Charming Your Way to the Top: Hollywood’s Premier P.R. Executive Shows You How to Get Ahead by Michael Levine; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Lloyd James

Charm is good business. It can increase your income, boost your status, and establish and maintain your reputation. Most businesspeople don't fully understand the concept of charm. It ought to be a reflex when dealing with customers, clients, associates, and employees-but it isn't.

Charm is only partly innate. Much of it is learned, from your parents, from your friends, and from people like author Michael Levine, who have made a lifelong point of paying attention to charm. And you can learn how to make it work for you. How to succeed in business with really trying? By charming your way to the top.

“In the Missouri Ozarks, when anybody is able to reduce profound complexity to pithy, pertinent shirt-sleeved English—as Michael Levine does—it’s said, ‘He has a gift for shucking right down to the cob.’ I’m glad Michael Levine labors on the side of propriety; he’d be a formidable adversary.”—Paul Harvey, syndicated radio commentator

“Those of us in politics need all the wisdom we can get, and Michael Levine has plenty of it.”—Senator Bob Dole, former Senate majority leader

“Some people can be wise, and some can be clever. Michael Levine is blessed with the ability to be both.”—Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Michael Levine is the author of eleven books, including Guerilla P.R., the world’s most widely used introduction to public relations. His essays have been featured in the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Hollywood Reporter, and USA Today. He hosts Inside Out with Michael Levine on KRLA, and he is the founder and owner of Levine Communications, based in Los Angeles.

Lloyd James has been narrating since 1996, has recorded over five hundred books in almost every genre, has earned six AudioFile Earphones Awards, and is a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. His bestselling and most critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley, Jr., Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitskin, and Mystic Warrior by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Lloyd's background as a performer includes extensive work in classical theater and folk music. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.