Have you been brainwashed to believe that acquiring the material trappings of success will lead to emotional fulfillment? Do you find it difficult to lead a gratifying life in this commercial, brand-name-focused world? Have you ever been seduced into thinking that too much of one thing isn't enough? Don't get caught up in this dangerous success trap. Instead of fulfilling your dreams, it'll leave you feeling empty -- and often betrayed. In Beating the Success Trap, leading negotiation expert and motivational speaker Ed Brodow shares his vision for how you can live a significant, rewarding life: His formula for success is success on your own terms.
One of the first major works to challenge traditional notions of success, Beating the Success Trap explains how to:
<ul>
<li>Redefine success to coincide with your own temperament and preferences</li>
<li>Overcome your fears about making constructive changes in your life</li>
<li>Defeat the abusive voice inside your head that wants you to feel like a failure</li>
<li>Reevaluate your life and reconnect with your passion and enthusiasm</li>
<li>Create the life you've always wanted</li>
</ul>
Brodow argues that it doesn't matter how much you earn, how much you possess, or how many trophies you have won. To be truly successful is to be able to say: "I spend my time doing what is meaningful to me."
You will learn why:
<ul>
<li>Failure is often better than success</li>
<li>Many people are happier without fame and fortune</li>
<li>Getting fired can be the best thing that ever happened to you</li>
<li>Changing careers is good for you</li>
<li>Following your bliss is better than following the herd</li>
</ul>
Brodow has taken the skills of business negotiation, amplified by his and others' personal experiences, and translated them into the tools people need to maximize their quality of life. Beating the Success Trap will help you attract the lifestyle that will make you truly content with your self, your life, and your place in the world.

Beating the Success Trap: Negotiating for the Life You Really Want and the Rewards You Deserve

Business & Money

Brodow, Ed

Job Hunting & Careers

WilliamMr

Invites readers to redefine traditional beliefs about success, linking success misperceptions to trends in depression, substance abuse, and violence and explaining how to refocus one's personal energy in order to achieve a satisfying career and lifestyle based on true needs. Reprint.

Collins

We find ourselves engaged in various kinds of negotiations every day, from trying to land a new account or win a promotion at work, to buying a house or a car, or bargaining down a cell phone bill, or settling a dispute with a friend or spouse. In this groundbreaking book, negotiation expert Ed Brodow shows us how to settle conflicts amicably to reach a win-win solution every time. Using the no-nonsense, results-oriented boot camp approach, Brodow drills readers on the basic skills needed to master the art of negotiation. After completing Brodow’s basic training program, you will have learned how to: • Conquer your fear of confrontation and overcome the negative behaviors that hold you back • Identify and develop your personal negotiation style • Assess the other side’s strengths and weaknesses • Get the other side to make concessions without giving up any of your goals • Master the art of listening to understand the other side’s position and strengthen your own • Avoid getting sidetracked by personal or emotional issues • Create an atmosphere of trust in which the other party is a collaborator rather than a competitor • Break through impasses and close the deal Using a wealth of examples from real-life encounters, Brodow demonstrates how to negotiate for things most readers never knew were negotiable, such as department store purchases, medical costs, loan rates, phone bills, and credit card fees. He reveals how to develop the skills and the confidence each of us need to negotiate successfully, and achieve our goals at work and in our personal lives.

Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals

Management & Leadership

Crown Business

We find ourselves engaged in various kinds of negotiations every day, from trying to land a new account or win a promotion at work, to buying a house or a car, or bargaining down a cell phone bill, or settling a dispute with a friend or spouse. In this groundbreaking book, negotiation expert Ed Brodow shows us how to settle conflicts amicably to reach a win-win solution every time. Taking a page from the Marines’ Parris Island Boot Camp, Brodow drills listeners on the basic skills needed to master the art of negotiation. After completing Brodow’s basic training program, you will have learned how to: Conquer your fear of confrontation and overcome the negative behaviors that hold you back Identify and develop your personal negotiation style Assess the other side’s strengths and weaknesses Get the other side to make concessions without giving up any of your goals Master the art of listening to understand the other side’s position and strengthen your own Avoid getting sidetracked by personal or emotional issues Create an atmosphere of trust in which the other party is a collaborator rather than a competitor Break through impasses and close the deal Using a wealth of examples from real-life encounters, Brodow demonstrates how to negotiate for things most listeners never knew were negotiable, such as department store purchases, medical costs, loan rates, phone bills, and credit card fees. He shows how to develop the skills and the confidence each of us need to negotiate successfully, and achieve our goals at work and in our personal lives.

Random House Audio |

Negotiation expert Ed Brodow, creator of the acclaimed Negotiation Boot Camp® Seminars, arms us with the same proven strategies and tactics he teaches to the professional negotiators at Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, The Hartford, Learjet, Novartis, McKinsey, Starbucks, the IRS and the Pentagon. Using a wealth of examples from real-life encounters, Brodow reveals how to develop the skills and the confidence you need to achieve your goals at work and in your personal life. After completing Brodow’s basic training program, you will have learned how to: • Conquer your fear of confrontation and overcome the negative behaviors that hold you back. • Identify and develop your personal negotiation style. • Assess the other side’s strengths and weaknesses. • Get the other side to make concessions without giving up any of your goals. • Master the art of listening to understand the other side’s position and strengthen your own. • Avoid getting sidetracked by personal or emotional issues. • Create an atmosphere of trust in which the other party is a collaborator rather than a competitor. • Break through impasses and close the deal. "Negotiation Boot Camp shows us how to succeed not just in negotiations but also in life itself. This is a must-read." HARVEY PITT—SEC Chairman "Readers will find that Brodow's tactics get the job done." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "The most straightforward, real world and useful advice on negotiation out there!" ANTOINETTE RODRIGUEZ—CEO of MarFi Advisors "Buy it, read it regularly and do not lend it!" REG NORDMAN—Managing Director, Rocket Builder "This is THE BOOK for career women who have any trepidation about negotiation." MARJORIE BRODY—author of Career Magic: A Woman's Guide to Reward and Recognition "If you're looking for real-world, practical strategies and answers, look no further than this book." JEFFREY GITOMER—author of The Sales Bible

