Life is like a movie production and anyone can use Hollywood's secrets to achieve greater success. Star Power shares 12 of Hollywood's most powerful rules to guide us in writing, directing and performing the scenes of our lives with Oscar-winning flair.

Star Power uses examples from over 125 of Hollywood's finest actors and directors and dozens of great films, including:

• AMERICAN GRAFFITI
• BACK TO THE FUTURE
• BRAVEHEART
• BUTCH CASSIDY and the SUNDANCE KID
• CITY SLICKERS
• DIE HARD
• FIELD OF DREAMS
• IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
• JAWS
• JURASSIC PARK
• PATTON
• PRETTY WOMAN
• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
• ROCKY
• RUDY
• STAR WARS
• THE KARATE KID
• THE KING'S SPEECH
• THE TERMINATOR
• THE WIZARD OF OZ

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

As a corporate leadership development and training professional for the past twenty years, Jim Whelan has created and delivered many powerful programs to help attendees at all levels reach peak performance. Inspiring frontline team members and leaders alike, Jim is also a dynamic retreat leader and keynote speaker focused on personal and team performance in the areas of: Leadership, Strategic Planning, Customer Service, Coaching, Selling, Whole-Mind thinking, Team Problem solving and, of course, Star Power at Work Learn more at www.starpowerbook.com

Douglas Brode is a novelist, graphic novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film historian and multi-award-winning journalist. He teaches at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Television-Film-Digital Media, during the fall semesters and at the University of Texas, San Antonio, Department of Philosophy and Classics in the winter and spring. He has written for popular publications as varied as ROLLING STONE and TV GUIDE and academic journals including CINEASTE and TELEVISION QUARTERLY. Among his most recent books are ROD SERLING AND THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Barricade), DREAM WEST: POLITICS AND RELIGION IN COWBOY MOVIES (University of Texas Press, Austin), DRACULA'S DAUGHTERS: THE FEMALE VAMPIRE ON FILM (Scarecrow), and "PATSY " THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD (Sunbury).