Wrestling with Success: Developing a Championship Mentality »

NIKITA KOLOFF is a retired former World Heavyweight Champion wrestler and motivational speaker who delivers hundreds of professional addresses to companies and individuals annually.

JEFFREY H. GITOMER is a leading authority on sales and customer service whose clients include IBM, AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Hilton Hotels, among others. He is also the author of the syndicated weekly newspaper column Sales Moves, and author of the bestselling book The Sales Bible, also available from Wiley.

Who’s your most dangerous opponent in the quest for success? You. But don’t worry, former World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Nikita Koloff is in your corner. He’s here to coach you, hold-by-hold, through the toughest match of your life, and to make sure that you come out on top.

You don’t have to be a wrestler to succeed, but you do have to wrestle–with your self-discipline and desires, with your passions and attitude, with your beliefs and spirituality. Nikita shows you how.

This book is not about professional wrestling–it’s way better than that! Sure, there are plenty of behind-the-scenes stories from the wild, surreal world of pro wrestling, but Nikita shows you how you can learn from these stories and examples and use them to build your own success.

He shows you how to:

• Set goals that you can achieve
• Develop mental toughness
• Use your emotional sensitivity the right way
• Take smart risks
• Make your success a predetermined outcome
• And a whole lot more

In case you’re not willing to take just his word for it, Nikita presents the personal stories of other high achievers to help you attain your ultimate success, no matter how you define it. He shares the ring with his good friend Jeffrey Gitomer, who gives you thebenefit of the insights and principles that have made him one of the world’s top salesmen.

Make no mistake, your life is a championship match, and you are both the challenger and the challenged. But here’s the cool part: If you work hard, follow the step-by-step lessons you’ll learn in Wrestling with Success, and keep your eyes on the prize–you’ll win!