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ARE YOU CAUGHT IN THE SUCCESS TRAP? Leading negotiation expert Ed Brodow says that millions of Americans who have acquired all the "things" -- money, fame, status and power -- do not feel successful. They are victims of the success trap. With insight, humor and self-revelation, Brodow challenges our toxic definition of success and shares his vision for how you can live a rewarding life. Beating the Success Trap explains how to: Redefine success to coincide with your own temperament and preferencesOvercome your fears about making constructive changes in your lifeDefeat the abusive voice inside you that wants you to feel like a failureReevaluate your life and reconnect with your passion and enthusiasmCreate the life you've always wanted It doesn't matter how much you earn, how much you possess, or how many trophies you have won. To be truly successful is to be able to say: ''I spend my time doing what is meaningful to me.'' Brodow demonstrates that: Fame and fortune can lead to addictions and violenceGetting fired may be the solution to your problemsYour body has a built-in tool for discovering true successIt is never too late to make radical changes to your lifestyleThe only real way to succeed is your way By absorbing Brodow's rule breaking ideas, you will learn the skills for negotiating with -- or against -- the system in order to secure the career and lifestyle of your dreams. Beating the Success Trap is the first step to dealing with the question: If I feel discontented with my life, why don't I do something about it?   Beating the Success Trap makes an excellent graduation gift book! Website: successchange.com

Beating the Success Trap: Negotiating Your Own Path to Success

Self-Help

Success

The author of the political thriller 'Fixer' has created a page-turning quartet of short novels about ordinary people faced with life-and-death struggles. 'Women From Venus' is the story of psychologist Robert Elgar, whose career as a debunker of alien kidnappings is sabotaged when a beautiful abductee accuses him of rape. 'The Man Who Could Not Make Up His Mind' is a hilarious satire about love among New York's upper crust. 'The Stamp' follows ex-marine Tommy Courten as he tracks his sister's psychopathic killer to a remote South American jungle. In 'I'll Take Manhattan,' the members of an Indian tribe offer proof that they are the rightful owners of Manhattan Island and they want it back. Awarded the 2012 Wolterding Prize for Fiction. "Brodow has a way of drawing the reader into his fiction world without any chance of release until the very last page is reached. His novels are fascinating, suspenseful and the perfect solution for a winter weekend in front of the fire!" Brenda Ballard/Readers Favorite

Women From Venus

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Can America Be Saved?We are engaged in an ideological war for the future of America. The Left, led by radical minority interests, is bent on destroying what remains of American values after eight years of Obama. TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY exposes the Left's campaign to take America down:Expanding government at the expense of individual rights.Replacing free speech with political correctness.Destroying the American economy by redistributing income.Opening the borders to Stone Age people who want to kill us.Reversing the achievements of the civil rights movement by dividing the nation into racial and ethnic enclaves under the guise of "diversity" and "social justice."Forcing college students to accept the Left's racist agenda.The American Left and its senior partners, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, want to turn the United States into Venezuela. Will they succeed? Read TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY.

Tyranny of the Minority: How the Left is Destroying America

Legal Theory & Systems

What politicians and the media don't want you to know. Millions of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum are angry and fed up with being lied to by politicians and the media. The emergence of “outsider” presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is proof that people are sick and tired of Washington’s culture of deception. Thumbing his nose at political correctness, negotiation expert and political commentator Ed Brodow exposes the outrageous lies that have been disseminated about the most important issues of our time. He tells the uncensored truth about the threat of Islamic extremism, global warming, the welfare entitlement system, Obamacare, racial tension and other important things that our elected representatives don’t want you to know. If you vote in national elections, the candor of In Lies We Trust will help you make decisions based on facts instead of misinformation.

In Lies We Trust: How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Post Hill Press

A civil war is raging in America between conservatives and progressive liberals. This war of ideologies pits neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and wife against husband. Which side will win? What will our nation look like when the war is over? Ed Brodow's penetrating essays explain why a conservative victory is better for Americans. He unmasks these issues: * The dangers of socialism and big government. * The Left's assault on free speech and individual rights. * Why the Democratic Party wants open borders. * Leftist brainwashing of college students. * The truth behind climate hysteria. * The diversity scam. Obama tried to remake America into a leftist nation. NOW IT IS TRUMP'S TURN!

Trump's Turn: Winning the New Civil War

Independently published

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Beating the Success Trap: Negotiating for the Life You Really Want and the Rewards You Deserve

Beating the Success Trap: Negotiating for the Life You Really Want and the Rewards You Deserve

Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals

Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals

Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals

Beating the Success Trap: Negotiating Your Own Path to Success

Women From Venus

Tyranny of the Minority: How the Left is Destroying America

In Lies We Trust: How Politicians and the Media Are Deceiving the American Public

Trump's Turn: Winning the New Civil War