They are cutting employees (mostly from management), abolishing old hierarchies and opening up lines of communication and decision making from top to bottom. Businesses can't afford to lose good ideas in several layers of management, the competition is too tough.

In this changing environment, long-term positions disappear overnight, some people sink while others swim. But those who do the best are those who carry their value with them.

Opportunities for a self-management, self-starter have never been better. Your most valuable assets today are your abilities to use your mind...to access, communicate and creatively evaluate information. In a society in which the main commodity is becoming information, it's not your status that matters, but what you know and how quickly you can learn. As Churchill said " ...only the empires of the mind endure."

Because the information revolution is on now...because you must be an inventive self-leader to maintain your relevance in the workplace...because you need specific tools and techniques for maximizing your personal potential...because change is the only constant in our technology-driven world...because most assumptions you can make about the future are soon obsolete...

Denis Waitley has developed for you this revolutionary new program, Empires of the Mind. This program goes to the very heart of your life today, both professional and personal, and examines your prospects for the future. You'll learn how to discover and exploit your core passion-finding the skills you were born to develop and using them to increase your personal motivation, success and achievement.

Listen as one of the few true self-development legends tells you how to "fireproof" your career in today's volatile business climate while developing the qualities of personal integrity and sincerity necessary to lead others and to lead a personal life full of satisfaction.

You'll learn specific steps to develop your capabilities and confidence, such as:

* Ten ways to develop personal responsibility.

* Seven ways to enhance self-esteem.

* Ten action steps for identifying and pursuing your mission in life

* Seven essentials for building a winning team around you.

* Five strategies for conditioning new habits.

* Twelve pointers on developing healthy personal relationships.

The most exciting thing about the future is that it will be driven by creativity and inventiveness. You will need to live by your wits and abilities to listen and communicate.