Good thinking. It's the one thing all successful people have in common. People who achieve their dreams understand the critical relationship between their level of thinking and their level of progress, and they know that when thinking is limited, so is potential. Now, John C. Maxwell explores the idea and identifies the specific skills people need to make their potential for success explode into reality. From focused and creative thinking to thinking for the big picture and the bottom line, he provides examples of effective thinking for every situation. This audiobook doesn't tell listeners what to think, it teaches them how to think. After all, success is as simple as changing your mind.
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This is a story of a young man whose ideas for Halo Shampoo, a new cologne for Speidel, a different approach to Coca Cola's Fresca, and a new cigarette from P. Lorillard, bring him from obscurity to creative director of a major advertising agency.
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Includes profiles of Bill Bowerman (Nike Co-founder), Walt Disney (animator), Oprah Winfrey (media innovator), Andrew Carnegie (industrialist), Katharine Graham (publisher), James Morgan (chief executive officer of Applied Materials), Carly Fiorina (chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard), Mary Kay Ash (founder of Mary Kay cosmetics), Dale Carnegie (self-help pioneer), David Stern (NBA commissioner), Sam Walton (Wal-Mart founder), Thomas Golisano (chief executive officer of Paychex), Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's), Brownie Wise (of Tupperware), Charles Tandy (chairman of Tandy), Charles R. Walgreen (founder of Walgreen Co.), Sheryl Leach (creator of "Barney"), A.P. Giannini (of Bank of America), William Wrigley, Jr.^ (founder of Wrigley Co.), Nancy Brinker (organizer), Billiam Boeing (aviation pioneer), Michael Barrington (founder of AmeriCredit), Jen-Hsun Huang (of Nvidia), Daisy Braxton (entrepreneur), Charles Mathewson (chairman of International Game Technology), MIchael Birch (chief executive officer of Tellabs), Konosuke Matsushita (founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.), John H. Johnson (founder of Johnson Publishing), Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus (of Home Depot), Scott Kriens (chief executive officer of Juniper Networks), Ann Fudge (of Kraft Foods), Robert Woodruff (of Coca-Cola), Michael Dell (founder of Dell Computer Corp.), Jorma Ollila (of Nokia), Jeffrey Bleustein (of Harley-Davidson), Joan Ganz Cooney (creator of Sesame Street), Alfred P. West, Jr. (of SEI Investments), Meg Whitman (of eBay), Steve Case (of American On Line), Mickey Drexler (of Gap, Inc.), Howard Schultz (of Starbucks Corp.), Linda Sanford (of IBM), David Gold (of 99 Cents Only Stores), Madame D.J.^ Walker (cosmetics entrepreneur), David Ogilvy (founder of Ogilvy & Mather), John Chambers (chief executive officer of Cisco Systems), Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay), Ole and Bess Evinrude (founders of Outboard Marine Corp.), W. Edwards Deming (statistician), Coco Chanel (fashion designer), Joseph C. Wilson (of Xerox), John Mauchly (co-inventor of ENIAC and Univac), Howard Head (inventor), Robert Noyce (Intel co-founder), Jack Welch (chief executive officer of General Electric).
Thinking for a change by John C. Maxwell | Literally Just Books
