From both an economic and monetary perspective, the United States is a house of cards: impressive on the outside, but a disaster waiting to happen beneath the surface. In a relatively short period of time, the country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor, the value of the dollar has declined, and manufacturing has given way to non-exportable services. While these and other issues could spell disaster for your financial well-being, the situation could also present unique opportunities - if you're prepared.

For more than a decade, seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but has helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt; too little savings; a declining dollar; and a lack of domestic manufacturing.

Here, Schiff provides you with an insightful examination of the structural weaknesses underlying this impending economic meltdown, and discusses how you can protect yourself during the difficult times that lie ahead. Using common-sense analysis, creative analogies, and easy-to-understand language, Schiff entertains as well as educates and outlines a specific three-step plan that will allow you to preserve wealth and protect the purchasing power of your savings.

Want to compete with the best of the best? Then hit the ground running. Here’s how.

The toughest job in business is taking over as a new leader. You have to quickly assess the situation, pull together a strong team, decide on a strategy, and inspire everyone to execute it.

The stakes for new leaders are even higher. Whether you’ve been brought on to fix something that’s broken, launch a product, move the company in a new direction, or head up a division, every new leader is under the gun to get up to speed and begin producing strong numbers— ASAP.

In Hit the Ground Running, Jason Jennings introduces us to America’s best performing new CEOs who pulled off the most impressive transformations of the decade. They doubled revenues, more than tripled earnings per share, and doubled their company’s net profit margins.

After interviewing and analyzing the stories of these top leaders, Jennings delivers their hard- earned, battle-tested strategies, which will inspire any new leader to take the helm and start delivering.

When Richard and Tim Smucker were appointed co-CEOs of The J. M. Smucker Company, they shared their strategy with everyone and got them on board with their mission. Since then, Smucker’s went on to dominate the markets and bring in billions of dollars of new business.

Mike McCallister, the CEO of a twenty-billion-dollar health-services giant, decided to stop pretending and publicly admit that health insurance is broken. Humana began to replace a crippled, complex, and confusing system with one that works and has more than tripled revenues, earnings, and share price since McCallister took over.

By processing change in bite-size pieces, Jeffrey Lorberbaum led Mohawk Industries through twenty successful acquisitions and turned his family’s carpet-making business into the largest flooring company in the world.

Filled with engaging stories and lessons from the cream of the crop, Hit the Ground Running will help new leaders at every level balance short- and long-term goals as well as the needs of shareholders, employees, customers, and the community

The Little Book that helps investors avoid big losses in an economic downturn

In the wake of falling stock and real estate prices, the American economy is poised for a decade-long bear market, so says Peter Schiff. After he accurately predicted the current market turmoil, savvy investors should pay attention--and start protecting their assets now, before the markets take their toll. The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets shows investors how to stay safe and stay liquid during economic downturns.

Using economic history as a guide, Schiff looks at the bear markets that followed the bull markets of the 1920s and 1960s to predict what the American economy will look like after it corrects for the tech and real estate bubbles of the 1990s and early 2000s. Combining financial, economic, and political perspectives, Schiff looks at what worked in those earlier bear markets and predicts what strategies are most likely to work over the next ten years. In the end, Schiff argues that the next decade will most closely resemble the 1970s, complete with inflation, rising interest rates, and soaring commodity prices. This reversal of trends will make past investment strategies obsolete and pose a challenge for investors trying to build and protect their wealth. Smart investing will always pay off; the key lies in using the best strategies for the market at hand. For investors who see the writing on the wall but don't know what to do about it, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets offers a timely, critical answer.

"Schiff was warning us about our fragile economic foundation long before the first cracks started to appear. There are plenty of market cheerleaders out there, but if you want advice from a market realist who has been proven right again and again, …. [listen to] this book."
  - Glenn Beck, host, The Glenn Beck Program

Two of Inc. Magazine’s hugely popular columnists show how small-business people can deal with all kinds of tricky situations

People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or specific rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, there’s a mentality that helps street-smart people solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. He calls it “the knack” and it has made all the difference to the eight successful start-ups of his career.

Brodsky explores this mind-set every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular column he co-writes with journalist and author Bo Burlingham (best known for his acclaimed book Small Giants). In both their column and now their audio book, they tell stories about real companies facing real challenges, and tell listeners how to apply “the knack” to their own businesses.

Brodsky and Burlingham offer essential advice such as:

• Follow the numbers—that’s the best way to spot problems before they become life threatening
• Keep focusing on your real goal--it’s amazingly easy to get sidetracked by secondary concerns
• Don’t get so close to the problem that you lose all perspective

For Anyone Looking for Success, Fulfillment, and a Fresh Start!

If you knew you couldn’t fail, what is the greatest thing you would dare to dream? Is the job you now have the one you’ve always wanted? Do you work with the kind of people you’d like to work with? As personal success expert Brian Tracy can attest, it’s not until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present that you can move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is possible for you. And it is possible.

