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Blink:
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink is a fascinating exploration of rapid cognition, the "thinking"
that takes place within the "blink of an eye." In the author's words "It's
thinking - it's just thinking that moves a little faster and operates a
little more mysteriously than the kind of deliberate, conscious decision-making
that we usually associate with "thinking." This is serious
brain food! |
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SPARK:
Be More Innovative Through Co-Creation
by John Winsor
Co-creation is the central point of Spark, and the book itself is a co-creation
of absolutely fascinating stories of many "innovative voices."
In the author's words, "... the fundamental idea of co-creation - that
it takes more than one brilliant mind to make an innovation happen - is
an essential element in business." This is a most mindful work! |
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The
Loyalty Advantage: Essential Steps to Energize Your Company, Your Customers,
Your Brand
by Dianne
Michonski Durkin
Customer satisfaction and brand loyalty are directly connected to the passion
and energy of an organization's employees. In The Loyalty Advantage,
readers will learn how to create a loyalty-driven company and how to direct
company culture and leadership to develop widespread employee enthusiasm.
The book demonstrates how in-house dedication to employees translates naturally
into superior customer service, which then creates brand loyalty. |
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Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life
by Sally Hogshead
Do you have a career worth loving? Sally Hogshead redefines "Careering"
as taking action to become the most powerful, valuable and fulfilled version
of yourself and Radical Careering will definitely inspire you to kick your career
into high gear. It's an extremely entertaining, engaging, energizing and edgy
handbook that reaches in, twists your head, gives you a swift kick in the
pants and inspires you to create your no-compromises future. This is
one of the best! Enjoy! |
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The
Forgotten Half of Change: Achieving Greater Creativity through Changes
in Perception
by
Luc de Brabandere
Inspiring creativity is one of the most pressing needs for American corporations,
particularly those in markets that are forcing them not only to improve
but transform themselves. Yet true creativity can be had only if you are
willing to break the rules that have locked you in a set way of thinking,
not just doing. This unique book will help managers think about how they
think. This understanding will help them inspire creativity and sense when
it is time to focus on the second half of change—changing perception. |
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Why
Johnny Can't Brand: Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea
by Bill Schley
and Carl Nichols
High-concept Super Bowl commercials, baffling corporate names, "formless
positioning and flabby claims that lack any differentiating punch"—all come
in for abuse in this sprightly old-school marketing primer. Harking back
to the "Unique Selling Propositions" of the "Brand Titans" that bestrode
advertising's golden age in the early television era, brand consultants
Schley and Nichols exhort companies to redefine their products in terms
of a single, mesmerizing "Dominant Selling Idea." Writing in an engaging,
straightforward style the authors provide much useful, hands-on advice for
perplexed leaders. |
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Corporate
Canaries: Avoid Business Disasters with a Coal Miner's Secrets
by Gary Sutton
A century ago coal miners hung canary cages in their tunnels. The little
birds went silent and dropped when poison gas seeped into the mine, offering
workers a warning of the lurking dangers. In the same way that canaries
protected miners, the principles in Corporate Canaries will protect
companies by alerting executives and managers when their businesses are
headed for trouble. The book features five common business hazards, and
each lesson is accompanied by an insightful story based on the author's
grandfather's work in the coal industry. |
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When
Customers Talk: Turn What They Tell You into Sales
by T. Scott
Gross and BIGresearch
BIGresearch surveyed 100,000 retail customers, and their valuable feedback
on service, pricing, habits, and what they look for in a shopping experience
are presented for the first time in When Customers Talk." Their insights
will help you anticipate customers' needs and use emerging trends to your
advantage. You'll learn how to attract and retain profitable customers and
effectively beat the competition. |
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TurboCoach:
A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success
by Brian
Tracy and Campbell Fraser
TurboCoach enables individuals to apply Tracy's proven counseling
techniques to their own lives, and gives coaches tools to integrate his
powerful strategies into their own professional programs. Each chapter begins
with a series of self-assessment questions and ends in a set of exercises
that can be used to energize an individual's results in that area. TurboCoach
shows those in the coaching field how to elicit superior results from their
clients, and individuals how to become their own coaches and rapidly improve
the quality of their own lives and work. |
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Time
Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective
Leader
by John K.
Clemens and Scott Dalrymple
Time Mastery is not about managing your time, but rather about discovering
an intuitive sense of timing and seeing time as a leadership opportunity.
