The Leadership Mind is one of the best books on leadership that will add growth, maturity and profound ideals to your thinking and professional development. Also, you will understand the importance of a leadership team and developing other leaders. If you read this book and apply what you learn, will you be a better leader? The answer is a resounding "yes." Therefore, endeavor to make the great principles and ideals a practical power in turning your leadership 180 degrees in a new direction. You can count on improved results if you use this book to guide your actions. As you think, so will your leadership be. If you are looking for an informative and practical book on how to become a quality leader, then you must explore the pages within these covers.

I am a left-handed Scorpio, born in 1930 when my parents were 44 years old. I grew up in the New York City borough of the Bronx, in a neighborhoof known as Belmont "Little Italy." Our neighborhood included the Bronx Zoo, Arthur Avenue and Fordham University. My home away-from-home was Jerry's candy store on 183rd street between Beaumont and Cambrelling Avenue. I went to St. Martin of Tours parochial grammar school and Fordham Prep and De Witt Clinton High Schools. My story includes anecdotes about Nuns, the Paramount Theatre in New York. the northeast blackout of 1965, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Eucharistic Miracle in Lanciano, Italy and the secret history of Italian evacuation and internment in World War II. It is a tour down Memory Lane over the past 80 years covering my life as a child, a teenager and a young man preparing for lifes trials. It starts with my being drafted into the Army in 1951 and relates my experiences at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas and Korea where I experienced "my worst nightmare." It reflects on my life including separate business careers, 30 years in the magazine business at McCall's, the Curtis Publishing Company and Esquire Magazine; and 10 years in the printing industry. It speaks about the benefits I derived from taking and teaching the Dale Carnegie Course. My memoir highlights family tradition and relationships and offers readers an opportunity to travel with us abroad and on our road trips across the United States which have covered more than 400,000 miles. Since I retired at 62, I am blessed to have enjoyed the leisure lifestyle for more than 17 years. The journey in this book will make the reader feel like a good friend or a relative. Maybe you are?

When you become a better negotiator, you'll earn more money, help your company achieve its goals and enjoy a more fulfilling personal life.

Author Dell Wright, a successful CEO, provides the sharp focus you need to enhance your negotiation skills. With his guidance, you'll engage in real negotiation, and learn the strategies you need to turn a "no" into a "yes." It starts with recognizing "The Power of Negotiation."

Get ready to discover how to

apply the "principled negotiation" method, developed at Harvard University;

avoid the five mistakes that people make when negotiating;

recognize the four types of negotiating outcomes.

Focus on the most important guideline of negotiation: to be fair. It's imperative that you ensure fairness so that each side comes out with a "win." What's the use to negotiating or being a negotiator if you only intend to benefit yourself?

Regardless of what you do for a living, you need to negotiate to get what you want while also helping others. The strategies in this guidebook provide the help and confidence you need to be a better negotiator.

With its unique features (presented in nine chapters grouped into five major parts), Automated Fare Collection System And Urban Public Transit: An Economic & Management Approach To Urban Transit Systems provides a wealth of resourceful information to everyone with interest in mass transit: Part I: Public Transportation, Urban Economy And Automation in Fare Collection Part II: Models of Transportation Pricing Part III: Transportation Research Methods And Models Part IV: Approaches And Trends in Urban Transit Ridership Part V: Epilogue In these parts of the book, Clifford N. Opurum reveals the impact of the automated fare collection system on mass transit and particularly, on the New York City rail rapid transit system. Various effective urban public transportation pricing techniques are presented. Transportation research methods and models including the alogit model and different approaches to transportation research analysis are featured. Alternative scenarios of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) are used extensively along with other feasibility studies strategies to determine the economic and social benefits of the automated fare collection system. The author concludes that as in the case of other industrial sectors, the financial health of the transit industry is very much dependent upon the level of transit patronage, and that automation in fare collection has further encouraged the later. Furthermore, he added that automated fare collection (AFC) is preferred over the mechanical system of fare collection and will make positive impact on both transit ridership and revenue, if efficiently operated. Finally, he stressed that society would be better off financially if the benefits of automation in transit fare collection are fully utilized, and that automation in fare collection has in deed influenced the travel pattern of most mass transit patrons.