In Reinvention, Brian Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can remake ourselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives. This unique, life-altering book gives readers an interactive series of exercises they can use to focus on what they really want for themselves, and :

• take control of their careers
• turn unexpected shakeups and turbulence into positive occasions for growth
• Dramatically improve their earning ability
• develop the self-confidence to take the kind of risks that lead to rapid advancement
• decide on and get the job they really want
• set clear goals for their lives • write resumes that get results
• determine their own salary range

Too many people assume the timeless principles of true leadership - of helping others achieve their full potential - don’t apply Monday through Friday during work hours or in any circumstance where a paycheck is involved.

In GREATER THAN YOURSELF, Stephen Farber proves them wrong: In this powerful and inspiring story, Farber shows that the goal of a genuine leader is to help others–teammates, employees, and colleagues–become more capable and confident and accomplished than they are themselves. Through the actions of a forward thinking and extraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys to achieving this: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and Replicate Yourself.

Filled with actionable principles and innovative ideas, GREATER THAN YOURSELF is perhaps the most powerful message today’s business leaders can learn.

In today's high-octane business world, you need all the advantages you can get. Success isn't just about making the right decisions or adopting smart strategies. Success also depends on knowing what's going on around you. As a business leader, imagine if you could almost always tell when people were lying to you, or if you could successfully persuade colleagues, workers, or bosses to always go along with your ideas.

The truth is, you can. All you need is the right knowledge and the basic human powers of perception. In Executive Power, author and PhD David Lieberman gives you the same techniques and strategies of persuasion that are used by the FBI, the U.S. military, mental health professionals, professional negotiators, and leading business executives from major corporations.

Loaded with carefully formulated psychological tactics that you can apply to any person or any situation, Executive Power gives you the ability to get what you need when you need it. More than just strategies or principles, these are solutions to your business problems that will give you a built-in advantage over the competition when you discover how to:

• Get back any customer you've lost
• Gain iron-clad loyalty from employees, customers, and clients
• Get any group of people to work together as a team
• Turn a lazy worker into a top producer
• Manage difficult employees with ease and grace
• Quickly soften the impact of negative publicity
• Collect money owed to you, no matter how long overdue
• Spot a bluff from a mile away
• Instantly resolve difficult personality conflicts

"With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year"

"What I am is a realist. I always knew I'd like what I'm doing. Oh, perhaps it would have been nice to be a major league baseball player, but that's where the realism comes in."

"If a graduating MBA were to ask me 'How do I get rich in a hurry?' I would not respond with quotations from Ben Franklin or Horatio Alger, but would instead, hold my nose with one hand and point with the other toward Wall Street."

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."

Over the years, as Warren Buffett's influence and affluence have grown, one thing has remained the same-his unpretentious, honest and optimistic approach toward business and life. Now you can discover life's little secrets of success as revealed by the world's greatest investor. In this wise and winning collection of quotes, writings and favorite sayings, Warren Buffett Speaks on diverse subjects such as investing, the Internet economy, family and friends, running a business, honesty, teaching, paying taxes, and much, much more. It also examines the thinking that prompted the second richest man in the world to give 85% of his wealth to the first richest couple (Bill and Melinda Gates) to distribute to charity.

Assembled by bestselling author Janet Lowe-and updated to reflect Buffett's life over the past decade, the audio book includes a wealth of previously unpublished material. This unprecedented peak into the financial genius's wildly profitable philosophy is often surprising, always intriguing, and sparked throughout by Buffett's unique combination of savvy business smarts and wry wit.

The world listens when Warren Buffett Speaks

"If people want to improve their investing skills, it has to help to study how the Master does it."
  - Peter S. Lynch, Vice Chairman, Fidelity Management & Research Company

"Common sense with a deft irony…"
  - John C. Bogle, Founder and Senior Chairman, The Vanguard Group

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.

Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take—from neither the left nor the right—on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audio books to come along in many years.

After a long climb to the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley - CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality - was rocked to his foundation by a dramatic economic downturn. His company was suddenly undercapitalized and overexposed in the post-dot.com, post 9/11 economy. This desperate situation made Conley reaffirm his belief in psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic concept of the Hierarchy of Needs and rely on Maslow's theory of human motivation to help his business flourish once more.

In Peak, Conley explores how Joie de Vivre - the second largest boutique hotelier in the world - overcame the storm that hit the travel industry by applying translations of Maslow's ideas to his company's winning business practices. Part memoir, part theory, and always practical, accessible, and engaging, Peak offers a behind-the-scenes look at Joe de Vivre's remarkable transformation.

Throughout this audiobook, Conley provides real-world examples from other companies including Google, Whole Foods Market, Harley-Davidson, and Southwest Airlines, and shows how anyone can bring similar changes to their own work and personal lives. Peak reveals the miracle of human potential and shows what can happen when employees live up to their full potential, customers are completely transformed by the experience they receive, and investors are fulfilled by leveraging the potential of their capital.

