10% to 25% of organizations get it right when it comes to achieving the expected results from their strategic planning. This means 75% to 90% of them are leaving results on the table and wasting their time on things that don’t matter. Almost a decade ago, a major steel manufacturer approached Sean Ryan and his team to help them think through how to better convert strategy to results. This was the catalyst for the seven gears that translate strategy to results found in Strategy-Execution-Results (SXRTM). Why Gears? Gears transmit energy. The more aligned they are and the less friction in their chain, the better they function. Leaders can easily identify the gear creating the most friction and then take action to better align that gear with the strategy generating better results. This creates momentum to improve the alignment and performance of other gears. This approach also emphasizes the ways everyone in the organization has some influence over every gear. Based on Sean Ryan’s consulting and training with organizations from start-ups to the Fortune 100, he’s found that these performance gears drive better results. You’ll employ them to align your goals with your strategy, create visible scorecards to know whether or not you’re on track, and identify the critical behaviors and actions that will drive performance. Readers will use this book to point their efforts toward getting meaningful results from their strategy. As noted in the Harvard Business Review: "The prize for closing the strategy-performance gap is huge: increasing performance by at least 50% for most organizations." After moving beyond their initial amazement of just how misaligned they were, they’ll be able to quickly apply the seven gears to sell better and more, drive down costs, improve quality and safety, and recruit talent for the future. In addition, there’s nothing in this book that has not been applied in actual business settings. While companies could use the SXRTM Framework to overhaul their organization top to bottom, they’ll also appreciate that they don’t have to change everything at once to make progress. Upon understanding each of the gears and how to create Follow-up and Follow-through, they’ll be able to improve any gear to start seeing strategic outcomes. You’ve got it in Gear, now Stay in Gear. Join the Strategy-Execution-Results Community: www.wwici.com/Gearheads.

Transform your business idea into a high potential venture Big, bright and brilliant, Gear Up is an engaging and practical workbook for anyone looking to pursue a fresh business opportunity or grow an existing one. Developed at Harvard Business School and Stanford University, it's a bootcamp with clear, easy-to-follow steps to test your business idea, assess its potential and make it work! Based on a revolutionary 9-component framework, Gear Up offers entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, innovative executives and business students a toolkit to bring their ideas to life and transform them into high potential ventures. Gear Up offers a useable business tool for assessing the needs of a business idea and helps you create a plan of action to promote business success. By working through the chapters of the book, you get to create a winning strategy based on recommendations tried and tested by executives around the world. Gear Up offers: - A step by step guide to help you build a foundation for your business opportunity - Solid business framework formulated from entrepreneurs, academics and real life experience - A highly practical workbook with visual, full-colour design and compelling layout Gear Up also comes with educators' support materials available at gearupventures.com PowerPoint presentations with teaching notes Online course materials Course Schedule Evaluation Forms Certificate for students who complete the course Coming soon! - An innovative, interactive digital toolkit Gear Up Virtual Toolkit (powered by You Noodle): A digital platform where participants can present their enterprise idea, work through the framework, answering questions and get real-time feedback from their facilitator/educator. The tool will even generate a ready-made PowerPoint presentation at the end of the process! Gear Up Mobile App (powered by We Chat): This app allows students to answer questions from their lecturers or vote in real-time from their phones within the classroom. The app promotes student engagement and class participation.

Annotation Rakhit wants other engineers to avoid the considerable trouble he had understanding the art of gear heat treatment when he first embarked on a career in gear design and manufacturing. He explains how heat treating and gears made of some kinds of steel gives the gears high geometric accuracy, but can also distort them and raise the cost of manufacturing, so a gear engineer needs to excel in manufacturing, lubrication, life and failure analysis, and machine design as well as design. He presents a case history of each successful gear heat treatment process that provide information on the quality of gear that can be expected with the proper control of material and processes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Richard Wright is an extremely successful business leader of Wright Corporation and has been for decades. Success luckily seems to always find Richard, at least to the casual observer. Richard learns he is running out of time-he only has the afternoon to pass along a lifetime of business experience to his son, Jacob. "Jake, I never told you the story of how I learned to achieve success both in life and in business. The key is now in your hands. Love, Dad." The envelope has a curious address and contains an ancient and ornate key that Jacob has never seen before. Follow Jacob Wright as he encounters both deceptions and truths on his journey to fill the shoes of the most successful businessmen he has ever known. His father's last words take him on a crash course of 7 lessons he must learn to save the business his father built.As an Entrepreneur, there are 7 distinct arenas "gears" you must master for your business to be part of the 9% that not only survive but SUCCEED!

Why is this diet book different? Diets fail not because you don't know what or how much to eat. Diets fail because it takes 10 Diet Skills to overcome the challenges of changing old habits. Like it or not, we're all on a diet, whether that includes eating a bag of chips or an apple! The only question is... are you on a diet that will make you and your family sick, or make you well? The Miracle Diet is not just for 4 or 5 weeks. It's eating smart for the rest of your life! To make long term changes in your health and lifestyle, you need to use ALL10 skills. The Miracle Diet will teach you how and when! You can lose 10, 20, 50, 100 pounds or more. This book will empower you to lose weight and keep it off permanently! Everything you believe about dieting is about to change!

The greatest success authorities in the world share their most treasured success secrets. Each powerful lesson will bring you closer to your life’s goals: • How to conquer the ten most common causes of failure • How to make the most of your abilities • How to find the courage to take risks • How to stop putting things off • How to build your financial nest egg • How to look like a winner • How to take charge of your life • And much more in fifty memorable presentations by the greatest success authorities. Dean of this unique University of Success is Og Mandino, the most acclaimed self-help writer of this generation. The faculty he has assembled includes such celebrities as Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Dale Carnegie, W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill, George S. Clason, Nena and George O’Neil, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Michael Korda, Lord Beaverbrook, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and many more winners in life.