Power Steps: 10 Principles of Success

If you want to be a better person, make more money, fly an airplane, open a store, invent a new product, provide a service, start a company or give a great speech, then this book is for you. It shows how you can harness the power within you, in order to release the gifts God has given you at birth and do great things. So what are these ten principles that offer so much promise and hope for people? Simply stated they are vision, belief, competence, concentration, confidence, enthusiasm, energy, self-talk, spirituality, and action. All are words you have heard before and you know their meanings. However, what you may not know is how to activate the power in each word to be useful to you in achieving the goals you set for yourself. Yes, there is more to each word than the dictionary definition. The power of the words lies in the indepth understanding of them as principles for achieving success

Percy W. Thomas, Sc.D., is the president of Success Behavior Institute in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Thomas is a contributing author of the book Valuing Diversity: New Tools for a New Reality. He has developed and implemented training programs on leadership, success, motivation, achieving excellence, multicultural workforce practice, diversity management, management principles and basic supervisory practices. He has assisted federal agencies, and corporations in strategic planning, organizational development, managing change, and in developing their human resources. He created the Cultural Rapport Process which is a theoretical framework for providing executive coaching, focus group research, qualitative organizational climate assessments, and program evaluations. Dr. Thomas has also conducted extensive research on innercity juvenile gangs. He holds faculty appointments in the internationally recognized Leadership Development Program at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University's Community College Doctoral Leadership Program, and Sojourner-Douglass College.