"Whether you’re a young person who hopes to live a healthy, vital, and happy life; an older person who is trying to age well and maintain your energy level and physical function; a stressed-out person yearning for balance; or someone with an acute or chronic illness that you’d like to address on all levels—body, mind, and spirit—this audio book can help you. It’s practical, easy to understand, and based on solid research that you can trust. Furthermore, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind is an inspiring exploration of what it means to be fully human—present in each moment with an open mind and an open heart. In the last analysis, that may be one of the best definitions of well-being and what it means to live your best life."
  - Andrew Weil, M.D., from the forward

Based on Dr. Borysenko’s pioneering work, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind continues to be a classic in its field—a time-tested program that can teach you how to take control of your own physical and emotional well-being. Learn how to release stress, cope with chronic pain, maximize immune function, and lead an awakened, mindful life. Fully updated and revised, this new edition is for anyone interested in taking an active role in self-healing and living a balanced life.

"An elegant and credible blend of modern psychology and medical science that allows us to get in touch with our higher self to experience the field of infinite possibilities and brings us healing and wholeness in our busy world."
  - Deepak Chopra, author of Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

We live in a culture that focuses on the "bad stuff". We're constantly bombarded with negative messages from the media, advertisers, politicians, and even the people around us. Worse yet, many of us are so critical of ourselves, that we're our worst enemies.

But help is on the way. Focus on the Good Stuff offers a plan for dispelling the cloud of negativity that surrounds us. Mike Robbins has created a powerful yet simple new approach for mastering the one thing we need most of all to achieve authentic happiness and be of service to others-that is, to practice the art of appreciation.

Appreciation allows you to improve your relationships, create greater success and fulfillment, and experience a deep sense of gratitude for yourself, for others, and for life itself.

Written by a former professional baseball player whose career was ended with an injury to his pitching arm in the middle of his third season, Focus on the Good Stuff is filled with passion, authenticity and humor. Author Mike Robbins offers a step-by-step program with exercises for overcoming negative influence and obstacles, creating a truly grateful approach to life, and establishing an environment that can support success and peace of mind.

"Mike Robbins' new voice and fresh perspective are powerful. I highly recommend this audio book."
  - Marianne Williamson, author, A Return to Love

In Speak to Win, Tracy tells you how to master the art of the winning speech — and use it to achieve your most impossible-seeming goals!

Phenomenally successful people know that speaking well can help them gain the respect of others, make them tremendously more valuable to their company, and get them positive, enthusiastic attention from influential people who can open important doors for their life and career. Your ability to confidently address an audience of any size or type is the key to supercharging your ascent up the ladder of life — not to mention that people who speak and present well are instantly and naturally assumed to be more talented and intelligent than those who don’t.

The art of speaking can be systematically learned — and if you have the desire, discipline, and determination — not to mention one of the world’s greatest presenters as your teacher — you too can become a persuasive and powerful speaker. Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large group of people. Learn how to:

• become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience
• grab people’s attention from the start
• use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged
• transition smoothly from one point to the next
• use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully
• deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas
• wrap up strongly and persuasively

Packed with proven strategies — and even including a special bonus chapter geared to making persuasive sales presentations — this powerful audio book will help you accelerate your career, earn people’s respect, and achieve your greatest goals.

Packed with more than 450 sample questions, this audio book gives job-seekers the guidance they need to get the job they want!

"The excellent book... includes a wealth of suggestions on how to walk out of an interview with a best offer."
  - Joyce Lain Kennedy, syndicated career columnist

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just walk into an employer’s office, sit down, relax, answer questions honestly—in short, "just be yourself" — and instantly get the job? Unfortunately, the real world doesn’t work like that. With people switching careers more and more often and the competition fierce for every position that becomes available, you’ve got to be primed for any question an interviewer may throw at you.

Packed with more than 450 sample questions, Acing the Interview gives you candid advice on answering even the trickiest and most unexpected interview questions. Written by the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best", this unique and powerful audio book helps you take charge of any interview situation. Having heard just about every conceivable interview question and answer since joining the placement and recruitment field in 1973, Tony Beshara knows firsthand what responses will get you hired. In this audio book, he arms you with the surefire answers that will keep you from getting weeded out from the large pool of eager applicants.

Acing the Interview helps prepare you for difficult—and sometimes even deceptively simple— questions, including:

• You really don’t have as much experience as we would like—why should we hire you?
• How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done?
• What do you consider most valuable—a high salary, job recognition, or advancement?

In addition, the audio book also arms you with many questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent you from making a big job mistake, such as:

• What would you say are the worst parts of this job?
• What are the major problems facing the company and this department?
• Why aren’t you promoting from within?