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Big
Vision Small Business
by Jamie
S. Walters
Wow! We have a breakthrough in mindfulness and business! Big Vision,
Small Business: The Four Keys to Finding Success and Satisfaction as a Lifestyle
Entrepreneur, is a thought provoking new book that celebrates
the art - and power - of small. It is an inspiration and ''must read' for
every entrepreneur and small business owner. It is also "very large!"
It provides invaluable insight for every CEO and corporate executive on
the issues of personal success, satisfaction, balance, authenticity, integrity,
values, business growth and what is truly meaningful and important. |
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Managing
the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity, Vol.
1
by
Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
One of the great challenges any business or organization can face is how
to deal with the unexpected. The authors look to high reliability organizations
(HROs) -- aircraft carriers, nuclear power plants, firefighting crews, and
others -- for the answer. HROs have developed ways of acting that provide
a template for all organizations that want to be more reliable in managing
the unexpected. |
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Leading
High Impact Teams: The Coach Approach to Peak Performance
by
Cynder Niemela and Rachael Lewis
Coaching
is a recent phenomenon in American business that is producing startling
and dramatic results. From employees and bosses struggling with the pace
of change in a shifting economy to companies grappling to meet demands from
market forces that they can no longer predict, all are finding that coaching
is the competitive advantage they need to stay ahead of the curve. |
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Good
to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
For six years, Jim Collins and his 21-member research team studied 1,435
organizations to identify great business practices of organizations that
continuously increased profitability and had global competition. His research
provides several strategies that have helped organizations make the leap
from good to great and will certainly be included the business courses that
I teach. (Reviewed by Freda Turner.) |
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Whoosh
Business in the Fast Lane
by
Tom McGehee
McGehee uses Whoosh to define a management structure
that fosters innovation and growth for start ups as well as established
corporations by removing some of the barriers of decision making and control
of information for all workers. |
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No
Feet In Concrete Breaks the Mold of Conventional Management
by John F.
Boogaert
It is becoming increasingly impossible to be a successful manager using
the same old attitudes, ideas and management strategies. No Feet in Concrete:
Leadership in an Entrepreneurial World is a must read for anyone wanting
to break out of the "management mold" and become a leader in today's rapidly
changing world. |
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The
War for Talent
by
Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod
Fortified by five years of in-depth research on how companies manage leadership
talent -- including surveys of 13,000 executives at more than 120 companies
and case studies of 27 leading companies -- the authors propose a fundamentally
new approach to talent management. |
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Filling
the Glass - The Skeptics Guide to Positive Thinking in Business
by Barry Maher
Barry
Maher doesn't agonize over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty,
his stated mission with this book is to tell us how to fill the other half
of the glass. (Reviewed by Ian Bullock.) |
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Here
Today, Here Tomorrow - Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to
High-Retention
by Gregory
P. Smith
Gregory
P. Smith provides numerous suggestions on ways to turn an average organization
into a highly productive, low-turnover environment where managers can focus
on productivity - not recruiting and replacing an endless stream of workers.
This book is a must read for all managers, coaches and HR personnel interested
in strategic growth and higher productivity. (Reviewed by Freda Turner.) |
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The
Healthy Scorecard: How to Build Balanced Scorecards That Employees and Investors
Will Love!
by Danielle
Pratt
Danielle Pratt makes a compelling business case for linking employee health
to organizational performance. It's not a technical book about employee
health and safety. It's a practical management book about sustainable high performance. You will definitely get the link between employee health
and business strategy. |
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Customer Winback
by Jill Griffin and Michael Lowenstein
In this ground breaking book, Jill Griffin and Michael Lowenstein provide you
with step-by-step solutions for winning back lost customers, saving customers
on the brink of defection, and making your firm defection proof.
It includes the techniques of hundreds of innovative companies who are already
working to recapture lost customers and keep them loyal. In today's hyper-competitive
marketplace, no customer retention program can be enitrely foolproof, but
this guide gives you today's best methods for winning back those customers
you simply can't afford to let go. |
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Toward
Rational Exuberance - The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
reviewed
by Ian Bullock
Mark Smith's research transforms what might otherwise appear to be a dry treatment
of historical fact into a fascinating narrative replete with cameo biographies
of the colorful personalities that have both brought about, or caused the
stock market to evolve from being a primitive insider's game to becoming the
economic force that it is at the present time affecting a large proportion
of the population, both directly or indirectly. |
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Taming the Dragons:
50 Essays from the Corporate World
by Paula Gamonal
Powerful and seemingly unpredictable forces compel firms and professionals toward failure or success. Here are 50 ideas you can use to get the “Dragons” to work on YOUR side. |
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Please
Don't Just Do What I Tell You! Do What Needs to Be Done
by
Bob Nelson
Bob Nelson maps out a specific and easy-to-follow strategy for fulfilling
what he calls "The Ultimate Expectation" at every workplace: that people will
use their best judgment to figure out what needs to be done and then do it
without having to be told. |
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Leadership
Ensemble:
Lessons in Collaborative Management from the World's Only Conductorless
Orchestra
by Harvey Seifter
and Peter Economy
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has earned rave reviews as one of the premier
musical ensembles in the world. Recently, it has also attracted the attention
and admiration of the corporate world. As the only major orchestra that rehearses,
performs, and records without a conductor, Orpheus is a shining example of
a new management style based on collaborative leadership. |
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Breakthrough Teams for Breakneck Times:
Unlocking the Genius of Creative Collaboration
by Lisa Gundry and Laurie LaMantia
Breakthrough Teams for Breakneck Times presents a proven process for organizations to build teams that go beyond surviving to thriving. Whether a team's goal is charitable fund-raising or new product development, the book outlines 10 essential principles applicable to all teams. |
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Creative
Destruction - Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the
Market -- and How to Successfully Transform Them
by
Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan
Turning conventional
wisdom on its head, a Senior Partner and an Innovation Specialist from McKinsey
& Company debunk the myth that high-octane, built-to-last companies can continue
to excel year after year -- and reveal the dynamic strategies of discontinuity
and creative destruction these corporations must adopt in order to maintain
excellence and remain competitive. |
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Red Zone Management
by Winford E. (Dutch) Holland, Ph.D.
Red Zone Management is a down-to-earth explanation of why so many organizations, faced with making a step change to reach the next level, fall flat on their faces and end up in worse shape than they were before. Organizations that "fumble the ball" in the red zone often see momentum swing to their competition, leading to potentially irrecoverable losses. This book will help an organization's leaders recognize the red zone--and play to win. (John D'Angelo.) |