The authors' notion of "temporal intelligence" as a leadership
competency is fascinating and extremely relevant. Filled with interesting
and entertaining anecdotes this book will "twist your head" to
go beyond everything you have ever thought about time management. |
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Jack
Welch and the 4 E's of Leadership:
How to Put GE's Leadership Formula to Work in Your Organization
by Jeffrey A. Krames
reviewed
by Steven Bryce
The 4 E model is gaining fame in the business press. Whether you want to
become such a leader yourself, and / or create a company of such people
as your legacy, this is a very good primer on the leadership methods applied
so capably at one of the world's great leadership factories. |
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Beyond
Code: Learn to Distinquish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps - by Rajesh Setty
reviewed
by Michael A. Lally
If you are looking to throw off the shackles of your current position and
break free from the confines of your cubicle and begin a difficult yet ultimately,
rewarding path of self discovery and career ownership, you should use Beyond
Code as your starting point. De-commoditize yourself today! This book
will start you down the path and you will return to it again and again throughout
your journey. |
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Branding
Doesn't Work in Business to Business
by Maureen
Blandford
"What if everything you know is wrong?" It's one of my favourite
questions and Maureen Blandford takes conventional Marketing Communications
thinking to task with this hard hitting and extremely compelling book. It's
delightfully entertaining as she "twists your head" more than
a bit and it will leave you totally aware of what your priorities must be
for effective B2B sales. Your marketing folks won't want you to have this
one, but this little book may save you millions! Great work Maureen! You're
right! (ed.) |
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Get
Out of Your Own Way at Work... and Help Others Do the Same: Conquering
Self-Defeating Behavior on the Job
by Mark Goulston
An extremely practical guide to help workers and managers deal with the
self-sabotage that stands in the way of career advancement and satisfaction.
Illustrated with anecdotes and "useable insights" drawn from Dr. Goulston's
more than twenty years in clinical and organization settings, Get Out
of Your Own Way at Work shows anyone how to stop being their own worst
enemy. Now in
paperback! |
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Blue
Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition
Irrelevant
by W. Chan
Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years
and thirty industries, Kim and Mauborgne argue that tomorrow's leading companies
will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating "blue oceans"
of uncontested market space ripe for growth. Such strategic moves - termed
"value innovation" - create powerful leaps in value for both the firm and
its buyers, rendering rivals obsolete and unleashing new demand." Blue Ocean
Strategy provides a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant. |
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High-Impact
Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Right
Person for Every Job
by Victoria
A. Hoevemeyer
Vicki Hoevemeyer's excellent book is about more than interviewing and questions.
It is a comprehensive primer on Competency Based Behavioral Interviewing.
It is an exceptionally valuable resource to help you ensure that candidates
possess the job related competencies that are unique and critical to your
team's success. This is the ultimate interviewer's handbook! |
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The
Source of Success:
The Five Principles for Leadership and Personal Fulfillment in a Changed
World
by Peter
Georgescu and David Dorsey
Business leaders need an entirely new model to succeed today and into the
future. Peter Georgescu, former CEO of Young & Rubicam, identifies and
explains this unprecedented shift, and presents five guiding principles
for a new standard of leadership which turns the old model on its head and
focuses on the two key sources of value: the customer and the creative employee. |
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The
Perfect Board
by Calvin
K. Clemons
The Perfect Board describes what it takes to be an effective member
of any Board of Directors. From loyalty to care to leadership and Rules
of Order, The Perfect Board lends insight and direction into this
very important position. This is indeed the 'Perfect' book for Board members
who are looking to hone their skills as leaders within their organization. |
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Secrets
of Special OPS Leadership: Dare the Impossible--Achieve the Extraordinary
by William
A. Cohen
The Navy SEALs. The Green Berets. Delta Force. These are just a few examples
of what are known as "special ops" -- elite and unique fighting forces trained
to beat overwhelming odds on every mission. What techniques do the leaders
of these small, fiercely motivated units use to accomplish such exceptional
feats? Speed, purpose, repetition, surprise and simplicity - enabling these
elite units to accomplish extremely challenging tasks against vastly superior
forces. |
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The
Five Regions of the Future:
The New Paradigm of Understanding Technologies
by Joel Arthur
Barker and Scott Erickson
Futurist Joel Barker was the first to apply the scientific concept of paradigm
shifts to the world of business. Now Barker and fellow futurist Scott Erickson
offer a bold new way of looking at today’s rapidly evolving technologies,
as five distinct "ecosystems" that each operates with a distinct set of
values, advantages, and disadvantages. Barker and Erickson give readers
a totally new way to understand and take advantage of the future of technology. Five Regions of the Future is an essential book for anyone baffled
by today’s technological onslaught. |
