The Books

CONFIDENT SELLING (1970). The key to success is bringing out your best which means overcoming your resistance to self-confidence. The resistance disappears when you accept yourself as you are and others as you find them (no longer in print).

WORK WITHOUT MANAGERS (1990). It defines the sickness of organization, “corpocracy,” as the continuing dependence on management failing to recognize the power shift from managers to professional workers.

CONFIDENT SELLING FOR THE 90S & BEYOND (1992). The book deals with the new reality that everyone is in sales. The workplace as a fixed place of employment has disappeared, as has the conventional art of selling or the security of a single job in a career.

THE WORKER, ALONE! (1995). This is a survival manual for never getting fired, not by playing it safe, but by going against the grain of convention and taking charge of your career. Failure is not an option when you take control.

THE TABOO AGAINST BEING YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND (1996). To have a friend you must be a friend, starting with yourself. This means systematically reprogramming yourself to trust yourself first, last and always before anyone else.

SIX SILENT KILLERS (1998). Times have changed. Corporate restructuring has become the new reality. What is not obvious is the systematic silent destruction of disgruntled employees through passive behaviors until it is too late for damage control.

CORPORATE SIN (2000). The book deals with the failure of leaders to lead and workers to follow, resulting in leaderless leadership and dissonant workers. This is happening when corporate America is under global siege and needs a wake up call.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE COURTHOUSE (2003). This is a novel of Dr. Fisher’s youth written as a memoir. It deals with a community in the middle of America in the middle of the century when the world was at war and he was an eight-year-old boy.