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Bull's
Eye Investing - Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke & Mirrors Market - by John Mauldin
reviewed
by Ian Bullock
What worked
during the 1980s and 1990s won't work over the coming decade. An investment
return relative to the market may have been satisfactory back then, but
in today's market we have to focus on absolute returns, and that is the
essence of Bull's Eye Investing. This is one of
the most comprehensive analysis of the markets and the new bible for investors
for the next decade and beyond, and one of the best business books of all
time! |
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The
Feiner Points of Leadership: The 50 Basic Laws That Will Make People
Want to Perform Better for You
by Michael
Feiner
Most people think that you can't learn leadership like you can learn arithmetic.
You're either a born leader or you have to earn leadership through decades
of experience. But as teacher of "High-Performance Leadership", one of the
most popular classes at Columbia Graduate School of Business, Feiner passionately
believes that anyone can learn leadership. In The Feiner Points of Leadership,
fifty laws of leadership based on Feiner's twenty years of experience at
Pepsi-Cola show anyone how to lead effectively in almost any situation. |
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Leadership
Chronicles of a Corporate Sage:
Five Keys to Becoming a More Effective Leader
by Susan
J. Bethanis
Focused on the real-life reflections and struggles of Max Sinclair - a composite
of the author's own corporate clients - the book is based on actual coaching
conversations with executives. Dr. Bethanis, the story's coach and narrator,
offers Max timely questions and insights in a simple, yet ingenious way,
showing readers five keys to becoming corporate sages. |
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Leadership
Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break
a Leader
by David
L. Dotlich, Norman Walker and James L. Noel
This book lays out thirteen specific “leadership passages” based on research,
interviews, and coaching of senior executives in many well-known companies.
For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes
a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from
the challenge. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques
to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable
leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of
leadership passages to grow talent. |
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The
Art of Winning Commitment, the: 10 Ways Leaders Can Engage Minds, Hearts,
and Spirits
by Dick Richards
The Art of Winning Commitment identifies ten crucial competencies
leaders must master to win extraordinary commitment from others and inspire
them to devote their energy to a common purpose. By covering the full spectrum
of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of leadership, The
Art of Winning Commitment will help you achieve a deeper and more profound
level of commitment than you ever thought possible. |
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Radical
Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
by Steve
Farber
The Radical Leap is an inspirational tale based on author
Steve Farber's 14 years of experience in helping people become extreme leaders.
An extreme leader, says Farber, is one who is not only unafraid of challenges,
but actively seeks them out. Like extreme athletes who thrive on adventure,
extreme leaders are willing to take risks while demonstrating high levels
of passion, determination, and dedication. Their enthusiasm becomes so infectious
that it motivates others who see it in their leaders' actions, not just
their words. |
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Beyond
the Brand: Why Engaging the Right Customers Is Essential to Winning
in Business
by John Winsor
Through his company Radar Communications, and in Beyond the Brand,
John Winsor advocates the “bottom-up” approach he’s used to help some of
the country’s most progressive companies—from Nike to Levi Strauss to Patagonia.
Borrowing tools from investigative journalism and anthropology, and providing
case studies to illustrate his points, Winsor details a seven-step method
in Beyond the Brand that readers can follow to develop their own intuitive
and aggressively innovative marketing strategies. |
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The
Rainmaker's Toolkit: Power Strategies for Finding, Keeping, and Growing
Profitable Clients
by Harry
Mills
The Rainmaker's Toolkit gives readers the tools, techniques, and strategies
to help win and close bigger deals, helping them dramatically increase the
odds of success, and sustain that level of accomplishment from year to year.
Harry Mills helps readers identify and maximize the potential growth opportunities
in their companies and provides a step-by-step system for building a high-profit
practice. This is the new bible for professional service firms! |
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The
Prime Solution
by Jeff Thull
Whether in technology, manufacturing, professional services, health care,
or finance, this is a guide forprofessionals involved in creating, marketing,
and delivering complex B2B products and services. Senior management, sales
and marketing managers, technical specialists, product managers, customer
service and account managers will find new ideas and tactical solutions
in The Prime Solution that will go a long way in closing the "value
gap" and increasing revenue. |
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Kaikaku:
The Power and Magic of Lean
by
Norman Bodek
Kai kaku are Chinese characters meaning a ‘transformation of the mind,’
‘working with others to achieve radical change,’ and ‘to bring new and vital
energy to your organization.’ Kaikaku is the central theme of this book
to help you change your mindset. Norman Bodek discovered and published the
works of the truly great Japanese manufacturing geniuses and introduced
to the western world new manufacturing methodologies that have helped companies
improve their quality, and productivity. |
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Lean
Manufacturing That Works: Powerful Tools for Dramatically Reducing Waste
and Maximizing Profits
by Bill Carreira
Far from a dry explanation of theory that simply looks good on paper, Lean
Manufacturing That Works brings all the principles of lean manufacturing
to where they're needed most: the shop floor. Engagingly written and easy
to put to work, the book is specifically aimed at the people whose daily
work involves the manufacturing floor, and it features essential tools that
can help streamline operations in any manufacturing environment. |
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How
to Grow When Markets Don't
by Adrian
Slywotzky and Karl Weber with Richard Wise
From the author of The Art of Profitability (our best book of 2002)
comes this eye-opening look at the business dilemma of unsustainable growth
with insights on what you can do about it. The authors offer a solution,
complete with many fascinating examples of companies that have succeeded
where others have failed. Think about 'demand innovation' for growth - and
this book provides an excellent road map to get there. |
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The
Mother of All Minds:
Leaping Free of an Outdated Human Nature
by Dudley
Lynch
The cardinal question that The Mother of All Minds seeks to answer
is: where does the explosive advance in information, change and complexity
of our modern times leave human thinking skills—leave the mind itself? This
highly resourceful work's confident answer: doing what it always does best!
