If Oprah can do it, so can you! A roadmap to personal and professional success by following in the footsteps of the “Queen of all Media.” We all know Oprah as the most influential woman in America but do we really know the habits she employed to achieve such success? In O’Habits: 40 Success Habits of Oprah Winfrey and the One Bad Habit She Needs to Stop!, Warren Cassell examines 40 habits that he explains catapulted Oprah to the top of the success mountain while referring to stories from and about Oprah. Whether you are a lawyer, teacher, entrepreneur, or salesman, you too can enjoy a level of success and happiness in business and in life once you adopt these habits. Warren also suggests that Oprah is bound to remain number one for the rest of her life provided that she shelves what he refers to as her one bad habit. In integrating the wisdom of Oprah with disciplines of business management, sales psychology, and personal achievement analysis, O’Habits appeals to both the male and female reader.

Taking the novel position of dealing with law, classical rhetoric and feminism concurrently, this book considers the effects of beliefs about language on those who attempt to theorize about and use law to accomplish practical and political purposes. The author employs Aristotle's terminology to analyze economic and literary schools of thought in the US legal academy, noting the implicit language theory underlying claims by major thinkers in each school about the nature of law and its relationship to justice. The underlying assumption is that, as law can only work through language, beliefs about its relationship to justice are determined by assumptions about the nature of language. In addition, the author provides an alternative, feminist rhetoric that, being focused on the production of texts rather than their interpretation, offers a practical ethic of intervention.

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be. After examining the careers of more than a thousand star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, and conducting more than two hundred frank interviews, Groysberg comes to a striking conclusion: star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance. Their earlier excellence appears to have depended heavily on their former firms' general and proprietary resources, organizational cultures, networks, and colleagues. There are a few exceptions, such as stars who move with their teams and stars who switch to better firms. Female stars also perform better after changing jobs than their male counterparts do. But most stars who switch firms turn out to be meteors, quickly losing luster in their new settings. Groysberg also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars. Finally, the book examines how its findings apply to many other occupations, from general managers to football players. Chasing Stars offers profound insights into the fundamental nature of outstanding performance. It also offers practical guidance to individuals on how to manage their careers strategically, and to companies on how to identify, develop, and keep talent.