On the leading edges of the envelope, the human brain has been busy rewiring
itself so as to prepare the mind for keeping pace with a restless, demanding,
ever-changing world. |
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Fire
in the Corporate Belly: Renewing
the Company - Body, Soul & Bottom Line - by Tom FitzGerald
reviewed by
Rick Sidorowicz
Fire in the Corporate Belly is an insightful
outline of the Preemptive Turnaround process. It describes the almost magical
adventure of re-igniting the spirit of an enterprise to unleash creativity
and talent, and achieve unprecedented levels of performance. See Tom
FitzGerald's excellent articles in The CEO Refresher Archives here.
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Mastering
the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High!
by Jeff Thull
Thull presents the Prime Process, a new business paradigm that gives you
a solid system, as well as unique skills and the mental discipline needed
to execute it. The Prime Process is a diagnostic, customer-centered approach
that clearly sets you apart from your competition and positions you with
respect and credibility as a valued and trusted advisor. If you're one of
the millions of professionals competing in complex sales, this is the only
book that shows you a step-by-step process to compete and win when the stakes
are high. |
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Partnering
Intelligence
by
Stephen M. Dent
In his book organizational consultant Stephen M. Dent
shows how to develop the power of partnerships in any organization and
take the lead in 21st century business. |
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Business
Process Management is a Team Sport
by Andrew
Spanyi
Business Process Management is a Team Sport is a book
on the lighter side, but with a compelling message about the resurgence
of business process thinking for competitive advantage. In a quick and easy
to read format, the book outlines why thoughtful CEO’s and leadership teams
need to manage business processes as the means to competitive survival.
Indeed, BPM is a team sport — Play it to win! |
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Measuring
the Value of Partnering:
How to Use Metrics to Plan, Develop, and Implement Successful Alliances
by Larraine
Segil
Measuring the Value of Partnering gives readers a system for measuring
a relationship's contribution at every stage of the alliance, from creation
to implementation to termination. This essential book features case studies
drawn from interviews with key players at companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard,
Starbucks, Staples, and Hyundai. Weaving these and other real-life examples
together, Author Larraine Segil helps readers develop the appropriate metrics
and then shows how and when to use them accurately and intelligently to
achieve the greatest impact. |
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Power
Selling: Seven Strategies for Cracking the Sales Code
by George
Ludwig
George Ludwig has made it his life's work to study the selling DNA -- the
specific skills, thinking patterns, and actions -- of the world's greatest
sales professionals. In doing so, he's cracked the elusive code for success
in sales. From Zig Ziglar to Anthony Robbins, the most influential achievers
among us, he says, all share the powers of reputation, real passion, research,
rapport, resource management, resiliency, and relationships. |
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Powerhouse
Partners: A Blueprint for Building Organizational Culture for Breakaway
Results
by Stephen
M. Dent and James H. Krefft, Ph.D.
From the author who introduced the groundbreaking concept of Partnering
Intelligence come the next-generation strategies and tools to transform
any business into a dynamic, world-class partnering organization. Powerhouse
Partners focuses on getting back to basics - releasing the art of connecting
and collaborating with competitors, departments, divisions and other strategic
partners - and delivers unique assessments, models and maps to unleash the
power of partnering for success in the digital age. |
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The
Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations
by Jeffrey
S. Nielsen
The author's words are very timely and powerful - "When we use the
word "leadership," we immediately create a ranked division of people in
ways that do not serve healthy organizational relationships. It also produces
privileged elite who, no matter how sincere they are, will eventually be
seduced by their position. In a peer-based organization, there are ways
to perform the functions of management without rank-based leaders and in
a manner that evokes the talents and diverse abilities of everyone in the
organization." |
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